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12 papers

cs.CV2026

RUTA: Principled Visual Token Allocation via Rate-Utility Optimization

Jian Zou, Xiaoyu Xu, Zhihua Wang +3

High-resolution images and long videos provide vision-language models with rich context for multimodal reasoning and fine-grained perception, but the resulting long visual token se…

cs.AI2026

CachedSearch: Training-Free Cached Exploration for Test-Time Search in Video Diffusion

Shreshth Saini, Neil Birkbeck, Yilin Wang +2

Test-time search lets small video diffusion models rival larger ones, but costs 2-10x more. All candidates are fully denoised, although most are discarded. Training-free caching ma…

cs.CV2026

Context and Pixel Aware Large Language Model for Video Quality Assessment

Wen Wen, Yaohong Wu, Yue Sheng +3

Video quality assessment (VQA) is a challenging research topic with broad applications. Traditional hand-crafted and discriminative learning-based VQA models mainly focus on pixel-…

cs.CV2026

Subjective Portrait Region Cropping in Landscape Videos with Temporal Annotation Smoothing

Cheng-Han Lee, Maniratnam Mandal, Neil Birkbeck +3

With the rise of mobile video consumption on diverse handheld display resolutions and orientation modes, altering videos to aspect ratios poses challenges. Static cropping and bord…

cs.CV2026

LumaFlux: Lifting 8-Bit Worlds to HDR Reality with Physically-Guided Diffusion Transformers

Shreshth Saini, Hakan Gedik, Neil Birkbeck +3

The rapid adoption of HDR-capable devices has created a pressing need to convert the 8-bit Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) content into perceptually and physically accurate 10-bit Hig…

cs.CV2026

MDS-VQA: Model-Informed Data Selection for Video Quality Assessment

Jian Zou, Xiaoyu Xu, Zhihua Wang +3

Learning-based video quality assessment (VQA) has advanced rapidly, yet progress is increasingly constrained by a disconnect between model design and dataset curation. Model-centri…