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8 papers

cs.CV2026

LangHOPS: Language Grounded Hierarchical Open-Vocabulary Part Segmentation

Yang Miao, Jan-Nico Zaech, Xi Wang +3

We propose LangHOPS, the first Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) based framework for open-vocabulary object-part instance segmentation. Given an image, LangHOPS can jointly de…

cs.AI2025

Autonomous Vehicle Path Planning by Searching With Differentiable Simulation

Asen Nachkov, Jan-Nico Zaech, Danda Pani Paudel +2

Planning allows an agent to safely refine its actions before executing them in the real world. In autonomous driving, this is crucial to avoid collisions and navigate in complex, d…

cs.CV2025

StateSpaceDiffuser: Bringing Long Context to Diffusion World Models

Nedko Savov, Naser Kazemi, Deheng Zhang +3

World models have recently gained prominence for action-conditioned visual prediction in complex environments. However, relying on only a few recent observations causes them to los…

cs.AI2025

LLM Agents Beyond Utility: An Open-Ended Perspective

Asen Nachkov, Xi Wang, Luc Van Gool

Recent LLM agents have made great use of chain of thought reasoning and function calling. As their capabilities grow, an important question arises: can this software represent not…

cs.CV2025

Understanding Museum Exhibits using Vision-Language Reasoning

Ada-Astrid Balauca, Sanjana Garai, Stefan Balauca +8

Museums serve as repositories of cultural heritage and historical artifacts from diverse epochs, civilizations, and regions, preserving well-documented collections that encapsulate…

cs.CV2025

Articulate3D: Holistic Understanding of 3D Scenes as Universal Scene Description

Anna-Maria Halacheva, Yang Miao, Jan-Nico Zaech +3

3D scene understanding is a long-standing challenge in computer vision and a key component in enabling mixed reality, wearable computing, and embodied AI. Providing a solution to t…