activity
20162026
most citedFoundational Models Defining a New Era in Vision: A Survey and Outlook

68 citations · 398 across the 86 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

97 papers

cs.CV2026

Omni-Embed-Mini: Binding Modalities Without Forgetting via Dense Distillation

Mohammed Irfan Kurpath, Jaseel Muhammad Kaithakkodan, Sahal Shaji Mullappilly +2

Extending a text embedding model to new modalities typically degrades text retrieval quality, and existing omni-modal embedders compensate with multi-billion parameters. We present…

cs.CV2026

Hard Vision, Easy Vision: What GPT-6 Astra Reveals Across Computer Vision

Hanoona Rasheed, Mohammed Irfan Kurpath, Bin Ren +3

Frontier general-purpose systems are rapidly expanding beyond visual understanding into capabilities traditionally handled by dedicated computer-vision models. As these capabilitie…

cs.CV2026

Small yet Assistive: Spatially-Aware Post-Training for Low Vision

Rishabh Choudhary, Shreyansh Raj, Umesh Goyal +6

An estimated 1 billion people worldwide live with vision impairment, yet current vision-language models (VLMs) produce descriptions too vague for safe navigation by blind and low-v…

cs.CV2026

Ground3D-LMM: Fine-Grained 3D Point Grounding and Spatial Reasoning with LMM

Amol Harsh, Zongyan Han, Jean Lahoud +5

Natural-language queries about 3D environments become actionable when responses are verifiable and metric. Verifiability requires explicit grounding to the referred 3D region, whil…

cs.CV2026

Ask, Solve, Generate: Self-Evolving Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation via Self-Consistency Rewards

Ritesh Thawkar, Shravan Venkatraman, Omkar Thawakar +5

Most unified large multimodal models (LMMs) that support both visual understanding and image generation still rely on curated post-training supervision, such as human annotations,…

cs.CV2026

Paying More Attention to Visual Tokens in Self-Evolving Large Multimodal Models

Shravan Venkatraman, Ritesh Thawkar, Omkar Thawakar +4

Recently, self-evolving large multimodal models (LMMs) have received attention for improving visual reasoning in a purely unsupervised setting. However, multi-role self-play and se…

cs.CV2026

SafeDiffusion-R1: Online Reward Steering for Safe Diffusion Post-Training

Komal Kumar, Ankan Deria, Abhishek Basu +3

Diffusion models have been widely studied for removing unsafe content learned during pre-training. Existing methods require expensive supervised data, either unsafe-text paired wit…

cs.CL2026

Paper Circle: An Open-source Multi-agent Research Discovery and Analysis Framework

Komal Kumar, Aman Chadha, Salman Khan +2

The rapid growth of scientific literature has made it increasingly difficult for researchers to efficiently discover, evaluate, and synthesize relevant work. Recent advances in mul…

cs.CV2026

CoME-VL: Scaling Complementary Multi-Encoder Vision-Language Learning

Ankan Deria, Komal Kumar, Xilin He +4

Recent vision-language models (VLMs) typically rely on a single vision encoder trained with contrastive image-text objectives, such as CLIP-style pretraining. While contrastive enc…

cs.CV2026

MAviS: A Multimodal Conversational Assistant For Avian Species

Yevheniia Kryklyvets, Mohammed Irfan Kurpath, Sahal Shaji Mullappilly +5

Fine-grained understanding and species-specific multimodal question answering are vital for advancing biodiversity conservation and ecological monitoring. However, existing multimo…

cs.CV2026

MediX-R1: Open Ended Medical Reinforcement Learning

Sahal Shaji Mullappilly, Mohammed Irfan Kurpath, Omair Mohamed +5

We introduce MediX-R1, an open-ended Reinforcement Learning (RL) framework for medical multimodal large language models (MLLMs) that enables clinically grounded, free-form answers…

cs.CV2026

Mobile-O: Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation on Mobile Device

Abdelrahman Shaker, Ahmed Heakl, Jaseel Muhammad +8

Unified multimodal models can both understand and generate visual content within a single architecture. Existing models, however, remain data-hungry and too heavy for deployment on…

cs.CV2026

Audit After Segmentation: Reference-Free Mask Quality Assessment for Language-Referred Audio-Visual Segmentation

Jinxing Zhou, Yanghao Zhou, Yaoting Wang +5

Language-referred audio-visual segmentation (Ref-AVS) aims to segment target objects described by natural language by jointly reasoning over video, audio, and text. Beyond generati…

cs.CV2025

A Benchmark for Omni-Modal Reasoning in Long Videos

Mohammed Irfan Kurpath, Jaseel Muhammad Kaithakkodan, Jinxing Zhou +12

Long-form omni-modal video understanding requires integrating vision, speech, and ambient audio with coherent long-context reasoning. Existing video benchmarks often trade off temp…

cs.CV2025

MedROV: Towards Real-Time Open-Vocabulary Detection Across Diverse Medical Imaging Modalities

Tooba Tehreem Sheikh, Jean Lahoud, Rao Muhammad Anwer +3

Traditional object detection models in medical imaging operate within a closed-set paradigm, limiting their ability to detect objects of novel labels. Open-vocabulary object detect…

cs.CV2025

EvoLMM: Self-Evolving Large Multimodal Models with Continuous Rewards

Omkar Thawakar, Shravan Venkatraman, Ritesh Thawkar +5

Recent advances in large multimodal models (LMMs) have enabled impressive reasoning and perception abilities, yet most existing training pipelines still depend on human-curated dat…

cs.CV2025

DEFT: Decompositional Efficient Fine-Tuning for Text-to-Image Models

Komal Kumar, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Fahad Shahbaz Khan +3

Efficient fine-tuning of pre-trained Text-to-Image (T2I) models involves adjusting the model to suit a particular task or dataset while minimizing computational resources and limit…

cs.CV2025

How Good are Foundation Models in Step-by-Step Embodied Reasoning?

Dinura Dissanayake, Ahmed Heakl, Omkar Thawakar +9

Embodied agents operating in the physical world must make decisions that are not only effective but also safe, spatially coherent, and grounded in context. While recent advances in…

cs.MM2025

Think Before You Segment: An Object-aware Reasoning Agent for Referring Audio-Visual Segmentation

Jinxing Zhou, Yanghao Zhou, Mingfei Han +4

Referring Audio-Visual Segmentation (Ref-AVS) aims to segment target objects in audible videos based on given reference expressions. Prior works typically rely on learning latent e…

cs.CV2025

AI in Agriculture: A Survey of Deep Learning Techniques for Crops, Fisheries and Livestock

Umair Nawaz, Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer, Ufaq Khan +4

Crops, fisheries and livestock form the backbone of global food production, essential to feed the ever-growing global population. However, these sectors face considerable challenge…

cs.CV2025

HyRet-Change: A hybrid retentive network for remote sensing change detection

Mustansar Fiaz, Mubashir Noman, Hiyam Debary +2

Recently convolution and transformer-based change detection (CD) methods provide promising performance. However, it remains unclear how the local and global dependencies interact t…

cs.CV2025

InceptionMamba: Efficient Multi-Stage Feature Enhancement with Selective State Space Model for Microscopic Medical Image Segmentation

Daniya Najiha Abdul Kareem, Abdul Hannan, Mubashir Noman +3

Accurate microscopic medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in diagnosing various cancerous cells and identifying tumors. Driven by advancements in deep learning, convolut…

cs.CV2025

TAViS: Text-bridged Audio-Visual Segmentation with Foundation Models

Ziyang Luo, Nian Liu, Xuguang Yang +5

Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) faces a fundamental challenge of effectively aligning audio and visual modalities. While recent approaches leverage foundation models to address dat…

cs.CL2025

A Culturally-diverse Multilingual Multimodal Video Benchmark & Model

Bhuiyan Sanjid Shafique, Ashmal Vayani, Muhammad Maaz +26

Large multimodal models (LMMs) have recently gained attention due to their effectiveness to understand and generate descriptions of visual content. Most existing LMMs are in Englis…