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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Can't Find Waldo: Evaluating VLMs'Sensitivity to Image Resolution and Detail Level

Visual Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable success across diverse tasks, yet they struggle with high-resolution inputs where critical information resides in small regions or detailed, cluttered scenes. While several approaches address this limitation, a systematic understanding of why models fail at high re...

Alexandra Schild, Gerard de Melo · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Adapting Vision-Language Models for Human-Readable XAI in Industrial Object Detection

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) solutions are essential for building trust in AI technologies and their integration in real manufacturing lines. However, most existing methods are tailored to technical experts, limiting their accessibility to diverse user groups such as blue-collar workers in manufacturing li...

Sarvenaz Sardari, Freddy Fernandes, Samarth Yelvande et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

A Comparative Transfer-Learning Study of CNN Backbones for Partial Face Recognition on the SoF Dataset

Face recognition is widely deployed in surveillance, access control, and forensic workflows, yet accuracy degrades sharply once the face is occluded by accessories, foreground objects, or the frame edge. Because most faces in the wild are partial, robust partial face recognition (PFR) remains open. This paper compares...

A. Kubba, Ali Alsalama, A. Abd Alla et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Unsupervised spiking feature learning for event-based pedestrian crossing detection: approaching supervised accuracy without labelled training data

The findings indicate that the accuracy cost of removing labels from feature learning is small on this benchmark, and that reported weaknesses of unsupervised spiking networks may be attributable to the readout protocol rather than to the learning rule.

Henok Teklu, Mustafa Sakhai, M. Mertik et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Query-aligned video frame selection for long video understanding

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) process multimodal inputs by converting text, images, and videos into token sequences that are subsequently processed by a backbone language model. While MLLMs have achieved excellent performance in understanding the content of individual images, video understanding remains sign...

Md. Safayet Islam, Dilip Sarkar, Liang-Yu Liang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Age-Adaptive Handwriting Reconstruction from an IMU-Based Digital Pen through Shared Representations and Domain-Specific Heads

A cross-domain learning model is proposed, using an original neural network architecture based on a Temporal Convolutional Network and multiple prediction heads, designed to improve handwriting trace reconstruction from sensor data, where each domain benefits from additional data provided by the other domain.

Florent Imbert, Yann Soullard, Éric Anquetil et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Cross-Dataset Transfer and Unknown-Class Detection in Imbalanced SAR Ship Classification

Ship classification from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery is a critical computer vision task, yet the robustness of models under deployment shifts remains unclear. While models are often trained on one dataset and deployed on another, we lack a comprehensive understanding of their cross-dataset generalization. To...

Ch Muhammad Awais, Marco Reggiannini, Davide Moroni et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Enhancing Foundation Models for Imbalanced SAR Ship Classification via Targeted Oversampling

Remote-sensing foundation models offer strong representations for SAR imagery, but their behavior under severe long-tail class imbalance is still not well characterized. We benchmark DOFA and SAR-JEPA on the imbalanced OpenSARShip dataset and compare them with ImageNet-pretrained baselines under a fixed, training-effic...

Ch Muhammad Awais, M. Reggiannini, Davide Moroni · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Temporal-Attention Head Specialization During Video Diffusion Training

Checkpoint-resolved, per-head analysis under fixed selection rules can expose sparse temporal organization in other factorized video diffusion transformers and, with adapted routing metrics, in joint spatio-temporal architectures.

Taewoo Ha, Shafayat Mowla Anik, Dae Yeol Lee et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

PalmLeaf-VQA: A Multi-Script Visual Question Answering Benchmark for Historical Palm-Leaf Manuscript Understanding Across Diverse Regions

PalmLeaf-VQA provides a standardized benchmark for advancing culturally grounded and layout-aware multimodal document analysis and reveals substantial limitations in current MLLMs for rare-script, degraded-layout, and preservation-oriented document understanding.

Nimol Thuon, Jun Du, Panhapin Theang · 0 citations

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Microsoft Research Blog Oct 6, 2026

What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us

Jennifer Neville did not want to go into computer science—but that’s exactly where she landed. Neville discusses the starts and stops that led to her professional sweet spot and her work identifying “surprising failures” making it hard for AI to handle complexity.  The post What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us appeared first on Microsoft Research.

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