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Galaxies in the River: NGC 1300 and NGC 1297
Spiral NGC 1300 and elliptical NGC 1297 are galaxies that lie on the banks of the southern constellation Eridanus (The River). At 70 million light-years distant or more, both are members of the Eridanus Galaxy Cluster. About 100,000 light-years across, at lower left in this sharp, galaxy group photo NGC 1300 is seen face-on with a prominent central bar and grand, sweeping spiral arms. Like other spiral galaxies, including our own barred spiral Milky Way Galaxy, NGC 1300 is thought to have a supermassive central black hole. A contrast in appearance and slightly more distant, NGC 1297 is the rou...
2026-03-21 · © Dietmar Hager ·
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Preprints submitted to arXiv on March 21, 2026. Science before peer review.
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While Multimodal Large Language Models demonstrate impressive semantic capabilities, they often suffer from spatial blindness, struggling with fine-grained geometric reasoning and physical dynamics. Existing solutions typically rely on explicit 3D modalities or complex geometric ...
Xianjin Wu, Dingkang Liang, Tianrui Feng et al. (+5)
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The ability to render scenes at adjustable fidelity from a single model, known as level of detail (LoD), is crucial for practical deployment of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Existing discrete LoD methods expose only a limited set of operating points, while concurrent continuous L...
Zhilin Guo, Boqiao Zhang, Hakan Aktas et al. (+10)
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Visual generation with discrete tokens has gained significant attention as it enables a unified token prediction paradigm shared with language models, promising seamless multimodal architectures. However, current discrete generation methods remain limited to low-dimensional laten...
Yuqing Wang, Chuofan Ma, Zhijie Lin et al. (+7)
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Reconstructing articulated 3D objects from a single image requires jointly inferring object geometry, part structure, and motion parameters from limited visual evidence. A key difficulty lies in the entanglement between motion cues and object structure, which makes direct articul...
Haitian Li, Haozhe Xie, Junxiang Xu et al. (+3)
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There are two major categories of embodied navigation: Vision-Language Navigation (VLN), where agents navigate by following natural language instructions; and Object-Goal Navigation (OGN), where agents navigate to a specified target object. However, existing work primarily evalua...
Huaide Jiang, Yash Chaudhary, Yuping Wang et al. (+8)
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Prior motion generation largely follows two paradigms: continuous diffusion models that excel at kinematic control, and discrete token-based generators that are effective for semantic conditioning. To combine their strengths, we propose a three-stage framework comprising conditio...
Chenyang Gu, Mingyuan Zhang, Haozhe Xie et al. (+3)
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Current instruction-guided video editing models struggle to simultaneously balance precise semantic modifications with faithful motion preservation. While existing approaches rely on injecting explicit external priors (e.g., VLM features or structural conditions) to mitigate thes...
Xinyao Zhang, Wenkai Dong, Yuxin Song et al. (+10)
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We introduce Multi-Object Generative Perception (MultiGP), a generative inverse rendering method for stochastic sampling of all radiometric constituents -- reflectance, texture, and illumination -- underlying object appearance from a single image. Our key idea to solve this inher...
Nobuo Yoshii, Xinran Nicole Han, Ryo Kawahara et al. (+2)
Source: arXiv.org · Cornell University