ProCon: Projection-Consistency Memory for Training-Free Anomaly DetectionJoongwon Chae, Lihui Luo, Yang Liu et al.
Memory-based anomaly detection is attractive because it localizes defects from normal images without training a decoder or synthesizing pseudo anomalies. However, most memory methods still use the memory bank as a nearest-neighbor lookup table: a test patch is treated as normal if it has one nearby normal anchor. This hard retrieval view is vulnerable to false-normal matches and does not test whether the patch is consistently supported by a local normal neighborhood. We propose ProCon, a training-free framework that turns memory retrieval into decoder-free reconstruction. ProCon softly projects each test patch onto nearby normal memory vectors and uses the projection residual as anomaly evidence. To stabilize this residual, it constructs seed-perturbed layer-wise memories, aggregates bank residuals by a median, and fuses depth-specific residual maps by layer consensus. ProCon requires no decoder training, backbone fine-tuning, learned fusion weights, or pseudo-anomaly supervision. Across MVTec-AD, VisA, and Real-IAD under the single-category evaluation protocol, ProCon achieves strong image- and pixel-level performance under seven standard metrics, including image AUROC scores of 99.8%, 99.2%, and 93.2%, respectively. Ablations show that the gains come from replacing hard retrieval with soft normal projection and stabilizing the residuals through memory and depth consensus. The code is available at https://github.com/jw-chae/Procon
Dual-Adaptive SAM3: Hierarchical Routing over Low-Rank Expert Layers for Parameter-Efficient Medical Image SegmentationYing Chen, Jinyue Li, Kun Wang et al.
The Segment Anything Model with Concepts (SAM3) heralds a new paradigm for open-vocabulary segmentation through natural language interaction, offering significant potential for medical image analysis. However, effectively adapting such a powerful vision-language model to the diverse and nuanced domain of medical imaging remains a key challenge. Naive fine-tuning is parameter-inefficient, while standard Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) methods introduce prohibitive computational overhead, limiting their clinical applicability. To address this, we propose Dual-Adaptive SAM3 (DA-SAM3), a novel framework that achieves both high segmentation accuracy and extreme parameter efficiency via a dual-adaptive specialization mechanism. Our first adaptation is task-aware: a Dynamic Expert Router (DER) that sparsely activates the most relevant experts by jointly reasoning about the visual input and the textual concept prompt, mimicking a clinical consultation process. Our second adaptation is parameter-aware: a Decomposed Parameterized Experts (DPE) design that represents each expert as a shared frozen base (inherited from the pretrained SAM3) and a lightweight trainable low-rank delta, reducing MoE parameter overhead by over 80\%. Extensive experiments on multiple public medical segmentation benchmarks demonstrate that Dual-Adaptive SAM3 not only matches or exceeds the accuracy of fully fine-tuned SAM3 and standard MoE baselines, but also achieves a notable 5\% gain over current state-of-the-art methods, with interpretable results validating its effectiveness. The code is available at: https://github.com/Reconsider80/DA-SAM3.
2.6CVJul 6
GlaKG: A Biomarker-Centric Fundus Knowledge Graph for Explainable Glaucoma Diagnosis and Risk AssessmentCheng Huang, Jia Zhang, Yi Jiang et al.
Glaucoma is a leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide, yet most automated diagnosis systems rely on opaque deep-learning models that offer little clinical interpretability. We present GlaKG, a biomarker-centric fundus knowledge graph that integrates structural biomarkers, clinically grounded rules, and image features to produce traceable reasoning for glaucoma diagnosis and risk stratification. GlaKG encodes six entity types (Fundus Image, Optic Disc, Neural Rim, Pathology, Diagnosis, Risk Level), eight relation types, and 11 clinically validated rules into a unified graph, so that every prediction is accompanied by an explicit reasoning chain linking biomarker evidence to activated clinical rules. To keep knowledge-based reasoning strictly separate from label information, we adopt a post-processing fusion framework that combines ResNet50 image embeddings with a normalized KG reasoning-chain score via a tunable weight alpha, with all fitting confined to the training split. On a publicly available, AI-annotated fundus dataset, GlaKG reaches F1 = 0.9953 for binary glaucoma classification and 0.930 accuracy with 0.922 weighted F1 for four-class risk stratification; we report openly that the dataset's biomarker annotations are highly label-correlated, and therefore frame these figures as an upper bound attainable with clean structured biomarkers rather than as leakage-free image-only performance. Feature-importance analysis shows KG-derived and biomarker features contributing near-equally (51.1% vs. 48.9%), and the reasoning chain flags borderline cases by exposing low chain scores rather than failing silently. GlaKG's central contribution is therefore a clinically auditable reasoning framework that complements raw predictive performance by explicitly exposing the biomarker evidence and rule activations behind each decision.
9.2CVJul 5
FRFDet: Efficient UAV Small Object Detection with Symmetric Sampling and Scalable FusionYunzhong Si, Huiying Xu, Xinzhong Zhu et al.
Small object detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) imagery remains challenging under adverse conditions, including complex weather, low illumination, and sensor noise. These challenges mainly stem from severe background clutter, fine-grained detail degradation, and suboptimal semantic-spatial feature fusion, which jointly hinder robust small-object representation. To this end, we propose FRFDet, a lightweight yet effective single-stage detector tailored for UAV-based small object detection. FRFDet proposes two plug-and-play modules: Inverse Bidirectional Sampling (IBS) and Scale-Feature Relationship Cross-Fusion (SFRCF). IBS preserves critical spatial details via channel expansion-compression and bidirectional pattern reconstruction, improving feature alignment. SFRCF explicitly models scale-dependent fusion behaviors, revealing that inter-group element-wise multiplication favors compact models, while inter-group additive fusion benefits larger architectures. Extensive experiments on VisDrone, UAVDT, HazyDet, and MS COCO demonstrate that FRFDet achieves state-of-the-art performance among lightweight detectors with low computational cost, compact parameters, and fast inference, making it well suited for resource-constrained UAV platforms.