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Mohammadreza Salehi

Mohammadreza Salehi contributes to research discovery and scholarly infrastructure.

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preprint2026arXiv

Evaluating Foundation Models' 3D Understanding Through Multi-View Correspondence Analysis

Benchmarking 3D spatial understanding of foundation models is essential for real-world applications such as robotics and autonomous driving. Existing evaluations often rely on downstream fine-tuning with linear heads or task-specific decoders, making it difficult to isolate the intrinsic 3D reasoning ability of pre-trained encoders. In this work, we introduce a novel benchmark for in-context 3D scene understanding that requires no fine-tuning and directly probes the quality of dense visual features. Building on the Hummingbird framework, which evaluates in-context 2D scene understanding, we extend the setup to the 3D Multi-View ImageNet (MVImgNet) dataset. Given a set of images depicting objects at specific camera angles (keys), we benchmark the performance of segmenting novel views (queries) and report the scores in 4 categories of easy, medium, hard, and extreme based on the key-query view contrast. We benchmark 7 state-of-the-art foundation models and show that DINO-based encoders remain competitive across large viewpoint shifts. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/ToyeshC/open-hummingbird-3d-eval.

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preprint2026arXiv

VideoNet: A Large-Scale Dataset for Domain-Specific Action Recognition

Videos are unique in their ability to capture actions which transcend multiple frames. Accordingly, for many years action recognition was the quintessential task for video understanding. Unfortunately, due to a lack of sufficiently diverse and challenging data, modern vision-language models (VLMs) are no longer evaluated on their action recognition capabilities. To revitalize action recognition in the era of VLMs, we advocate for a returned focus on domain-specific actions. To this end, we introduce VideoNet, a domain-specific action recognition benchmark covering 1,000 distinct actions from 37 domains. We begin with a multiple-choice evaluation setting, where the difference between closed and open models is stark: Gemini 3.1 Pro attains 69.9% accuracy while Qwen3-VL-8B gets a mere 45.0%. To understand why VLMs struggle on VideoNet, we relax the questions into a binary setting, where random chance is 50%. Still, Qwen achieves only 59.2% accuracy. Further relaxing the evaluation setup, we provide $k\in\{1,2,3\}$ in-context examples of the action. Some models excel in the few-shot setting, while others falter; Qwen improves $+7.0\%$, while Gemini declines $-4.8\%$. Notably, these gains fall short of the $+13.6\%$ improvement in non-expert humans when given few-shot examples. Finding that VLMs struggle to fully exploit in-context examples, we shift from test-time improvements to the training side. We collect the first large-scale training dataset for domain-specific actions, totaling nearly 500k video question-answer pairs. Fine-tuning a Molmo2-4B model on our data, we surpass all open-weight 8B models on the VideoNet benchmark.

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preprint2022arXiv

MERLOT Reserve: Neural Script Knowledge through Vision and Language and Sound

As humans, we navigate a multimodal world, building a holistic understanding from all our senses. We introduce MERLOT Reserve, a model that represents videos jointly over time -- through a new training objective that learns from audio, subtitles, and video frames. Given a video, we replace snippets of text and audio with a MASK token; the model learns by choosing the correct masked-out snippet. Our objective learns faster than alternatives, and performs well at scale: we pretrain on 20 million YouTube videos. Empirical results show that MERLOT Reserve learns strong multimodal representations. When finetuned, it sets state-of-the-art on Visual Commonsense Reasoning (VCR), TVQA, and Kinetics-600; outperforming prior work by 5%, 7%, and 1.5% respectively. Ablations show that these tasks benefit from audio pretraining -- even VCR, a QA task centered around images (without sound). Moreover, our objective enables out-of-the-box prediction, revealing strong multimodal commonsense understanding. In a fully zero-shot setting, our model obtains competitive results on four video tasks, even outperforming supervised approaches on the recently proposed Situated Reasoning (STAR) benchmark. We analyze why audio enables better vision-language representations, suggesting significant opportunities for future research. We conclude by discussing ethical and societal implications of multimodal pretraining.

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preprint2022arXiv

Puzzle-AE: Novelty Detection in Images through Solving Puzzles

Autoencoder, as an essential part of many anomaly detection methods, is lacking flexibility on normal data in complex datasets. U-Net is proved to be effective for this purpose but overfits on the training data if trained by just using reconstruction error similar to other AE-based frameworks. Puzzle-solving, as a pretext task of self-supervised learning (SSL) methods, has earlier proved its ability in learning semantically meaningful features. We show that training U-Nets based on this task is an effective remedy that prevents overfitting and facilitates learning beyond pixel-level features. Shortcut solutions, however, are a big challenge in SSL tasks, including jigsaw puzzles. We propose adversarial robust training as an effective automatic shortcut removal. We achieve competitive or superior results compared to the State of the Art (SOTA) anomaly detection methods on various toy and real-world datasets. Unlike many competitors, the proposed framework is stable, fast, data-efficient, and does not require unprincipled early stopping.

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preprint2022arXiv

SwinCheX: Multi-label classification on chest X-ray images with transformers

According to the considerable growth in the avail of chest X-ray images in diagnosing various diseases, as well as gathering extensive datasets, having an automated diagnosis procedure using deep neural networks has occupied the minds of experts. Most of the available methods in computer vision use a CNN backbone to acquire high accuracy on the classification problems. Nevertheless, recent researches show that transformers, established as the de facto method in NLP, can also outperform many CNN-based models in vision. This paper proposes a multi-label classification deep model based on the Swin Transformer as the backbone to achieve state-of-the-art diagnosis classification. It leverages Multi-Layer Perceptron, also known as MLP, for the head architecture. We evaluate our model on one of the most widely-used and largest x-ray datasets called "Chest X-ray14," which comprises more than 100,000 frontal/back-view images from over 30,000 patients with 14 famous chest diseases. Our model has been tested with several number of MLP layers for the head setting, each achieves a competitive AUC score on all classes. Comprehensive experiments on Chest X-ray14 have shown that a 3-layer head attains state-of-the-art performance with an average AUC score of 0.810, compared to the former SOTA average AUC of 0.799. We propose an experimental setup for the fair benchmarking of existing methods, which could be used as a basis for the future studies. Finally, we followed up our results by confirming that the proposed method attends to the pathologically relevant areas of the chest.

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