WACV 2026 Open Access Repository

LENS: Learning and Exploitation of Latent Space Geometries

Hyperbolic Embeddings Improve Narrative Quality in Retrieval-Augmented Generation Models: Mayukh Debnath,

Ankita Shukla; [pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Debnath_2026_WACV, author = {Debnath, Mayukh and Shukla, Ankita}, title = {Hyperbolic Embeddings Improve Narrative Quality in Retrieval-Augmented Generation Models}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {1326-1333} }
Stabilizing Intrinsic Explanations: A Geometric Perspective on Concept Leakage: Keun Hee Park,

Jinyung Hong,

Theodore P Pavlic,

Pavan Turaga; [pdf] [supp]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Park_2026_WACV, author = {Park, Keun Hee and Hong, Jinyung and Pavlic, Theodore P and Turaga, Pavan}, title = {Stabilizing Intrinsic Explanations: A Geometric Perspective on Concept Leakage}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {1307-1316} }
OrthoMDA: Curvature-Preserving Manifold Visualization for Regression Networks via Gram-Schmidt Orthogonalization: Kaveh Safavigerdini,

Bahram Yaghooti,

Bruno Sinopoli,

Kannappan Palaniappan; [pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Safavigerdini_2026_WACV, author = {Safavigerdini, Kaveh and Yaghooti, Bahram and Sinopoli, Bruno and Palaniappan, Kannappan}, title = {OrthoMDA: Curvature-Preserving Manifold Visualization for Regression Networks via Gram-Schmidt Orthogonalization}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {1334-1342} }
Latent Space Manifold Geometry for Robust Image Classification: Shenyuan Liang,

Benjamin Beaudett,

Mauricio Segundo,

Sudeep Sarkar,

Anuj Srivastava; [pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Liang_2026_WACV, author = {Liang, Shenyuan and Beaudett, Benjamin and Segundo, Mauricio and Sarkar, Sudeep and Srivastava, Anuj}, title = {Latent Space Manifold Geometry for Robust Image Classification}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {1259-1268} }
Geo-DMAE: Geometric Deep Multi-AutoEncoders for Monitoring Heterogeneous Normal Aging in Brain Subcortex: Yuanyao Tan,

Anuj Srivastava,

Chao Huang; [pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Tan_2026_WACV, author = {Tan, Yuanyao and Srivastava, Anuj and Huang, Chao}, title = {Geo-DMAE: Geometric Deep Multi-AutoEncoders for Monitoring Heterogeneous Normal Aging in Brain Subcortex}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {1250-1258} }
Face Identity Unlearning for Retrieval via Embedding Dispersion: Mikhail Zakharov; [pdf] [supp] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Zakharov_2026_WACV, author = {Zakharov, Mikhail}, title = {Face Identity Unlearning for Retrieval via Embedding Dispersion}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {1277-1286} }
ARGS: Advanced Regularization on Aligning Gaussians over the Surface: Jeong Uk Lee,

Sunghee Hee Choi; [pdf] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Lee_2026_WACV, author = {Lee, Jeong Uk and Choi, Sunghee Hee}, title = {ARGS: Advanced Regularization on Aligning Gaussians over the Surface}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {1298-1306} }
Learning Domain Agnostic Latent Embeddings of 3D Faces for Zero-shot Animal Expression Transfer: Yue Wang,

Lawrence Amadi,

Xiang Gao,

Yazheng Chen,

Yuanpeng Liu,

Ning Lu,

David Gu; [pdf] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Wang_2026_WACV, author = {Wang, Yue and Amadi, Lawrence and Gao, Xiang and Chen, Yazheng and Liu, Yuanpeng and Lu, Ning and Gu, David}, title = {Learning Domain Agnostic Latent Embeddings of 3D Faces for Zero-shot Animal Expression Transfer}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {1269-1276} }
Attention as Geometric Transformation: Revisiting Feature Distillation for Semantic Segmentation: Amirmohammad Mansourian,

Arya Jalali,

Rozhan Ahmadi,

Shohreh Kasaei; [pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Mansourian_2026_WACV, author = {Mansourian, Amirmohammad and Jalali, Arya and Ahmadi, Rozhan and Kasaei, Shohreh}, title = {Attention as Geometric Transformation: Revisiting Feature Distillation for Semantic Segmentation}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {1287-1297} }
Improving Shape Bias in Learnable Geometric Moment Representations: Sangmin Jung,

Anirudh Rayas,

Reza Rahimi Azghan,

Hassan Ghasemzadeh,

Yezhou Yang,

Pavan Turaga; [pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Jung_2026_WACV, author = {Jung, Sangmin and Rayas, Anirudh and Azghan, Reza Rahimi and Ghasemzadeh, Hassan and Yang, Yezhou and Turaga, Pavan}, title = {Improving Shape Bias in Learnable Geometric Moment Representations}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {1317-1325} }