Detailed Technical Program

Day 1 - Main Conference

Wednesday, 2 December 2026

Time (AEDT, UTC+11) Session Location
08:00-08:45 Registration and arrival refreshments Rydges Sydney Central
08:45-09:00 Opening and introduction Rydges Sydney Central
09:00-10:00 Keynote: Ajmal Mian
The University of Western Australia
Rydges Sydney Central
10:00-10:30 Morning tea Rydges Sydney Central
10:30-11:30

Oral session 1 - Physical Intelligence

Talk 1 | 10:30-10:40
046: MEND: Label-Free Detection, Localisation, and Correction of Latent Hallucination in World Models

Talk 2 | 10:40-10:50
049: Long-Horizon Rollout Diagnostics for Latent World Models: LeWM on Push-T

Talk 3 | 10:50-11:00
076: RAAG: Retrieval-Augmented Action Generation

Talk 4 | 11:00-11:10
048: PhysDiff-Vision: Physics-Conditioned Latent Diffusion for Spatially Consistent Visual Generation

Talk 5 | 11:10-11:20
089: PG-NVAS: Physics-Guided Novel-View Acoustic Synthesis

Talk 6 | 11:20-11:30
067: Target-Part Preference Optimization for Part-Aware 3D Generation

Rydges Sydney Central
11:30-12:00 Group photo Rydges Sydney Central
12:00-13:30

Lunch and poster session 1

24 posters | Includes oral papers

Papers: 008, 011, 012, 023, 027, 029, 046, 047, 048, 049, 067, 072, 076, 089, 096, 099, 100, 109, 114, 120, 131, 133, 134, 140.

Rydges Sydney Central
13:30-14:30 Keynote: Chunhua Shen
Zhejiang University
Rydges Sydney Central
14:30-15:00 Afternoon tea Rydges Sydney Central
15:00-16:00

Oral session 2 - Spatial Intelligence

Talk 1 | 15:00-15:10
027: MapOcc: A Unified Multi-Task Learning Framework for Joint 3D Occupancy Prediction and BEV Map Segmentation

Talk 2 | 15:10-15:20
047: Training-Free Open-Vocabulary 3D Segmentation with SAM3-Guided Mask Consolidation

Talk 3 | 15:20-15:30
099: Geometry-Conditioned Visual Place Recognition in Natural Environments

Talk 4 | 15:30-15:40
100: Automotive mmWave Spinning Radar Place Recognition with Spatially Gated Feature-Correlation Representation

Talk 5 | 15:40-15:50
133: Coarse-to-Fine Cross-View Geo-Localisation with Score-Based Candidate Fusion

Talk 6 | 15:50-16:00
134: Conformal Calibration of Co-Visibility Scores for Connected View Graphs

Rydges Sydney Central
16:00-17:00 APRS annual general meeting Rydges Sydney Central

Day 2 - Main Conference

Thursday, 3 December 2026

Time (AEDT, UTC+11) Session Location
08:30-09:00 Arrival refreshments and registration Rydges Sydney Central
09:00-10:00 Keynote: Yongsheng Gao
Griffith University
Rydges Sydney Central
10:00-10:30 Morning tea Rydges Sydney Central
10:30-11:00 APRS awards Rydges Sydney Central
11:00-12:00

Oral session 3 - Multimodal Intelligence

Talk 1 | 11:00-11:10
024: TC-VMR: A Term-Level Counterfactual Benchmark for Video Moment Retrieval

Talk 2 | 11:10-11:20
034: KAXS: Knowledge-Aware Learning for eXtreme Multimodal Summarization

Talk 3 | 11:20-11:30
032: Incorporating Semantic Alignment and Sentence-Level Process Rewards for Clinically Accurate Pathology Report Generation

Talk 4 | 11:30-11:40
054: LLaVA-Surg: Towards Multimodal Surgical Assistant via Structured Surgical Video Learning

Talk 5 | 11:40-11:50
085: CoFiSign: Coarse-to-Fine Body-Conditioned Generation for Sign Language Production

Talk 6 | 11:50-12:00
111: Gated-CLIP: Semantic-Gated Structural Modulation for Zero-Shot Anomaly Localization

Rydges Sydney Central
12:00-13:30

Lunch and poster session 2

28 posters | Includes oral papers

Papers: 010, 015, 019, 024, 028, 030, 032, 034, 050, 054, 055, 056, 078, 079, 080, 082, 085, 091, 095, 097, 102, 103, 106, 108, 111, 116, 117, 130.

Rydges Sydney Central
13:30-14:30

TCC Special Oral Session: Agentic AI in Security and Privacy

Talk 1 | 13:30-13:45
028: Effcient Ensemble Attack for Semantic Segmentation

Talk 2 | 13:45-14:00
095: Cancellable Secure Bio-Hash for Lightweight Face-based Verification Systems

Talk 3 | 14:00-14:15
019: WebCryptoAgent: Agentic Crypto Trading with Web Informatics

Talk 4 | 14:15-14:30
116: Privacy-Aware Federated Benchmarking and Explainability for Multi-Class Histopathology Image Classification

Rydges Sydney Central
14:30-15:00 Afternoon tea Rydges Sydney Central
15:00-16:00 Keynote: Sue Keay
UNSW AI Institute
Rydges Sydney Central
16:00-17:00

Oral session 4 - Applications and Trustworthy AI

Talk 1 | 16:00-16:10
108: CrossCue-Net: Monocular Crossing Guidance for Visually Impaired Pedestrians

Talk 2 | 16:10-16:20
117: MoDA-Net: Distance-Stratified Monocular Depth Estimation for Assistive Navigation

Talk 3 | 16:20-16:30
130: TRACE: Towards Scalable Tray-Level Insect Digitisation

Talk 4 | 16:30-16:40
097: Provenance Before Performance: A Scene-Grouped Evaluation Technique for Produce Detection in Refrigerator Scenes

Talk 5 | 16:40-16:50
078: When Do Visual Explanations Become Reproducible? Measuring Prediction-Explanation Scale Separation

Talk 6 | 16:50-17:00
106: Where Does Learn-Then-Test Lose Power? An Empirical Audit of Marginal and Multiplicity Calibration

Rydges Sydney Central
17:00-18:30 Dinner transfer Details TBC
18:30-22:30 Conference gala dinner Venue TBC

Day 3 - Main Conference

Friday, 4 December 2026

Time (AEDT, UTC+11) Session Location
09:00-09:30 Arrival refreshments and registration Rydges Sydney Central
09:30-10:30

Oral session 5 - AI for Healthcare

Talk 1 | 09:30-09:40
045: Characterizing Scale-dependent Geometry of Virchow2 Embeddings for Multi-resolution Computational Pathology

Talk 2 | 09:40-09:50
057: MARC: Morphology-Aware Regression of Consensus for Cell Segmentation in Subcellular Spatial Transcriptomics

Talk 3 | 09:50-10:00
039: DINOv2-MCA-UNet: DINOv2 Mamba UNet for Dense Pixel-Level Skin Lesion Segmentation

Talk 4 | 10:00-10:10
098: Automatic Post-Processing Correction of Vessel Shadow Induced Errors in Retinal Layer Segmentation of OCT B-Scans

Talk 5 | 10:10-10:20
037: Interpretable Brain MRI Tumor Classification Using Hybrid Deep Learning and Water-Aware Radiomic Features

Talk 6 | 10:20-10:30
094: Asymmetry-Guided and Lesion-Weighted GAN for Lesion Preserving NCCT-to-DWI Synthesis in Acute Ischemic Stroke

Rydges Sydney Central
10:30-11:00 Morning tea Rydges Sydney Central
11:00-12:00 Keynote: Mohit Bansal
UNC Chapel Hill
Rydges Sydney Central
12:00-13:30

Lunch and poster session 3

23 posters | Includes oral papers

Papers: 014, 021, 037, 039, 045, 051, 057, 062, 064, 071, 074, 077, 086, 093, 094, 098, 110, 112, 122, 123, 124, 128, 135.

Rydges Sydney Central
13:30-14:30 Keynote: TikTok
TikTok
Rydges Sydney Central
14:30-15:00 Afternoon tea Rydges Sydney Central
15:00-16:00

Oral session 6 - Visual Restoration and Recognition

Talk 1 | 15:00-15:10
051: Seam First: Spectral Boundary Supervision for Image Inpainting

Talk 2 | 15:10-15:20
074: AdaNight: Closing the Granularity Gap in Weather-Aware Expert Routing for Nighttime Multi-Weather Image Restoration

Talk 3 | 15:20-15:30
128: Execution-Aware Image Dehazing through Bounded Guided Enhancement and Tile-Local Fusion

Talk 4 | 15:30-15:40
021: GRIL-TD: Graph-to-Image Representation Learning for Tabular Data Using GNN-Derived Convolutional Kernels

Talk 5 | 15:40-15:50
064: REDAR: Reinforcement-Driven Adaptive Regularisation for Class Incremental Learning

Talk 6 | 15:50-16:00
122: Training-Free Whitened Local-Global Fusion for Few-Shot Plant Disease Recognition

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16:00-16:15 Closing remarks Rydges Sydney Central