Top Computer Vision Research Topics: An Analysis of 2,800+ CVPR-2025 Papers

Topics are sorted alphabetically

Source: CVPR-2025 Paper Digest


1. 3D Gaussian Splatting: Advances & Applications

Focusing on 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) for scene representation, reconstruction, rendering, and manipulation, including efficiency improvements and extensions for dynamic scenes or specific object types.

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2. 3D Reconstruction & Scene Understanding

Methods for reconstructing 3D shapes, scenes, and objects from various inputs (single/multi-view images, point clouds, videos), including surface reconstruction, scene graphs, and understanding object functionality.

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3. Autonomous Driving & Robotics

Developing perception, planning, and control systems for autonomous vehicles and robots, including 3D detection, scene completion, trajectory prediction, embodied AI agents, and simulation.

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4. Datasets, Benchmarks & Evaluation

Introducing new datasets and benchmarks for various tasks (e.g., VQA, segmentation, driving, robotics, fairness), and developing novel evaluation metrics and methodologies.

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5. Diffusion Models: Generation, Editing & Restoration

Exploring diffusion models for creating, modifying, and restoring images and videos, including techniques for control, efficiency, and specific applications like style transfer or inpainting.

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6. Efficient Models & Architectures

Developing lightweight and computationally efficient models, including novel architectures (e.g., Mamba, State Space Models), quantization, pruning, efficient attention mechanisms, and model distillation.

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7. Federated Learning & Distributed Systems

Training models across decentralized data sources while preserving privacy, addressing challenges like data heterogeneity, communication efficiency, model merging, and security concerns like backdoor attacks.

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8. Generative Models (Beyond Diffusion)

Developing and applying generative models other than diffusion models, such as GANs, VAEs, Autoregressive Models, and Flow-based models, for tasks like image/video synthesis, data augmentation, and representation learning.

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9. Human Pose, Motion & Avatars

Focusing on 3D/4D human reconstruction, pose estimation, motion generation/prediction, avatar creation, and understanding human-object interactions, often from monocular video or sparse inputs.

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10. Image Restoration, Enhancement & Synthesis

Improving image quality and generating new images, covering tasks like super-resolution, denoising, deblurring, inpainting, colorization, HDR generation, and style transfer (excluding papers primarily focused on diffusion models).

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11. Learning Paradigms & Adaptation

Exploring novel training strategies and adaptation techniques, including domain adaptation/generalization, few-shot/zero-shot learning, continual/lifelong learning, self-supervised learning, and dataset distillation.

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12. Medical Image Analysis

Applying computer vision techniques to medical imaging, including segmentation (tumors, vessels, organs), reconstruction, synthesis, registration, anomaly detection, report generation, and representation learning specifically for medical data.

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13. Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs / VLMs)

Integrating vision and language understanding, including model architectures, alignment techniques, evaluation benchmarks, and applications in tasks like VQA, captioning, reasoning, and embodied AI.

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14. Object Detection, Segmentation & Tracking

Core computer vision tasks including detecting, segmenting, and tracking objects in images and videos, with focuses on open-vocabulary, weakly supervised, few-shot, multi-object, and anomaly scenarios.

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15. Specialized Sensing & Imaging

Focusing on non-standard imaging modalities and sensors like event cameras, LiDAR, hyperspectral, polarization, thermal, radar, and single-photon detectors, including reconstruction, perception, and fusion techniques.

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16. Trustworthy & Interpretable AI

Addressing issues of fairness, bias, safety, privacy, robustness, and interpretability in AI models, including detection of AI-generated content, adversarial attacks/defenses, explainability methods, and unlearning.

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17. Video Understanding & Generation

Analyzing and synthesizing video content, including action recognition/detection, temporal grounding, video captioning, long video understanding, video generation/editing, and video-audio alignment.

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18. Visual Recognition & Representation

Core topics related to understanding visual content, including image classification, feature learning, metric learning, representation alignment (e.g., visual-textual), and analyzing model capabilities.

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