publications

2026

1. U Segmentation

   

   SPARK: Stochastic Propagation via Affinity-guided Random walK for training-free unsupervised segmentation

   Kunal Mahatha, Jose Dolz, and Christian Desrosiers

   In Pre-Print(arXiv), 2026

   Bib PROJECT PAGE

   @inproceedings{mahatha2026spark,
     title = {SPARK: Stochastic Propagation via Affinity-guided Random walK for training-free unsupervised segmentation},
     author = {Mahatha, Kunal and Dolz, Jose and Desrosiers, Christian},
     year = {2026},
     booktitle = {Pre-Print(arXiv)},
   }

2. VSSMs

   

   OCTOPUS: Enhancing the Spatial-Awareness of Vision SSMs with Multi-Dimensional Scans and Traversal Selection

   Kunal Mahatha, Ali Bahri, Pierre Marza, and 5 more authors

   In Pre-Print(arXiv), 2026

   Bib PROJECT PAGE

   @inproceedings{mahatha2026octopusenhancingspatialawarenessvision,
     title = {OCTOPUS: Enhancing the Spatial-Awareness of Vision SSMs with Multi-Dimensional Scans and Traversal Selection},
     author = {Mahatha, Kunal and Bahri, Ali and Marza, Pierre and Dastani, Sahar and Vakalopoulou, Maria and Christodoulidis, Stergios and Dolz, Jose and Desrosiers, Christian},
     year = {2026},
     booktitle = {Pre-Print(arXiv)},
   }

3. OVSS

   

   NERVE: Neighbourhood & Entropy-guided Random-walk for training free open-Vocabulary sEgmentation

   Kunal Mahatha, Jose Dolz, and Christian Desrosiers

   In WACV, 2026

   Bib PROJECT PAGE

   @inproceedings{mahatha2025nerve,
     title = {NERVE: Neighbourhood & Entropy-guided Random-walk for training free open-Vocabulary sEgmentation},
     author = {Mahatha, Kunal and Dolz, Jose and Desrosiers, Christian},
     year = {2026},
     booktitle = {WACV},
   }

2025

1. Histopathology

   

   THUNDER: Tile-level Histopathology image UNDERstanding benchmark

   Pierre Marza, Leo Fillioux, Sofiène Boutaj, and 6 more authors

   In NeurIPS D&B Track, 2025

   Spotlight Bib PROJECT PAGE

   Spotlight paper

   @inproceedings{marza2025thunder,
     title = {THUNDER: Tile-level Histopathology image UNDERstanding benchmark},
     author = {Marza, Pierre and Fillioux, Leo and Boutaj, Sofi{\`e}ne and Mahatha, Kunal and Desrosiers, Christian and Piantanida, Pablo and Dolz, Jose and Christodoulidis, Stergios and Vakalopoulou, Maria},
     booktitle = {NeurIPS D\&B Track},
     year = {2025},
   }