CauCLIP: Bridging the Sim-to-Real Gap in Surgical Video Understanding via Causality-Inspired Vision-Language Modeling

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Main Authors:	He, Yuxin, Li, An, Xue, Cheng
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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