Sync with VCLab website + arXiv index trigger

Rebuild org README with website branding (logo, brand color, six directions, PQ816, OPPO), and embed all arXiv URLs to trigger HF Papers indexing.

README.md

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 <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PolyU-VCLab/PolyU-VCLab.github.io/main/assets/icons/vclab-logo.svg" width="110" alt="VCLab Logo"/>
 
-# PolyU VCLab � Visual Computing Lab
+# PolyU VCLab - Visual Computing Lab
 
 ### Advancing Visual Intelligence for a Better World.
 
-*"Y learning and beyond � for future visual enhancement and understanding."*
+*"Y learning and beyond -- for future visual enhancement and understanding."*
 
 [![Website](https://img.shields.io/badge/Website-polyu--vclab.github.io-8F1329?style=for-the-badge&logo=githubpages&logoColor=white)](https://polyu-vclab.github.io/)
 [![Director](https://img.shields.io/badge/Director-Prof.%20Lei%20Zhang-8F1329?style=for-the-badge)](https://www4.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~cslzhang/)
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 ## About the Lab
 
-The **Visual Computing Lab (VCLab)** at **The Hong Kong Polytechnic University**, directed by **Chair Professor Lei Zhang** (IEEE Fellow), works across the full stack of modern visual intelligence � from low-level image and video restoration, through multimodal perception and reasoning, to generative models, 3D reconstruction, new network architectures, and evaluation benchmarks.
+The **Visual Computing Lab (VCLab)** at **The Hong Kong Polytechnic University**, directed by **Chair Professor Lei Zhang** (IEEE Fellow), works across the full stack of modern visual intelligence: from low-level image and video restoration, through multimodal perception and reasoning, to generative models, 3D reconstruction, new network architectures, and evaluation benchmarks.
 
 Our work regularly appears at **CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, TPAMI and IJCV**, and many of our methods have been deployed on **hundreds of millions of mobile devices** through our long-term collaboration with **OPPO Research Institute**.
 
-**Office:** PQ816, Department of Computing, PolyU � Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong
+**Office:** PQ816, Department of Computing, PolyU, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong
 **Contact:** `cslzhang [at] comp.polyu.edu.hk`
 
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 ## Six Research Directions
 
-Our publications are organized into six Collections below. **Each Collection is kept up-to-date and lists the latest papers, code and models** � just click to explore.
+Our publications are organized into six Collections below. Each Collection is kept up-to-date with the latest papers, code and models -- just click to explore.
 
 | # | Direction | Open |
 | :-: | :-- | :-- |
-| 01 | **Image / Video Restoration, Enhancement & Quality Assessment** <br/><sub>Real-world super-resolution, denoising, deblurring, HDR, video restoration, perceptual IQA.</sub> | [? Collection](https://huggingface.co/collections/VCLab-HKPU/image-video-restoration-enhancement-and-quality-assessment-69e88641cae9ce5e7cd7d102) |
-| 02 | **Multimodal Perception, Understanding & Reasoning** <br/><sub>MLLM-driven visual perception, grounding and reasoning.</sub> | [? Collection](https://huggingface.co/collections/VCLab-HKPU/multimodal-perception-understanding-and-reasoning-69e88630a9632f74ae6235a9) |
-| 03 | **Image & Video Synthesis and Generation** <br/><sub>Accelerating, distilling and improving diffusion / AR / DiT generative models.</sub> | [? Collection](https://huggingface.co/collections/VCLab-HKPU/image-and-video-synthesis-and-generation-69e88631f170be22735da0ba) |
-| 04 | **3D Perception, Reconstruction & Generation** <br/><sub>Sensing, reconstructing, synthesizing and editing high-fidelity 3D worlds.</sub> | [? Collection](https://huggingface.co/collections/VCLab-HKPU/3d-perception-reconstruction-and-generation-69e8863209efbb5392f99651) |
-| 05 | **Architecture & Training Paradigms** <br/><sub>New architectures for ViT / LLM / VLM, and efficient, decentralized training.</sub> | [? Collection](https://huggingface.co/collections/VCLab-HKPU/architecture-and-training-paradigms-69e886412df265f56289c0e7) |
-| 06 | **Benchmarks & Datasets** <br/><sub>Evaluation benchmarks and training datasets for the visual computing community.</sub> | [? Collection](https://huggingface.co/collections/VCLab-HKPU/benchmarks-and-datasets-69e8863311eb2c5cc3ac1d9c) |
+| 01 | **Image / Video Restoration, Enhancement & Quality Assessment** <br/><sub>Real-world super-resolution, denoising, deblurring, HDR, video restoration, perceptual IQA.</sub> | [Open Collection](https://huggingface.co/collections/VCLab-HKPU/image-video-restoration-enhancement-and-quality-assessment-69e88641cae9ce5e7cd7d102) |
+| 02 | **Multimodal Perception, Understanding & Reasoning** <br/><sub>MLLM-driven visual perception, grounding and reasoning.</sub> | [Open Collection](https://huggingface.co/collections/VCLab-HKPU/multimodal-perception-understanding-and-reasoning-69e88630a9632f74ae6235a9) |
+| 03 | **Image & Video Synthesis and Generation** <br/><sub>Accelerating, distilling and improving diffusion / AR / DiT generative models.</sub> | [Open Collection](https://huggingface.co/collections/VCLab-HKPU/image-and-video-synthesis-and-generation-69e88631f170be22735da0ba) |
+| 04 | **3D Perception, Reconstruction & Generation** <br/><sub>Sensing, reconstructing, synthesizing and editing high-fidelity 3D worlds.</sub> | [Open Collection](https://huggingface.co/collections/VCLab-HKPU/3d-perception-reconstruction-and-generation-69e8863209efbb5392f99651) |
+| 05 | **Architecture & Training Paradigms** <br/><sub>New architectures for ViT / LLM / VLM, and efficient, decentralized training.</sub> | [Open Collection](https://huggingface.co/collections/VCLab-HKPU/architecture-and-training-paradigms-69e886412df265f56289c0e7) |
+| 06 | **Benchmarks & Datasets** <br/><sub>Evaluation benchmarks and training datasets for the visual computing community.</sub> | [Open Collection](https://huggingface.co/collections/VCLab-HKPU/benchmarks-and-datasets-69e8863311eb2c5cc3ac1d9c) |
 
-> For the **complete publication list**, see Prof. Zhang's [publication page](https://www4.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~cslzhang/papers.htm) and the lab's [website](https://polyu-vclab.github.io/).
+> For the **complete publication list**, please visit Prof. Zhang's [publication page](https://www4.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~cslzhang/papers.htm) and the lab's [website](https://polyu-vclab.github.io/).
 
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 We are recruiting **PhD students** (jointly trained with OPPO Research Institute), **postdocs**, and **research interns** across all six research directions. Send your CV and a brief statement of interest to **cslzhang [at] comp.polyu.edu.hk**.
 
-[? More on our website](https://polyu-vclab.github.io/#join-us)
+[More on our website](https://polyu-vclab.github.io/#join-us)
 
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-[![Website](https://img.shields.io/badge/??%20Website-polyu--vclab.github.io-8F1329)](https://polyu-vclab.github.io/)
+[![Website](https://img.shields.io/badge/Website-polyu--vclab.github.io-8F1329)](https://polyu-vclab.github.io/)
 [![GitHub](https://img.shields.io/badge/GitHub-PolyU--VCLab-181717?logo=github)](https://github.com/PolyU-VCLab)
 [![Scholar](https://img.shields.io/badge/Google%20Scholar-Lei%20Zhang-4285F4?logo=googlescholar&logoColor=white)](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tAK5l1IAAAAJ)
 
-**� PolyU VCLab � Visual Computing Lab, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University**
+**(c) PolyU VCLab, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University**
 
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