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"/>
+<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PolyU-VCLab/PolyU-VCLab.github.io/main/assets/icons/vclab-logo.svg" width="130" alt="VCLab Logo"/>
 
-# PolyU VCLab - Visual Computing Lab
+<h1>PolyU VCLab -- Visual Computing Lab</h1>
 
-### Advancing Visual Intelligence for a Better World.
+<p>
+  <b>Visual Computing Lab</b> at <b>The Hong Kong Polytechnic University</b><br/>
+  Directed by <a href="https://www4.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~cslzhang/"><b>Chair Professor Lei Zhang</b></a> (IEEE Fellow) &nbsp;|&nbsp; In collaboration with <b>OPPO Research Institute</b>
+</p>
 
-*"Y learning and beyond -- for future visual enhancement and understanding."*
+<p>
+  <i>"Y learning and beyond -- for future visual enhancement and understanding."</i>
+</p>
 
-[![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/)
-[![GitHub](https://img.shields.io/badge/GitHub-PolyU--VCLab-181717?style=for-the-badge&logo=github)](https://github.com/PolyU-VCLab)
+<p>
+  <a href="https://polyu-vclab.github.io/"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Lab%20Website-polyu--vclab.github.io-8F1329?style=for-the-badge&logo=githubpages&logoColor=white" alt="Website"></a>
+  <a href="https://www4.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~cslzhang/"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Director-Prof.%20Lei%20Zhang-8F1329?style=for-the-badge" alt="Director"></a>
+  <a href="https://github.com/PolyU-VCLab"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/GitHub-PolyU--VCLab-181717?style=for-the-badge&logo=github" alt="GitHub"></a>
+  <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tAK5l1IAAAAJ"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Google%20Scholar-Lei%20Zhang-4285F4?style=for-the-badge&logo=googlescholar&logoColor=white" alt="Scholar"></a>
+</p>
 
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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)** 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 rigorous 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**.
+Our work regularly appears at **CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, TPAMI and IJCV**. 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
 **Contact:** `cslzhang [at] comp.polyu.edu.hk`
 
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-## Six Research Directions
+## Research Directions
 
-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.
+Our work is organized into six Collections on this page. Each Collection is kept up-to-date with the latest papers, code, and models -- just click to explore.
 
-| # | Direction | Open |
+| # | Collection | Explore |
 | :-: | :-- | :-- |
-| 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) |
+| 01 | **Image / Video Restoration, Enhancement & Quality Assessment** <br/><sub>Real-world super-resolution, denoising, deblurring, HDR, video restoration, perceptual IQA.</sub> | [Open](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](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](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](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](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](https://huggingface.co/collections/VCLab-HKPU/benchmarks-and-datasets-69e8863311eb2c5cc3ac1d9c) |
 
-> 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/).
+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 [official website](https://polyu-vclab.github.io/).
+
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+
+## Industrial Collaboration
+
+We maintain a long-term strategic collaboration with **OPPO Research Institute**, where many of our algorithms (denoising, super-resolution, HDR, face restoration, low-light enhancement, etc.) have been productized in consumer imaging systems deployed on hundreds of millions of mobile devices.
 
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 ## Join Us
 
-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**.
+We are recruiting **PhD students** (jointly trained with OPPO Research Institute), **postdocs**, and **research interns** across all six research directions.
 
-[More on our website](https://polyu-vclab.github.io/#join-us)
+Interested candidates are welcome to send a CV and a brief statement of research interests to **`cslzhang [at] comp.polyu.edu.hk`**, or visit the [Join Us](https://polyu-vclab.github.io/#join-us) page on our website.
 
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-[![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)
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+
+Maintained by the VCLab team. For bug reports on this page, open an issue in the [Space repository](https://huggingface.co/spaces/VCLab-HKPU/README/discussions).
+
+**(c) Visual Computing Lab, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University**
 
-**(c) PolyU VCLab, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University**
+</sub>
 
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