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Open-world interactive object search in household environments requires understanding semantic relationships between objects and their surrounding context to guide exploration efficiently. Prior methods either rely on vision-language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Imen Mahdi , Matteo Cassinelli , Fabien Despinoy , Tim Welschehold , Abhinav Valada

Multi-modal 3D scene understanding has gained considerable attention due to its wide applications in many areas, such as autonomous driving and human-computer interaction. Compared to conventional single-modal 3D understanding, introducing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Yinjie Lei , Zixuan Wang , Feng Chen , Guoqing Wang , Peng Wang , Yang Yang

Though recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable progress across a wide range of multimodal tasks, understanding 3D spatial relationships from limited views remains a significant challenge. Previous reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Zhangquan Chen , Manyuan Zhang , Xinlei Yu , Xufang Luo , Mingze Sun , Zihao Pan , Xiang An , Yan Feng , Peng Pei , Xunliang Cai , Ruqi Huang

3D semantic segmentation is one of the most crucial tasks in driving perception. The ability of a learning-based model to accurately perceive dense 3D surroundings often ensures the safe operation of autonomous vehicles. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Qing Wu

While interacting in the world is a multi-sensory experience, many robots continue to predominantly rely on visual perception to map and navigate in their environments. In this work, we propose Audio-Visual-Language Maps (AVLMaps), a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Chenguang Huang , Oier Mees , Andy Zeng , Wolfram Burgard

The idea of cooperative perception is to benefit from shared perception data between multiple vehicles and overcome the limitations of on-board sensors on single vehicle. However, the fusion of multi-vehicle information is still challenging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Kun Jiang , Yining Shi , Benny Wijaya , Mengmeng Yang , Tuopu Wen , Zhongyang Xiao , Diange Yang

Image fusion aims to blend complementary information from multiple sensing modalities, yet existing approaches remain limited in robustness, adaptability, and controllability. Most current fusion networks are tailored to specific tasks and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jiayang Li , Chengjie Jiang , Junjun Jiang , Pengwei Liang , Jiayi Ma , Liqiang Nie

Visual SLAM is a cornerstone technique in robotics, autonomous driving and extended reality (XR), yet classical systems often struggle with low-texture environments, scale ambiguity, and degraded performance under challenging visual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yuxuan Zhou , Xingxing Li , Shengyu Li , Zhuohao Yan , Chunxi Xia , Shaoquan Feng

This paper focuses on a highly practical scenario: how to continue benefiting from the advantages of multi-modal image fusion under harsh conditions when only visible imaging sensors are available. To achieve this goal, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Hao Zhang , Yanping Zha , Zizhuo Li , Meiqi Gong , Jiayi Ma

The integration of language and 3D perception is critical for embodied AI and robotic systems to perceive, understand, and interact with the physical world. Spatial reasoning, a key capability for understanding spatial relationships between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Jiaxin Huang , Ziwen Li , Hanlve Zhang , Runnan Chen , Xiao He , Yandong Guo , Wenping Wang , Tongliang Liu , Mingming Gong

People perceive the world with different senses, such as sight, hearing, smell, and touch. Processing and fusing information from multiple modalities enables Artificial Intelligence to understand the world around us more easily. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Zecheng Liu , Jia Wei , Rui Li , Jianlong Zhou

Mediated by today's visual displays, information space allows users to discover, access and interact with a wide range of digital and physical information. The information presented in this space may be digital, physical or a blend of both,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Chen Chen

Recent advances in vision foundation models have revolutionized geometry reconstruction and semantic understanding. Yet, most of the existing approaches treat these capabilities in isolation, leading to redundant pipelines and compounded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Chaoyi Zhou , Run Wang , Feng Luo , Mert D. Pesé , Zhiwen Fan , Yiqi Zhong , Siyu Huang

In the past decade, although single-robot perception has made significant advancements, the exploration of multi-robot collaborative perception remains largely unexplored. This involves fusing compressed, intermittent, limited,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Yang Zhou , Long Quang , Carlos Nieto-Granda , Giuseppe Loianno

The integration of data from diverse sensor modalities (e.g., camera and LiDAR) constitutes a prevalent methodology within the ambit of autonomous driving scenarios. Recent advancements in efficient point cloud transformers have underscored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yutao Zhu , Xiaosong Jia , Xinyu Yang , Junchi Yan

3D Gaussians have recently emerged as an efficient representation for novel view synthesis. This work studies its editability with a particular focus on the inpainting task, which aims to supplement an incomplete set of 3D Gaussians with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Zhiheng Liu , Hao Ouyang , Qiuyu Wang , Ka Leong Cheng , Jie Xiao , Kai Zhu , Nan Xue , Yu Liu , Yujun Shen , Yang Cao

We propose a lightweight and scalable Regional Point-Language Contrastive learning framework, namely \textbf{RegionPLC}, for open-world 3D scene understanding, aiming to identify and recognize open-set objects and categories. Specifically,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jihan Yang , Runyu Ding , Weipeng Deng , Zhe Wang , Xiaojuan Qi

Zero-shot Object Navigation (ZSON) has shown promise for open-vocabulary target search in unseen environments, yet most existing systems remain tied to planar representations and single-floor assumptions. These assumptions become inadequate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Han Zheng , Zhe Chen , Yudong Huang , Haoran Liu , Jinghao Wang , Ming Yang , Tong Qin

Open-vocabulary scene understanding is crucial for robotic applications, enabling robots to comprehend complex 3D environmental contexts and supporting various downstream tasks such as navigation and manipulation. However, existing methods…

Interpreting object-referential language and grounding objects in 3D with spatial relations and attributes is essential for robots operating alongside humans. However, this task is often challenging due to the diversity of scenes, large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Nader Zantout , Haochen Zhang , Pujith Kachana , Jinkai Qiu , Guofei Chen , Ji Zhang , Wenshan Wang