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Bridging natural language and 3D geometry is a crucial step toward flexible, language-driven scene understanding. While recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have enabled fast and high-quality scene reconstruction, research has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Shaohui Dai , Yansong Qu , Zheyan Li , Xinyang Li , Shengchuan Zhang , Liujuan Cao

3D scene graphs have recently emerged as an expressive high-level map representation that describes a 3D environment as a layered graph where nodes represent spatial concepts at multiple levels of abstraction (e.g., objects, rooms,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Yun Chang , Nathan Hughes , Aaron Ray , Luca Carlone

Despite recent advancements in single-domain or single-object image generation, it is still challenging to generate complex scenes containing diverse, multiple objects and their interactions. Scene graphs, composed of nodes as objects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Sarthak Garg , Helisa Dhamo , Azade Farshad , Sabrina Musatian , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

Understanding the geometric relationships between objects in a scene is a core capability in enabling both humans and autonomous agents to navigate in new environments. A sparse, unified representation of the scene topology will allow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Zachary Seymour , Niluthpol Chowdhury Mithun , Han-Pang Chiu , Supun Samarasekera , Rakesh Kumar

Scene graph is a structured representation of a scene that can clearly express the objects, attributes, and relationships between objects in the scene. As computer vision technology continues to develop, people are no longer satisfied with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Xiaojun Chang , Pengzhen Ren , Pengfei Xu , Zhihui Li , Xiaojiang Chen , Alex Hauptmann

A proper scene representation is central to the pursuit of spatial intelligence where agents can robustly reconstruct and efficiently understand 3D scenes. A scene representation is either metric, such as landmark maps in 3D reconstruction,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Juexiao Zhang , Gao Zhu , Sihang Li , Xinhao Liu , Haorui Song , Xinran Tang , Chen Feng

Semantic mapping is a key component of robots operating in and interacting with objects in structured environments. Traditionally, geometric and knowledge representations within a semantic map have only been loosely integrated. However,…

Scene graphs have been proven to be useful for various scene understanding tasks due to their compact and explicit nature. However, existing approaches often neglect the importance of maintaining the symmetry-preserving property when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Quang P. M. Pham , Khoi T. N. Nguyen , Lan C. Ngo , Truong Do , Truong Son Hy

Semantic querying in complex 3D scenes through free-form language presents a significant challenge. Existing 3D scene understanding methods use large-scale training data and CLIP to align text queries with 3D semantic features. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Chenlu Zhan , Yufei Zhang , Gaoang Wang , Hongwei Wang

We propose Graph2Nav, a real-time 3D object-relation graph generation framework, for autonomous navigation in the real world. Our framework fully generates and exploits both 3D objects and a rich set of semantic relationships among objects…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Tixiao Shan , Abhinav Rajvanshi , Niluthpol Mithun , Han-Pang Chiu

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

We present OvSGTR, a novel transformer-based framework for fully open-vocabulary scene graph generation that overcomes the limitations of traditional closed-set models. Conventional methods restrict both object and relationship recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zuyao Chen , Jinlin Wu , Zhen Lei , Chang Wen Chen

Teleoperation via natural-language reduces operator workload and enhances safety in high-risk or remote settings. However, in dynamic remote scenes, transmission latency during bidirectional communication creates gaps between remote…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yi Wang , Zeyu Xue , Mujie Liu , Tongqin Zhang , Yan Hu , Zhou Zhao , Chenguang Yang , Zhenyu Lu

Recent progress in vision-language models (VLMs) has opened new possibilities for robot task planning, but these models often produce incorrect action sequences. To address these limitations, we propose VeriGraph, a novel framework that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Daniel Ekpo , Mara Levy , Saksham Suri , Chuong Huynh , Archana Swaminathan , Abhinav Shrivastava

Recent advances in large vision-language models (VLMs) have shown significant promise for 3D scene understanding. Existing VLM-based approaches typically align 3D scene features with the VLM's embedding space. However, this implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Chen Li , Eric Peh , Basura Fernando

Open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding enables users to segment novel objects in complex 3D environments through natural language. However, existing approaches remain slow, memory-intensive, and overly complex due to iterative optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Jaehun Bang , Jinhyeok Kim , Minji Kim , Seungheon Jeong , Kyungdon Joo

Structured representations such as scene graphs serve as an efficient and compact representation that can be used for downstream rendering or retrieval tasks. However, existing efforts to generate realistic images from scene graphs perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Subarna Tripathi , Sharath Nittur Sridhar , Sairam Sundaresan , Hanlin Tang

Humans inherently recognize objects via selective visual perception, transform specific regions from the visual field into structured symbolic knowledge, and reason their relationships among regions based on the allocation of limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Shu Zhao , Huijuan Xu

Existing open-vocabulary 3D semantic segmentation methods typically supervise 3D segmentation models by merging text-aligned features (e.g., CLIP) extracted from multi-view images onto 3D points. However, such approaches treat multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Shiqi Zhang , Sha Zhang , Jiajun Deng , Yedong Shen , Mingxiao MA , Yanyong Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive results in developing generalist planning agents for diverse tasks. However, grounding these plans in expansive, multi-floor, and multi-room environments presents a significant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Krishan Rana , Jesse Haviland , Sourav Garg , Jad Abou-Chakra , Ian Reid , Niko Suenderhauf