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Open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding presents a significant challenge in computer vision, with wide-ranging applications in embodied agents and augmented reality systems. Existing methods adopt neurel rendering methods as 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Jun Guo , Xiaojian Ma , Yue Fan , Huaping Liu , Qing Li

3D Language Gaussian Splatting (3DLGS) augments 3D Gaussian Splatting with language-aligned visual features for open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding. A core challenge is efficiently associating high-dimensional vision-language embeddings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Lovre Antonio Budimir , Yushi Guan , Steve Ryhner , Sven Lončarić , Nandita Vijaykumar

We have introduced SegSplat, a novel framework designed to bridge the gap between rapid, feed-forward 3D reconstruction and rich, open-vocabulary semantic understanding. By constructing a compact semantic memory bank from multi-view 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Peter Siegel , Federico Tombari , Marc Pollefeys , Daniel Barath

Modeling 3D language fields with Gaussian Splatting for open-ended language queries has recently garnered increasing attention. However, recent 3DGS-based models leverage view-dependent 2D foundation models to refine 3D semantics but lack a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Chenlu Zhan , Yufei Zhang , Gaoang Wang , Hongwei Wang

TL;DR: Gaussian Splatting is a widely adopted approach for 3D scene representation, offering efficient, high-quality reconstruction and rendering. A key reason for its success is the simplicity of representing scenes with sets of Gaussians,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Jiahuan Cheng , Jan-Nico Zaech , Luc Van Gool , Danda Pani Paudel

3D Gaussian Splatting has recently gained traction for its efficient training and real-time rendering. While its vanilla representation is mainly designed for view synthesis, recent works extended it to scene understanding with language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Siyun Liang , Sen Wang , Kunyi Li , Michael Niemeyer , Stefano Gasperini , Hendrik P. A. Lensch , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

We present latentSplat, a method to predict semantic Gaussians in a 3D latent space that can be splatted and decoded by a light-weight generative 2D architecture. Existing methods for generalizable 3D reconstruction either do not scale to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Christopher Wewer , Kevin Raj , Eddy Ilg , Bernt Schiele , Jan Eric Lenssen

Humans describe the physical world using natural language to refer to specific 3D locations based on a vast range of properties: visual appearance, semantics, abstract associations, or actionable affordances. In this work we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Justin Kerr , Chung Min Kim , Ken Goldberg , Angjoo Kanazawa , Matthew Tancik

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) serves as a highly performant and efficient encoding of scene geometry, appearance, and semantics. Moreover, grounding language in 3D scenes has proven to be an effective strategy for 3D scene understanding.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Mengjiao Ma , Qi Ma , Yue Li , Jiahuan Cheng , Runyi Yang , Bin Ren , Nikola Popovic , Mingqiang Wei , Nicu Sebe , Luc Van Gool , Theo Gevers , Martin R. Oswald , Danda Pani Paudel

We introduce Referring 3D Gaussian Splatting Segmentation (R3DGS), a new task that aims to segment target objects in a 3D Gaussian scene based on natural language descriptions, which often contain spatial relationships or object attributes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Shuting He , Guangquan Jie , Changshuo Wang , Yun Zhou , Shuming Hu , Guanbin Li , Henghui Ding

Language-guided 3D scene understanding is important for advancing applications in robotics, AR/VR, and human-computer interaction, enabling models to comprehend and interact with 3D environments through natural language. While 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Anh Thai , Songyou Peng , Kyle Genova , Leonidas Guibas , Thomas Funkhouser

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

The emergence of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has greatly accelerated the rendering speed of novel view synthesis. Unlike neural implicit representations like Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) that represent a 3D scene with position and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Tong Wu , Yu-Jie Yuan , Ling-Xiao Zhang , Jie Yang , Yan-Pei Cao , Ling-Qi Yan , Lin Gao

As multimodal language models advance, their application to 3D scene understanding is a fast-growing frontier, driving the development of 3D Vision-Language Models (VLMs). Current methods show strong dependence on object detectors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Anna-Maria Halacheva , Jan-Nico Zaech , Xi Wang , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool

Lifting 2D open-vocabulary understanding into 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) scenes is a critical challenge. Mainstream methods, built on an embedding paradigm, suffer from three key flaws: (i) geometry-semantic inconsistency, where points,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Jiayu Ding , Xinpeng Liu , Zhiyi Pan , Shiqiang Long , Ge Li

The emergence of neural representations has revolutionized our means for digitally viewing a wide range of 3D scenes, enabling the synthesis of photorealistic images rendered from novel views. Recently, several techniques have been proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Gal Fiebelman , Tamir Cohen , Ayellet Morgenstern , Peter Hedman , Hadar Averbuch-Elor

Scene representations using 3D Gaussian primitives have produced excellent results in modeling the appearance of static and dynamic 3D scenes. Many graphics applications, however, demand the ability to manipulate both the appearance and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Ri-Zhao Qiu , Ge Yang , Weijia Zeng , Xiaolong Wang

In this paper, we propose a RGB-D SLAM system that reconstructs a language-aligned dense feature field while sustaining low-latency tracking and mapping. First, we introduce a Top-K Rendering pipeline, a high-throughput and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Seongbo Ha , Sibaek Lee , Kyungsu Kang , Joonyeol Choi , Seungjun Tak , Hyeonwoo Yu

Egocentric scenes exhibit frequent occlusions, varied viewpoints, and dynamic interactions compared to typical scene understanding tasks. Occlusions and varied viewpoints can lead to multi-view semantic inconsistencies, while dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Di Li , Jie Feng , Jiahao Chen , Weisheng Dong , Guanbin Li , Guangming Shi , Licheng Jiao

Language-driven 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) editing provides a more convenient approach for modifying complex scenes in VR/AR. Standard pipelines typically adopt a two-stage strategy: first editing multiple 2D views, and then optimizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yanhui Chen , Jiahong Li , Jingchao Wang , Junyi Lin , Zixin Zeng , Yang Shi