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Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have made impressive progress in connecting vision and language, but they still struggle with spatial understanding and viewpoint-aware reasoning. Recent efforts aim to augment the input…

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Visual Language Models (VLMs) have increasingly become the main paradigm for understanding indoor scenes, but they still struggle with metric and spatial reasoning. Current approaches rely on end-to-end video understanding or large-scale…

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3D vision-language grounding, which focuses on aligning language with the 3D physical environment, stands as a cornerstone in the development of embodied agents. In comparison to recent advancements in the 2D domain, grounding language in…

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Embodied intelligence fundamentally requires a capability to determine where to act in 3D space. We formalize this requirement as embodied localization -- the problem of predicting executable 3D points conditioned on visual observations and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Qiming Zhu , Zhirui Fang , Tianming Zhang , Chuanxiu Liu , Xiaoke Jiang , Lei Zhang

We study the task of embodied visual active learning, where an agent is set to explore a 3d environment with the goal to acquire visual scene understanding by actively selecting views for which to request annotation. While accurate on some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 David Nilsson , Aleksis Pirinen , Erik Gärtner , Cristian Sminchisescu

Robust visual localization under a wide range of viewing conditions is a fundamental problem in computer vision. Handling the difficult cases of this problem is not only very challenging but also of high practical relevance, e.g., in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Johannes L. Schönberger , Marc Pollefeys , Andreas Geiger , Torsten Sattler

Grounded understanding of natural language in physical scenes can greatly benefit robots that follow human instructions. In object manipulation scenarios, existing end-to-end models are proficient at understanding semantic concepts, but…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Qian Luo , Yunfei Li , Yi Wu

The capability of a mobile robot to efficiently and safely perform complex missions is limited by its knowledge of the environment, namely the situation. Advanced reasoning, decision-making, and execution skills enable an intelligent agent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Hriday Bavle , Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez , Claudio Cimarelli , Ali Tourani , Holger Voos

In this work, we focus on the problem of grounding language by training an agent to follow a set of natural language instructions and navigate to a target object in an environment. The agent receives visual information through raw pixels…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Akilesh B , Abhishek Sinha , Mausoom Sarkar , Balaji Krishnamurthy

Neural network-based systems can now learn to locate the referents of words and phrases in images, answer questions about visual scenes, and execute symbolic instructions as first-person actors in partially-observable worlds. To achieve…

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Current Large Language Models have achieved Olympiad-level logic, yet Vision-Language Models paradoxically falter on elementary spatial tasks like block counting. This capability mismatch reveals a critical ``spatial intelligence gap,''…

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We propose a new 3D spatial understanding task of 3D Question Answering (3D-QA). In the 3D-QA task, models receive visual information from the entire 3D scene of the rich RGB-D indoor scan and answer the given textual questions about the 3D…

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3D Scene Question Answering (3D SQA) represents an interdisciplinary task that integrates 3D visual perception and natural language processing, empowering intelligent agents to comprehend and interact with complex 3D environments. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Zechuan Li , Hongshan Yu , Yihao Ding , Yan Li , Yong He , Naveed Akhtar

Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have significantly improved 2D visual understanding, prompting interest in their application to complex 3D reasoning tasks. However, it remains unclear whether these models can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xiaoyu Zhan , Wenxuan Huang , Hao Sun , Xinyu Fu , Changfeng Ma , Shaosheng Cao , Bohan Jia , Shaohui Lin , Zhenfei Yin , Lei Bai , Wanli Ouyang , Yuanqi Li , Jie Guo , Yanwen Guo

We present GR3D, a spatial vision language model equipped with three complementary grounding capabilities--explicit 2D grounding, implicit 2D grounding, and monocular 3D grounding--within a single framework. GR3D introduces an implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 An-Chieh Cheng , Yang Fu , Yatai Ji , Ligeng Zhu , Guanqi Zhan , Zhuoyang Zhang , Zhaojing Yang , Song Han , Yao Lu , Pavlo Molchanov , Vidya Nariyambut Murali , Jan Kautz , Xiaolong Wang , Hongxu Yin , Sifei Liu

An embodied AI assistant operating on egocentric video must integrate spatial cues across time - for instance, determining where an object A, glimpsed a few moments ago lies relative to an object B encountered later. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Sahithya Ravi , Gabriel Sarch , Vibhav Vineet , Andrew D. Wilson , Balasaravanan Thoravi Kumaravel

Although great progress has been made in 3D visual grounding, current models still rely on explicit textual descriptions for grounding and lack the ability to reason human intentions from implicit instructions. We propose a new task called…

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3D visual grounding (3DVG) involves localizing entities in a 3D scene referred to by natural language text. Such models are useful for embodied AI and scene retrieval applications, which involve searching for objects or patterns using…

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In recent years, autonomous driving has garnered escalating attention for its potential to relieve drivers' burdens and improve driving safety. Vision-based 3D occupancy prediction, which predicts the spatial occupancy status and semantics…

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