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Deep learning within the context of point clouds has gained much research interest in recent years mostly due to the promising results that have been achieved on a number of challenging benchmarks, such as 3D shape recognition and scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Ye Zhu , Sven Ewan Shepstone , Pablo Martínez-Nuevo , Miklas Strøm Kristoffersen , Fabien Moutarde , Zhuang Fu

3D Scene Graphs integrate both metric and semantic information, yet their structure remains underutilized for improving path planning efficiency and interpretability. In this work, we present S-Path, a situationally-aware path planner that…

Embodied scene understanding requires not only comprehending visual-spatial information that has been observed but also determining where to explore next in the 3D physical world. Existing 3D Vision-Language (3D-VL) models primarily focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Ziyu Zhu , Xilin Wang , Yixuan Li , Zhuofan Zhang , Xiaojian Ma , Yixin Chen , Baoxiong Jia , Wei Liang , Qian Yu , Zhidong Deng , Siyuan Huang , Qing Li

Recent advancements in multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have shown strong potential for 3D scene understanding. However, existing methods struggle with fine-grained object grounding and contextual reasoning, limiting their ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Haifeng Huang , Yilun Chen , Zehan Wang , Jiangmiao Pang , Zhou Zhao

Answering questions that require reading texts in an image is challenging for current models. One key difficulty of this task is that rare, polysemous, and ambiguous words frequently appear in images, e.g., names of places, products, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Difei Gao , Ke Li , Ruiping Wang , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Current roadside perception systems mainly focus on instance-level perception, which fall short in enabling interaction via natural language and reasoning about traffic behaviors in context. To bridge this gap, we introduce RoadSceneVQA, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Runwei Guan , Rongsheng Hu , Shangshu Chen , Ningyuan Xiao , Xue Xia , Jiayang Liu , Beibei Chen , Ziren Tang , Ningwei Ouyang , Shaofeng Liang , Yuxuan Fan , Wanjie Sun , Yutao Yue

This paper introduces a novel method for end-to-end crowd detection that leverages object density information to enhance existing transformer-based detectors. We present CrowdQuery (CQ), whose core component is our CQ module that predicts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Marius Dähling , Sebastian Krebs , J. Marius Zöllner

This paper addresses the high demand in advanced intelligent robot navigation for a more holistic understanding of spatial environments, by introducing a novel system that harnesses the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yao Cheng , Zhe Han , Fengyang Jiang , Huaizhen Wang , Fengyu Zhou , Qingshan Yin , Lei Wei

This paper presents MobQA, a benchmark dataset designed to evaluate the semantic understanding capabilities of large language models (LLMs) for human mobility data through natural language question answering. While existing models excel at…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Hikaru Asano , Hiroki Ouchi , Akira Kasuga , Ryo Yonetani

In recent years, visual 3D Semantic Scene Completion (SSC) has emerged as a critical perception task for autonomous driving due to its ability to infer complete 3D scene layouts and semantics from single 2D images. However, in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Haoang Lu , Yuanqi Su , Xiaoning Zhang , Hao Hu

Video Question Answering (VQA) inherently relies on multimodal reasoning, integrating visual, temporal, and linguistic cues to achieve a deeper understanding of video content. However, many existing methods rely on feeding frame-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Noriyuki Kugo , Xiang Li , Zixin Li , Ashish Gupta , Arpandeep Khatua , Nidhish Jain , Chaitanya Patel , Yuta Kyuragi , Yasunori Ishii , Masamoto Tanabiki , Kazuki Kozuka , Ehsan Adeli

Embodied Question Answering (EQA) is a recently proposed task, where an agent is placed in a rich 3D environment and must act based solely on its egocentric input to answer a given question. The desired outcome is that the agent learns to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Cătălina Cangea , Eugene Belilovsky , Pietro Liò , Aaron Courville

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

3D scene graphs have recently emerged as a powerful high-level representation of 3D environments. A 3D scene graph describes the environment as a layered graph where nodes represent spatial concepts at multiple levels of abstraction and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Nathan Hughes , Yun Chang , Luca Carlone

We used a 3D simulator to create artificial video data with standardized annotations, aiming to aid in the development of Embodied AI. Our question answering (QA) dataset measures the extent to which a robot can understand human behavior…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Takanori Ugai , Kensho Hara , Shusaku Egami , Ken Fukuda

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

A scene graph is a structured representation of objects and their spatio-temporal relationships in dynamic scenes. Scene Graph Anticipation (SGA) involves predicting future scene graphs from video clips, enabling applications in intelligent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Xiaomeng Zhu , Changwei Wang , Haozhe Wang , Xinyu Liu , Fangzhen Lin

Recent vision-language pre-training models have exhibited remarkable generalization ability in zero-shot recognition tasks. Previous open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding methods mostly focus on training 3D models using either image or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Ruihuang Li , Zhengqiang Zhang , Chenhang He , Zhiyuan Ma , Vishal M. Patel , Lei Zhang

Open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding is crucial for applications requiring natural language-driven spatial interpretation, such as robotics and augmented reality. While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) offers a powerful representation for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Wei Sun , Yanzhao Zhou , Jianbin Jiao , Yuan Li

3D scene understanding has become an essential area of research with applications in autonomous driving, robotics, and augmented reality. Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a powerful approach, combining explicit modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Haijie Li , Yanmin Wu , Jiarui Meng , Qiankun Gao , Zhiyao Zhang , Ronggang Wang , Jian Zhang