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The ability to map descriptions of scenes to 3D geometric representations has many applications in areas such as art, education, and robotics. However, prior work on the text to 3D scene generation task has used manually specified object…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-06-08 Angel Chang , Will Monroe , Manolis Savva , Christopher Potts , Christopher D. Manning

Currently, utilizing large language models to understand the 3D world is becoming popular. Yet existing 3D-aware LLMs act as black boxes: they output bounding boxes or textual answers without revealing how those decisions are made, and they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Zhihao Yuan , Shuyi Jiang , Chun-Mei Feng , Yaolun Zhang , Shuguang Cui , Zhen Li , Na Zhao

3D visual grounding is the ability to localize objects in 3D scenes conditioned by utterances. Most existing methods devote the referring head to localize the referred object directly, causing failure in complex scenarios. In addition, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Eslam Abdelrahman , Mohamed Ayman , Mahmoud Ahmed , Habib Slim , Mohamed Elhoseiny

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Chenming Zhu , Tai Wang , Wenwei Zhang , Kai Chen , Xihui Liu

This paper addresses the problem of 3D referring expression comprehension (REC) in autonomous driving scenario, which aims to ground a natural language to the targeted region in LiDAR point clouds. Previous approaches for REC usually focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Wenhao Cheng , Junbo Yin , Wei Li , Ruigang Yang , Jianbing Shen

Scene understanding is a critical problem in computer vision. In this paper, we propose a 3D point-based scene graph generation ($\mathbf{SGG_{point}}$) framework to effectively bridge perception and reasoning to achieve scene understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Chaoyi Zhang , Jianhui Yu , Yang Song , Weidong Cai

To perform tasks specified by natural language instructions, autonomous agents need to extract semantically meaningful representations of language and map it to visual elements and actions in the environment. This problem is called…

Localizing objects in 3D scenes based on natural language requires understanding and reasoning about spatial relations. In particular, it is often crucial to distinguish similar objects referred by the text, such as "the left most chair"…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Shizhe Chen , Pierre-Louis Guhur , Makarand Tapaswi , Cordelia Schmid , Ivan Laptev

We propose associating language utterances to 3D visual abstractions of the scene they describe. The 3D visual abstractions are encoded as 3-dimensional visual feature maps. We infer these 3D visual scene feature maps from RGB images of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Mihir Prabhudesai , Hsiao-Yu Fish Tung , Syed Ashar Javed , Maximilian Sieb , Adam W. Harley , Katerina Fragkiadaki

3D scene graphs provide a structured representation of object entities and their relationships, enabling high-level interpretation and reasoning for robots while remaining intuitively understandable to humans. Existing approaches for 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Zirui Wang , Ruiping Liu , Yufan Chen , Junwei Zheng , Weijia Fan , Kunyu Peng , Di Wen , Jiale Wei , Jiaming Zhang , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Grounding referring expressions aims to locate in an image an object referred to by a natural language expression. The linguistic structure of a referring expression provides a layout of reasoning over the visual contents, and it is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Sibei Yang , Guanbin Li , Yizhou Yu

Most models tasked to ground referential utterances in 2D and 3D scenes learn to select the referred object from a pool of object proposals provided by a pre-trained detector. This is limiting because an utterance may refer to visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Ayush Jain , Nikolaos Gkanatsios , Ishita Mediratta , Katerina Fragkiadaki

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

Promising performance has been achieved for visual perception on the point cloud. However, the current methods typically rely on labour-extensive annotations on the scene scans. In this paper, we explore how synthetic models alleviate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Runnan Chen , Xinge Zhu , Nenglun Chen , Dawei Wang , Wei Li , Yuexin Ma , Ruigang Yang , Wenping Wang

While Open Set Semantic Mapping and 3D Semantic Scene Graphs (3DSSGs) are established paradigms in robotic perception, deploying them effectively to support high-level reasoning in large-scale, real-world environments remains a significant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Martin Günther , Felix Igelbrink , Oscar Lima , Lennart Niecksch , Marian Renz , Martin Atzmueller

Visual grounding is a ubiquitous building block in many vision-language tasks and yet remains challenging due to large variations in visual and linguistic features of grounding entities, strong context effect and the resulting semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Yongfei Liu , Bo Wan , Xiaodan Zhu , Xuming He

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made significant advancements in vision understanding and reasoning. However, the autoregressive Transformer architecture used by MLLMs requries tokenization on input images, which limits their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Xiangxuan Ren , Zhongdao Wang , Liping Hou , Pin Tang , Guoqing Wang , Chao Ma

3D Visual Grounding (3DVG) focuses on locating objects in 3D scenes based on natural language descriptions, serving as a fundamental task for embodied AI and robotics. Recent advances in Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Beining Xu , Siting Zhu , Zhao Jin , Junxian Li , Hesheng Wang

The spoken language serves as an accessible and efficient interface, enabling non-experts and disabled users to interact with complex assistant robots. However, accurately grounding language utterances gives a significant challenge due to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Dohyun Kim , Yeseung Kim , Jaehwi Jang , Minjae Song , Woojin Choi , Daehyung Park

Current Video-LLM approaches for Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) typically rely on direct timestamp generation from an unstructured visual-token stream, often leading to brittle numerics and inconsistent boundaries. To address this, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Zelin Zheng , Xinyan Liu , Ruixin Li , Antoni B. Chan , Guorong Li , Qingming Huang , Laiyun Qing