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We propose RocketScience, an open-source contrastive VLM benchmark that tests for spatial relation understanding. It is comprised of entirely new real-world image-text pairs covering mostly relative spatial understanding and the order of…

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Surround-view perception is increasingly important for robotic navigation and loco-manipulation, especially in human-in-the-loop settings such as teleoperation, data collection, and emergency takeover. However, current robotic visual…

The rapid progress of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has unlocked the potential for enhanced 3D scene understanding and spatial reasoning. A recent line of work explores learning spatial reasoning directly from multi-view images,…

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While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) exhibit exceptional 2D visual understanding, their ability to comprehend and reason about 3D space--a cornerstone of spatial intelligence--remains superficial. Current methodologies attempt to bridge this…

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We introduce RoboBrain 2.0, our latest generation of embodied vision-language foundation models, designed to unify perception, reasoning, and planning for complex embodied tasks in physical environments. It comes in two variants: a…

Spatial reasoning, the ability to understand and interpret the 3D structure of the world, is a critical yet underdeveloped capability in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). Current methods predominantly rely on verbal descriptive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Meng Cao , Haokun Lin , Haoyuan Li , Haoran Tang , Rongtao Xu , Dong An , Xue Liu , Ian Reid , Xiaodan Liang

3D spatial perception is the problem of building and maintaining an actionable and persistent representation of the environment in real-time using sensor data and prior knowledge. Despite the fast-paced progress in robot perception, most…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Nathan Hughes , Yun Chang , Siyi Hu , Rajat Talak , Rumaisa Abdulhai , Jared Strader , Luca Carlone

Spatial cognition is essential for human intelligence, enabling problem-solving through visual simulations rather than solely relying on verbal reasoning. However, existing AI benchmarks primarily assess verbal reasoning, neglecting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Linjie Li , Mahtab Bigverdi , Jiawei Gu , Zixian Ma , Yinuo Yang , Ziang Li , Yejin Choi , Ranjay Krishna

The development of generalist robot manipulation policies has seen significant progress, driven by large-scale demonstration data across diverse environments. However, the high cost and inefficiency of collecting real-world demonstrations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Tao Tang , Likui Zhang , Youpeng Wen , Kaidong Zhang , Jia-Wang Bian , xia zhou , Tianyi Yan , Kun Zhan , Peng Jia , Hefeng Wu , Liang Lin , Xiaodan Liang

To solve its task, a robot needs to have the ability to interpret its perceptions. In vision, this interpretation is particularly difficult and relies on the understanding of the structure of the scene, at least to the extent of its task…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Léni K. Le Goff , Ghanim Mukhtar , Alexandre Coninx , Stéphane Doncieux

Humans build shared spatial understanding by communicating partial, viewpoint-dependent observations. We ask whether Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) can do the same, aligning distinct egocentric views through dialogue to form a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Ankur Sikarwar , Debangan Mishra , Sudarshan Nikhil , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru , Aishwarya Agrawal

Being able to perceive the semantics and the spatial structure of the environment is essential for visual navigation of a household robot. However, most existing works only employ visual backbones pre-trained either with independent images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Yicong Hong , Yang Zhou , Ruiyi Zhang , Franck Dernoncourt , Trung Bui , Stephen Gould , Hao Tan

Precise spatial modeling in the operating room (OR) is foundational to many clinical tasks, supporting intraoperative awareness, hazard avoidance, and surgical decision-making. While existing approaches leverage large-scale multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Peiqi He , Zhenhao Zhang , Yixiang Zhang , Xiongjun Zhao , Shaoliang Peng

Building robots that can automate labor-intensive tasks has long been the core motivation behind the advancements in computer vision and the robotics community. Recent interest in leveraging 3D algorithms, particularly neural fields, has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Litian Liang , Liuyu Bian , Caiwei Xiao , Jialin Zhang , Linghao Chen , Isabella Liu , Fanbo Xiang , Zhiao Huang , Hao Su

Vision Language Models (VLMs) play a crucial role in robotic manipulation by enabling robots to understand and interpret the visual properties of objects and their surroundings, allowing them to perform manipulation based on this multimodal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Nurhan Bulus Guran , Hanchi Ren , Jingjing Deng , Xianghua Xie

Understanding relations between objects is crucial for understanding the semantics of a visual scene. It is also an essential step in order to bridge visual and language models. However, current state-of-the-art computer vision models still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Palaash Agrawal , Haidi Azaman , Cheston Tan

As robots become increasingly prominent in diverse industrial settings, the desire for an accessible and reliable system has correspondingly increased. Yet, the task of meaningfully assessing the feasibility of introducing a new robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Minh Q. Tram , Joseph M. Cloud , William J. Beksi

Spatial reasoning is a crucial component of both biological and artificial intelligence. In this work, we present a comprehensive study of the capability of current state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) on spatial reasoning. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Md Imbesat Hassan Rizvi , Xiaodan Zhu , Iryna Gurevych

To be useful in everyday environments, robots must be able to observe and learn about objects. Recent datasets enable progress for classifying data into known object categories; however, it is unclear how to collect reliable object data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Abhishek Venkataraman , Brent Griffin , Jason J. Corso

Open-vocabulary 3D visual grounding aims to localize target objects based on free-form language queries, which is crucial for embodied AI applications such as autonomous navigation, robotics, and augmented reality. Learning 3D language…

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