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Vision language models (VLMs) are an exciting emerging class of language models (LMs) that have merged classic LM capabilities with those of image processing systems. However, the ways that these capabilities combine are not always…

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Spatial relations are a basic part of human cognition. However, they are expressed in natural language in a variety of ways, and previous work has suggested that current vision-and-language models (VLMs) struggle to capture relational…

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Spatial cognition is fundamental to real-world multimodal intelligence, allowing models to effectively interact with the physical environment. While multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made significant strides, existing benchmarks…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Peiran Xu , Sudong Wang , Yao Zhu , Jianing Li , Gege Qi , Yunjian Zhang

Large vision-language models (VLMs) still struggle with reliable 3D spatial reasoning, a core capability for embodied and physical AI systems. This limitation arises from their inability to capture fine-grained 3D geometry and spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Jian Zhang , Shijie Zhou , Bangya Liu , Achuta Kadambi , Zhiwen Fan

Spatial expressions in situated communication can be ambiguous, as their meanings vary depending on the frames of reference (FoR) adopted by speakers and listeners. While spatial language understanding and reasoning by vision-language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Zheyuan Zhang , Fengyuan Hu , Jayjun Lee , Freda Shi , Parisa Kordjamshidi , Joyce Chai , Ziqiao Ma

Spatial reasoning -- the ability to perceive and reason about relationships in space -- advances vision-language models (VLMs) from visual perception toward spatial semantic understanding. Existing approaches either revisit local image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Weijian Ma , Shizhao Sun , Tianyu Yu , Ruiyu Wang , Tat-Seng Chua , Jiang Bian

Spatial intelligence (SI) represents a cognitive ability encompassing the visualization, manipulation, and reasoning about spatial relationships, underpinning disciplines from neuroscience to robotics. We introduce SITE, a benchmark dataset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Wenqi Wang , Reuben Tan , Pengyue Zhu , Jianwei Yang , Zhengyuan Yang , Lijuan Wang , Andrey Kolobov , Jianfeng Gao , Boqing Gong

Understanding perspective is fundamental to human visual perception, yet the extent to which multimodal large language models (MLLMs) internalize perspective geometry remains unclear. We introduce MMPerspective, the first benchmark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Yolo Y. Tang , Pinxin Liu , Zhangyun Tan , Mingqian Feng , Rui Mao , Chao Huang , Jing Bi , Yunzhong Xiao , Susan Liang , Hang Hua , Ali Vosoughi , Luchuan Song , Zeliang Zhang , Chenliang Xu

Spatial Reasoning is an important component of human cognition and is an area in which the latest Vision-language models (VLMs) show signs of difficulty. The current analysis works use image captioning tasks and visual question answering.…

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Robot grasping of desktop object is widely used in intelligent manufacturing, logistics, and agriculture.Although vision-language models (VLMs) show strong potential for robotic manipulation, their deployment in low-level grasping faces key…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yiran Ling , Wenxuan Li , Siying Dong , Yize Zhang , Xiaoyao Huang , Jing Jiang , Ruonan Li , Jie Liu

Visual commonsense reasoning (VCR) is a challenging multi-modal task, which requires high-level cognition and commonsense reasoning ability about the real world. In recent years, large-scale pre-training approaches have been developed and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Cheng Yang , Rui Xu , Ye Guo , Peixiang Huang , Yiru Chen , Wenkui Ding , Zhongyuan Wang , Hong Zhou

Spatial reasoning, which requires ability to perceive and manipulate spatial relationships in the 3D world, is a fundamental aspect of human intelligence, yet remains a persistent challenge for Multimodal large language models (MLLMs).…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Weichen Liu , Qiyao Xue , Haoming Wang , Xiangyu Yin , Boyuan Yang , Wei Gao

Humans possess spatial reasoning abilities that enable them to understand spaces through multimodal observations, such as vision and sound. Large multimodal reasoning models extend these abilities by learning to perceive and reason, showing…

We propose Perceptual Taxonomy, a structured process of scene understanding that first recognizes objects and their spatial configurations, then infers task-relevant properties such as material, affordance, function, and physical attributes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Jonathan Lee , Xingrui Wang , Jiawei Peng , Luoxin Ye , Zehan Zheng , Tiezheng Zhang , Tao Wang , Wufei Ma , Siyi Chen , Yu-Cheng Chou , Prakhar Kaushik , Alan Yuille

Spatial understanding is a critical capability for vision foundation models. While recent advances in large vision models or vision-language models (VLMs) have expanded recognition capabilities, most benchmarks emphasize localization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Vahid Mirjalili , Ramin Giahi , Sriram Kollipara , Akshay Kekuda , Kehui Yao , Kai Zhao , Jianpeng Xu , Kaushiki Nag , Sinduja Subramaniam , Topojoy Biswas , Evren Korpeoglu , Kannan Achan

Reliable depth estimation from spherical images is crucial for 360{\deg} vision in robotic navigation and immersive scene understanding. However, the onboard spherical camera can experience unintentional pose variations in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Soulayma Gazzeh , Giuseppe Mazzola , Liliana Lo Presti , Marco La Cascia

Recent progress in self-supervised representation learning has resulted in models that are capable of extracting image features that are not only effective at encoding image level, but also pixel-level, semantics. These features have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Octave Mariotti , Oisin Mac Aodha , Hakan Bilen

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

Spatial reasoning is foundational for Vision-Language Models (VLMs), particularly when deployed as Vision-Language-Action (VLA) agents in physical environments. However, existing benchmarks predominantly focus on elementary, single-hop…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Youngwan Lee , Soojin Jang , Yoorhim Cho , Seunghwan Lee , Yong-Ju Lee , Sung Ju Hwang

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