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Semantic mapping is a key component of robots operating in and interacting with objects in structured environments. Traditionally, geometric and knowledge representations within a semantic map have only been loosely integrated. However,…

Embodied Question Answering (EQA) is a challenging task in embodied intelligence that requires agents to dynamically explore 3D environments, actively gather visual information, and perform multi-step reasoning to answer questions. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Kaixuan Jiang , Yang Liu , Weixing Chen , Jingzhou Luo , Ziliang Chen , Ling Pan , Guanbin Li , Liang Lin

We present and tackle the problem of Embodied Question Answering (EQA) with Situational Queries (S-EQA) in a household environment. Unlike prior EQA work tackling simple queries that directly reference target objects and properties ("What…

This paper proposes to improve visual question answering (VQA) with structured representations of both scene contents and questions. A key challenge in VQA is to require joint reasoning over the visual and text domains. The predominant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Damien Teney , Lingqiao Liu , Anton van den Hengel

Entity alignment is to find identical entities in different knowledge graphs (KGs) that refer to the same real-world object. Embedding-based entity alignment techniques have been drawing a lot of attention recently because they can help…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Xiaobin Tian , Zequn Sun , Guangyao Li , Wei Hu

Learning knowledge graph (KG) embeddings is an emerging technique for a variety of downstream tasks such as summarization, link prediction, information retrieval, and question answering. However, most existing KG embedding models neglect…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Gengchen Mai , Krzysztof Janowicz , Ling Cai , Rui Zhu , Blake Regalia , Bo Yan , Meilin Shi , Ni Lao

Embeddings from Visual-Language Models are increasingly utilized to represent semantics in robotic maps, offering an open-vocabulary scene understanding that surpasses traditional, limited labels. Embeddings enable on-demand querying by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Matti Pekkanen , Francesco Verdoja , Ville Kyrki

Understanding how people interact with their surroundings and each other is essential for enabling robots to act in socially compliant and context-aware ways. While 3D Scene Graphs have emerged as a powerful semantic representation for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Ermanno Bartoli , Dennis Rotondi , Buwei He , Patric Jensfelt , Kai O. Arras , Iolanda Leite

As general intelligent agents are poised for widespread deployment in diverse households, evaluation tailored to each unique unseen 3D environment has become a critical prerequisite. However, existing benchmarks suffer from severe data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Xinyi He , Ying Yang , Chuanjian Fu , Sihan Guo , Songchun Zhu , Lifeng Fan , Zhenliang Zhang , Yujia Peng

We have seen great progress in basic perceptual tasks such as object recognition and detection. However, AI models still fail to match humans in high-level vision tasks due to the lack of capacities for deeper reasoning. Recently the new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Yuke Zhu , Oliver Groth , Michael Bernstein , Li Fei-Fei

Knowledge graph embedding, which projects symbolic entities and relations into continuous vector spaces, is gaining increasing attention. Previous methods allow a single static embedding for each entity or relation, ignoring their intrinsic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Quan Wang , Pingping Huang , Haifeng Wang , Songtai Dai , Wenbin Jiang , Jing Liu , Yajuan Lyu , Yong Zhu , Hua Wu

Recent advances in computer vision facilitate fully automatic extraction of object-centric relational representations from visual-inertial data. These state representations, dubbed 3D scene graphs, are a hierarchical decomposition of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Christopher Agia

Modern operating room is becoming increasingly complex, requiring innovative intra-operative support systems. While the focus of surgical data science has largely been on video analysis, integrating surgical computer vision with language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Kun Yuan , Manasi Kattel , Joel L. Lavanchy , Nassir Navab , Vinkle Srivastav , Nicolas Padoy

Visual question answering (VQA) in medical imaging aims to support clinical diagnosis by automatically interpreting complex imaging data in response to natural language queries. Existing studies typically rely on distinct visual and textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yuanhe Tian , Chen Su , Junwen Duan , Yan Song

3D Scene Graphs (3DSGs) constitute a powerful representation of the physical world, distinguished by their abilities to explicitly model the complex spatial, semantic, and functional relationships between entities, rendering a foundational…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Yunheng Wang , Yixiao Feng , Yuetong Fang , Shuning Zhang , Tan Jing , Jian Li , Xiangrui Jiang , Renjing Xu

We present a new AI task -- Embodied Question Answering (EmbodiedQA) -- where an agent is spawned at a random location in a 3D environment and asked a question ("What color is the car?"). In order to answer, the agent must first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Abhishek Das , Samyak Datta , Georgia Gkioxari , Stefan Lee , Devi Parikh , Dhruv Batra

While multi-modal models have successfully integrated information from image, video, and audio modalities, integrating graph modality into large language models (LLMs) remains unexplored. This discrepancy largely stems from the inherent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Yuanchun Shen , Ruotong Liao , Zhen Han , Yunpu Ma , Volker Tresp

In the era of Generative AI, Neurosymbolic AI is emerging as a powerful approach for tasks spanning from perception to cognition. The use of Neurosymbolic AI has been shown to achieve enhanced capabilities, including improved grounding,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Ruwan Wickramarachchi , Cory Henson , Amit Sheth

Fact-based Visual Question Answering (FVQA), a challenging variant of VQA, requires a QA-system to include facts from a diverse knowledge graph (KG) in its reasoning process to produce an answer. Large KGs, especially common-sense KGs, are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Kiran Ramnath , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

Understanding driving scenes and communicating automated vehicle decisions are key requirements for trustworthy automated driving. In this article, we introduce the Qualitative Explainable Graph (QXG), which is a unified symbolic and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Nassim Belmecheri , Arnaud Gotlieb , Nadjib Lazaar , Helge Spieker