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One of the main goals of robotics and intelligent agent research is to enable natural communication with humans in physically situated settings. While recent work has focused on verbal modes such as language and speech, non-verbal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Anna Deichler , Siyang Wang , Simon Alexanderson , Jonas Beskow

Embodied agents are expected to assist humans by actively exploring unknown environments and reasoning about spatial contexts. When deployed in real life, agents often face sequential tasks where each new task follows the completion of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Zhongyi Cai , Yi Du , Chen Wang , Yu Kong

A metric-accurate semantic 3D representation is essential for many robotic tasks. This work proposes a simple, yet powerful, way to integrate the 2D embeddings of a Vision-Language Model in a metric-accurate 3D representation at real-time.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Christian Rauch , Björn Ellensohn , Linus Nwankwo , Vedant Dave , Elmar Rueckert

We introduce the task of 3D visual grounding in large-scale dynamic scenes based on natural linguistic descriptions and online captured multi-modal visual data, including 2D images and 3D LiDAR point clouds. We present a novel method,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Zhenxiang Lin , Xidong Peng , Peishan Cong , Ge Zheng , Yujin Sun , Yuenan Hou , Xinge Zhu , Sibei Yang , Yuexin Ma

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a promising approach for enabling robots to follow language instructions and predict corresponding actions. However, current VLA models mainly rely on 2D visual inputs, neglecting the rich…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Lin Sun , Bin Xie , Yingfei Liu , Hao Shi , Tiancai Wang , Jiale Cao

Referring expression comprehension (REC) aims at achieving object localization based on natural language descriptions. However, existing REC approaches are constrained by object category descriptions and single-attribute intention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Hao Guo , Jianfei Zhu , Wei Fan , Chunzhi Yi , Feng Jiang

Robust 3D geometry estimation from videos is critical for applications such as autonomous navigation, SLAM, and 3D scene reconstruction. Recent methods like DUSt3R demonstrate that regressing dense pointmaps from image pairs enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Xiaoshan Wu , Yifei Yu , Xiaoyang Lyu , Yihua Huang , Bo Wang , Baoheng Zhang , Zhongrui Wang , Xiaojuan Qi

Prior studies on 3D scene understanding have primarily developed specialized models for specific tasks or required task-specific fine-tuning. In this study, we propose Grounded 3D-LLM, which explores the potential of 3D large multi-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Yilun Chen , Shuai Yang , Haifeng Huang , Tai Wang , Runsen Xu , Ruiyuan Lyu , Dahua Lin , Jiangmiao Pang

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have made impressive progress in connecting vision and language, but they still struggle with spatial understanding and viewpoint-aware reasoning. Recent efforts aim to augment the input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Kevin Qu , Haozhe Qi , Mihai Dusmanu , Mahdi Rad , Rui Wang , Marc Pollefeys

Joint video-language learning has received increasing attention in recent years. However, existing works mainly focus on single or multiple trimmed video clips (events), which makes human-annotated event boundaries necessary during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Teng Wang , Jinrui Zhang , Feng Zheng , Wenhao Jiang , Ran Cheng , Ping Luo

Embodied intelligence fundamentally requires a capability to determine where to act in 3D space. We formalize this requirement as embodied localization -- the problem of predicting executable 3D points conditioned on visual observations and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Qiming Zhu , Zhirui Fang , Tianming Zhang , Chuanxiu Liu , Xiaoke Jiang , Lei Zhang

3D visual grounding (VG) aims to locate objects or regions within 3D scenes guided by natural language descriptions. While indoor 3D VG has advanced, outdoor 3D VG remains underexplored due to two challenges: (1) large-scale outdoor LiDAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Yeong-Seung Baek , Heung-Seon Oh

Passive visual systems typically fail to recognize objects in the amodal setting where they are heavily occluded. In contrast, humans and other embodied agents have the ability to move in the environment, and actively control the viewing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Jianwei Yang , Zhile Ren , Mingze Xu , Xinlei Chen , David Crandall , Devi Parikh , Dhruv Batra

Recent advances in visual generative models have highlighted the promise of learning generative world models. However, most existing approaches frame world modeling as novel-view synthesis or future-frame prediction, emphasizing visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yifan Yin , Zehao Wen , Jieneng Chen , Zehan Zheng , Nanru Dai , Haojun Shi , Suyu Ye , Aydan Huang , Zheyuan Zhang , Alan Yuille , Jianwen Xie , Ayush Tewari , Tianmin Shu

A robot's ability to anticipate the 3D action target location of a hand's movement from egocentric videos can greatly improve safety and efficiency in human-robot interaction (HRI). While previous research predominantly focused on semantic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Irving Fang , Yuzhong Chen , Yifan Wang , Jianghan Zhang , Qiushi Zhang , Jiali Xu , Xibo He , Weibo Gao , Hao Su , Yiming Li , Chen Feng

Generalized visual grounding tasks, including Generalized Referring Expression Comprehension (GREC) and Segmentation (GRES), extend the classical visual grounding paradigm by accommodating multi-target and non-target scenarios.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Ming Dai , Wenxuan Cheng , Jiang-Jiang Liu , Lingfeng Yang , Zhenhua Feng , Wankou Yang , Jingdong Wang

Embodied perception is essential for intelligent vehicles and robots in interactive environmental understanding. However, these advancements primarily focus on vision, with limited attention given to using 3D modeling sensors, restricting a…

Accurate volume estimation of objects from visual data is a long-standing challenge in computer vision with significant applications in robotics, logistics, and smart health. Existing methods often rely on complex 3D reconstruction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Gautham Vinod , Bruce Coburn , Siddeshwar Raghavan , Fengqing Zhu

3D visual grounding (3DVG) is a critical task in scene understanding that aims to identify objects in 3D scenes based on text descriptions. However, existing methods rely on separately pre-trained vision and text encoders, resulting in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Yinuo Zheng , Lipeng Gu , Honghua Chen , Liangliang Nan , Mingqiang Wei

In embodied intelligence systems, a key component is 3D perception algorithm, which enables agents to understand their surrounding environments. Previous algorithms primarily rely on point cloud, which, despite offering precise geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Xuewu Lin , Tianwei Lin , Lichao Huang , Hongyu Xie , Zhizhong Su