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Vision-language models (VLMs) have advanced multimodal reasoning but still face challenges in spatial reasoning for 3D scenes and complex object configurations. To address this, we introduce SpatialViLT, an enhanced VLM that integrates…

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When embodied AI is expanding from traditional object detection and recognition to more advanced tasks of robot manipulation and actuation planning, visual spatial reasoning from the video inputs is necessary to perceive the spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Haoming Wang , Qiyao Xue , Weichen Liu , Wei Gao

Large Language Models (LLMs) have undergone rapid progress, largely attributed to reinforcement learning on complex reasoning tasks. In contrast, while spatial intelligence is fundamental for Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Zijian Song , Xiaoxin Lin , Qiuming Huang , Sihan Qin , Guangrun Wang , Liang Lin

We introduce Thinking with Spatial Code, a framework that transforms RGB video into explicit, temporally coherent 3D representations for physical-world visual question answering. We highlight the empirical finding that our proposed spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Jieneng Chen , Wenxin Ma , Ruisheng Yuan , Yunzhi Zhang , Jiajun Wu , Alan Yuille

We present Spatial Reasoners, a software framework to perform spatial reasoning over continuous variables with generative denoising models. Denoising generative models have become the de-facto standard for image generation, due to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Bart Pogodzinski , Christopher Wewer , Bernt Schiele , Jan Eric Lenssen

We present SpatialPrompt, an Extended Reality(XR) system that turns spatial sketches into executable constraints for controllable 3D generation. Users draw rough structures with a 3D pen and add voice prompts for semantic and stylistic…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yichen Andy Yu , Wanru Li , Qiaoran Wang , Jymon Ross , Gavin Johnson , Mandy Lui , Qiao Jin

The human language is one of the most natural interfaces for humans to interact with robots. This paper presents a robot system that retrieves everyday objects with unconstrained natural language descriptions. A core issue for the system is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Mohit Shridhar , David Hsu

Vision Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in 2D vision and language tasks. However, their ability to reason about spatial arrangements remains limited. In this work, we introduce Spatial Region GPT (SpatialRGPT)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 An-Chieh Cheng , Hongxu Yin , Yang Fu , Qiushan Guo , Ruihan Yang , Jan Kautz , Xiaolong Wang , Sifei Liu

Representing and understanding 3D environments in a structured manner is crucial for autonomous agents to navigate and reason about their surroundings. While traditional Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) methods generate metric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Albert Gassol Puigjaner , Angelos Zacharia , Kostas Alexis

Humans build viewpoint-independent cognitive maps through navigation, enabling intuitive reasoning about object permanence and spatial relations. We argue that multimodal large language models (MLLMs), despite extensive video training, lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jacob Thompson , Emiliano Garcia-Lopez , Yonatan Bisk

Recent advances in 3D scene-language understanding have leveraged Large Language Models (LLMs) for 3D reasoning by transferring their general reasoning ability to 3D multi-modal contexts. However, existing methods typically adopt standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yerim Jeon , Miso Lee , WonJun Moon , Jae-Pil Heo

Recent advancements in Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated exceptional semantic understanding, yet these models consistently struggle with spatial reasoning, often failing at fundamental geometric tasks such as depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Zishan Liu , Ruoxi Zang , Yanglin Zhang , Wei Liu , Yin Zhang , Jian Yao , Jiayin Zheng , Zhengzhe Liu

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.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Akshar Tumu , Parisa Kordjamshidi

Recent advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have significantly enhanced performance on 2D visual tasks. However, improving their spatial intelligence remains a challenge. Existing 3D MLLMs always rely on additional 3D or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Diankun Wu , Fangfu Liu , Yi-Hsin Hung , Yueqi Duan

The recent development in multimodal learning has greatly advanced the research in 3D scene understanding in various real-world tasks such as embodied AI. However, most existing studies are facing two common challenges: 1) they are short of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Xueying Jiang , Lewei Lu , Ling Shao , Shijian Lu

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

Spatial understanding is a crucial capability that enables robots to perceive their surroundings, reason about their environment, and interact with it meaningfully. In modern robotics, these capabilities are increasingly provided by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Chan Hee Song , Valts Blukis , Jonathan Tremblay , Stephen Tyree , Yu Su , Stan Birchfield

Recent advances in deep thinking models have demonstrated remarkable reasoning capabilities on mathematical and coding tasks. However, their effectiveness in embodied domains which require continuous interaction with environments through…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Wenqi Zhang , Mengna Wang , Gangao Liu , Xu Huixin , Yiwei Jiang , Yongliang Shen , Guiyang Hou , Zhe Zheng , Hang Zhang , Xin Li , Weiming Lu , Peng Li , Yueting Zhuang

We introduce a novel dataset designed to benchmark the physical and spatial reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLM) based on topology optimization, a method for computing optimal material distributions within a design space…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Philipp D. Siedler

Diagrammatic reasoning (DR) is pervasive in human problem solving as a powerful adjunct to symbolic reasoning based on language-like representations. The research reported in this paper is a contribution to building a general purpose DR…

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