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Spatial question answering over egocentric video is a challenging task that requires Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to reason about 3D object positions, scene affordances, and directional relationships, particularly in the zero-shot setting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Pawat Chunhachatrachai , Gueter Josmy Faure , Hung-Ting Su , Winston H. Hsu

Visual-spatial understanding, the ability to infer object relationships and layouts from visual input, is fundamental to downstream tasks such as robotic navigation and embodied interaction. However, existing methods face spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Haoyu Zhang , Meng Liu , Zaijing Li , Haokun Wen , Weili Guan , Yaowei Wang , Liqiang Nie

Current state-of-the-art spatial reasoning-enhanced VLMs are trained to excel at spatial visual question answering (VQA). However, we believe that higher-level 3D-aware tasks, such as articulating dynamic scene changes and motion planning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Chenyang Ma , Kai Lu , Ta-Ying Cheng , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in general-purpose perception and reasoning, but they still struggle with tasks that require spatial understanding of the 3D world. To address this, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhanpeng Luo , Ce Zhang , Silong Yong , Cunxi Dai , Qianwei Wang , Haoxi Ran , Guanya Shi , Katia Sycara , Yaqi Xie

Despite recent advances demonstrating vision-language models' (VLMs) abilities to describe complex relationships in images using natural language, their capability to quantitatively reason about object sizes and distances remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Yuan-Hong Liao , Rafid Mahmood , Sanja Fidler , David Acuna

Interpreting object-referential language and grounding objects in 3D with spatial relations and attributes is essential for robots operating alongside humans. However, this task is often challenging due to the diversity of scenes, large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Nader Zantout , Haochen Zhang , Pujith Kachana , Jinkai Qiu , Guofei Chen , Ji Zhang , Wenshan Wang

Reasoning about spatial relationships between objects is essential for many real-world robotic tasks, such as fetch-and-delivery, object rearrangement, and object search. The ability to detect and disambiguate different objects and identify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Negar Nejatishahidin , Madhukar Reddy Vongala , Jana Kosecka

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

Although Multimodal Large Language Models have achieved remarkable progress, they still struggle with complex 3D spatial reasoning due to the reliance on 2D visual priors. Existing approaches typically mitigate this limitation either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Jiahua Chen , Qihong Tang , Weinong Wang , Qi Fan

We propose a novel zero-shot approach for keypoint detection on 3D shapes. Point-level reasoning on visual data is challenging as it requires precise localization capability, posing problems even for powerful models like DINO or CLIP.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Bingchen Gong , Diego Gomez , Abdullah Hamdi , Abdelrahman Eldesokey , Ahmed Abdelreheem , Peter Wonka , Maks Ovsjanikov

Spatial reasoning in large-scale 3D environments such as warehouses remains a significant challenge for vision-language systems due to scene clutter, occlusions, and the need for precise spatial understanding. Existing models often struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Tanner Muturi , Blessing Agyei Kyem , Joshua Kofi Asamoah , Neema Jakisa Owor , Richard Dyzinela , Andrews Danyo , Yaw Adu-Gyamfi , Armstrong Aboah

Prompt engineering is an essential technique for enhancing the abilities of large language models (LLMs) by providing explicit and specific instructions. It enables LLMs to excel in various tasks, such as arithmetic reasoning, question…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Fobo Shi , Peijun Qing , Dong Yang , Nan Wang , Youbo Lei , Haonan Lu , Xiaodong Lin , Duantengchuan Li

In this paper, we introduce a new task: Zero-Shot 3D Reasoning Segmentation for parts searching and localization for objects, which is a new paradigm to 3D segmentation that transcends limitations for previous category-specific 3D semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Tianrun Chen , Chunan Yu , Jing Li , Jianqi Zhang , Lanyun Zhu , Deyi Ji , Yong Zhang , Ying Zang , Zejian Li , Lingyun Sun

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

Understanding and reasoning about complex 3D environments requires structured scene representations that capture not only objects but also their semantic and spatial relationships. While recent works on 3D scene graph generation have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Pranav Saxena , Jimmy Chiun

Genuine spatial reasoning relies on the capacity to construct and manipulate coherent internal spatial representations, often conceptualized as mental models, rather than merely processing surface linguistic associations. While large…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Peiyao Jiang , Zequn Qin , Xi Li

We introduce SEE&TREK, the first training-free prompting framework tailored to enhance the spatial understanding of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMS) under vision-only constraints. While prior efforts have incorporated modalities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Pengteng Li , Pinhao Song , Wuyang Li , Weiyu Guo , Huizai Yao , Yijie Xu , Dugang Liu , Hui Xiong

Unlocking spatial reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) is crucial for enabling intelligent interaction with 3D environments. While prior efforts often rely on explicit 3D inputs or specialized model architectures, we ask:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Fangrui Zhu , Hanhui Wang , Yiming Xie , Jing Gu , Tianye Ding , Jianwei Yang , Huaizu Jiang

Despite advancements in Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) for scene understanding, their performance on complex spatial reasoning tasks requiring mental simulation remains significantly limited. Current methods often rely on passive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Meng Cao , Xingyu Li , Xue Liu , Ian Reid , Xiaodan Liang

Visual reasoning, particularly spatial reasoning, is a challenging cognitive task that requires understanding object relationships and their interactions within complex environments, especially in robotics domain. Existing vision_language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Simindokht Jahangard , Mehrzad Mohammadi , Abhinav Dhall , Hamid Rezatofighi
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