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While current multimodal models can answer questions based on 2D images, they lack intrinsic 3D object perception, limiting their ability to comprehend spatial relationships and depth cues in 3D scenes. In this work, we propose N3D-VLM, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yuxin Wang , Lei Ke , Boqiang Zhang , Tianyuan Qu , Hanxun Yu , Zhenpeng Huang , Meng Yu , Dan Xu , Dong Yu

The 3D visual grounding task has been explored with visual and language streams comprehending referential language to identify target objects in 3D scenes. However, most existing methods devote the visual stream to capturing the 3D visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Eslam Mohamed Bakr , Yasmeen Alsaedy , Mohamed Elhoseiny

3D visual grounding (3DVG) involves localizing entities in a 3D scene referred to by natural language text. Such models are useful for embodied AI and scene retrieval applications, which involve searching for objects or patterns using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Austin T. Wang , ZeMing Gong , Angel X. Chang

3D visual grounding aims to locate the referred target object in 3D point cloud scenes according to a free-form language description. Previous methods mostly follow a two-stage paradigm, i.e., language-irrelevant detection and cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Junyu Luo , Jiahui Fu , Xianghao Kong , Chen Gao , Haibing Ren , Hao Shen , Huaxia Xia , Si Liu

This paper tackles the challenging task of 3D visual grounding-locating a specific object in a 3D point cloud scene based on text descriptions. Existing methods fall into two categories: top-down and bottom-up methods. Top-down methods rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yang Liu , Daizong Liu , Wei Hu

Functionality segmentation in 3D scenes requires an agent to ground implicit natural-language instructions into precise masks of fine-grained interactive elements. Existing methods rely on fragmented pipelines that suffer from visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jiaying Lin , Dan Xu

3D object grounding localizes referred objects in a 3D scene from natural language. Unified instance-centric 3D-LLMs aim to solve grounding together with dialog, QA, and captioning, yet many rely on a single pointer-style grounding decision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jiawei Li , Ziyi Liu , Weijie Shi , Long Chen , Jiajie Xu , Xiaofang Zhou

Temporal sentence grounding aims to localize a target segment in an untrimmed video semantically according to a given sentence query. Most previous works focus on learning frame-level features of each whole frame in the entire video, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Daizong Liu , Xiang Fang , Wei Hu , Pan Zhou

In this paper, we propose PASS3D to achieve point-wise semantic segmentation for 3D point cloud. Our framework combines the efficiency of traditional geometric methods with robustness of deep learning methods, consisting of two stages: At…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Xin Kong , Guangyao Zhai , Baoquan Zhong , Yong Liu

Scene flow in 3D point clouds plays an important role in understanding dynamic environments. Although significant advances have been made by deep neural networks, the performance is far from satisfactory as only per-point translational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Ruibo Li , Guosheng Lin , Tong He , Fayao Liu , Chunhua Shen

Scene flow represents the motion information of each point in the 3D point clouds. It is a vital downstream method applied to many tasks, such as motion segmentation and object tracking. However, there are always occlusion points between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Zhiyang Lu , Ming Cheng

Although great progress has been made in 3D visual grounding, current models still rely on explicit textual descriptions for grounding and lack the ability to reason human intentions from implicit instructions. We propose a new task called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Chenming Zhu , Tai Wang , Wenwei Zhang , Kai Chen , Xihui Liu

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

Grounding language in the physical world requires AI systems to interpret references that emerge dynamically during conversation. While current vision-language models (VLMs) excel at static image tasks, they struggle to resolve ambiguous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Anna Deichler , Jim O'Regan , Fethiye Irmak Dogan , Lubos Marcinek , Anna Klezovich , Iolanda Leite , Jonas Beskow

Visual grounding is a common vision task that involves grounding descriptive sentences to the corresponding regions of an image. Most existing methods use independent image-text encoding and apply complex hand-crafted modules or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Ming Dai , Lingfeng Yang , Yihao Xu , Zhenhua Feng , Wankou Yang

Identifying key temporal intervals within long videos, known as temporal grounding (TG), is important to video understanding and reasoning tasks. In this paper, we introduce a new form of the temporal grounding problem,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xiangrui Liu , Minghao Qin , Yan Shu , Zhengyang Liang , Yang Tian , Chen Jason Zhang , Bo Zhao , Zheng Liu

Flow matching models have emerged as a powerful method for generative modeling on domains like images or videos, and even on irregular or unstructured data like 3D point clouds or even protein structures. These models are commonly trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Yuyang Wang , Anurag Ranjan , Josh Susskind , Miguel Angel Bautista

3D visual grounding allows an embodied agent to understand visual information in real-world 3D environments based on human instructions, which is crucial for embodied intelligence. Existing 3D visual grounding methods typically rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Fan Li , Zanyi Wang , Zeyi Huang , Guang Dai , Jingdong Wang , Mengmeng Wang

Real-time 3D object detection from point clouds is essential for dynamic scene understanding in applications such as augmented reality, robotics and navigation. We introduce a novel Spatial-prioritized and Rank-aware 3D object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Chenyu Zhao , Xianwei Zheng , Zimin Xia , Linwei Yue , Nan Xue

3D Visual Grounding (3DVG) and 3D Dense Captioning (3DDC) are two crucial tasks in various 3D applications, which require both shared and complementary information in localization and visual-language relationships. Therefore, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Yongdong Luo , Haojia Lin , Xiawu Zheng , Yigeng Jiang , Fei Chao , Jie Hu , Guannan Jiang , Songan Zhang , Rongrong Ji