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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

Recent advances in LVLMs have improved vision-language understanding, but they still struggle with spatial perception, limiting their ability to reason about complex 3D scenes. Unlike previous approaches that incorporate 3D representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Jiahui Zhang , Yurui Chen , Yanpeng Zhou , Yueming Xu , Ze Huang , Jilin Mei , Junhui Chen , Yu-Jie Yuan , Xinyue Cai , Guowei Huang , Xingyue Quan , Hang Xu , Li Zhang

Autonomous navigation under natural language instructions represents a crucial step toward embodied intelligence, enabling complex task execution in environments ranging from industrial facilities to domestic spaces. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Hongyu Song , Rishabh Dev Yadav , Cheng Guo , Wei Pan

Effective scene representation is critical for the visual grounding ability of representations, yet existing methods for 3D Visual Grounding are often constrained. They either only focus on geometric and visual cues, or, like traditional 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Qinghongbing Xie , Zijian Liang , Fuhao Li , Long Zeng

Precise spatial reasoning is fundamental to robotic manipulation, yet the visual backbones of current vision-language-action (VLA) models are predominantly pretrained on 2D image data without explicit 3D geometric supervision, resulting in…

The Zero-Shot Object Navigation (ZSON) task requires embodied agents to find a previously unseen object by navigating in unfamiliar environments. Such a goal-oriented exploration heavily relies on the ability to perceive, understand, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Linqing Zhong , Chen Gao , Zihan Ding , Yue Liao , Huimin Ma , Shifeng Zhang , Xu Zhou , Si Liu

Effective embodied exploration requires agents to accumulate and retain spatial knowledge over time. However, existing scene representations, such as discrete scene graphs or static view-based snapshots, lack \textit{post-hoc…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yiren Lu , Yi Du , Disheng Liu , Yunlai Zhou , Chen Wang , Yu Yin

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

In this paper, we claim that 3D visual grounding is the cornerstone of spatial reasoning and introduce the Grounded-Spatial Reasoner (GS-Reasoner) to explore the effective spatial representations that bridge the gap between them. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Yiming Chen , Zekun Qi , Wenyao Zhang , Xin Jin , Li Zhang , Peidong Liu

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

While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are set to transform robotic navigation, existing methods often underutilize their reasoning capabilities. To unlock the full potential of VLMs in robotics, we shift their role from passive observers to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Mobin Habibpour , Fatemeh Afghah

Vision Language Models (VLMs) have recently achieved significant progress in bridging visual perception and linguistic reasoning. Recently, OpenAI o3 model introduced a zoom-in search strategy that effectively elicits active perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Wanfu Wang , Qipeng Huang , Guangquan Xue , Xiaobo Liang , Juntao Li

Visual navigation in unknown environments based solely on natural language descriptions is a key capability for intelligent robots. In this work, we propose a navigation framework built upon off-the-shelf Visual Language Models (VLMs),…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Weifan Zhang , Tingguang Li , Yuzhen Liu

Understanding and localizing objects in complex 3D environments from natural language descriptions, known as 3D Visual Grounding (3DVG), is a foundational challenge in embodied AI, with broad implications for robotics, augmented reality,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jiaxi Zhang , Yunheng Wang , Wei Lu , Taowen Wang , Weisheng Xu , Shuning Zhang , Yixiao Feng , Yuetong Fang , Renjing Xu

3D visual grounding aims to localize the unique target described by natural languages in 3D scenes. The significant gap between 3D and language modalities makes it a notable challenge to distinguish multiple similar objects through the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Feng Xiao , Hongbin Xu , Guocan Zhao , Wenxiong Kang

Visual Language Models (VLMs) are essential for various tasks, particularly visual reasoning tasks, due to their robust multi-modal information integration, visual reasoning capabilities, and contextual awareness. However, existing \VLMs{}'…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Zaiqiao Meng , Hao Zhou , Yifang Chen

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Chashi Mahiul Islam , Oteo Mamo , Samuel Jacob Chacko , Xiuwen Liu , Weikuan Yu

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

The advancement in large language models (LLMs) and large vision models has fueled the rapid progress in multi-modal vision-language reasoning capabilities. However, existing vision-language models (VLMs) remain challenged by compositional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Yichang Xu , Gaowen Liu , Ramana Rao Kompella , Sihao Hu , Fatih Ilhan , Selim Furkan Tekin , Zachary Yahn , Ling Liu

For robots to understand human instructions and perform meaningful tasks in the near future, it is important to develop learned models that comprehend referential language to identify common objects in real-world 3D scenes. In this paper,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Junha Roh , Karthik Desingh , Ali Farhadi , Dieter Fox