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Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in vision-language tasks, but they continue to struggle with spatial understanding. Existing spatial MLLMs often rely on explicit 3D inputs or architecture-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hunar Batra , Haoqin Tu , Hardy Chen , Yuanze Lin , Cihang Xie , Ronald Clark

3D semantic segmentation on multi-scan large-scale point clouds plays an important role in autonomous systems. Unlike the single-scan-based semantic segmentation task, this task requires distinguishing the motion states of points in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Jiahui Liu , Chirui Chang , Jianhui Liu , Xiaoyang Wu , Lan Ma , Xiaojuan Qi

Understanding 3D point cloud models for learning purposes has become an imperative challenge for real-world identification such as autonomous driving systems. A wide variety of solutions using deep learning have been proposed for point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Farid Ghareh Mohammadi , Cheng Chen , Farzan Shenavarmasouleh , M. Hadi Amini , Beshoy Morkos , Hamid R. Arabnia

Spatial cognition is fundamental to real-world multimodal intelligence, allowing models to effectively interact with the physical environment. While multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made significant strides, existing benchmarks…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Peiran Xu , Sudong Wang , Yao Zhu , Jianing Li , Gege Qi , Yunjian Zhang

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

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

Deep neural network models have achieved remarkable progress in 3D scene understanding while trained in the closed-set setting and with full labels. However, the major bottleneck is that these models do not have the capacity to recognize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Kangcheng Liu , Yong-Jin Liu , Baoquan Chen

Text-based Visual Question Answering~(TextVQA) aims to produce correct answers for given questions about the images with multiple scene texts. In most cases, the texts naturally attach to the surface of the objects. Therefore, spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Hao Li , Jinfa Huang , Peng Jin , Guoli Song , Qi Wu , Jie Chen

The development of high-resolution remote sensing satellites has provided great convenience for research work related to remote sensing. Segmentation and extraction of specific targets are essential tasks when facing the vast and complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Jie Zhang , Xubing Yang , Rui Jiang , Wei Shao , Li Zhang

This paper aims to address universal segmentation for image and video perception with the strong reasoning ability empowered by Visual Large Language Models (VLLMs). Despite significant progress in current unified segmentation methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Cong Wei , Yujie Zhong , Haoxian Tan , Yong Liu , Zheng Zhao , Jie Hu , Yujiu Yang

Spatial reasoning is a fundamental aspect of human cognition, enabling intuitive understanding and manipulation of objects in three-dimensional space. While foundation models demonstrate remarkable performance on some benchmarks, they still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Fan-Yun Sun , Weiyu Liu , Siyi Gu , Dylan Lim , Goutam Bhat , Federico Tombari , Manling Li , Nick Haber , Jiajun Wu

Prompt-based medical image segmentation has rapidly emerged, yet existing methods rely on explicit prompts like bounding boxes and struggle to reason about the spatial relationships essential for clinical diagnosis. While general-domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Quoc-Huy Trinh , Minh-Van Nguyen , Jun Zeng , Debesh Jha , Ulas Bagci

Semantic segmentation metrics for 3D point clouds, such as mean Intersection over Union (mIoU) and Overall Accuracy (OA), present two key limitations in the context of aerial LiDAR data. First, they treat all misclassifications equally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Alex Salvatierra , José Antonio Sanz , Christian Gutiérrez , Mikel Galar

Semantic parsing of large-scale 3D point clouds is an important research topic in computer vision and remote sensing fields. Most existing approaches utilize hand-crafted features for each modality independently and combine them in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Fangyu Liu , Shuaipeng Li , Liqiang Zhang , Chenghu Zhou , Rongtian Ye , Yuebin Wang , Jiwen Lu

This work addresses the task of open world semantic segmentation using RGBD sensing to discover new semantic classes over time. Although there are many types of objects in the real-word, current semantic segmentation methods make a closed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Yoshikatsu Nakajima , Byeongkeun Kang , Hideo Saito , Kris Kitani

CAPTCHA, originally designed to distinguish humans from robots, has evolved into a real-world benchmark for assessing the spatial reasoning capabilities of vision-language models. In this work, we first show that step-by-step reasoning is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Python Song , Luke Tenyi Chang , Yun-Yun Tsai , Penghui Li , Junfeng Yang

We propose a novel superpixel-based multi-view convolutional neural network for semantic image segmentation. The proposed network produces a high quality segmentation of a single image by leveraging information from additional views of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-27 Yang He , Wei-Chen Chiu , Margret Keuper , Mario Fritz

Effectively grounding complex language to pixels in remote sensing (RS) images is a critical challenge for applications like disaster response and environmental monitoring. Current models can parse simple, single-target commands but fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Zepeng Xin , Kaiyu Li , Luodi Chen , Wanchen Li , Yuchen Xiao , Hui Qiao , Weizhan Zhang , Deyu Meng , Xiangyong Cao

Semantic segmentation of point clouds, aiming to assign each point a semantic category, is critical to 3D scene understanding.Despite of significant advances in recent years, most of existing methods still suffer from either the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Chen Chen , Yisen Wang , Honghua Chen , Xuefeng Yan , Dayong Ren , Yanwen Guo , Haoran Xie , Fu Lee Wang , Mingqiang Wei

Multimodal Small-to-Medium sized Language Models (MSLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in integrating visual and textual information but still face significant limitations in visual comprehension and mathematical reasoning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ashutosh Bajpai , Akshat Bhandari , Akshay Nambi , Tanmoy Chakraborty