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Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have advanced rapidly in multimodal perception and language understanding, yet it remains unclear whether they can reliably ground language into spatially coherent, plausibly executable actions in 3D digital…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Niyati Rawal , Sushant Ravva , Shah Alam Abir , Saksham Jain , Aman Chadha , Vinija Jain , Suranjana Trivedy , Amitava Das

The rapid advancement of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) for 2D images and videos has motivated extending these models to understand 3D scenes, aiming for human-like visual-spatial intelligence. Nevertheless, achieving deep spatial…

Prevalent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are typically built upon Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) and demonstrate exceptional proficiency in semantic understanding, but they inherently lack the capability to deduce physical…

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) excel at 2D visual understanding but remain limited in their ability to reason about 3D space. In this work, we leverage large-scale high-quality 3D scene data with open-set annotations to introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Erik Daxberger , Nina Wenzel , David Griffiths , Haiming Gang , Justin Lazarow , Gefen Kohavi , Kai Kang , Marcin Eichner , Yinfei Yang , Afshin Dehghan , Peter Grasch

Long-term action anticipation (LTA) aims to predict future actions over an extended period. Previous approaches primarily focus on learning exclusively from video data but lack prior knowledge. Recent researches leverage large language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Congqi Cao , Lanshu Hu , Yating Yu , Yanning Zhang

Vision-language-action (VLA) models have shown strong generalization for robotic action prediction through large-scale vision-language pretraining. However, most existing models rely solely on RGB cameras, limiting their perception and,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Heyu Guo , Shanmu Wang , Ruichun Ma , Shiqi Jiang , Yasaman Ghasempour , Omid Abari , Baining Guo , Lili Qiu

The visual commonsense reasoning (VCR) task is to choose an answer and provide a justifying rationale based on the given image and textural question. Representative works first recognize objects in images and then associate them with key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Jian Zhu , Hanli Wang , Miaojing Shi

Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have rapidly advanced in visual tasks, yet their spatial understanding remains limited to single images, leaving them ill-suited for physical-world applications that require multi-frame reasoning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Runsen Xu , Weiyao Wang , Hao Tang , Xingyu Chen , Xiaodong Wang , Fu-Jen Chu , Matt Feiszli , Kevin J. Liang

Recent advances in vision-language-action (VLA) models have shown promise in integrating image generation with action prediction to improve generalization and reasoning in robot manipulation. However, existing methods are limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Wenyao Zhang , Hongsi Liu , Zekun Qi , Yunnan Wang , Xinqiang Yu , Jiazhao Zhang , Runpei Dong , Jiawei He , Fan Lu , He Wang , Zhizheng Zhang , Li Yi , Wenjun Zeng , Xin Jin

Vision-Language-Action Models (VLAs) have shown remarkable progress towards embodied intelligence. While their architecture partially resembles that of Large Language Models (LLMs), VLAs exhibit higher complexity due to their multi-modal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Hugo Buurmeijer , Carmen Amo Alonso , Aiden Swann , Marco Pavone

The advancement of embodied intelligence is accelerating the integration of robots into daily life as human assistants. This evolution requires robots to not only interpret high-level instructions and plan tasks but also perceive and adapt…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Zhichen Lou , Kechun Xu , Zhongxiang Zhou , Rong Xiong

Deep learning (DL) based computer vision (CV) models are generally considered as black boxes due to poor interpretability. This limitation impedes efficient diagnoses or predictions of system failure, thereby precluding the widespread…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Sikai Chen , Jiqian Dong , Runjia Du , Yujie Li , Samuel Labi

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown impressive performance on vision-language tasks, but their long Chain-of-Thought (CoT) capabilities in multimodal scenarios remain underexplored. Inspired by OpenAI's o3 model, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Ye Wang , Qianglong Chen , Zejun Li , Siyuan Wang , Shijie Guo , Zhirui Zhang , Zhongyu Wei

Recent advances in large vision-language models (VLMs) have shown significant promise for 3D scene understanding. Existing VLM-based approaches typically align 3D scene features with the VLM's embedding space. However, this implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Chen Li , Eric Peh , Basura Fernando

Visual Odometry (VO) plays a pivotal role in autonomous systems, with a principal challenge being the lack of depth information in camera images. This paper introduces OCC-VO, a novel framework that capitalizes on recent advances in deep…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Heng Li , Yifan Duan , Xinran Zhang , Haiyi Liu , Jianmin Ji , Yanyong Zhang

The 180x360 omnidirectional field of view captured by 360-degree cameras enables their use in a wide range of applications such as embodied AI and virtual reality. Although recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zihao Dongfang , Xu Zheng , Ziqiao Weng , Yuanhuiyi Lyu , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool , Kailun Yang , Xuming Hu

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently achieved remarkable progress in robotic perception and control, yet most existing approaches primarily rely on VLM trained using 2D images, which limits their spatial understanding and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Zhifeng Rao , Wenlong Chen , Lei Xie , Xia Hua , Dongfu Yin , Zhen Tian , F. Richard Yu

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models extend vision-language models to embodied control by mapping natural-language instructions and visual observations to robot actions. Despite their capabilities, VLA systems face significant challenges due…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Weifan Guan , Qinghao Hu , Aosheng Li , Jian Cheng

Visual navigation is a fundamental capability for autonomous home-assistance robots, enabling long-horizon tasks such as object search. While recent methods have leveraged Large Language Models (LLMs) to incorporate commonsense reasoning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Teng Wang , Xinxin Zhao , Wenzhe Cai , Changyin Sun

Vision--language models reliably name objects in a scene, but do they represent the 3D layout those objects inhabit? We introduce a 3,034-sample human-curated benchmark targeting three components of spatial understanding: depth-ordered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Animesh Maheshwari , Divyansh Sahu , Nishit Verma