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The success of foundation models in language has inspired a new wave of general-purpose models for human mobility. However, existing approaches struggle to scale effectively due to two fundamental limitations: a failure to use meaningful…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Chonghua Han , Yuan Yuan , Jingtao Ding , Jie Feng , Fanjin Meng , Yong Li

This thesis introduces "Embodied Spatial Intelligence" to address the challenge of creating robots that can perceive and act in the real world based on natural language instructions. To bridge the gap between Large Language Models (LLMs)…

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Architectural spatial intelligence, the ability to recognize and infer architectural space, is fundamental to tasks such as robot navigation, embodied interaction, and 3D scene understanding and generation. Although extensive research has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Qirui Shen , Wenda Wang , Jiachen Lu , Zilong Huang , Jin Bai , Lei He , Hongxuan Chen , Weixin Huang

Recent Large Multimodal Models have demonstrated remarkable reasoning capabilities, especially in solving complex mathematical problems and realizing accurate spatial perception. Our key insight is that these emerging abilities can…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Weiliang Tang , Dong Jing , Jia-Hui Pan , Zhiwu Lu , Yun-Hui Liu , Li Erran Li , Mingyu Ding , Chi-Wing Fu

Spatial intelligence unfolds through a perception-action loop: agents act to acquire observations, and reason about how observations vary as a function of action. Rather than passively processing what is seen, they actively uncover what is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yining Hong , Jiageng Liu , Han Yin , Manling Li , Leonidas Guibas , Li Fei-Fei , Jiajun Wu , Yejin Choi

Current machine learning models for vision are often highly specialized and limited to a single modality and task. In contrast, recent large language models exhibit a wide range of capabilities, hinting at a possibility for similarly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 David Mizrahi , Roman Bachmann , Oğuzhan Fatih Kar , Teresa Yeo , Mingfei Gao , Afshin Dehghan , Amir Zamir

As Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly power autonomous agents in robotics and embodied AI, understanding their spatial reasoning capabilities becomes crucial for ensuring reliable real-world deployment. Despite advances in language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Hafsteinn Einarsson

Fusion technique is a key research topic in multimodal sentiment analysis. The recent attention-based fusion demonstrates advances over simple operation-based fusion. However, these fusion works adopt single-scale, i.e., token-level or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Huaishao Luo , Lei Ji , Yanyong Huang , Bin Wang , Shenggong Ji , Tianrui Li

Spatial intelligence is central to embodied cognition, yet contemporary AI systems still struggle to reason about physical interactions in open-world human environments. Despite strong performance on controlled benchmarks, vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Tianjun Gu , Jingyu Gong , Zhizhong Zhang , Yuan Xie , Lizhuang Ma , Xin Tan , Athanasios V

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved significant progress in image and language tasks due to the strong reasoning capability of large language models (LLMs). Nevertheless, most MLLMs suffer from limited spatial reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Jiajie Guo , Qingpeng Zhu , Jin Zeng , Xiaolong Wu , Changyong He , Weida Wang

Spatial reasoning is foundational for Vision-Language Models (VLMs), particularly when deployed as Vision-Language-Action (VLA) agents in physical environments. However, existing benchmarks predominantly focus on elementary, single-hop…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Youngwan Lee , Soojin Jang , Yoorhim Cho , Seunghwan Lee , Yong-Ju Lee , Sung Ju Hwang

3D Visual Grounding (3DVG) focuses on locating objects in 3D scenes based on natural language descriptions, serving as a fundamental task for embodied AI and robotics. Recent advances in Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Beining Xu , Siting Zhu , Zhao Jin , Junxian Li , Hesheng Wang

Recent advances in point cloud perception have demonstrated remarkable progress in scene understanding through vision-language alignment leveraging large language models (LLMs). However, existing methods may still encounter challenges in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zhenhua Ning , Zhuotao Tian , Shaoshuai Shi , Guangming Lu , Daojing He , Wenjie Pei , Li Jiang

Spatial reasoning is a core component of human cognition, enabling individuals to perceive, comprehend, and interact with the physical world. It relies on a nuanced understanding of spatial structures and inter-object relationships, serving…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Zesen Lyu , Dandan Zhang , Wei Ye , Fangdi Li , Zhihang Jiang , Yao Yang

Foundation models are emerging as a powerful paradigm for fMRI analysis, but current approaches face a dual bottleneck of data- and training-efficiency. Atlas-based methods aggregate voxel signals into fixed regions of interest, reducing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Mo Wang , Junfeng Xia , Wenhao Ye , Enyu Liu , Kaining Peng , Jianfeng Feng , Quanying Liu , Hongkai Wen

Recent advancements in large reasoning models have fueled growing interest in extending such capabilities to multimodal domains. However, despite notable progress in visual reasoning, the lack of transparent and reproducible data curation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Kaichen Zhang , Keming Wu , Zuhao Yang , Bo Li , Kairui Hu , Bin Wang , Ziwei Liu , Xingxuan Li , Lidong Bing

Multimodal foundation models that can holistically process text alongside images, video, audio, and other sensory modalities are increasingly used in a variety of real-world applications. However, it is challenging to characterize and study…

We present S1-VL, a multimodal reasoning model for scientific domains that natively supports two complementary reasoning paradigms: Scientific Reasoning, which relies on structured chain-of-thought, and Thinking-with-Images, which enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Qingxiao Li , Lifeng Xu , QingLi Wang , Yudong Bai , Mingwei Ou , Shu Hu , Nan Xu

This study investigated whether multimodal large language models can achieve human-like sensory grounding by examining their ability to capture perceptual strength ratings across sensory modalities. We explored how model characteristics…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Jonghyun Lee , Dojun Park , Jiwoo Lee , Hoekeon Choi , Sung-Eun Lee

Can Vision-Language Models (VLMs) imagine the full scene from just a few views, like humans do? Humans form spatial mental models naturally, internal representations of unseen space, to reason about layout, perspective, and motion. Our…