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Spatial reasoning, which requires ability to perceive and manipulate spatial relationships in the 3D world, is a fundamental aspect of human intelligence, yet remains a persistent challenge for Multimodal large language models (MLLMs).…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Weichen Liu , Qiyao Xue , Haoming Wang , Xiangyu Yin , Boyuan Yang , Wei Gao

While 2D occupancy maps commonly used in mobile robotics enable safe navigation in indoor environments, in order for robots to understand and interact with their environment and its inhabitants representing 3D geometry and semantic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Krishnananda Prabhu Sivananda , Francesco Verdoja , Ville Kyrki

Large vision-language models (VLMs) have made significant strides in 2D visual understanding tasks, sparking interest in extending these capabilities to 3D scene understanding. However, current 3D VLMs often struggle with robust reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Ting Huang , Zeyu Zhang , Hao Tang

This paper addresses the high demand in advanced intelligent robot navigation for a more holistic understanding of spatial environments, by introducing a novel system that harnesses the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yao Cheng , Zhe Han , Fengyang Jiang , Huaizhen Wang , Fengyu Zhou , Qingshan Yin , Lei Wei

3D occupancy prediction has recently emerged as a new paradigm for holistic 3D scene understanding and provides valuable information for downstream planning in autonomous driving. Most existing methods, however, are computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Yunxiao Shi , Hong Cai , Amin Ansari , Fatih Porikli

Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential across various domains, particularly in concept reasoning. However, their applications in understanding 3D environments remain limited,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Kuan-Chih Huang , Xiangtai Li , Lu Qi , Shuicheng Yan , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Real-world robotic tasks are long-horizon and often span multiple floors, demanding rich spatial reasoning. However, existing embodied benchmarks are largely confined to single-floor in-house environments, failing to reflect the complexity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Lirong Che , Shuo Wen , Shan Huang , Chuang Wang , Yuzhe Yang , Gregory Dudek , Xueqian Wang , Jian Su

Recent progress in spatial reasoning with Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) increasingly leverages geometric priors from 3D encoders. However, most existing integration strategies remain passive: geometry is exposed as a global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Haoyuan Li , Qihang Cao , Tao Tang , Kun Xiang , Zihan Guo , Jianhua Han , JiaWang Bian , Hang Xu , Xiaodan Liang

Reasoning segmentation aims to segment target objects in complex scenes based on human intent and spatial reasoning. While recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated impressive 2D image reasoning segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jiaxin Huang , Runnan Chen , Ziwen Li , Zhengqing Gao , Xiao He , Yandong Guo , Mingming Gong , Tongliang Liu

Recent advancements in Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated exceptional semantic understanding, yet these models consistently struggle with spatial reasoning, often failing at fundamental geometric tasks such as depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Zishan Liu , Ruoxi Zang , Yanglin Zhang , Wei Liu , Yin Zhang , Jian Yao , Jiayin Zheng , Zhengzhe Liu

Being able to explore an environment and understand the location and type of all objects therein is important for indoor robotic platforms that must interact closely with humans. However, it is difficult to evaluate progress in this area…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-14 David Hall , Ben Talbot , Suman Raj Bista , Haoyang Zhang , Rohan Smith , Feras Dayoub , Niko Sünderhauf

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

Prompt-driven scene synthesis allows users to generate complete 3D environments from textual descriptions. Current text-to-scene methods often struggle with complex geometries and object transformations, and tend to show weak adherence to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Frédéric Berdoz , Luca A. Lanzendörfer , Nick Tuninga , Roger Wattenhofer

Recent advances in 3D scene-language understanding have leveraged Large Language Models (LLMs) for 3D reasoning by transferring their general reasoning ability to 3D multi-modal contexts. However, existing methods typically adopt standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yerim Jeon , Miso Lee , WonJun Moon , Jae-Pil Heo

While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel in semantic tasks, they frequently lack the "spatial sense" essential for sophisticated geometric reasoning. Current models typically suffer from exorbitant modality-alignment costs and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yi Zhang , Youya Xia , Yong Wang , Meng Song , Xin Wu , Wenjun Wan , Bingbing Liu , AiXue Ye , Hongbo Zhang , Feng Wen

Robust 3D representation learning forms the perceptual foundation of spatial intelligence, enabling downstream tasks in scene understanding and embodied AI. However, learning such representations directly from unposed multi-view images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Bo Zhou , Qiuxia Lai , Zeren Sun , Xiangbo Shu , Yazhou Yao , Wenguan Wang

With the availability of low-cost and compact 2.5/3D visual sensing devices, computer vision community is experiencing a growing interest in visual scene understanding of indoor environments. This survey paper provides a comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Muzammal Naseer , Salman H Khan , Fatih Porikli

Spatial reasoning, the ability to ground language in 3D understanding, remains a persistent challenge for Vision-Language Models (VLMs). We identify two fundamental bottlenecks: inadequate 3D understanding capabilities stemming from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yejie Guo , Yunzhong Hou , Wufei Ma , Meng Tang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Spatial cognition is essential for human intelligence, enabling problem-solving through visual simulations rather than solely relying on verbal reasoning. However, existing AI benchmarks primarily assess verbal reasoning, neglecting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Linjie Li , Mahtab Bigverdi , Jiawei Gu , Zixian Ma , Yinuo Yang , Ziang Li , Yejin Choi , Ranjay Krishna

Multi-view visual reasoning is essential for intelligent systems that must understand complex environments from sparse and discrete viewpoints, yet existing research has largely focused on single-image or temporally dense video settings. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Fucai Ke , Zhixi Cai , Boying Li , Long Chen , Beibei Lin , Weiqing Wang , Pari Delir Haghighi , Gholamreza Haffari , Hamid Rezatofighi