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Open-vocabulary 3D visual grounding aims to localize target objects based on free-form language queries, which is crucial for embodied AI applications such as autonomous navigation, robotics, and augmented reality. Learning 3D language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Zhenyang Liu , Sixiao Zheng , Siyu Chen , Cairong Zhao , Longfei Liang , Xiangyang Xue , Yanwei Fu

The task of LiDAR-based 3D Open-Vocabulary Detection (3D OVD) requires the detector to learn to detect novel objects from point clouds without off-the-shelf training labels. Previous methods focus on the learning of object-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Xingyu Peng , Si Liu , Chen Gao , Yan Bai , Beipeng Mu , Xiaofei Wang , Huaxia Xia

Enabling robots to grasp objects specified through natural language is essential for effective human-robot interaction, yet it remains a significant challenge. Existing approaches often struggle with open-form language expressions and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Houjian Yu , Zheming Zhou , Min Sun , Omid Ghasemalizadeh , Yuyin Sun , Cheng-Hao Kuo , Arnie Sen , Changhyun Choi

3D visual grounding aims to identify the target object within a 3D point cloud scene referred to by a natural language description. Previous works usually require significant data relating to point color and their descriptions to exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Tung-Yu Wu , Sheng-Yu Huang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

The ability to grasp objects in-the-wild from open-ended language instructions constitutes a fundamental challenge in robotics. An open-world grasping system should be able to combine high-level contextual with low-level physical-geometric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Georgios Tziafas , Hamidreza Kasaei

In the field of multimodal chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning, existing approaches predominantly rely on reasoning on pure language space, which inherently suffers from language bias and is largely confined to math or science domains. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Jiacong Wang , Zijian Kang , Haochen Wang , Haiyong Jiang , Jiawen Li , Bohong Wu , Ya Wang , Jiao Ran , Xiao Liang , Chao Feng , Jun Xiao

Indoor built environments like homes and offices often present complex and cluttered layouts that pose significant challenges for individuals who are blind or visually impaired, especially when performing tasks that involve locating and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yifan Xu , Qianwei Wang , Vineet Kamat , Carol Menassa

LiDAR-based 3D object detection has recently seen significant advancements through active learning (AL), attaining satisfactory performance by training on a small fraction of strategically selected point clouds. However, in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zhuoxiao Chen , Yadan Luo , Zixin Wang , Zijian Wang , Xin Yu , Zi Huang

Understanding 3D scenes in open-world settings poses fundamental challenges for vision and robotics, particularly due to the limitations of closed-vocabulary supervision and static annotations. To address this, we propose a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Fei Yu , Quan Deng , Shengeng Tang , Yuehua Li , Lechao Cheng

Multi-view 3D visual grounding is critical for autonomous driving vehicles to interpret natural languages and localize target objects in complex environments. However, existing datasets and methods suffer from coarse-grained language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Fuhao Li , Huan Jin , Bin Gao , Liaoyuan Fan , Lihui Jiang , Long Zeng

3D Visual Grounding (3DVG) aims to localize target objects within a 3D scene based on natural language queries. To alleviate the reliance on costly 3D training data, recent studies have explored zero-shot 3DVG by leveraging the extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Zhao Jin , Rong-Cheng Tu , Jingyi Liao , Wenhao Sun , Xiao Luo , Shunyu Liu , Dacheng Tao

Reasoning about spatial relationships between objects is essential for many real-world robotic tasks, such as fetch-and-delivery, object rearrangement, and object search. The ability to detect and disambiguate different objects and identify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Negar Nejatishahidin , Madhukar Reddy Vongala , Jana Kosecka

Visual grounding is an essential tool that links user-provided text queries with query-specific regions within an image. Despite advancements in visual grounding models, their ability to comprehend complex queries remains limited. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Haoyu Zhao , Wenhang Ge , Ying-cong Chen

Remote sensing (RS) visual grounding aims to use natural language expression to locate specific objects (in the form of the bounding box or segmentation mask) in RS images, enhancing human interaction with intelligent RS interpretation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Yue Zhou , Mengcheng Lan , Xiang Li , Litong Feng , Yiping Ke , Xue Jiang , Qingyun Li , Xue Yang , Wayne Zhang

3D visual grounding (3DVG) involves localizing entities in a 3D scene referred to by natural language text. Such models are useful for embodied AI and scene retrieval applications, which involve searching for objects or patterns using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Austin T. Wang , ZeMing Gong , Angel X. Chang

In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in open-vocabulary 3D scene reconstruction facilitated by visual language models (VLMs), which showcase remarkable capabilities in open-set retrieval. However, existing methods face some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Yinan Deng , Jiahui Wang , Jingyu Zhao , Jianyu Dou , Yi Yang , Yufeng Yue

Open-Vocabulary 3D object affordance grounding aims to anticipate ``action possibilities'' regions on 3D objects with arbitrary instructions, which is crucial for robots to generically perceive real scenarios and respond to operational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yawen Shao , Wei Zhai , Yuhang Yang , Hongchen Luo , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha

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

Vision-language models (VLMs) are emerging as powerful generalist tools for remote sensing, capable of integrating information across diverse tasks and enabling flexible, instruction-based interactions via a chat interface. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Aysim Toker , Andreea-Maria Oncescu , Roy Miles , Ismail Elezi , Jiankang Deng

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