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Vision-Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate impressive capabilities across multimodal tasks, yet exhibit systematic spatial reasoning failures, achieving only 49% (CLIP) to 54% (BLIP-2) accuracy on basic directional relationships. For safe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Muhammad Imran , Yugyung Lee

Vision-Language Models (VLM) exhibit strong reasoning capabilities, showing promise for end-to-end autonomous driving systems. Chain-of-Thought (CoT), as VLM's widely used reasoning strategy, is facing critical challenges. Existing textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Lingjun Zhang , Yujian Yuan , Changjie Wu , Xinyuan Chang , Xin Cai , Shuang Zeng , Linzhe Shi , Sijin Wang , Hang Zhang , Mu Xu

Although multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have shown strong capabilities across diverse domains, their application in generating fine-grained 3D perception and prediction outputs in autonomous driving remains underexplored. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Zhe Liu , Runhui Huang , Rui Yang , Siming Yan , Zining Wang , Lu Hou , Di Lin , Xiang Bai , Hengshuang Zhao

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…

Autonomous driving technology, a catalyst for revolutionizing transportation and urban mobility, has the tend to transition from rule-based systems to data-driven strategies. Traditional module-based systems are constrained by cumulative…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Zhenjie Yang , Xiaosong Jia , Hongyang Li , Junchi Yan

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into autonomous driving has attracted growing interest for their strong reasoning and semantic understanding abilities, which are essential for handling complex decision-making and long-tail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Thomas Monninger , Shaoyuan Xie , Qi Alfred Chen , Sihao Ding

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

The rapid progress of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has unlocked the potential for enhanced 3D scene understanding and spatial reasoning. A recent line of work explores learning spatial reasoning directly from multi-view images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Kanghee Lee , Injae Lee , Minseok Kwak , Jungi Hong , Kwonyoung Ryu , Jaesik Park

Vision-language models (VLM) excel at general understanding yet remain weak at dynamic spatial reasoning (DSR), i.e., reasoning about the evolvement of object geometry and relationship in 3D space over time, largely due to the scarcity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Shengchao Zhou , Yuxin Chen , Yuying Ge , Wei Huang , Jiehong Lin , Ying Shan , Xiaojuan Qi

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) offer a promising approach to end-to-end autonomous driving due to their human-like reasoning capabilities. However, troublesome gaps remains between current VLMs and real-world autonomous driving applications.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hao Jiang , Chuan Hu , Yukang Shi , Yuan He , Ke Wang , Xi Zhang , Zhipeng Zhang

While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) exhibit exceptional 2D visual understanding, their ability to comprehend and reason about 3D space--a cornerstone of spatial intelligence--remains superficial. Current methodologies attempt to bridge this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Haoyi Jiang , Liu Liu , Xinjie Wang , Yonghao He , Wei Sui , Zhizhong Su , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Vision Language Models (VLMs) employed for visual question-answering (VQA) in autonomous driving often require substantial computational resources that pose a challenge for their deployment in resource-constrained vehicles. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Hossein Hassani , Soodeh Nikan , Abdallah Shami

Existing Vision-Language models (VLMs) estimate either long-term trajectory waypoints or a set of control actions as a reactive solution for closed-loop planning based on their rich scene comprehension. However, these estimations are coarse…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Pranjal Paul , Anant Garg , Tushar Choudhary , Arun Kumar Singh , K. Madhava Krishna

Integrating large language models (LLMs) into autonomous driving motion planning has recently emerged as a promising direction, offering enhanced interpretability, better controllability, and improved generalization in rare and long-tail…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Zhipeng Tang , Sha Zhang , Jiajun Deng , Chenjie Wang , Guoliang You , Yuting Huang , Xinrui Lin , Yanyong Zhang

The Large Visual-Language Models (LVLMs) have significantly advanced image understanding. Their comprehension and reasoning capabilities enable promising applications in autonomous driving scenarios. However, existing research typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Zongchuang Zhao , Haoyu Fu , Dingkang Liang , Xin Zhou , Dingyuan Zhang , Hongwei Xie , Bing Wang , Xiang Bai

Trajectory planning is a fundamental yet challenging component of autonomous driving. End-to-end planners frequently falter under adverse weather, unpredictable human behavior, or complex road layouts, primarily because they lack strong…

Spatial reasoning is a critical capability for intelligent robots, yet current vision-language models (VLMs) still fall short of human-level performance in video-based spatial reasoning. This gap mainly stems from two challenges: a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Zuntao Liu , Yi Du , Taimeng Fu , Shaoshu Su , Cherie Ho , Chen Wang

Autonomous cars need geometric accuracy and semantic understanding to navigate complex environments, yet most stacks handle them separately. We present XYZ-Drive, a single vision-language model that reads a front-camera frame, a 25m…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Santosh Patapati , Trisanth Srinivasan , Murari Ambati

Robot vision has greatly benefited from advancements in multimodal fusion techniques and vision-language models (VLMs). We adopt a task-oriented perspective to systematically review the applications and advancements of multimodal fusion…

Current Vision-Language Model (VLM)-based end-to-end autonomous driving systems often leverage large language models to generate driving decisions directly based on their understanding of the current scene. However, such systems introduce…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Dacheng Liao , Mengshi Qi , Peng Shu , Zhining Zhang , Yuxin Lin , Liang Liu , Huadong Ma