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Visual Spatial Reasoning (VSR) is a core human cognitive ability and a critical requirement for advancing embodied intelligence and autonomous systems. Despite recent progress in Vision-Language Models (VLMs), achieving human-level VSR…

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

Current research on agentic visual reasoning enables deep multimodal understanding but primarily focuses on image manipulation tools, leaving a gap toward more general-purpose agentic models. In this work, we revisit the geolocalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yikun Wang , Zuyan Liu , Ziyi Wang , Han Hu , Pengfei Liu , Yongming Rao

Next Location Prediction is a fundamental task in the study of human mobility, with wide-ranging applications in transportation planning, urban governance, and epidemic forecasting. In practice, when humans attempt to predict the next…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Ruixing Zhang , Yang Zhang , Tongyu Zhu , Leilei Sun , Weifeng Lv

Recent advances in Visual Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance in visual reasoning tasks. However, geo-localization presents unique challenges, requiring the extraction of multigranular visual cues from images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Chun Wang , Xiaojun Ye , Xiaoran Pan , Zihao Pan , Haofan Wang , Yiren Song

Retrieving images from the same location as a given query is an important component of multiple computer vision tasks, like Visual Place Recognition, Landmark Retrieval, Visual Localization, 3D reconstruction, and SLAM. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Gabriele Berton , Carlo Masone

Image geolocalization has traditionally been addressed through retrieval-based place recognition or geometry-based visual localization pipelines. Recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong zero-shot reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Siddhant Bharadwaj , Ashish Vashist , Fahimul Aleem , Shruti Vyas

Geo-temporal understanding, the ability to infer location, time, and contextual properties from visual input alone, underpins applications such as disaster management, traffic planning, embodied navigation, world modeling, and geography…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Azmine Toushik Wasi , Shahriyar Zaman Ridoy , Koushik Ahamed Tonmoy , Kinga Tshering , S. M. Muhtasimul Hasan , Wahid Faisal , Tasnim Mohiuddin , Md Rizwan Parvez

Recently, reasoning-based MLLMs have achieved a degree of success in generating long-form textual reasoning chains. However, they still struggle with complex tasks that necessitate dynamic and iterative focusing on and revisiting of visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Chaoya Jiang , Yongrui Heng , Wei Ye , Han Yang , Haiyang Xu , Ming Yan , Ji Zhang , Fei Huang , Shikun Zhang

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

In the context of visual navigation, the capacity to map a novel environment is necessary for an agent to exploit its observation history in the considered place and efficiently reach known goals. This ability can be associated with spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Pierre Marza , Laetitia Matignon , Olivier Simonin , Christian Wolf

Multimodal large language models are increasingly expected to perform thinking with images, yet existing visual latent reasoning methods still rely on explicit textual chain-of-thought interleaved with visual latent tokens. This interleaved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Houcheng Jiang , Jiajun Fu , Junfeng Fang , Chen Gao , Xiang Wang , Xiangnan He , Yong Li

Visual retrieval-augmented generation (VRAG) augments vision-language models (VLMs) with external visual knowledge to ground reasoning and reduce hallucinations. Yet current VRAG systems often fail to reliably perceive and integrate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yubo Sun , Chunyi Peng , Yukun Yan , Shi Yu , Zhenghao Liu , Chi Chen , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Current Visual-Language Navigation (VLN) methodologies face a trade-off between semantic understanding and control precision. While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) offer superior reasoning, deploying them as low-level controllers…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Zhenxing Xu , Brikit Lu , Weidong Bao , Zhengqiu Zhu , Junsong Zhang , Hui Yan , Wenhao Lu , Ji Wang

We present a visual localization system that learns to estimate camera poses in the real world with the help of synthetic data. Despite significant progress in recent years, most learning-based approaches to visual localization target at a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Qi Yan , Jianhao Zheng , Simon Reding , Shanci Li , Iordan Doytchinov

Building on recent advances in language-based reasoning models, we explore multimodal reasoning that integrates vision and text. Existing multimodal benchmarks primarily test visual extraction combined with text-based reasoning, lacking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Mert Unsal , Aylin Akkus

Spatial reasoning, the ability to understand and interpret the 3D structure of the world, is a critical yet underdeveloped capability in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). Current methods predominantly rely on verbal descriptive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Meng Cao , Haokun Lin , Haoyuan Li , Haoran Tang , Rongtao Xu , Dong An , Xue Liu , Ian Reid , Xiaodan Liang

Large language models (LLMs) and vision language models (VLMs), such as DeepSeek R1,OpenAI o3, and Gemini 2.5 Pro, have demonstrated remarkable reasoning capabilities across logical inference, problem solving, and decision making. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Xiaoxing Lian , Aidong Yang , Jun Zhu , Peng Wang , Yue Zhang

Space grounding refers to localizing a set of spatial references described in natural language instructions. Traditional methods often fail to account for complex reasoning -- such as distance, geometry, and inter-object relationships --…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Nayoung Oh , Dohyun Kim , Junhyeong Bang , Rohan Paul , Daehyung Park

People with blindness and low vision (pBLV) face significant challenges, struggling to navigate environments and locate objects due to limited visual cues. Spatial reasoning is crucial for these individuals, as it enables them to understand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Alexey Magay , Dhurba Tripathi , Yu Hao , Yi Fang