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Understanding the real world through point cloud video is a crucial aspect of robotics and autonomous driving systems. However, prevailing methods for 4D point cloud recognition have limitations due to sensor resolution, which leads to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Zhichao Deng , Xiangtai Li , Xia Li , Yunhai Tong , Shen Zhao , Mengyuan Liu

Spatial intelligence requires visual representations that capture both semantic objects and geometric structure in the physical world. To support this, two major pre-training schemes are now widely used as foundation backbones:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Haozhan Shen , Tiancheng Zhao , Kangjia Zhao , Jianwei Yin

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models offer a compelling framework for tackling complex robotic manipulation tasks, but they are often expensive to train. In this paper, we propose a novel VLA approach that leverages the competitive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Max Argus , Jelena Bratulic , Houman Masnavi , Maxim Velikanov , Nick Heppert , Abhinav Valada , Thomas Brox

Recent advancements in Vision-Language (VL) models have sparked interest in their deployment on edge devices, yet challenges in handling diverse visual modalities, manual annotation, and computational constraints remain. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Kaiwen Cai , Zhekai Duan , Gaowen Liu , Charles Fleming , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel in diverse multimodal tasks. However, user requirements vary across scenarios, which can be categorized into fast response, high-quality output, and low energy consumption. Relying solely on large models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Xin Tang , Youfang Han , Fangfei Gou , Wei Zhao , Xin Meng , Yang Yu , Jinguo Zhang , Yuanchun Shi , Yuntao Wang , Tengxiang Zhang

We investigate the ability of Vision Language Models (VLMs) to perform visual perspective taking using a new set of visual tasks inspired by established human tests. Our approach leverages carefully controlled scenes in which a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Gracjan Góral , Alicja Ziarko , Piotr Miłoś , Michał Nauman , Maciej Wołczyk , Michał Kosiński

Edge intelligent applications like VR/AR and language model based chatbots have become widespread with the rapid expansion of IoT and mobile devices. However, constrained edge devices often cannot serve the increasingly large and complex…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zongshun Zhang , Ibrahim Matta

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have been increasingly integrated into object navigation tasks for their rich prior knowledge and strong reasoning abilities. However, applying VLMs to navigation poses two key challenges: effectively…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Haokun Zhu , Zongtai Li , Zhixuan Liu , Wenshan Wang , Ji Zhang , Jonathan Francis , Jean Oh

Recently, due to the advancement of multimodal technology, people are attempting to use visual large language models (VLLMs) in industrial production. Many deep learning models (DLMs) deployed in the production environment are gradually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Xiang Chen

Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in understanding human-object interactions, but their application to robotic systems with non-humanoid morphologies remains largely unexplored. This work investigates…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Jess Jones , Raul Santos-Rodriguez , Sabine Hauert

In a level-5 autonomous driving system, the autonomous driving vehicles (AVs) are expected to sense the surroundings via analyzing a large amount of data captured by a variety of onboard sensors in near-real-time. As a result, enormous…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Bo Yang , Xuelin Cao , Kai Xiong , Chau Yuen , Yong Liang Guan , Supeng Leng , Lijun Qian , Zhu Han

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are an emerging class of workloads critical for robotics and embodied AI at the edge. As these models scale, they demonstrate significant capability gains, yet they must be deployed locally to meet the…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Manoj Vishwanathan , Suvinay Subramanian , Anand Raghunathan

Automated perception of urban roadside infrastructure is crucial for smart city management, yet general-purpose models often struggle to capture the necessary fine-grained attributes and domain rules. While Large Vision Language Models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Luxuan Fu , Chong Liu , Bisheng Yang , Zhen Dong

Human drivers adeptly navigate complex scenarios by utilizing rich attentional semantics, but the current autonomous systems struggle to replicate this ability, as they often lose critical semantic information when converting 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Pei Liu , Haipeng Liu , Haichao Liu , Xin Liu , Jinxin Ni , Jun Ma

The AI-native vision of 6G requires Radio Access Networks to train, deploy, and continuously refine thousands of machine learning (ML) models that drive real-time radio network optimization. Although the Open RAN (O-RAN) architecture…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Mounir Bensalem , Fin Gentzen , Tuck-Wai Choong , Yu-Chiao Jhuang , Admela Jukan , Jenq-Shiou Leu

While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are set to transform robotic navigation, existing methods often underutilize their reasoning capabilities. To unlock the full potential of VLMs in robotics, we shift their role from passive observers to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Mobin Habibpour , Fatemeh Afghah

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) enables robots to follow natural-language instructions in visually grounded environments, serving as a key capability for embodied robotic systems. Recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Qitong Wang , Yijun Liang , Ming Li , Tianyi Zhou , Christopher Rasmussen

While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) show significant promise for end-to-end autonomous driving by leveraging the common sense embedded in language models, their reliance on 2D image cues for complex scene understanding and decision-making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Weijie Wei , Zhipeng Luo , Ling Feng , Venice Erin Liong

Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly used in autonomous driving because they combine visual perception with language-based reasoning, supporting more interpretable decision-making, yet their robustness to physical adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 David Fernandez , Pedram MohajerAnsari , Amir Salarpour , Mert D. Pese

Remote sensing (RS) large vision-language models (LVLMs) have shown strong promise across visual grounding (VG) tasks. However, existing RS VG datasets predominantly rely on explicit referring expressions-such as relative position, relative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yue Zhou , Jue Chen , Zilun Zhang , Penghui Huang , Ran Ding , Zhentao Zou , PengFei Gao , Yuchen Wei , Ke Li , Xue Yang , Xue Jiang , Hongxin Yang , Jonathan Li