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Reasoning in vision-language models (VLMs) has recently attracted significant attention due to its broad applicability across diverse downstream tasks. However, it remains unclear whether the superior performance of VLMs stems from genuine…

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With the advent of large language models(LLMs) enhanced by the chain-of-thought(CoT) methodology, visual reasoning problem is usually decomposed into manageable sub-tasks and tackled sequentially with various external tools. However, such a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Timin Gao , Peixian Chen , Mengdan Zhang , Chaoyou Fu , Yunhang Shen , Yan Zhang , Shengchuan Zhang , Xiawu Zheng , Xing Sun , Liujuan Cao , Rongrong Ji

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel at high-level scene understanding but falter on fine-grained perception tasks requiring precise localization. This failure stems from a fundamental mismatch, as generating exact numerical coordinates is a…

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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

Spatio-temporal reasoning is essential in understanding real-world environments in various fields, eg, autonomous driving and sports analytics. Recent advances have improved the spatial reasoning ability of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Dohwan Ko , Sihyeon Kim , Yumin Suh , Vijay Kumar B. G , Minseo Yoon , Manmohan Chandraker , Hyunwoo J. Kim

Open-source multimodal large language models (MLLMs) excel in various tasks involving textual and visual inputs but still struggle with complex multimodal mathematical reasoning, lagging behind proprietary models like GPT-4V(ision) and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Mengzhao Jia , Zhihan Zhang , Wenhao Yu , Fangkai Jiao , Meng Jiang

Vision language models (VLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in integrating linguistic and visual reasoning but remain fundamentally limited in understanding dynamic spatiotemporal interactions. Humans effortlessly track and reason…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Shijie Zhou , Alexander Vilesov , Xuehai He , Ziyu Wan , Shuwang Zhang , Aditya Nagachandra , Di Chang , Dongdong Chen , Xin Eric Wang , Achuta Kadambi

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated impressive progress in single-image grounding and general multi-image understanding. Recently, some methods begin to address multi-image grounding. However, they are constrained by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Shurong Zheng , Yousong Zhu , Hongyin Zhao , Fan Yang , Yufei Zhan , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

The Multi-Modal Large Language Model (MLLM) refers to an extension of the Large Language Model (LLM) equipped with the capability to receive and infer multi-modal data. Spatial awareness stands as one of the crucial abilities of MLLM,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Yongqiang Zhao , Zhenyu Li , Zhi Jin , Feng Zhang , Haiyan Zhao , Chengfeng Dou , Zhengwei Tao , Xinhai Xu , Donghong Liu

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

Recent advances in reasoning models have shown remarkable progress in text-based domains, but transferring those capabilities to multimodal settings, e.g., to allow reasoning over audio-visual data, still remains a challenge, in part…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Edson Araujo , Saurabhchand Bhati , M. Jehanzeb Mirza , Brian Kingsbury , Samuel Thomas , Rogerio Feris , James R. Glass , Hilde Kuehne

Spatial reasoning is a fundamental capability for embodied intelligence, especially for fine-grained manipulation tasks such as robotic assembly. While recent vision-language models (VLMs) exhibit preliminary spatial awareness, they largely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Zhi Jing , Jinbin Qiao , Ouyang Lu , Jicong Ao , Shuang Qiu , Yu-Gang Jiang , Chenjia Bai

Over the past year, spatial intelligence has drawn increasing attention. Many prior works study it from the perspective of visual-spatial intelligence, where models have access to visuospatial information from visual inputs. However, in the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Zhen Yang , Ping Jian , Zhongbin Guo , Zuming Zhang , Chengzhi Li , Yonghong Deng , Xinyue Zhang , Wenpeng Lu

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

Unlike traditional vision-only models, vision language models (VLMs) offer an intuitive way to access visual content through language prompting by combining a large language model (LLM) with a vision encoder. However, both the LLM and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Paul Gavrikov , Jovita Lukasik , Steffen Jung , Robert Geirhos , M. Jehanzeb Mirza , Margret Keuper , Janis Keuper

Images usually convey richer detail than text, but often include redundant information, which potentially downgrades multimodal reasoning performance. When faced with lengthy or complex messages, humans tend to employ abstract thinking to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Dairu Liu , Ziyue Wang , Minyuan Ruan , Fuwen Luo , Chi Chen , Peng Li , Yang Liu

End-to-end autonomous driving methods built on vision language models (VLMs) have undergone rapid development driven by their universal visual understanding and strong reasoning capabilities obtained from the large-scale pretraining.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Peizheng Li , Zhenghao Zhang , David Holtz , Hang Yu , Yutong Yang , Yuzhi Lai , Rui Song , Andreas Geiger , Andreas Zell

Spatial reasoning and visual grounding are core capabilities for vision-language models (VLMs), yet most medical VLMs produce predictions without transparent reasoning or spatial evidence. Existing benchmarks also evaluate VLMs on isolated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Lama Moukheiber , Caleb M. Yeung , Haotian Xue , Alec Helbling , Zelin Zhao , Yongxin Chen

Humans are born with vision-based 4D spatial-temporal intelligence, which enables us to perceive and reason about the evolution of 3D space over time from purely visual inputs. Despite its importance, this capability remains a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Xingyilang Yin , Chengzhengxu Li , Jiahao Chang , Chi-Man Pun , Xiaodong Cun

Multimodal reasoning with large language models (LLMs) often suffers from hallucinations and the presence of deficient or outdated knowledge within LLMs. Some approaches have sought to mitigate these issues by employing textual knowledge…

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