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3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) serves as a highly performant and efficient encoding of scene geometry, appearance, and semantics. Moreover, grounding language in 3D scenes has proven to be an effective strategy for 3D scene understanding.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Mengjiao Ma , Qi Ma , Yue Li , Jiahuan Cheng , Runyi Yang , Bin Ren , Nikola Popovic , Mingqiang Wei , Nicu Sebe , Luc Van Gool , Theo Gevers , Martin R. Oswald , Danda Pani Paudel

Reconstructing semantic-aware 3D scenes from sparse views is a challenging yet essential research direction, driven by the demands of emerging applications such as virtual reality and embodied AI. Existing per-scene optimization methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Yanbo Wang , Ziyi Wang , Wenzhao Zheng , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Humans naturally interact with their 3D surroundings using language, and modeling 3D language fields for scene understanding and interaction has gained growing interest. This paper introduces ChatSplat, a system that constructs a 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Hanlin Chen , Fangyin Wei , Gim Hee Lee

Understanding open-vocabulary 3D scenes with Gaussian-based representations remains challenging due to fragmented and spatially inconsistent semantic predictions across multi-view observations. In this paper, we present OpenGaFF, a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Kunyi Li , Michael Niemeyer , Sen Wang , Stefano Gasperini , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

Recently, methods have been proposed for 3D open-vocabulary semantic segmentation. Such methods are able to segment scenes into arbitrary classes based on text descriptions provided during runtime. In this paper, we propose to the best of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Haoran Chen , Kenneth Blomqvist , Francesco Milano , Roland Siegwart

3D Gaussian Splatting is renowned for its high-fidelity reconstructions and real-time novel view synthesis, yet its lack of semantic understanding limits object-level perception. In this work, we propose ObjectGS, an object-aware framework…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ruijie Zhu , Mulin Yu , Linning Xu , Lihan Jiang , Yixuan Li , Tianzhu Zhang , Jiangmiao Pang , Bo Dai

The recent advent of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has revolutionized the 3D scene reconstruction space enabling high-fidelity novel view synthesis in real-time. However, with the exception of RawNeRF, all prior 3DGS and NeRF-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Shreyas Singh , Aryan Garg , Kaushik Mitra

Open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding presents a significant challenge in the field. Recent works have sought to transfer knowledge embedded in vision-language models from 2D to 3D domains. However, these approaches often require prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Hanchen Tai , Qingdong He , Jiangning Zhang , Yijie Qian , Zhenyu Zhang , Xiaobin Hu , Xiangtai Li , Yabiao Wang , Yong Liu

The ability to interpret and comprehend a 3D scene is essential for many vision and robotics systems. In numerous applications, this involves 3D object detection, i.e.~identifying the location and dimensions of objects belonging to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Olivier Moliner , Viktor Larsson , Kalle Åström

We introduce Referring 3D Gaussian Splatting Segmentation (R3DGS), a new task that aims to segment target objects in a 3D Gaussian scene based on natural language descriptions, which often contain spatial relationships or object attributes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Shuting He , Guangquan Jie , Changshuo Wang , Yun Zhou , Shuming Hu , Guanbin Li , Henghui Ding

3D semantic segmentation provides high-level scene understanding for applications in robotics, autonomous systems, \textit{etc}. Traditional methods adapt exclusively to either task-specific goals (open-vocabulary segmentation) or scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Doriand Petit , Steve Bourgeois , Vincent Gay-Bellile , Florian Chabot , Loïc Barthe

Recent advancements in 3D reconstruction methods and vision-language models have propelled the development of multi-modal 3D scene understanding, which has vital applications in robotics, autonomous driving, and virtual/augmented reality.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Qucheng Peng , Benjamin Planche , Zhongpai Gao , Meng Zheng , Anwesa Choudhuri , Terrence Chen , Chen Chen , Ziyan Wu

Open-vocabulary 3D segmentation enables exploration of 3D spaces using free-form text descriptions. Existing methods for open-vocabulary 3D instance segmentation primarily focus on identifying object-level instances but struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Ayca Takmaz , Alexandros Delitzas , Robert W. Sumner , Francis Engelmann , Johanna Wald , Federico Tombari

Recent advancements in 3D Gaussian Splatting(3DGS) have significantly improved semantic scene understanding, enabling natural language queries to localize objects within a scene. However, existing methods primarily focus on embedding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Xihan Wang , Dianyi Yang , Yu Gao , Yufeng Yue , Yi Yang , Mengyin Fu

In this paper, we investigate the use of diffusion models which are pre-trained on large-scale image-caption pairs for open-vocabulary 3D semantic understanding. We propose a novel method, namely Diff2Scene, which leverages frozen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Xiaoyu Zhu , Hao Zhou , Pengfei Xing , Long Zhao , Hao Xu , Junwei Liang , Alexander Hauptmann , Ting Liu , Andrew Gallagher

To enable AI agents to interact seamlessly with both humans and 3D environments, they must not only perceive the 3D world accurately but also align human language with 3D spatial representations. While prior work has made significant…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Saimouli Katragadda , Cho-Ying Wu , Yuliang Guo , Xinyu Huang , Guoquan Huang , Liu Ren

We propose a lightweight and scalable Regional Point-Language Contrastive learning framework, namely \textbf{RegionPLC}, for open-world 3D scene understanding, aiming to identify and recognize open-set objects and categories. Specifically,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jihan Yang , Runyu Ding , Weipeng Deng , Zhe Wang , Xiaojuan Qi

3D scene understanding has been transformed by open-vocabulary language models that enable interaction via natural language. However, at present the evaluation of these representations is limited to datasets with closed-set semantics that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Christina Kassab , Sacha Morin , Martin Büchner , Matías Mattamala , Kumaraditya Gupta , Abhinav Valada , Liam Paull , Maurice Fallon

TL;DR: Gaussian Splatting is a widely adopted approach for 3D scene representation, offering efficient, high-quality reconstruction and rendering. A key reason for its success is the simplicity of representing scenes with sets of Gaussians,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Jiahuan Cheng , Jan-Nico Zaech , Luc Van Gool , Danda Pani Paudel

Modern Gaussian Splatting methods have proven highly effective for real-time photorealistic rendering of 3D scenes. However, integrating semantic information into this representation remains a significant challenge, especially in…

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