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Language-guided grasping has emerged as a promising paradigm for enabling robots to identify and manipulate target objects through natural language instructions, yet it remains highly challenging in cluttered or occluded scenes. Existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Rui Tang , Guankun Wang , Long Bai , Huxin Gao , Jiewen Lai , Chi Kit Ng , Jiazheng Wang , Fan Zhang , Hongliang Ren

While current multimodal models can answer questions based on 2D images, they lack intrinsic 3D object perception, limiting their ability to comprehend spatial relationships and depth cues in 3D scenes. In this work, we propose N3D-VLM, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yuxin Wang , Lei Ke , Boqiang Zhang , Tianyuan Qu , Hanxun Yu , Zhenpeng Huang , Meng Yu , Dan Xu , Dong Yu

Humans naturally possess the spatial reasoning ability to form and manipulate images and structures of objects in space. There is an increasing effort to endow Vision-Language Models (VLMs) with similar spatial reasoning capabilities.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jiahuan Zhang , Shunwen Bai , Tianheng Wang , Kaiwen Guo , Kai Han , Guozheng Rao , Kaicheng Yu

Visual generation models have made remarkable progress in creating realistic images from text prompts, yet struggle with complex prompts that specify multiple objects with precise spatial relationships and attributes. Effective handling of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Chengqi Duan , Rongyao Fang , Yuqing Wang , Kun Wang , Linjiang Huang , Xingyu Zeng , Hongsheng Li , Xihui Liu

Embodied agents are expected to assist humans by actively exploring unknown environments and reasoning about spatial contexts. When deployed in real life, agents often face sequential tasks where each new task follows the completion of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Zhongyi Cai , Yi Du , Chen Wang , Yu Kong

Accurate spatial reasoning in outdoor environments - covering geometry, object pose, and inter-object relationships - is fundamental to downstream tasks such as mapping, motion forecasting, and high-level planning in autonomous driving. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Xianda Guo , Ruijun Zhang , Yiqun Duan , Yuhang He , Dujun Nie , Wenke Huang , Chenming Zhang , Shuai Liu , Hao Zhao , Long Chen

Comprehending 3D environments is vital for intelligent systems in domains like robotics and autonomous navigation. Voxel grids offer a structured representation of 3D space, but extracting high-level semantic meaning remains challenging.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Alan Dao , Norapat Buppodom

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in 2D visual tasks but still exhibit limited physical spatial awareness when processing real-world visual streams. Recently, feed-forward geometric foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Chongyu Wang , Ting Huang , Chunyu Sun , Xinyu Ning , Di Wang , Hao Tang

Vision-language models (VLMs) have advanced rapidly, but their ability to capture spatial relationships remains a blindspot. Current VLMs are typically built with contrastive language-image pretraining (CLIP) style image encoders. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Nahid Alam , Leema Krishna Murali , Siddhant Bharadwaj , Patrick Liu , Timothy Chung , Drishti Sharma , Akshata A , Kranthi Kiran , Wesley Tam , Bala Krishna S Vegesna

Previous research has investigated the application of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) in understanding 3D scenes by interpreting them as videos. These approaches generally depend on comprehensive 3D data inputs, such as point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Duo Zheng , Shijia Huang , Yanyang Li , Liwei Wang

Video Motion Magnification (VMM) reveals imperceptible dynamics but often suffers from structural inconsistencies under complex geometric transformations. Existing learning-based methods generally face a trade-off between the limited global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Kecheng Han , Yuchen Zhang , Bingqing Liu , Boqiang Guo , Wenbin Zheng , Shiyuan Pei

Geospatial reasoning requires solving image-grounded problems over the complex spatial structure of a scene. However, developing this capability is hindered by the cost of annotating a vast and combinatorial question space. We propose GeoX,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Kyeongjin Ahn , Seungeon Lee , Krishna P. Gummadi , Meeyoung Cha

Understanding and reasoning about spatial relationships is a fundamental capability for Visual Question Answering (VQA) and robotics. While Vision Language Models (VLM) have demonstrated remarkable performance in certain VQA benchmarks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Boyuan Chen , Zhuo Xu , Sean Kirmani , Brian Ichter , Danny Driess , Pete Florence , Dorsa Sadigh , Leonidas Guibas , Fei Xia

Visual information extraction (VIE) plays an important role in Document Intelligence. Generally, it is divided into two tasks: semantic entity recognition (SER) and relation extraction (RE). Recently, pre-trained models for documents have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Chuwei Luo , Changxu Cheng , Qi Zheng , Cong Yao

Capturing spatial relationships from visual inputs is a cornerstone of human-like general intelligence. Several previous studies have tried to enhance the spatial awareness of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) by adding extra expert encoders,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Rui Yang , Ziyu Zhu , Yanwei Li , Jingjia Huang , Shen Yan , Siyuan Zhou , Zhe Liu , Xiangtai Li , Shuangye Li , Wenqian Wang , Yi Lin , Hengshuang Zhao

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable progress in their reasoning capabilities, such as Chain-of-Thought (CoT). Most approaches rely on CoT rationales. Previous studies have shown that LLMs often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Kentaro Kazama , Daiki Shirafuji , Tatsuhiko Saito

Benchmarking spatial reasoning in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has attracted growing interest in computer vision due to its importance for embodied AI and other agentic systems that require precise interaction with the physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Zelin Xu , Yupu Zhang , Saugat Adhikari , Saiful Islam , Tingsong Xiao , Zibo Liu , Shigang Chen , Da Yan , Zhe Jiang

Recent advances in LVLMs have improved vision-language understanding, but they still struggle with spatial perception, limiting their ability to reason about complex 3D scenes. Unlike previous approaches that incorporate 3D representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Jiahui Zhang , Yurui Chen , Yanpeng Zhou , Yueming Xu , Ze Huang , Jilin Mei , Junhui Chen , Yu-Jie Yuan , Xinyue Cai , Guowei Huang , Xingyue Quan , Hang Xu , Li Zhang

Spatial perception aims to estimate camera motion and scene structure from visual observations, a problem traditionally addressed through geometric modeling and physical consistency constraints. Recent learning-based methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Haichao Zhu , Zhaorui Yang , Qian Zhang

Vision-language models (VLMs) often struggle with geometric reasoning due to their limited perception of fundamental diagram elements. To tackle this challenge, we introduce GeoPerceive, a benchmark comprising diagram instances paired with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Hao Yu , Shuning Jia , Guanghao Li , Wenhao Jiang , Chun Yuan