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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…

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Recent progress in spatial reasoning with Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) increasingly leverages geometric priors from 3D encoders. However, most existing integration strategies remain passive: geometry is exposed as a global…

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Humans possess spatial reasoning abilities that enable them to understand spaces through multimodal observations, such as vision and sound. Large multimodal reasoning models extend these abilities by learning to perceive and reason, showing…

Spatial reasoning in 3D scenes requires precise geometric calculations that challenge vision-language models. Visual programming addresses this by decomposing problems into steps calling specialized tools, yet existing methods rely on…

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We present NoReGeo, a novel benchmark designed to evaluate the intrinsic geometric understanding of large language models (LLMs) without relying on reasoning or algebraic computation. Unlike existing benchmarks that primarily assess models'…

A complete representation of 3D objects requires characterizing the space of deformations in an interpretable manner, from articulations of a single instance to changes in shape across categories. In this work, we improve on a prior…

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The growing adoption of robotics and augmented reality in real-world applications has driven considerable research interest in 3D object detection based on point clouds. While previous methods address unified training across multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Xing Yi , Jinyang Huang , Feng-Qi Cui , Anyang Tong , Ruimin Wang , Liu Liu , Dan Guo

Spatial intelligence is emerging as a transformative frontier in AI, yet it remains constrained by the scarcity of large-scale 3D datasets. Unlike the abundant 2D imagery, acquiring 3D data typically requires specialized sensors and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Xingyu Miao , Haoran Duan , Quanhao Qian , Jiuniu Wang , Yang Long , Ling Shao , Deli Zhao , Ran Xu , Gongjie Zhang

Humans can perform complex tasks with long-term objectives by planning, reasoning, and forecasting outcomes of actions. For embodied agents to achieve similar capabilities, they must gain knowledge of the environment transferable to novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Shu Ishida

Large language models (LLMs) have improved significantly in their reasoning through extensive training on massive datasets. However, relying solely on additional data for improvement is becoming increasingly impractical, highlighting the…

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Robust 3D representation learning forms the perceptual foundation of spatial intelligence, enabling downstream tasks in scene understanding and embodied AI. However, learning such representations directly from unposed multi-view images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Bo Zhou , Qiuxia Lai , Zeren Sun , Xiangbo Shu , Yazhou Yao , Wenguan Wang

Geometric spatial reasoning forms the foundation of many applications in artificial intelligence, yet the ability of large language models (LLMs) to operate over geometric spatial information expressed in procedural code remains…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Shixian Luo , Zezhou Zhu , Yu Yuan , Yuncheng Yang , Lianlei Shan , Yong Wu

While contemporary Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel at 2D visual understanding, they remain constrained by a passive, 2D-centric paradigm that severely limits genuine 3D spatial reasoning. To bridge this gap, we introduce Think3D, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Zaibin Zhang , Yuhan Wu , Lianjie Jia , Yifan Wang , Zhongbo Zhang , Yijiang Li , Binghao Ran , Fuxi Zhang , Zhuohan Sun , Zhenfei Yin , Lijun Wang , Huchuan Lu

Integrating open-vocabulary semantic information into dynamic 3D scene representations is essential for long-term embodied scene understanding. However, existing methods often suffer from fragile instance association due to incomplete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Luzhou Ge , Xiangyu Zhu , Jinyan Liu , Xuesong Li

A recent trend in vision-language models (VLMs) has been to enhance their spatial cognition for embodied domains. Despite progress, existing evaluations have been limited both in paradigm and in coverage, hindering rapid, iterative model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Yanpeng Zhao , Wentao Ding , Hongtao Li , Baoxiong Jia , Zilong Zheng

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision Language Models (VLMs) have shown impressive reasoning abilities, yet they struggle with spatial understanding and layout consistency when performing fine-grained visual editing. We introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Haoyu Zhen , Xiaolong Li , Yilin Zhao , Han Zhang , Sifei Liu , Kaichun Mo , Chuang Gan , Subhashree Radhakrishnan

Spatial representation learning is essential for GeoAI applications such as urban analytics, enabling the encoding of shapes, locations, and spatial relationships (topological and distance-based) of geo-entities like points, polylines, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Chen Chu , Cyrus Shahabi

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have opened new opportunities for embodied intelligence, enabling multimodal understanding, reasoning, and interaction, as well as continuous spatial decision-making. Nevertheless,…

Autonomous robotic systems require spatio-temporal understanding of dynamic environments to ensure reliable navigation and interaction. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) provide open-world semantic priors, they lack grounding in 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Tin Stribor Sohn , Maximilian Dillitzer , Jason J. Corso , Eric Sax

Outdoor intelligent autonomous robotic operation relies on a sufficiently expressive map of the environment. Classical geometric mapping methods retain essential structural environment information, but lack a semantic understanding and…