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Effective embodied exploration requires agents to accumulate and retain spatial knowledge over time. However, existing scene representations, such as discrete scene graphs or static view-based snapshots, lack \textit{post-hoc…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yiren Lu , Yi Du , Disheng Liu , Yunlai Zhou , Chen Wang , Yu Yin

Egocentric video understanding is inherently complex due to the dynamic 4D nature of the environment, where camera motion and object displacements necessitate a continuous re-evaluation of spatial relations. In this work, we target a suite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Fangrui Zhu , Yunfeng Xi , Jianmo Ni , Mu Cai , Boqing Gong , Long Zhao , Chen Qu , Ian Miao , Yi Li , Cheng Zhong , Huaizu Jiang , Shwetak Patel

World model-based policy evaluation is a practical proxy for testing real-world robot control by rolling out candidate actions in action-conditioned video diffusion models. As these models increasingly adopt latent diffusion modeling (LDM),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Nilaksh , Saurav Jha , Artem Zholus , Sarath Chandar

Generative models have achieved success in producing semantically plausible 2D images, but it remains challenging in 3D generation due to the absence of spatial geometry constraints. Typically, existing methods utilize geometric features as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Haonan Wang , Hanyu Zhou , Haoyue Liu , Tao Gu , Luxin Yan

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

3D Visual Grounding (3DVG) aims to localize target objects within a 3D scene based on natural language queries. To alleviate the reliance on costly 3D training data, recent studies have explored zero-shot 3DVG by leveraging the extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Zhao Jin , Rong-Cheng Tu , Jingyi Liao , Wenhao Sun , Xiao Luo , Shunyu Liu , Dacheng Tao

Modern extended reality XR systems provide rich analysis of image data and fusion of sensor input and demand AR/VR applications that can reason about 3D scenes in a semantic manner. We present a spatial reasoning framework that bridges…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Steven Häsler , Philipp Ackermann

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in vision-language tasks, but they continue to struggle with spatial understanding. Existing spatial MLLMs often rely on explicit 3D inputs or architecture-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hunar Batra , Haoqin Tu , Hardy Chen , Yuanze Lin , Cihang Xie , Ronald Clark

Current evaluations of spatial intelligence can be systematically invalid under modern vision-language model (VLM) settings. First, many benchmarks derive question-answer (QA) pairs from point-cloud-based 3D annotations originally curated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yiming Zhang , Jiacheng Chen , Jiaqi Tan , Yongsen Mao , Wenhu Chen , Angel X. Chang

Multimodal intelligence development recently show strong progress in visual understanding and high level reasoning. Though, most reasoning system still reply on textual information as the main medium for inference. This limit their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Soham Pahari , M. Srinivas

3D scene modeling techniques serve as the bedrocks in the geospatial engineering and computer science, which drives many applications ranging from automated driving, terrain mapping, navigation, virtual, augmented, mixed, and extended…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Shuang Song

Spatial understanding remains a weakness of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs). Existing supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and recent reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) pipelines depend on costly supervision, specialized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Yuhong Liu , Beichen Zhang , Yuhang Zang , Yuhang Cao , Long Xing , Xiaoyi Dong , Haodong Duan , Dahua Lin , Jiaqi Wang

Video spatial reasoning requires accumulating viewpoint-dependent evidence over time while retaining information useful to the question being asked. Existing spatial video-language models improve geometric perception and long-range context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Xianqiang Gao , Qizhi Chen , Delin Qu , Haoming Song , Zhigang Wang , Bin Zhao , Dong Wang , Xuelong Li

Recent advances in 3D scene-language understanding have leveraged Large Language Models (LLMs) for 3D reasoning by transferring their general reasoning ability to 3D multi-modal contexts. However, existing methods typically adopt standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yerim Jeon , Miso Lee , WonJun Moon , Jae-Pil Heo

Large Language Models (LLMs) have undergone rapid progress, largely attributed to reinforcement learning on complex reasoning tasks. In contrast, while spatial intelligence is fundamental for Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Zijian Song , Xiaoxin Lin , Qiuming Huang , Sihan Qin , Guangrun Wang , Liang Lin

3D semantic scene understanding is a fundamental challenge in computer vision. It enables mobile agents to autonomously plan and navigate arbitrary environments. SSC formalizes this challenge as jointly estimating dense geometry and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Adrian Hayler , Felix Wimbauer , Dominik Muhle , Christian Rupprecht , Daniel Cremers

Scalable general-purpose representations of the built environment are crucial for geospatial artificial intelligence applications. This paper introduces S2Vec, a novel self-supervised framework for learning such geospatial embeddings. S2Vec…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Shushman Choudhury , Elad Aharoni , Chandrakumari Suvarna , Iveel Tsogsuren , Abdul Rahman Kreidieh , Chun-Ta Lu , Neha Arora

Most deep learning approaches to comprehensive semantic modeling of 3D indoor spaces require costly dense annotations in the 3D domain. In this work, we explore a central 3D scene modeling task, namely, semantic scene reconstruction without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Junwen Huang , Alexey Artemov , Yujin Chen , Shuaifeng Zhi , Kai Xu , Matthias Nießner

Large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across a wide range of tasks and domains. Despite this promise, spatial understanding and reasoning -- a fundamental component of human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Jiayu Wang , Yifei Ming , Zhenmei Shi , Vibhav Vineet , Xin Wang , Yixuan Li , Neel Joshi

Executing complex manipulation in cluttered environments requires satisfying coupled geometric and temporal constraints. Although Spatio-Temporal Logic (SpaTiaL) offers a principled specification framework, its use in gradient-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Licheng Luo , Kaier Liang , Cristian-Ioan Vasile , Mingyu Cai