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3D scene understanding has gained significant attention due to its wide range of applications. However, existing methods for 3D scene understanding are limited to specific downstream tasks, which hinders their practicality in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Zehan Wang , Haifeng Huang , Yang Zhao , Ziang Zhang , Zhou Zhao

Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong performance in 2D scene understanding and generation, but extending this unification to the physical world remains an open challenge. Existing 3D and 4D approaches typically embed scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Hanyu Zhou , Gim Hee Lee

Multi-modal 3D object understanding has gained significant attention, yet current approaches often assume complete data availability and rigid alignment across all modalities. We present CrossOver, a novel framework for cross-modal 3D scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Sayan Deb Sarkar , Ondrej Miksik , Marc Pollefeys , Daniel Barath , Iro Armeni

Learning predictive models from high-dimensional sensory observations is fundamental for cyber-physical systems, yet the latent representations learned by standard world models lack physical interpretability. This limits their reliability,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Zhenjiang Mao , Mrinall Eashaan Umasudhan , Ivan Ruchkin

Scene understanding plays a critical role in enabling intelligence and autonomy in robotic systems. Traditional approaches often face challenges, including occlusions, ambiguous boundaries, and the inability to adapt attention based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Guodong Sun , Junjie Liu , Gaoyang Zhang , Bo Wu , Yang Zhang

Understanding 3D scenes from a single image is fundamental to a wide variety of tasks, such as for robotics, motion planning, or augmented reality. Existing works in 3D perception from a single RGB image tend to focus on geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Manuel Dahnert , Ji Hou , Matthias Nießner , Angela Dai

We propose a novel task of text-controlled human object interaction generation in 3D scenes with movable objects. Existing human-scene interaction datasets suffer from insufficient interaction categories and typically only consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Xinhao Cai , Minghang Zheng , Xin Jin , Yang Liu

World models have become central to autonomous driving, where accurate scene understanding and future prediction are crucial for safe control. Recent work has explored using vision-language models (VLMs) for planning, yet existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zhexiao Xiong , Xin Ye , Burhan Yaman , Sheng Cheng , Yiren Lu , Jingru Luo , Nathan Jacobs , Liu Ren

Comprehensive visual, geometric, and semantic understanding of a 3D scene is crucial for successful execution of robotic tasks, especially in unstructured and complex environments. Additionally, to make robust decisions, it is necessary for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Christian Maurer , Snehal Jauhri , Sophie Lueth , Georgia Chalvatzaki

Embodied action planning is a core challenge in robotics, requiring models to generate precise actions from visual observations and language instructions. While video generation world models are promising, their reliance on pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Yangcheng Yu , Xin Jin , Yu Shang , Xin Zhang , Haisheng Su , Wei Wu , Yong Li

Existing methods for reconstructing objects and humans from a monocular image suffer from severe mesh collisions and performance limitations for interacting occluding objects. This paper introduces a method to obtain a globally consistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Sarthak Batra , Partha P. Chakrabarti , Simon Hadfield , Armin Mustafa

General scene understanding for robotics requires flexible semantic representation, so that novel objects and structures which may not have been known at training time can be identified, segmented and grouped. We present an algorithm which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Kirill Mazur , Edgar Sucar , Andrew J. Davison

Humans have a strong intuitive understanding of the 3D environment around us. The mental model of the physics in our brain applies to objects of different materials and enables us to perform a wide range of manipulation tasks that are far…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Yunzhu Li , Shuang Li , Vincent Sitzmann , Pulkit Agrawal , Antonio Torralba

We introduce the first approach to solve the challenging problem of unsupervised 4D visual scene understanding for complex dynamic scenes with multiple interacting people from multi-view video. Our approach simultaneously estimates a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Armin Mustafa , Chris Russell , Adrian Hilton

While deep learning methods have achieved impressive success in many vision benchmarks, it remains difficult to understand and explain the representations and decisions of these models. Though vision models are typically trained on 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Benjamin Beilharz , Thomas S. A. Wallis

Constructing compact and informative 3D scene representations is essential for effective embodied exploration and reasoning, especially in complex environments over extended periods. Existing representations, such as object-centric 3D scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Yuncong Yang , Han Yang , Jiachen Zhou , Peihao Chen , Hongxin Zhang , Yilun Du , Chuang Gan

Holistic 3D human-scene reconstruction is a crucial and emerging research area in robot perception. A key challenge in holistic 3D human-scene reconstruction is to generate a physically plausible 3D scene from a single monocular RGB image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Sandika Biswas , Kejie Li , Biplab Banerjee , Subhasis Chaudhuri , Hamid Rezatofighi

Generating 3D scenes from human motion sequences supports numerous applications, including virtual reality and architectural design. However, previous auto-regression-based human-aware 3D scene generation methods have struggled to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Xiaolin Hong , Hongwei Yi , Fazhi He , Qiong Cao

Training robot policies within a learned world model is trending due to the inefficiency of real-world interactions. The established image-based world models and policies have shown prior success, but lack robust geometric information that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Guanxing Lu , Baoxiong Jia , Puhao Li , Yixin Chen , Ziwei Wang , Yansong Tang , Siyuan Huang

This paper addresses the challenge of training a single network to jointly perform multiple dense prediction tasks, such as segmentation and depth estimation, i.e., multi-task learning (MTL). Current approaches mainly capture cross-task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Xiaoye Wang , Chen Tang , Xiangyu Yue , Wei-Hong Li