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Spatial intelligence is a critical frontier for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), empowering them to comprehend the physical world. Drawing inspiration from human perception mechanisms, prior studies attempt to construct a spatial…

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Visual spatial intelligence is critical for medical image interpretation, yet remains largely unexplored in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) for 3D imaging. This gap persists due to a systemic lack of datasets featuring structured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Quoc-Huy Trinh , Xi Ding , Yang Liu , Zhenyue Qin , Xingjian Li , Gorkem Durak , Halil Ertugrul Aktas , Elif Keles , Ulas Bagci , Min Xu

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved strong performance on perception-oriented tasks, yet their ability to perform mathematical spatial reasoning, defined as the capacity to parse and manipulate two- and three-dimensional…

Embodied intelligence fundamentally requires a capability to determine where to act in 3D space. We formalize this requirement as embodied localization -- the problem of predicting executable 3D points conditioned on visual observations and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Qiming Zhu , Zhirui Fang , Tianming Zhang , Chuanxiu Liu , Xiaoke Jiang , Lei Zhang

Visual Language Models (VLMs) have increasingly become the main paradigm for understanding indoor scenes, but they still struggle with metric and spatial reasoning. Current approaches rely on end-to-end video understanding or large-scale…

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Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable success in vision and visual-language tasks within the natural image domain. Owing to the significant diversities between the natural and remote sensing (RS) images, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Wei Zhang , Miaoxin Cai , Tong Zhang , Yin Zhuang , Xuerui Mao

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) excel at 2D visual understanding but remain limited in their ability to reason about 3D space. In this work, we leverage large-scale high-quality 3D scene data with open-set annotations to introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Erik Daxberger , Nina Wenzel , David Griffiths , Haiming Gang , Justin Lazarow , Gefen Kohavi , Kai Kang , Marcin Eichner , Yinfei Yang , Afshin Dehghan , Peter Grasch

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have achieved remarkable success across a wide range of multimodal tasks, yet their robustness to spatial variations remains insufficiently understood. In this work, we conduct a systematic study of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yingjie Zhu , Xuefeng Bai , Kehai Chen , Yang Xiang , Youcheng Pan , Yongshuai Hou , Weili Guan , Jun Yu , Min Zhang

Spatial reasoning, which requires ability to perceive and manipulate spatial relationships in the 3D world, is a fundamental aspect of human intelligence, yet remains a persistent challenge for Multimodal large language models (MLLMs).…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Weichen Liu , Qiyao Xue , Haoming Wang , Xiangyu Yin , Boyuan Yang , Wei Gao

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress but continue to struggle with geometric reasoning, primarily due to the perception bottleneck regarding fine-grained visual elements. While formal languages have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Peijie Wang , Ming-Liang Zhang , Jun Cao , Chao Deng , Dekang Ran , Hongda Sun , Pi Bu , Xuan Zhang , Yingyao Wang , Jun Song , Bo Zheng , Fei Yin , Cheng-Lin Liu

This paper introduces the concept of Microscopic Spatial Intelligence (MiSI), the capability to perceive and reason about the spatial relationships of invisible microscopic entities, which is fundamental to scientific discovery. To assess…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Zongzhao Li , Xiangzhe Kong , Jiahui Su , Zongyang Ma , Mingze Li , Songyou Li , Yuelin Zhang , Yu Rong , Tingyang Xu , Deli Zhao , Wenbing Huang

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in tasks such as code and mathematics. However, their potential to internalize structured spatial knowledge remains underexplored. This study investigates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Sirui Xia , Aili Chen , Xintao Wang , Tinghui Zhu , Yikai Zhang , Jiangjie Chen , Yanghua Xiao

The dominant majority of 3D models that appear in gaming, VR/AR, and those we use to train geometric deep learning algorithms are incomplete, since they are modeled as surface meshes and missing their interior structures. We present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Akshay Gadi Patil , Yiming Qian , Shan Yang , Brian Jackson , Eric Bennett , Hao Zhang

This study investigates the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) for reconstructing and constructing the physical world solely based on textual knowledge. It explores the impact of model performance on spatial understanding abilities.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Yongqiang Huang , Wentao Ye , Liyao Li , Junbo Zhao

This thesis introduces "Embodied Spatial Intelligence" to address the challenge of creating robots that can perceive and act in the real world based on natural language instructions. To bridge the gap between Large Language Models (LLMs)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jiading Fang

This paper addresses the high demand in advanced intelligent robot navigation for a more holistic understanding of spatial environments, by introducing a novel system that harnesses the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yao Cheng , Zhe Han , Fengyang Jiang , Huaizhen Wang , Fengyu Zhou , Qingshan Yin , Lei Wei

Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have significantly enhanced their capabilities; however, their spatial perception abilities remain a notable limitation. To address this challenge, multimodal data synthesis offers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yida Xue , Zhen Bi , Jinnan Yang , Jungang Lou , Kehai Chen , Min Zhang , Huajun Chen , Ningyu Zhang

Generating editable, parametric CAD models from a single image holds great potential to lower the barriers of industrial concept design. However, current multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) still struggle with accurately inferring 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yinghui Wang , Xinyu Zhang , Peng Du

Recent advancements in reinforcement learning (RL) have enhanced the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs), yet the impact on multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) is limited. Particularly in vision-intensive tasks like geometric reasoning,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Guizhen Chen , Weiwen Xu , Hao Zhang , Hou Pong Chan , Deli Zhao , Anh Tuan Luu , Yu Rong

Humans build viewpoint-independent cognitive maps through navigation, enabling intuitive reasoning about object permanence and spatial relations. We argue that multimodal large language models (MLLMs), despite extensive video training, lack…

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