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Empowered by large-scale training, vision-language models (VLMs) achieve strong image and video understanding, yet their ability to perform spatial reasoning in both static scenes and dynamic videos remains limited. Recent advances try to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Shihua Zhang , Qiuhong Shen , Shizun Wang , Tianbo Pan , Xinchao Wang

Aiming to link natural language descriptions to specific regions in a 3D scene represented as 3D point clouds, 3D visual grounding is a very fundamental task for human-robot interaction. The recognition errors can significantly impact the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Ziyang Lu , Yunqiang Pei , Guoqing Wang , Yang Yang , Zheng Wang , Heng Tao Shen

The superior performances of pre-trained foundation models in various visual tasks underscore their potential to enhance the 2D models' open-vocabulary ability. Existing methods explore analogous applications in the 3D space. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Dongmei Zhang , Chang Li , Ray Zhang , Shenghao Xie , Wei Xue , Xiaodong Xie , Shanghang Zhang

3D scene understanding spans reasoning about free space, object grounding, hypothetical object insertions, complex geometric relationships, and integrating all of these with external tools and data sources. Existing 3D understanding methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Sagar Bharadwaj , Ziyong Ma , Anurag Ghosh , Srinivasan Seshan , Anthony Rowe

Segment matching is an important intermediate task in computer vision that establishes correspondences between semantically or geometrically coherent regions across images. Unlike keypoint matching, which focuses on localized features,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Rohit Jayanti , Swayam Agrawal , Vansh Garg , Siddharth Tourani , Muhammad Haris Khan , Sourav Garg , Madhava Krishna

Depth estimation is a core problem in robotic perception and vision tasks, but 3D reconstruction from a single image presents inherent uncertainties. Current depth estimation models primarily rely on inter-image relationships for supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jinchang Zhang , Guoyu Lu

Although Multimodal Large Language Models have achieved remarkable progress, they still struggle with complex 3D spatial reasoning due to the reliance on 2D visual priors. Existing approaches typically mitigate this limitation either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Jiahua Chen , Qihong Tang , Weinong Wang , Qi Fan

Visual-spatial understanding, the ability to infer object relationships and layouts from visual input, is fundamental to downstream tasks such as robotic navigation and embodied interaction. However, existing methods face spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Haoyu Zhang , Meng Liu , Zaijing Li , Haokun Wen , Weili Guan , Yaowei Wang , Liqiang Nie

Understanding 3D scenes from multi-view inputs has been proven to alleviate the view discrepancy issue in 3D visual grounding. However, existing methods normally neglect the view cues embedded in the text modality and fail to weigh the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Zoey Guo , Yiwen Tang , Ray Zhang , Dong Wang , Zhigang Wang , Bin Zhao , Xuelong Li

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

Grounding natural language in 3D environments is a critical step toward achieving robust 3D vision-language alignment. Current datasets and models for 3D visual grounding predominantly focus on identifying and localizing objects from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Zhuofan Zhang , Ziyu Zhu , Junhao Li , Pengxiang Li , Tianxu Wang , Tengyu Liu , Xiaojian Ma , Yixin Chen , Baoxiong Jia , Siyuan Huang , Qing Li

Learning to ground natural language queries to target objects or regions in 3D point clouds is quite essential for 3D scene understanding. Nevertheless, existing 3D visual grounding approaches require a substantial number of bounding box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Xiaoxu Xu , Yitian Yuan , Qiudan Zhang , Wenhui Wu , Zequn Jie , Lin Ma , Xu Wang

Spatial reasoning poses a particular challenge for intelligent agents and is at the same time a prerequisite for their successful interaction and communication in the physical world. One such reasoning task is to describe the position of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Kyra Ahrens , Matthias Kerzel , Jae Hee Lee , Cornelius Weber , Stefan Wermter

3D semantic occupancy prediction is a cornerstone for embodied AI, enabling agents to perceive dense scene geometry and semantics incrementally from monocular video streams. However, current online frameworks face two critical bottlenecks:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yiran Guo , Simone Mentasti , Xiaofeng Jin , Matteo Frosi , Matteo Matteucci

We present SpatialMem, a memory-centric system for long-horizon, language-grounded retrieval and QA from egocentric video, where metric 3D serves as an interpretable indexing scaffold rather than an explicit mapping objective. Starting from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Xinyi Zheng , Yunze Liu , Chi-Hao Wu , Fan Zhang , Hao Zheng , Wenqi Zhou , Walterio W. Mayol-Cuevas , Junxiao Shen

Zero-shot 3D Visual Grounding (3DVG) is a critical capability for open-world embodied AI. However, existing methods are fundamentally bottlenecked by the poor quality of open-vocabulary 3D proposals, suffering from inaccurate categories and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Yufei Yin , Jie Zheng , Qianke Meng , Zhou Yu , Minghao Chen , Jiajun Ding , Min Tan , Yuling Xi , Zhiwen Chen , Chengfei Lv

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

Multimodal 3D grounding has garnered considerable interest in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) \cite{yin2025spatial} for advancing spatial reasoning in complex environments. However, these models suffer from a severe "2D semantic bias" that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yutong Zhong

Spatial Reasoning is an important component of human cognition and is an area in which the latest Vision-language models (VLMs) show signs of difficulty. The current analysis works use image captioning tasks and visual question answering.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Akshar Tumu , Parisa Kordjamshidi

Open-set perception in complex traffic environments poses a critical challenge for autonomous driving systems, particularly in identifying previously unseen object categories, which is vital for ensuring safety. Visual Language Models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Fuhao Chang , Shuxin Li , Yabei Li , Lei He