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In this work, we focus on the problem of grounding language by training an agent to follow a set of natural language instructions and navigate to a target object in an environment. The agent receives visual information through raw pixels…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Akilesh B , Abhishek Sinha , Mausoom Sarkar , Balaji Krishnamurthy

Vision--language models reliably name objects in a scene, but do they represent the 3D layout those objects inhabit? We introduce a 3,034-sample human-curated benchmark targeting three components of spatial understanding: depth-ordered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Animesh Maheshwari , Divyansh Sahu , Nishit Verma

Despite recent advances in multimodal content generation enabled by vision-language models (VLMs), their ability to reason about and generate structured 3D scenes remains largely underexplored. This limitation constrains their utility in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Xinhang Liu , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

We introduce Groma, a Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) with grounded and fine-grained visual perception ability. Beyond holistic image understanding, Groma is adept at region-level tasks such as region captioning and visual grounding.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Chuofan Ma , Yi Jiang , Jiannan Wu , Zehuan Yuan , Xiaojuan Qi

Recent advancements in 3D robotic manipulation have improved grasping of everyday objects, but transparent and specular materials remain challenging due to depth sensing limitations. While several 3D reconstruction and depth completion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Mingxu Zhang , Xiaoqi Li , Jiahui Xu , Kaichen Zhou , Hojin Bae , Yan Shen , Chuyan Xiong , Hao Dong

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 2025-11-11 Akshar Tumu , Varad Shinde , Parisa Kordjamshidi

We integrate two powerful ideas, geometry and deep visual representation learning, into recurrent network architectures for mobile visual scene understanding. The proposed networks learn to "lift" and integrate 2D visual features over time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Hsiao-Yu Fish Tung , Ricson Cheng , Katerina Fragkiadaki

Current Large Language Models have achieved Olympiad-level logic, yet Vision-Language Models paradoxically falter on elementary spatial tasks like block counting. This capability mismatch reveals a critical ``spatial intelligence gap,''…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Shaoxiong Zhan , Yanlin Lai , Zheng Liu , Hai Lin , Shen Li , Xiaodong Cai , Zijian Lin , Wen Huang , Hai-Tao Zheng

Large language models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have been proven to excel at multiple tasks, such as commonsense reasoning. Powerful as these models can be, they are not grounded in the 3D physical world, which involves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Yining Hong , Haoyu Zhen , Peihao Chen , Shuhong Zheng , Yilun Du , Zhenfang Chen , Chuang Gan

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

In this paper, we introduce a new task: Zero-Shot 3D Reasoning Segmentation for parts searching and localization for objects, which is a new paradigm to 3D segmentation that transcends limitations for previous category-specific 3D semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Tianrun Chen , Chunan Yu , Jing Li , Jianqi Zhang , Lanyun Zhu , Deyi Ji , Yong Zhang , Ying Zang , Zejian Li , Lingyun Sun

We introduce GSU, a text-only grid dataset to evaluate the spatial reasoning capabilities of LLMs over 3 core tasks: navigation, object localization, and structure composition. By forgoing visual inputs, isolating spatial reasoning from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Risham Sidhu , Julia Hockenmaier

Grounding 3D object affordance is a task that locates objects in 3D space where they can be manipulated, which links perception and action for embodied intelligence. For example, for an intelligent robot, it is necessary to accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 He Zhu , Quyu Kong , Kechun Xu , Xunlong Xia , Bing Deng , Jieping Ye , Rong Xiong , Yue Wang

We present a visually-grounded language understanding model based on a study of how people verbally describe objects in scenes. The emphasis of the model is on the combination of individual word meanings to produce meanings for complex…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-07-04 P. Gorniak , D. Roy

Temporal sentence grounding aims to localize a target segment in an untrimmed video semantically according to a given sentence query. Most previous works focus on learning frame-level features of each whole frame in the entire video, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Daizong Liu , Xiang Fang , Wei Hu , Pan Zhou

3D vision-language (VL) reasoning has gained significant attention due to its potential to bridge the 3D physical world with natural language descriptions. Existing approaches typically follow task-specific, highly specialized paradigms.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Hao Liu , Yanni Ma , Yan Liu , Haihong Xiao , Ying He

Generating a coherent 3D scene representation from multi-view images is a fundamental yet challenging task. Existing methods often struggle with multi-view fusion, leading to fragmented 3D representations and sub-optimal performance. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Junho Kim , Seongwon Lee

The significance of cross-view 3D geometric modeling capabilities for autonomous driving is self-evident, yet existing Vision-Language Models (VLMs) inherently lack this capability, resulting in their mediocre performance. While some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Jie Wang , Guang Li , Zhijian Huang , Chenxu Dang , Hangjun Ye , Yahong Han , Long Chen

Low-cost autonomous agents including autonomous driving vehicles chiefly adopt monocular 3D object detection to perceive surrounding environment. This paper studies 3D intermediate representation methods which generate intermediate 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Qian Ye , Ling Jiang , Wang Zhen , Yuyang Du

Single-image-to-3D generative models can now produce high-quality geometry, yet conditioning on a single view inevitably introduces ambiguity about unseen regions. Multi-view conditioning can reduce this ambiguity, but existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Hanxiao Sun , Mingxin Yang , Shuhui Yang , Zebin He , Xintong Han , Hongbo Fu , Chunchao Guo , Wenhan Luo