arXiv Machine Learning

SparseTalk - Sparsifying 3D Gaussian Language Fields for Efficient 3D Visual Question Answering

arXiv AI
Aug 25

ExtrinSplat: Decoupling Geometry and Semantics for Open-Vocabulary Understanding in 3D Gaussian Splatting

ExtrinSplat is a new framework that separates geometry from semantics in 3D Gaussian Splatting scenes. It clusters Gaussians into overlapping 3D object groups and uses a Vision‑Language Model to generate lightweight textual hypotheses, creating an extrinsic index layer that handles complex polysemy. This approach reduces adaptation time from hours to minutes, cuts storage overhead by orders of magnitude, and outperforms existing embedding‑based methods on open‑vocabulary 3D object selection and semantic segmentation benchmarks.

By Jiayu Ding, Xinpeng Liu, Zhiyi Pan, Shiqiang Long, Ge Li
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 30

MonoVoc: Decoupling Geometry and Semantics for Lightweight Monocular Open-Vocabulary 3D Gaussians

Open vocabulary 3D scene understanding is essential for next-generation interactive systems, empowering users to intuitively query and navigate reconstructed environments using natural language. However, current 3D Gaussian frameworks are often bottlenecked by restrictive multiview capture requirements, costly scene-specific optimization, and the massive memory overhead of storing dense language features.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 27

MAViE: A Multi-scale Adaptive Vision Encoder for Fine-grained Visual Perception and Efficient Multimodal Reasoning

Vision-language models commonly project all tokens produced by a pretrained vision encoder into a large language model. However, final-layer features can discard text, local attributes, and spatial relationships, while high-resolution inputs substantially increase context length and inference latency.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 5

HiSC: Hierarchical Spatial Clustering Token Compression for Efficient 3D Scene Understanding

3D vision-language models (3D VLMs) enable spatial reasoning over multi-view scenes but suffer from substantial token redundancy due to duplicated observations and large uninformative regions, leading to high computational cost. Although visual token compression has shown promise in accelerating 2D VLMs, it fails to capture the structured nature of 3D scenes and leads to incomplete spatial coverage and loss of fine-grained details.

arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 27

GaussVLA: Geometry-Aware Spatial Reasoning for Vision-Language-Action Model

GaussVLA is a Vision‑Language‑Action model that enhances spatial reasoning by converting flat 2D visual tokens into compact 3D Gaussian tokens using a Gaussian Spatial Tokenizer. It further employs a Depth‑Aware Chain‑of‑Thought module to perform structured, non‑autoregressive geometric reasoning conditioned on language and flow‑time. In both simulated and real‑world tests, GaussVLA achieves high spatial‑manipulation success rates—93.5% on LIBERO and 100% on the Spatial suite—while using only 200 M parameters, outperforming SpatialVLA by 19.7% relative success.

By Md Selim Sarowar, Md Tanvir Islam, Sungho Kim, Sangtae Ahn