arXiv:2601. 22054v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Scaling has powered recent advances in vision foundation models, yet extending this paradigm to metric depth estimation remains challenging due to heterogeneous sensor noise, camera-dependent biases, and metric ambiguity in noisy cross-source 3D data.
By Baorui Ma, Jiahui Yang, Donglin Di, Xuancheng Zhang, Jianxun Cui, Hao Li, Yan Xie, Wei Chen
Metric-Bench introduces a new benchmark for Vision‑Language Models (VLMs) that focuses on metric‑spatial reasoning in indoor scenes by using in‑image reference objects with known dimensions. The accompanying MetricReasoner fine‑tuning recipe employs structured prompts and numerical rewards to implicitly learn 2D‑to‑3D mapping without camera intrinsics. Experiments show that this approach improves spatial metric understanding by 43.1 % over existing models and boosts downstream embodied tasks, while also delivering gains on general VLM benchmarks.
By Yuling Xi, Haokai Zhang, Muzhi Zhu, Hao Zhong, Zongze Du, Hengyu Zhao, Chenchen Jing, Yufei Yin, Bin Qin, Yongjie Yang, Zhenbo Luo, Hao Chen, Chunhua Shen
arXiv:2607.10744v5 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Benefiting from the powerful priors embedded in large-scale pre-training data and the emerging commonsense reasoning ability, large language models...
By Changfei Fu, Guangcheng Chen, Aoxiang Gu, Haoxiang Liang, Wenjun Xu, Hong Zhang
arXiv:2606.22694v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) remain unreliable when spatial reasoning requires composing relations whose meanings depend on frames of reference. E...
By Danial Kamali, Tanawan Premsri, Shreya Rajpal, Amir Zadeh, Chuan Li, Parisa Kordjamshidi
arXiv:2609.16233v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Vision-language models excel at 2D image understanding but remain limited in 3D spatial reasoning. Progress is hindered by limitations in current ben...
By Anubhav Khanal, Prabigya Acharya, Roshni Poudel, Sujan Kapali, Bigyan Bhatta, Pramish Paudel, Francois Rameau, Danda Pani Paudel
MV-STRIDE is a Multi‑View hierarchical Spatial Reasoning dataset that models dependencies among perception, scene understanding, and contextual reasoning to support 3D spatial cognition. It introduces a QA generation pipeline that enforces cross‑view constraints, producing multi‑level reasoning tasks with chain‑of‑thought supervision. Experiments show that training on MV‑STRIDE yields state‑of‑the‑art performance on multi‑view spatial benchmarks, enabling MLLMs to reason robustly across diverse viewpoints.
By Jin Xu, Xiaojian Huang, Zhuodong Luo, Zhihong Zhang, Xin Liu, Jiansheng Wei, Xinzhi Wang, Jie Zhao, Xuejin Chen
Vision-language models excel at 2D image understanding but remain limited in 3D spatial reasoning. Progress is hindered by limitations in current benchmarks. First, 3D datasets often rely on point clo...
GraFT is a training‑free framework that enhances spatial reasoning in multimodal large language models by integrating a compact 3D scene graph (3DSG). It offers deterministic geometry via symbolic tools, allocentric layout through bird’s‑eye‑view rendering, and visual‑attribute grounding using egocentric frames. Experiments on ScanQA and VSI‑Bench show significant performance gains, with CIDEr increasing by 27% and improvements up to 65% over baseline models.
By Junqing Du, Fernando Ropero, Erkin Turkoz, Yanfeng Zhang, Lu Liu
arXiv:2609.38177v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Reasoning about the 3D world from multi-view images remains a fundamental challenge for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). While modern MLLMs...
By Jaewoo Jung, Hyeonseo Yu, Honggyu An, Jisang Han, Mungyeom Kim, Minkyeong Jeon, Heeseong Shin, Wonjun Moon, Federico Tombari, Daniel Barath, Marc Pollefeys, Seungryong Kim, Sunghwan Hong
As Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are increasingly deployed in decision-critical pipelines such as robotics, embodied AI, and safety monitoring, the opacity of their spatial judgments limits operator trust and auditability. MLLMs demonstrate strong reasoning but often struggle with fine-grained spatial understanding and object hallucination.
arXiv:2608.30451v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Image-based 3D visual grounding is critical for embodied agents, yet existing benchmarks suffer from loose text-observation alignment and neglect tempo...
By Yi Zhang, Yi Wang, Yueting Wu, Kaiyue Yang, Yuejiao Su, Lap-Pui Chau
arXiv:2607. 00889v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present DeWorldSG, a novel framework that generates spatio-temporally robust 3D Semantic Scene Graphs from RGB-D sequences.
By Seok-Young Kim, Abdelrahman Elskhawy, Taewook Ha, Dooyoung Kim, Eunjae Shin, Benjamin Busam, Woontack Woo