GROW$^2$: Grounding Which and Where for Robot Tool Use
arXiv:2606. 30632v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Can the robot use a plate to cut a cake if no knife is available?
arXiv:2606. 30632v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Can the robot use a plate to cut a cake if no knife is available?
arXiv:2512. 23020v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: 3D visual grounding aims to locate objects based on natural language descriptions in 3D scenes.
arXiv:2608.20720v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-world 3D affordance grounding requires localizing functional object parts in 3D given free-form language queries. Existing methods typically assum...
AnchorVLN is an open‑vocabulary vision‑language navigation system that separates semantic proposals from geometric metrics. It uses a VLM to generate semantics while a geometry module supplies reliable metric quantities such as range and bearing, all within a Model Context Protocol server. The system achieves 64.4% on instruction following and improves object‑reference accuracy, reducing median center error from 3.37 m to 2.48 m.
The paper introduces OpenRef, a benchmark for Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) designed for open‑world scenarios. OpenRef expands beyond simple settings by including diverse visual domains, variable target counts (multi‑target and none‑target), and a rich vocabulary with proper nouns, polysemous words, and ordinal terms. It also proposes new evaluation metrics—F1 for grounding accuracy and N3R for negative expression rejection—and presents a training‑free Multi‑task Consistency Checker (MCC) that improves model performance with a single click.
arXiv:2605. 20306v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce WildRoadBench, a wild aerial road-damage grounding benchmark that couples direct visual grounding by vision-language models with autonomous research-and-engineering by LLM-driven agents on a single professionally annotated UAV corpus.
arXiv:2609.18058v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Finding the object referred to by language in a partially observed 3D scene is a core capability for embodied agents. Existing approaches either couple...
GroundingPI is a 4‑billion‑parameter grounding foundation model that generates points and boxes as quantized coordinates in a shared vocabulary. It is trained with multimodal and spatial pretraining, supervised fine‑tuning, and reinforcement learning, achieving a new state‑of‑the‑art average of 73.68% across 34 grounding benchmarks. As a visual backbone, GroundingPI improves performance in robotic manipulation and autonomous driving, outperforming larger models and mainstream backbones in several out‑of‑distribution settings.
arXiv:2510. 01483v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) demonstrate strong image-level scene understanding, but reasoning over long egocentric video remains costly: because VLMs maintain no persistent memory or explicit spatial representation, all sampled frames must be re-processed for every new query.
arXiv:2605.03927v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-language models have demonstrated strong performance across robotic perception and instruction-following tasks. However, they still struggle...
TempoGround is a vision‑language model–native framework for streaming visual grounding that detects cross‑frame object correspondence and explicitly models object presence states. It uses a curriculum prediction mechanism to resolve 2D instance association, predict object entry, continuation, or exit, decode 2D boxes, and lift them to 3D camera‑frame boxes. The approach is further refined with Streaming Grounding Reinforcement, which optimizes grounding, identity, and consistency rewards, and achieves significant improvements on multiple streaming visual grounding benchmarks.
arXiv:2603.28301v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models achieve strong performance in robotic manipulation by leveraging pre-trained vision-language backbones. However...