arXiv:2601. 11729v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Visual Foundation Models (VFMs), such as DINO and CLIP, excel in semantic understanding of images but exhibit limited spatial reasoning capabilities, which limits their applicability to embodied systems.
By Turhan Can Kargin, Wojciech Jasi\'nski, Adam Pardyl, Bartosz Zieli\'nski, Marcin Przewi\k{e}\'zlikowski
arXiv:2607. 21595v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite rapid progress, most existing vision-language models (VLMs) built from 2D visual inputs often struggle when handling various 3D tasks that require fine-grained spatial understanding and reasoning.
By Wenhao Li, Xueying Jiang, Quanhao Qian, Deli Zhao, Ran Xu, Shijian Lu, Gongjie Zhang
arXiv:2606. 17539v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spatial VLMs have made substantial progress in geometric perception, yet complex spatial reasoning requiring multi-step inference over depth, distance, and scene relations remains challenging.
By Yatai Ji, An-Chieh Cheng, Yang Fu, Yukang Chen, Han Zhang, Zhaojing Yang, Wei Huang, Ka Chun Cheung, Song Han, Vidya Nariyambut Murali, Pavlo Molchanov, Jan Kautz, Simon See, Hongxu Yin, Ping Luo, Sifei Liu
arXiv:2606. 05833v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel at 2D semantic understanding but lack intrinsic 3D awareness, resulting in representations that fail to maintain geometric and spatial consistency across video frames.
By Haibo Wang, Lifu Huang
arXiv:2605. 16713v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern Vision-Language Models (VLMs) achieve strong semantic recognition, yet remain brittle on elementary spatial relations such as left of, on, behind, and between.
By Renjie Gu, Kaichen Zhou, Yan Luo, Mengyu Wang
arXiv:2511. 07403v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in vision-language tasks, but continue to struggle with spatial reasoning.
By Hunar Batra, Haoqin Tu, Hardy Chen, Yuanze Lin, Cihang Xie, Ronald Clark
arXiv:2607. 00832v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A single panorama captures the full visual sphere from one camera center, yet confines users to looking around in place without enabling true scene exploration.
By Zhenjia Li, Jinrang Jia, Yifeng Shi
arXiv:2606. 27412v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 3D Scene Graph Generation (3DSGG) represents 3D scenes as structured object-relation-object graphs, providing a compact relational abstraction for spatial understanding.
By Jingjun Sun, Chaowei Wang, Zhirui Liu, Jiaxu Tian, Ming Yang, Yaoxing Wang, Shan Gao
arXiv:2608. 10932v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding camera motion is fundamental to video perception, with applications in spatial intelligence and controllable video generation.
By Dazhao Du, Shiyan Du, Jian Liu, Yongjian Yu, Bohai Gu, Tao Han, Hualuo Liu, Eric Liu, Yujia Zhang, Xi Chen, Song Guo
arXiv:2607. 06620v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) struggle to bridge the representational gap between 2D semantic understanding and 3D spatial geometry.
By Haida Feng, Hao Wei, Haolin Wang, Shiwei Li, Chade Li, Yihong Wu
arXiv:2606. 13673v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spatial reasoning, the ability to determine where objects are, how they relate, and how they move in 3D, remains a fundamental challenge for vision-language models (VLMs).
By Seokju Cho, Ryo Hachiuma, Abhishek Badki, Hang Su, Byung-Kwan Lee, Chan Hee Song, Sifei Liu, Subhashree Radhakrishnan, Seungryong Kim, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang, Min-Hung Chen
arXiv:2608. 01899v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) perform well on commonsense reasoning tasks but struggle with visual spatial reasoning.
By Jing Wu, Jianhua Wu, Jiayi Guan, Jiahong Chen, Jinghui Lu, Hangjun Ye, Bingzhao Gao, Long Chen