arXiv AI
Aug 13

Advancing MLLM-based UAV Image Understanding and Reasoning: A Benchmark and a Training-Free Multi-Agent System

arXiv:2608. 11738v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM)-based UAV aerial image understanding and reasoning is essential for aerial intelligence yet poses distinct challenges arising from extreme scale variation, arbitrary camera orientations, and high object density.

By Haoyu Zhang, Shuoxun Zhang, Peng Ye, Lin Zhang, Jiakang Yuan, Shenghong Yi, Yuening Wang, Tao Chen
arXiv AI
Sep 10

Dual-Layer Semantic-Spatial Belief Mapping for Aerial Object Goal Navigation

The paper introduces AeroBelief, a dual‑layer semantic‑spatial belief mapping framework for aerial object goal navigation. It separates broad contextual plausibility (intuition layer) from target‑specific evidence (evidence layer) and fuses them into persistent spatial belief hotspots. The method also employs object‑conditioned visual reasoning and egocentric regional guidance, achieving state‑of‑the‑art success rates on the UAV‑ON benchmark.

By Jianqiang Xiao, Xiang Deng, Yuexuan Sun, Yanjin Wu, Wenbiao Yan, Liqiang Nie
arXiv Computer Vision
1d ago

Beyond Trial-and-Error: A Geospatial-Guided Active Reasoning Framework for Robust Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation

arXiv:2610.41446v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires UAVs to locate language-specified goals in large-scale urban environments, where objects often app...

By Jiawei Ge, Wenkang Gong, Jiuxin Cao, Bo Liu, Lei Cui, Haoran Wang, Xuelin Zhu, Biwei Cao, Chang Liu, Chen Feng, Ioannis Patras
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 2

Beyond Localization: A Comprehensive Benchmark of Perspective-Conditioned Spatial Reasoning in MLLMs from Omnidirectional Images

The paper introduces PCSR-Bench, a benchmark of 84,373 question‑answer pairs derived from 2,600 omnidirectional images across 26 indoor environments, designed to evaluate perspective‑conditioned spatial reasoning (PCSR) in multimodal large language models (MLLMs). It reports a significant perception–reasoning gap, with accuracy dropping from 57.59% on limited field‑of‑view reasoning to as low as 0.64% on open‑ended compositional directional chains. An RL‑based diagnostic study on a 7B‑scale model shows that reward shaping can improve performance to 60.06% on a controlled task, indicating partial plasticity of PCSR capabilities.

By Yuangong Chen, Wai Keung Wong, Jiaxing Li, Ioannis Patras, Xu Zheng