GeoRefer-Bench is a new benchmark for verifiable geospatial referring segmentation that evaluates whether models correctly resolve spatial relations in overhead imagery. Each query is expressed as an executable logical form over a metric scene graph, and predictions are scored with Exact Query Success (EQS), requiring an exact match to the query’s referent set. The dataset contains 700 UAV scenes, 26,217 instances, 142,796 spatial relations, 20,916 executable queries across five reasoning levels, and additional paraphrases, unanswerable queries, counterfactual pairs, and leakage‑controlled splits.
By Shuaishuai Cao, Min Huang, Meng Tang, Xuan Liu, Youjin Wang, Hui Lin
arXiv:2608.20659v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Methods that transfer predictions from two-dimensional foundation models into three-dimensional segmentation are commonly grouped by task or representa...
By Wentao Sun, Yiping Chen, John S. Zelek, Jonathan Li
arXiv:2609.36906v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reliable embodied decisions under partial observability require informative observations and sufficient supporting evidence. However, semantic scores a...
By Sean Hardesty Lewis, Zuyi Guo, Benwang Chen, Zirui Liu, Hongyi Lin, Heye Huang
AOV-GS is an active 3D Gaussian mapping system that uses frozen foundation models (SAM and CLIP) to guide exploration toward semantically informative regions. During coarse exploration, it re‑ranks geometrically promising views based on CLIP mask‑embedding novelty from SAM instance segmentation, biasing the robot’s trajectory. The system fits a lightweight scene‑specific language field offline to the collected CLIP embeddings, enabling open‑vocabulary text‑query segmentation on novel views and improving language‑field mIoU by 1.3–1.8 percentage points over geometry‑only planning on Replica and Matterport3D.
By Rodion Shkokov, Tatiana Zemskova, Dmitry Yudin
arXiv:2611.06020v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: A 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) reconstruction inherits arbitrary units from structure-from-motion, so it cannot be measured or used to place AR content...
By Sooyeun Yang, Jongseong Brad Choi
arXiv:2607. 07737v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: GNSS-denied unmanned aerial vehicles require occasional absolute position fixes to bound the drift of visual-inertial odometry.
By Natalia Trukhina, Vadim Vashkelis