arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 18

SenseFuse: Label-Free Fusion of Image and Shape Encoders for Open-Vocabulary 3D Instance Segmentation

SenseFuse introduces a label‑free fusion approach that balances 2D image and 3D shape encoders for open‑vocabulary 3D instance segmentation. By selecting a scene‑level fusion weight through an adaptive, sensitivity‑based mechanism, it improves mask labeling accuracy across multiple datasets, recovering up to 93% of the potential gain from an oracle weight. The method demonstrates that image and shape encoders have complementary failure patterns, leading to higher instance AP in most evaluated settings.

By Euiseok Han, Tri Ton, Hwanhee Kim, Seungyeon Ryu, Chang D. Yoo
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 24

VLMs Can Describe, But Not Measure: Object-Centric Scene Understanding for Robotic Manipulation

The paper introduces a modular perception framework that uses vision‑language models (VLMs) to annotate object‑level regions from a single RGB‑D observation, then grounds these annotations with depth data to build an object‑centric representation. Experiments on 151 tabletop scenes demonstrate that this decomposition maintains strong semantic performance while significantly improving localization and depth estimation compared to direct VLM inference. The resulting representation is integrated into a task‑planning system for robotic manipulation.

By Enrico Saccon, Tommaso Faraci, I\~{n}igo De La Ossa Zarzuelo, Luigi Palopoli, Marco Roveri, Matteo Saveriano