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ARXIV:2603.18002 · VISION-LANGUAGE MODELS · SUBMITTED 02 APR · 02:30 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2603.18002VISION-LANGUAGE MODELSSUBMITTED 02 APR · 02:30 UTCFRESHNESS STALEKevin Qu · Haozhe Qi · Mihai Dusmanu · Mahdi Rad · Rui Wang · Marc Pollefeys · arXiv
Loc3R-VLM enhances Vision-Language Models with advanced 3D understanding for improved spatial reasoning.
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Loc3R-VLM enhances Vision-Language Models with advanced 3D understanding for improved spatial reasoning. Recent efforts aim to augment the input representations with geometric cues rather than explicitly teaching models to reason in 3D space.
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have made impressive progress in connecting vision and language, but they still struggle with spatial understanding and viewpoint-aware reasoning. Recent efforts aim to augment the input representations with geometric…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 8.0/10 on the public viability pass. Loc3R-VLM achieves state-of-the-art performance in language-based localization and outperforms existing 2D- and video-based approaches on situated and general 3D question-answering benchmarks, demonstrating that our…
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Loc3R-VLM enhances Vision-Language Models with advanced 3D understanding for improved spatial reasoning.
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10.48550/arXiv.2603.18002Loc3R-VLM enhances Vision-Language Models with advanced 3D understanding for improved spatial reasoning.
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Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have made impressive progress in connecting vision and language, but they still struggle with spatial understanding and viewpoint-aware reasoning. Recent efforts aim to augment the input representations with geometric cues rather than explicitly teaching models to reason in 3D space. We introduce Loc3R-VLM, a framework that equips 2D Vision-Language Models with advanced 3D understanding capabilities from monocular video input. Inspired by human spatial cognition, Loc3R-VLM relies on two joint objectives: global layout reconstruction to build a holistic representation of the scene structure, and explicit situation modeling to anchor egocentric perspective. These objectives provide direct spatial supervision that grounds both perception and language in a 3D context. To ensure geometric consistency and metric-scale alignment, we leverage lightweight camera pose priors extracted from a pre-trained 3D foundation model. Loc3R-VLM achieves state-of-the-art performance in language-based localization and outperforms existing 2D- and video-based approaches on situated and general 3D question-answering benchmarks, demonstrating that our spatial supervision framework enables strong 3D understanding. Project page: https://kevinqu7.github.io/loc3r-vlm
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Loc3R-VLM enhances Vision-Language Models with advanced 3D understanding for improved spatial reasoning. Recent efforts aim to augment the input representations with geometric cues rather than explicitly teaching models to reason in 3D space.
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Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have made impressive progress in connecting vision and language, but they still struggle with spatial understanding and viewpoint-aware reasoning. Recent efforts aim to augment the input representations with geometric cues rather than exp...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 8.0/10 on the public viability pass. Loc3R-VLM achieves state-of-the-art performance in language-based localization and outperforms existing 2D- and video-based approaches on situated and general 3D question-answering benchmarks, demonstrati...
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Vision-Language Models moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 8.0/10.
Loc3R-VLM achieves state-of-the-art performance in language-based localization
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We introduce Loc3R-VLM, a framework that equips 2D Vision-Language Models with advanced 3D understanding capabilities from monocular video input
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Loc3R-VLM relies on two joint objectives: global layout reconstruction to build a holistic representation of the scene structure, and explicit situation modeling to anchor egocentric perspective
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To ensure geometric consistency and metric-scale alignment, we leverage lightweight camera pose priors extracted from a pre-trained 3D foundation model
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Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have made impressive progress in connecting vision and language, but they still struggle with spatial understanding and viewpoint-aware reasoning
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Recent efforts aim to augment the input representations with geometric cues rather than explicitly teaching models to reason in 3D space
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