AI reading 3D scenes gives steadier answers when the camera moves

A small rotation-based correction to visual features, driven by predicted geometry, reduced viewpoint-induced drift across four 3D tasks and held up as camera angles diverged further.

Chinese Tech
Jingjun Yi · Chen Hu · Qi Bi · Hao Zheng · Huimin Huang · Yongkang · +4 more

Westlake University · University of Amsterdam · Tencent

Research Digest··3 min read
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A geometry-conditioned rotation of visual features makes 3D vision language models answer more consistently when the camera viewpoint changes.

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A multimodal large language model (an artificial intelligence system that reads images and text together) can give different answers about the same object when the camera angle changes.

Lie routing addresses this by using a pretrained geometry extractor to guide small rotations of the model's visual features. The rotated features are blended back with the original ones, so the model keeps its prior knowledge while adjusting to the new angle.

It improves several three-dimensional scene tasks compared with simply adding geometry features, and its answers stay steadier as the camera moves. This matters because camera angle should not change what a system says is there.

How it works

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MATCHED ADDITIVE BASELINEPretrained features: Visual and geometry featuresPretrained featuresVisual and geometryfeaturesAdd geometry directlyAdd geometrydirectlySpatial answersSpatial answersLIEVLMGeometrytokensOriginal featuresRotationsand routingCorrectedfeaturesPretrained features: Keep original features unchangedPretrainedfeaturesKeep originalfeatures…Geometry-guided rotations: Predict rotations and routingGeometry-guided…Predictrotations and…Rotate and gate correction: Preserve feature lengthsRotate andgate…Preserve featurelengthsSpatial answers: Caption, locate, detect, reasonSpatialanswersCaption, locate,detect, reasonThe routing module never receives relative camera poses as input.
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