Geometric tools let a small vision-language model measure 3D scenes

Explicit detection, coordinate projection and geometric solvers substantially improved distance and direction estimates, while detector errors continued to limit size measurement.

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Technical University of Munich

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5-4B with callable tools for 3D object detection, metric depth, coordinate projection and deterministic spatial calculations.

5-4B on four metric spatial reasoning tasks from the ARKitScenes subset of ReVSI-Bench: absolute distance, object size, relative distance and relative direction.

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From Technical University of Munich

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Tool-augmented VLMs improve metric spatial reasoning on distance and direction but not object size.

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