Structured Spatial Reasoning with Open Vocabulary Object Detectors

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.07394v1
• Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2024 19:37:01 GMT
• Title: Structured Spatial Reasoning with Open Vocabulary Object Detectors
• Authors: Negar Nejatishahidin, Madhukar Reddy Vongala, Jana Kosecka,
• Abstract summary: Reasoning about spatial relationships between objects is essential for many real-world robotic tasks. We introduce a structured probabilistic approach that integrates rich 3D geometric features with state-of-the-art open-vocabulary object detectors. The approach is evaluated and compared against zero-shot performance of the state-of-the-art Vision and Language Models (VLMs) on spatial reasoning tasks.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Reasoning about spatial relationships between objects is essential for many real-world robotic tasks, such as fetch-and-delivery, object rearrangement, and object search. The ability to detect and disambiguate different objects and identify their location is key to successful completion of these tasks. Several recent works have used powerful Vision and Language Models (VLMs) to unlock this capability in robotic agents. In this paper we introduce a structured probabilistic approach that integrates rich 3D geometric features with state-of-the-art open-vocabulary object detectors to enhance spatial reasoning for robotic perception. The approach is evaluated and compared against zero-shot performance of the state-of-the-art Vision and Language Models (VLMs) on spatial reasoning tasks. To enable this comparison, we annotate spatial clauses in real-world RGB-D Active Vision Dataset [1] and conduct experiments on this and the synthetic Semantic Abstraction [2] dataset. Results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, showing superior performance of grounding spatial relations over state of the art open-source VLMs by more than 20%.

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