B4DL: A Benchmark for 4D LiDAR LLM in Spatio-Temporal Understanding

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05269v1
• Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2025 11:11:56 GMT
• Title: B4DL: A Benchmark for 4D LiDAR LLM in Spatio-Temporal Understanding
• Authors: Changho Choi, Youngwoo Shin, Gyojin Han, Dong-Jae Lee, Junmo Kim,
• Abstract summary: We introduce B4DL, a benchmark specifically designed for training and evaluating MLLMs on 4D LiDAR understanding.<n>We propose a scalable data generation pipeline and an MLLM model that, for the first time, directly processes raw 4D LiDAR by bridging it with language understanding.
• Score: 23.446113957661503
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Understanding dynamic outdoor environments requires capturing complex object interactions and their evolution over time. LiDAR-based 4D point clouds provide precise spatial geometry and rich temporal cues, making them ideal for representing real-world scenes. However, despite their potential, 4D LiDAR remains underexplored in the context of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) due to the absence of high-quality, modality-specific annotations and the lack of MLLM architectures capable of processing its high-dimensional composition. To address these challenges, we introduce B4DL, a new benchmark specifically designed for training and evaluating MLLMs on 4D LiDAR understanding. In addition, we propose a scalable data generation pipeline and an MLLM model that, for the first time, directly processes raw 4D LiDAR by bridging it with language understanding. Combined with our dataset and benchmark, our model offers a unified solution for spatio-temporal reasoning in dynamic outdoor environments. We provide rendered 4D LiDAR videos, generated dataset, and inference outputs on diverse scenarios at: https://mmb4dl.github.io/mmb4dl/

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