CORE-3D: Context-aware Open-vocabulary Retrieval by Embeddings in 3D

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24528v2
• Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2025 07:45:58 GMT
• Title: CORE-3D: Context-aware Open-vocabulary Retrieval by Embeddings in 3D
• Authors: Mohamad Amin Mirzaei, Pantea Amoie, Ali Ekhterachian, Matin Mirzababaei, Babak Khalaj,
• Abstract summary: 3D scene understanding is fundamental for embodied AI and robotics, supporting reliable perception for interaction and navigation.<n>Recent approaches achieve zero-shot, open-vocabulary 3D semantic mapping by assigning embedding vectors to 2D class-agnostic masks generated via vision-language models (VLMs)<n>We leverage SemanticSAM with progressive granularity refinement to generate more accurate and numerous object-level masks.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: 3D scene understanding is fundamental for embodied AI and robotics, supporting reliable perception for interaction and navigation. Recent approaches achieve zero-shot, open-vocabulary 3D semantic mapping by assigning embedding vectors to 2D class-agnostic masks generated via vision-language models (VLMs) and projecting these into 3D. However, these methods often produce fragmented masks and inaccurate semantic assignments due to the direct use of raw masks, limiting their effectiveness in complex environments. To address this, we leverage SemanticSAM with progressive granularity refinement to generate more accurate and numerous object-level masks, mitigating the over-segmentation commonly observed in mask generation models such as vanilla SAM, and improving downstream 3D semantic segmentation. To further enhance semantic context, we employ a context-aware CLIP encoding strategy that integrates multiple contextual views of each mask using empirically determined weighting, providing much richer visual context. We evaluate our approach on multiple 3D scene understanding tasks, including 3D semantic segmentation and object retrieval from language queries, across several benchmark datasets. Experimental results demonstrate significant improvements over existing methods, highlighting the effectiveness of our approach.

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