RieMind: Geometry-Grounded Spatial Agent for Scene Understanding

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15386v1
• Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:02:24 GMT
• Title: RieMind: Geometry-Grounded Spatial Agent for Scene Understanding
• Abstract summary: Current approaches rely on end-to-end video understanding or large-scale spatial question answering fine-tuning.<n>We propose an agentic framework for static 3D indoor scene reasoning that grounds an LLM in an explicit 3D scene graph (3DSG)<n>We find that our agentic variant achieves significantly better performance, with average improvements between 33% to 50%.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Visual Language Models (VLMs) have increasingly become the main paradigm for understanding indoor scenes, but they still struggle with metric and spatial reasoning. Current approaches rely on end-to-end video understanding or large-scale spatial question answering fine-tuning, inherently coupling perception and reasoning. In this paper, we investigate whether decoupling perception and reasoning leads to improved spatial reasoning. We propose an agentic framework for static 3D indoor scene reasoning that grounds an LLM in an explicit 3D scene graph (3DSG). Rather than ingesting videos directly, each scene is represented as a persistent 3DSG constructed by a dedicated perception module. To isolate reasoning performance, we instantiate the 3DSG from ground-truth annotations. The agent interacts with the scene exclusively through structured geometric tools that expose fundamental properties such as object dimensions, distances, poses, and spatial relationships. The results we obtain on the static split of VSI-Bench provide an upper bound under ideal perceptual conditions on the spatial reasoning performance, and we find that it is significantly higher than previous works, by up to 16\%, without task specific fine-tuning. Compared to base VLMs, our agentic variant achieves significantly better performance, with average improvements between 33\% to 50\%. These findings indicate that explicit geometric grounding substantially improves spatial reasoning performance, and suggest that structured representations offer a compelling alternative to purely end-to-end visual reasoning.

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