Curvature-Aware Captioning:Leveraging Geodesic Attention for 3D Scene Understanding

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08808v1
• Date: Sat, 09 May 2026 08:54:42 GMT
• Title: Curvature-Aware Captioning:Leveraging Geodesic Attention for 3D Scene Understanding
• Abstract summary: Existing approaches that apply Euclidean embedding spaces struggle to simultaneously preserve fine-grained local geometric details.<n>We propose a novel textbftextscCurvature-Aware Captioning framework, integrating novel non-Euclidean geodesic attention mechanisms.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Accurate 3D scene description is fundamental to robotic navigation and augmented reality, yet current dense captioning methods face significant limitations in processing sparse point cloud data. % Existing approaches that apply Euclidean embedding spaces struggle to simultaneously preserve fine-grained local geometric details and model exponentially growing global semantic hierarchies, leading to either inaccurate localization or disjointed, shallow scene descriptions. % In this work, we propose a novel \textbf{\textsc{Curvature-Aware Captioning}} framework, integrating novel non-Euclidean geodesic attention mechanisms, to resolve the localization-contextualization conflict. % Specifically, self-attention within Oblique space enforces dimensional homogeneity while establishing long-range dependencies. Bidirectional geodesic cross-attention within Lorentz space models hierarchical semantic relationships across scene instances, enabling simultaneous precision in object localization and coherence in scene descriptions. % Theoretical analysis confirms that the curvature complementarity between the Oblique manifold and Lorentz hyperboloid resolves the Euclidean-hyperbolic conflict, ensuring feature stability via isotropic optimization while preserving inherent hierarchical relationships. Extensive experiments on ScanRefer and Nr3D benchmarks demonstrate state-of-the-art performance, with significant gains in both localization accuracy and descriptive richness.

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