most citedWhat Is The Best 3D Scene Representation for Robotics? From Geometric to Foundation Models

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cs.RO2026

Kairos: Grounded Forecasting of Presence and Directional Flow in 4D Scene Graphs

Iacopo Catalano, Julio A. Placed, Javier Civera +1

Long-term autonomy in human-populated environments requires anticipating whether and how people will move at times a robot has not yet observed. Existing representations of pedestr…

cs.CV2026

MAG-VLAQ: Multi-modal Aerial-Ground Query Aggregation for Cross-View Place Recognition

Zhengyi Xu, Yuhang Ming, Zhihao Zhan +3

Multi-modal cross-view place recognition remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision and robotics due to the severe viewpoint, modality, and spatial-structure discrepancies…

cs.CV2026

Cross-Attentive Multiview Fusion of Vision-Language Embeddings

Tomas Berriel Martins, Martin R. Oswald, Javier Civera

Vision-language models have been key to the development of open-vocabulary 2D semantic segmentation. Lifting these models from 2D images to 3D scenes, however, remains a challengin…

cs.RO2026

Rheos: Modelling Continuous Motion Dynamics in Hierarchical 3D Scene Graphs

Iacopo Catalano, Francesco Verdoja, Javier Civera +2

3D Scene Graphs (3DSGs) provide hierarchical, multi-resolution abstractions that encode the geometric and semantic structure of an environment, yet their treatment of dynamics rema…

cs.CV2026

DC-VLAQ: Query-Residual Aggregation for Robust Visual Place Recognition

Hanyu Zhu, Zhihao Zhan, Yuhang Ming +4

One of the central challenges in visual place recognition (VPR) is learning a robust global representation that remains discriminative under large viewpoint changes, illumination v…

cs.RO2026★ 1 cited

What Is The Best 3D Scene Representation for Robotics? From Geometric to Foundation Models

Tianchen Deng, Yue Pan, Shenghai Yuan +10

In this paper, we provide a comprehensive overview of existing scene representation methods for robotics, covering traditional representations such as point clouds, voxels, signed…

cs.CV2025

UniPR-3D: Towards Universal Visual Place Recognition with Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer

Tianchen Deng, Xun Chen, Ziming Li +5

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) has been traditionally formulated as a single-image retrieval task. Using multiple views offers clear advantages, yet this setting remains relatively…

cs.RO2025

Aion: Towards Hierarchical 4D Scene Graphs with Temporal Flow Dynamics

Iacopo Catalano, Eduardo Montijano, Javier Civera +2

Autonomous navigation in dynamic environments requires spatial representations that capture both semantic structure and temporal evolution. 3D Scene Graphs (3DSGs) provide hierarch…