OpenGround: Active Cognition-based Reasoning for Open-World 3D Visual Grounding

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Main Authors: Huang, Wenyuan, Wang, Zhao, Wei, Zhou, Huang, Ting, Zhao, Fang, Yang, Jian, Zhang, Zhenyu
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author Huang, Wenyuan
Wang, Zhao
Wei, Zhou
Huang, Ting
Zhao, Fang
Yang, Jian
Zhang, Zhenyu
author_facet Huang, Wenyuan
Wang, Zhao
Wei, Zhou
Huang, Ting
Zhao, Fang
Yang, Jian
Zhang, Zhenyu
contents 3D visual grounding aims to locate objects based on natural language descriptions in 3D scenes. Existing methods rely on a pre-defined Object Lookup Table (OLT) to query Visual Language Models (VLMs) for reasoning about object locations, which limits the applications in scenarios with undefined or unforeseen targets. To address this problem, we present OpenGround, a novel zero-shot framework for open-world 3D visual grounding. Central to OpenGround is the Active Cognition-based Reasoning (ACR) module, which is designed to overcome the fundamental limitation of pre-defined OLTs by progressively augmenting the cognitive scope of VLMs. The ACR module performs human-like perception of the target via a cognitive task chain and actively reasons about contextually relevant objects, thereby extending VLM cognition through a dynamically updated OLT. This allows OpenGround to function with both pre-defined and open-world categories. We also propose a new dataset named OpenTarget, which contains over 7000 object-description pairs to evaluate our method in open-world scenarios. Extensive experiments demonstrate that OpenGround achieves competitive performance on Nr3D, state-of-the-art on ScanRefer, and delivers a substantial 17.6% improvement on OpenTarget. Project Page at https://why-102.github.io/openground.io/.
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spellingShingle OpenGround: Active Cognition-based Reasoning for Open-World 3D Visual Grounding
Huang, Wenyuan
Wang, Zhao
Wei, Zhou
Huang, Ting
Zhao, Fang
Yang, Jian
Zhang, Zhenyu
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
3D visual grounding aims to locate objects based on natural language descriptions in 3D scenes. Existing methods rely on a pre-defined Object Lookup Table (OLT) to query Visual Language Models (VLMs) for reasoning about object locations, which limits the applications in scenarios with undefined or unforeseen targets. To address this problem, we present OpenGround, a novel zero-shot framework for open-world 3D visual grounding. Central to OpenGround is the Active Cognition-based Reasoning (ACR) module, which is designed to overcome the fundamental limitation of pre-defined OLTs by progressively augmenting the cognitive scope of VLMs. The ACR module performs human-like perception of the target via a cognitive task chain and actively reasons about contextually relevant objects, thereby extending VLM cognition through a dynamically updated OLT. This allows OpenGround to function with both pre-defined and open-world categories. We also propose a new dataset named OpenTarget, which contains over 7000 object-description pairs to evaluate our method in open-world scenarios. Extensive experiments demonstrate that OpenGround achieves competitive performance on Nr3D, state-of-the-art on ScanRefer, and delivers a substantial 17.6% improvement on OpenTarget. Project Page at https://why-102.github.io/openground.io/.
title OpenGround: Active Cognition-based Reasoning for Open-World 3D Visual Grounding
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.23020