VGGDrive: Empowering Vision-Language Models with Cross-View Geometric Grounding for Autonomous Driving

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Hauptverfasser: Wang, Jie, Li, Guang, Huang, Zhijian, Dang, Chenxu, Ye, Hangjun, Han, Yahong, Chen, Long
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author Wang, Jie
Li, Guang
Huang, Zhijian
Dang, Chenxu
Ye, Hangjun
Han, Yahong
Chen, Long
author_facet Wang, Jie
Li, Guang
Huang, Zhijian
Dang, Chenxu
Ye, Hangjun
Han, Yahong
Chen, Long
contents The significance of cross-view 3D geometric modeling capabilities for autonomous driving is self-evident, yet existing Vision-Language Models (VLMs) inherently lack this capability, resulting in their mediocre performance. While some promising approaches attempt to mitigate this by constructing Q&A data for auxiliary training, they still fail to fundamentally equip VLMs with the ability to comprehensively handle diverse evaluation protocols. We thus chart a new course, advocating for the infusion of VLMs with the cross-view geometric grounding of mature 3D foundation models, closing this critical capability gap in autonomous driving. In this spirit, we propose a novel architecture, VGGDrive, which empowers Vision-language models with cross-view Geometric Grounding for autonomous Driving. Concretely, to bridge the cross-view 3D geometric features from the frozen visual 3D model with the VLM's 2D visual features, we introduce a plug-and-play Cross-View 3D Geometric Enabler (CVGE). The CVGE decouples the base VLM architecture and effectively empowers the VLM with 3D features through a hierarchical adaptive injection mechanism. Extensive experiments show that VGGDrive enhances base VLM performance across five autonomous driving benchmarks, including tasks like cross-view risk perception, motion prediction, and trajectory planning. It's our belief that mature 3D foundation models can empower autonomous driving tasks through effective integration, and we hope our initial exploration demonstrates the potential of this paradigm to the autonomous driving community.
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spellingShingle VGGDrive: Empowering Vision-Language Models with Cross-View Geometric Grounding for Autonomous Driving
Wang, Jie
Li, Guang
Huang, Zhijian
Dang, Chenxu
Ye, Hangjun
Han, Yahong
Chen, Long
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The significance of cross-view 3D geometric modeling capabilities for autonomous driving is self-evident, yet existing Vision-Language Models (VLMs) inherently lack this capability, resulting in their mediocre performance. While some promising approaches attempt to mitigate this by constructing Q&A data for auxiliary training, they still fail to fundamentally equip VLMs with the ability to comprehensively handle diverse evaluation protocols. We thus chart a new course, advocating for the infusion of VLMs with the cross-view geometric grounding of mature 3D foundation models, closing this critical capability gap in autonomous driving. In this spirit, we propose a novel architecture, VGGDrive, which empowers Vision-language models with cross-view Geometric Grounding for autonomous Driving. Concretely, to bridge the cross-view 3D geometric features from the frozen visual 3D model with the VLM's 2D visual features, we introduce a plug-and-play Cross-View 3D Geometric Enabler (CVGE). The CVGE decouples the base VLM architecture and effectively empowers the VLM with 3D features through a hierarchical adaptive injection mechanism. Extensive experiments show that VGGDrive enhances base VLM performance across five autonomous driving benchmarks, including tasks like cross-view risk perception, motion prediction, and trajectory planning. It's our belief that mature 3D foundation models can empower autonomous driving tasks through effective integration, and we hope our initial exploration demonstrates the potential of this paradigm to the autonomous driving community.
title VGGDrive: Empowering Vision-Language Models with Cross-View Geometric Grounding for Autonomous Driving
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20794