PoseRefer: Pathway-Local Parameters for Semantically Grounded Reference Resolution

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author Deichler, Anna
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contents A robot resolving ``put the cup on that one'' must fuse gesture, language, and scene geometry, yet 3D grounding benchmarks only partially capture this regime: descriptions are written post-hoc, gestures are templated, or pointing is staged for the camera. MM-Conv captures natural co-speech gesture from dyadic VR interaction alongside full-body motion capture and 3D scene graphs. We use it to evaluate pose-language fusion with a decoupled late-fusion architecture in which pose and text pathways share no learned parameters. The two choices together make category, pose, and text contributions easier to isolate through controlled ablations. Fusion with frozen MiniLM category embeddings exceeds pose alone and the best text-only pathway on every reference type, reaching 31.9% top-1. The learned scalar gate flips between opposing policies depending on whether the text pathway has category access. This is a reliability diagnostic: fusion-accuracy claims for semantic grounding systems are indistinguishable from category-representation artifacts unless pathways are architecturally decoupled.
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spellingShingle PoseRefer: Pathway-Local Parameters for Semantically Grounded Reference Resolution
Deichler, Anna
Robotics
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
I.2.9; I.2.10
A robot resolving ``put the cup on that one'' must fuse gesture, language, and scene geometry, yet 3D grounding benchmarks only partially capture this regime: descriptions are written post-hoc, gestures are templated, or pointing is staged for the camera. MM-Conv captures natural co-speech gesture from dyadic VR interaction alongside full-body motion capture and 3D scene graphs. We use it to evaluate pose-language fusion with a decoupled late-fusion architecture in which pose and text pathways share no learned parameters. The two choices together make category, pose, and text contributions easier to isolate through controlled ablations. Fusion with frozen MiniLM category embeddings exceeds pose alone and the best text-only pathway on every reference type, reaching 31.9% top-1. The learned scalar gate flips between opposing policies depending on whether the text pathway has category access. This is a reliability diagnostic: fusion-accuracy claims for semantic grounding systems are indistinguishable from category-representation artifacts unless pathways are architecturally decoupled.
title PoseRefer: Pathway-Local Parameters for Semantically Grounded Reference Resolution
topic Robotics
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
I.2.9; I.2.10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.24622