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Lingdong Kong

46 accepted papers

2026

AdaSFormer: Adaptive Serialized Transformers for Monocular Semantic Scene Completion from Indoor Environments

CVPR 2026

Indoor monocular semantic scene completion (MSSC) is notably more challenging than its outdoor counterpart due to complex spatial layouts and severe occlusions. While transformers are well suited for modeling global dependencies, their high memory cost and difficulty in reconstructing fine-grained d

Cited by 2SourcecodeScholar
2026

Don't Overthink with Pixels: Efficient Reasoning for Segmentation

ICML 2026poster

Existing reasoning segmentation approaches typically fine-tune multimodal large language models (MLLMs) using image-text pairs and corresponding mask labels. While recent efforts leverage reinforcement fine-tuning to further enhance reasoning ability, they often suffer from overthinking and produce …

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

EditMGT: Unleashing Potentials of Masked Generative Transformers in Image Editing

CVPR 2026

Recent advances in diffusion models (DMs) have achieved exceptional visual quality in image editing tasks. However, the global denoising dynamics of DMs inherently conflate local editing targets with the full-image context, leading to unintended modifications in non-target regions. In this paper, we

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

EventDrive: Event Cameras for Vision-Language Driving Intelligence

CVPR 2026

Event cameras sense the world through asynchronous brightness changes with microsecond latency and high dynamic range, offering motion fidelity far beyond frame-based sensors and capturing temporal structure that conventional exposures often miss. These properties make events a powerful complement t

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

La La LiDAR: Large-Scale Layout Generation from LiDAR Data

AAAI 2026technical

Controllable generation of realistic LiDAR scenes is crucial for applications such as autonomous driving and robotics. While recent diffusion-based models achieve high-fidelity LiDAR generation, they lack explicit control over foreground objects and spatial relationships, limiting their usefulness f

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

LiDARCrafter: Dynamic 4D World Modeling from LiDAR Sequences

AAAI 2026technical

Generative world models have become essential data engines for autonomous driving, yet most focus on videos or occupancy grids and overlook the unique challenges of LiDAR. Extending LiDAR generation to dynamic 4D modeling requires addressing controllability, temporal coherence, and standardized eval

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

Open-o3-Video: Grounded Video Reasoning with Explicit Spatio-Temporal Evidence

ICML 2026poster

Most video reasoning models only generate textual reasoning traces without indicating when and where key evidence appears. Recent models such as OpenAI-o3 have sparked wide interest in evidence-centered reasoning for images, yet extending this ability to videos is more challenging due to the need fo…

Cited by 43SourceScholar
2026

ReasonMap: Towards Fine-Grained Visual Reasoning from Transit Maps

CVPR 2026

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated significant progress in semantic scene understanding and text-image alignment, with reasoning variants enhancing performance on more complex tasks involving mathematics and logic. However, their proficiency in tasks requiring both fine-grain

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

RewardMap: Tackling Sparse Rewards in Fine-grained Visual Reasoning via Multi-Stage Reinforcement Learning

ICLR 2026poster

Fine-grained visual reasoning remains a core challenge for multimodal large language models (MLLMs). The recently introduced ReasonMap highlights this gap by showing that even advanced MLLMs struggle with spatial reasoning in structured and information-rich settings such as transit maps, a task of c…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

Stairway to Success: An Online Floor-Aware Zero-Shot Object-Goal Navigation Framework via LLM-Driven Coarse-to-Fine Exploration

RA-L 2026

Deployable service and delivery robots struggle to navigate multi-floor buildings to reach object goals, as existing systems fail due to single-floor assumptions and requirements for offline, globally consistent maps. Multi-floor environments pose unique challenges including cross-floor transitions

Cited by 3SourcecodeScholar
2026

U4D: Uncertainty-Aware 4D World Modeling from LiDAR Sequences

CVPR 2026

Modeling dynamic 3D environments from LiDAR sequences is central to building reliable 4D worlds for autonomous driving and embodied AI. Existing generative frameworks, however, often treat all spatial regions uniformly, overlooking the varying uncertainty across real-world scenes. This uniform gener

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

Veila: Panoramic LiDAR Generation from a Monocular RGB Image

ICRA 2026poster

Realistic and controllable panoramic LiDAR data generation is critical for scalable 3D perception in autonomous driving and robotics. Existing methods either perform unconditional generation with poor controllability or adopt text-guided synthesis, which lacks fine-grained spatial control. Leveragin…

2026

WorldLens: Full-Spectrum Evaluations of Driving World Models in Real World

CVPR 2026

Generative world models are reshaping embodied AI, enabling agents to synthesize realistic 4D driving environments that look convincing but often fail physically or behaviorally. Despite rapid progress, the field still lacks a unified way to assess whether generated worlds preserve geometry, obey ph

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Are VLMs Ready for Autonomous Driving? An Empirical Study from the Reliability, Data and Metric Perspectives

ICCV 2025poster

Recent advancements in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have fueled interest in autonomous driving applications, particularly for interpretable decision-making. However, the assumption that VLMs provide visually grounded and reliable driving explanations remains unexamined. To address this, we introduc…

2025

Beyond One Shot, Beyond One Perspective: Cross-View and Long-Horizon Distillation for Better LiDAR Representations

ICCV 2025poster

LiDAR representation learning aims to extract rich structural and semantic information from large-scale, readily available datasets, reducing reliance on costly human annotations. However, existing LiDAR representation strategies often overlook the inherent spatiotemporal cues in LiDAR sequences, li…

2025

DynamicCity: Large-Scale 4D Occupancy Generation from Dynamic Scenes

ICLR 2025spotlight

Urban scene generation has been developing rapidly recently. However, existing methods primarily focus on generating static and single-frame scenes, overlooking the inherently dynamic nature of real-world driving environments. In this work, we introduce DynamicCity, a novel 4D occupancy generation f…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

EventFly: Event Camera Perception from Ground to the Sky

CVPR 2025poster

Cross-platform adaptation in event-based dense perception is crucial for deploying event cameras across diverse settings, such as vehicles, drones, and quadrupeds, each with unique motion dynamics, viewpoints, and class distributions. In this work, we introduce EventFly, a framework for robust cross…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

FlexEvent: Towards Flexible Event-Frame Object Detection at Varying Operational Frequencies

NeurIPS 2025poster

Event cameras offer unparalleled advantages for real-time perception in dynamic environments, thanks to the microsecond-level temporal resolution and asynchronous operation. Existing event detectors, however, are limited by fixed-frequency paradigms and fail to fully exploit the high-temporal resolu…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

GEAL: Generalizable 3D Affordance Learning with Cross-Modal Consistency

CVPR 2025poster

Identifying affordance regions on 3D objects from semantic cues is essential for robotics and human-machine interaction. However, existing 3D affordance learning methods struggle with generalization and robustness due to limited annotated data and a reliance on 3D backbones focused on geometric enco…

2025

LiMoE: Mixture of LiDAR Representation Learners from Automotive Scenes

CVPR 2025poster

LiDAR data pretraining offers a promising approach to leveraging large-scale, readily available datasets for enhanced data utilization. However, existing methods predominantly focus on sparse voxel representation, overlooking the complementary attributes provided by other LiDAR representations. In t…

2025

MERIT: Multilingual Semantic Retrieval with Interleaved Multi-Condition Query

NeurIPS 2025poster

Semantic retrieval is crucial for modern applications yet remains underexplored in current research. Existing datasets are limited to single languages, single images, or singular retrieval conditions, often failing to fully exploit the expressive capacity of visual information as evidenced by maint…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Monocular Semantic Scene Completion via Masked Recurrent Networks

ICCV 2025poster

Monocular Semantic Scene Completion (MSSC) aims to predict the voxel-wise occupancy and semantic category from a single-view RGB image. Existing methods adopt a single-stage framework that aims to simultaneously achieve visible region segmentation and occluded region hallucination, while also being…

2025

Perspective-Invariant 3D Object Detection

ICCV 2025poster

With the rise of robotics, LiDAR-based 3D object detection has garnered significant attention in both academia and industry. However, existing datasets and methods predominantly focus on vehicle-mounted platforms, leaving other autonomous platforms underexplored. To bridge this gap, we introduce Pi3…

2025

PointLoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation with Token Selection for Point Cloud Learning

CVPR 2025poster

Self-supervised representation learning for point cloud has demonstrated effectiveness in improving pre-trained model performance across diverse tasks. However, as pre-trained models grow in complexity, fully fine-tuning them for downstream applications demands substantial computational and storage…

2025

SafeMap: Robust HD Map Construction from Incomplete Observations

ICML 2025poster

Robust high-definition (HD) map construction is vital for autonomous driving, yet existing methods often struggle with incomplete multi-view camera data. This paper presents SafeMap, a novel framework specifically designed to ensure accuracy even when certain camera views are missing. SafeMap integr…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

SeeGround: See and Ground for Zero-Shot Open-Vocabulary 3D Visual Grounding

CVPR 2025poster

3D Visual Grounding (3DVG) aims to locate objects in 3D scenes based on textual descriptions, essential for applications like augmented reality and robotics. Traditional 3DVG approaches rely on annotated 3D datasets and predefined object categories, limiting scalability and adaptability. To overcome…

2025

Spiral: Semantic-Aware Progressive LiDAR Scene Generation and Understanding

NeurIPS 2025poster

Leveraging diffusion models, 3D LiDAR scene generation has achieved great success in both range-view and voxel-based representations. While recent voxel-based approaches can generate both geometric structures and semantic labels, existing range-view methods are limited to producing unlabeled LiDAR s…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Talk2Event: Grounded Understanding of Dynamic Scenes from Event Cameras

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Event cameras offer microsecond-level latency and robustness to motion blur, making them ideal for understanding dynamic environments. Yet, connecting these asynchronous streams to human language remains an open challenge. We introduce Talk2Event, the first large-scale benchmark for language-driven…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

VideoLucy: Deep Memory Backtracking for Long Video Understanding

NeurIPS 2025poster

Recent studies have shown that agent-based systems leveraging large language models (LLMs) for key information retrieval and integration have emerged as a promising approach for long video understanding. However, these systems face two major challenges. First, they typically perform modeling and rea…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

4D Contrastive Superflows are Dense 3D Representation Learners

ECCV 2024poster

"In the realm of autonomous driving, accurate 3D perception is the foundation. However, developing such models relies on extensive human annotations – a process that is both costly and labor-intensive. To address this challenge from a data representation learning perspective, we introduce SuperFlow,…

2024

Is Your HD Map Constructor Reliable under Sensor Corruptions?

NeurIPS 2024poster

Driving systems often rely on high-definition (HD) maps for precise environmental information, which is crucial for planning and navigation. While current HD map constructors perform well under ideal conditions, their resilience to real-world challenges, \eg, adverse weather and sensor failures, is…

Cited by 17SourcePDFScholar
2024

Is Your LiDAR Placement Optimized for 3D Scene Understanding?

NeurIPS 2024spotlight

The reliability of driving perception systems under unprecedented conditions is crucial for practical usage. Latest advancements have prompted increasing interest in multi-LiDAR perception. However, prevailing driving datasets predominantly utilize single-LiDAR systems and collect data devoid of adv…

2024

Learning to Adapt SAM for Segmenting Cross-domain Point Clouds

ECCV 2024poster

"Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) in 3D segmentation tasks presents a formidable challenge, primarily stemming from the sparse and unordered nature of point clouds. Especially for LiDAR point clouds, the domain discrepancy becomes obvious across varying capture scenes, fluctuating weather condit…

2024

Multi-Space Alignments Towards Universal LiDAR Segmentation

CVPR 2024poster

A unified and versatile LiDAR segmentation model with strong robustness and generalizability is desirable for safe autonomous driving perception. This work presents M3Net a one-of-a-kind framework for fulfilling multi-task multi-dataset multi-modality LiDAR segmentation in a universal manner using j…

2024

OpenESS: Event-based Semantic Scene Understanding with Open Vocabularies

CVPR 2024highlight

Event-based semantic segmentation (ESS) is a fundamental yet challenging task for event camera sensing. The difficulties in interpreting and annotating event data limit its scalability. While domain adaptation from images to event data can help to mitigate this issue there exist data representationa…

2023

CLIP2Scene: Towards Label-Efficient 3D Scene Understanding by CLIP

CVPR 2023poster

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) achieves promising results in 2D zero-shot and few-shot learning. Despite the impressive performance in 2D, applying CLIP to help the learning in 3D scene understanding has yet to be explored. In this paper, we make the first attempt to investigate how…

2023

ConDA: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for LiDAR Segmentation via Regularized Domain Concatenation

ICRA 2023poster

Transferring knowledge learned from the labeled source domain to the raw target domain for unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) is essential to the scalable deployment of autonomous driving systems. State-of-the-art methods in UDA often employ a key idea: utilizing joint supervision signals from bot…

Cited by 62SourcecodeScholar
2023

LaserMix for Semi-Supervised LiDAR Semantic Segmentation

CVPR 2023highlight

Densely annotating LiDAR point clouds is costly, which often restrains the scalability of fully-supervised learning methods. In this work, we study the underexplored semi-supervised learning (SSL) in LiDAR semantic segmentation. Our core idea is to leverage the strong spatial cues of LiDAR point clo…

2023

Rethinking Range View Representation for LiDAR Segmentation

ICCV 2023poster

LiDAR segmentation is crucial for autonomous driving perception. Recent trends favor point- or voxel-based methods as they often yield better performance than the traditional range view representation. In this work, we unveil several key factors in building powerful range view models. We observe tha…

Cited by 173PDFScholar
2023

Robo3D: Towards Robust and Reliable 3D Perception against Corruptions

ICCV 2023poster

The robustness of 3D perception systems under natural corruptions from environments and sensors is pivotal for safety-critical applications. Existing large-scale 3D perception datasets often contain data that are meticulously cleaned. Such configurations, however, cannot reflect the reliability of p…

Cited by 123PDFcodeScholar
2023

RoboDepth: Robust Out-of-Distribution Depth Estimation under Corruptions

NeurIPS 2023poster

Depth estimation from monocular images is pivotal for real-world visual perception systems. While current learning-based depth estimation models train and test on meticulously curated data, they often overlook out-of-distribution (OoD) situations. Yet, in practical settings -- especially safety-crit…

2023

Segment Any Point Cloud Sequences by Distilling Vision Foundation Models

NeurIPS 2023spotlight

Recent advancements in vision foundation models (VFMs) have opened up new possibilities for versatile and efficient visual perception. In this work, we introduce Seal, a novel framework that harnesses VFMs for segmenting diverse automotive point cloud sequences. Seal exhibits three appealing propert…

Cited by 66SourcePDFScholar
2023

Towards Label-free Scene Understanding by Vision Foundation Models

NeurIPS 2023poster

Vision foundation models such as Contrastive Vision-Language Pre-training (CLIP) and Segment Anything (SAM) have demonstrated impressive zero-shot performance on image classification and segmentation tasks. However, the incorporation of CLIP and SAM for label-free scene understanding has yet to be e…

2023

UniSeg: A Unified Multi-Modal LiDAR Segmentation Network and the OpenPCSeg Codebase

ICCV 2023poster

Point-, voxel-, and range-views are three representative forms of point clouds. All of them have accurate 3D measurements but lack color and texture information. RGB images are a natural complement to these point cloud views and fully utilizing the comprehensive information of them benefits more rob…

Cited by 46PDFcodeScholar
2023

Unsupervised Video Domain Adaptation for Action Recognition: A Disentanglement Perspective

NeurIPS 2023poster

Unsupervised video domain adaptation is a practical yet challenging task. In this work, for the first time, we tackle it from a disentanglement view. Our key idea is to handle the spatial and temporal domain divergence separately through disentanglement. Specifically, we consider the generation of c…