An overview of 3D Vision-Language Models

📅 2026-09-04
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Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are reshaping computer vision by aligning visual and textual embeddings, allowing models to recognize visual concepts and reason about them using natural language. Traditional 3D deep-learning models, however, are typically trained for specific tasks, such as classification, segmentation, or detection, and do not naturally support cross-modal retrieval from their embedding spaces using text or images as queries. To address this issue, Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP)-based methods align 3D embeddings with pretrained image and text representations, giving rise to 3D Vision-Language Models (3D VLMs) that support zero-shot classification, cross-modal retrieval, and open-vocabulary recognition of 3D shapes. This tutorial provides an overview of 3D VLMs, ranging from basic definitions of 3D representations and their encoding into embeddings to cross-modal contrastive alignment, modern multimodal frameworks, and 3D Vision-Large Language Models (3D VLLMs). We present the main definitions of contrastive learning for multimodal embedding alignment and highlight recent advances in language-guided 3D Gaussian splatting, 3D shape generation, and embodied AI for robotics.
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3D Vision-Language Models
cross-modal retrieval
zero-shot classification
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Contrastive Learning
3D Vision-Language Models
Cross-modal Retrieval
Zero-shot Classification
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