Multi-SpatialMLLM: Multi-Frame Spatial Understanding with Multi-Modal Large Language Models
Runsen Xu, Weiyao Wang, Hao Tang, Xingyu Chen, Xiaodong Wang, Fu-Jen Chu, Dahua Lin, Matt Feiszli, Kevin J. Liang
2025-05-23

Summary
This paper talks about a new system called Multi-SpatialMLLM that helps large language models understand information from multiple images taken over time, not just single pictures.
What's the problem?
The problem is that most models have trouble understanding how things change or move between different frames, which makes it hard for them to reason about videos or sequences of images.
What's the solution?
The researchers developed a framework that gives these models new abilities, like understanding depth, matching objects across different images, and noticing changes over time. This helps the models do a much better job at tasks that require looking at more than one image in a row.
Why it matters?
This matters because it allows AI to better analyze videos, understand movement, and solve more complex problems that involve time and space, which is useful for things like robotics, security, and interactive media.
Abstract
Multi-SpatialMLLM framework enhances MLLMs with multi-frame spatial understanding through depth perception, visual correspondence, and dynamic perception, achieving significant gains in multi-frame reasoning tasks.