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One Prompt Turned 18.6 Into 5.4

OV3D-Bench separated localization from semantics and found that small prompt changes could collapse open-vocabulary 3D detection.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-08-19-012
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Summary

OV3D-Bench separated localization from semantics and found that small prompt changes could collapse open-vocabulary 3D detection.

Across seven indoor and outdoor datasets, the benchmark removed per-image category oracles and scored localization, semantic robustness and transfer separately. Detectors often placed a box correctly but chose an adjacent label; one model’s AP fell from 18.6 to 5.4 when its prompt expanded from “car” to a detailed photographic phrase. The study also found a target-aware protocol inflated another model’s ScanNet result by 1.9 times, suggesting geometry is ahead of open-vocabulary semantics.

Why it matters

OV3D-Bench separated localization from semantics and found that small prompt changes could collapse open-vocabulary 3D detection.

Limits and context

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Key claims

  1. OV3D-Bench separated localization from semantics and found that small prompt changes could collapse open-vocabulary 3D detection.

    Evidence: source-2026-08-19-012

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2608.17110arXiv · primary research

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