Urbex: Agentic Spatial Grounding for City-Scale 3D Scenes

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City-scale 3D grounding is commonly formulated as candidate ranking, which requires precomputed instance proposals and becomes inefficient in large outdoor scenes. We propose Urbex, an agentic vision-language framework that instead casts grounding as active spatial search.

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Urbex represents a city-scale 3D scene as an interactive multi-view environment, allowing a VLM agent to query landmarks, zoom into local regions, render oblique views, and commit a grounded bounding box. We optimize this tool-use policy with reinforcement learning on CityRefer, using smooth localization rewards and lightweight shaping rewards for efficient exploration.

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