arxiv: 2603.17980 · v2 · submitted 2026-03-18 · 💻 cs.CV

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Feeling the Space: Egomotion-Aware Video Representation for Efficient and Accurate 3D Scene Understanding

Shuyao Shi , Kang G. Shin

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keywords egomotionIMUMLLM3D scene understandingspatial reasoningkeyframe filteringcross-modal fusionvideo representation

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Adding concurrent IMU egomotion data to video MLLMs grounds visual features in physical trajectories for better absolute scale and spatial reasoning in 3D scenes.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

Multimodal large language models for 3D scenes usually depend on expensive point clouds or reconstructed maps, or else face scale ambiguities when using video frames alone. This paper adds egomotion signals from IMUs recorded at the same time as the video to supply physical grounding. It introduces a cascaded filtering step that picks sparse keyframes from both motion and visual cues, plus an asymmetric fusion step where motion tokens carry trajectory information into the visual stream. The result lets the model reason about real sizes and positions across the scene. Tests show competitive accuracy on spatial tasks while running 1.30 times faster than video-only methods and 1.61 times faster than explicit 3D methods.

Core claim

By grounding visual content in physical egomotion trajectories captured by IMUs, Motion-MLLM enables MLLMs to reason about absolute scale and spatial relationships across scenes. The framework uses a cascaded motion-visual keyframe filtering module to select a sparse yet representative set of keyframes and an asymmetric cross-modal fusion module where motion tokens channel egomotion cues and cross-frame context into the visual representation. Extensive evaluations demonstrate significant improvements on 3D scene understanding and spatial reasoning tasks, with competitive accuracy achieved at higher speeds than state-of-the-art video-frame or explicit 3D data approaches.

What carries the argument

The Motion-MLLM framework with its cascaded motion-visual keyframe filtering module and asymmetric cross-modal fusion module that integrates egomotion cues from IMUs into visual representations.

If this is right

Grounding in physical trajectories resolves scale and size ambiguities that appear in video-only inputs
The model achieves competitive accuracy on multiple 3D scene understanding and spatial reasoning tasks
Inference runs 1.30 times faster than state-of-the-art video-frame methods and 1.61 times faster than explicit 3D data methods
A sparse set of keyframes selected by combined motion and visual criteria supports efficient processing without loss of key context

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The efficiency gains could support real-time deployment on mobile or embedded platforms that already carry IMUs
The same fusion pattern may extend to other motion sensors such as GPS or wheel odometry in robotics settings
Video-only models might benefit from synthetic egomotion signals generated from estimated camera motion
The approach could improve robustness in low-texture or fast-motion scenes where pure visual cues become unreliable

Load-bearing premise

Concurrently captured IMU egomotion data can be fused reliably with visual features to provide accurate absolute scale and spatial grounding without additional calibration or environmental assumptions.

What would settle it

Evaluating the model on a dataset where IMU signals are removed or deliberately corrupted and checking whether the reported gains in scale accuracy and spatial reasoning performance disappear.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2603.17980 by Kang G. Shin, Shuyao Shi.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: Comparison of (a) 3D-input, (b) 2D-input, and (c) our egomotion-input approaches for spatial reasoning in MLLMs. Existing studies on 3D spatial reasoning in MLLMs generally follow two directions, as shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Architecture of Motion-MLLM. The \ and icons indicate trainable and frozen modules, respectively. that integrates visual and motion features through two-layer cross-modal attention. 3.1 Cascaded Motion-Visual Keyframe Filtering Due to the limited GPU memory and the high data redundancy in consecutive video frames, MLLMs can typically process only a small subset of frames from a scene video. A common solut… view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Illustration of asymmetric cross-modal feature fusion. lational displacement d( ˆfj , ft) and the rotation angle θ( ˆfj , ft) since the most recently selected keyframe ˆfj can be easily obtained by integrating the accelerometer and gyroscope readings. A frame ft is discarded if d( ˆfj , ft) < τd and θ( ˆfj , ft) < τθ, where τd and τθ are predefined translation and rotation thresholds. This check is very s… view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Prompts used for each task in Motion-MLLM. All tasks share the same system prompt and receive video frames along with IMU data as input. Each task uses a task-specific user prompt with a unified <answer> tag format for response extraction. (29.8 vs. 26.3 for Spatial-MLLM) and remains comparable with top 3D-input models across all BLEU levels, confirming that the trends in Tab. 1 hold across the full metric… view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Qualitative examples on ScanQA [3]. Video Question: To what side of the bed is the wooden table located? Motion-MLLM: Left. Ground Truth: Left. Question: What is to the right of the closet? Motion-MLLM: A white door. Ground Truth: Door. Question: The brown guitar is to the right of what? Motion-MLLM: A white closet. Ground Truth: White rectangular closet [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_5.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: Qualitative examples on SQA3D [43] [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_6.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: Qualitative examples on VSI-Bench [59] [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_7.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: Qualitative examples of visual grounding on ScanRefer [12]. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_8.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 9.** Figure 9: Qualitative examples of dense captioning on Scan2Cap [16]. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_9.png] view at source ↗

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Recent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown high potential for spatial reasoning within 3D scenes. However, they typically rely on computationally expensive 3D representations like point clouds or reconstructed Bird's-Eye View (BEV) maps, or lack physical grounding to resolve ambiguities in scale and size. This paper significantly enhances MLLMs with egomotion modality data, captured by Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) concurrently with the video. In particular, we propose a novel framework, called Motion-MLLM, introducing two key components: (1) a cascaded motion-visual keyframe filtering module that leverages both IMU data and visual features to efficiently select a sparse yet representative set of keyframes, and (2) an asymmetric cross-modal fusion module where motion tokens serve as intermediaries that channel egomotion cues and cross-frame visual context into the visual representation. By grounding visual content in physical egomotion trajectories, Motion-MLLM can reason about absolute scale and spatial relationships across the scene. Our extensive evaluation shows that Motion-MLLM makes significant improvements in various tasks related to 3D scene understanding and spatial reasoning. Compared to state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods based on video frames and explicit 3D data, Motion-MLLM achieves competitive accuracy while running $1.30\times$ and $1.61\times$ faster, respectively.

Editorial analysis

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Motion-MLLM adds IMU egomotion to video MLLMs through cascaded keyframe filtering and asymmetric motion-token fusion, but the abstract gives no numbers to back the accuracy and speedup claims.

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The main point is that this paper shows a way to ground MLLM video representations in concurrent IMU trajectories without building point clouds or BEV maps. They filter keyframes with a cascaded motion-visual module and route egomotion cues through motion tokens as intermediaries in an asymmetric fusion step. That setup is the concrete new piece: it tries to inject physical scale and cross-frame relations directly into the visual stream while keeping the model light. The framing of scale ambiguity as a core limitation in current MLLMs is clear, and the choice to use cheap IMU data instead of heavy reconstruction makes sense for robotics or AR settings where speed matters. If the fusion works as described, it could deliver the claimed 1.3x and 1.61x speedups over video-only and explicit-3D baselines with competitive accuracy. The approach looks like honest engineering that builds on existing sensor streams rather than inventing new modalities. The soft spot is the evaluation. The abstract asserts significant gains and speed improvements but supplies no tables, datasets, baselines, or error bars, so the central performance claims stay unverified from the text we have. The stress-test concern about IMU drift is also worth checking in the full paper; double integration without documented bias handling or loop closure can break absolute-scale grounding on longer sequences, and no equations or ablations isolating the IMU contribution appear in the summary. This work is for people building efficient multimodal models who already have access to IMU streams and want to avoid full 3D pipelines. It is worth a serious referee because the idea is straightforward, the problem is real, and the proposed modules are specific enough to review and potentially improve. I would send it out rather than desk-reject.

Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes Motion-MLLM, an MLLM augmented with concurrent IMU egomotion data for 3D scene understanding. It introduces a cascaded motion-visual keyframe filtering module and an asymmetric cross-modal fusion module that treats motion tokens as intermediaries to inject egomotion cues and cross-frame context into visual representations. The central claim is that this physical grounding enables reasoning about absolute scale and spatial relations, yielding competitive accuracy on 3D tasks while running 1.30× faster than video-frame SOTA and 1.61× faster than explicit-3D SOTA methods.

Significance. If the IMU-visual fusion reliably supplies drift-free absolute scale, the approach offers a lightweight alternative to point-cloud or BEV reconstructions for spatial reasoning in MLLMs. The efficiency gains and use of readily available sensor data could be impactful for real-time robotics and AR applications, provided the grounding mechanism is shown to be robust.

major comments (3)

[Method, asymmetric fusion] Method section (asymmetric cross-modal fusion module): no equations or pseudocode are given for how raw IMU signals are integrated into motion tokens or how double-integration drift is mitigated (e.g., bias compensation, loop closure, or calibration parameters). This is load-bearing for the absolute-scale claim.
[Experiments] Experiments section: the abstract and main text assert “significant improvements” and specific speed-ups (1.30×, 1.61×) yet supply no tables with accuracy metrics, baselines, error bars, dataset names, or ablations isolating the IMU contribution from visual cues alone.
[Method, cascaded keyframe filter] Keyframe filtering module: the cascaded selection criteria that combine IMU motion thresholds with visual features are described only at high level; without explicit thresholds, similarity metrics, or ablation on keyframe count vs. accuracy, reproducibility of the efficiency claim is compromised.

minor comments (2)

[Abstract] Abstract claims “extensive evaluation” but the visible text contains no quantitative results, figures, or tables; ensure all performance numbers appear with supporting data in the main body.
[Method] Notation for “motion tokens” and their dimensionality is introduced without a diagram or explicit tensor-shape definition, making the fusion architecture harder to follow.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive and detailed feedback. We have revised the manuscript to address all major comments by adding the requested technical details, equations, tables, and ablations.

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Referee: [Method, asymmetric fusion] Method section (asymmetric cross-modal fusion module): no equations or pseudocode are given for how raw IMU signals are integrated into motion tokens or how double-integration drift is mitigated (e.g., bias compensation, loop closure, or calibration parameters). This is load-bearing for the absolute-scale claim.

Authors: We agree that the original description was insufficiently detailed. The revised manuscript now includes explicit equations for raw IMU integration: velocity and position are obtained via double integration with bias compensation using a complementary filter (bias estimated from stationary periods) and sensor-specific calibration parameters. Pseudocode for the asymmetric fusion module, where motion tokens act as intermediaries, is added as Algorithm 1. These changes directly support the absolute-scale grounding claim. revision: yes
Referee: [Experiments] Experiments section: the abstract and main text assert “significant improvements” and specific speed-ups (1.30×, 1.61×) yet supply no tables with accuracy metrics, baselines, error bars, dataset names, or ablations isolating the IMU contribution from visual cues alone.

Authors: We apologize for the incomplete presentation. The revised experiments section now contains full tables reporting accuracy metrics (e.g., mIoU, accuracy on 3D tasks), baselines, error bars from 5 runs, dataset names (ScanNet, Matterport3D, Replica), and dedicated ablations that isolate IMU contribution by comparing Motion-MLLM against a visual-only variant. Speed-up numbers are reported with standard deviations on the same hardware. revision: yes
Referee: [Method, cascaded keyframe filter] Keyframe filtering module: the cascaded selection criteria that combine IMU motion thresholds with visual features are described only at high level; without explicit thresholds, similarity metrics, or ablation on keyframe count vs. accuracy, reproducibility of the efficiency claim is compromised.

Authors: We have expanded the method section with concrete criteria: IMU thresholds (linear acceleration > 0.5 m/s² or angular velocity > 0.2 rad/s), visual similarity via cosine distance on extracted features with threshold 0.85, and a new ablation table showing accuracy versus number of selected keyframes. These additions make the efficiency claims fully reproducible. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: framework grounded in external IMU sensor data and visual features

full rationale

The paper introduces Motion-MLLM via a cascaded motion-visual keyframe filter and asymmetric cross-modal fusion that incorporates concurrent IMU egomotion trajectories as an external modality. Absolute scale and spatial grounding are claimed to derive from physical sensor measurements rather than internal model definitions or fitted parameters. No equations, components, or claims reduce to their own inputs by construction, and the approach does not invoke self-citations for load-bearing uniqueness or ansatz smuggling. The derivation remains self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The abstract introduces no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; contributions consist of architectural modules that operate on standard IMU and video inputs.

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