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arxiv: 2605.25326 · v1 · pith:GUXV6W7Xnew · submitted 2026-05-25 · 💻 cs.CV

Perceive-then-Plan: Layout-as-Policy for Monocular 3D Scene Layout Estimation

Junwei Zhou , Yu-Wing Tai This is my paper

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keywords monocular 3D scene layoutlayout-as-policyperceive-then-planvision-language modelspolicy learning3D scene understandingiterative refinement
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Monocular 3D layout estimation improves by using a perceiver to ground objects and a planner to iteratively refine via corrective actions.

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

The paper formulates monocular 3D scene layout estimation as a perceive-then-plan problem. A Perceiver first grounds 3D objects from the image using vision-language models. A Planner then treats the layout as a state and applies discrete actions like translation, rotation, and rescaling to improve physical plausibility while keeping consistency with the image. The planner is trained with supervised trajectory initialization combined with preference-based optimization. This turns the task into an iterative refinement process that handles global constraints better.

Core claim

By casting the planning stage as a policy learning problem where 3D layouts are structured states refined via discrete actions, starting from an observation-aligned initialization, the model produces layouts that are more physically coherent and better aligned with visual observations.

What carries the argument

Layout-as-Policy (LaP), which represents 3D layouts as structured states refined through discrete actions in an iterative planner trained with supervised initialization and preference optimization.

If this is right

  • Layouts are more physically coherent than those from direct prediction.
  • Outputs align better with the input image observations.
  • The approach naturally supports downstream tasks such as scene editing and manipulation.
  • The task shifts from one-shot prediction to iterative refinement for handling complex interactions.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • This method could reduce reliance on full 3D supervision during training by using preference optimization.
  • It may generalize to other structured prediction tasks in vision that require enforcing physical constraints.
  • Applying the planner to video inputs could enable temporally consistent scene layouts.

Load-bearing premise

The planner learns reliable corrective action sequences from supervised trajectories and preference optimization without explicit rewards or ground-truth 3D layouts.

What would settle it

A direct comparison on a benchmark dataset showing whether the iterative planner produces lower physical inconsistency scores than a non-iterative baseline on images with known geometric conflicts.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.25326 by Junwei Zhou, Yu-Wing Tai.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: The 3D layout estimation problem can be formulated as a perceive-then-plan problem, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of our perceive-then-plan framework. The Perceiver grounds 3D boxes from the input image. A canonicalized, grid-based representation is then iteratively refined by the LaP Planner, which treats each layout as a structured state and selects discrete actions (translate, rotate, rescale) via a learned policy until convergence. The final layout supports both scene assembly (digital twin) and camera-sp… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: A simple illustration of DPO data pair synthesis. We note that the action sequences can support multiple objects. Action Space. We design a compact action space that cap￾tures the minimal yet sufficient set of operations for layout refinement. Each action is formulated in a programming language format with explicit parameters: SELECT(i) Selecting the object i in the structured layout L3d = {li}M i=1 for la… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: We visualize the 3D grounding result generated by our Perceiver 8B model. For better [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Example of our LaP guided action refinement process. We visualize each iteration’s [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: More visualization of final 3D layout and reprojection. We back convert the structured [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: We show examples of our assembled scene with the estimated 3D layout. We compare with [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Scene editing with instructions. We ablate the key design choices of both compo￾nents, with a particular focus on the LaP Planner to isolate the contribution of each element in our pol￾icy learning pipeline. For the Perceiver, we study the local-axis representation and geometry modu￾lation in Tab. 3. Removing geometry modulation yields the largest drop across all metrics, confirm￾ing that fusing visual fea… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Another downstream application of in￾structional refinement using user input language. After layout refinement by the LaP Planner, we populate the predicted 3D boxes with actual 3D assets (retrieved from existing datasets or gen￾erated by 3D generative models, we generate with SAM 3D in the main paper for better visu￾alization) and apply a gravity simulation step to resolve residual placement artifacts cau… view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: We present more visualization results of our Perceiver on real-world captures. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_10.png] view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: We present more visualization results of our LaP Planner. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_11.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Building structured 3D scene layouts from a single image requires reconciling visual observations with physical and spatial constraints, a challenge that is difficult to address with direct prediction alone. In this work, we formulate monocular 3D layout estimation as a perceive-then-plan problem with vision-language models, where a Perceiver first grounds the 3D objects and then a Planner iteratively refines the scene hypothesis through actions that improve physical plausibility while preserving consistency with the input image. We propose Layout-as-Policy (LaP), which casts the planning stage as a policy learning problem: 3D layouts are represented as structured states, and refined via discrete actions such as translation, rotation, and rescaling. Starting from an observation-aligned initialization with the geometry-enhanced Perceiver, the LaP Planner is trained to produce action sequences that progressively resolve geometric inconsistencies and enforce realistic spatial relations. To enable effective learning, we combine supervised trajectory initialization with preference-based optimization, allowing the model to learn corrective behaviors without requiring explicit reward engineering. This formulation transforms layout estimation from a one-shot prediction task into an iterative refinement process, enabling better handling of global constraints and complex object interactions. Experiments demonstrate that our approach produces layouts that are more physically coherent and better aligned with visual observations, while naturally supporting downstream tasks such as scene editing and manipulation.

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper formulates monocular 3D scene layout estimation as a perceive-then-plan task using vision-language models. A Perceiver first grounds 3D objects from the input image; a Planner then represents layouts as states and iteratively refines them via discrete actions (translate/rotate/rescale) to improve physical plausibility while preserving image consistency. The Planner is trained by supervised trajectory initialization followed by preference-based optimization, converting the task from one-shot prediction to iterative refinement.

Significance. If the empirical claims hold, the work offers a principled shift from direct regression to policy-driven refinement, potentially improving global constraint satisfaction and enabling downstream applications such as scene editing. The combination of supervised initialization with preference optimization without explicit reward engineering is a distinctive technical choice.

major comments (2)
  1. [Planner training description] Planner training section: the description states that preference-based optimization enables the model to learn corrective behaviors without explicit reward engineering or ground-truth 3D layouts at refinement time, yet supplies no mechanism (e.g., preference data construction, loss formulation, or verification that actions reduce geometric inconsistency) showing how the learned policy discovers physically valid fixes rather than patterns from the initialization distribution. This directly bears on the central “perceive-then-plan” advantage.
  2. [Experiments] Experiments section: the abstract asserts that the approach produces layouts that are more physically coherent and better aligned with visual observations, but the manuscript text provides neither quantitative metrics, baselines, dataset details, nor ablation results, leaving the central empirical claim unevaluable.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: key quantitative results supporting the coherence and alignment claims should be included to allow immediate assessment of the contribution.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. The comments identify two areas where additional detail will strengthen the manuscript. We address each point below and commit to a major revision that incorporates the requested clarifications and results.

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  1. Referee: [Planner training description] Planner training section: the description states that preference-based optimization enables the model to learn corrective behaviors without explicit reward engineering or ground-truth 3D layouts at refinement time, yet supplies no mechanism (e.g., preference data construction, loss formulation, or verification that actions reduce geometric inconsistency) showing how the learned policy discovers physically valid fixes rather than patterns from the initialization distribution. This directly bears on the central “perceive-then-plan” advantage.

    Authors: We agree that the current description is insufficiently detailed on these points. In the revised manuscript we will add: (i) the exact procedure used to construct preference pairs from the supervised initialization trajectories, (ii) the preference-optimization loss formulation (including how positive and negative actions are contrasted), and (iii) a verification experiment that quantifies the reduction in geometric inconsistency metrics after each refinement step. These additions will make explicit how the policy learns corrective actions that go beyond the initialization distribution. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Experiments] Experiments section: the abstract asserts that the approach produces layouts that are more physically coherent and better aligned with visual observations, but the manuscript text provides neither quantitative metrics, baselines, dataset details, nor ablation results, leaving the central empirical claim unevaluable.

    Authors: We acknowledge the gap. Although an Experiments section exists, it currently lacks the quantitative support needed to evaluate the claims. In the revision we will insert a complete experimental subsection containing: quantitative metrics for physical coherence and image alignment, comparisons against relevant baselines, full dataset descriptions, and ablation studies isolating the contribution of the Planner. Tables and figures will be added to make all claims directly verifiable. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: formulation relies on external training data and standard optimization without self-referential reduction

full rationale

The provided abstract and description contain no equations, fitted parameters, or derivations. The LaP Planner is trained via supervised trajectory initialization plus preference-based optimization on external data, with no indication that any 'prediction' or result is defined in terms of itself or reduces to the input by construction. No self-citations, uniqueness theorems, or ansatzes are invoked in a load-bearing way. The perceive-then-plan framing is a modeling choice supported by the training procedure rather than a tautology. This matches the default case of a self-contained empirical method.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

Abstract-only review supplies no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; the approach implicitly assumes vision-language models can ground 3D objects accurately and that preference optimization suffices for policy learning.

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