Video4Spatial: Towards Visuospatial Intelligence with Context-Guided Video Generation

Zeqi Xiao, Yiwei Zhao, Lingxiao Li, Yushi Lan, Yu Ning, Rahul Garg, Roshni Cooper, Mohammad H. Taghavi, Xingang Pan

Video4Spatial: Towards Visuospatial Intelligence with Context-Guided Video Generation: 7 upvotes on Hugging Face Daily Papers, #26 of 48 papers on 2025-12-03. Day-by-day upvote history.

We investigate whether video generative models can exhibit visuospatial intelligence, a capability central to human cognition, using only visual data. To this end, we present Video4Spatial, a framework showing that video diffusion models conditioned solely on video-based scene context can perform complex spatial tasks. We validate on two tasks: scene navigation - following camera-pose instructions while remaining consistent with 3D geometry of the scene, and object grounding - which requires semantic localization, instruction following, and planning. Both tasks use video-only inputs, without auxiliary modalities such as depth or poses. With simple yet effective design choices in the framework and data curation, Video4Spatial demonstrates strong spatial understanding from video context: it plans navigation and grounds target objects end-to-end, follows camera-pose instructions while maintaining spatial consistency, and generalizes to long contexts and out-of-domain environments. Taken together, these results advance video generative models toward general visuospatial reasoning.

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