SPIN-SGG: spatial integration for open-vocabulary scene graph generation
Scene Graph Generation (SGG) aims to represent visual scenes as structured graphs, where objects and their pairwise relationships are modeled as relational triples. However, conventional SGG methods often struggle with two crucial limitations: inadequate modeling of rich spatial relations beyond 2D layouts, and poor generalization in open-vocabulary scenarios. To address these limitations, we propose SPIN-SGG, a novel framework that explicitly integrates multi-dimensional spatial information—including planar geometry, relative depth, and topological structure—into an open-vocabulary SGG pipeline, without requiring ground-truth 3D annotations. Our approach builds upon a two-stage design. First, we generate pseudo-3D scene reconstructions from monocular images using multi-view synthesis and point cloud estimation, and construct a spatially enriched instruction-tuning dataset that includes fine-grained spatial predicates (e.g., left of, above, inside). Second, we propose a spatially aware visual-language model, trained with both static scene graph descriptions and dynamic spatial reasoning tasks such as question answering and multi-turn dialogue. To further enhance spatial layout consistency, we incorporate layer-aware clustering and object-level depth anchoring in the scene parsing module. Extensive experiments on the PSG benchmark and a newly curated SpatialSGG dataset demonstrate that SPIN-SGG significantly outperforms previous open-vocabulary SGG methods, with improvements of +1.3% in mR@50 on PSG and +2.7% QA accuracy on SpatialSGG, showcasing its robust and comprehensive spatial reasoning capabilities.
Authors
- Yingwei Xia
- Yong Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9031-9696)
- Nanhao Liang
- Xiaoyuan Yang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7367-0115)
- Shengyi Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0117-040X)
Institutions
- University of Science and Technology of China (CN)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences
- Published
- 2025-08-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s44443-025-00203-2
- Primary Topic
- Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Key Technologies Research and Development Program