cs.CVMay 16, 2026

Coarse Semantic Injection for LLM-Conditioned Structured Indoor Prediction

Authors: Shuliang Zhu, Tomiwa Adey, Jinjia Zhou

Abstract

Large language models (LLMs) have recently been used as structured decoders for indoor understanding from 3D point-token inputs. However, point cloud encoders often under-represent thin structural elements such as doors and windows after voxelization and sparse pooling, and may miss individual furniture instances in cluttered scenes. We propose an interface-preserving semantic augmentation for LLM-conditioned structured decoding. The key idea is to associate semantic evidence with the point-cloud representation, reduce it to a coarse four-group code (furniture, walls, openings, and others), and encode it as an RGBB point interface: red for furniture, green for walls, blue for openings, and black for others, where RGBB denotes four semantic color states represented in three RGB channels rather than an additional fourth channel. This semantic color code is appended to the original raw point attributes before tokenization, so geometry and semantics share the same sparse tokenization path while the downstream language model decoder and output serialization remain unchanged. We further introduce a lightweight routed semantic shift module, with an auxiliary head used only for training-time ratio/budget regularization and analysis, to strengthen semantic cues after sparse pooling. The overall pipeline can use RGB-derived semantic evidence. Under these controlled semantic-source settings, the reported metrics improve across Structured3D, the SpatialLM dataset, and ARKitScenes, especially for opening localization and per-instance furniture detection in cluttered scenes. Ablations clarify the roles of semantic source, color coding, token fusion, and shift injection, while also showing that color/entropy effects remain nontrivial.

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