spatial

Definition

Concerning position and layout — the height and width axes of an image, or where things sit in a 3D scene. It comes up when discussing inductive bias: convolutions bake in locality and translation equivariance, while a vision transformer must learn spatial structure from position embeddings over patches. For video the term pairs with temporal, giving spatio-temporal modelling.

Explainers using this term

• Paper Walkthrough — UrbanGround: Where MLLM Agents Break Down on a Real StreetUrbanGround: From Local Perception to Spatial Agency in a Real-Scale City
• Paper Walkthrough: GST-Bench — Can VLMs Build a Global Map of a Scene from Video?GST-Bench: Can VLMs Develop Global Spatial Awareness from Video?