4D LangSplat: 4D Language Gaussian Splatting via Multimodal Large
  Language Models
Authors: name: Wanhua Li; name: Renping Zhou; name: Jiawei Zhou; name: Yingwei Song; name: Johannes Herter; name: Minghan Qin; name: Gao Huang; name: Hanspeter Pfister
Published: 2025-03-13 14:58:22

Abstract: Learning 4D language fields to enable time-sensitive, open-ended language
queries in dynamic scenes is essential for many real-world applications. While
LangSplat successfully grounds CLIP features into 3D Gaussian representations,
achieving precision and efficiency in 3D static scenes, it lacks the ability to
handle dynamic 4D fields as CLIP, designed for static image-text tasks, cannot
capture temporal dynamics in videos. Real-world environments are inherently
dynamic, with object semantics evolving over time. Building a precise 4D
language field necessitates obtaining pixel-aligned, object-wise video
features, which current vision models struggle to achieve. To address these
challenges, we propose 4D LangSplat, which learns 4D language fields to handle
time-agnostic or time-sensitive open-vocabulary queries in dynamic scenes
efficiently. 4D LangSplat bypasses learning the language field from vision
features and instead learns directly from text generated from object-wise video
captions via Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). Specifically, we propose
a multimodal object-wise video prompting method, consisting of visual and text
prompts that guide MLLMs to generate detailed, temporally consistent,
high-quality captions for objects throughout a video. These captions are
encoded using a Large Language Model into high-quality sentence embeddings,
which then serve as pixel-aligned, object-specific feature supervision,
facilitating open-vocabulary text queries through shared embedding spaces.
Recognizing that objects in 4D scenes exhibit smooth transitions across states,
we further propose a status deformable network to model these continuous
changes over time effectively. Our results across multiple benchmarks
demonstrate that 4D LangSplat attains precise and efficient results for both
time-sensitive and time-agnostic open-vocabulary queries.