General information
Organisation
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas :
• defence and security,
• nuclear energy (fission and fusion),
• technological research for industry,
• fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.
Drawing on its widely acknowledged expertise, and thanks to its 16000 technicians, engineers, researchers and staff, the CEA actively participates in collaborative projects with a large number of academic and industrial partners.
The CEA is established in ten centers spread throughout France
Reference
SL-DRT-25-0901
Direction
DRT
Thesis topic details
Category
Technological challenges
Thesis topics
Grounding and reasoning over space and time in Vision-Language Models (VLM)
Contract
Thèse
Job description
Recent Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like BLIP, LLaVA, and Qwen-VL have achieved impressive results in multimodal tasks but still face limitations in true spatial and temporal reasoning. Many current benchmarks conflate visual reasoning with general knowledge and involve shallow reasoning tasks. Furthermore, these models often struggle with understanding complex spatial relations and dynamic scenes due to suboptimal visual feature usage. To address this, recent approaches such as SpatialRGPT, SpaceVLLM, VPD, and ST-VLM have introduced techniques like 3D scene graph integration, spatio-temporal queries, and kinematic instruction tuning to improve reasoning over space and time. This thesis proposes to build on these advances by developing new instruction-tuned models with improved data representation and architectural innovations. The goal is to enable robust spatio-temporal reasoning for applications in robotics, video analysis, and dynamic environment understanding.
University / doctoral school
Sciences et Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (STIC)
Paris-Saclay
Thesis topic location
Site
Saclay
Requester
Position start date
01/10/2025
Person to be contacted by the applicant
TUO Aboubacar
aboubacar.tuo@cea.fr
CEA
DRT/DIASI//LVA
CEA-Saclay, BP 28, GIF-SUR-YVETTE CEDEX, ESSONNE 91191, France
0656802188
Tutor / Responsible thesis director
LOESCH Angélique
angelique.loesch@cea.fr
CEA
DRT/DIASI//LVA
CEA-Saclay, BP 28, GIF-SUR-YVETTE CEDEX, ESSONNE 91191, France
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https://kalisteo.cea.fr/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5fE1oWwAAAAJ&hl=en