OrientSAM: Mitigating Camera-Centric Shortcut in Multimodal Spatial Reasoning via Orientation-Aware Spatial Alignment

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Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) still struggle with spatial reasoning that requires perspective transformation. In particular, they often rely on camera-centric cues rather than reasoning from the reference object's viewpoint, leading to systematic errors in non-camera reference settings. In this paper, we first analyze this failure mode and show that object orientation is a key factor underlying such camera-centric shortcut behavior. To address this issue, we propose OrientSAM, an orientation-aware spatial alignment framework for multimodal models. OrientSAM injects explicit orientation information into multimodal representations through orientation-aware tokens and Fourier-based angle encoding, and further adopts a curriculum learning strategy to progressively improve perspective-aware reasoning. In addition, we build a spatial data construction pipeline to generate orientation-aware spatial supervision from large-scale images. Experiments on Spatial-MM, ViewSpatial, and 3DSRBench show that OrientSAM consistently outperforms strong baselines, especially on non-camera-view, person-centric, and orientation-sensitive tasks. The results further demonstrate that explicit orientation modeling is important for mitigating camera-centric shortcut behavior and enabling more robust allocentric spatial reasoning in multimodal models.

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