Reconstruction as Spatial Evaluation: Diagnosing Cross-View Spatial Intelligence in Large Vision-Language Models

Junfei Wu, Qiuyue Wang, Xuhong Huang, Qihang Peng, Mingsheng Li +6

The spatial intelligence of large vision-language models (LVLMs) requires the ability to combine local visual observations into a geometrically consistent representation of the physical world. Many static benchmarks assess isolated spatial judgments, such as relative direction or distance, while interactive embodied evaluations combine perception with exploration, planning, control, and simulator-specific execution. To bridge this gap, we introduce RECONSPATIAL, a benchmark centered on multi-view 3D scene reconstruction across indoor, tabletop, and outdoor environments. Given real multi-view images and target-object queries, LVLMs are required to jointly predict oriented 3D bounding boxes in a shared, camera-anchored metric coordinate frame. Reconstructions are evaluated along two complementary axes: Structure for relative layout and Metric for physical scale and camera-anchored placement. Nine atomic spatial QA tasks, grouped into Geometric Perception and Spatial Relations, probe spatial capabilities involved in joint reconstruction. Offline navigation extends evaluation to path planning. Evaluation of 18 frontier LVLMs reveals a consistent gap between relative scene structure…