DOrA: 3D Visual Grounding with Order-Aware Referring

3D visual grounding aims to identify the target object within a 3D point cloud scene referred to by a natural language description. While previous works attempt to exploit the verbo-visual relation with proposed cross-modal transformers, unstructured natural utterances and scattered objects might lead to undesirable performances. In this paper, we introduce DOrA, a novel 3D visual grounding framework with Order-Aware referring. DOrA is designed to leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) to parse language description, suggesting a referential order of anchor objects. Such ordered anchor objects allow DOrA to update visual features and locate the target object during the grounding process. Experimental results on the NR3D and ScanRefer datasets demonstrate our superiority in both low-resource and full-data scenarios. In particular, DOrA surpasses current state-of-the-art frameworks by 9.3% and 7.8% grounding accuracy under 1% data and 10% data settings, respectively.