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Affordances, originating in psychology, describe how an object's design influences the physical and cognitive actions users may take. Past work applied affordance theory to visualization to explain how design decisions can impact the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Racquel Fygenson , Enrico Bertini , Lace M. Padilla

Intelligent agents accomplish different tasks by utilizing various objects based on their affordance, but how to select appropriate objects according to task context is not well-explored. Current studies treat objects within the affordance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Haojie Huang , Hongchen Luo , Wei Zhai , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha

Acquiring knowledge about object interactions and affordances can facilitate scene understanding and human-robot collaboration tasks. As humans tend to use objects in many different ways depending on the scene and the objects' availability,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Alexia Toumpa , Anthony G. Cohn

Humans show an innate capability to identify tools to support specific actions. The association between objects parts and the actions they facilitate is usually named affordance. Being able to segment objects parts depending on the tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Claudia Cuttano , Gabriele Rosi , Gabriele Trivigno , Giuseppe Averta

Human affordance learning investigates contextually relevant novel pose prediction such that the estimated pose represents a valid human action within the scene. While the task is fundamental to machine perception and automated interactive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Prasun Roy , Saumik Bhattacharya , Subhankar Ghosh , Umapada Pal , Michael Blumenstein

In this abstract we describe recent [4,7] and latest work on the determination of affordances in visually perceived 3D scenes. Our method builds on the hypothesis that geometry on its own provides enough information to enable the detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Eduardo Ruiz , Walterio Mayol-Cuevas

The ability to understand the ways to interact with objects from visual cues, a.k.a. visual affordance, is essential to vision-guided robotic research. This involves categorizing, segmenting and reasoning of visual affordance. Relevant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Shengheng Deng , Xun Xu , Chaozheng Wu , Ke Chen , Kui Jia

Robots are often required to operate in environments where humans are not present, but yet require the human context information for better human-robot interaction. Even when humans are present in the environment, detecting their presence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Lasitha Piyathilaka , Sarath Kodagoda

Affordances represent the inherent effect and action possibilities that objects offer to the agents within a given context. From a theoretical viewpoint, affordances bridge the gap between effect and action, providing a functional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Hakan Aktas , Yukie Nagai , Minoru Asada , Matteo Saveriano , Erhan Oztop , Emre Ugur

Visualization design influences how people perceive data patterns, yet most research focuses on low-level analytic tasks, such as finding correlations. The extent to which these perceptual affordances translate to high-level decision-making…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Yixuan Li , Emery D. Berger , Minsuk Kahng , Cindy Xiong Bearfield

In the ecological approach to perception and action, information that specifies affordances is available in the energy arrays surrounding organisms, and this information is detected by organisms in order to perceptually guide their actions.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-20 Vicente Raja , Matthieu M. de Wit

Affordance, defined as the potential actions that an object offers, is crucial for embodied AI agents. For example, such knowledge directs an agent to grasp a knife by the handle for cutting or by the blade for safe handover. While existing…

Affordance detection, which refers to perceiving objects with potential action possibilities in images, is a challenging task since the possible affordance depends on the person's purpose in real-world application scenarios. The existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Liangsheng Lu , Wei Zhai , Hongchen Luo , Yu Kang , Yang Cao

What does it mean for a visual system to truly understand affordance? We argue that this understanding hinges on two complementary capacities: geometric perception, which identifies the structural parts of objects that enable interaction,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Qing Zhang , Xuesong Li , Jing Zhang

Visual affordance segmentation identifies the surfaces of an object an agent can interact with. Common challenges for the identification of affordances are the variety of the geometry and physical properties of these surfaces as well as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Tommaso Apicella , Alessio Xompero , Edoardo Ragusa , Riccardo Berta , Andrea Cavallaro , Paolo Gastaldo

Affordances describe the possibilities for an agent to perform actions with an object. While the significance of the affordance concept has been previously studied from varied perspectives, such as psychology and cognitive science, these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Paola Ardón , Èric Pairet , Katrin S. Lohan , Subramanian Ramamoorthy , Ronald P. A. Petrick

Reinforcement learning algorithms usually assume that all actions are always available to an agent. However, both people and animals understand the general link between the features of their environment and the actions that are feasible.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Khimya Khetarpal , Zafarali Ahmed , Gheorghe Comanici , David Abel , Doina Precup

Object affordance is an important concept in hand-object interaction, providing information on action possibilities based on human motor capacity and objects' physical property thus benefiting tasks such as action anticipation and robot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Zecheng Yu , Yifei Huang , Ryosuke Furuta , Takuma Yagi , Yusuke Goutsu , Yoichi Sato

For robots to exhibit a high level of intelligence in the real world, they must be able to assess objects for which they have no prior knowledge. Therefore, it is crucial for robots to perceive object affordances by reasoning about physical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Hongtao Wu , Deven Misra , Gregory S. Chirikjian

Understanding what objects could furnish for humans-namely, learning object affordance-is the crux to bridge perception and action. In the vision community, prior work primarily focuses on learning object affordance with dense (e.g., at a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Chao Xu , Yixin Chen , He Wang , Song-Chun Zhu , Yixin Zhu , Siyuan Huang