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Learning from demonstration allows for rapid deployment of robot manipulators to a great many tasks, by relying on a person showing the robot what to do rather than programming it. While this approach provides many opportunities, measuring,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Aran Sena , Matthew J Howard

Data-driven character animation based on motion capture can produce highly naturalistic behaviors and, when combined with physics simulation, can provide for natural procedural responses to physical perturbations, environmental changes, and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Xue Bin Peng , Angjoo Kanazawa , Jitendra Malik , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine

This paper studies Learning from Observations (LfO) for imitation learning with access to state-only demonstrations. In contrast to Learning from Demonstration (LfD) that involves both action and state supervision, LfO is more practical in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Chao Yang , Xiaojian Ma , Wenbing Huang , Fuchun Sun , Huaping Liu , Junzhou Huang , Chuang Gan

We introduce a new method for learning a generative model of articulated 3D animal motions from raw, unlabeled online videos. Unlike existing approaches for 3D motion synthesis, our model requires no pose annotations or parametric shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Keqiang Sun , Dor Litvak , Yunzhi Zhang , Hongsheng Li , Jiajun Wu , Shangzhe Wu

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) has shown to provide robots with fundamental motion skills for a variety of domains. Various branches of LfD research (e.g., learned dynamical systems and movement primitives) can generally be classified…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Alex Cuellar , Christopher K Fourie , Julie A Shah

Over the past few years, there have been numerous works towards advancing the generalization capability of robots, among which learning from demonstrations (LfD) has drawn much attention by virtue of its user-friendly and data-efficient…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Shaokang Wu , Yijin Wang , Yanlong Huang

Behavioral cloning, or more broadly, learning from demonstrations (LfD) is a priomising direction for robot policy learning in complex scenarios. Albeit being straightforward to implement and data-efficient, behavioral cloning has its own…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Carl Qi , Edward Sun , Harry Zhang

Human motion is fundamental to understanding behavior. Despite progress on single-image 3D pose and shape estimation, existing video-based state-of-the-art methods fail to produce accurate and natural motion sequences due to a lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Muhammed Kocabas , Nikos Athanasiou , Michael J. Black

Learning from visual data opens the potential to accrue a large range of manipulation behaviors by leveraging human demonstrations without specifying each of them mathematically, but rather through natural task specification. In this paper,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Haoyu Xiong , Quanzhou Li , Yun-Chun Chen , Homanga Bharadhwaj , Samarth Sinha , Animesh Garg

Learning from demonstrations (LfD) typically relies on large amounts of action-labeled expert trajectories, which fundamentally constrains the scale of available training data. A promising alternative is to learn directly from unlabeled…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Haoyu Zhang , Long Cheng

Humans can efficiently extract knowledge and learn skills from the videos within only a few trials and errors. However, it poses a big challenge to replicate this learning process for autonomous agents, due to the complexity of visual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Xin Liu , Haoran Li , Dongbin Zhao

We introduce a novel self-supervised learning approach to learn representations of videos that are responsive to changes in the motion dynamics. Our representations can be learned from data without human annotation and provide a substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Simon Jenni , Givi Meishvili , Paolo Favaro

An accurate model of the environment and the dynamic agents acting in it offers great potential for improving motion planning. We present MILE: a Model-based Imitation LEarning approach to jointly learn a model of the world and a policy for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Anthony Hu , Gianluca Corrado , Nicolas Griffiths , Zak Murez , Corina Gurau , Hudson Yeo , Alex Kendall , Roberto Cipolla , Jamie Shotton

Video anomaly detection (VAD) aims to temporally locate abnormal events in a video. Existing works mostly rely on training deep models to learn the distribution of normality with either video-level supervision, one-class supervision, or in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Luca Zanella , Willi Menapace , Massimiliano Mancini , Yiming Wang , Elisa Ricci

With growing access to versatile robotics, it is beneficial for end users to be able to teach robots tasks without needing to code a control policy. One possibility is to teach the robot through successful task executions. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Aleksandra Kalinowska , Ahalya Prabhakar , Kathleen Fitzsimons , Todd Murphey

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) can play a key role in spotting unusual activities in video footage. VAD is difficult to use in real-world settings due to the dynamic nature of human actions, environmental variations, and domain shifts.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Shanle Yao , Ghazal Alinezhad Noghre , Armin Danesh Pazho , Hamed Tabkhi

Naturalistic driving data (NDD) is an important source of information to understand crash causation and human factors and to further develop crash avoidance countermeasures. Videos recorded while driving are often included in such datasets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Hanwen Miao , Shengan Zhang , Carol Flannagan

We present a Learning from Demonstration (LfD) framework that achieves one-shot generalization in multi-stage, contact-rich manipulation tasks. Central to our approach is the utilization of environmental constraints as the inductive bias.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xing Li , Oliver Brock

Robot learning of manipulation skills is hindered by the scarcity of diverse, unbiased datasets. While curated datasets can help, challenges remain in generalizability and real-world transfer. Meanwhile, large-scale "in-the-wild" video…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Chrisantus Eze , Christopher Crick

Due to burdensome data requirements, learning from demonstration often falls short of its promise to allow users to quickly and naturally program robots. Demonstrations are inherently ambiguous and incomplete, making correct generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Wonjoon Goo , Scott Niekum