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We present Megaverse, a new 3D simulation platform for reinforcement learning and embodied AI research. The efficient design of our engine enables physics-based simulation with high-dimensional egocentric observations at more than 1,000,000…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Aleksei Petrenko , Erik Wijmans , Brennan Shacklett , Vladlen Koltun

We introduce Replica, a dataset of 18 highly photo-realistic 3D indoor scene reconstructions at room and building scale. Each scene consists of a dense mesh, high-resolution high-dynamic-range (HDR) textures, per-primitive semantic class…

A smart city can be seen as a framework, comprised of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). An intelligent network of connected devices that collect data with their sensors and transmit them using cloud technologies in order to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Farzan Shenavarmasouleh , Farid Ghareh Mohammadi , M. Hadi Amini , Hamid R. Arabnia

We introduce a novel interface for large scale collection of human memory and assistance. Using the 3D Matterport simulator we create a realistic indoor environments in which we have people perform specific embodied memory tasks that mimic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Meera Hahn , Kevin Carlberg , Ruta Desai , James Hillis

Application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in search and rescue, emergency management, and law enforcement has gained traction with the advent of low-cost platforms and sensor payloads. The emergence of hybrid neural and symbolic AI…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Hambisa Keno , Nicholas J. Pioch , Christopher Guagliano , Timothy H. Chung

The field of Embodied AI predominantly relies on simulation for training and evaluation, often using either fully synthetic environments that lack photorealism or high-fidelity real-world reconstructions captured with expensive hardware. As…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Gunjan Chhablani , Xiaomeng Ye , Muhammad Zubair Irshad , Zsolt Kira

Advancing safe autonomous systems through reinforcement learning (RL) requires robust benchmarks to evaluate performance, analyze methods, and assess agent competencies. Humans primarily rely on embodied visual perception to safely navigate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Tristan Tomilin , Meng Fang , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Visual navigation by mobile robots is classically tackled through SLAM plus optimal planning, and more recently through end-to-end training of policies implemented as deep networks. While the former are often limited to waypoint planning,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Assem Sadek , Guillaume Bono , Boris Chidlovskii , Christian Wolf

Vision guided navigation requires processing complex visual information to inform task-orientated decisions. Applications include autonomous robots, self-driving cars, and assistive vision for humans. A key element is the extraction and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Jaime Ruiz-Serra , Jack White , Stephen Petrie , Tatiana Kameneva , Chris McCarthy

The domain of Embodied AI, in which agents learn to complete tasks through interaction with their environment from egocentric observations, has experienced substantial growth with the advent of deep reinforcement learning and increased…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Luca Weihs , Jordi Salvador , Klemen Kotar , Unnat Jain , Kuo-Hao Zeng , Roozbeh Mottaghi , Aniruddha Kembhavi

A robot's ability to anticipate the 3D action target location of a hand's movement from egocentric videos can greatly improve safety and efficiency in human-robot interaction (HRI). While previous research predominantly focused on semantic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Irving Fang , Yuzhong Chen , Yifan Wang , Jianghan Zhang , Qiushi Zhang , Jiali Xu , Xibo He , Weibo Gao , Hao Su , Yiming Li , Chen Feng

In this paper, we introduce SPA, a novel representation learning framework that emphasizes the importance of 3D spatial awareness in embodied AI. Our approach leverages differentiable neural rendering on multi-view images to endow a vanilla…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Haoyi Zhu , Honghui Yang , Yating Wang , Jiange Yang , Limin Wang , Tong He

In the pursuit of realizing artificial general intelligence (AGI), the importance of embodied artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly apparent. Following this trend, research integrating robots with AGI has become prominent. As…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Zhe Sun , Pengfei Tian , Xiaozhu Hu , Xiaoyu Zhao , Huiying Li , Zhenliang Zhang

Recently there has been a rising interest in training agents, embodied in virtual environments, to perform language-directed tasks by deep reinforcement learning. In this paper, we propose a simple but effective neural language grounding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Haonan Yu , Xiaochen Lian , Haichao Zhang , Wei Xu

We present Orbit, a unified and modular framework for robot learning powered by NVIDIA Isaac Sim. It offers a modular design to easily and efficiently create robotic environments with photo-realistic scenes and high-fidelity rigid and…

Visual navigation for autonomous agents is a core task in the fields of computer vision and robotics. Learning-based methods, such as deep reinforcement learning, have the potential to outperform the classical solutions developed for this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Zachary Seymour , Kowshik Thopalli , Niluthpol Mithun , Han-Pang Chiu , Supun Samarasekera , Rakesh Kumar

Multi-modal AI systems will likely become a ubiquitous presence in our everyday lives. A promising approach to making these systems more interactive is to embody them as agents within physical and virtual environments. At present, systems…

Recent advances in generative modeling have spurred a resurgence in the field of Embodied Artificial Intelligence (EAI). EAI systems typically deploy large language models to physical systems capable of interacting with their environment.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Selma Wanna , Fabian Parra , Robert Valner , Karl Kruusamäe , Mitch Pryor

We consider the problem of embodied visual navigation given an image-goal (ImageNav) where an agent is initialized in an unfamiliar environment and tasked with navigating to a location 'described' by an image. Unlike related navigation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Jacob Krantz , Stefan Lee , Jitendra Malik , Dhruv Batra , Devendra Singh Chaplot

Progress in Embodied AI has made it possible for end-to-end-trained agents to navigate in photo-realistic environments with high-level reasoning and zero-shot or language-conditioned behavior, but benchmarks are still dominated by…