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Currently, task-oriented grasp detection approaches are mostly based on pixel-level affordance detection and semantic segmentation. These pixel-level approaches heavily rely on the accuracy of a 2D affordance mask, and the generated grasp…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Wenkai Chen , Hongzhuo Liang , Zhaopeng Chen , Fuchun Sun , Jianwei Zhang

Grounding 3D object affordance is a task that locates objects in 3D space where they can be manipulated, which links perception and action for embodied intelligence. For example, for an intelligent robot, it is necessary to accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 He Zhu , Quyu Kong , Kechun Xu , Xunlong Xia , Bing Deng , Jieping Ye , Rong Xiong , Yue Wang

Grasping occluded objects in cluttered environments is an essential component in complex robotic manipulation tasks. In this paper, we introduce an AffordanCE-driven Next-Best-View planning policy (ACE-NBV) that tries to find a feasible…

Understanding object affordances is essential for enabling robots to perform purposeful and fine-grained interactions in diverse and unstructured environments. However, existing approaches either rely on retrieval, which is fragile due to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Qiyuan Zhuang , He-Yang Xu , Yijun Wang , Xin-Yang Zhao , Yang-Yang Li , Xiu-Shen Wei

Our work addresses the problem of learning to localize objects in an open-world setting, i.e., given the bounding box information of a limited number of object classes during training, the goal is to localize all objects, belonging to both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Ashish Singh , Michael J. Jones , Kuan-Chuan Peng , Anoop Cherian , Moitreya Chatterjee , Erik Learned-Miller

The choice of a grasp plays a critical role in the success of downstream manipulation tasks. Consider a task of placing an object in a cluttered scene; the majority of possible grasps may not be suitable for the desired placement. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Zhanpeng He , Nikhil Chavan-Dafle , Jinwook Huh , Shuran Song , Volkan Isler

Understanding 3D scene-level affordances from natural language instructions is essential for enabling embodied agents to interact meaningfully in complex environments. However, this task remains challenging due to the need for semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Lian He , Meng Liu , Qilang Ye , Yu Zhou , Xiang Deng , Gangyi Ding

While many quality metrics exist to evaluate the quality of a grasp by itself, no clear quantification of the quality of a grasp relatively to the task the grasp is used for has been defined yet. In this paper we propose a framework to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Luca Cavalli , Gianpaolo Di Pietro , Matteo Matteucci

Affordances - i.e. possibilities for action that an environment or objects in it provide - are important for robots operating in human environments to perceive. Existing approaches train such capabilities on annotated static images or…

Grounding 3D object affordance seeks to locate objects' ''action possibilities'' regions in the 3D space, which serves as a link between perception and operation for embodied agents. Existing studies primarily focus on connecting visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Yuhang Yang , Wei Zhai , Hongchen Luo , Yang Cao , Jiebo Luo , Zheng-Jun Zha

Affordances have been introduced in literature as action opportunities that objects offer, and used in robotics to semantically represent their interconnection. However, when considering an environment instead of an object, the problem…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-07-04 Francesco Riccio , Roberto Capobianco , Marc Hanheide , Daniele Nardi

We introduce AffordanceGrasp-R1, a reasoning-driven affordance segmentation framework for robotic grasping that combines a chain-of-thought (CoT) cold-start strategy with reinforcement learning to enhance deduction and spatial grounding. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Dingyi Zhou , Mu He , Zhuowei Fang , Xiangtong Yao , Yinlong Liu , Alois Knoll , Hu Cao

Autonomous agents, such as robots or intelligent devices, need to understand how to interact with objects and its environment. Affordances are defined as the relationships between an agent, the objects, and the possible future actions in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Lorenzo Mur-Labadia , Ruben Martinez-Cantin

Decision-making AI agents are often faced with two important challenges: the depth of the planning horizon, and the branching factor due to having many choices. Hierarchical reinforcement learning methods aim to solve the first problem, by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Andrei Nica , Khimya Khetarpal , Doina Precup

3D Object Affordance Grounding aims to predict the functional regions on a 3D object and has laid the foundation for a wide range of applications in robotics. Recent advances tackle this problem via learning a mapping between 3D regions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xianqiang Gao , Pingrui Zhang , Delin Qu , Dong Wang , Zhigang Wang , Yan Ding , Bin Zhao

Embodied agents operating in human spaces must be able to master how their environment works: what objects can the agent use, and how can it use them? We introduce a reinforcement learning approach for exploration for interaction, whereby…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Tushar Nagarajan , Kristen Grauman

Language-guided robot dexterous generation enables robots to grasp and manipulate objects based on human commands. However, previous data-driven methods are hard to understand intention and execute grasping with unseen categories in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Yi-Lin Wei , Mu Lin , Yuhao Lin , Jian-Jian Jiang , Xiao-Ming Wu , Ling-An Zeng , Wei-Shi Zheng

For effective interactions with the open world, robots should understand how interactions with known and novel objects help them towards their goal. A key aspect of this understanding lies in detecting an object's affordances, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Anne Kemmeren , Gertjan Burghouts , Michael van Bekkum , Wouter Meijer , Jelle van Mil

Affordances enable robots to have a semantic understanding of their surroundings. This allows them to have more acting flexibility when completing a given task. Capturing object affordances in a machine learning model is a difficult task,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-24 George Potter , Gertjan Burghouts , Joris Sijs

Learning robot manipulation from human videos is appealing due to the scale and diversity of human demonstrations, but transferring such demonstrations to executable robot behavior remains challenging. Prior work either relies on robot data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yifan Han , Jianxiang Liu , Haoyu Zhang , Yuqi Gu , Yunhan Guo , Wenzhao Lian