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Recent advancements in reinforcement learning (RL) have led to significant progress in humanoid robot locomotion, simplifying the design and training of motion policies in simulation. However, the numerous implementation details make…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Yushi Wang , Penghui Chen , Xinyu Han , Feng Wu , Mingguo Zhao

Video-based human motion transfer creates video animations of humans following a source motion. Current methods show remarkable results for tightly-clad subjects. However, the lack of temporally consistent handling of plausible clothing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Moritz Kappel , Vladislav Golyanik , Mohamed Elgharib , Jann-Ole Henningson , Hans-Peter Seidel , Susana Castillo , Christian Theobalt , Marcus Magnor

Mimicry is a fundamental learning mechanism in humans, enabling individuals to learn new tasks by observing and imitating experts. However, applying this ability to robots presents significant challenges due to the inherent differences…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Hanjung Kim , Jaehyun Kang , Hyolim Kang , Meedeum Cho , Seon Joo Kim , Youngwoon Lee

The study of object representations in computer vision has primarily focused on developing representations that are useful for image classification, object detection, or semantic segmentation as downstream tasks. In this work we aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Tejas Kulkarni , Ankush Gupta , Catalin Ionescu , Sebastian Borgeaud , Malcolm Reynolds , Andrew Zisserman , Volodymyr Mnih

The field has made significant progress in synthesizing realistic human motion driven by various modalities. Yet, the need for different methods to animate various body parts according to different control signals limits the scalability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Zixiang Zhou , Yu Wan , Baoyuan Wang

The ability to autonomously learn behaviors via direct interactions in uninstrumented environments can lead to generalist robots capable of enhancing productivity or providing care in unstructured settings like homes. Such uninstrumented…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Rutav Shah , Vikash Kumar

We present a unified framework for multi-task locomotion and manipulation policy learning grounded in a contact-explicit representation. Instead of designing different policies for different tasks, our approach unifies the definition of a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Shafeef Omar , Majid Khadiv

We introduce PhysWorld, a framework that enables robot learning from video generation through physical world modeling. Recent video generation models can synthesize photorealistic visual demonstrations from language commands and images,…

Modern Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms promise to solve difficult motor control problems directly from raw sensory inputs. Their attraction is due in part to the fact that they can represent a general class of methods that allow to…

Deep Reinforcement Learning techniques are achieving state-of-the-art results in robust legged locomotion. While there exists a wide variety of legged platforms such as quadruped, humanoids, and hexapods, the field is still missing a single…

Action recognition based on skeleton data has recently witnessed increasing attention and progress. State-of-the-art approaches adopting Graph Convolutional networks (GCNs) can effectively extract features on human skeletons relying on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Di Yang , Yaohui Wang , Antitza Dantcheva , Lorenzo Garattoni , Gianpiero Francesca , Francois Bremond

Character image animation aims to synthesize high-fidelity videos by transferring motion from a driving sequence to a static reference image. Despite recent advancements, existing methods suffer from two fundamental challenges: (1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Mingshuang Luo , Shuang Liang , Zhengkun Rong , Yuxuan Luo , Tianshu Hu , Ruibing Hou , Hong Chang , Yong Li , Yuan Zhang , Mingyuan Gao

Image animation aims to animate a source image by using motion learned from a driving video. Current state-of-the-art methods typically use convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to predict motion information, such as motion keypoints and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Jiale Tao , Biao Wang , Tiezheng Ge , Yuning Jiang , Wen Li , Lixin Duan

Long-horizon, high-dynamic motion tracking on humanoids remains brittle because absolute joint commands cannot compensate model-plant mismatch, leading to error accumulation. We propose RobotDancing, a simple, scalable framework that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Zhenguo Sun , Yibo Peng , Yuan Meng , Xukun Li , Bo-Sheng Huang , Zhenshan Bing , Xinlong Wang , Alois Knoll

We introduce FALCON, a unified self-supervised video pretraining approach for UAV action recognition from raw RGB aerial footage, requiring no additional preprocessing at inference. UAV videos exhibit severe spatial imbalance: large,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Ruiqi Xian , Xiyang Wu , Tianrui Guan , Xijun Wang , Boqing Gong , Dinesh Manocha

We introduce PhysMotion, a novel framework that leverages principled physics-based simulations to guide intermediate 3D representations generated from a single image and input conditions (e.g., applied force and torque), producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Xiyang Tan , Ying Jiang , Xuan Li , Zeshun Zong , Tianyi Xie , Yin Yang , Chenfanfu Jiang

Motion synthesis in a dynamic environment has been a long-standing problem for character animation. Methods using motion capture data tend to scale poorly in complex environments because of their larger capturing and labeling requirement.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Ying-Sheng Luo , Jonathan Hans Soeseno , Trista Pei-Chun Chen , Wei-Chao Chen

Locomotion is a fundamental skill for humanoid robots. However, most existing works make locomotion a single, tedious, unextendable, and unconstrained movement. This limits the kinematic capabilities of humanoid robots. In contrast, humans…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yufei Xue , Wentao Dong , Minghuan Liu , Weinan Zhang , Jiangmiao Pang

Rendering moving human bodies at free viewpoints only from a monocular video is quite a challenging problem. The information is too sparse to model complicated human body structures and motions from both view and pose dimensions. Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Taoran Yi , Jiemin Fang , Xinggang Wang , Wenyu Liu

Motion planning under uncertainty is one of the main challenges in developing autonomous driving vehicles. In this work, we focus on the uncertainty in sensing and perception, resulted from a limited field of view, occlusions, and sensing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Kasra Rezaee , Peyman Yadmellat , Simon Chamorro