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This paper introduces a novel self-supervised method that leverages incoherence detection for video representation learning. It roots from the observation that visual systems of human beings can easily identify video incoherence based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Haozhi Cao , Yuecong Xu , Jianfei Yang , Kezhi Mao , Lihua Xie , Jianxiong Yin , Simon See

This paper presents a novel framework that enables real-world humanoid robots to maintain stability while performing human-like motion. Current methods train a policy which allows humanoid robots to follow human body using the massive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Haoyu Zhao , Sixu Lin , Qingwei Ben , Minyue Dai , Hao Fei , Jingbo Wang , Hua Zou , Junting Dong

Collaborative robotic systems will be a key enabling technology for current and future industrial applications. The main aspect of such applications is to guarantee safety for humans. To detect hazardous situations, current commercially…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Lorena Gril , Philipp Wedenig , Chris Torkar , Ulrike Kleb

3D human pose estimation (HPE) is characterized by intricate local and global dependencies among joints. Conventional supervised losses are limited in capturing these correlations because they treat each joint independently. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yeonsung Kim , Junggeun Do , Seunguk Do , Sangmin Kim , Jaesik Park , Jay-Yoon Lee

Estimating human pose, classifying actions, and predicting movement progress are essential for human-robot interaction. While vision-based methods suffer from occlusion and privacy concerns in realistic environments, tactile sensing avoids…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Isaac Han , Seoyoung Lee , Sangyeon Park , Ecehan Akan , Yiyue Luo , Joseph DelPreto , Kyung-Joong Kim

We propose a method to tackle the problem of mapless collision-avoidance navigation where humans are present using 2D laser scans. Our proposed method uses ego-safety to measure collision from the robot's perspective while social-safety to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Jun Jin , Nhat M. Nguyen , Nazmus Sakib , Daniel Graves , Hengshuai Yao , Martin Jagersand

Estimating 3D human poses from video is a challenging problem. The lack of 3D human pose annotations is a major obstacle for supervised training and for generalization to unseen datasets. In this work, we address this problem by proposing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Mohsen Gholami , Ahmad Rezaei , Helge Rhodin , Rabab Ward , Z. Jane Wang

3D human motion prediction aims to generate coherent future motions from observed sequences, yet existing end-to-end regression frameworks often fail to capture complex dynamics and tend to produce temporally inconsistent or static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Junyu Shi , Haoting Wu , Zhiyuan Zhang , Lijiang Liu , Yong Sun , Qiang Nie

Acquiring large-scale, high-fidelity robot demonstration data remains a critical bottleneck for scaling Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models in dexterous manipulation. We propose a Real-Sim-Real data collection and data editing pipeline that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jiacheng Fan , Zhiyue Zhao , Yiqian Zhang , Chao Chen , Peide Wang , Hengdi Zhang , Zhengxue Cheng

A deep generative model that describes human motions can benefit a wide range of fundamental computer vision and graphics tasks, such as providing robustness to video-based human pose estimation, predicting complete body movements for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Jiaman Li , Ruben Villegas , Duygu Ceylan , Jimei Yang , Zhengfei Kuang , Hao Li , Yajie Zhao

In this work, we aim to enable legged robots to learn how to interpret human social cues and produce appropriate behaviors through physical human guidance. However, learning through physical engagement can place a heavy burden on users when…

Demonstration-guided reinforcement learning (RL) is a promising approach for learning complex behaviors by leveraging both reward feedback and a set of target task demonstrations. Prior approaches for demonstration-guided RL treat every new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Karl Pertsch , Youngwoon Lee , Yue Wu , Joseph J. Lim

Imitation learning, which enables robots to learn behaviors from demonstrations by human, has emerged as a promising solution for generating robot motions in such environments. The imitation learning-based robot motion generation method,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Hyeonjun Park , Daegyu Lim , Seungyeon Kim , Sumin Park

Human behavior understanding in videos is a complex, still unsolved problem and requires to accurately model motion at both the local (pixel-wise dense prediction) and global (aggregation of motion cues) levels. Current approaches based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-19 C. Spampinato , S. Palazzo , P. D'Oro , D. Giordano , M. Shah

Supervised approaches to 3D pose estimation from single images are remarkably effective when labeled data is abundant. However, as the acquisition of ground-truth 3D labels is labor intensive and time consuming, recent attention has shifted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Soumava Kumar Roy , Leonardo Citraro , Sina Honari , Pascal Fua

We introduce a method to generate 3D scenes that are disentangled into their component objects. This disentanglement is unsupervised, relying only on the knowledge of a large pretrained text-to-image model. Our key insight is that objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Dave Epstein , Ben Poole , Ben Mildenhall , Alexei A. Efros , Aleksander Holynski

Learning meaningful visual representations in an embedding space can facilitate generalization in downstream tasks such as action segmentation and imitation. In this paper, we learn a motion-centric representation of surgical video…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Ajay Kumar Tanwani , Pierre Sermanet , Andy Yan , Raghav Anand , Mariano Phielipp , Ken Goldberg

Masked autoencoders (MAEs) have emerged recently as art self-supervised spatiotemporal representation learners. Inheriting from the image counterparts, however, existing video MAEs still focus largely on static appearance learning whilst…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Haosen Yang , Deng Huang , Bin Wen , Jiannan Wu , Hongxun Yao , Yi Jiang , Xiatian Zhu , Zehuan Yuan

Although significant progress has been achieved on monocular maker-less human motion capture in recent years, it is still hard for state-of-the-art methods to obtain satisfactory results in occlusion scenarios. There are two main reasons:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Buzhen Huang , Yuan Shu , Jingyi Ju , Yangang Wang

Human motion generation is a challenging task that aims to create realistic motion imitating natural human behaviour. We focus on the well-studied behaviour of priming an object/location for pick up or put down - that is, the spotting of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Masashi Hatano , Saptarshi Sinha , Jacob Chalk , Wei-Hong Li , Hideo Saito , Dima Damen