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This paper presents a novel human-robot interaction (HRI) framework that enables intuitive gesture-driven control through a capacitance-based woven tactile skin. Unlike conventional interfaces that rely on panels or handheld devices, the…

A significant gap remains between today's visual pattern recognition models and human-level visual cognition especially when it comes to few-shot learning and compositional reasoning of novel concepts. We introduce Bongard-HOI, a new visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Huaizu Jiang , Xiaojian Ma , Weili Nie , Zhiding Yu , Yuke Zhu , Song-Chun Zhu , Anima Anandkumar

Home-assistant robots have been a long-standing research topic, and one of the biggest challenges is searching for required objects in housing environments. Previous object-goal navigation requires the robot to search for a target object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Hongyi Chen , Ruinian Xu , Shuo Cheng , Patricio A. Vela , Danfei Xu

Human-robot interaction (HRI) has become a crucial enabler in houses and industries for facilitating operational flexibility. When it comes to mobile collaborative robots, this flexibility can be further increased due to the autonomous…

Emotion recognition and touch gesture decoding are crucial for advancing human-robot interaction (HRI), especially in social environments where emotional cues and tactile perception play important roles. However, many humanoid robots, such…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Yuanbo Hou , Qiaoqiao Ren , Wenwu Wang , Dick Botteldooren

Operating effectively in novel real-world environments requires robotic systems to estimate and interact with previously unseen objects. Current state-of-the-art models address this challenge by using large amounts of training data and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Octavio Arriaga , Proneet Sharma , Jichen Guo , Marc Otto , Siddhant Kadwe , Rebecca Adam

This paper presents an improved system based on our prior work, designed to create explanations for autonomous robot actions during Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). Previously, we developed a system that used Large Language Models (LLMs) to…

Text-conditioned human motion generation has experienced significant advancements with diffusion models trained on extensive motion capture data and corresponding textual annotations. However, extending such success to 3D dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Sirui Xu , Ziyin Wang , Yu-Xiong Wang , Liang-Yan Gui

Instance segmentation algorithms in remote sensing are typically based on conventional methods, limiting their application to seen scenarios and closed-set predictions. In this work, we propose a novel task called zero-shot remote sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Shiqi Huang , Shuting He , Bihan Wen

Real-world robots localize objects from natural-language instructions while scenes around them keep changing. Yet most of the existing 3D visual grounding (3DVG) method still assumes a reconstructed and up-to-date point cloud, an assumption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Miao Hu , Zhiwei Huang , Tai Wang , Jiangmiao Pang , Dahua Lin , Nanning Zheng , Runsen Xu

Human-Object Interaction (HOI) detection aims to localize human-object pairs and comprehend their interactions. Recently, two-stage transformer-based methods have demonstrated competitive performance. However, these methods frequently focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Jihao Dong , Renjie Pan , Hua Yang

Drones have become a common tool, which is utilized in many tasks such as aerial photography, surveillance, and delivery. However, operating a drone requires more and more interaction with the user. A natural and safe method for Human-Drone…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Zdravko Marinov , Stanka Vasileva , Qing Wang , Constantin Seibold , Jiaming Zhang , Rainer Stiefelhagen

In this paper, different techniques of few-shot, zero-shot, and regular object detection have been investigated. The need for few-shot learning and zero-shot learning techniques is crucial and arises from the limitations and challenges in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Maged Badawi , Mohammedyahia Abushanab , Sheethal Bhat , Andreas Maier

One of the long-term challenges of robotics is to enable robots to interact with humans in the visual world via natural language, as humans are visual animals that communicate through language. Overcoming this challenge requires the ability…

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Visual affordance grounding aims to segment all possible interaction regions between people and objects from an image/video, which is beneficial for many applications, such as robot grasping and action recognition. However, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Hongchen Luo , Wei Zhai , Jing Zhang , Yang Cao , Dacheng Tao

Top-down, user-centered thinking is not typically a strength of all students, especially tech-savvy computer science-related ones. We propose Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) introductory courses as a highly suitable opportunity to foster…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Tobias Doernbach

While Visual Servoing is deeply studied to perform simple maneuvers, the literature does not commonly address complex cases where the target is far out of the camera's field of view (FOV) during the maneuver. For this reason, in this paper,…

Digital agents for automating tasks across different platforms by directly manipulating the GUIs are increasingly important. For these agents, grounding from language instructions to target elements remains a significant challenge due to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Yuhao Yang , Yue Wang , Dongxu Li , Ziyang Luo , Bei Chen , Chao Huang , Junnan Li

The ability of a robot to pick an object, known as robot grasping, is crucial for several applications, such as assembly or sorting. In such tasks, selecting the right target to pick is as essential as inferring a correct configuration of…

Graphical user interface (GUI) grounding is a fundamental task for building GUI agents. However, general vision-language models (VLMs) struggle with this task due to a lack of specific optimization. We identify a key gap in this paper:…

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