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Task driven object detection aims to detect object instances suitable for affording a task in an image. Its challenge lies in object categories available for the task being too diverse to be limited to a closed set of object vocabulary for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Jiajin Tang , Ge Zheng , Jingyi Yu , Sibei Yang

Perceiving and manipulating 3D articulated objects in diverse environments is essential for home-assistant robots. Recent studies have shown that point-level affordance provides actionable priors for downstream manipulation tasks. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Ruihai Wu , Kai Cheng , Yan Shen , Chuanruo Ning , Guanqi Zhan , Hao Dong

Visual affordances identify regions in an image with potential interactions, offering a novel paradigm for scene understanding. Recognizing affordances allows autonomous robots to act more naturally, could enhance human-robot interactions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Lorenzo Mur-Labadia , Ruben Martinez-Cantina , Jose J. Guerrero

Affordance segmentation aims to decompose 3D objects into parts that serve distinct functional roles, enabling models to reason about object interactions rather than mere recognition. Existing methods, mostly following the paradigm of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yu Huang , Zelin Peng , Changsong Wen , Xiaokang Yang , Wei Shen

This article studies the commonsense object affordance concept for enabling close-to-human task planning and task optimization of embodied robotic agents in urban environments. The focus of the object affordance is on reasoning how to…

Perceiving potential ``action possibilities'' (\ie, affordance) regions of images and learning interactive functionalities of objects from human demonstration is a challenging task due to the diversity of human-object interactions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Hongchen Luo , Wei Zhai , Jiao Wang , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha

Visual affordance segmentation identifies the surfaces of an object an agent can interact with. Common challenges for the identification of affordances are the variety of the geometry and physical properties of these surfaces as well as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Tommaso Apicella , Alessio Xompero , Edoardo Ragusa , Riccardo Berta , Andrea Cavallaro , Paolo Gastaldo

Building a robot that can understand and learn to interact by watching humans has inspired several vision problems. However, despite some successful results on static datasets, it remains unclear how current models can be used on a robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Shikhar Bahl , Russell Mendonca , Lili Chen , Unnat Jain , Deepak Pathak

Affordance detection and pose estimation are of great importance in many robotic applications. Their combination helps the robot gain an enhanced manipulation capability, in which the generated pose can facilitate the corresponding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Toan Nguyen , Minh Nhat Vu , Baoru Huang , Tuan Van Vo , Vy Truong , Ngan Le , Thieu Vo , Bac Le , Anh Nguyen

Affordances are the possibilities of actions the environment offers to the individual. Ordinary objects (hammer, knife) usually have many affordances (grasping, pounding, cutting), and detecting these allow artificial agents to understand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Hugo Caselles-Dupré , Michael Garcia-Ortiz , David Filliat

Affordance detection from visual input is a fundamental step in autonomous robotic manipulation. Existing solutions to the problem of affordance detection rely on convolutional neural networks. However, these networks do not consider the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Antonio Rodríguez-Sánchez , Simon Haller-Seeber , David Peer , Chris Engelhardt , Jakob Mittelberger , Matteo Saveriano

Many robotic tasks in real-world environments require physical interactions with an object such as pick up or push. For successful interactions, the robot needs to know the object's affordances, which are defined as the potential actions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Paula Wulkop , Halil Umut Özdemir , Antonia Hüfner , Jen Jen Chung , Roland Siegwart , Lionel Ott

How human interact with objects depends on the functional roles of the target objects, which introduces the problem of affordance-aware hand-object interaction. It requires a large number of human demonstrations for the learning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Juntao Jian , Xiuping Liu , Manyi Li , Ruizhen Hu , Jian Liu

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

Understanding objects at the level of their constituent parts is fundamental to advancing computer vision, graphics, and robotics. While datasets like PartNet have driven progress in 3D part understanding, their reliance on untextured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Penghao Wang , Yiyang He , Xin Lv , Yukai Zhou , Lan Xu , Jingyi Yu , Jiayuan Gu

Visual affordance learning is a key component for robots to understand how to interact with objects. Conventional approaches in this field rely on pre-defined objects and actions, falling short of capturing diverse interactions in realworld…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Tomoya Yoshida , Shuhei Kurita , Taichi Nishimura , Shinsuke Mori

Artificial intelligence is essential to succeed in challenging activities that involve dynamic environments, such as object manipulation tasks in indoor scenes. Most of the state-of-the-art literature explores robotic grasping methods by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Paola Ardón , Èric Pairet , Ron Petrick , Subramanian Ramamoorthy , Katrin Lohan

3D affordance reasoning, the task of associating human instructions with the functional regions of 3D objects, is a critical capability for embodied agents. Current methods based on 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) are fundamentally limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Di Li , Jie Feng , Jiahao Chen , Weisheng Dong , Guanbin Li , Yuhui Zheng , Mingtao Feng , Guangming Shi

Affordances are key attributes of what must be perceived by an autonomous robotic agent in order to effectively interact with novel objects. Historically, the concept derives from the literature in psychology and cognitive science, where…

In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in jointly modeling perception and action. At the core of this investigation is the idea of modeling affordances(Affordances are opportunities of interaction in the scene. In other words,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Xiaolong Wang , Rohit Girdhar , Abhinav Gupta