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Visual perception and navigation have emerged as major focus areas in the field of embodied artificial intelligence. We consider the task of image-goal navigation, where an agent is tasked to navigate to a goal specified by an image,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Nikhilanj Pelluri

Building agents that can explore their environments intelligently is a challenging open problem. In this paper, we make a step towards understanding how a hierarchical design of the agent's policy can affect its exploration capabilities.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Maruan Al-Shedivat , Lisa Lee , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Eric Xing

Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (HRL) agents often struggle with long-horizon visual planning due to their reliance on error-prone distance metrics. We propose Discrete Hierarchical Planning (DHP), a method that replaces continuous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Shashank Sharma , Janina Hoffmann , Vinay Namboodiri

Inspired by human-like behaviors for navigation: first searching to explore unknown areas before discovering the target, and then the pathfinding of moving towards the discovered target, recent studies design parallel submodules to achieve…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Yanwei Zheng , Shaopu Feng , Bowen Huang , Chuanlin Lan , Xiao Zhang , Dongxiao Yu

Objects rarely sit in isolation in human environments. As such, we'd like our robots to reason about how multiple objects relate to one another and how those relations may change as the robot interacts with the world. To this end, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Yixuan Huang , Adam Conkey , Tucker Hermans

In visual semantic navigation, the robot navigates to a target object with egocentric visual observations and the class label of the target is given. It is a meaningful task inspiring a surge of relevant research. However, most of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Xinzhu Liu , Di Guo , Huaping Liu , Fuchun Sun

We propose a joint object pose estimation and categorization approach which extracts information about object poses and categories from the object parts and compositions constructed at different layers of a hierarchical object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-05 Mete Ozay , Krzysztof Walas , Ales Leonardis

We present a novel approach for the visual prediction of human-object interactions in videos. Rather than forecasting the human and object motion or the future hand-object contact points, we aim at predicting (a)the class of the on-going…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Victoria Manousaki , Konstantinos Papoutsakis , Antonis Argyros

Mapping is crucial for spatial reasoning, planning and robot navigation. Existing approaches range from metric, which require precise geometry-based optimization, to purely topological, where image-as-node based graphs lack explicit…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Sourav Garg , Krishan Rana , Mehdi Hosseinzadeh , Lachlan Mares , Niko Sünderhauf , Feras Dayoub , Ian Reid

We tackle the challenging problem of human-object interaction (HOI) detection. Existing methods either recognize the interaction of each human-object pair in isolation or perform joint inference based on complex appearance-based features.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Chen Gao , Jiarui Xu , Yuliang Zou , Jia-Bin Huang

Object-Goal Navigation (ObjectNav) requires an agent to autonomously explore an unknown environment and navigate toward target objects specified by a semantic label. While prior work has primarily studied zero-shot ObjectNav under 2D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Zichen Yan , Yuchen Hou , Shenao Wang , Yichao Gao , Rui Huang , Lin Zhao

State-of-the-art object detection systems rely on an accurate set of region proposals. Several recent methods use a neural network architecture to hypothesize promising object locations. While these approaches are computationally efficient,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Yongxi Lu , Tara Javidi , Svetlana Lazebnik

We present a robot navigation system that uses an imitation learning framework to successfully navigate in complex environments. Our framework takes a pre-built 3D scan of a real environment and trains an agent from pre-generated expert…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-28 David Watkins-Valls , Jingxi Xu , Nicholas Waytowich , Peter Allen

Safe navigation is essential for autonomous systems operating in hazardous environments. Traditional planning methods excel at long-horizon tasks but rely on a predefined graph with fixed distance metrics. In contrast, safe Reinforcement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Meng Feng , Viraj Parimi , Brian Williams

We consider the problem of Human-Object Interaction (HOI) Detection, which aims to locate and recognize HOI instances in the form of <human, action, object> in images. Most existing works treat HOIs as individual interaction categories,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Ye Liu , Junsong Yuan , Chang Wen Chen

The Object Navigation (ObjectNav) task aims to guide an agent to locate target objects in unseen environments using partial observations. Prior approaches have employed location prediction paradigms to achieve long-term goal reasoning, yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yiming Ji , Kaijie Yun , Yang Liu , Zhengpu Wang , Boyu Ma , Zongwu Xie , Hong Liu

Most existing Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) approaches follow the Tracking-by-Detection paradigm and the data association framework where objects are firstly detected and then associated. Although deep-learning based method can noticeably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Xingyu Wan , Jiakai Cao , Sanping Zhou , Jinjun Wang

The options framework in Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning breaks down overall goals into a combination of options or simpler tasks and associated policies, allowing for abstraction in the action space. Ideally, these options can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Kushal Chauhan , Soumya Chatterjee , Akash Reddy , Balaraman Ravindran , Pradeep Shenoy

Predictive Process Monitoring focuses on predicting future states of ongoing process executions, such as forecasting the remaining time. Recent developments in Object-Centric Process Mining have enriched event data with objects and their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Tim K. Smit , Hajo A. Reijers , Xixi Lu

Accurately modelling human attention is essential for numerous computer vision applications, particularly in the domain of automotive safety. Existing methods typically collapse gaze into saliency maps or scanpaths, treating gaze dynamics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Luke Palmer , Petar Palasek , Hazem Abdelkawy