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Learning to navigate in complex environments with dynamic elements is an important milestone in developing AI agents. In this work we formulate the navigation question as a reinforcement learning problem and show that data efficiency and…

The 3D scene graph models spatial relationships between objects, enabling the agent to efficiently navigate in a partially observable environment and predict the location of the target object.This paper proposes an original framework named…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Nikita Oskolkov , Huzhenyu Zhang , Dmitry Makarov , Dmitry Yudin , Aleksandr Panov

State-of-the-art approaches to ObjectGoal navigation rely on reinforcement learning and typically require significant computational resources and time for learning. We propose Potential functions for ObjectGoal Navigation with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Santhosh Kumar Ramakrishnan , Devendra Singh Chaplot , Ziad Al-Halah , Jitendra Malik , Kristen Grauman

Human-Object Interaction (HOI) detection devotes to learn how humans interact with surrounding objects. Latest end-to-end HOI detectors are short of relation reasoning, which leads to inability to learn HOI-specific interactive semantics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Dongming Yang , Yuexian Zou , Can Zhang , Meng Cao , Jie Chen

Detecting human-object interactions (HOIs) is an intricate challenge in the field of computer vision. Existing methods for HOI detection heavily rely on appearance-based features, but these may not fully capture all the essential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Lijing Zhu , Qizhen Lan , Alvaro Velasquez , Houbing Song , Acharya Kamal , Qing Tian , Shuteng Niu

This paper presents a novel structured knowledge representation called the functional object-oriented network (FOON) to model the connectivity of the functional-related objects and their motions in manipulation tasks. The graphical model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-01 David Paulius , Yongqiang Huang , Roger Milton , William D. Buchanan , Jeanine Sam , Yu Sun

Despite the recent successes of multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithms, efficiently adapting to co-players in mixed-motive environments remains a significant challenge. One feasible approach is to hierarchically model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Yizhe Huang , Anji Liu , Fanqi Kong , Yaodong Yang , Song-Chun Zhu , Xue Feng

Weather Forecasting is an attractive challengeable task due to its influence on human life and complexity in atmospheric motion. Supported by massive historical observed time series data, the task is suitable for data-driven approaches,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Minbo Ma , Peng Xie , Fei Teng , Tianrui Li , Bin Wang , Shenggong Ji , Junbo Zhang

This article introduces a novel method for object-level relocalization of robotic systems. It determines the pose of a camera sensor by robustly associating the object detections in the current frame with 3D objects in a lightweight…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Yutong Wang , Chaoyang Jiang , Xieyuanli Chen

Current motion-based multiple object tracking (MOT) approaches rely heavily on Intersection-over-Union (IoU) for object association. Without using 3D features, they are ineffective in scenarios with occlusions or visually similar objects.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Milad Khanchi , Maria Amer , Charalambos Poullis

Images are a convenient way to specify which particular object instance an embodied agent should navigate to. Solving this task requires semantic visual reasoning and exploration of unknown environments. We present a system that can perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Jacob Krantz , Theophile Gervet , Karmesh Yadav , Austin Wang , Chris Paxton , Roozbeh Mottaghi , Dhruv Batra , Jitendra Malik , Stefan Lee , Devendra Singh Chaplot

In this paper, we propose an approach to learn hierarchical features for visual object tracking. First, we offline learn features robust to diverse motion patterns from auxiliary video sequences. The hierarchical features are learned via a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-26 Li Wang , Ting Liu , Gang Wang , Kap Luk Chan , Qingxiong Yang

We propose improving the cross-target and cross-scene generalization of visual navigation through learning an agent that is guided by conceiving the next observations it expects to see. This is achieved by learning a variational Bayesian…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Qiaoyun Wu , Dinesh Manocha , Jun Wang , Kai Xu

The human-object interaction (HOI) detection task refers to localizing humans, localizing objects, and predicting the interactions between each human-object pair. HOI is considered one of the fundamental steps in truly understanding complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 A S M Iftekhar , Satish Kumar , R. Austin McEver , Suya You , B. S. Manjunath

In scene understanding, robotics benefit from not only detecting individual scene instances but also from learning their possible interactions. Human-Object Interaction (HOI) Detection infers the action predicate on a <human, predicate,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Zhijun Liang , Juan Rojas , Junfa Liu , Yisheng Guan

Robots have been successfully used to perform tasks with high precision. In real-world environments with sparse rewards and multiple goals, learning is still a major challenge and Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms fail to learn good…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Tejaswini Manjunath , Mozhgan Navardi , Prakhar Dixit , Bharat Prakash , Tinoosh Mohsenin

Higher-order interactions (HOIs) are ubiquitous in real-world complex systems and applications. Investigation of deep learning for HOIs, thus, has become a valuable agenda for the data mining and machine learning communities. As networks of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Sunwoo Kim , Soo Yong Lee , Yue Gao , Alessia Antelmi , Mirko Polato , Kijung Shin

Humans can robustly follow a visual trajectory defined by a sequence of images (i.e. a video) regardless of substantial changes in the environment or the presence of obstacles. We aim at endowing similar visual navigation capabilities to…

The interception of moving targets is a widely studied issue. In this paper, we propose an algorithm of intercepting the moving target with a wheeled mobile robot in a dynamic environment. We first predict the future position of the target…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Chendi Qu , Jianping He , Jialun Li , Chongrong Fang , Yilin Mo

Visual navigation for robotics is inspired by the human ability to navigate environments using visual cues and memory, eliminating the need for detailed maps. In unseen, unmapped, or GPS-denied settings, traditional metric map-based methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Faith Johnson , Bryan Bo Cao , Shubham Jain , Ashwin Ashok , Kristin Dana