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Understanding what objects could furnish for humans-namely, learning object affordance-is the crux to bridge perception and action. In the vision community, prior work primarily focuses on learning object affordance with dense (e.g., at a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Chao Xu , Yixin Chen , He Wang , Song-Chun Zhu , Yixin Zhu , Siyuan Huang

Autonomous agents must often detect affordances: the set of behaviors enabled by a situation. Affordance detection is particularly helpful in domains with large action spaces, allowing the agent to prune its search space by avoiding futile…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Nancy Fulda , Daniel Ricks , Ben Murdoch , David Wingate

Localizing functional regions of objects or affordances is an important aspect of scene understanding. In this work, we cast the problem of affordance segmentation as that of semantic image segmentation. In order to explore various levels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-01 Abhilash Srikantha , Juergen Gall

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

Affordances are a fundamental concept in robotics since they relate available actions for an agent depending on its sensory-motor capabilities and the environment. We present a novel Bayesian deep network to detect affordances in images, at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Lorenzo Mur-Labadia , Ruben Martinez-Cantin , Jose J. Guerrero

Enabling robots to explore and act in unfamiliar environments under ambiguous human instructions by interactively identifying task-relevant objects (e.g., identifying cups or beverages for "I'm thirsty") remains challenging for existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Hengxuan Xu , Fengbo Lan , Zhixin Zhao , Shengjie Wang , Mengqiao Liu , Jieqian Sun , Yu Cheng , Tao Zhang

Visual affordance learning is crucial for robots to understand and interact effectively with the physical world. Recent advances in this field attempt to leverage pre-trained knowledge of vision-language foundation models to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Qian Zhang , Lin Zhang , Xing Fang , Mingxin Zhang , Zhiyuan Wei , Ran Song , Wei Zhang

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

Autonomous agents, such as robots or intelligent devices, need to understand how to interact with objects and its environment. Affordances are defined as the relationships between an agent, the objects, and the possible future actions in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Lorenzo Mur-Labadia , Ruben Martinez-Cantin

Affordance grounding aims to localize the interaction regions for the manipulated objects in the scene image according to given instructions. A critical challenge in affordance grounding is that the embodied agent should understand human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Changmao Chen , Yuren Cong , Zhen Kan

Most existing work that grounds natural language phrases in images starts with the assumption that the phrase in question is relevant to the image. In this paper we address a more realistic version of the natural language grounding task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Bryan A. Plummer , Kevin J. Shih , Yichen Li , Ke Xu , Svetlana Lazebnik , Stan Sclaroff , Kate Saenko

We introduce One-shot Open Affordance Learning (OOAL), where a model is trained with just one example per base object category, but is expected to identify novel objects and affordances. While vision-language models excel at recognizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Gen Li , Deqing Sun , Laura Sevilla-Lara , Varun Jampani

Text-based simulated environments have proven to be a valid testbed for machine learning approaches. The process of affordance extraction can be used to generate possible actions for interaction within such an environment. In this paper the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-22 P. Gelhausen , M. Fischer , G. Peters

A core problem of Embodied AI is to learn object manipulation from observation, as humans do. To achieve this, it is important to localize 3D object affordance areas through observation such as images (3D affordance grounding) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Xinhang Wan , Dongqiang Gou , Xinwang Liu , En Zhu , Xuming He

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

What does it mean for a visual system to truly understand affordance? We argue that this understanding hinges on two complementary capacities: geometric perception, which identifies the structural parts of objects that enable interaction,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Qing Zhang , Xuesong Li , Jing Zhang

This paper introduces an automatic affordance reasoning paradigm tailored to minimal semantic inputs, addressing the critical challenges of classifying and manipulating unseen classes of objects in household settings. Inspired by human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Ceng Zhang , Xin Meng , Dongchen Qi , Gregory S. Chirikjian

This paper presents an approach for learning invariant features for object affordance understanding. One of the major problems for a robotic agent acquiring a deeper understanding of affordances is finding sensory-grounded semantics. Being…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Martin Hjelm , Carl Henrik Ek , Renaud Detry , Danica Kragic

Affordance denotes the potential interactions inherent in objects. The perception of affordance can enable intelligent agents to navigate and interact with new environments efficiently. Weakly supervised affordance grounding teaches agents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Ji Ha Jang , Hoigi Seo , Se Young Chun

The advancement in computing power has significantly reduced the training times for deep learning, fostering the rapid development of networks designed for object recognition. However, the exploration of object utility, which is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 İsmail Özçil , A. Buğra Koku