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Computer use agents represent an emerging area in artificial intelligence, aiming to operate computers autonomously to fulfill user tasks, attracting significant attention from both industry and academia. However, the performance of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Yuhao Cheng , Liang Tang , Shuxian Li , Yukang Huo , Tiaonan Duan , Kaer Huang , Yanzhe Jing , Yiqiang Yan

Embodied navigation methods commonly operate in static environments with stationary objects. In this work, we present approaches for tackling navigation in dynamic scenarios with non-stationary targets. In an indoor environment, we assume…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Vishnu Sashank Dorbala , Bhrij Patel , Amrit Singh Bedi , Dinesh Manocha

Building a general-purpose intelligent home-assistant agent skilled in diverse tasks by human commands is a long-term blueprint of embodied AI research, which poses requirements on task planning, environment modeling, and object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Xinyu Xu , Shengcheng Luo , Yanchao Yang , Yong-Lu Li , Cewu Lu

Autonomous agents embedded in a physical environment need the ability to recognize objects and their properties from sensory data. Such a perceptual ability is often implemented by supervised machine learning models, which are pre-trained…

We propose the Intuitive Reasoning Network (IRENE) - a novel neural model for intuitive psychological reasoning about agents' goals, preferences, and actions that can generalise previous experiences to new situations. IRENE combines a graph…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Matteo Bortoletto , Lei Shi , Andreas Bulling

A smart city can be seen as a framework, comprised of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). An intelligent network of connected devices that collect data with their sensors and transmit them using cloud technologies in order to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Farzan Shenavarmasouleh , Farid Ghareh Mohammadi , M. Hadi Amini , Hamid R. Arabnia

Developing embodied agents in simulation has been a key research topic in recent years. Exciting new tasks, algorithms, and benchmarks have been developed in various simulators. However, most of them assume deaf agents in silent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Ruohan Gao , Hao Li , Gokul Dharan , Zhuzhu Wang , Chengshu Li , Fei Xia , Silvio Savarese , Li Fei-Fei , Jiajun Wu

Embodied agents capable of complex physical skills can improve productivity, elevate life quality, and reshape human-machine collaboration. We aim at autonomous training of embodied agents for various tasks involving mainly large foundation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Sizhe Yang , Qian Luo , Anumpam Pani , Yanchao Yang

Embodied AI models often employ off the shelf vision backbones like CLIP to encode their visual observations. Although such general purpose representations encode rich syntactic and semantic information about the scene, much of this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Ainaz Eftekhar , Kuo-Hao Zeng , Jiafei Duan , Ali Farhadi , Ani Kembhavi , Ranjay Krishna

In recent years, learning-based underwater image enhancement (UIE) techniques have rapidly evolved. However, distribution shifts between high-quality enhanced outputs and natural images can hinder semantic cue extraction for downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Guodong Fan , Shengning Zhou , Genji Yuan , Huiyu Li , Jingchun Zhou , Jinjiang Li

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

Object goal navigation (ObjectNav) is a fundamental task in embodied AI, requiring an agent to locate a target object in previously unseen environments. This task is particularly challenging because it requires both perceptual and cognitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Yihan Cao , Jiazhao Zhang , Zhinan Yu , Shuzhen Liu , Zheng Qin , Qin Zou , Bo Du , Kai Xu

Repurposing large vision-language models (LVLMs) as computer use agents (CUAs) has led to substantial breakthroughs, primarily driven by human-labeled data. However, these models often struggle with novel and specialized software,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Zeyi Sun , Ziyu Liu , Yuhang Zang , Yuhang Cao , Xiaoyi Dong , Tong Wu , Dahua Lin , Jiaqi Wang

This work focuses on the problem of visual target navigation, which is very important for autonomous robots as it is closely related to high-level tasks. To find a special object in unknown environments, classical and learning-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Bangguo Yu , Hamidreza Kasaei , Ming Cao

With the rise of automation, unmanned vehicles became a hot topic both as commercial products and as a scientific research topic. It composes a multi-disciplinary field of robotics that encompasses embedded systems, control theory, path…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Daniel V. Ruiz , Eduardo Todt

Decision making via sequence modeling aims to mimic the success of language models, where actions taken by an embodied agent are modeled as tokens to predict. Despite their promising performance, it remains unclear if embodied sequence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Tian Yun , Zilai Zeng , Kunal Handa , Ashish V. Thapliyal , Bo Pang , Ellie Pavlick , Chen Sun

The ability of artificial intelligence agents to make optimal decisions and generalise them to different domains and tasks is compromised in complex scenarios. One way to address this issue has focused on learning efficient representations…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Corina Catarau-Cotutiu , Esther Mondragon , Eduardo Alonso

Zero-Shot Object Navigation (ZSON) requires agents to autonomously locate and approach unseen objects in unfamiliar environments and has emerged as a particularly challenging task within the domain of Embodied AI. Existing datasets for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Ji Ma , Hongming Dai , Yao Mu , Pengying Wu , Hao Wang , Xiaowei Chi , Yang Fei , Shanghang Zhang , Chang Liu

To help bridge the gap between internet vision-style problems and the goal of vision for embodied perception we instantiate a large-scale navigation task -- Embodied Question Answering [1] in photo-realistic environments (Matterport 3D). We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Erik Wijmans , Samyak Datta , Oleksandr Maksymets , Abhishek Das , Georgia Gkioxari , Stefan Lee , Irfan Essa , Devi Parikh , Dhruv Batra

While Visual Large Language Models (VLLMs) show great promise as embodied agents, they continue to face substantial challenges in spatial reasoning. Existing embodied benchmarks largely focus on passive, static household environments and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Yifan Li , Lichi Li , Anh Dao , Xinyu Zhou , Yicheng Qiao , Zheda Mai , Daeun Lee , Zichen Chen , Zhen Tan , Mohit Bansal , Yu Kong