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Affordances represent the inherent effect and action possibilities that objects offer to the agents within a given context. From a theoretical viewpoint, affordances bridge the gap between effect and action, providing a functional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Hakan Aktas , Yukie Nagai , Minoru Asada , Matteo Saveriano , Erhan Oztop , Emre Ugur

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

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

Robotic affordances, providing information about what actions can be taken in a given situation, can aid robotic manipulation. However, learning about affordances requires expensive large annotated datasets of interactions or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Pietro Mazzaglia , Taco Cohen , Daniel Dijkman

Robotic affordances, providing information about what actions can be taken in a given situation, can aid robotic manipulation. However, learning about affordances requires expensive large annotated datasets of interactions or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Pietro Mazzaglia , Taco Cohen , Daniel Dijkman

Dexterous robotic hands are appealing for their agility and human-like morphology, yet their high degree of freedom makes learning to manipulate challenging. We introduce an approach for learning dexterous grasping. Our key idea is to embed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Priyanka Mandikal , Kristen Grauman

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

Learning to manipulate 3D objects in an interactive environment has been a challenging problem in Reinforcement Learning (RL). In particular, it is hard to train a policy that can generalize over objects with different semantic categories,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Yiran Geng , Boshi An , Haoran Geng , Yuanpei Chen , Yaodong Yang , Hao Dong

Affordance detection refers to identifying the potential action possibilities of objects in an image, which is an important ability for robot perception and manipulation. To empower robots with this ability in unseen scenarios, we consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Hongchen Luo , Wei Zhai , Jing Zhang , Yang Cao , Dacheng Tao

To enable robots to use tools, the initial step is teaching robots to employ dexterous gestures for touching specific areas precisely where tasks are performed. Affordance features of objects serve as a bridge in the functional interaction…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Fan Yang , Wenrui Chen , Kailun Yang , Haoran Lin , Dongsheng Luo , Conghui Tang , Zhiyong Li , Yaonan Wang

Intelligent agents accomplish different tasks by utilizing various objects based on their affordance, but how to select appropriate objects according to task context is not well-explored. Current studies treat objects within the affordance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Haojie Huang , Hongchen Luo , Wei Zhai , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha

This paper explores the grounding issue regarding multimodal semantic representation from a computational cognitive-linguistic view. We annotate images from the Flickr30k dataset with five perceptual properties: Affordance, Perceptual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Pin-Er Chen , Po-Ya Angela Wang , Hsin-Yu Chou , Yu-Hsiang Tseng , Shu-Kai Hsieh

Affordance refers to the perception of possible actions allowed by an object. Despite its relevance to human-computer interaction, no existing theory explains the mechanisms that underpin affordance-formation; that is, how affordances are…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Yi-Chi Liao , Kashyap Todi , Aditya Acharya , Antti Keurulainen , Andrew Howes , Antti Oulasvirta

3D object affordance grounding aims to predict the touchable regions on a 3d object, which is crucial for human-object interaction, human-robot interaction, embodied perception, and robot learning. Recent advances tackle this problem via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Hanqing Wang , Zhenhao Zhang , Kaiyang Ji , Mingyu Liu , Wenti Yin , Yuchao Chen , Zhirui Liu , Xiangyu Zeng , Tianxiang Gui , Hangxing Zhang

General robotic grasping systems require accurate object affordance perception in diverse open-world scenarios following human instructions. However, current studies suffer from the problem of lacking reasoning-based large-scale affordance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Dongming Wu , Yanping Fu , Saike Huang , Yingfei Liu , Fan Jia , Nian Liu , Feng Dai , Tiancai Wang , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Jianbing Shen

Open-Vocabulary 3D object affordance grounding aims to anticipate ``action possibilities'' regions on 3D objects with arbitrary instructions, which is crucial for robots to generically perceive real scenarios and respond to operational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yawen Shao , Wei Zhai , Yuhang Yang , Hongchen Luo , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha

Affordance information about a scene provides important clues as to what actions may be executed in pursuit of meeting a specified goal state. Thus, integrating affordance-based reasoning into symbolic action plannning pipelines would…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Fu-Jen Chu , Ruinian Xu , Chao Tang , Patricio A. Vela

Affordance learning is a complex challenge in many applications, where existing approaches primarily focus on the geometric structures, visual knowledge, and affordance labels of objects to determine interactable regions. However, extending…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Nghia Vu , Tuong Do , Khang Nguyen , Baoru Huang , Nhat Le , Binh Xuan Nguyen , Erman Tjiputra , Quang D. Tran , Ravi Prakash , Te-Chuan Chiu , Anh Nguyen

Affordance refers to the functional properties that an agent perceives and utilizes from its environment, and is key perceptual information required for robots to perform actions. This information is rich and multimodal in nature. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yizhou Huang , Fan Yang , Guoliang Zhu , Gen Li , Hao Shi , Yukun Zuo , Wenrui Chen , Zhiyong Li , Kailun Yang

Learning to understand and infer object functionalities is an important step towards robust visual intelligence. Significant research efforts have recently focused on segmenting the object parts that enable specific types of human-object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Spyridon Thermos , Petros Daras , Gerasimos Potamianos