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In this paper, we present a novel approach for learning bimanual manipulation actions from human demonstration by extracting spatial constraints between affordance regions, termed affordance constraints, of the objects involved. Affordance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Björn S. Plonka , Christian Dreher , Andre Meixner , Rainer Kartmann , Tamim Asfour

The physical and textural attributes of objects have been widely studied for recognition, detection and segmentation tasks in computer vision.~A number of datasets, such as large scale ImageNet, have been proposed for feature learning using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Zeyad Khalifa , Syed Afaq Ali Shah

This study investigates how text-driven object affordance, which provides prior knowledge about grasp types for each object, affects image-based grasp-type recognition in robot teaching. The researchers created labeled datasets of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Naoki Wake , Daichi Saito , Kazuhiro Sasabuchi , Hideki Koike , Katsushi Ikeuchi

Reasoning about object grasp affordances allows an autonomous agent to estimate the most suitable grasp to execute a task. While current approaches for estimating grasp affordances are effective, their prediction is driven by hypotheses on…

Building a generalized affordance grounding model to identify actionable regions on objects is vital for real-world applications. Existing methods to train the model can be divided into weakly and fully supervised ways. However, the former…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Dengyang Jiang , Zanyi Wang , Hengzhuang Li , Sizhe Dang , Teli Ma , Wei Wei , Guang Dai , Lei Zhang , Mengmeng Wang

Achieving precise and generalizable grasping across diverse objects and environments is essential for intelligent and collaborative robotic systems. However, existing approaches often struggle with ambiguous affordance reasoning and limited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ruixiang Wang , Huayi Zhou , Xinyue Yao , Guiliang Liu , Kui Jia

Understanding how humans interact with the surrounding environment, and specifically reasoning about object interactions and affordances, is a critical challenge in computer vision, robotics, and AI. Current approaches often depend on…

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Diffusion-based policies have shown impressive performance in robotic manipulation tasks while struggling with out-of-domain distributions. Recent efforts attempted to enhance generalization by improving the visual feature encoding for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Shijie Wu , Yihang Zhu , Yunao Huang , Kaizhen Zhu , Jiayuan Gu , Jingyi Yu , Ye Shi , Jingya Wang

Robotic manipulation faces critical challenges in understanding spatial affordances--the "where" and "how" of object interactions--essential for complex manipulation tasks like wiping a board or stacking objects. Existing methods, including…

Humans perceive and interact with the world with the awareness of equivariance, facilitating us in manipulating different objects in diverse poses. For robotic manipulation, such equivariance also exists in many scenarios. For example, no…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Yue Chen , Chenrui Tie , Ruihai Wu , Hao Dong

3D affordance reasoning is essential in associating human instructions with the functional regions of 3D objects, facilitating precise, task-oriented manipulations in embodied AI. However, current methods, which predominantly depend on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Zeming Wei , Junyi Lin , Yang Liu , Weixing Chen , Jingzhou Luo , Guanbin Li , Liang Lin

For robots to exhibit a high level of intelligence in the real world, they must be able to assess objects for which they have no prior knowledge. Therefore, it is crucial for robots to perceive object affordances by reasoning about physical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Hongtao Wu , Deven Misra , Gregory S. Chirikjian

We present a new method to localize a camera within a previously unseen environment perceived from an egocentric point of view. Although this is, in general, an ill-posed problem, humans can effortlessly and efficiently determine their…

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Traditional learning from demonstration (LfD) generally demands a cumbersome collection of physical demonstrations, which can be time-consuming and challenging to scale. Recent advances show that robots can instead learn from human videos…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Xiaoxiang Dong , Weiming Zhi

Deformable object manipulation in robotics presents significant challenges due to uncertainties in component properties, diverse configurations, visual interference, and ambiguous prompts. These factors complicate both perception and…

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When interacting with objects, humans effectively reason about which regions of objects are viable for an intended action, i.e., the affordance regions of the object. They can also account for subtle differences in object regions based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Marvin Heidinger , Snehal Jauhri , Vignesh Prasad , Georgia Chalvatzaki

Object affordance reasoning, the ability to infer object functionalities based on physical properties, is fundamental for task-oriented planning and activities in both humans and Artificial Intelligence (AI). This capability, required for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Xiaomeng Zhu , Yuyang Li , Leiyao Cui , Pengfei Li , Huan-ang Gao , Yixin Zhu , Hao Zhao

Grounding natural language questions to functionally relevant regions in 3D objects -- termed language-driven 3D affordance grounding -- is essential for embodied intelligence and human-AI interaction. Existing methods, while progressing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Dongqiang Gou , Xuming He

As a common image editing operation, image composition involves integrating foreground objects into background scenes. In this paper, we expand the application of the concept of Affordance from human-centered image composition tasks to a…

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