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Modeling dexterous hand-object interactions is challenging as it requires understanding how subtle finger motions influence the environment through contact with objects. While recent world models address interaction modeling, they typically…

Reinforcement learning is a powerful framework for robots to acquire skills from experience, but often requires a substantial amount of online data collection. As a result, it is difficult to collect sufficiently diverse experiences that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Karl Schmeckpeper , Oleh Rybkin , Kostas Daniilidis , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn

Imitation learning for manipulation has a well-known data scarcity problem. Unlike natural language and 2D computer vision, there is no Internet-scale corpus of data for dexterous manipulation. One appealing option is egocentric human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ryan Hoque , Peide Huang , David J. Yoon , Mouli Sivapurapu , Jian Zhang

We build a system that enables any human to control a robot hand and arm, simply by demonstrating motions with their own hand. The robot observes the human operator via a single RGB camera and imitates their actions in real-time. Human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Aravind Sivakumar , Kenneth Shaw , Deepak Pathak

Recent robot learning methods commonly rely on imitation learning from massive robotic dataset collected with teleoperation. When facing a new task, such methods generally require collecting a set of new teleoperation data and finetuning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Xiang Zhu , Yichen Liu , Hezhong Li , Jianyu Chen

How can robot manipulation policies generalize to novel tasks involving unseen object types and new motions? In this paper, we provide a solution in terms of predicting motion information from web data through human video generation and…

One of the most efficient ways for a learning-based robotic arm to learn to process complex tasks as human, is to directly learn from observing how human complete those tasks, and then imitate. Our idea is based on success of Deep…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Cheng Xuan , Zhiqiang Tang , Jinxin Xu

Computer-use agents can operate computers and automate laborious tasks, but despite recent rapid progress, they still lag behind human users, especially when tasks require domain-specific procedural knowledge about particular applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Yujian Liu , Ze Wang , Hao Chen , Ximeng Sun , Xiaodong Yu , Jialian Wu , Jiang Liu , Emad Barsoum , Zicheng Liu , Shiyu Chang

We introduce PhysWorld, a framework that enables robot learning from video generation through physical world modeling. Recent video generation models can synthesize photorealistic visual demonstrations from language commands and images,…

Human videos offer a scalable way to train robot manipulation policies, but lack the action labels needed by standard imitation learning algorithms. Existing cross-embodiment approaches try to map human motion to robot actions, but often…

Robotic manipulation requires anticipating how the environment evolves in response to actions, yet most existing systems lack this predictive capability, often resulting in errors and inefficiency. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Songen Gu , Yunuo Cai , Tianyu Wang , Simo Wu , Yanwei Fu

Human hands possess remarkable dexterity and have long served as a source of inspiration for robotic manipulation. In this work, we propose a human $\textbf{H}$and$\textbf{-In}$formed visual representation learning framework to solve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Yanjie Ze , Yuyao Liu , Ruizhe Shi , Jiaxin Qin , Zhecheng Yuan , Jiashun Wang , Huazhe Xu

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) offers a promising paradigm for robot skill acquisition. Recent approaches attempt to extract manipulation commands directly from video demonstrations, yet face two critical challenges: (1) general video…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Thanh Nguyen Canh , Thanh-Tuan Tran , Haolan Zhang , Ziyan Gao , Nak Young Chong , Xiem HoangVan

Currently, video behavior recognition is one of the most foundational tasks of computer vision. The 2D neural networks of deep learning are built for recognizing pixel-level information such as images with RGB, RGB-D, or optical flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Zihan Wang , Yang Yang , Zhi Liu , Yifan Zheng

Recent progress of video diffusion models have enabled extensive simulation of the physical world. While simulation with hand object interaction has been less explored. We propose DexSIM, a dexterous simulation framework for simulating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Adam Lee

We develop a method for learning periodic tasks from visual demonstrations. The core idea is to leverage periodicity in the policy structure to model periodic aspects of the tasks. We use active learning to optimize parameters of rhythmic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Jingyun Yang , Junwu Zhang , Connor Settle , Akshara Rai , Rika Antonova , Jeannette Bohg

From an image of a person in action, we can easily guess the 3D motion of the person in the immediate past and future. This is because we have a mental model of 3D human dynamics that we have acquired from observing visual sequences of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Angjoo Kanazawa , Jason Y. Zhang , Panna Felsen , Jitendra Malik

Collecting demonstrations enriched with fine-grained tactile information is critical for dexterous manipulation, particularly in contact-rich tasks that require precise force control and physical interaction. While prior works primarily…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Di Zhang , Chengbo Yuan , Chuan Wen , Hai Zhang , Junqiao Zhao , Yang Gao

Many application areas ranging from serious games for health to learning by demonstration in robotics, could benefit from large body movement datasets extracted from textual instructions accompanied by images. The interpretation of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Himangshu Sarma , Robert Porzel , Jan Smeddinck , Rainer Malaka

Learning actions from human demonstration video is promising for intelligent robotic systems. Extracting the exact section and re-observing the extracted video section in detail is important for imitating complex skills because human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Iori Yanokura , Naoki Wake , Kazuhiro Sasabuchi , Katsushi Ikeuchi , Masayuki Inaba