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The unsupervised Pretraining method has been widely used in aiding human action recognition. However, existing methods focus on reconstructing the already present frames rather than generating frames which happen in future.In this paper, We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Yu Runsheng , Shi Zhenyu , Ma Qiongxiong , Qing Laiyun

Human-robot interaction often occurs in the form of instructions given from a human to a robot. For a robot to successfully follow instructions, a common representation of the world and objects in it should be shared between humans and the…

Utilizing Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for robotic manipulation represents a novel paradigm, aiming to enhance the model's ability to generalize to new objects and instructions. However, due to variations in camera specifications and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Fanfan Liu , Feng Yan , Liming Zheng , Chengjian Feng , Yiyang Huang , Lin Ma

Large-scale multi-task robotic manipulation systems often rely on text to specify the task. In this work, we explore whether a robot can learn by observing humans. To do so, the robot must understand a person's intent and perform the…

To act in the world, robots rely on a representation of salient task aspects: for example, to carry a coffee mug, a robot may consider movement efficiency or mug orientation in its behavior. However, if we want robots to act for and with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Andreea Bobu , Andi Peng , Pulkit Agrawal , Julie Shah , Anca D. Dragan

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) encode knowledge and reasoning capabilities for robotic manipulation within high-dimensional representation spaces. However, current approaches often project them into compressed intermediate representations,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Wenbo Li , Shiyi Wang , Yiteng Chen , Huiping Zhuang , Qingyao Wu

Interactive robots navigating photo-realistic environments need to be trained to effectively leverage and handle the dynamic nature of dialogue in addition to the challenges underlying vision-and-language navigation (VLN). In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Ayush Shrivastava , Karthik Gopalakrishnan , Yang Liu , Robinson Piramuthu , Gokhan Tür , Devi Parikh , Dilek Hakkani-Tür

Learning generalizable robotic manipulation policies remains a key challenge due to the scarcity of diverse real-world training data. While recent approaches have attempted to mitigate this through self-supervised representation learning,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Jingyi Tian , Le Wang , Sanping Zhou , Sen Wang , Jiayi Li , Gang Hua

While language reasoning models excel in many tasks, visual reasoning remains challenging for current large multimodal models (LMMs). As a result, most LMMs default to verbalizing perceptual content into text, a strong limitation for tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 André G. Viveiros , Nuno Gonçalves , Matthias Lindemann , André Martins

Recent developments in Large Language Models pre-trained on extensive corpora have shown significant success in various natural language processing tasks with minimal fine-tuning. This success offers new promise for robotics, which has long…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Yi Chen , Yuying Ge , Weiliang Tang , Yizhuo Li , Yixiao Ge , Mingyu Ding , Ying Shan , Xihui Liu

When operating in service of people, robots need to optimize rewards aligned with end-user preferences. Since robots will rely on raw perceptual inputs like RGB images, their rewards will inevitably use visual representations. Recently…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Ran Tian , Chenfeng Xu , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Jitendra Malik , Andrea Bajcsy

A key challenge in intelligent robotics is creating robots that are capable of directly interacting with the world around them to achieve their goals. The last decade has seen substantial growth in research on the problem of robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Oliver Kroemer , Scott Niekum , George Konidaris

Reinforcement learning is a promising framework for solving control problems, but its use in practical situations is hampered by the fact that reward functions are often difficult to engineer. Specifying goals and tasks for autonomous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Justin Fu , Anoop Korattikara , Sergey Levine , Sergio Guadarrama

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a multi-modal, cooperative task requiring agents to interpret human instructions, navigate 3D environments, and communicate effectively under ambiguity. This paper presents a comprehensive review of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Nivedan Yakolli , Avinash Gautam , Abhijit Das , Yuankai Qi , Virendra Singh Shekhawat

Learning high-quality video representation has shown significant applications in computer vision and remains challenging. Previous work based on mask autoencoders such as ImageMAE and VideoMAE has proven the effectiveness of learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Xingjian Diao , Ming Cheng , Shitong Cheng

From the perspective of future developments in robotics, it is crucial to verify whether foundation models trained exclusively on offline data, such as images and language, can understand the robot motion. In particular, since Vision…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Kanata Suzuki , Shota Shimizu , Tetsuya Ogata

Robots can use Visual Imitation Learning (VIL) to learn manipulation tasks from video demonstrations. However, translating visual observations into actionable robot policies is challenging due to the high-dimensional nature of video data.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Ananth Jonnavittula , Sagar Parekh , Dylan P. Losey

Well structured visual representations can make robot learning faster and can improve generalization. In this paper, we study how we can acquire effective object-centric representations for robotic manipulation tasks without human labeling…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Eric Jang , Coline Devin , Vincent Vanhoucke , Sergey Levine

Vision-language models (VLMs) mainly rely on contrastive training to learn general-purpose representations of images and captions. We focus on the situation when one image is associated with several captions, each caption containing both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Maurits Bleeker , Mariya Hendriksen , Andrew Yates , Maarten de Rijke

Vision-language-action (VLA) models finetuned from vision-language models (VLMs) hold the promise of leveraging rich pretrained representations to build generalist robots across diverse tasks and environments. However, direct fine-tuning on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Shresth Grover , Akshay Gopalkrishnan , Bo Ai , Henrik I. Christensen , Hao Su , Xuanlin Li