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Humans are able to identify a referred visual object in a complex scene via a few rounds of natural language communications. Success communication requires both parties to engage and learn to adapt for each other. In this paper, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Yan Zhu , Shaoting Zhang , Dimitris Metaxas

Human environments contain numerous objects configured in a variety of arrangements. Our goal is to enable robots to repose previously unseen objects according to learned semantic relationships in novel environments. We break this problem…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Chris Paxton , Chris Xie , Tucker Hermans , Dieter Fox

In this work, we focus on the problem of grounding language by training an agent to follow a set of natural language instructions and navigate to a target object in an environment. The agent receives visual information through raw pixels…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Akilesh B , Abhishek Sinha , Mausoom Sarkar , Balaji Krishnamurthy

We propose a developmental approach that allows a robot to interpret and describe the actions of human agents by reusing previous experience. The robot first learns the association between words and object affordances by manipulating the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Giovanni Saponaro , Lorenzo Jamone , Alexandre Bernardino , Giampiero Salvi

We study the problem of learning a range of vision-based manipulation tasks from a large offline dataset of robot interaction. In order to accomplish this, humans need easy and effective ways of specifying tasks to the robot. Goal images…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Suraj Nair , Eric Mitchell , Kevin Chen , Brian Ichter , Silvio Savarese , Chelsea Finn

Grounding object affordance is fundamental to robotic manipulation as it establishes the critical link between perception and action among interacting objects. However, prior works predominantly focus on predicting single-object affordance,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Tongxuan Tian , Xuhui Kang , Yen-Ling Kuo

Language-conditioned robot manipulation is an emerging field aimed at enabling seamless communication and cooperation between humans and robotic agents by teaching robots to comprehend and execute instructions conveyed in natural language.…

Human activity recognition is typically addressed by detecting key concepts like global and local motion, features related to object classes present in the scene, as well as features related to the global context. The next open challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Fabien Baradel , Natalia Neverova , Christian Wolf , Julien Mille , Greg Mori

This paper introduces an automatic affordance reasoning paradigm tailored to minimal semantic inputs, addressing the critical challenges of classifying and manipulating unseen classes of objects in household settings. Inspired by human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Ceng Zhang , Xin Meng , Dongchen Qi , Gregory S. Chirikjian

We address the problem of bootstrapping language acquisition for an artificial system similarly to what is observed in experiments with human infants. Our method works by associating meanings to words in manipulation tasks, as a robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Giampiero Salvi , Luis Montesano , Alexandre Bernardino , José Santos-Victor

With large language models, robots can understand language more flexibly and more capable than ever before. This survey reviews and situates recent literature into a spectrum with two poles: 1) mapping between language and some manually…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Vanya Cohen , Jason Xinyu Liu , Raymond Mooney , Stefanie Tellex , David Watkins

People rely heavily on context to enrich meaning beyond what is literally said, enabling concise but effective communication. To interact successfully and naturally with people, user-facing artificial intelligence systems will require…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Daniel Fried , Nicholas Tomlin , Jennifer Hu , Roma Patel , Aida Nematzadeh

For robots to understand human instructions and perform meaningful tasks in the near future, it is important to develop learned models that comprehend referential language to identify common objects in real-world 3D scenes. In this paper,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Junha Roh , Karthik Desingh , Ali Farhadi , Dieter Fox

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

Models designed for intelligent process automation are required to be capable of grounding user interface elements. This task of interface element grounding is centred on linking instructions in natural language to their target referents.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Julia Rozanova , Deborah Ferreira , Krishna Dubba , Weiwei Cheng , Dell Zhang , Andre Freitas

Ambiguities are inevitable in human-robot interaction, especially when a robot follows user instructions in a large, shared space. For example, if a user asks the robot to find an object in a home environment with underspecified…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Fethiye Irmak Dogan , Maithili Patel , Weiyu Liu , Iolanda Leite , Sonia Chernova

Language-driven object navigation requires agents to interpret natural language descriptions of target objects, which combine intrinsic and extrinsic attributes for instance recognition and commonsense navigation. Existing methods either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Francesco Taioli , Shiping Yang , Sonia Raychaudhuri , Marco Cristani , Unnat Jain , Angel X Chang

Neural network-based systems can now learn to locate the referents of words and phrases in images, answer questions about visual scenes, and execute symbolic instructions as first-person actors in partially-observable worlds. To achieve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Felix Hill , Stephen Clark , Karl Moritz Hermann , Phil Blunsom

Effective human-robot interaction, such as in robot learning from human demonstration, requires the learning agent to be able to ground abstract concepts (such as those contained within instructions) in a corresponding high-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Yordan Hristov , Alex Lascarides , Subramanian Ramamoorthy

In recent years, a number of models that learn the relations between vision and language from large datasets have been released. These models perform a variety of tasks, such as answering questions about images, retrieving sentences that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Kento Kawaharazuka , Yoshiki Obinata , Naoaki Kanazawa , Kei Okada , Masayuki Inaba