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Enabling robots to learn novel visuomotor skills in a data-efficient manner remains an unsolved problem with myriad challenges. A popular paradigm for tackling this problem is through leveraging large unlabeled datasets that have many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Maximilian Du , Suraj Nair , Dorsa Sadigh , Chelsea Finn

Robot person following (RPF) is a core capability in human-robot interaction, enabling robots to assist users in daily activities, collaborative work, and other service scenarios. However, achieving practical RPF remains challenging due to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Weixi Situ , Hanjing Ye , Jianwei Peng , Yu Zhan , Hong Zhang

Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) has been a long-standing challenge in video understanding. A natural and intuitive approach is to split this task into two parts: object detection and association. Most mainstream methods employ meticulously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Ruopeng Gao , Ji Qi , Limin Wang

In this work we explore a new approach for robots to teach themselves about the world simply by observing it. In particular we investigate the effectiveness of learning task-agnostic representations for continuous control tasks. We extend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Debidatta Dwibedi , Jonathan Tompson , Corey Lynch , Pierre Sermanet

The main challenge of Multi-Object Tracking~(MOT) lies in maintaining a continuous trajectory for each target. Existing methods often learn reliable motion patterns to match the same target between adjacent frames and discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Zheng Qin , Sanping Zhou , Le Wang , Jinghai Duan , Gang Hua , Wei Tang

Many language-guided robotic systems rely on collapsing spatial reasoning into discrete points, making them brittle to perceptual noise and semantic ambiguity. To address this challenge, we propose RoboMAP, a framework that represents…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Xinyu Shao , Yanzhe Tang , Pengwei Xie , Kaiwen Zhou , Yuzheng Zhuang , Xingyue Quan , Jianye Hao , Long Zeng , Xiu Li

We present Mixture of Discrete-time Gaussian Processes (MiDiGap), a novel approach for flexible policy representation and imitation learning in robot manipulation. MiDiGap enables learning from as few as five demonstrations using only…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Jan Ole von Hartz , Adrian Röfer , Joschka Boedecker , Abhinav Valada

Model-based controllers on real robots require accurate knowledge of the system dynamics to perform optimally. For complex dynamics, first-principles modeling is not sufficiently precise, and data-driven approaches can be leveraged to learn…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Weixuan Zhang , Marco Tognon , Lionel Ott , Roland Siegwart , Juan Nieto

Imitation learning is a powerful tool for training robot manipulation policies, allowing them to learn from expert demonstrations without manual programming or trial-and-error. However, common methods of data collection, such as human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Murtaza Dalal , Ajay Mandlekar , Caelan Garrett , Ankur Handa , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Dieter Fox

Robotic grasping is facing a variety of real-world uncertainties caused by non-static object states, unknown object properties, and cluttered object arrangements. The difficulty of grasping increases with the presence of more uncertainties,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Hao Chen , Takuya Kiyokawa , Weiwei Wan , Kensuke Harada

Automated animal behavior analysis relies on long-term, interpretable individual trajectories; however, multi-animal tracking in space science experimental videos remains highly challenging due to weak appearance cues, low-quality imaging,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Jianing You , Han Wang , Kang Liu , Jiale Ding , Fengjie Chu , Zihan Guo , Shengyang Li

Recent approaches to point tracking are able to recover the trajectory of any scene point through a large portion of a video despite the presence of occlusions. They are, however, too slow in practice to track every point observed in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Guillaume Le Moing , Jean Ponce , Cordelia Schmid

Imitation learning is a promising approach for training autonomous vehicles (AV) to navigate complex traffic environments by mimicking expert driver behaviors. While existing imitation learning frameworks focus on leveraging expert…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Yasin Sonmez , Hanna Krasowski , Murat Arcak

In order to manipulate a deformable object, such as rope or cloth, in unstructured environments, robots need a way to estimate its current shape. However, tracking the shape of a deformable object can be challenging because of the object's…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Yixuan Wang , Dale McConachie , Dmitry Berenson

In this paper, we aim to model 3D scene geometry, appearance, and physical information just from dynamic multi-view videos in the absence of any human labels. By leveraging physics-informed losses as soft constraints or integrating simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Jinxi Li , Ziyang Song , Bo Yang

Recent advances in unsupervised learning for object detection, segmentation, and tracking hold significant promise for applications in robotics. A common approach is to frame these tasks as inference in probabilistic latent-variable models.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Yizhe Wu , Oiwi Parker Jones , Martin Engelcke , Ingmar Posner

The ability to robustly grasp a variety of objects is essential for dexterous robots. In this paper, we present a framework for zero-shot dynamic dexterous grasping using single-view visual inputs, designed to be resilient to various…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Hui Zhang , Zijian Wu , Linyi Huang , Sammy Christen , Jie Song

Imitation learning is a promising approach to help robots acquire dexterous manipulation capabilities without the need for a carefully-designed reward or a significant computational effort. However, existing imitation learning approaches…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Abhineet Jain , Jack Kolb , J. M. Abbess , Harish Ravichandar

Task-relevant grasping is critical for industrial assembly, where downstream manipulation tasks constrain the set of valid grasps. Learning how to perform this task, however, is challenging, since task-relevant grasp labels are hard to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Bowen Wen , Wenzhao Lian , Kostas Bekris , Stefan Schaal

Learning from Interactive Demonstrations has revolutionized the way non-expert humans teach robots. It is enough to kinesthetically move the robot around to teach pick-and-place, dressing, or cleaning policies. However, the main challenge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Giovanni Franzese , Ravi Prakash , Cosimo Della Santina , Jens Kober