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Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Cross-View Geo-Localization (CVGL) presents significant challenges due to the view discrepancy between oblique UAV images and overhead satellite images. Existing methods heavily rely on the supervision of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Haoyuan Li , Chang Xu , Wen Yang , Li Mi , Huai Yu , Haijian Zhang

Rearrangement tasks have been identified as a crucial challenge for intelligent robotic manipulation, but few methods allow for precise construction of unseen structures. We propose a visual foresight model for pick-and-place rearrangement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Hongtao Wu , Jikai Ye , Xin Meng , Chris Paxton , Gregory Chirikjian

Machine unlearning in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) is typically performed at the image or instance level, making it difficult to precisely remove target knowledge without affecting unrelated semantics. This issue is especially pronounced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Shen Lin , Jing Lin , Junhao Dong , Piotr Koniusz , Li Xu

The ability to specify robot commands by a non-expert user is critical for building generalist agents capable of solving a large variety of tasks. One convenient way to specify the intended robot goal is by a video of a person demonstrating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Elliot Chane-Sane , Cordelia Schmid , Ivan Laptev

We tackle real-world long-horizon robot manipulation tasks through skill discovery. We present a bottom-up approach to learning a library of reusable skills from unsegmented demonstrations and use these skills to synthesize prolonged robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Yifeng Zhu , Peter Stone , Yuke Zhu

The deployment of humanoid robots for dexterous manipulation in unstructured environments remains challenging due to perceptual limitations that constrain the effective workspace. In scenarios where physical constraints prevent the robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Pei Qu , Zheng Li , Yufei Jia , Ziyun Liu , Liang Zhu , Haoang Li , Jinni Zhou , Jun Ma

Developing robotic systems capable of robustly executing long-horizon manipulation tasks with human-level dexterity is challenging, as such tasks require both physical dexterity and seamless sequencing of manipulation skills while robustly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Weikang Wan , Jiawei Fu , Xiaodi Yuan , Yifeng Zhu , Hao Su

Recognizing wild faces is extremely hard as they appear with all kinds of variations. Traditional methods either train with specifically annotated variation data from target domains, or by introducing unlabeled target variation data to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Yichun Shi , Xiang Yu , Kihyuk Sohn , Manmohan Chandraker , Anil K. Jain

Future robots are envisioned as versatile systems capable of performing a variety of household tasks. The big question remains, how can we bridge the embodiment gap while minimizing physical robot learning, which fundamentally does not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Hanzhi Chen , Boyang Sun , Anran Zhang , Marc Pollefeys , Stefan Leutenegger

Specifying robotic manipulation tasks in a manner that is both expressive and precise remains a central challenge. While visual goals provide a compact and unambiguous task specification, existing goal-conditioned policies often struggle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Pengfei Zhou , Liliang Chen , Shengcong Chen , Di Chen , Wenzhi Zhao , Rongjun Jin , Guanghui Ren , Jianlan Luo

Recent works have shown that visual pretraining on egocentric datasets using masked autoencoders (MAE) can improve generalization for downstream robotics tasks. However, these approaches pretrain only on 2D images, while many robotics…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Shengyi Qian , Kaichun Mo , Valts Blukis , David F. Fouhey , Dieter Fox , Ankit Goyal

Large Reconstruction Models (LRMs) have recently become a popular method for creating 3D foundational models. Training 3D reconstruction models with 2D visual data traditionally requires prior knowledge of camera poses for the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Shiu-hong Kao , Xiao Li , Jinglu Wang , Yang Li , Chi-Keung Tang , Yu-Wing Tai , Yan Lu

Visual planning, by offering a sequence of intermediate visual subgoals to a goal-conditioned low-level policy, achieves promising performance on long-horizon manipulation tasks. To obtain the subgoals, existing methods typically resort to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Wenyan Yang , Ahmet Tikna , Yi Zhao , Yuying Zhang , Luigi Palopoli , Marco Roveri , Joni Pajarinen

Solving long-horizon tasks requires robots to integrate high-level semantic reasoning with low-level physical interaction. While vision-language models (VLMs) and video generation models can decompose tasks and imagine outcomes, they often…

We present a conceptually simple, flexible, and universal visual perception head for variant visual tasks, e.g., classification, object detection, instance segmentation and pose estimation, and different frameworks, such as one-stage or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Jianming Liang , Guanglu Song , Biao Leng , Yu Liu

The utilization of broad datasets has proven to be crucial for generalization for a wide range of fields. However, how to effectively make use of diverse multi-task data for novel downstream tasks still remains a grand challenge in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Kuan Fang , Patrick Yin , Ashvin Nair , Homer Walke , Gengchen Yan , Sergey Levine

Underwater object detection (UOD) is vital to diverse marine applications, including oceanographic research, underwater robotics, and marine conservation. However, UOD faces numerous challenges that compromise its performance. Over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Edwine Nabahirwa , Wei Song , Minghua Zhang , Yi Fang , Zhou Ni

Robotic manipulation in 3D requires effective computation of N degree-of-freedom joint-space trajectories that enable precise and robust control. To achieve this, robots must integrate semantic understanding with visual perception to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Vineet Bhat , Yu-Hsiang Lan , Prashanth Krishnamurthy , Ramesh Karri , Farshad Khorrami

Robotic manipulation requires understanding both the 3D spatial structure of the environment and its temporal evolution, yet most existing policies overlook one or both. They typically rely on 2D visual observations and backbones pretrained…

Clay sculpting is a nuanced, artistic task involving dexterous manipulation with long-horizon planning to achieve high-level goals. As a robotics problem, we formulate clay sculpting as a shape-to-shape matching challenge. Prior deformable…

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