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Teaching robots new skills quickly and conveniently is crucial for the broader adoption of robotic systems. In this work, we address the problem of one-shot imitation from a single human demonstration, given by an RGB-D video recording. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Nick Heppert , Max Argus , Tim Welschehold , Thomas Brox , Abhinav Valada

Large-scale text-to-image models have demonstrated amazing ability to synthesize diverse and high-fidelity images. However, these models are often violated by several limitations. Firstly, they require the user to provide precise and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yupei Lin , Sen Zhang , Xiaojun Yang , Xiao Wang , Yukai Shi

Image-generation diffusion models have been fine-tuned to unlock new capabilities such as image-editing and novel view synthesis. Can we similarly unlock image-generation models for visuomotor control? We present GENIMA, a behavior-cloning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Mohit Shridhar , Yat Long Lo , Stephen James

Recent breakthroughs in diffusion models, multimodal pretraining, and efficient finetuning have led to an explosion of text-to-image generative models. Given human evaluation is expensive and difficult to scale, automated methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Dhruba Ghosh , Hanna Hajishirzi , Ludwig Schmidt

Customized generation using diffusion models has made impressive progress in image generation, but remains unsatisfactory in the challenging video generation task, as it requires the controllability of both subjects and motions. To that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Yujie Wei , Shiwei Zhang , Zhiwu Qing , Hangjie Yuan , Zhiheng Liu , Yu Liu , Yingya Zhang , Jingren Zhou , Hongming Shan

For recent diffusion-based generative models, maintaining consistent content across a series of generated images, especially those containing subjects and complex details, presents a significant challenge. In this paper, we propose a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Yupeng Zhou , Daquan Zhou , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jiashi Feng , Qibin Hou

Video models have recently been applied with success to problems in content generation, novel view synthesis, and, more broadly, world simulation. Many applications in generation and transfer rely on conditioning these models, typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Edoardo A. Dominici , Thomas Deixelberger , Konstantinos Vardis , Markus Steinberger

Deep generative models produce data according to a learned representation, e.g. diffusion models, through a process of approximation computing possible samples. Approximation can be understood as reconstruction and the large datasets used…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Luís Arandas , Mick Grierson , Miguel Carvalhais

Predicting the dynamics of interacting objects is essential for both humans and intelligent systems. However, existing approaches are limited to simplified, toy settings and lack generalizability to complex, real-world environments. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Rick Akkerman , Haiwen Feng , Michael J. Black , Dimitrios Tzionas , Victoria Fernández Abrevaya

Instructional video generation is an emerging task that aims to synthesize coherent demonstrations of procedural activities from textual descriptions. Such capability has broad implications for content creation, education, and human-AI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Cheeun Hong , German Barquero , Fadime Sener , Markos Georgopoulos , Edgar Schönfeld , Stefan Popov , Yuming Du , Oscar Mañas , Albert Pumarola

Text-to-motion generation requires not only grounding local actions in language but also seamlessly blending these individual actions to synthesize diverse and realistic global motions. However, existing motion generation methods primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Peng Jin , Hao Li , Zesen Cheng , Kehan Li , Runyi Yu , Chang Liu , Xiangyang Ji , Li Yuan , Jie Chen

We tackle the problem of learning complex, general behaviors directly in the real world. We propose an approach for robots to efficiently learn manipulation skills using only a handful of real-world interaction trajectories from many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Russell Mendonca , Shikhar Bahl , Deepak Pathak

We introduce an inversion based method, denoted as IMAge-Guided model INvErsion (IMAGINE), to generate high-quality and diverse images from only a single training sample. We leverage the knowledge of image semantics from a pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Pei Wang , Yijun Li , Krishna Kumar Singh , Jingwan Lu , Nuno Vasconcelos

Human motion generation is a challenging task that aims to create realistic motion imitating natural human behaviour. We focus on the well-studied behaviour of priming an object/location for pick up or put down - that is, the spotting of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Masashi Hatano , Saptarshi Sinha , Jacob Chalk , Wei-Hong Li , Hideo Saito , Dima Damen

We describe a method to train a generative model with latent factors that are (approximately) independent and localized. This means that perturbing the latent variables affects only local regions of the synthesized image, corresponding to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Yanchao Yang , Yutong Chen , Stefano Soatto

Video generation models are rapidly improving in their ability to synthesize human actions in novel contexts, holding the potential to serve as high-level planners for contextual robot control. To realize this potential, a key research…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-12 James Ni , Zekai Wang , Wei Lin , Amir Bar , Yann LeCun , Trevor Darrell , Jitendra Malik , Roei Herzig

Recent years have seen significant progress in human image generation, particularly with the advancements in diffusion models. However, existing diffusion methods encounter challenges when producing consistent hand anatomy and the generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Anton Pelykh , Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan , Richard Bowden

Object Transfiguration replaces an object in an image with another object from a second image. For example it can perform tasks like "putting exactly those eyeglasses from image A on the nose of the person in image B". Usage of exemplar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Shuchang Zhou , Taihong Xiao , Yi Yang , Dieqiao Feng , Qinyao He , Weiran He

We consider the problem of learning to map from natural language instructions to state transitions (actions) in a data-efficient manner. Our method takes inspiration from the idea that it should be easier to ground language to concepts that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-24 David Gaddy , Dan Klein

Video editing methods based on diffusion models that rely solely on a text prompt for the edit are hindered by the limited expressive power of text prompts. Thus, incorporating a reference target image as a visual guide becomes desirable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Sai Sree Harsha , Ambareesh Revanur , Dhwanit Agarwal , Shradha Agrawal