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Robots are often required to operate in environments where humans are not present, but yet require the human context information for better human-robot interaction. Even when humans are present in the environment, detecting their presence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Lasitha Piyathilaka , Sarath Kodagoda

Affordance detection aims to jointly address the fundamental "what-where-how" challenge in embodied AI by understanding "what" an object is, "where" the object is located, and "how" it can be used. However, most affordance learning methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Yuqi Ji , Junjie Ke , Lihuo He , Jun Liu , Kaifan Zhang , Yu-Kun Lai , Guiguang Ding , Xinbo Gao

Visual affordance segmentation identifies the surfaces of an object an agent can interact with. Common challenges for the identification of affordances are the variety of the geometry and physical properties of these surfaces as well as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Tommaso Apicella , Alessio Xompero , Edoardo Ragusa , Riccardo Berta , Andrea Cavallaro , Paolo Gastaldo

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

When humans perform a task with an articulated object, they interact with the object only in a handful of ways, while the space of all possible interactions is nearly endless. This is because humans have prior knowledge about what…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Liquan Wang , Nikita Dvornik , Rafael Dubeau , Mayank Mittal , Animesh Garg

Affordance detection, which refers to perceiving objects with potential action possibilities in images, is a challenging task since the possible affordance depends on the person's purpose in real-world application scenarios. The existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Liangsheng Lu , Wei Zhai , Hongchen Luo , Yu Kang , Yang Cao

Perceiving potential ``action possibilities'' (\ie, affordance) regions of images and learning interactive functionalities of objects from human demonstration is a challenging task due to the diversity of human-object interactions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Hongchen Luo , Wei Zhai , Jiao Wang , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha

While large language models (LLMs) are successful in completing various language processing tasks, they easily fail to interact with the physical world by generating control sequences properly. We find that the main reason is that LLMs are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Guangran Cheng , Chuheng Zhang , Wenzhe Cai , Li Zhao , Changyin Sun , Jiang Bian

Inferring affordable (i.e., graspable) parts of arbitrary objects based on human specifications is essential for robots advancing toward open-vocabulary manipulation. Current grasp planners, however, are hindered by limited vision-language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Teli Ma , Zifan Wang , Jiaming Zhou , Mengmeng Wang , Junwei Liang

Robotic affordances, providing information about what actions can be taken in a given situation, can aid robotic manipulation. However, learning about affordances requires expensive large annotated datasets of interactions or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Pietro Mazzaglia , Taco Cohen , Daniel Dijkman

Robotic affordances, providing information about what actions can be taken in a given situation, can aid robotic manipulation. However, learning about affordances requires expensive large annotated datasets of interactions or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Pietro Mazzaglia , Taco Cohen , Daniel Dijkman

Effective human-agent collaboration in physical environments requires understanding not only what to act upon, but also where the actionable elements are and how to interact with them. Existing approaches often operate at the object level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Xinyi Wang , Xun Yang , Yanlong Xu , Yuchen Wu , Zhen Li , Na Zhao

Affordance detection and pose estimation are of great importance in many robotic applications. Their combination helps the robot gain an enhanced manipulation capability, in which the generated pose can facilitate the corresponding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Toan Nguyen , Minh Nhat Vu , Baoru Huang , Tuan Van Vo , Vy Truong , Ngan Le , Thieu Vo , Bac Le , Anh Nguyen

Affordance detection refers to identifying the potential action possibilities of objects in an image, which is a crucial ability for robot perception and manipulation. To empower robots with this ability in unseen scenarios, we first study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Wei Zhai , Hongchen Luo , Jing Zhang , Yang Cao , Dacheng Tao

Traditional learning from demonstration (LfD) generally demands a cumbersome collection of physical demonstrations, which can be time-consuming and challenging to scale. Recent advances show that robots can instead learn from human videos…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Xiaoxiang Dong , Weiming Zhi

We introduce Audio-Visual Affordance Grounding (AV-AG), a new task that segments object interaction regions from action sounds. Unlike existing approaches that rely on textual instructions or demonstration videos, which often limited by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Lidong Lu , Guo Chen , Zhu Wei , Yicheng Liu , Tong Lu

What does it mean for a visual system to truly understand affordance? We argue that this understanding hinges on two complementary capacities: geometric perception, which identifies the structural parts of objects that enable interaction,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Qing Zhang , Xuesong Li , Jing Zhang

In this paper, we present a novel approach for learning bimanual manipulation actions from human demonstration by extracting spatial constraints between affordance regions, termed affordance constraints, of the objects involved. Affordance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Björn S. Plonka , Christian Dreher , Andre Meixner , Rainer Kartmann , Tamim Asfour

Intelligent agents accomplish different tasks by utilizing various objects based on their affordance, but how to select appropriate objects according to task context is not well-explored. Current studies treat objects within the affordance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Haojie Huang , Hongchen Luo , Wei Zhai , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha

Language-guided robot dexterous generation enables robots to grasp and manipulate objects based on human commands. However, previous data-driven methods are hard to understand intention and execute grasping with unseen categories in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Yi-Lin Wei , Mu Lin , Yuhao Lin , Jian-Jian Jiang , Xiao-Ming Wu , Ling-An Zeng , Wei-Shi Zheng