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Generating human motion with precise spatial control is a challenging problem. Existing approaches often require task-specific training or slow optimization, and enforcing hard constraints frequently disrupts motion naturalness. Building on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Akihisa Watanabe , Qing Yu , Edgar Simo-Serra , Kent Fujiwara

This document serves as a position paper that outlines the authors' vision for a potential pathway towards generalist robots. The purpose of this document is to share the excitement of the authors with the community and highlight a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Zhou Xian , Theophile Gervet , Zhenjia Xu , Yi-Ling Qiao , Tsun-Hsuan Wang , Yian Wang

Optical flow estimation is a crucial subfield of computer vision, serving as a foundation for video tasks. However, the real-world robustness is limited by animated synthetic datasets for training. This introduces domain gaps when applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yingping Liang , Ying Fu , Yutao Hu , Wenqi Shao , Jiaming Liu , Debing Zhang

Observing that the key for robotic action planning is to understand the target-object motion when its associated part is manipulated by the end effector, we propose to generate the 3D object-part scene flow and extract its transformations…

In order to be effective general purpose machines in real world environments, robots not only will need to adapt their existing manipulation skills to new circumstances, they will need to acquire entirely new skills on-the-fly. A great…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 K. R. Zentner , Ryan Julian , Ujjwal Puri , Yulun Zhang , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

The dominant paradigm for end-to-end robot learning focuses on optimizing task-specific objectives that solve a single robotic problem such as picking up an object or reaching a target position. However, recent work on high-capacity models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Samuel Schmidgall , Ji Woong Kim , Alan Kuntz , Ahmed Ezzat Ghazi , Axel Krieger

Unbounded 3D world generation is emerging as a foundational task for scene modeling in computer vision, graphics, and robotics. In this work, we present WorldFlow3D, a novel method capable of generating unbounded 3D worlds. Building upon a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Amogh Joshi , Julian Ost , Felix Heide

Imitation Learning (IL) enables robots to learn complex skills from demonstrations without explicit task modeling, but it typically requires large amounts of demonstrations, creating significant collection costs. Prior work has investigated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Runze Tang , Penny Sweetser

Robotic grasping under uncertainty remains a fundamental challenge due to its uncertain and contact-rich nature. Traditional rigid robotic hands, with limited degrees of freedom and compliance, rely on complex model-based and heavy feedback…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Liudi Yang , Yang Bai , Yuhao Wang , Ibrahim Alsarraj , Gitta Kutyniok , Zhanchi Wang , Ke Wu

Learning a generalizable bimanual manipulation policy is extremely challenging for embodied agents due to the large action space and the need for coordinated arm movements. Existing approaches rely on Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Chenyou Fan , Fangzheng Yan , Chenjia Bai , Jiepeng Wang , Chi Zhang , Zhen Wang , Xuelong Li

Given datasets from multiple domains, a key challenge is to efficiently exploit these data sources for modeling a target domain. Variants of this problem have been studied in many contexts, such as cross-domain translation and domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Aditya Grover , Christopher Chute , Rui Shu , Zhangjie Cao , Stefano Ermon

Transferring appearance to 3D assets using different representations of the appearance object - such as images or text - has garnered interest due to its wide range of applications in industries like gaming, augmented reality, and digital…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Sayan Deb Sarkar , Sinisa Stekovic , Vincent Lepetit , Iro Armeni

Super-resolution is an ill-posed problem, since it allows for multiple predictions for a given low-resolution image. This fundamental fact is largely ignored by state-of-the-art deep learning based approaches. These methods instead train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Andreas Lugmayr , Martin Danelljan , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

The goal of general-purpose robotics is to create agents that can seamlessly adapt to and operate in diverse, unstructured human environments. Imitation learning has become a key paradigm for robotic manipulation, yet collecting large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Liu Liu , Xiaofeng Wang , Guosheng Zhao , Keyu Li , Wenkang Qin , Jiagang Zhu , Jiaxiong Qiu , Zheng Zhu , Guan Huang , Zhizhong Su

Recent advances in generative modeling have led to promising results in robot motion planning, particularly through diffusion and flow matching (FM)-based models that capture complex, multimodal trajectory distributions. However, these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Xiaobing Dai , Zewen Yang , Dian Yu , Fangzhou Liu , Hamid Sadeghian , Sami Haddadin , Sandra Hirche

Transferring skills between different objects remains one of the core challenges of open-world robot manipulation. Generalization needs to take into account the high-level structural differences between distinct objects while still…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 M. Yunus Seker , Shobhit Aggarwal , Oliver Kroemer

Can we learn robot manipulation for everyday tasks, only by watching videos of humans doing arbitrary tasks in different unstructured settings? Unlike widely adopted strategies of learning task-specific behaviors or direct imitation of a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Homanga Bharadhwaj , Abhinav Gupta , Shubham Tulsiani , Vikash Kumar

We present Generalizable Hierarchical Skill Learning (GSL), a novel framework for hierarchical policy learning that significantly improves policy generalization and sample efficiency in robot manipulation. One core idea of GSL is to use…

Abstract semantic 3D scene understanding is a problem of critical importance in robotics. As robots still lack the common-sense knowledge about household objects and locations of an average human, we investigate the use of pre-trained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-09 William Chen , Siyi Hu , Rajat Talak , Luca Carlone

Previous dominant methods for scene flow estimation focus mainly on input from two consecutive frames, neglecting valuable information in the temporal domain. While recent trends shift towards multi-frame reasoning, they suffer from rapidly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Qingwen Zhang , Xiaomeng Zhu , Yushan Zhang , Yixi Cai , Olov Andersson , Patric Jensfelt