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We introduce SPOT, an object-centric imitation learning framework. The key idea is to capture each task by an object-centric representation, specifically the SE(3) object pose trajectory relative to the target. This approach decouples…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Cheng-Chun Hsu , Bowen Wen , Jie Xu , Yashraj Narang , Xiaolong Wang , Yuke Zhu , Joydeep Biswas , Stan Birchfield

For robots to understand human instructions and perform meaningful tasks in the near future, it is important to develop learned models that comprehend referential language to identify common objects in real-world 3D scenes. In this paper,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Junha Roh , Karthik Desingh , Ali Farhadi , Dieter Fox

Diffusion models have become popular for policy learning in robotics due to their ability to capture high-dimensional and multimodal distributions. However, diffusion policies are stochastic and typically trained offline, limiting their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Ralf Römer , Alexander von Rohr , Angela P. Schoellig

Achieving generalizable and precise robotic manipulation across diverse environments remains a critical challenge, largely due to limitations in spatial perception. While prior imitation-learning approaches have made progress, their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Yiqi Huang , Travis Davies , Jiahuan Yan , Jiankai Sun , Xiang Chen , Luhui Hu

Recent research on robot manipulation based on Behavior Cloning (BC) has made significant progress. By combining diffusion models with BC, diffusion policiy has been proposed, enabling robots to quickly learn manipulation tasks with high…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Qianhao Wang , Yinqian Sun , Enmeng Lu , Qian Zhang , Yi Zeng

Recent text-driven motion generation methods span both discrete token-based approaches and continuous-latent formulations. MotionGPT3 exemplifies the latter paradigm, combining a learned continuous motion latent space with a diffusion-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Jaymin Ban , JiHong Jeon , SangYeop Jeong

We propose DemoDiffusion, a simple method for enabling robots to perform manipulation tasks by imitating a single human demonstration, without requiring task-specific training or paired human-robot data. Our approach is based on two…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Sungjae Park , Homanga Bharadhwaj , Shubham Tulsiani

Understanding how humans would behave during hand-object interaction is vital for applications in service robot manipulation and extended reality. To achieve this, some recent works have been proposed to simultaneously forecast hand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Junyi Ma , Jingyi Xu , Xieyuanli Chen , Hesheng Wang

Diffusion models have shown great promise for image generation, beating GANs in terms of generation diversity, with comparable image quality. However, their application to 3D shapes has been limited to point or voxel representations that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Gimin Nam , Mariem Khlifi , Andrew Rodriguez , Alberto Tono , Linqi Zhou , Paul Guerrero

Dexterous manipulation with contact-rich interactions is crucial for advanced robotics. While recent diffusion-based planning approaches show promise for simple manipulation tasks, they often produce unrealistic ghost states (e.g., the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Zhixuan Liang , Yao Mu , Yixiao Wang , Tianxing Chen , Wenqi Shao , Wei Zhan , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Ping Luo , Mingyu Ding

Existing approaches for controlling text-to-image diffusion models, while powerful, do not allow for explicit 3D object-centric control, such as precise control of object orientation. In this work, we address the problem of multi-object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Rishubh Parihar , Vaibhav Agrawal , Sachidanand VS , R. Venkatesh Babu

We present a cross robot visuomotor learning framework that integrates diffusion policy based control with 3D semantic scene representations from D3Fields to enable category level generalization in manipulation. Its modular design supports…

Object detectors often suffer a decrease in performance due to the large domain gap between the training data (source domain) and real-world data (target domain). Diffusion-based generative models have shown remarkable abilities in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Boyong He , Yuxiang Ji , Zhuoyue Tan , Liaoni Wu

This work introduces the Multimodal Diffusion Transformer (MDT), a novel diffusion policy framework, that excels at learning versatile behavior from multimodal goal specifications with few language annotations. MDT leverages a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Moritz Reuss , Ömer Erdinç Yağmurlu , Fabian Wenzel , Rudolf Lioutikov

Recent advancements in generative models have enabled the creation of dynamic 4D content - 3D objects in motion - based on text prompts, which holds potential for applications in virtual worlds, media, and gaming. Existing methods provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Ohad Rahamim , Ori Malca , Dvir Samuel , Gal Chechik

Multimodal-driven talking face generation refers to animating a portrait with the given pose, expression, and gaze transferred from the driving image and video, or estimated from the text and audio. However, existing methods ignore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Chao Xu , Shaoting Zhu , Junwei Zhu , Tianxin Huang , Jiangning Zhang , Ying Tai , Yong Liu

Long-horizon contact-rich manipulation has long been a challenging problem, as it requires reasoning over both discrete contact modes and continuous object motion. We introduce Implicit Contact Diffuser (ICD), a diffusion-based model that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Zixuan Huang , Yinong He , Yating Lin , Dmitry Berenson

Unlike autoregressive language models, which terminate variable-length generation upon predicting an End-of-Sequence (EoS) token, Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) operate over a fixed maximum-length context window for a predetermined number…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Vittorio Rossi , Giacomo Cirò , Davide Beltrame , Luca Gandolfi , Paul Röttger , Dirk Hovy

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…

End-to-end learning is emerging as a powerful paradigm for robotic manipulation, but its effectiveness is limited by data scarcity and the heterogeneity of action spaces across robot embodiments. In particular, diverse action spaces across…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Erik Bauer , Elvis Nava , Robert K. Katzschmann