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Autonomous robots are increasingly playing key roles as support platforms for human operators in high-risk, dangerous applications. To accomplish challenging tasks, an efficient human-robot cooperation and understanding is required. While…

When robots retrieve specific objects from cluttered scenes, such as home and warehouse environments, the target objects are often partially occluded or completely hidden. Robots are thus required to search, identify a target object, and…

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Enriching the robot representation of the operational environment is a challenging task that aims at bridging the gap between low-level sensor readings and high-level semantic understanding. Having a rich representation often requires…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Francesco Argenziano , Vincenzo Suriani , Daniele Nardi

Open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding (OV-3D) aims to localize and classify novel objects beyond the closed set of object classes. However, existing approaches and benchmarks primarily focus on the open vocabulary problem within the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Youjun Zhao , Jiaying Lin , Shuquan Ye , Qianshi Pang , Rynson W. H. Lau

Robots should exist anywhere humans do: indoors, outdoors, and even unmapped environments. In contrast, the focus of recent advancements in Object Goal Navigation(OGN) has targeted navigating in indoor environments by leveraging spatial and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Quanting Xie , Tianyi Zhang , Kedi Xu , Matthew Johnson-Roberson , Yonatan Bisk

3D Semantic Scene Graph Prediction aims to detect objects and their semantic relationships in 3D scenes, and has emerged as a crucial technology for robotics and AR/VR applications. While previous research has addressed dataset limitations…

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The deployment of autonomous mobile robots is predicated on the availability of environmental maps, yet conventional generation via SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) suffers from significant limitations in time, labor, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Jiajie Zhang , Shenrui Wu , Xu Ma , Sören Schwertfeger

Visual target navigation in unknown environments is a crucial problem in robotics. Despite extensive investigation of classical and learning-based approaches in the past, robots lack common-sense knowledge about household objects and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Bangguo Yu , Hamidreza Kasaei , Ming Cao

Scene graph generation (SGG) is a fundamental task aimed at detecting visual relations between objects in an image. The prevailing SGG methods require all object classes to be given in the training set. Such a closed setting limits the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Tao He , Lianli Gao , Jingkuan Song , Yuan-Fang Li

3D reconstruction has been widely used in autonomous navigation fields of mobile robotics. However, the former research can only provide the basic geometry structure without the capability of open-world scene understanding, limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Haochen Jiang , Yueming Xu , Yihan Zeng , Hang Xu , Wei Zhang , Jianfeng Feng , Li Zhang

Zero-Shot Object Goal Navigation (ZS-OGN) enables robots or agents to navigate toward objects of unseen categories without object-specific training. Traditional approaches often leverage categorical semantic information for navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Shuaihang Yuan , Hao Huang , Yu Hao , Congcong Wen , Anthony Tzes , Yi Fang

Humans inherently recognize objects via selective visual perception, transform specific regions from the visual field into structured symbolic knowledge, and reason their relationships among regions based on the allocation of limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Shu Zhao , Huijuan Xu

We present OvSGTR, a novel transformer-based framework for fully open-vocabulary scene graph generation that overcomes the limitations of traditional closed-set models. Conventional methods restrict both object and relationship recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zuyao Chen , Jinlin Wu , Zhen Lei , Chang Wen Chen

Enabling robots to autonomously navigate unknown, complex, and dynamic real-world environments presents several challenges, including imperfect perception, partial observability, localization uncertainty, and safety constraints. Current…

Object-goal navigation requires mobile robots to efficiently locate targets with visual and spatial information, yet existing methods struggle with generalization in unseen environments. Heuristic approaches with naive metrics fail in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Mengying Lin , Shugao Liu , Dingxi Zhang , Yaran Chen , Zhaoran Wang , Haoran Li , Dongbin Zhao

Tracking objects that move within dynamic environments is a core challenge in robotics. Recent research has advanced this topic significantly; however, many existing approaches remain inefficient due to their reliance on heavy foundation…

Scene graph generation (SGG) aims to parse a visual scene into an intermediate graph representation for downstream reasoning tasks. Despite recent advancements, existing methods struggle to generate scene graphs with novel visual relation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Rongjie Li , Songyang Zhang , Dahua Lin , Kai Chen , Xuming He

The increasing demand for efficient last-mile delivery in smart logistics underscores the role of autonomous robots in enhancing operational efficiency and reducing costs. Traditional navigation methods, which depend on high-precision maps,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Junhui Wang , Dongjie Huo , Zehui Xu , Yongliang Shi , Yimin Yan , Yuanxin Wang , Chao Gao , Yan Qiao , Guyue Zhou

In daily domestic settings, frequently used objects like cups often have unfixed positions and multiple instances within the same category, and their carriers frequently change as well. As a result, it becomes challenging for a robot to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Yujie Tang , Meiling Wang , Yinan Deng , Zibo Zheng , Jingchuan Deng , Yufeng Yue

The rise of generalist robotic policies has created an exponential demand for large-scale training data. However, on-robot data collection is labor-intensive and often limited to specific environments. In contrast, open-world images capture…