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Understanding visual scenes is fundamental to human intelligence. While discriminative models have significantly advanced computer vision, they often struggle with compositional understanding. In contrast, recent generative text-to-image…

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Automated parking is a critical feature of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), where accurate trajectory prediction is essential to bridge perception and planning modules. Despite its significance, research in this domain remains…

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We propose a method to learn explicit, class-conditioned spatial priors for object placement in natural scenes by distilling the implicit placement knowledge encoded in text-conditioned diffusion models. Prior work relies either on manually…

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The success of agricultural artificial intelligence depends heavily on large, diverse, and high-quality plant image datasets, yet collecting such data in real field conditions is costly, labor intensive, and seasonally constrained. This…

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Diffusion models can be used as a motion planner by sampling from a distribution of possible futures. However, the samples may not satisfy hard constraints that exist only implicitly in the training data, e.g., avoiding falls or not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Nicholas Ioannidis , Daniele Reda , Setareh Cohan , Michiel van de Panne

The performance of leaning-based perception algorithms suffer when deployed in out-of-distribution and underrepresented environments. Outdoor robots are particularly susceptible to rapid changes in visual scene appearance due to dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Peter Mortimer , Mirko Maehlisch

Diffusion-based policies have shown remarkable capability in executing complex robotic manipulation tasks but lack explicit characterization of geometry and semantics, which often limits their ability to generalize to unseen objects and…

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Generating 3D scenes from human motion sequences supports numerous applications, including virtual reality and architectural design. However, previous auto-regression-based human-aware 3D scene generation methods have struggled to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Xiaolin Hong , Hongwei Yi , Fazhi He , Qiong Cao

Classical methods in robot motion planning, such as sampling-based and optimization-based methods, often struggle with scalability towards higher-dimensional state spaces and complex environments. Diffusion models, known for their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Edward Sandra , Lander Vanroye , Dries Dirckx , Ruben Cartuyvels , Jan Swevers , Wilm Decré

3D object affordance grounding aims to predict the touchable regions on a 3d object, which is crucial for human-object interaction, human-robot interaction, embodied perception, and robot learning. Recent advances tackle this problem via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Hanqing Wang , Zhenhao Zhang , Kaiyang Ji , Mingyu Liu , Wenti Yin , Yuchao Chen , Zhirui Liu , Xiangyu Zeng , Tianxiang Gui , Hangxing Zhang

Diffusion generative models have demonstrated remarkable success in visual domains such as image and video generation. They have also recently emerged as a promising approach in robotics, especially in robot manipulations. Diffusion models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Rosa Wolf , Yitian Shi , Sheng Liu , Rania Rayyes

Accurate modeling of robot dynamics is essential for model-based control, yet remains challenging under distributional shifts and real-time constraints. In this work, we formulate system identification as an in-context meta-learning problem…

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In the field of Robot Learning, the complex mapping between high-dimensional observations such as RGB images and low-level robotic actions, two inherently very different spaces, constitutes a complex learning problem, especially with…

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Diffusion models have gained attention for their ability to represent complex distributions and incorporate uncertainty, making them ideal for robust predictions in the presence of noisy or incomplete data. In this study, we develop and…

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Diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for a wide range of vision tasks, including text-guided image generation and editing. In this work, we explore their potential for object grounding in remote sensing imagery. We propose a…

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Road user trajectory prediction in dynamic environments is a challenging but crucial task for various applications, such as autonomous driving. One of the main challenges in this domain is the multimodal nature of future trajectories…

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We introduce a new general-purpose approach to deep learning on 3D surfaces, based on the insight that a simple diffusion layer is highly effective for spatial communication. The resulting networks are automatically robust to changes in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Nicholas Sharp , Souhaib Attaiki , Keenan Crane , Maks Ovsjanikov

Diffusion models generate images with an unprecedented level of quality, but how can we freely rearrange image layouts? Recent works generate controllable scenes via learning spatially disentangled latent codes, but these methods do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Jiawei Ren , Mengmeng Xu , Jui-Chieh Wu , Ziwei Liu , Tao Xiang , Antoine Toisoul

Object pose estimation plays a vital role in embodied AI and computer vision, enabling intelligent agents to comprehend and interact with their surroundings. Despite the practicality of category-level pose estimation, current approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Jiyao Zhang , Mingdong Wu , Hao Dong

In this paper we propose a neural message passing approach to augment an input 3D indoor scene with new objects matching their surroundings. Given an input, potentially incomplete, 3D scene and a query location, our method predicts a…

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