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Most existing 3D assembly methods treat the problem as pure pose estimation, rearranging observed parts via rigid transformations. In contrast, human assembly naturally couples structural reasoning with holistic shape inference. Inspired by…

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Robot-based assembly in construction has emerged as a promising solution to address numerous challenges such as increasing costs, labor shortages, and the demand for safe and efficient construction processes. One of the main obstacles in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Hengxu You , Yang Ye , Tianyu Zhou , Qi Zhu , Jing Du

Recently, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) achieved impressive results in novel view synthesis. Block-NeRF showed the capability of leveraging NeRF to build large city-scale models. For large-scale modeling, a mass of image data is necessary.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Tong Qin , Changze Li , Haoyang Ye , Shaowei Wan , Minzhen Li , Hongwei Liu , Ming Yang

Generative 3D part assembly involves understanding part relationships and predicting their 6-DoF poses for assembling a realistic 3D shape. Prior work often focus on the geometry of individual parts, neglecting part-whole hierarchies of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Bi'an Du , Xiang Gao , Wei Hu , Renjie Liao

This paper presents a framework towards prompting multi-robot teams with high-level tasks using natural language expressions. Our objective is to use the reasoning capabilities demonstrated by recent language models in understanding and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Nicolas Pfitzer , Eduardo Sebastián , Ajay Shankar , Amanda Prorok

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models hold great promise for general-purpose robotic intelligence, yet scaling up such models is severely bottlenecked by the high cost of acquiring annotated training data. Fortunately, vision-equipped robots…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yuhao Zhou , Yunpeng Zhu , Yang Zhou , Jindi Lyu , Jian Lan , Zhangyuan Wang , Dan Si , Thomas Seidl , Qing Ye , Jiancheng Lyu

Robot assembly discovery is a challenging problem that lives at the intersection of resource allocation and motion planning. The goal is to combine a predefined set of objects to form something new while considering task execution with the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Niklas Funk , Svenja Menzenbach , Georgia Chalvatzaki , Jan Peters

Assembly hinges on reliably forming connections between parts; yet most robotic approaches plan assembly sequences and part poses while treating connectors as an afterthought. Connections represent the foundational physical constraints of…

We hypothesize that a key bottleneck in generalizable robot manipulation is not solely data scale or policy capacity, but a structural mismatch between current visual backbones and the physical requirements of closed-loop control. While…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yu Deng , Yufeng Jin , Xiaogang Jia , Jiahong Xue , Gerhard Neumann , Georgia Chalvatzaki

Parametric Computer-Aided Design (CAD) of articulated assemblies is essential for product development, yet generating these multi-part, movable models from high-level descriptions remains unexplored. To address this, we propose ArtiCAD, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yuan Shui , Yandong Guan , Zhanwei Zhang , Juncheng Hu , Jing Zhang , Dong Xu , Qian Yu

We present SrvfNet, a generative deep learning framework for the joint multiple alignment of large collections of functional data comprising square-root velocity functions (SRVF) to their templates. Our proposed framework is fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Elvis Nunez , Andrew Lizarraga , Shantanu H. Joshi

The motivation of this paper is to develop a smart system using multi-modal vision for next-generation mechanical assembly. It includes two phases where in the first phase human beings teach the assembly structure to a robot and in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-01-27 Weiwei Wan , Feng Lu , Zepei Wu , Kensuke Harada

Facade renovation offers a more sustainable alternative to full demolition, yet producing design proposals that preserve existing structures while expressing new intent remains challenging. Current workflows typically require detailed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Warissara Booranamaitree , Xusheng Du , Yushu Cai , Zhengyang Wang , Ye Zhang , Haoran Xie

Generative AI is revolutionizing engineering design practices by enabling rapid prototyping and manipulation of designs. One example of design manipulation involves taking two reference design images and using them as prompts to generate a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Yan-Ying Chen , Nikos Arechiga , Chenyang Yuan , Matthew Hong , Matt Klenk , Charlene Wu

Multi-part assembly poses significant challenges for robots to execute long-horizon, contact-rich manipulation with generalization across complex geometries. We present Fabrica, a dual-arm robotic system capable of end-to-end planning and…

Spatial reasoning is a fundamental capability for embodied intelligence, especially for fine-grained manipulation tasks such as robotic assembly. While recent vision-language models (VLMs) exhibit preliminary spatial awareness, they largely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Zhi Jing , Jinbin Qiao , Ouyang Lu , Jicong Ao , Shuang Qiu , Yu-Gang Jiang , Chenjia Bai

Designs and artworks are ubiquitous across various creative fields, requiring graphic design skills and dedicated software to create compositions that include many graphical elements, such as logos, icons, symbols, and art scenes, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Fabio Quattrini , Vittorio Pippi , Silvia Cascianelli , Rita Cucchiara

Automatic generation of executable Blender code from natural language remains challenging, with state-of-the-art LLMs producing frequent syntactic errors and geometrically inconsistent objects. We present BlenderRAG, a retrieval-augmented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Massimo Rondelli , Francesco Pivi , Maurizio Gabbrielli

Animating human face images aims to synthesize a desired source identity in a natural-looking way mimicking a driving video's facial movements. In this context, Generative Adversarial Networks have demonstrated remarkable potential in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Alireza Javanmardi , Alain Pagani , Didier Stricker

This article presents the world's first rapid drone flocking control using natural language through generative AI. The described approach enables the intuitive orchestration of a flock of any size to achieve the desired geometry. The key…