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Motion in-betweening, a fundamental task in character animation, consists of generating motion sequences that plausibly interpolate user-provided keyframe constraints. It has long been recognized as a labor-intensive and challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Setareh Cohan , Guy Tevet , Daniele Reda , Xue Bin Peng , Michiel van de Panne

Mastering dexterous robotic manipulation of deformable objects is vital for overcoming the limitations of parallel grippers in real-world applications. Current trajectory optimisation approaches often struggle to solve such tasks due to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Jun Yamada , Shaohong Zhong , Jack Collins , Ingmar Posner

We introduce the Cross Human Motion Diffusion Model (CrossDiff), a novel approach for generating high-quality human motion based on textual descriptions. Our method integrates 3D and 2D information using a shared transformer network within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Zeping Ren , Shaoli Huang , Xiu Li

Diffusion models have recently been successfully applied to a wide range of robotics applications for learning complex multi-modal behaviors from data. However, prior works have mostly been confined to single-robot and small-scale…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Yorai Shaoul , Itamar Mishani , Shivam Vats , Jiaoyang Li , Maxim Likhachev

Acting in human environments is a crucial capability for general-purpose robots, necessitating a robust understanding of natural language and its application to physical tasks. This paper seeks to harness the capabilities of diffusion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jonas Bode , Raphael Memmesheimer , Sven Behnke

Contact-rich bimanual manipulation involves precise coordination of two arms to change object states through strategically selected contacts and motions. Due to the inherent complexity of these tasks, acquiring sufficient demonstration data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Xuanlin Li , Tong Zhao , Xinghao Zhu , Jiuguang Wang , Tao Pang , Kuan Fang

Generative models such as diffusion models, excel at capturing high-dimensional distributions with diverse input modalities, e.g. robot trajectories, but are less effective at multi-step constraint reasoning. Task and Motion Planning (TAMP)…

Diffusion models have recently emerged as powerful tools for robot motion planning by capturing the multi-modal distribution of feasible trajectories. However, their extension to multi-robot settings with flexible, language-conditioned task…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Jebeom Chae , Junwoo Chang , Seungho Yeom , Yujin Kim , Jongeun Choi

Robotic control policies learned from human demonstrations have achieved impressive results in many real-world applications. However, in scenarios where initial performance is not satisfactory, as is often the case in novel open-world…

This paper uses the capabilities of latent diffusion models (LDMs) to generate realistic RGB human-object interaction scenes to guide humanoid loco-manipulation planning. To do so, we extract from the generated images both the contact…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Ilyass Taouil , Haizhou Zhao , Angela Dai , Majid Khadiv

Recent advances in text-to-image generation with diffusion models present transformative capabilities in image quality. However, user controllability of the generated image, and fast adaptation to new tasks still remains an open challenge,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Omer Bar-Tal , Lior Yariv , Yaron Lipman , Tali Dekel

Diffusion models have demonstrated strong potential for robotic trajectory planning. However, generating coherent trajectories from high-level instructions remains challenging, especially for long-range composition tasks requiring multiple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Zhixuan Liang , Yao Mu , Hengbo Ma , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Mingyu Ding , Ping Luo

Text-driven human motion generation is a multimodal task that synthesizes human motion sequences conditioned on natural language. It requires the model to satisfy textual descriptions under varying conditional inputs, while generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Xingyu Chen

Generating human motion from textual descriptions is a challenging task. Existing methods either struggle with physical credibility or are limited by the complexities of physics simulations. In this paper, we present \emph{ReinDiffuse} that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Gaoge Han , Mingjiang Liang , Jinglei Tang , Yongkang Cheng , Wei Liu , Shaoli Huang

Diffusion models have demonstrated highly-expressive generative capabilities in vision and NLP. Recent studies in reinforcement learning (RL) have shown that diffusion models are also powerful in modeling complex policies or trajectories in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Haoran He , Chenjia Bai , Kang Xu , Zhuoran Yang , Weinan Zhang , Dong Wang , Bin Zhao , Xuelong Li

Diffusion-based policies have achieved remarkable results in robotic manipulation but often struggle to adapt rapidly in dynamic scenarios, leading to delayed responses or task failures. We present DCDP, a Dynamic Closed-Loop Diffusion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Pengyuan Wu , Pingrui Zhang , Zhigang Wang , Dong Wang , Bin Zhao , Xuelong Li

With the increasing availability of open-source robotic data, imitation learning has become a promising approach for both manipulation and locomotion. Diffusion models are now widely used to train large, generalized policies that predict…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Shashank Hegde , Satyajeet Das , Gautam Salhotra , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

Text-guided diffusion models such as DALLE-2, Imagen, eDiff-I, and Stable Diffusion are able to generate an effectively endless variety of images given only a short text prompt describing the desired image content. In many cases the images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Wan-Duo Kurt Ma , J. P. Lewis , Avisek Lahiri , Thomas Leung , W. Bastiaan Kleijn

We present TeSMo, a method for text-controlled scene-aware motion generation based on denoising diffusion models. Previous text-to-motion methods focus on characters in isolation without considering scenes due to the limited availability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Hongwei Yi , Justus Thies , Michael J. Black , Xue Bin Peng , Davis Rempe

The human-like form of humanoid robots positions them uniquely to achieve the agility and versatility in motor skills that humans possess. Learning from human demonstrations offers a scalable approach to acquiring these capabilities.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Qiayuan Liao , Takara E. Truong , Xiaoyu Huang , Yuman Gao , Guy Tevet , Koushil Sreenath , C. Karen Liu