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Autonomous navigation in highly constrained environments remains challenging for mobile robots. Classical navigation approaches offer safety assurances but require environment-specific parameter tuning; end-to-end learning bypasses…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yuanjie Lu , Beichen Wang , Zhengqi Wu , Yang Li , Xiaomin Lin , Chengzhi Mao , Xuesu Xiao

Gaze understanding unifies the detection of people, their gaze targets, and objects of interest into a single framework, offering critical insight into visual attention and intent estimation. Although prior research has modelled gaze cues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Athul M. Mathew , Haithem Hermassi , Thariq Khalid , Arshad Ali Khan

Advancements in large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated their potential in facilitating high-level reasoning, logical reasoning and robotics planning. Recently, LLMs have also been able to generate reward functions for low-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Marta Skreta , Zihan Zhou , Jia Lin Yuan , Kourosh Darvish , Alán Aspuru-Guzik , Animesh Garg

Vision-Language models (VLMs) have proven to be effective at aligning image and text representations, producing superior zero-shot results when transferred to many downstream tasks. However, these representations suffer from some key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Nir Yellinek , Leonid Karlinsky , Raja Giryes

The advancement of embodied intelligence is accelerating the integration of robots into daily life as human assistants. This evolution requires robots to not only interpret high-level instructions and plan tasks but also perceive and adapt…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Zhichen Lou , Kechun Xu , Zhongxiang Zhou , Rong Xiong

While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) enable high-level semantic reasoning for end-to-end autonomous driving, particularly in unstructured environments, existing off-road datasets suffer from language annotations that are weakly aligned with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Byounggun Park , Soonmin Hwang

We introduce Point-Bind, a 3D multi-modality model aligning point clouds with 2D image, language, audio, and video. Guided by ImageBind, we construct a joint embedding space between 3D and multi-modalities, enabling many promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Ziyu Guo , Renrui Zhang , Xiangyang Zhu , Yiwen Tang , Xianzheng Ma , Jiaming Han , Kexin Chen , Peng Gao , Xianzhi Li , Hongsheng Li , Pheng-Ann Heng

3D affordance grounding aims to highlight the actionable regions on 3D objects, which is crucial for robotic manipulation. Previous research primarily focused on learning affordance knowledge from static cues such as language and images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Hanqing Wang , Mingyu Liu , Xiaoyu Chen , Chengwei MA , Yiming Zhong , Wenti Yin , Yuhao Liu , Zhiqing Cui , Jiahao Yuan , Lu Dai , Zhiyuan Ma , Hui Xiong

Vision-Language-Action Models (VLAs) have shown remarkable progress towards embodied intelligence. While their architecture partially resembles that of Large Language Models (LLMs), VLAs exhibit higher complexity due to their multi-modal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Hugo Buurmeijer , Carmen Amo Alonso , Aiden Swann , Marco Pavone

In this work, we present Uni3DL, a unified model for 3D and Language understanding. Distinct from existing unified vision-language models in 3D which are limited in task variety and predominantly dependent on projected multi-view images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Xiang Li , Jian Ding , Zhaoyang Chen , Mohamed Elhoseiny

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

Vision-language models (VLMs) are essential to Embodied AI, enabling robots to perceive, reason, and act in complex environments. They also serve as the foundation for the recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. Yet most evaluations of…

LLM-based agents have demonstrated impressive zero-shot performance in vision-language navigation (VLN) task. However, existing LLM-based methods often focus only on solving high-level task planning by selecting nodes in predefined…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Jiaqi Chen , Bingqian Lin , Xinmin Liu , Lin Ma , Xiaodan Liang , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Recent advances in task planning leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) to improve generalizability by combining such models with classical planning algorithms to address their inherent limitations in reasoning capabilities. However, these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Timo Birr , Christoph Pohl , Abdelrahman Younes , Tamim Asfour

Despite recent advances in multimodal content generation enabled by vision-language models (VLMs), their ability to reason about and generate structured 3D scenes remains largely underexplored. This limitation constrains their utility in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Xinhang Liu , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

Vision-language models (VLMs) have recently emerged as powerful representation learning systems that align visual observations with natural language concepts, offering new opportunities for semantic reasoning in safety-critical autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Ross Greer , Maitrayee Keskar , Angel Martinez-Sanchez , Parthib Roy , Shashank Shriram , Mohan Trivedi

The ability for robots to comprehend and execute manipulation tasks based on natural language instructions is a long-term goal in robotics. The dominant approaches for language-guided manipulation use 2D image representations, which face…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Shizhe Chen , Ricardo Garcia , Cordelia Schmid , Ivan Laptev

Recent years have witnessed an emerging paradigm shift toward embodied artificial intelligence, in which an agent must learn to solve challenging tasks by interacting with its environment. There are several challenges in solving embodied…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Zhiwei Jia , Kaixiang Lin , Yizhou Zhao , Qiaozi Gao , Govind Thattai , Gaurav Sukhatme

Large vision-language models (VLMs) have shown promising capabilities in scene understanding, enhancing the explainability of driving behaviors and interactivity with users. Existing methods primarily fine-tune VLMs on on-board multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Nan Song , Bozhou Zhang , Xiatian Zhu , Jiankang Deng , Li Zhang

Understanding 3D point clouds through language remains a fundamental challenge in computer graphics and visual computing, due to the irregular structure of point cloud data and the lack of explicit reasoning in existing 3D multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Chaoqi Chen , Qile Xu , Wenjun Zhou , Hui Huang