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Imitation learning from human demonstrations offers a promising approach for robot skill acquisition, but egocentric human data introduces fundamental challenges due to the embodiment gap. During manipulation, humans actively coordinate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Justin Yu , Yide Shentu , Di Wu , Pieter Abbeel , Ken Goldberg , Philipp Wu

We propose a multi-sensor fusion method for capturing challenging 3D human motions with accurate consecutive local poses and global trajectories in large-scale scenarios, only using single LiDAR and 4 IMUs, which are set up conveniently and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Yiming Ren , Chengfeng Zhao , Yannan He , Peishan Cong , Han Liang , Jingyi Yu , Lan Xu , Yuexin Ma

Human motion synthesis is an important problem with applications in graphics, gaming and simulation environments for robotics. Existing methods require accurate motion capture data for training, which is costly to obtain. Instead, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Kevin Xie , Tingwu Wang , Umar Iqbal , Yunrong Guo , Sanja Fidler , Florian Shkurti

For robust visual-inertial SLAM in perceptually-challenging indoor environments,recent studies exploit line features to extract descriptive information about scene structure to deal with the degeneracy of point features. But existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Wanting Li , Shuo Wang , Yongcai Wang , Yu Shao , Xuewei Bai , Deying Li

Intelligent agents need a physical understanding of the world to predict the impact of their actions in the future. While learning-based models of the environment dynamics have contributed to significant improvements in sample efficiency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Eric Heiden , David Millard , Hejia Zhang , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

This paper presents a motion analysis framework for an athlete wearing sport-specific flexible prosthesis based on the soft-rigid hybrid-link system. Such a motion analysis is a challenging problem because we need to consider the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Sunghee Kim , Yuta Shimane , Taiki Ishigaki , Ko Yamamoto

Imitation learning (IL) has achieved considerable success in solving complex sequential decision-making problems. However, current IL methods mainly assume that the environment for learning policies is the same as the environment for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Siyuan Li , Xun Wang , Rongchang Zuo , Kewu Sun , Lingfei Cui , Jishiyu Ding , Peng Liu , Zhe Ma

A motion-based control interface promises flexible robot operations in dangerous environments by combining user intuitions with the robot's motor capabilities. However, designing a motion interface for non-humanoid robots, such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Sunwoo Kim , Maks Sorokin , Jehee Lee , Sehoon Ha

Human-to-humanoid imitation learning aims to learn a humanoid whole-body controller from human motion. Motion retargeting is a crucial step in enabling robots to acquire reference trajectories when exploring locomotion skills. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Xingyu Chen , Hanyu Wu , Sikai Wu , Mingliang Zhou , Diyun Xiang , Haodong Zhang

This paper proposes a weakly-supervised learning framework for dynamics estimation from human motion. Although there are many solutions to capture pure human motion readily available, their data is not sufficient to analyze quality and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Petrissa Zell , Bodo Rosenhahn , Bastian Wandt

Grasping the intricacies of human motion, which involve perceiving spatio-temporal dependence and multi-scale effects, is essential for predicting human motion. While humans inherently possess the requisite skills to navigate this issue, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Kedi Lyu , Haipeng Chen , Zhenguang Liu , Yifang Yin , Yukang Lin , Yingying Jiao

Generating realistic 3D human-object interactions (HOIs) remains a challenging task due to the difficulty of modeling detailed interaction dynamics. Existing methods treat human and object motions independently, resulting in physically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Lin Wu , Zhixiang Chen , Jianglin Lan

Human teams can be exceptionally efficient at adapting and collaborating during manipulation tasks using shared mental models. However, the same shared mental models that can be used by humans to perform robust low-level force and motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-06-01 Eric C. Townsend , Erich A Mielke , David Wingate , Marc D. Killpack

Accurate and physically feasible human motion prediction is crucial for safe and seamless human-robot collaboration. While recent advancements in human motion capture enable real-time pose estimation, the practical value of many existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Cheng Guo , Giuseppe L'Erario , Giulio Romualdi , Mattia Leonori , Marta Lorenzini , Arash Ajoudani , Daniele Pucci

A key task in the field of modeling and analyzing nonlinear dynamical systems is the recovery of unknown governing equations from measurement data only. There is a wide range of application areas for this important instance of system…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-04-11 Patrick Gelß , Stefan Klus , Jens Eisert , Christof Schütte

This paper investigates humanoid whole-body dexterous manipulation, where the efficient collection of high-quality demonstration data remains a central bottleneck. Existing teleoperation systems often suffer from limited portability,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Liang Heng , Yihe Tang , Jiajun Xu , Henghui Bao , Di Huang , Yue Wang

Can we make virtual characters in a scene interact with their surrounding objects through simple instructions? Is it possible to synthesize such motion plausibly with a diverse set of objects and instructions? Inspired by these questions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Anindita Ghosh , Rishabh Dabral , Vladislav Golyanik , Christian Theobalt , Philipp Slusallek

Semi-supervised imitation learning (SSIL) consists in learning a policy from a small dataset of action-labeled trajectories and a much larger dataset of action-free trajectories. Some SSIL methods learn an inverse dynamics model (IDM) to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Sacha Morin , Moonsub Byeon , Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau , Sébastien Lachapelle

Despite significant advances in video generation, synthesizing physically plausible human actions remains a persistent challenge, particularly in modeling fine-grained semantics and complex temporal dynamics. For instance, generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Dian Shao , Mingfei Shi , Shengda Xu , Haodong Chen , Yongle Huang , Binglu Wang

Inertial motion analysis is having a growing interest during the last decades due to its advantages over classical optical systems. The technological solution based on inertial measurement units allows the measurement of movements in daily…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-24 Sara García-de-Villa , David Casillas-Pérez , Ana Jiménez-Martín , Juan Jesús García-Domínguez