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Posture control and balance are basic requirements for a humanoid robot performing motor tasks like walking and interacting with the environment. For this reason, posture control is one of the elements taken into account when evaluating the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Vittorio Lippi , Christoph Maurer , Thomas Mergner

This paper introduces a novel deep-learning approach for human-to-robot motion retargeting, enabling robots to mimic human poses accurately. Contrary to prior deep-learning-based works, our method does not require paired human-to-robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yashuai Yan , Esteve Valls Mascaro , Dongheui Lee

Benchmarking 3D spatial understanding of foundation models is essential for real-world applications such as robotics and autonomous driving. Existing evaluations often rely on downstream fine-tuning with linear heads or task-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Valentina Lilova , Toyesh Chakravorty , Julian I. Bibo , Emma Boccaletti , Brandon Li , Lívia Baxová , Cees G. M. Snoek , Mohammadreza Salehi

Human-Machine Interaction (HMI) systems have gained huge interest in recent years, with reference expression comprehension being one of the main challenges. Traditionally human-machine interaction has been mostly limited to speech and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Aman Jain , Anirudh Reddy Kondapally , Kentaro Yamada , Hitomi Yanaka

To enable general-purpose robots, we will require the robot to operate daily articulated objects as humans do. Current robot manipulation has heavily relied on using a parallel gripper, which restricts the robot to a limited set of objects.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Chen Bao , Helin Xu , Yuzhe Qin , Xiaolong Wang

Video-based large language models (Video-LLMs) have been recently introduced, targeting both fundamental improvements in perception and comprehension, and a diverse range of user inquiries. In pursuit of the ultimate goal of achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Munan Ning , Bin Zhu , Yujia Xie , Bin Lin , Jiaxi Cui , Lu Yuan , Dongdong Chen , Li Yuan

Interactive world models are advancing rapidly, yet existing benchmarks cover only part of the required competencies, leaving no unified standard for systematic evaluation. To fill this gap, we introduce WBench, a comprehensive multi-turn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Kaining Ying , Hengrui Hu , Siyu Ren , Jiamu Li , Fengjiao Chen , Ziwen Wang , Xuezhi Cao , Xunliang Cai , Henghui Ding

Emotion understanding is a fundamental challenge in affective computing and artificial intelligence. While existing approaches predominantly focus on facial expressions and speech, they often overlook the rich emotional cues conveyed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Chengyan Wang , Haoyu Chen , Hui Wei , Yueyi Yang , Yunquan Chen , Guoying Zhao

General-purpose robots coexisting with humans in their environment must learn to relate human language to their perceptions and actions to be useful in a range of daily tasks. Moreover, they need to acquire a diverse repertoire of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Oier Mees , Lukas Hermann , Erick Rosete-Beas , Wolfram Burgard

Automated assessment of human motion plays a vital role in rehabilitation, enabling objective evaluation of patient performance and progress. Unlike general human activity recognition, rehabilitation motion assessment focuses on analyzing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ali Ismail-Fawaz , Maxime Devanne , Stefano Berretti , Jonathan Weber , Germain Forestier

We introduce LHM-Humanoid, a benchmark and learning framework for long-horizon whole-body humanoid loco-manipulation in diverse, cluttered scenes. In our setting, multiple objects are displaced from their intended locations and may obstruct…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Haozhuo Zhang , Jingkai Sun , Michele Caprio , Jian Tang , Shanghang Zhang , Qiang Zhang , Wei Pan

Controlling a high degrees of freedom humanoid robot is acknowledged as one of the hardest problems in Robotics. Due to the lack of mathematical models, an approach frequently employed is to rely on human intuition to design keyframe…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Luckeciano Carvalho Melo , Marcos Ricardo Omena Albuquerque Maximo , Adilson Marques da Cunha

Imitating tool manipulation from human videos offers an intuitive approach to teaching robots, while also providing a promising and scalable alternative to labor-intensive teleoperation data collection for visuomotor policy learning. While…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Chao Tang , Anxing Xiao , Yuhong Deng , Tianrun Hu , Wenlong Dong , Hanbo Zhang , David Hsu , Hong Zhang

3D scene reconstruction from 2D images is one of the most important tasks in computer graphics. Unfortunately, existing datasets and benchmarks concentrate on idealized synthetic or meticulously captured realistic data. Such benchmarks fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Weronika Smolak-Dyżewska , Dawid Malarz , Grzegorz Wilczyński , Rafał Tobiasz , Joanna Waczyńska , Piotr Borycki , Przemysław Spurek

Recent advances in 3D foundation models have led to growing interest in reconstructing humans and their surrounding environments. However, most existing approaches focus on monocular inputs, and extending them to multi-view settings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Sangmin Kim , Minhyuk Hwang , Geonho Cha , Dongyoon Wee , Jaesik Park

Programming by demonstration has recently gained much attention due to its user-friendly and natural way to transfer human skills to robots. In order to facilitate the learning of multiple demonstrations and meanwhile generalize to new…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Yanlong Huang , João Silvério , Leonel Rozo , Darwin G. Caldwell

AI is becoming increasingly integrated into everyday life, both in professional work environments and in leisure and entertainment contexts. This integration requires AI to move beyond acting as an assistant for informational or…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Christian Poelitz , Finale Doshi-Velez , Siân Lindley

Enabling robust whole-body humanoid-object interaction (HOI) remains challenging due to motion data scarcity and the contact-rich nature. We present HDMI (HumanoiD iMitation for Interaction), a simple and general framework that learns…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Haoyang Weng , Yitang Li , Nikhil Sobanbabu , Zihan Wang , Zhengyi Luo , Tairan He , Deva Ramanan , Guanya Shi

Recent advances in large multimodal models have enabled new opportunities in embodied AI, particularly in robotic manipulation. These models have shown strong potential in generalization and reasoning, but achieving reliable and responsible…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Lei Zhang , Ju Dong , Kaixin Bai , Minheng Ni , Zoltan-Csaba Marton , Zhaopeng Chen , Jianwei Zhang

Imitation learning benchmarks often lack sufficient variation between training and evaluation, limiting meaningful generalisation assessment. We introduce Labyrinth, a benchmarking environment designed to test generalisation with precise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Nathan Gavenski , Odinaldo Rodrigues