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In recent years, developing AI for robotics has raised much attention. The interaction of vision and language of robots is particularly difficult. We consider that giving robots an understanding of visual semantics and language semantics…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Cheng Yu Tsai , Mu-Chun Su

Implicit neural 3D representation has achieved impressive results in surface or scene reconstruction and novel view synthesis, which typically uses the coordinate-based multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs) to learn a continuous scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Fukun Yin , Wen Liu , Zilong Huang , Pei Cheng , Tao Chen , Gang YU

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used for object detection. However, the existing UAV-based object detection systems are subject to severe challenges, namely, their limited computation, energy and communication resources, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-07 Xi Song , Fuhui Zhou , Rui Ding , Zhibo Qu , Yihao Li , Qihui Wu , Naofal Al-Dhahir

This paper presents a distributed approach for exploring and triangulating an unknown region using a multi- robot system. The objective is to produce a covering of an unknown workspace by a fixed number of robots such that the covered…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-02-04 SeoungKyou Lee , Aaron Becker , Sándor P. Fekete , Alexander Kröller , James McLurkin

Open-vocabulary 6D object pose estimation empowers robots to manipulate arbitrary unseen objects guided solely by natural language. However, a critical limitation of existing approaches is their reliance on unconstrained global matching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yu Qin , Shimeng Fan , Fan Yang , Zixuan Xue , Zijie Mai , Wenrui Chen , Kailun Yang , Zhiyong Li

Understanding 3D scenes in open-world settings poses fundamental challenges for vision and robotics, particularly due to the limitations of closed-vocabulary supervision and static annotations. To address this, we propose a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Fei Yu , Quan Deng , Shengeng Tang , Yuehua Li , Lechao Cheng

Collaborative mapping of unknown environments can be done faster and more robustly than a single robot. However, a collaborative approach requires a distributed paradigm to be scalable and deal with communication issues. This work presents…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Mahboubeh Asadi , Kourosh Zareinia , Sajad Saeedi

Mesh models are a promising approach for encoding the structure of 3D objects. Current mesh reconstruction systems predict uniformly distributed vertex locations of a predetermined graph through a series of graph convolutions, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Edward J. Smith , Scott Fujimoto , Adriana Romero , David Meger

Robot grasping of desktop object is widely used in intelligent manufacturing, logistics, and agriculture.Although vision-language models (VLMs) show strong potential for robotic manipulation, their deployment in low-level grasping faces key…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yiran Ling , Wenxuan Li , Siying Dong , Yize Zhang , Xiaoyao Huang , Jing Jiang , Ruonan Li , Jie Liu

Cooperative perception, which has a broader perception field than single-vehicle perception, has played an increasingly important role in autonomous driving to conduct 3D object detection. Through vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Yucheng Sheng , Hao Ye , Le Liang , Shi Jin , Geoffrey Ye Li

3D scene understanding is fundamental for embodied AI and robotics, supporting reliable perception for interaction and navigation. Recent approaches achieve zero-shot, open-vocabulary 3D semantic mapping by assigning embedding vectors to 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Mohamad Amin Mirzaei , Pantea Amoie , Ali Ekhterachian , Matin Mirzababaei , Babak Khalaj

Robots operating in unstructured environments often require accurate and consistent object-level representations. This typically requires segmenting individual objects from the robot's surroundings. While recent large models such as Segment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Haozhan Tang , Tianyi Zhang , Oliver Kroemer , Matthew Johnson-Roberson , Weiming Zhi

Developing new molecular compounds is crucial to address pressing challenges, from health to environmental sustainability. However, exploring the molecular space to discover new molecules is difficult due to the vastness of the space. Here…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Manuel Ruiz-Botella , Marta Sales-Pardo , Roger Guimerà

A proper scene representation is central to the pursuit of spatial intelligence where agents can robustly reconstruct and efficiently understand 3D scenes. A scene representation is either metric, such as landmark maps in 3D reconstruction,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Juexiao Zhang , Gao Zhu , Sihang Li , Xinhao Liu , Haorui Song , Xinran Tang , Chen Feng

Robots require a semantic understanding of their surroundings to operate in an efficient and explainable way in human environments. In the literature, there has been an extensive focus on object labeling and exhaustive scene graph…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Roberto Bigazzi , Lorenzo Baraldi , Shreyas Kousik , Rita Cucchiara , Marco Pavone

Controllable 3D scene generation has extensive applications in virtual reality and interior design, where the generated scenes should exhibit high levels of realism and controllability in terms of geometry. Scene graphs provide a suitable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Zhifei Yang , Keyang Lu , Chao Zhang , Jiaxing Qi , Hanqi Jiang , Ruifei Ma , Shenglin Yin , Yifan Xu , Mingzhe Xing , Zhen Xiao , Jieyi Long , Guangyao Zhai

When virtual agents interact with humans, gestures are crucial to delivering their intentions with speech. Previous multimodal co-speech gesture generation models required encoded features of all modalities to generate gestures. If some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Gwantae Kim , Seonghyeok Noh , Insung Ham , Hanseok Ko

Mobile robots should be aware of their situation, comprising the deep understanding of their surrounding environment along with the estimation of its own state, to successfully make intelligent decisions and execute tasks autonomously in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Hriday Bavle , Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez , Muhammad Shaheer , Javier Civera , Holger Voos

We formalize and enable the task of open tree decomposition, which segments an image into hierarchical trees of visual components with unconstrained granularity and flexibility. Specifically, we provide the foundation benchmark for this new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Junhyub Lee , Seunghun Chae , Hyosu Kim

The goal of this work is to address two limitations in autoencoder-based models: latent space interpretability and compatibility with unstructured meshes. This is accomplished here with the development of a novel graph neural network (GNN)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Shivam Barwey , Varun Shankar , Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan , Romit Maulik