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Motion mimicking, i.e., encouraging the control policy to mimic human motion, facilitates the learning of complex tasks via reinforcement learning (RL) for humanoid robots. Although standard RL frameworks demonstrate impressive locomotion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ludwig Chee-Ying Tay , I-Chia Chang , Yan Gu

Recovering 4D human-object interaction (HOI) from monocular video is a key step toward scalable 3D content creation, embodied AI, and simulation-based learning. Recent methods can reconstruct temporally coherent human and object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yubo Zhao , Yujin Chai , Yunao Dong , Chengfeng Zhao , Zijiao Zeng , Yuan Liu , Chi-Keung Tang

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

Tactile sensing is critical to fine-grained, contact-rich manipulation tasks, such as insertion and assembly. Prior research has shown the possibility of learning tactile-guided policy from teleoperated demonstration data. However, to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Kelin Yu , Yunhai Han , Qixian Wang , Vaibhav Saxena , Danfei Xu , Ye Zhao

Imitation learning from human demonstrations is a promising paradigm for teaching robots manipulation skills in the real world. However, learning complex long-horizon tasks often requires an unattainable amount of demonstrations. To reduce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Chen Wang , Linxi Fan , Jiankai Sun , Ruohan Zhang , Li Fei-Fei , Danfei Xu , Yuke Zhu , Anima Anandkumar

Humanoid robots that autonomously interact with physical environments over extended horizons represent a central goal of embodied intelligence. Existing approaches rely on reference motions or task-specific rewards, tightly coupling…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Yutang Lin , Jieming Cui , Yixuan Li , Baoxiong Jia , Yixin Zhu , Siyuan Huang

In this paper, we discuss a framework for teaching bimanual manipulation tasks by imitation. To this end, we present a system and algorithms for learning compliant and contact-rich robot behavior from human demonstrations. The presented…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Simon Stepputtis , Maryam Bandari , Stefan Schaal , Heni Ben Amor

Accurately modeling detailed interactions between human/hand and object is an appealing yet challenging task. Current multi-view capture systems are only capable of reconstructing multiple subjects into a single, unified mesh, which fails…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Jiajun Zhang , Yuxiang Zhang , Hongwen Zhang , Xiao Zhou , Boyao Zhou , Ruizhi Shao , Zonghai Hu , Yebin Liu

Humans rarely plan whole-body interactions with objects at the level of explicit whole-body movements. High-level intentions, such as affordance, define the goal, while coordinated balance, contact, and manipulation can emerge naturally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Sirui Xu , Samuel Schulter , Morteza Ziyadi , Xialin He , Xiaohan Fei , Yu-Xiong Wang , Liangyan Gui

Modeling 4D human-object interaction (HOI) is a compelling challenge in computer vision and an essential technology powering virtual and mixed-reality applications. While existing works have achieved promising results on specific HOI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Mengfei Zhang , Jinlu Zhang , Zhigang Tu

Enabling humanoid robots to clean rooms has long been a pursued dream within humanoid research communities. However, many tasks require multi-humanoid collaboration, such as carrying large and heavy furniture together. Given the scarcity of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Jiawei Gao , Ziqin Wang , Zeqi Xiao , Jingbo Wang , Tai Wang , Jinkun Cao , Xiaolin Hu , Si Liu , Jifeng Dai , Jiangmiao Pang

Generating realistic 3D human-object interactions (HOIs) from text descriptions is a active research topic with potential applications in virtual and augmented reality, robotics, and animation. However, creating high-quality 3D HOIs remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Yixuan Zhang , Hui Yang , Chuanchen Luo , Junran Peng , Yuxi Wang , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Video data is more cost-effective than motion capture data for learning 3D character motion controllers, yet synthesizing realistic and diverse behaviors directly from videos remains challenging. Previous approaches typically rely on…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Jianan Li , Xiao Chen , Tao Huang , Tien-Tsin Wong

Current approaches for humanoid whole-body manipulation, primarily relying on teleoperation or visual sim-to-real reinforcement learning, are hindered by hardware logistics and complex reward engineering. Consequently, demonstrated…

Human-Object Interaction (HOI) recognition in videos is important for analyzing human activity. Most existing work focusing on visual features usually suffer from occlusion in the real-world scenarios. Such a problem will be further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Tanqiu Qiao , Qianhui Men , Frederick W. B. Li , Yoshiki Kubotani , Shigeo Morishima , Hubert P. H. Shum

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

Generalizing to long-horizon manipulation tasks in a zero-shot setting remains a central challenge in robotics. Current multimodal foundation based approaches, despite their capabilities, typically fail to decompose high-level commands into…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Ke Ye , Jiaming Zhou , Yuanfeng Qiu , Jiayi Liu , Shihui Zhou , Kun-Yu Lin , Junwei Liang

Humans naturally interact with both others and the surrounding multiple objects, engaging in various social activities. However, recent advances in modeling human-object interactions mostly focus on perceiving isolated individuals and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Juze Zhang , Jingyan Zhang , Zining Song , Zhanhe Shi , Chengfeng Zhao , Ye Shi , Jingyi Yu , Lan Xu , Jingya Wang

Human-Object Interaction (HOI) aims to identify the pairs of humans and objects in images and to recognize their relationships, ultimately forming $\langle human, object, verb \rangle$ triplets. Under default settings, HOI performance is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Chaoyi Ai

Human-object interaction (HOI) synthesis is crucial for applications in animation, simulation, and robotics. However, existing approaches either rely on expensive motion capture data or require manual reward engineering, limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Zekai Deng , Ye Shi , Kaiyang Ji , Lan Xu , Shaoli Huang , Jingya Wang