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Human-Object Interaction (HOI) detection aims to detect visual relations between human and objects in images. One significant problem of HOI detection is that non-interactive human-object pair can be easily mis-grouped and misclassified as…

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Bimanual manipulation is a longstanding challenge in robotics due to the large number of degrees of freedom and the strict spatial and temporal synchronization required to generate meaningful behavior. Humans learn bimanual manipulation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Arpit Bahety , Priyanka Mandikal , Ben Abbatematteo , Roberto Martín-Martín

Humanoid motion control has witnessed significant breakthroughs in recent years, with deep reinforcement learning (RL) emerging as a primary catalyst for achieving complex, human-like behaviors. However, the high dimensionality and…

This work focuses on generating realistic, physically-based human behaviors from multi-modal inputs, which may only partially specify the desired motion. For example, the input may come from a VR controller providing arm motion and body…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Aayam Shrestha , Pan Liu , German Ros , Kai Yuan , Alan Fern

Synthesizing human--object interaction (HOI) videos has broad practical value in e-commerce, digital advertising, and virtual marketing. However, current diffusion models, despite their photorealistic rendering capability, still frequently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Xiangyang Luo , Xiaozhe Xin , Tao Feng , Xu Guo , Meiguang Jin , Junfeng Ma

Fine-grained capturing of 3D HOI boosts human activity understanding and facilitates downstream visual tasks, including action recognition, holistic scene reconstruction, and human motion synthesis. Despite its significance, existing works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Nan Jiang , Tengyu Liu , Zhexuan Cao , Jieming Cui , Zhiyuan zhang , Yixin Chen , He Wang , Yixin Zhu , Siyuan Huang

Optimizing and refining action execution through exploration and interaction is a promising way for robotic manipulation. However, practical approaches to interaction-driven robotic learning are still underexplored, particularly for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Yibo Peng , Jiahao Yang , Shenhao Yan , Ziyu Huang , Shuang Li , Shuguang Cui , Yiming Zhao , Yatong Han

Generating realistic 3D Human-Object Interactions (HOI) is a fundamental task for applications ranging from embodied AI to virtual content creation, which requires harmonizing high-level semantic intent with strict low-level physical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Hao Wang , Shiqi Wang , Qi Liu

Effective human-AI coordination requires artificial agents capable of exhibiting and responding to human-like behaviors while adapting to changing contexts. Imitation learning has emerged as one of the prominent approaches to build such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Rakshit Trivedi , Kartik Sharma , David C Parkes

Generating high-fidelity full-body human interactions with dynamic objects and static scenes remains a critical challenge in computer graphics and animation. Existing methods for human-object interaction often neglect scene context, leading…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Wei Yao , Yunlian Sun , Hongwen Zhang , Yebin Liu , Jinhui Tang

Real-world scenes often feature multiple humans interacting with multiple objects in ways that are causal, goal-oriented, or cooperative. Yet existing 3D human-object interaction (HOI) benchmarks consider only a fraction of these complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Kaen Kogashi , Anoop Cherian , Meng-Yu Jennifer Kuo

We present an approach for detecting human-object interactions (HOIs) in images, based on the idea that humans interact with functionally similar objects in a similar manner. The proposed model is simple and efficiently uses the data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Ankan Bansal , Sai Saketh Rambhatla , Abhinav Shrivastava , Rama Chellappa

Understanding human interaction with objects is an important research topic for embodied Artificial Intelligence and identifying the objects that humans are interacting with is a primary problem for interaction understanding. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Yanyan Shao , Qi Ye , Wenhan Luo , Kaihao Zhang , Jiming Chen

Imitation learning is a powerful paradigm for robot skill acquisition, yet conventional demonstration methods--such as kinesthetic teaching and teleoperation--are cumbersome, hardware-heavy, and disruptive to workflows. Recently, passive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Rohan Walia , Yusheng Wang , Ralf Römer , Masahiro Nishio , Angela P. Schoellig , Jun Ota

Human-object interaction (HOI) detection plays a key role in high-level visual understanding, facilitating a deep comprehension of human activities. Specifically, HOI detection aims to locate the humans and objects involved in interactions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Yuxiao Wang , Yu Lei , Li Cui , Weiying Xue , Qi Liu , Zhenao Wei

Recovering 3D Human-Object Interaction (HOI) from single color images is challenging due to depth ambiguities, occlusions, and the huge variation in object shape and appearance. Thus, past work requires controlled settings such as known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Alpár Cseke , Shashank Tripathi , Sai Kumar Dwivedi , Arjun Lakshmipathy , Agniv Chatterjee , Michael J. Black , Dimitrios Tzionas

Human object interaction (HOI) detection is an important task in image understanding and reasoning. It is in a form of HOI triplet <human; verb; object>, requiring bounding boxes for human and object, and action between them for the task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Suresh Kirthi Kumaraswamy , Miaojing Shi , Ewa Kijak

Whole-body Humanoid-Object Interaction (HOI) is bottlenecked by the scarcity of high-fidelity 3D data. While video generative priors offer a promising alternative, existing methods suffer from \textit{Representation Misalignment} due to…

Imitation Learning is a promising paradigm for learning complex robot manipulation skills by reproducing behavior from human demonstrations. However, manipulation tasks often contain bottleneck regions that require a sequence of precise…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Ajay Mandlekar , Danfei Xu , Roberto Martín-Martín , Yuke Zhu , Li Fei-Fei , Silvio Savarese

A holistic understanding of object properties across diverse sensory modalities (e.g., visual, audio, and haptic) is essential for tasks ranging from object categorization to complex manipulation. Drawing inspiration from cognitive science…

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