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Learning control policies for multi-robot systems (MRS) remains a major challenge due to long-term coordination and the difficulty of obtaining realistic training data. In this work, we address both limitations within an imitation learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Jesús Roche , Eduardo Sebastián , Eduardo Montijano

Supporting real-time interactions between human controllers and remote devices remains a challenging goal in the Metaverse due to the stringent requirements on computing workload, communication throughput, and round-trip latency. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Kan Chen , Zhen Meng , Xiangmin Xu , Changyang She , Philip G. Zhao

We present a physics-based character control framework for synthesizing human-scene interactions. Recent advances adopt physics simulation to mitigate artifacts produced by data-driven kinematic approaches. However, existing physics-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Liang Pan , Jingbo Wang , Buzhen Huang , Junyu Zhang , Haofan Wang , Xu Tang , Yangang Wang

We present DreamHOI, a novel method for zero-shot synthesis of human-object interactions (HOIs), enabling a 3D human model to realistically interact with any given object based on a textual description. This task is complicated by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Thomas Hanwen Zhu , Ruining Li , Tomas Jakab

Synthesizing realistic human-object interactions (HOI) in video is challenging due to the complex, instance-specific interaction dynamics of both humans and objects. Incorporating controllability in video generation further adds to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Wanyue Zhang , Lin Geng Foo , Thabo Beeler , Rishabh Dabral , Christian Theobalt

While Human-Object Interaction(HOI) Detection has achieved tremendous advances in recent, it still remains challenging due to complex interactions with multiple humans and objects occurring in images, which would inevitably lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Kunlun Xu , Zhimin Li , Zhijun Zhang , Leizhen Dong , Wenhui Xu , Luxin Yan , Sheng Zhong , Xu Zou

Physical interactive robotics, ranging from wearable devices to collaborative humanoid robots, require close coordination between mechanical design and control. However, evaluating interactive dynamics is challenging due to complex human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Chenhui Zuo , Jinhao Xu , Michael Qian Vergnolle , Yanan Sui

Generating realistic hand-object interactions (HOI) videos is a significant challenge due to the difficulty of modeling physical constraints (e.g., contact and occlusion between hands and manipulated objects). Current methods utilize HOI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Haodong Yan , Hang Yu , Zhide Zhong , Weilin Yuan , Xin Gong , Zehang Luo , Chengxi Heyu , Junfeng Li , Wenxuan Song , Shunbo Zhou , Haoang Li

Imitation Learning (IL) is an effective framework to learn visuomotor skills from offline demonstration data. However, IL methods often fail to generalize to new scene configurations not covered by training data. On the other hand, humans…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Chen Wang , Rui Wang , Ajay Mandlekar , Li Fei-Fei , Silvio Savarese , Danfei Xu

A core challenge for an agent learning to interact with the world is to predict how its actions affect objects in its environment. Many existing methods for learning the dynamics of physical interactions require labeled object information.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Chelsea Finn , Ian Goodfellow , Sergey Levine

Mimicry is a fundamental learning mechanism in humans, enabling individuals to learn new tasks by observing and imitating experts. However, applying this ability to robots presents significant challenges due to the inherent differences…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Hanjung Kim , Jaehyun Kang , Hyolim Kang , Meedeum Cho , Seon Joo Kim , Youngwoon Lee

Natural human interactions for Mixed Reality Applications are overwhelmingly multimodal: humans communicate intent and instructions via a combination of visual, aural and gestural cues. However, supporting low-latency and accurate…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Darshana Rathnayake , Ashen de Silva , Dasun Puwakdandawa , Lakmal Meegahapola , Archan Misra , Indika Perera

We present a method for learning a human-robot collaboration policy from human-human collaboration demonstrations. An effective robot assistant must learn to handle diverse human behaviors shown in the demonstrations and be robust when the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Chen Wang , Claudia Pérez-D'Arpino , Danfei Xu , Li Fei-Fei , C. Karen Liu , Silvio Savarese

We propose ChainHOI, a novel approach for text-driven human-object interaction (HOI) generation that explicitly models interactions at both the joint and kinetic chain levels. Unlike existing methods that implicitly model interactions using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Ling-An Zeng , Guohong Huang , Yi-Lin Wei , Shengbo Gu , Yu-Ming Tang , Jingke Meng , Wei-Shi Zheng

Human-Object Interaction (HOI) detection plays a core role in activity understanding. Though recent two/one-stage methods have achieved impressive results, as an essential step, discovering interactive human-object pairs remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Xinpeng Liu , Yong-Lu Li , Xiaoqian Wu , Yu-Wing Tai , Cewu Lu , Chi-Keung Tang

Robotic imitation learning has achieved impressive success in learning complex manipulation behaviors from demonstrations. However, many existing robot learning methods do not explicitly account for the physical symmetries of robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Zhiyuan Zhang , Aditya Mohan , Seungho Han , Wan Shou , Dongyi Wang , Yu She

Task-oriented object grasping and rearrangement are critical skills for robots to accomplish different real-world manipulation tasks. However, they remain challenging due to partial observations of the objects and shape variations in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yichen Cai , Jianfeng Gao , Christoph Pohl , Tamim Asfour

Human videos offer a scalable way to train robot manipulation policies, but lack the action labels needed by standard imitation learning algorithms. Existing cross-embodiment approaches try to map human motion to robot actions, but often…

In this work, we study Human-Object Interaction Video Generation (HOIVG), which aims to synthesize high-quality human-object interaction videos conditioned on text, reference images, audio, and pose. This task holds significant practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Donghao Zhou , Guisheng Liu , Hao Yang , Jiatong Li , Jingyu Lin , Xiaohu Huang , Yichen Liu , Xin Gao , Cunjian Chen , Shilei Wen , Chi-Wing Fu , Pheng-Ann Heng

We introduce Correspondence-Oriented Imitation Learning (COIL), a conditional policy learning framework for visuomotor control with a flexible task representation in 3D. At the core of our approach, each task is defined by the intended…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Yunhao Cao , Zubin Bhaumik , Jessie Jia , Xingyi He , Kuan Fang