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Active recognition enables robots to intelligently explore novel observations, thereby acquiring more information while circumventing undesired viewing conditions. Recent approaches favor learning policies from simulated or collected data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Lei Fan , Mingfu Liang , Yunxuan Li , Gang Hua , Ying Wu

Embodiment is an important characteristic for all intelligent agents (creatures and robots), while existing scene description tasks mainly focus on analyzing images passively and the semantic understanding of the scenario is separated from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Sinan Tan , Huaping Liu , Di Guo , Xinyu Zhang , Fuchun Sun

Recent advances in vision-language learning have achieved notable success on complete-information question-answering datasets through the integration of extensive world knowledge. Yet, most models operate passively, responding to questions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Manjie Xu , Guangyuan Jiang , Wei Liang , Chi Zhang , Yixin Zhu

Omnidirectional images (ODIs), with their 360{\deg} field of view, provide unparalleled spatial awareness for immersive applications like augmented reality and embodied AI. However, the capability of existing multi-modal large language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Xinshen Zhang , Zhen Ye , Xu Zheng

In this paper, we explore how performers' embodied interactions with a Neural Audio Synthesis model allow the exploration of the latent space of such a model, mediated through movements sensed by e-textiles. We provide background and…

Embodied agents are expected to assist humans by actively exploring unknown environments and reasoning about spatial contexts. When deployed in real life, agents often face sequential tasks where each new task follows the completion of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Zhongyi Cai , Yi Du , Chen Wang , Yu Kong

Large multimodal models (LMMs) show strong visual-linguistic reasoning but their capacity for spatial decision-making and action remains unclear. In this work, we investigate whether LMMs can achieve embodied spatial action like human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Baining Zhao , Ziyou Wang , Jianjie Fang , Zile Zhou , Yanggang Xu , Yatai Ji , Jiacheng Xu , Qian Zhang , Weichen Zhang , Chen Gao , Xinlei Chen

Embodied Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning has significantly enhanced Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, yet current methods rely on rigid templates to specify reasoning primitives (e.g., objects in the scene, high-level plans, structural…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Milan Ganai , Katie Luo , Jonas Frey , Clark Barrett , Marco Pavone

Vision-language models (VLMs) are essential to Embodied AI, enabling robots to perceive, reason, and act in complex environments. They also serve as the foundation for the recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. Yet most evaluations of…

Embodied artificial intelligence (Embodied AI) plays a pivotal role in the application of advanced technologies in the intelligent era, where AI systems are integrated with physical bodies that enable them to perceive, reason, and interact…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Zhaohan Feng , Ruiqi Xue , Lei Yuan , Yang Yu , Ning Ding , Meiqin Liu , Bingzhao Gao , Jian Sun , Xinhu Zheng , Gang Wang

Embodied scene understanding requires not only comprehending visual-spatial information that has been observed but also determining where to explore next in the 3D physical world. Existing 3D Vision-Language (3D-VL) models primarily focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Ziyu Zhu , Xilin Wang , Yixuan Li , Zhuofan Zhang , Xiaojian Ma , Yixin Chen , Baoxiong Jia , Wei Liang , Qian Yu , Zhidong Deng , Siyuan Huang , Qing Li

Learning internal reasoning processes is crucial for developing AI systems capable of sustained adaptation in dynamic real-world environments. However, most existing approaches primarily emphasize learning task-specific outputs or static…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Hong Su

When thinking with images, humans rarely rely on a single glance: they revisit visual evidence while reasoning. In contrast, most Multimodal Language Models encode an image once to key-value cache and then reason purely in text, making it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jiwan Chung , Junhyeok Kim , Siyeol Kim , Jaeyoung Lee , Min Soo Kim , Youngjae Yu

VLA models have shown promising potential in embodied navigation by unifying perception and planning while inheriting the strong generalization abilities of large VLMs. However, most existing VLA models rely on reactive mappings directly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Shaoan Wang , Yuanfei Luo , Xingyu Chen , Aocheng Luo , Dongyue Li , Chang Liu , Sheng Chen , Yangang Zhang , Junzhi Yu

Visual reasoning, particularly spatial reasoning, is a challenging cognitive task that requires understanding object relationships and their interactions within complex environments, especially in robotics domain. Existing vision_language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Simindokht Jahangard , Mehrzad Mohammadi , Abhinav Dhall , Hamid Rezatofighi

Building robots that can perceive, reason, and act in dynamic, unstructured environments remains a core challenge. Recent embodied systems often adopt a dual-system paradigm, where System 2 handles high-level reasoning while System 1…

Recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models report impressive success rates on standard robotic benchmarks, fueling optimism about general-purpose physical intelligence. However, recent evidence suggests a systematic misalignment between…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Haiweng Xu , Sipeng Zheng , Hao Luo , Wanpeng Zhang , Ziheng Xi , Zongqing Lu

Embodied agents often struggle with efficient navigation because they rely primarily on partial egocentric observations, which restrict global foresight and lead to inefficient exploration. In contrast, humans plan using maps: we reason…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Yuzhuo Ao , Anbang Wang , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

Humans act with context and intention, with reasoning playing a central role. While internet-scale data has enabled broad reasoning capabilities in AI systems, grounding these abilities in physical action remains a major challenge. We…

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