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We introduce the novel task of Language-Guided Object Placement in Real 3D Scenes. Our model is given a 3D scene's point cloud, a 3D asset, and a textual prompt broadly describing where the 3D asset should be placed. The task here is to…

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3D visual grounding aims to localize the target object in a 3D point cloud by a free-form language description. Typically, the sentences describing the target object tend to provide information about its relative relation between other…

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This paper presents a novel approach for affordance-informed robotic manipulation by introducing 3D keypoints to enhance the understanding of object parts' functionality. The proposed approach provides direct information about what the…

In this work, we focus on the problem of grounding language by training an agent to follow a set of natural language instructions and navigate to a target object in an environment. The agent receives visual information through raw pixels…

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Understanding spatial affordances -- comprising the contact regions of object interaction and the corresponding contact poses -- is essential for robots to effectively manipulate objects and accomplish diverse tasks. However, existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zhanqi Xiao , Ruiping Wang , Xilin Chen

When humans perform a task with an articulated object, they interact with the object only in a handful of ways, while the space of all possible interactions is nearly endless. This is because humans have prior knowledge about what…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Liquan Wang , Nikita Dvornik , Rafael Dubeau , Mayank Mittal , Animesh Garg

Affordance detection presents intricate challenges and has a wide range of robotic applications. Previous works have faced limitations such as the complexities of 3D object shapes, the wide range of potential affordances on real-world…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Tuan Van Vo , Minh Nhat Vu , Baoru Huang , Toan Nguyen , Ngan Le , Thieu Vo , Anh Nguyen

Enabling robots to grasp objects specified through natural language is essential for effective human-robot interaction, yet it remains a significant challenge. Existing approaches often struggle with open-form language expressions and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Houjian Yu , Zheming Zhou , Min Sun , Omid Ghasemalizadeh , Yuyin Sun , Cheng-Hao Kuo , Arnie Sen , Changhyun Choi

We develop a system to disambiguate object instances within the same class based on simple physical descriptions. The system takes as input a natural language phrase and a depth image containing a segmented object and predicts how similar…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Vanya Cohen , Benjamin Burchfiel , Thao Nguyen , Nakul Gopalan , Stefanie Tellex , George Konidaris

We present SAGA, a versatile and adaptive framework for visuomotor control that can generalize across various environments, task objectives, and user specifications. To efficiently learn such capability, our key idea is to disentangle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Kuan Fang , Yuxin Chen , Xinghao Zhu , Farzad Niroui , Lingfeng Sun , Jiuguang Wang

We study the task of language instruction-guided robotic manipulation, in which an embodied robot is supposed to manipulate the target objects based on the language instructions. In previous studies, the predicted manipulation regions of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Dayou Li , Chenkun Zhao , Shuo Yang , Lin Ma , Yibin Li , Wei Zhang

Acquiring knowledge about object interactions and affordances can facilitate scene understanding and human-robot collaboration tasks. As humans tend to use objects in many different ways depending on the scene and the objects' availability,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Alexia Toumpa , Anthony G. Cohn

Understanding 3D scene-level affordances from natural language instructions is essential for enabling embodied agents to interact meaningfully in complex environments. However, this task remains challenging due to the need for semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Lian He , Meng Liu , Qilang Ye , Yu Zhou , Xiang Deng , Gangyi Ding

Translating high-level linguistic instructions into precise robotic actions in the physical world remains challenging, particularly when considering the feasibility of interacting with 3D objects. In this paper, we introduce 3D-TAFS, a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Meng Chu , Xuan Zhang , Zhedong Zheng , Tat-Seng Chua

Enabling humans and robots to collaborate effectively requires purposeful communication and an understanding of each other's affordances. Prior work in human-robot collaboration has incorporated knowledge of human affordances, i.e., their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Drake Moore , Mark Zolotas , Taskin Padir

Service robots are expected to autonomously and efficiently work in human-centric environments. For this type of robots, object perception and manipulation are challenging tasks due to need for accurate and real-time response. This paper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-05 S. Hamidreza Kasaei , Nima Shafii , Luis Seabra Lopes , Ana Maria Tome

In this abstract we describe recent [4,7] and latest work on the determination of affordances in visually perceived 3D scenes. Our method builds on the hypothesis that geometry on its own provides enough information to enable the detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Eduardo Ruiz , Walterio Mayol-Cuevas

Recent progress in 3D scene understanding has explored visual grounding (3DVG) to localize a target object through a language description. However, existing methods only consider the dependency between the entire sentence and the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Zhihao Yuan , Xu Yan , Zhuo Li , Xuhao Li , Yao Guo , Shuguang Cui , Zhen Li

Affordance modeling plays an important role in visual understanding. In this paper, we aim to predict affordances of 3D indoor scenes, specifically what human poses are afforded by a given indoor environment, such as sitting on a chair or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Xueting Li , Sifei Liu , Kihwan Kim , Xiaolong Wang , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Jan Kautz

This paper studies the task of any objects grasping from the known categories by free-form language instructions. This task demands the technique in computer vision, natural language processing, and robotics. We bring these disciplines…

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