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Affordance grounding-localizing object regions based on natural language descriptions of interactions-is a critical challenge for enabling intelligent agents to understand and interact with their environments. However, this task remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Junha Lee , Eunha Park , Chunghyun Park , Dahyun Kang , Minsu Cho

Learning object affordances is an effective tool in the field of robot learning. While the data-driven models investigate affordances of single or paired objects, there is a gap in the exploration of affordances of compound objects composed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Tuba Girgin , Emre Ugur

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

We address the problem of affordance reasoning in diverse scenes that appear in the real world. Affordances relate the agent's actions to their effects when taken on the surrounding objects. In our work, we take the egocentric view of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Ching-Yao Chuang , Jiaman Li , Antonio Torralba , Sanja Fidler

Recent breakthroughs in 3D generation have enabled the synthesis of high-fidelity individual assets. However, generating 3D compositional objects from single images--particularly under occlusions--remains challenging. Existing methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Hui Shan , Keyang Luo , Ming Li , Sizhe Zheng , Yanwei Fu , Zhen Chen , Xiangru Huang

In this paper, we present a novel approach for learning bimanual manipulation actions from human demonstration by extracting spatial constraints between affordance regions, termed affordance constraints, of the objects involved. Affordance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Björn S. Plonka , Christian Dreher , Andre Meixner , Rainer Kartmann , Tamim Asfour

Affordances describe the possibilities for an agent to perform actions with an object. While the significance of the affordance concept has been previously studied from varied perspectives, such as psychology and cognitive science, these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Paola Ardón , Èric Pairet , Katrin S. Lohan , Subramanian Ramamoorthy , Ronald P. A. Petrick

For robots to exhibit a high level of intelligence in the real world, they must be able to assess objects for which they have no prior knowledge. Therefore, it is crucial for robots to perceive object affordances by reasoning about physical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Hongtao Wu , Deven Misra , Gregory S. Chirikjian

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

Understanding object affordances is essential for enabling robots to perform purposeful and fine-grained interactions in diverse and unstructured environments. However, existing approaches either rely on retrieval, which is fragile due to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Qiyuan Zhuang , He-Yang Xu , Yijun Wang , Xin-Yang Zhao , Yang-Yang Li , Xiu-Shen Wei

3D Gaussian Splatting has achieved remarkable success in reconstructing both static and dynamic 3D scenes. However, in a scene represented by 3D Gaussian primitives, interactions between objects suffer from inaccurate 3D segmentation,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Zeyu Xiao , Zhenyi Wu , Mingyang Sun , Qipeng Yan , Yufan Guo , Zhuoer Liang , Lihua Zhang

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

Short Term object-interaction Anticipation consists in detecting the location of the next active objects, the noun and verb categories of the interaction, as well as the time to contact from the observation of egocentric video. This ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Lorenzo Mur Labadia , Ruben Martinez-Cantin , Jose J. Guerrero , Giovanni M. Farinella , Antonino Furnari

Planning in realistic environments requires searching in large planning spaces. Affordances are a powerful concept to simplify this search, because they model what actions can be successful in a given situation. However, the classical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Danfei Xu , Ajay Mandlekar , Roberto Martín-Martín , Yuke Zhu , Silvio Savarese , Li Fei-Fei

We present AROS, a one-shot learning approach that uses an explicit representation of interactions between highly-articulated human poses and 3D scenes. The approach is one-shot as the method does not require re-training to add new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Abel Pacheco-Ortega , Walterio Mayol-Cuevas

We propose a new dataset and a novel approach to learning hand-object interaction priors for hand and articulated object pose estimation. We first collect a dataset using visual teleoperation, where the human operator can directly play…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Zehao Zhu , Jiashun Wang , Yuzhe Qin , Deqing Sun , Varun Jampani , Xiaolong Wang

It is well-established by cognitive neuroscience that human perception of objects constitutes a complex process, where object appearance information is combined with evidence about the so-called object "affordances", namely the types of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Spyridon Thermos , Georgios Th. Papadopoulos , Petros Daras , Gerasimos Potamianos

Visual actionable affordance has emerged as a transformative approach in robotics, focusing on perceiving interaction areas prior to manipulation. Traditional methods rely on pixel sampling to identify successful interaction samples or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Taewhan Kim , Hojin Bae , Zeming Li , Xiaoqi Li , Iaroslav Ponomarenko , Ruihai Wu , Hao Dong

Identifying affordance regions on 3D objects from semantic cues is essential for robotics and human-machine interaction. However, existing 3D affordance learning methods struggle with generalization and robustness due to limited annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Dongyue Lu , Lingdong Kong , Tianxin Huang , Gim Hee Lee

Learning to manipulate 3D objects in an interactive environment has been a challenging problem in Reinforcement Learning (RL). In particular, it is hard to train a policy that can generalize over objects with different semantic categories,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Yiran Geng , Boshi An , Haoran Geng , Yuanpei Chen , Yaodong Yang , Hao Dong