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End-to-end learning is emerging as a powerful paradigm for robotic manipulation, but its effectiveness is limited by data scarcity and the heterogeneity of action spaces across robot embodiments. In particular, diverse action spaces across…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Erik Bauer , Elvis Nava , Robert K. Katzschmann

The versatility and adaptability of human grasping catalyze advancing dexterous robotic manipulation. While significant strides have been made in dexterous grasp generation, current research endeavors pivot towards optimizing object…

In recent years, the field of talking faces generation has attracted considerable attention, with certain methods adept at generating virtual faces that convincingly imitate human expressions. However, existing methods face challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Bingyuan Zhang , Xulong Zhang , Ning Cheng , Jun Yu , Jing Xiao , Jianzong Wang

In this paper, we propose a novel diffusion-based multi-condition controllable framework for video head swapping, which seamlessly transplant a human head from a static image into a dynamic video, while preserving the original body and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Chaonan Ji , Jinwei Qi , Peng Zhang , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo

Audio-driven emotional 3D face animation aims to generate emotionally expressive talking heads with synchronized lip movements. However, previous research has often overlooked the influence of diverse emotions on facial expressions or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Chang Liu , Qunfen Lin , Zijiao Zeng , Ye Pan

The ability to display rich facial expressions is crucial for human-like robotic heads. While manually defining such expressions is intricate, there already exist approaches to automatically learn them. In this work one such approach is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Marcel Heisler , Christian Becker-Asano

Wearable collaborative robots stand to assist human wearers who need fall prevention assistance or wear exoskeletons. Such a robot needs to be able to constantly adapt to the surrounding scene based on egocentric vision, and predict the ego…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Weizhuo Wang , C. Karen Liu , Monroe Kennedy

Robot manipulation research still suffers from significant data scarcity: even the largest robot datasets are orders of magnitude smaller and less diverse than those that fueled recent breakthroughs in language and vision. We introduce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Marion Lepert , Jiaying Fang , Jeannette Bohg

A significant bottleneck in humanoid policy learning is the acquisition of large-scale, diverse datasets, as collecting reliable real-world data remains both difficult and cost-prohibitive. To address this limitation, we introduce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Rui Zhong , Yizhe Sun , Junjie Wen , Jinming Li , Chuang Cheng , Wei Dai , Zhiwen Zeng , Huimin Lu , Yichen Zhu , Yi Xu

Human demonstrations offer rich environmental diversity and scale naturally, making them an appealing alternative to robot teleoperation. While this paradigm has advanced robot-arm manipulation, its potential for the more challenging,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Modi Shi , Shijia Peng , Jin Chen , Haoran Jiang , Yinghui Li , Di Huang , Ping Luo , Hongyang Li , Li Chen

We introduce HunyuanPortrait, a diffusion-based condition control method that employs implicit representations for highly controllable and lifelike portrait animation. Given a single portrait image as an appearance reference and video clips…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Zunnan Xu , Zhentao Yu , Zixiang Zhou , Jun Zhou , Xiaoyu Jin , Fa-Ting Hong , Xiaozhong Ji , Junwei Zhu , Chengfei Cai , Shiyu Tang , Qin Lin , Xiu Li , Qinglin Lu

Human behavior is among the most scalable sources of data for learning physical intelligence, yet how to effectively leverage it for dexterous manipulation remains unclear. While prior work demonstrates human to robot transfer in…

Dexterous manipulation remains one of the most challenging problems in robotics, requiring coherent control of high-DoF hands and arms under complex, contact-rich dynamics. A major barrier is embodiment variability: different dexterous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ke Zhang , Lixin Xu , Chengyi Song , Junzhe Xu , Xiaoyi Lin , Zeyu Jiang , Renjing Xu

Large-scale egocentric video datasets capture diverse human activities across a wide range of scenarios, offering rich and detailed insights into how humans interact with objects, especially those that require fine-grained dexterous…

Expressive behaviors in robots are critical for effectively conveying their emotional states during interactions with humans. In this work, we present a framework that autonomously generates realistic and diverse robotic emotional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Chao Wang , Michael Gienger , Fan Zhang

Face swapping transfers the identity of a source face to a target face while retaining the attributes like expression, pose, hair, and background of the target face. Advanced face swapping methods have achieved attractive results. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Runqi Wang , Yang Chen , Sijie Xu , Tianyao He , Wei Zhu , Dejia Song , Nemo Chen , Xu Tang , Yao Hu

Animating stylized avatars with dynamic poses and expressions has attracted increasing attention for its broad range of applications. Previous research has made significant progress by training controllable generative models to synthesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Ken Chen , Sachith Seneviratne , Wei Wang , Dongting Hu , Sanjay Saha , Md. Tarek Hasan , Sanka Rasnayaka , Tamasha Malepathirana , Mingming Gong , Saman Halgamuge

Portrait animation aims to generate photo-realistic videos from a single source image by reenacting the expression and pose from a driving video. While early methods relied on 3D morphable models or feature warping techniques, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Mallikarjun B. R. , Fei Yin , Vikram Voleti , Nikita Drobyshev , Maksim Lapin , Aaryaman Vasishta , Varun Jampani

This paper presents an anthropomorphic robotic bear for the exploration of human-robot interaction including verbal and non-verbal communications. This robot is implemented with a hybrid face composed of a mechanical faceplate with 10 DOFs…

Dexterous manipulation, particularly adept coordinating and grasping, constitutes a fundamental and indispensable capability for robots, facilitating the emulation of human-like behaviors. Integrating this capability into robots empowers…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Apan Dastider , Hao Fang , Mingjie Lin