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Training a robotic arm to accomplish real-world tasks has been attracting increasing attention in both academia and industry. This work discusses the role of computer vision algorithms in this field. We focus on low-cost arms on which no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yiming Zuo , Weichao Qiu , Lingxi Xie , Fangwei Zhong , Yizhou Wang , Alan L. Yuille

We consider the task of underwater robot navigation for the purpose of collecting scientifically relevant video data for environmental monitoring. The majority of field robots that currently perform monitoring tasks in unstructured natural…

In this work, we study how to build a robotic system that can solve multiple 3D manipulation tasks given language instructions. To be useful in industrial and household domains, such a system should be capable of learning new tasks with few…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Ankit Goyal , Valts Blukis , Jie Xu , Yijie Guo , Yu-Wei Chao , Dieter Fox

In this paper, we propose GTA-VLA(Guide, Think, Act), an interactive Vision-Language-Action (VLA) framework that enables spatially steerable embodied reasoning by allowing users to guide robot policies with explicit visual cues. Existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Yiran Ling , Qing Lian , Jinghang Li , Qing Jiang , Tianming Zhang , Xiaoke Jiang , Chuanxiu Liu , Jie Liu , Lei Zhang

Recent progress in large-scale robotic datasets and vision-language models (VLMs) has advanced research on vision-language-action (VLA) models. However, existing VLA models still face two fundamental challenges: (i) producing precise…

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

Recent generative models have achieved remarkable progress in image editing. However, existing systems and benchmarks remain largely text-guided. In contrast, human communication is inherently multimodal, where visual instructions such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Huanyu Zhang , Xuehai Bai , Chengzu Li , Chen Liang , Haochen Tian , Haodong Li , Ruichuan An , Yifan Zhang , Anna Korhonen , Zhang Zhang , Liang Wang , Tieniu Tan

Embodied AI is widely recognized as a cornerstone of artificial general intelligence (AGI) because it involves controlling embodied agents to perform tasks in the physical world. Building on the success of large language models (LLMs) and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Yueen Ma , Zixing Song , Yuzheng Zhuang , Jianye Hao , Irwin King

Video object segmentation is an essential task in robot manipulation to facilitate grasping and learning affordances. Incremental learning is important for robotics in unstructured environments, since the total number of objects and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Mennatullah Siam , Chen Jiang , Steven Lu , Laura Petrich , Mahmoud Gamal , Mohamed Elhoseiny , Martin Jagersand

Ambiguity is ubiquitous in human communication. Previous approaches in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) have often relied on predefined interaction templates, leading to reduced performance in realistic and open-ended scenarios. To address…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Hanbo Zhang , Jie Xu , Yuchen Mo , Tao Kong

Humans effortlessly "program" one another by communicating goals and desires in natural language. In contrast, humans program robotic behaviours by indicating desired object locations and poses to be achieved, by providing RGB images of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Hsiao-Yu Fish Tung , Adam W. Harley , Liang-Kang Huang , Katerina Fragkiadaki

Reinforcement Learning is a mature technology, often suggested as a potential route towards Artificial General Intelligence, with the ambitious goal of replicating the wide range of abilities found in natural and artificial intelligence,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Markus D. Solbach , John K. Tsotsos

Computer Vision (CV) has yet to fully achieve the zero-shot task generalization observed in Natural Language Processing (NLP), despite following many of the milestones established in NLP, such as large transformer models, extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yang Shen , Xiu-Shen Wei , Yifan Sun , Yuxin Song , Tao Yuan , Jian Jin , Heyang Xu , Yazhou Yao , Errui Ding

A robot that can carry out a natural-language instruction has been a dream since before the Jetsons cartoon series imagined a life of leisure mediated by a fleet of attentive robot helpers. It is a dream that remains stubbornly distant.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Peter Anderson , Qi Wu , Damien Teney , Jake Bruce , Mark Johnson , Niko Sünderhauf , Ian Reid , Stephen Gould , Anton van den Hengel

Operating robots in open-ended scenarios with diverse tasks is a crucial research and application direction in robotics. While recent progress in natural language processing and large multimodal models has enhanced robots' ability to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Kaidong Zhang , Rongtao Xu , Pengzhen Ren , Junfan Lin , Hefeng Wu , Liang Lin , Xiaodan Liang

Adapting autonomous agents for real-world industrial, domestic, and other daily tasks is currently gaining momentum. However, in global or cross-lingual application contexts, ensuring effective interaction with the environment and executing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Linus Nwankwo , Bjoern Ellensohn , Ozan Özdenizci , Elmar Rueckert

Learning from visual data opens the potential to accrue a large range of manipulation behaviors by leveraging human demonstrations without specifying each of them mathematically, but rather through natural task specification. In this paper,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Haoyu Xiong , Quanzhou Li , Yun-Chun Chen , Homanga Bharadhwaj , Samarth Sinha , Animesh Garg

Human-robot interaction often occurs in the form of instructions given from a human to a robot. For a robot to successfully follow instructions, a common representation of the world and objects in it should be shared between humans and the…

Instruction following is crucial in contemporary LLM. However, when extended to multimodal setting, it often suffers from misalignment between specific textual instruction and targeted local region of an image. To achieve more accurate and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Jinliang Zheng , Jianxiong Li , Sijie Cheng , Yinan Zheng , Jiaming Li , Jihao Liu , Yu Liu , Jingjing Liu , Xianyuan Zhan

Active perception, the ability of a robot to proactively adjust its viewpoint to acquire task-relevant information, is essential for robust operation in unstructured real-world environments. While critical for downstream tasks such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yongxi Huang , Zhuohang Wang , Wenjing Tang , Cewu Lu , Panpan Cai