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Conventional text-to-motion generation methods are usually trained on limited text-motion pairs, making them hard to generalize to open-world scenarios. Some works use the CLIP model to align the motion space and the text space, aiming to…

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Video generation models offer a promising imagination mechanism for robot manipulation by predicting long-horizon future observations, but effectively exploiting these imagined futures for action execution remains challenging. Existing…

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Robust perception and dynamics modeling are fundamental to real-world robotic policy learning. Recent methods employ video diffusion models (VDMs) to enhance robotic policies, improving their understanding and modeling of the physical…

Recent advances in video diffusion models shows promise for generating robotic decision-making data, with trajectory conditions further enabling fine-grained control. However, existing methods primarily focus on individual object motion and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Xiao Fu , Xintao Wang , Xian Liu , Jianhong Bai , Runsen Xu , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Dahua Lin

World models simulate future states of the world in response to different actions. They facilitate interactive content creation and provides a foundation for grounded, long-horizon reasoning. Current foundation models do not fully meet the…

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Previous motion generation methods are limited to the pre-rigged 3D human model, hindering their applications in the animation of various non-rigged characters. In this work, we present TapMo, a Text-driven Animation Pipeline for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Jiaxu Zhang , Shaoli Huang , Zhigang Tu , Xin Chen , Xiaohang Zhan , Gang Yu , Ying Shan

Modeling human behaviors in contextual environments has a wide range of applications in character animation, embodied AI, VR/AR, and robotics. In real-world scenarios, humans frequently interact with the environment and manipulate various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Jiaman Li , Jiajun Wu , C. Karen Liu

Teaching robots to autonomously complete everyday tasks remains a challenge. Imitation Learning (IL) is a powerful approach that imbues robots with skills via demonstrations, but is limited by the labor-intensive process of collecting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Juntao Ren , Priya Sundaresan , Dorsa Sadigh , Sanjiban Choudhury , Jeannette Bohg

Teaching robots dexterous manipulation skills often requires collecting hundreds of demonstrations using wearables or teleoperation, a process that is challenging to scale. Videos of human-object interactions are easier to collect and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Tyler Ga Wei Lum , Olivia Y. Lee , C. Karen Liu , Jeannette Bohg

A key challenge in manipulation is learning a policy that can robustly generalize to diverse visual environments. A promising mechanism for learning robust policies is to leverage video generative models, which are pretrained on large-scale…

Learning transferable latent actions from large-scale object manipulation videos can significantly enhance generalization in downstream robotics tasks, as such representations are agnostic to different robot embodiments. Existing approaches…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zuolei Li , Xingyu Gao , Xiaofan Wang , Jianlong Fu

This work proposes the Lattice Boltzmann Model (LBM) to learn real-world pixel dynamicity for visual tracking. LBM decomposes visual representations into dynamic pixel lattices and solves pixel motion states through collision-streaming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Guangze Zheng , Shijie Lin , Haobo Zuo , Si Si , Ming-Shan Wang , Changhong Fu , Jia Pan

To catch a thrown object, a robot must be able to perceive the object's motion and generate control actions in a timely manner. Rather than explicitly estimating the object's 3D position, this work focuses on a novel approach that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Seongyong Kim , Junhyeon Cho , Kang-Won Lee , Soo-Chul Lim

Robot learning holds tremendous promise to unlock the full potential of flexible, general, and dexterous robot systems, as well as to address some of the deepest questions in artificial intelligence. However, bringing robot learning to the…

We present a cross robot visuomotor learning framework that integrates diffusion policy based control with 3D semantic scene representations from D3Fields to enable category level generalization in manipulation. Its modular design supports…

We introduce LUMOS, a language-conditioned multi-task imitation learning framework for robotics. LUMOS learns skills by practicing them over many long-horizon rollouts in the latent space of a learned world model and transfers these skills…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Iman Nematollahi , Branton DeMoss , Akshay L Chandra , Nick Hawes , Wolfram Burgard , Ingmar Posner

The goal of general-purpose robotics is to create agents that can seamlessly adapt to and operate in diverse, unstructured human environments. Imitation learning has become a key paradigm for robotic manipulation, yet collecting large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Liu Liu , Xiaofeng Wang , Guosheng Zhao , Keyu Li , Wenkang Qin , Jiagang Zhu , Jiaxiong Qiu , Zheng Zhu , Guan Huang , Zhizhong Su

Recent advancements in diffusion models have significantly improved the realism and generalizability of character-driven animation, enabling the synthesis of high-quality motion from just a single RGB image and a set of driving poses.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Alireza Javanmardi , Pragati Jaiswal , Tewodros Amberbir Habtegebrial , Christen Millerdurai , Shaoxiang Wang , Alain Pagani , Didier Stricker

Recent agentic language models increasingly need to interact with real-world environments that contain tightly intertwined visual and textual information, often through raw camera pixels rather than separately processed images and tokenized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Zhiheng Lyu , Xueguang Ma , Wenhu Chen

Large-scale multi-task robotic manipulation systems often rely on text to specify the task. In this work, we explore whether a robot can learn by observing humans. To do so, the robot must understand a person's intent and perform the…