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One-shot imitation is the vision of robot programming from a single demonstration, rather than by tedious construction of computer code. We present a practical method for realizing one-shot imitation for manipulation tasks, exploiting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Max Argus , Lukas Hermann , Jon Long , Thomas Brox

Closed-loop simulation is essential for advancing end-to-end autonomous driving systems. Contemporary sensor simulation methods, such as NeRF and 3DGS, rely predominantly on conditions closely aligned with training data distributions, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Guosheng Zhao , Chaojun Ni , Xiaofeng Wang , Zheng Zhu , Xueyang Zhang , Yida Wang , Guan Huang , Xinze Chen , Boyuan Wang , Youyi Zhang , Wenjun Mei , Xingang Wang

3D world models (i.e., learning-based 3D dynamics models) offer a promising approach to generalizable robotic manipulation by capturing the underlying physics of environment evolution conditioned on robot actions. However, existing 3D world…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Suning Huang , Qianzhong Chen , Xiaohan Zhang , Jiankai Sun , Mac Schwager

Future motion representations, such as optical flow, offer immense value for control and generative tasks. However, forecasting generalizable spatially dense motion representations remains a key challenge, and learning such forecasting from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Kanchana Ranasinghe , Honglu Zhou , Yu Fang , Luyu Yang , Le Xue , Ran Xu , Caiming Xiong , Silvio Savarese , Michael S Ryoo , Juan Carlos Niebles

Training robot policies within a learned world model is trending due to the inefficiency of real-world interactions. The established image-based world models and policies have shown prior success, but lack robust geometric information that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Guanxing Lu , Baoxiong Jia , Puhao Li , Yixin Chen , Ziwei Wang , Yansong Tang , Siyuan Huang

Estimating scene flow in RGB-D videos is attracting much interest of the computer vision researchers, due to its potential applications in robotics. The state-of-the-art techniques for scene flow estimation, typically rely on the knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Ravi Kumar Thakur , Snehasis Mukherjee

Humans possess an exceptional ability to imagine 4D scenes, encompassing both motion and 3D geometry, from a single still image. This ability is rooted in our accumulated observations of similar scenes and an intuitive understanding of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Emily Yue-Ting Jia , Jiageng Mao , Zhiyuan Gao , Yajie Zhao , Yue Wang

The incorporation of world modeling into manipulation policy learning has pushed the boundary of manipulation performance. However, existing efforts simply model the 2D visual dynamics, which is insufficient for robust manipulation when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yuxin He , Ruihao Zhang , Xianzu Wu , Zhiyuan Zhang , Cheng Ding , Qiang Nie

Forecasting a typical object's future motion is a critical task for interpreting and interacting with dynamic environments in computer vision. Event-based sensors, which could capture changes in the scene with exceptional temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Song Wu , Zhiyu Zhu , Junhui Hou , Guangming Shi , Jinjian Wu

World models allow autonomous agents to plan and explore by predicting the visual outcomes of different actions. However, for robot manipulation, it is challenging to accurately model the fine-grained robot-object interaction within the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Fangqi Zhu , Hongtao Wu , Song Guo , Yuxiao Liu , Chilam Cheang , Tao Kong

World-model-based imagine-then-act becomes a promising paradigm for robotic manipulation, yet existing approaches typically support either purely image-based forecasting or reasoning over partial 3D geometry, limiting their ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Jiaxu Wang , Yicheng Jiang , Tianlun He , Jingkai Sun , Qiang Zhang , Junhao He , Jiahang Cao , Zesen Gan , Mingyuan Sun , Qiming Shao , Xiangyu Yue

Dense and versatile image representations underpin the success of virtually all computer vision applications. However, state-of-the-art networks, such as transformers, produce low-resolution feature grids, which are suboptimal for dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Nikita Araslanov , Anna Sonnweber , Daniel Cremers

The task of estimating the world model describing the dynamics of a real world process assumes immense importance for anticipating and preparing for future outcomes. For applications such as video surveillance, robotics applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Hao Tang , Kevin Ellis , Suhas Lohit , Michael J. Jones , Moitreya Chatterjee

Video prediction is a fundamental task for various downstream applications, including robotics and world modeling. Although general video prediction models have achieved remarkable performance in standard scenarios, occlusion is still an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Eliyas Suleyman , Paul Henderson , Eksan Firkat , Nicolas Pugeault

We introduce a method for real-time navigation and tracking with differentiably rendered world models. Learning models for control has led to impressive results in robotics and computer games, but this success has yet to be extended to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Baris Kayalibay , Atanas Mirchev , Patrick van der Smagt , Justin Bayer

Observing that the key for robotic action planning is to understand the target-object motion when its associated part is manipulated by the end effector, we propose to generate the 3D object-part scene flow and extract its transformations…

General visual representations learned from web-scale datasets for robotics have achieved great success in recent years, enabling data-efficient robot learning on manipulation tasks; yet these pre-trained representations are mostly on 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Chengkai Hou , Yanjie Ze , Yankai Fu , Zeyu Gao , Songbo Hu , Yue Yu , Shanghang Zhang , Huazhe Xu

Text-to-video diffusion models are notoriously limited in their ability to model temporal aspects such as motion, physics, and dynamic interactions. Existing approaches address this limitation by retraining the model or introducing external…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Ariel Shaulov , Itay Hazan , Lior Wolf , Hila Chefer

Many applications in robotics and human-computer interaction can benefit from understanding 3D motion of points in a dynamic environment, widely noted as scene flow. While most previous methods focus on stereo and RGB-D images as input, few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Xingyu Liu , Charles R. Qi , Leonidas J. Guibas

Recent advances in video generation have shown promise for generating future scenarios, critical for planning and control in autonomous driving and embodied intelligence. However, real-world applications demand more than visually plausible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Tianshuo Xu , Zhifei Chen , Leyi Wu , Hao Lu , Yuying Chen , Lihui Jiang , Bingbing Liu , Yingcong Chen