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Vehicle tracking is an essential task in the multi-object tracking (MOT) field. A distinct characteristic in vehicle tracking is that the trajectories of vehicles are fairly smooth in both the world coordinate and the image coordinate.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Gaoang Wang , Renshu Gu , Zuozhu Liu , Weijie Hu , Mingli Song , Jenq-Neng Hwang

Long-horizon robotic manipulation tasks require executing multiple interdependent subtasks in strict sequence, where errors in detecting subtask completion can cascade into downstream failures. Existing Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Ran Yang , Zijian An , Lifeng ZHou , Yiming Feng

Most existing vision-language-action (VLA) models for robotic manipulation lack progress awareness, typically relying on hand-crafted heuristics for task termination. This limitation is particularly severe in long-horizon tasks involving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Hongyu Yan , Qiwei Li , Jiaolong Yang , Yadong Mu

The research community has shown increasing interest in designing intelligent embodied agents that can assist humans in accomplishing tasks. Although there have been significant advancements in related vision-language benchmarks, most prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Ying Shen , Daniel Bis , Cynthia Lu , Ismini Lourentzou

The current strive towards end-to-end trainable computer vision systems imposes major challenges for the task of visual tracking. In contrast to most other vision problems, tracking requires the learning of a robust target-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Goutam Bhat , Martin Danelljan , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

While large language models (LLMs) excel in a simulated world of texts, they struggle to interact with the more realistic world without perceptions of other modalities such as visual or audio signals. Although vision-language models (VLMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Yijun Yang , Tianyi Zhou , Kanxue Li , Dapeng Tao , Lusong Li , Li Shen , Xiaodong He , Jing Jiang , Yuhui Shi

A generalist robot should perform effectively across various environments. However, most existing approaches heavily rely on scaling action-annotated data to enhance their capabilities. Consequently, they are often limited to single…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Qingwen Bu , Yanting Yang , Jisong Cai , Shenyuan Gao , Guanghui Ren , Maoqing Yao , Ping Luo , Hongyang Li

We propose Embodied Navigation Trajectory Learner (ENTL), a method for extracting long sequence representations for embodied navigation. Our approach unifies world modeling, localization and imitation learning into a single sequence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Klemen Kotar , Aaron Walsman , Roozbeh Mottaghi

Visual navigation is a task of training an embodied agent by intelligently navigating to a target object (e.g., television) using only visual observations. A key challenge for current deep reinforcement learning models lies in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Juncheng Li , Xin Wang , Siliang Tang , Haizhou Shi , Fei Wu , Yueting Zhuang , William Yang Wang

Vision-Language-Action Models (VLAs) have shown remarkable progress towards embodied intelligence. While their architecture partially resembles that of Large Language Models (LLMs), VLAs exhibit higher complexity due to their multi-modal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Hugo Buurmeijer , Carmen Amo Alonso , Aiden Swann , Marco Pavone

Autonomous driving has progressed from modular pipelines toward end-to-end unification, and Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are a natural extension of this journey beyond Vision-to-Action (VA). In practice, driving VLAs have often…

We study active object tracking, where a tracker takes as input the visual observation (i.e., frame sequence) and produces the camera control signal (e.g., move forward, turn left, etc.). Conventional methods tackle the tracking and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Wenhan Luo , Peng Sun , Fangwei Zhong , Wei Liu , Tong Zhang , Yizhou Wang

Embodied navigation has long been fragmented by task-specific architectures. We introduce ABot-N0, a unified Vision-Language-Action (VLA) foundation model that achieves a ``Grand Unification'' across 5 core tasks: Point-Goal, Object-Goal,…

Crowds do not merely move; they decide. Human navigation is inherently contextual: people interpret the meaning of space, social norms, and potential consequences before acting. Sidewalks invite walking, crosswalks invite crossing, and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Juyeong Hwang , Seong-Eun Hong , Jinhyun Kim , JaeYoung Seon , Giljoo Nam , Hanyoung Jang , HyeongYeop Kang

Vision-language-action (VLA) models are effective robot action executors, but they remain limited on long-horizon tasks due to the dual burden of extended closed-loop planning and diverse physical operations. We therefore propose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Zixing Lei , Changxing Liu , Yichen Xiong , Minhao Xiong , Yuanzhuo Ding , Zhipeng Zhang , Weixin Li , Siheng Chen

Tracking objects with persistence in cluttered and dynamic environments remains a difficult challenge for computer vision systems. In this paper, we introduce $\textbf{TCOW}$, a new benchmark and model for visual tracking through heavy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Basile Van Hoorick , Pavel Tokmakov , Simon Stent , Jie Li , Carl Vondrick

Visual object tracking is among the hardest problems in computer vision, as trackers have to deal with many challenging circumstances such as illumination changes, fast motion, occlusion, among others. A tracker is assessed to be good or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Thijs P. Kuipers , Devanshu Arya , Deepak K. Gupta

Many Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are built upon an internal world model trained via next-frame prediction ``$v_t \rightarrow v_{t+1}$''. However, this paradigm attempts to predict the future frame's appearance directly, without…

Recent advances in robot manipulation have leveraged pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) and explored integrating 3D spatial signals into these models for effective action prediction, giving rise to the promising…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Zhenyang Liu , Yongchong Gu , Yikai Wang , Xiangyang Xue , Yanwei Fu

Manipulating dynamic objects remains an open challenge for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, which, despite strong generalization in static manipulation, struggle in dynamic scenarios requiring rapid perception, temporal anticipation,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Haozhe Xie , Beichen Wen , Jiarui Zheng , Zhaoxi Chen , Fangzhou Hong , Haiwen Diao , Ziwei Liu