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Observing a human demonstrator manipulate objects provides a rich, scalable and inexpensive source of data for learning robotic policies. However, transferring skills from human videos to a robotic manipulator poses several challenges, not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Minttu Alakuijala , Gabriel Dulac-Arnold , Julien Mairal , Jean Ponce , Cordelia Schmid

Generating realistic robot videos from explicit action trajectories is a critical step toward building effective world models and robotics foundation models. We introduce two training-free, inference-time techniques that fully exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Seungwook Kim , Seunghyeon Lee , Minsu Cho

This paper presents a novel approach to improving autonomous vehicle control in environments lacking clear road markings by integrating a diffusion-based motion predictor within an Active Inference Framework (AIF). Using a simulated parking…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yufei Huang , Yulin Li , Andrea Matta , Mohsen Jafari

Spatio-temporal action detection in videos is typically addressed in a fully-supervised setup with manual annotation of training videos required at every frame. Since such annotation is extremely tedious and prohibits scalability, there is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Guilhem Chéron , Jean-Baptiste Alayrac , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

Robots need robust and flexible vision systems to perceive and reason about their environments beyond geometry. Most of such systems build upon deep learning approaches. As autonomous robots are commonly deployed in initially unknown…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Julius Rückin , Federico Magistri , Cyrill Stachniss , Marija Popović

Learning robot policies using imitation learning requires collecting large amounts of costly action-labeled expert demonstrations, which fundamentally limits the scale of training data. A promising approach to address this bottleneck is to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Anthony Liang , Pavel Czempin , Matthew Hong , Yutai Zhou , Erdem Biyik , Stephen Tu

In this work, we aim to learn a unified vision-based policy for multi-fingered robot hands to manipulate a variety of objects in diverse poses. Though prior work has shown benefits of using human videos for policy learning, performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zerui Chen , Shizhe Chen , Etienne Arlaud , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

Predicting future motion trajectories is a critical capability across domains such as robotics, autonomous systems, and human activity forecasting, enabling safer and more intelligent decision-making. This paper proposes a novel, efficient,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Zesen Zhong , Duomin Zhang , Yijia Li

Pre-training large models on vast amounts of web data has proven to be an effective approach for obtaining powerful, general models in domains such as language and vision. However, this paradigm has not yet taken hold in reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Dominik Schmidt , Minqi Jiang

We introduce Latent Action Pretraining for general Action models (LAPA), an unsupervised method for pretraining Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models without ground-truth robot action labels. Existing Vision-Language-Action models require…

Visual event perception tasks such as action localization have primarily focused on supervised learning settings under a static observer, i.e., the camera is static and cannot be controlled by an algorithm. They are often restricted by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Shubham Trehan , Sathyanarayanan N. Aakur

We present a new method to learn video representations from large-scale unlabeled video data. Ideally, this representation will be generic and transferable, directly usable for new tasks such as action recognition and zero or few-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 AJ Piergiovanni , Anelia Angelova , Michael S. Ryoo

Understanding the simultaneously very diverse and intricately fine-grained set of possible human actions is a critical open problem in computer vision. Manually labeling training videos is feasible for some action classes but doesn't scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Serena Yeung , Vignesh Ramanathan , Olga Russakovsky , Liyue Shen , Greg Mori , Li Fei-Fei

The field of visual representation learning has seen explosive growth in the past years, but its benefits in robotics have been surprisingly limited so far. Prior work uses generic visual representations as a basis to learn (task-specific)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Jianren Wang , Sudeep Dasari , Mohan Kumar Srirama , Shubham Tulsiani , Abhinav Gupta

Despite tremendous progress in dexterous manipulation, current visuomotor policies remain fundamentally limited by two challenges: they struggle to generalize under perceptual or behavioral distribution shifts, and their performance is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Junbang Liang , Pavel Tokmakov , Ruoshi Liu , Sruthi Sudhakar , Paarth Shah , Rares Ambrus , Carl Vondrick

Intelligent instruction-following robots capable of improving from autonomously collected experience have the potential to transform robot learning: instead of collecting costly teleoperated demonstration data, large-scale deployment of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Zhiyuan Zhou , Pranav Atreya , Abraham Lee , Homer Walke , Oier Mees , Sergey Levine

Vision-language-action (VLA) models remain constrained by the scarcity of action-labeled robot data, whereas action-free videos provide abundant evidence of how the physical world changes. Latent action models offer a promising way to…

A fundamental challenge in embodied intelligence is developing expressive and compact state representations for efficient world modeling and decision making. However, existing methods often fail to achieve this balance, yielding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Mingyu Liu , Jiuhe Shu , Hui Chen , Zeju Li , Canyu Zhao , Jiange Yang , Shenyuan Gao , Hao Chen , Chunhua Shen

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

Moving in dynamic pedestrian environments is one of the important requirements for autonomous mobile robots. We present a model-based reinforcement learning approach for robots to navigate through crowded environments. The navigation policy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Yuxiang Cui , Haodong Zhang , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong