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Humans are adept at learning new tasks by watching a few instructional videos. On the other hand, robots that learn new actions either require a lot of effort through trial and error, or use expert demonstrations that are challenging to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Vladimír Petrík , Makarand Tapaswi , Ivan Laptev , Josef Sivic

Teaching robots novel behaviors typically requires motion demonstrations via teleoperation or kinaesthetic teaching, that is, physically guiding the robot. While recent work has explored using human sketches to specify desired behaviors,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 William Barron , Xiaoxiang Dong , Matthew Johnson-Roberson , Weiming Zhi

Human-motion video generation has been a challenging task, primarily due to the difficulty inherent in learning human body movements. While some approaches have attempted to drive human-centric video generation explicitly through pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Boyuan Wang , Xiaofeng Wang , Chaojun Ni , Guosheng Zhao , Zhiqin Yang , Zheng Zhu , Muyang Zhang , Yukun Zhou , Xinze Chen , Guan Huang , Lihong Liu , Xingang Wang

The acquisition of large-scale and diverse demonstration data are essential for improving robotic imitation learning generalization. However, generating such data for complex manipulations is challenging in real-world settings. We introduce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Wensheng Wang , Ning Tan

This paper proposes a unified vision-based manipulation framework using image contours of deformable/rigid objects. Instead of using human-defined cues, the robot automatically learns the features from processed vision data. Our method…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Jihong Zhu , David Navarro-Alarcon , Robin Passama , Andrea Cherubini

Demonstration-guided reinforcement learning (RL) is a promising approach for learning complex behaviors by leveraging both reward feedback and a set of target task demonstrations. Prior approaches for demonstration-guided RL treat every new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Karl Pertsch , Youngwoon Lee , Yue Wu , Joseph J. Lim

This paper presents a vision-based learning-by-demonstration approach to enable robots to learn and complete a manipulation task cooperatively. With this method, a vision system is involved in both the task demonstration and reproduction…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-06-05 Bidan Huang , Menglong Ye , Su-Lin Lee , Guang-Zhong Yang

Dexterous manipulation remains a challenging robotics problem, largely due to the difficulty of collecting extensive human demonstrations for learning. In this paper, we introduce \textsc{Gen2Real}, which replaces costly human demos with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Kai Ye , Yuhang Wu , Shuyuan Hu , Junliang Li , Meng Liu , Yongquan Chen , Rui Huang

Utilizing Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for robotic manipulation represents a novel paradigm, aiming to enhance the model's ability to generalize to new objects and instructions. However, due to variations in camera specifications and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Fanfan Liu , Feng Yan , Liming Zheng , Chengjian Feng , Yiyang Huang , Lin Ma

A key challenge in scaling up robot learning to many skills and environments is removing the need for human supervision, so that robots can collect their own data and improve their own performance without being limited by the cost of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Chelsea Finn , Sergey Levine

Many recent advances in robotic manipulation have come through imitation learning, yet these rely largely on mimicking a particularly hard-to-acquire form of demonstrations: those collected on the same robot in the same room with the same…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Junyao Shi , Zhuolun Zhao , Tianyou Wang , Ian Pedroza , Amy Luo , Jie Wang , Jason Ma , Dinesh Jayaraman

Recent advancements in imitation learning have shown promising results in robotic manipulation, driven by the availability of high-quality training data. To improve data collection efficiency, some approaches focus on developing specialized…

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful generative method for synthesizing high-quality and diverse set of images. In this paper, we propose a video generation method based on diffusion models, where the effects of motion are modeled in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Kangfu Mei , Vishal M. Patel

We study the problem of teaching humanoid robots manipulation skills by imitating from single video demonstrations. We introduce OKAMI, a method that generates a manipulation plan from a single RGB-D video and derives a policy for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Jinhan Li , Yifeng Zhu , Yuqi Xie , Zhenyu Jiang , Mingyo Seo , Georgios Pavlakos , Yuke Zhu

Video motion magnification techniques allow us to see small motions previously invisible to the naked eyes, such as those of vibrating airplane wings, or swaying buildings under the influence of the wind. Because the motion is small, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Tae-Hyun Oh , Ronnachai Jaroensri , Changil Kim , Mohamed Elgharib , Frédo Durand , William T. Freeman , Wojciech Matusik

Enabling home-assistant robots to perceive and manipulate a diverse range of 3D objects based on human language instructions is a pivotal challenge. Prior research has predominantly focused on simplistic and task-oriented instructions,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Ran Xu , Yan Shen , Xiaoqi Li , Ruihai Wu , Hao Dong

Visual imitation learning (VIL) provides an efficient and intuitive strategy for robotic systems to acquire novel skills. Recent advancements in Vision Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in vision and language…

Text-conditioned diffusion models have emerged as a promising tool for neural video generation. However, current models still struggle with intricate spatiotemporal prompts and often generate restricted or incorrect motion. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Long Lian , Baifeng Shi , Adam Yala , Trevor Darrell , Boyi Li

Video generative models (VGMs) pretrained on large-scale internet data can produce temporally coherent rollout videos that capture rich object dynamics, offering a compelling foundation for zero-shot robotic manipulation. However, VGMs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Gehao Zhang , Zhenyang Ni , Payal Mohapatra , Han Liu , Ruohan Zhang , Qi Zhu

A natural approach to generative modeling of videos is to represent them as a composition of moving objects. Recent works model a set of 2D sprites over a slowly-varying background, but without considering the underlying 3D scene that gives…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Paul Henderson , Christoph H. Lampert