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Despite the central role of action in embodied intelligence, learning transferable action representations from visual transitions remains a fundamental challenge, particularly when world models must generalize across embodiments under…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hongjia Liu , Fan Feng , Minghao Fu , Xinyue Wang , Haofei Lu , Biwei Huang

Existing pedestrian attribute recognition (PAR) algorithms are mainly developed based on a static image. However, the performance is not reliable for images with challenging factors, such as heavy occlusion, motion blur, etc. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Jun Zhu , Jiandong Jin , Zihan Yang , Xiaohao Wu , Xiao Wang

Visual Autoregressive Modeling (VAR) based on next-scale prediction achieves strong generation quality, but their explicit deep stacks fix the amount of computation per scale and inflate memory at high resolutions. We introduce Visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Pengfei Jiang , Jixiang Luo , Luxi Lin , Zhaohong Huang , Xuelong Li

We present a method to generate video-action pairs that follow text instructions, starting from an initial image observation and the robot's joint states. Our approach automatically provides action labels for video diffusion models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Liudi Yang , Yang Bai , George Eskandar , Fengyi Shen , Mohammad Altillawi , Dong Chen , Ziyuan Liu , Abhinav Valada

This article presents Platform Adaptive Locomotion (PAL), a unified control method for quadrupedal robots with different morphologies and dynamics. We leverage deep reinforcement learning to train a single locomotion policy on procedurally…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-11 David Rytz , Suyoung Choi , Wanming Yu , Wolfgang Merkt , Jemin Hwangbo , Ioannis Havoutis

World models allow agents to simulate the consequences of actions in imagined environments for planning, control, and long-horizon decision-making. However, existing autoregressive world models struggle with visually coherent predictions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Sen Wang , Jingyi Tian , Le Wang , Zhimin Liao , Jiayi Li , Huaiyi Dong , Kun Xia , Sanping Zhou , Wei Tang , Hua Gang

Action-labeled data for robotics is scarce and expensive, limiting the generalization of learned policies. In contrast, vast amounts of action-free video data are readily available, but translating these observations into effective policies…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Jeremy A. Collins , Loránd Cheng , Kunal Aneja , Albert Wilcox , Benjamin Joffe , Animesh Garg

The pre-training of visual representations has enhanced the efficiency of robot learning. Due to the lack of large-scale in-domain robotic datasets, prior works utilize in-the-wild human videos to pre-train robotic visual representation.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Guangqi Jiang , Yifei Sun , Tao Huang , Huanyu Li , Yongyuan Liang , Huazhe Xu

In order to autonomously learn wide repertoires of complex skills, robots must be able to learn from their own autonomously collected data, without human supervision. One learning signal that is always available for autonomously collected…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Frederik Ebert , Chelsea Finn , Alex X. Lee , Sergey Levine

Visual autoregressive modeling, based on the next-scale prediction paradigm, exhibits notable advantages in image quality and model scalability over traditional autoregressive and diffusion models. It generates images by progressively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Zhuokun Chen , Jugang Fan , Zhuowei Yu , Bohan Zhuang , Mingkui Tan

Recent work on visual representation learning has shown to be efficient for robotic manipulation tasks. However, most existing works pretrained the visual backbone solely on 2D images or egocentric videos, ignoring the fact that robots…

Can we turn a video prediction model into a robot policy? Videos, including those of humans or teleoperated robots, capture rich physical interactions. However, most of them lack labeled actions, which limits their use in robot learning. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Sandeep Routray , Hengkai Pan , Unnat Jain , Shikhar Bahl , Deepak Pathak

We propose Heterogeneous Masked Autoregression (HMA) for modeling action-video dynamics to generate high-quality data and evaluation in scaling robot learning. Building interactive video world models and policies for robotics is difficult…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Lirui Wang , Kevin Zhao , Chaoqi Liu , Xinlei Chen

Video generation models nowadays are capable of generating visually realistic videos, but often fail to adhere to physical laws, limiting their ability to generate physically plausible videos and serve as ''world models''. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Sihui Ji , Xi Chen , Xin Tao , Pengfei Wan , Hengshuang Zhao

Pedestrian Attribute Recognition (PAR) has aroused extensive attention due to its important role in video surveillance scenarios. In most cases, the existence of a particular attribute is strongly related to a partial region. Recent works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Jiajun Zhang , Pengyuan Ren , Jianmin Li

Extracting human motion from large-scale web videos offers a scalable solution to the data scarcity issue in character animation. However, some human parts in many video frames cannot be seen due to off-screen captures or occlusions. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Boyuan Li , Sipeng Zheng , Bin Cao , Ruihua Song , Zongqing Lu

Decoder-only autoregressive image generation typically relies on fixed-length tokenization schemes whose token counts grow quadratically with resolution, substantially increasing the computational and memory demands of attention. We present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Divyansh Srivastava , Akshay Mehra , Pranav Maneriker , Debopam Sanyal , Vishnu Raj , Vijay Kamarshi , Fan Du , Joshua Kimball

Humanoid locomotion is a challenging task due to its inherent complexity and high-dimensional dynamics, as well as the need to adapt to diverse and unpredictable environments. In this work, we introduce a novel learning framework for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Hyunyoung Jung , Zhaoyuan Gu , Ye Zhao , Hae-Won Park , Sehoon Ha

Predicting future frames for robotic surgical video is an interesting, important yet extremely challenging problem, given that the operative tasks may have complex dynamics. Existing approaches on future prediction of natural videos were…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Xiaojie Gao , Yueming Jin , Zixu Zhao , Qi Dou , Pheng-Ann Heng

VAR is a new generation paradigm that employs 'next-scale prediction' as opposed to 'next-token prediction'. This innovative transformation enables auto-regressive (AR) transformers to rapidly learn visual distributions and achieve robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Qian Zhang , Xiangzi Dai , Ninghua Yang , Xiang An , Ziyong Feng , Xingyu Ren