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We formulate the motor system of an interactive avatar as a generative motion model that can drive the body to move through 3D space in a perpetual, realistic, controllable, and responsive manner. Although human motion generation has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yan Zhang , Yao Feng , Alpár Cseke , Nitin Saini , Nathan Bajandas , Nicolas Heron , Michael J. Black

Unsupervised video representation learning has made remarkable achievements in recent years. However, most existing methods are designed and optimized for video classification. These pre-trained models can be sub-optimal for temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Can Zhang , Tianyu Yang , Junwu Weng , Meng Cao , Jue Wang , Yuexian Zou

In recent years, advances in the large-scale pretraining of language and text-to-image models have revolutionized the field of machine learning. Yet, integrating these two modalities into a single, robust model capable of generating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Emanuele Aiello , Lili Yu , Yixin Nie , Armen Aghajanyan , Barlas Oguz

In robotic grasping, objects are often occluded in ungraspable configurations such that no pregrasp pose can be found, eg large flat boxes on the table that can only be grasped from the side. Inspired by humans' bimanual manipulation, eg…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Zhaole Sun , Kai Yuan , Wenbin Hu , Chuanyu Yang , Zhibin Li

A major challenge for modern AI is to learn to understand the world and learn to act largely by observation. This paper explores a self-supervised approach that combines internet-scale video data with a small amount of interaction data…

Distilling knowledge from human demonstrations is a promising way for robots to learn and act. Existing methods, which often rely on coarsely-aligned video pairs, are typically constrained to learning global or task-level features. As a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Sicheng Xie , Haidong Cao , Zejia Weng , Zhen Xing , Haoran Chen , Shiwei Shen , Jiaqi Leng , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Autonomous driving requires robust perception models trained on high-quality, large-scale multi-view driving videos for tasks like 3D object detection, segmentation and trajectory prediction. While world models provide a cost-effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Zhuoran Yang , Xi Guo , Chenjing Ding , Chiyu Wang , Wei Wu

Building humanoid robots capable of generalizable whole-body loco-manipulation in the real world remains a fundamental challenge. Existing methods either rely on laborious task-specific reward engineering, rigidly replay reference motions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Tianshu Wu , Xiangqi Kong , Yue Chen , Qize Yu , Hang Ye , Jia Li , Yizhou Wang , Hao Dong

Human activity recognition (HAR) with deep learning models relies on large amounts of labeled data, often challenging to obtain due to associated cost, time, and labor. Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as an effective approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Dominique Nshimyimana , Vitor Fortes Rey , Sungho Suh , Bo Zhou , Paul Lukowicz

This work presents an approach for modelling and tracking previously unseen objects for robotic grasping tasks. Using the motion of objects in a scene, our approach segments rigid entities from the scene and continuously tracks them to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Christian Rauch , Ran Long , Vladimir Ivan , Sethu Vijayakumar

Enlightened by the success of machine learning techniques in various application areas, recent years have witnessed a surge of research efforts on automatic program repair (APR) using machine learning techniques. Previous machine…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Zhenyu Yang , Yue Pan , Zhen Yang , Zhongxing Yu

Video prediction is an important yet challenging problem; burdened with the tasks of generating future frames and learning environment dynamics. Recently, autoregressive latent video models have proved to be a powerful video prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Younggyo Seo , Kimin Lee , Fangchen Liu , Stephen James , Pieter Abbeel

Recent advances in generalist robot manipulation leverage pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and large-scale robot demonstrations to tackle diverse tasks in a zero-shot manner. A key challenge remains: scaling high-quality,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Alexander Spiridonov , Jan-Nico Zaech , Nikolay Nikolov , Luc Van Gool , Danda Pani Paudel

Feedforward reconstruction is crucial for autonomous driving applications, where rapid scene reconstruction enables efficient utilization of large-scale driving datasets in closed-loop simulation and other downstream tasks, eliminating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Zhongrui Yu , Zhao Wang , Yijia Xie , Yida Wang , Xueyang Zhang , Yifei Zhan , Kun Zhan

In this paper, we propose Spatio-TEmporal Progressive (STEP) action detector---a progressive learning framework for spatio-temporal action detection in videos. Starting from a handful of coarse-scale proposal cuboids, our approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Xitong Yang , Xiaodong Yang , Ming-Yu Liu , Fanyi Xiao , Larry Davis , Jan Kautz

Training state-of-the-art models for human pose estimation in videos requires datasets with annotations that are really hard and expensive to obtain. Although transformers have been recently utilized for body pose sequence modeling, related…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Fabien Baradel , Romain Brégier , Thibault Groueix , Philippe Weinzaepfel , Yannis Kalantidis , Grégory Rogez

Imitation learning is a powerful paradigm for robot skill acquisition, yet conventional demonstration methods--such as kinesthetic teaching and teleoperation--are cumbersome, hardware-heavy, and disruptive to workflows. Recently, passive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Rohan Walia , Yusheng Wang , Ralf Römer , Masahiro Nishio , Angela P. Schoellig , Jun Ota

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

A key challenge for an agent learning to interact with the world is to reason about physical properties of objects and to foresee their dynamics under the effect of applied forces. In order to scale learning through interaction to many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Iman Nematollahi , Oier Mees , Lukas Hermann , Wolfram Burgard

The goal of building a benchmark (suite of datasets) is to provide a unified protocol for fair evaluation and thus facilitate the evolution of a specific area. Nonetheless, we point out that existing protocols of action recognition could…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Andong Deng , Taojiannan Yang , Chen Chen