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Achieving versatile humanoid locomotion with a single policy presents a critical scalability challenge. Prevailing methods often rely on distilling multiple terrain-specific teacher policies into a unified student policy. However, while…

Fine-tuning pre-trained robot policies with reinforcement learning (RL) often inherits the bottlenecks introduced by pre-training with behavioral cloning (BC), which produces narrow action distributions that lack the coverage necessary for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Matthew M. Hong , Jesse Zhang , Anusha Nagabandi , Abhishek Gupta

We introduce a method for generating realistic pedestrian trajectories and full-body animations that can be controlled to meet user-defined goals. We draw on recent advances in guided diffusion modeling to achieve test-time controllability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Davis Rempe , Zhengyi Luo , Xue Bin Peng , Ye Yuan , Kris Kitani , Karsten Kreis , Sanja Fidler , Or Litany

We investigated the application of haptic feedback control and deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to robot-assisted dressing. Our method uses DRL to simultaneously train human and robot control policies as separate neural networks using…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Alexander Clegg , Zackory Erickson , Patrick Grady , Greg Turk , Charles C. Kemp , C. Karen Liu

This paper presents a novel Expressive Facial Control (ExFace) method based on Diffusion Transformers, which achieves precise mapping from human facial blendshapes to bionic robot motor control. By incorporating an innovative model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Dong Zhang , Jingwei Peng , Yuyang Jiao , Jiayuan Gu , Jingyi Yu , Jiahao Chen

Recent breakthroughs in understanding the human brain have revealed its impressive ability to efficiently process and interpret human thoughts, opening up possibilities for intervening in brain signals. In this paper, we aim to develop a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Yasheng Sun , Bohan Li , Mingchen Zhuge , Deng-Ping Fan , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Hideki Koike

Shared autonomy in driving requires anticipating human behavior, flagging risk before it becomes unavoidable, and transferring control safely and smoothly. We propose Diffusion-SAFE, a closed-loop framework built on two diffusion models: an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yunxin Fan , Monroe Kennedy

Human body restoration plays a vital role in various applications related to the human body. Despite recent advances in general image restoration using generative models, their performance in human body restoration remains mediocre, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Yiming Zhang , Zhe Wang , Xinjie Li , Yunchen Yuan , Chengsong Zhang , Xiao Sun , Zhihang Zhong , Jian Wang

Modeling multimodal human behavior has been a key barrier to increasing the level of interaction between human and robot, particularly for collaborative tasks. Our key insight is that an effective, learned robot policy used for human-robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Eley Ng , Ziang Liu , Monroe Kennedy

The field of physics-based animation is gaining importance due to the increasing demand for realism in video games and films, and has recently seen wide adoption of data-driven techniques, such as deep reinforcement learning (RL), which…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Tingwu Wang , Yunrong Guo , Maria Shugrina , Sanja Fidler

Humanoid robots hold great potential for diverse interactions and daily service tasks within human-centered environments, necessitating controllers that seamlessly integrate precise locomotion with dexterous manipulation. However, most…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Xinru Cui , Linxi Feng , Yixuan Zhou , Haoqi Han , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang

Recent diffusion-based methods have achieved impressive results on animating images of human subjects. However, most of that success has built on human-specific body pose representations and extensive training with labeled real videos. In…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Zeqi Gu , Difan Liu , Timothy Langlois , Matthew Fisher , Abe Davis

We present Human to Humanoid (H2O), a reinforcement learning (RL) based framework that enables real-time whole-body teleoperation of a full-sized humanoid robot with only an RGB camera. To create a large-scale retargeted motion dataset of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Tairan He , Zhengyi Luo , Wenli Xiao , Chong Zhang , Kris Kitani , Changliu Liu , Guanya Shi

This paper addresses the challenge of terrain-adaptive dynamic locomotion in humanoid robots, a problem traditionally tackled by optimization-based methods or reinforcement learning (RL). Optimization-based methods, such as model-predictive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Shangqun Yu , Nisal Perera , Daniel Marew , Donghyun Kim

Text-conditioned motion synthesis has made remarkable progress with the emergence of diffusion models. However, the majority of these motion diffusion models are primarily designed for a single character and overlook multi-human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Zhenzhi Wang , Jingbo Wang , Yixuan Li , Dahua Lin , Bo Dai

Diffusion models have become popular for policy learning in robotics due to their ability to capture high-dimensional and multimodal distributions. However, diffusion policies are stochastic and typically trained offline, limiting their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Ralf Römer , Alexander von Rohr , Angela P. Schoellig

We present Readout Guidance, a method for controlling text-to-image diffusion models with learned signals. Readout Guidance uses readout heads, lightweight networks trained to extract signals from the features of a pre-trained, frozen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Grace Luo , Trevor Darrell , Oliver Wang , Dan B Goldman , Aleksander Holynski

Generating high-quality whole-body human object interaction motion sequences is becoming increasingly important in various fields such as animation, VR/AR, and robotics. The main challenge of this task lies in determining the level of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Yonghao Zhang , Qiang He , Yanguang Wan , Yinda Zhang , Xiaoming Deng , Cuixia Ma , Hongan Wang

While deep reinforcement learning (RL) methods have achieved unprecedented successes in a range of challenging problems, their applicability has been mainly limited to simulation or game domains due to the high sample complexity of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Siyi Li , Tianbo Liu , Chi Zhang , Dit-Yan Yeung , Shaojie Shen

Achieving autonomous and versatile whole-body loco-manipulation remains a central barrier to making humanoids practically useful. Yet existing approaches are fundamentally constrained: retargeted data are often scarce or low-quality;…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Xialin He , Sirui Xu , Xinyao Li , Runpei Dong , Liuyu Bian , Yu-Xiong Wang , Liang-Yan Gui