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Deploying humanoid robots in real-world settings is fundamentally challenging, as it demands tight integration of perception, locomotion, and manipulation under partial-information observations and dynamically changing environments. As well…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Yu Bai , MingMing Yu , Chaojie Li , Ziyi Bai , Xinlong Wang , Börje F. Karlsson

The video grounding (VG) task aims to locate the queried action or event in an untrimmed video based on rich linguistic descriptions. Existing proposal-free methods are trapped in complex interaction between video and query, overemphasizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Kun Li , Dan Guo , Meng Wang

Achieving human-like reasoning in deep learning models for complex tasks in unknown environments remains a critical challenge in embodied intelligence. While advanced vision-language models (VLMs) excel in static scene understanding, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jinzhou Tang , Jusheng zhang , Sidi Liu , Waikit Xiu , Qinhan Lv , Xiying Li

Inspired by the success of transfer learning in computer vision, roboticists have investigated visual pre-training as a means to improve the learning efficiency and generalization ability of policies learned from pixels. To that end, past…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Kaylee Burns , Zach Witzel , Jubayer Ibn Hamid , Tianhe Yu , Chelsea Finn , Karol Hausman

This paper presents a differential geometric control approach that leverages SE(3) group invariance and equivariance to increase transferability in learning robot manipulation tasks that involve interaction with the environment.…

A key challenge in robot manipulation lies in developing policy models with strong spatial understanding, the ability to reason about 3D geometry, object relations, and robot embodiment. Existing methods often fall short: 3D point cloud…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Xuewu Lin , Tianwei Lin , Lichao Huang , Hongyu Xie , Yiwei Jin , Keyu Li , Zhizhong Su

Humans naturally perceive the geometric structure and semantic content of a 3D world as intertwined dimensions, enabling coherent and accurate understanding of complex scenes. However, most prior approaches prioritize training large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Hao Li , Zhengyu Zou , Fangfu Liu , Xuanyang Zhang , Fangzhou Hong , Yukang Cao , Yushi Lan , Manyuan Zhang , Gang Yu , Dingwen Zhang , Ziwei Liu

Modern robotic manipulation primarily relies on visual observations in a 2D color space for skill learning but suffers from poor generalization. In contrast, humans, living in a 3D world, depend more on physical properties-such as distance,…

Deep networks have brought significant advances in robot perception, enabling to improve the capabilities of robots in several visual tasks, ranging from object detection and recognition to pose estimation, semantic scene segmentation and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Fabio Cermelli , Massimiliano Mancini , Elisa Ricci , Barbara Caputo

This study addresses the challenge of manipulation, a prominent issue in robotics. We have devised a novel methodology for swiftly and precisely identifying the optimal grasp point for a robot to manipulate an object. Our approach leverages…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Arda Sarp Yenicesu , Berk Cicek , Ozgur S. Oguz

Reconstructing dynamic 4D scenes is an important yet challenging task. While 3D foundation models like VGGT excel in static settings, they often struggle with dynamic sequences where motion causes significant geometric ambiguity. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Ying Zang , Yidong Han , Chaotao Ding , Yuanqi Hu , Deyi Ji , Qi Zhu , Xuanfu Li , Jin Ma , Lingyun Sun , Tianrun Chen , Lanyun Zhu

Large vision-language models (VLMs) show strong multimodal understanding but still struggle with 3D spatial reasoning, such as distance estimation, size comparison, and cross-view consistency. Existing 3D-aware methods either depend on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Ruosen Zhao , Zhikang Zhang , Jialei Xu , Jiahao Chang , Dong Chen , Lingyun Li , Weijian Sun , Zizhuang Wei

Predictive world models that simulate future observations under explicit camera control are fundamental to interactive AI. Despite rapid advances, current systems lack spatial persistence: they fail to maintain stable scene structures over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Chendong Xiang , Jiajun Liu , Jintao Zhang , Xiao Yang , Zhengwei Fang , Shizun Wang , Zijun Wang , Yingtian Zou , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Multimodal transformer exhibits high capacity and flexibility to align image and text for visual grounding. However, the existing encoder-only grounding framework (e.g., TransVG) suffers from heavy computation due to the self-attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Fengyuan Shi , Ruopeng Gao , Weilin Huang , Limin Wang

Recently, transformers have shown promising performance in learning graph representations. However, there are still some challenges when applying transformers to real-world scenarios due to the fact that deep transformers are hard to train…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Sixiao Zhang , Hongxu Chen , Haoran Yang , Xiangguo Sun , Philip S. Yu , Guandong Xu

This research paper introduces an innovative AI coaching approach by integrating vision-encoder-decoder models. The feasibility of this method is demonstrated using a Vision Transformer as the encoder and GPT-2 as the decoder, achieving a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Jyothi S Nayak , Afifah Khan Mohammed Ajmal Khan , Chirag Manjeshwar , Imadh Ajaz Banday

Recent years have seen a growing interest in Scene Graph Generation (SGG), a comprehensive visual scene understanding task that aims to predict entity relationships using a relation encoder-decoder pipeline stacked on top of an object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Gopika Sudhakaran , Devendra Singh Dhami , Kristian Kersting , Stefan Roth

We develop data-driven methods incorporating geometric and topological information to learn parsimonious representations of nonlinear dynamics from observations. The approaches learn nonlinear state-space models of the dynamics for general…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Ryan Lopez , Paul J. Atzberger

For a robot to perform complex manipulation tasks, it is necessary for it to have a good grasping ability. However, vision based robotic grasp detection is hindered by the unavailability of sufficient labelled data. Furthermore, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Mridul Mahajan , Tryambak Bhattacharjee , Arya Krishnan , Priya Shukla , G C Nandi

We introduce a novel self-improving framework that enhances Embodied Visual Tracking (EVT) with Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to address the limitations of current active visual tracking systems in recovering from tracking failure. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Kui Wu , Shuhang Xu , Hao Chen , Churan Wang , Zhoujun Li , Yizhou Wang , Fangwei Zhong