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A critical bottleneck hindering further advancement in embodied AI and robotics is the challenge of scaling robot data. To address this, the field of learning robot manipulation skills from human video data has attracted rapidly growing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Junyi Ma , Erhang Zhang , Haoran Yang , Ditao Li , Chenyang Xu , Guangming Wang , Hesheng Wang

Pedestrian Attribute Recognition (PAR) is a challenging task as models are required to generalize across numerous attributes in real-world data. Traditional approaches focus on complex methods, yet recognition performance is often…

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Recent single image unsupervised representation learning techniques show remarkable success on a variety of tasks. The basic principle in these works is instance discrimination: learning to differentiate between two augmented versions of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Daniel Gordon , Kiana Ehsani , Dieter Fox , Ali Farhadi

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

Diffusion Probability Models (DPMs) have made impressive advancements in various machine learning domains. However, achieving high-quality synthetic samples typically involves performing a large number of sampling steps, which impedes the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Shitong Shao , Xu Dai , Lujun Li , Huanran Chen , Yang Hu , Shouyi Yin

Training generalist policies for robotic manipulation has shown great promise, as they enable language-conditioned, multi-task behaviors across diverse scenarios. However, evaluating these policies remains difficult because real-world…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Wei-Cheng Tseng , Jinwei Gu , Qinsheng Zhang , Hanzi Mao , Ming-Yu Liu , Florian Shkurti , Lin Yen-Chen

Learned visuomotor policies have shown considerable success as an alternative to traditional, hand-crafted frameworks for robotic manipulation. Surprisingly, an extension of these methods to the multiview domain is relatively unexplored. A…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Trevor Ablett , Yifan Zhai , Jonathan Kelly

Visual imitation learning has achieved impressive progress in learning unimanual manipulation tasks from a small set of visual observations, thanks to the latest advances in computer vision. However, learning bimanual coordination…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Jianfeng Gao , Xiaoshu Jin , Franziska Krebs , Noémie Jaquier , Tamim Asfour

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…

Human activity recognition (HAR) is often limited by the scarcity of labeled datasets due to the high cost and complexity of real-world data collection. To mitigate this, recent work has explored generating virtual inertial measurement unit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Zikang Leng , Archith Iyer , Thomas Plötz

Existing 3D human pose estimation algorithms trained on distortion-free datasets suffer performance drop when applied to new scenarios with a specific camera distortion. In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective model for 3D human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Hanbyel Cho , Yooshin Cho , Jaemyung Yu , Junmo Kim

Contact-rich bimanual manipulation involves precise coordination of two arms to change object states through strategically selected contacts and motions. Due to the inherent complexity of these tasks, acquiring sufficient demonstration data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Xuanlin Li , Tong Zhao , Xinghao Zhu , Jiuguang Wang , Tao Pang , Kuan Fang

Fine-grained understanding of human actions and poses in videos is essential for human-centric AI applications. In this work, we introduce ActionArt, a fine-grained video-caption dataset designed to advance research in human-centric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Yi-Xing Peng , Qize Yang , Yu-Ming Tang , Shenghao Fu , Kun-Yu Lin , Xihan Wei , Wei-Shi Zheng

Recent advancements utilizing large-scale video data for learning video generation models demonstrate significant potential in understanding complex physical dynamics. It suggests the feasibility of leveraging diverse robot trajectory data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Youpeng Wen , Junfan Lin , Yi Zhu , Jianhua Han , Hang Xu , Shen Zhao , Xiaodan Liang

Learning from visual data opens the potential to accrue a large range of manipulation behaviors by leveraging human demonstrations without specifying each of them mathematically, but rather through natural task specification. In this paper,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Haoyu Xiong , Quanzhou Li , Yun-Chun Chen , Homanga Bharadhwaj , Samarth Sinha , Animesh Garg

Data augmentation has recently emerged as an essential component of modern training recipes for visual recognition tasks. However, data augmentation for video recognition has been rarely explored despite its effectiveness. Few existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Taeoh Kim , Jinhyung Kim , Minho Shim , Sangdoo Yun , Myunggu Kang , Dongyoon Wee , Sangyoun Lee

Operating in unstructured environments like households requires robotic policies that are robust to out-of-distribution conditions. Although much work has been done in evaluating robustness for visuomotor policies, the robustness evaluation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Ryan Diaz , Adam Imdieke , Vivek Veeriah , Karthik Desingh

Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) distills score-based generative models into efficient one-step generators, without requiring a one-to-one correspondence with the sampling trajectories of their teachers. Yet, the limited capacity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Xiangyu Fan , Zesong Qiu , Zhuguanyu Wu , Fanzhou Wang , Zhiqian Lin , Tianxiang Ren , Dahua Lin , Ruihao Gong , Lei Yang

Masked image modeling has demonstrated great potential to eliminate the label-hungry problem of training large-scale vision Transformers, achieving impressive performance on various downstream tasks. In this work, we propose a unified view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Zhiliang Peng , Li Dong , Hangbo Bao , Qixiang Ye , Furu Wei

Large-scale data is an essential component of machine learning as demonstrated in recent advances in natural language processing and computer vision research. However, collecting large-scale robotic data is much more expensive and slower as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Shivin Dass , Karl Pertsch , Hejia Zhang , Youngwoon Lee , Joseph J. Lim , Stefanos Nikolaidis