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Controllable generation of 3D human motions becomes an important topic as the world embraces digital transformation. Existing works, though making promising progress with the advent of diffusion models, heavily rely on meticulously captured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Nhat M. Hoang , Kehong Gong , Chuan Guo , Michael Bi Mi

Seamlessly moving objects within a scene is a common requirement for image editing, but it is still a challenge for existing editing methods. Especially for real-world images, the occlusion situation further increases the difficulty. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Zheng-Peng Duan , Jiawei Zhang , Siyu Liu , Zheng Lin , Chun-Le Guo , Dongqing Zou , Jimmy Ren , Chongyi Li

Whole-body control of robotic manipulators with awareness of full-arm kinematics is crucial for many manipulation scenarios involving body collision avoidance or body-object interactions, which makes it insufficient to consider only the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Kangchen Lv , Mingrui Yu , Yongyi Jia , Chenyu Zhang , Xiang Li

We introduce SPOT, an object-centric imitation learning framework. The key idea is to capture each task by an object-centric representation, specifically the SE(3) object pose trajectory relative to the target. This approach decouples…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Cheng-Chun Hsu , Bowen Wen , Jie Xu , Yashraj Narang , Xiaolong Wang , Yuke Zhu , Joydeep Biswas , Stan Birchfield

Recent robot foundation models largely rely on large-scale behavior cloning, which imitates expert actions but discards transferable dynamics knowledge embedded in heterogeneous embodied data. While the Unified World Model (UWM) formulation…

Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based motion planning has recently shown the potential to outperform traditional approaches from autonomous navigation to robot manipulation. In this work, we focus on a motion planning task for an evasive target…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Zixuan Wu , Sean Ye , Manisha Natarajan , Matthew C. Gombolay

The growing adoption of batteries in the electric vehicle industry and various consumer products has created an urgent need for effective recycling solutions. These products often contain a mix of compliant and rigid components, making…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Jeon Ho Kang , Sagar Joshi , Ruopeng Huang , Satyandra K. 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

The remarkable ease of use of diffusion models for image generation has led to a proliferation of synthetic content online. While these models are often employed for legitimate purposes, they are also used to generate fake images that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Giulia Bertazzini , Daniele Baracchi , Dasara Shullani , Isao Echizen , Alessandro Piva

Nine-degrees-of-freedom (9-DoF) object pose and size estimation is crucial for enabling augmented reality and robotic manipulation. Category-level methods have received extensive research attention due to their potential for generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jian Liu , Wei Sun , Hui Yang , Pengchao Deng , Chongpei Liu , Nicu Sebe , Hossein Rahmani , Ajmal Mian

Embodied visual planning aims to enable manipulation tasks by imagining how a scene evolves toward a desired goal and using the imagined trajectories to guide actions. Video diffusion models, through their image-to-video generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Yuming Gu , Yizhi Wang , Yining Hong , Yipeng Gao , Hao Jiang , Angtian Wang , Bo Liu , Nathaniel S. Dennler , Zhengfei Kuang , Hao Li , Gordon Wetzstein , Chongyang Ma

Effective robot navigation in unseen environments is a challenging task that requires precise control actions at high frequencies. Recent advances have framed it as an image-goal-conditioned control problem, where the robot generates…

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a promising paradigm for robot learning, but their representations are still largely inherited from static image-text pretraining, leaving physical dynamics to be learned from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Teli Ma , Jia Zheng , Zifan Wang , Chunli Jiang , Andy Cui , Junwei Liang , Shuo Yang

Decentralized multi-robot motion planning requires each robot to generate collision-free trajectories from local observations, without global sensing or reliable communication. However, most existing planners, whether classical or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jinhao Liang , Sven Koenig , Ferdinando Fioretto

Training robot policies within a learned world model is trending due to the inefficiency of real-world interactions. The established image-based world models and policies have shown prior success, but lack robust geometric information that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Guanxing Lu , Baoxiong Jia , Puhao Li , Yixin Chen , Ziwei Wang , Yansong Tang , Siyuan Huang

Advances in robot learning have enabled robots to generate skills for a variety of tasks. Yet, robot learning is typically sample inefficient, struggles to learn from data sources exhibiting varied behaviors, and does not naturally…

Diffusion policies trained via offline behavioral cloning have recently gained traction in robotic motion generation. While effective, these policies typically require a large number of trainable parameters. This model size affords powerful…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Xiatao Sun , Shuo Yang , Yinxing Chen , Francis Fan , Yiyan Liang , Daniel Rakita

Diffusion models generate images with an unprecedented level of quality, but how can we freely rearrange image layouts? Recent works generate controllable scenes via learning spatially disentangled latent codes, but these methods do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Jiawei Ren , Mengmeng Xu , Jui-Chieh Wu , Ziwei Liu , Tao Xiang , Antoine Toisoul

Learning domain adaptive policies that can generalize to unseen transition dynamics, remains a fundamental challenge in learning-based control. Substantial progress has been made through domain representation learning to capture…

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