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Simply by rearranging the regions of an image, we can create a new image of any subject matter. The definition of regions is user definable, ranging from regularly and irregularly-shaped blocks, concentric rings, or even individual pixels.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Shumeet Baluja , David Marwood , Ashwin Baluja

Vision-language-action (VLA) models trained on large-scale internet data and robot demonstrations have the potential to serve as generalist robot policies. However, despite their large-scale training, VLAs are often brittle to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Asher J. Hancock , Allen Z. Ren , Anirudha Majumdar

Modern Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms promise to solve difficult motor control problems directly from raw sensory inputs. Their attraction is due in part to the fact that they can represent a general class of methods that allow to…

Imitation can allow us to quickly gain an understanding of a new task. Through a demonstration, we can gain direct knowledge about which actions need to be performed and which goals they have. In this paper, we introduce a new approach to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Josua Spisak , Matthias Kerzel , Stefan Wermter

Vision-language-action (VLA) models provide a promising foundation for general-purpose robotics. However, their successful deployment in real-world scenarios requires the ability to continually acquire new skills while retaining previously…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Jiarun Zhu , Yijun Hong , Xiaoquan Sun , Zetian Xu , Mingqi Yuan , Zhiyong Wang , Wenjun Zeng , Jiayu Chen

Despite remarkable progress in Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) for robot manipulation, these large pre-trained models require fine-tuning to be deployed in specific environments. These fine-tuned models are highly sensitive to camera…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Hyeongjun Heo , Seungyeon Woo , Sang Min Kim , Junho Kim , Junho Lee , Yonghyeon Lee , Young Min Kim

While imitation learning for vision based autonomous mobile robot navigation has recently received a great deal of attention in the research community, existing approaches typically require state action demonstrations that were gathered…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Haresh Karnan , Garrett Warnell , Xuesu Xiao , Peter Stone

The default strategy for training single-view Large Reconstruction Models (LRMs) follows the fully supervised route using large-scale datasets of synthetic 3D assets or multi-view captures. Although these resources simplify the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Hanwen Jiang , Qixing Huang , Georgios Pavlakos

General-purpose robots must master long-horizon manipulation, defined as tasks involving multiple kinematic structure changes (e.g., attaching or detaching objects) in unstructured environments. While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Yue Yang , Shuo Cheng , Yu Fang , Homanga Bharadhwaj , Mingyu Ding , Gedas Bertasius , Daniel Szafir

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models empower robots to understand and execute tasks described by natural language instructions. However, a key challenge lies in their ability to generalize beyond the specific environments and conditions they…

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently emerged, demonstrating strong generalization in robotic scene understanding and manipulation. However, when confronted with long-horizon tasks that require defined goal states, such as LEGO…

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) acquire real-world knowledge and general reasoning ability through Internet-scale image-text corpora. They can augment robotic systems with scene understanding and task planning, and assist visuomotor policies…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Kaiyuan Chen , Shuangyu Xie , Zehan Ma , Pannag R Sanketi , Ken Goldberg

Painting is an artistic process of rendering visual content that achieves the high-level communication goals of an artist that may change dynamically throughout the creative process. In this paper, we present a Framework and Robotics…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Peter Schaldenbrand , James McCann , Jean Oh

Active perception describes a broad class of techniques that couple planning and perception systems to move the robot in a way to give the robot more information about the environment. In most robotic systems, perception is typically…

The rapid advancement of generative technologies has made synthetic images nearly indistinguishable from real ones, thereby creating an urgent need for robust detectors to counter misinformation. However, existing methods mainly rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yutong Xiao , Ran Ran , Jiwei Wei , Shuchang Zhou , Ke Liu , Zheng Ziqiang , Caiyan Qin

This paper proposes a unified vision-based manipulation framework using image contours of deformable/rigid objects. Instead of using human-defined cues, the robot automatically learns the features from processed vision data. Our method…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Jihong Zhu , David Navarro-Alarcon , Robin Passama , Andrea Cherubini

Generating realistic robotic manipulation videos is an important step toward unifying perception, planning, and action in embodied agents. While existing video diffusion models require large domain-specific datasets and struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Ye Pang

We introduce Latent Action Pretraining for general Action models (LAPA), an unsupervised method for pretraining Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models without ground-truth robot action labels. Existing Vision-Language-Action models require…

Prediction is an appealing objective for self-supervised learning of behavioral skills, particularly for autonomous robots. However, effectively utilizing predictive models for control, especially with raw image inputs, poses a number of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Frederik Ebert , Sudeep Dasari , Alex X. Lee , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn

In robotics motion is often described from an external perspective, i.e., we give information on the obstacle motion in a mathematical manner with respect to a specific (often inertial) reference frame. In the current work, we propose to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Lukas Huber , Jean-Jacques Slotine , Aude Billard