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Generating physically plausible human motion is crucial for applications such as character animation and virtual reality. Existing approaches often incorporate a simulator-based motion projection layer to the diffusion process to enforce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Akihisa Watanabe , Jiawei Ren , Li Siyao , Yichen Peng , Erwin Wu , Edgar Simo-Serra

Robot manipulation in the real world is fundamentally constrained by the visual sim2real gap, where depth observations collected in simulation fail to reflect the complex noise patterns inherent to real sensors. In this work, inspired by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xiujian Liang , Jiacheng Liu , Mingyang Sun , Qichen He , Cewu Lu , Jianhua Sun

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models that were initially proposed for realistic image generation have recently shown success in various perception tasks (e.g., object detection and image segmentation) and are increasingly gaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Runyang Feng , Yixing Gao , Tze Ho Elden Tse , Xueqing Ma , Hyung Jin Chang

We present FlightDiffusion, a diffusion-model-based framework for training autonomous drones from first-person view (FPV) video. Our model generates realistic video sequences from a single frame, enriched with corresponding action spaces to…

Diffusion models have been verified to be effective in generating complex distributions from natural images to motion trajectories. Recent diffusion-based methods show impressive performance in 3D robotic manipulation tasks, whereas they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Guanxing Lu , Zifeng Gao , Tianxing Chen , Wenxun Dai , Ziwei Wang , Wenbo Ding , Yansong Tang

The quality of fetal MRI is significantly affected by unpredictable and substantial fetal motion, leading to the introduction of artifacts even when fast acquisition sequences are employed. The development of 3D real-time fetal pose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Molin Zhang , Polina Golland , Patricia Ellen Grant , Elfar Adalsteinsson

Collaborative 3D object detection holds significant importance in the field of autonomous driving, as it greatly enhances the perception capabilities of each individual agent by facilitating information exchange among multiple agents.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Zhe Huang , Shuo Wang , Yongcai Wang , Lei Wang

Precise robot manipulations require rich spatial information in imitation learning. Image-based policies model object positions from fixed cameras, which are sensitive to camera view changes. Policies utilizing 3D point clouds usually…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Chenxi Wang , Hongjie Fang , Hao-Shu Fang , Cewu Lu

We propose MonoSE(3)-Diffusion, a monocular SE(3) diffusion framework that formulates markerless, image-based robot pose estimation as a conditional denoising diffusion process. The framework consists of two processes: a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Kangjian Zhu , Haobo Jiang , Yigong Zhang , Jianjun Qian , Jian Yang , Jin Xie

Extracting keypoint locations from input hand frames, known as 3D hand pose estimation, is a critical task in various human-computer interaction applications. Essentially, the 3D hand pose estimation can be regarded as a 3D point subset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Wencan Cheng , Hao Tang , Luc Van Gool , Jong Hwan Ko

We propose DemoDiffusion, a simple method for enabling robots to perform manipulation tasks by imitating a single human demonstration, without requiring task-specific training or paired human-robot data. Our approach is based on two…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Sungjae Park , Homanga Bharadhwaj , Shubham Tulsiani

We introduce SceneDiffuser, a conditional generative model for 3D scene understanding. SceneDiffuser provides a unified model for solving scene-conditioned generation, optimization, and planning. In contrast to prior works, SceneDiffuser is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Siyuan Huang , Zan Wang , Puhao Li , Baoxiong Jia , Tengyu Liu , Yixin Zhu , Wei Liang , Song-Chun Zhu

Mixed reality applications require tracking the user's full-body motion to enable an immersive experience. However, typical head-mounted devices can only track head and hand movements, leading to a limited reconstruction of full-body motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Angela Castillo , Maria Escobar , Guillaume Jeanneret , Albert Pumarola , Pablo Arbeláez , Ali Thabet , Artsiom Sanakoyeu

A core capability for robot manipulation is reasoning over where and how to stably place objects in cluttered environments. Traditionally, robots have relied on object-specific, hand-crafted heuristics in order to perform such reasoning,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Takuma Yoneda , Tianchong Jiang , Gregory Shakhnarovich , Matthew R. Walter

We hypothesize that a key bottleneck in generalizable robot manipulation is not solely data scale or policy capacity, but a structural mismatch between current visual backbones and the physical requirements of closed-loop control. While…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yu Deng , Yufeng Jin , Xiaogang Jia , Jiahong Xue , Gerhard Neumann , Georgia Chalvatzaki

Denoising diffusion models hold great promise for generating diverse and realistic human motions. However, existing motion diffusion models largely disregard the laws of physics in the diffusion process and often generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Ye Yuan , Jiaming Song , Umar Iqbal , Arash Vahdat , Jan Kautz

Estimating the 6D pose of novel objects is a fundamental yet challenging problem in robotics, often relying on access to object CAD models. However, acquiring such models can be costly and impractical. Recent approaches aim to bypass this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Zhaodong Jiang , Ashish Sinha , Tongtong Cao , Yuan Ren , Bingbing Liu , Binbin Xu

This paper introduces StructDiff, a generative framework based on a single-scale diffusion model for single-image generation. Single-image generation aims to synthesize diverse samples with similar visual content to the source image by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yinxi He , Kang Liao , Chunyu Lin , Tianyi Wei , Yao Zhao

Recent advancements in autonomous driving (AD) systems have highlighted the potential of world models in achieving robust and generalizable performance across both ordinary and challenging driving conditions. However, a key challenge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Bu Jin , Weize Li , Baihan Yang , Zhenxin Zhu , Junpeng Jiang , Huan-ang Gao , Haiyang Sun , Kun Zhan , Hengtong Hu , Xueyang Zhang , Peng Jia , Hao Zhao

We introduce DiffPhysCam, a differentiable camera simulator designed to support robotics and embodied AI applications by enabling gradient-based optimization in visual perception pipelines. Generating synthetic images that closely mimic…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Bo-Hsun Chen , Nevindu M. Batagoda , Dan Negrut