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Purpose: Detailed surgical recognition is critical for advancing AI-assisted surgery, yet progress is hampered by high annotation costs, data scarcity, and a lack of interpretable models. While scene graphs offer a structured abstraction of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Felix Holm , Ghazal Ghazaei , Nassir Navab

While visuomotor policy has made advancements in recent years, contact-rich tasks still remain a challenge. Robotic manipulation tasks that require continuous contact demand explicit handling of compliance and force. However, most…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Tianyu Li , Yihan Li , Zizhe Zhang , Nadia Figueroa

We propose GoalFlow, an end-to-end autonomous driving method for generating high-quality multimodal trajectories. In autonomous driving scenarios, there is rarely a single suitable trajectory. Recent methods have increasingly focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Zebin Xing , Xingyu Zhang , Yang Hu , Bo Jiang , Tong He , Qian Zhang , Xiaoxiao Long , Wei Yin

Specifying nuanced and compelling camera motion remains a significant hurdle for non-expert creators using generative tools, creating an "expressive gap" where generic text prompts fail to capture cinematic vision. This barrier limits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Pooja Guhan , Divya Kothandaraman , Geonsun Lee , Tsung-Wei Huang , Guan-Ming Su , Dinesh Manocha

We present a zero-shot deformation reconstruction framework for soft robots that operates without any visual supervision at inference time. In this work, zero-shot deformation reconstruction is defined as the ability to infer object-wide…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Linrui Shou , Zilang Chen , Wenjia Xu , Yiyue Luo , Tingyu Cheng

We introduce a new concept for the manipulation of fluid flow around three-dimensional bodies. Inspired by transformation optics, the concept is based on a mathematical idea of coordinate transformations and physically implemented with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-09-07 Yaroslav A. Urzhumov , David R. Smith

Planning for robotic manipulation requires reasoning about the changes a robot can affect on objects. When such interactions can be modelled analytically, as in domains with rigid objects, efficient planning algorithms exist. However, in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Angelina Wang , Thanard Kurutach , Kara Liu , Pieter Abbeel , Aviv Tamar

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

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) systems face challenges in handling complex processes and diverse screen layouts that require advanced human-like decision-making capabilities. These systems typically rely on pixel-level encoding through…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Arushi Jain , Shubham Paliwal , Monika Sharma , Lovekesh Vig , Gautam Shroff

We present Dynamics-Guided Diffusion Model (DGDM), a data-driven framework for generating task-specific manipulator designs without task-specific training. Given object shapes and task specifications, DGDM generates sensor-less manipulator…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Xiaomeng Xu , Huy Ha , Shuran Song

Video motion transfer aims to generate a target video that inherits motion patterns from a source video while rendering new scenes. Existing training-free approaches focus on constructing motion guidance based on the intermediate outputs of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Zhen Wang , Youcan Xu , Jun Xiao , Long Chen

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models represent a pivotal advance in embodied intelligence, yet they confront critical barriers to real-world deployment, most notably catastrophic forgetting. This issue stems from their overreliance on…

Scene flow estimation predicts the 3D motion at each point in successive LiDAR scans. This detailed, point-level, information can help autonomous vehicles to accurately predict and understand dynamic changes in their surroundings. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Qingwen Zhang , Yi Yang , Peizheng Li , Olov Andersson , Patric Jensfelt

Modeling the mechanics of fluid in complex scenes is vital to applications in design, graphics, and robotics. Learning-based methods provide fast and differentiable fluid simulators, however most prior work is unable to accurately model how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Arjun Mani , Ishaan Preetam Chandratreya , Elliot Creager , Carl Vondrick , Richard Zemel

We introduce the first work to explore web-scale diffusion models for robotics. DALL-E-Bot enables a robot to rearrange objects in a scene, by first inferring a text description of those objects, then generating an image representing a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Ivan Kapelyukh , Vitalis Vosylius , Edward Johns

Agile maneuvers are essential for robot-enabled complex tasks such as surgical procedures. Prior explorations on surgery autonomy are limited to feasibility study of completing a single task without systematically addressing generic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Fangxun Zhong , Yun-Hui Liu

Zero-shot generalization across various robots, tasks and environments remains a significant challenge in robotic manipulation. Policy code generation methods use executable code to connect high-level task descriptions and low-level action…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Senwei Xie , Hongyu Wang , Zhanqi Xiao , Ruiping Wang , Xilin Chen

We introduce Gaussian-Flow, a novel point-based approach for fast dynamic scene reconstruction and real-time rendering from both multi-view and monocular videos. In contrast to the prevalent NeRF-based approaches hampered by slow training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Youtian Lin , Zuozhuo Dai , Siyu Zhu , Yao Yao

Recently,vision-based robotic manipulation has garnered significant attention and witnessed substantial advancements. 2D image-based and 3D point cloud-based policy learning represent two predominant paradigms in the field, with recent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Run Yu , Yangdi Liu , Wen-Da Wei , Chen Li

A key challenge in scaling up robot learning to many skills and environments is removing the need for human supervision, so that robots can collect their own data and improve their own performance without being limited by the cost of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Chelsea Finn , Sergey Levine