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Visual servoing techniques guide robotic motion using visual information to accomplish manipulation tasks, requiring high precision and robustness against noise. Traditional methods often require prior knowledge and are susceptible to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Haoyu Zhang , Yang Liu , Yimu Jiang , Weiyang Lin , Chao Ye

Video Diffusion Models (VDMs) offer a promising approach for simulating dynamic scenes and environments, with broad applications in robotics and media generation. However, existing models often generate temporally incoherent content that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zhexiao Xiong , Yizhi Song , Liu He , Wei Xiong , Yu Yuan , Feng Qiao , Nathan Jacobs

We argue that progress in true multimodal intelligence calls for a shift from reactive, task-driven systems and brute-force long context towards a broader paradigm of supersensing. We frame spatial supersensing as four stages beyond…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Shusheng Yang , Jihan Yang , Pinzhi Huang , Ellis Brown , Zihao Yang , Yue Yu , Shengbang Tong , Zihan Zheng , Yifan Xu , Muhan Wang , Daohan Lu , Rob Fergus , Yann LeCun , Li Fei-Fei , Saining Xie

The rapid advancement of Embodied AI has led to an increasing demand for large-scale, high-quality real-world data. However, collecting such embodied data remains costly and inefficient. As a result, simulation environments have become a…

Human videos offer a scalable way to train robot manipulation policies, but lack the action labels needed by standard imitation learning algorithms. Existing cross-embodiment approaches try to map human motion to robot actions, but often…

A World Model is a compressed spatial and temporal representation of a real world environment that allows one to train an agent or execute planning methods. However, world models are typically trained on observations from the real world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Fabio Ferreira , Moreno Schlageter , Raghu Rajan , Andre Biedenkapp , Frank Hutter

The scarcity of large-scale robotic data has motivated the repurposing of foundation models from other modalities for policy learning. In this work, we introduce PhysGen (Learning Physics from Pretrained Video Generation Models), a scalable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Zijian Song , Qichang Li , Sihan Qin , Yuhao Chen , Tianshui Chen , Liang Lin , Guangrun Wang

While generative video models have achieved remarkable visual fidelity, their capacity to internalize and reason over implicit world rules remains a critical yet under-explored frontier. To bridge this gap, we present RISE-Video, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Mingxin Liu , Shuran Ma , Shibei Meng , Xiangyu Zhao , Zicheng Zhang , Shaofeng Zhang , Zhihang Zhong , Peixian Chen , Haoyu Cao , Xing Sun , Haodong Duan , Xue Yang

Pretrained foundation models have become an important basis for end-to-end autonomous driving. In contrast to vision-language models pretrained primarily on static image-text pairs, video generative models capture temporal dynamics and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Chen Shi , Jinrui Xu , Shaoshuai Shi , Kehua Sheng , Bo Zhang , Li Jiang

Recent progress in video-to-video (V2V) translation has enabled realistic resimulation of embodied AI demonstrations, a capability that allows pretrained robot policies to be transferable to new environments without additional data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 George Eskandar , Fengyi Shen , Mohammad Altillawi , Dong Chen , Yang Bai , Liudi Yang , Ziyuan Liu

Embodied intelligence requires high-fidelity simulation environments to support perception and decision-making, yet existing platforms often suffer from data contamination and limited flexibility. To mitigate this, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Lechao Zhang , Haoran Xu , Jingyu Gong , Xuhong Wang , Yuan Xie , Xin Tan

Humanoid robots, with their human-like form, are uniquely suited for interacting in environments built for people. However, enabling humanoids to reason, plan, and act in complex open-world settings remains a challenge. World models, models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Muhammad Qasim Ali , Aditya Sridhar , Shahbuland Matiana , Alex Wong , Mohammad Al-Sharman

Adapting pretrained video generation models into controllable world models via latent actions is a promising step towards creating generalist world models. The dominant paradigm adopts a two-stage approach that trains latent action model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yucen Wang , Fengming Zhang , De-Chuan Zhan , Li Zhao , Kaixin Wang , Jiang Bian

Embodied world models aim to predict and interact with the physical world through visual observations and actions. However, existing models struggle to accurately translate low-level actions (e.g., joint positions) into precise robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Taiyi Su , Jian Zhu , Yaxuan Li , Chong Ma , Jianjun Zhang , Zitai Huang , Hanli Wang , Yi Xu

We open-source MiMo-Embodied, the first cross-embodied foundation model to successfully integrate and achieve state-of-the-art performance in both Autonomous Driving and Embodied AI. MiMo-Embodied sets new records across 17 embodied AI…

World models that support controllable and editable spatiotemporal environments are valuable for robotics, enabling scalable training data, repro ducible evaluation, and flexible task design. While recent text-to-video models generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Xuehai He , Shijie Zhou , Thivyanth Venkateswaran , Kaizhi Zheng , Ziyu Wan , Achuta Kadambi , Xin Eric Wang

Despite impressive progress in video generation, existing models remain limited to surface-level plausibility, lacking a coherent and unified understanding of the world. Prior approaches typically incorporate only a single form of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Boming Tan , Xiangdong Zhang , Ning Liao , Yuqing Zhang , Shaofeng Zhang , Xue Yang , Qi Fan , Yanyong Zhang

Recent advances in creative AI have enabled the synthesis of high-fidelity images and videos conditioned on language instructions. Building on these developments, text-to-video diffusion models have evolved into embodied world models (EWMs)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Hu Yue , Siyuan Huang , Yue Liao , Shengcong Chen , Pengfei Zhou , Liliang Chen , Maoqing Yao , Guanghui Ren

Foundation models have achieved remarkable success across video, image, and language domains. By scaling up the number of parameters and training datasets, these models acquire generalizable world knowledge and often surpass task-specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Tung Nguyen , Arsh Koneru , Shufan Li , Aditya Grover

Text-guided video prediction (TVP) involves predicting the motion of future frames from the initial frame according to an instruction, which has wide applications in virtual reality, robotics, and content creation. Previous TVP methods make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Zhen Xing , Qi Dai , Zejia Weng , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang