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Multi-view visual reasoning is essential for intelligent systems that must understand complex environments from sparse and discrete viewpoints, yet existing research has largely focused on single-image or temporally dense video settings. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Fucai Ke , Zhixi Cai , Boying Li , Long Chen , Beibei Lin , Weiqing Wang , Pari Delir Haghighi , Gholamreza Haffari , Hamid Rezatofighi

Embodied agents require robust navigation systems to operate in unstructured environments, making the robustness of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) models critical to embodied agent autonomy. While real-world datasets are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Xiaohao Xu , Tianyi Zhang , Sibo Wang , Xiang Li , Yongqi Chen , Ye Li , Bhiksha Raj , Matthew Johnson-Roberson , Xiaonan Huang

Understanding the geometric and semantic structure of environments is essential for embodied navigation and reasoning. Existing semantic mapping methods trade off between explicit geometry and multi-scale semantics, and lack a native…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Sixian Zhang , Yiyao Wang , Xinhang Song , Keming Zhang , Zijian Xu , Shuqiang Jiang

Embodied agents are expected to assist humans by actively exploring unknown environments and reasoning about spatial contexts. When deployed in real life, agents often face sequential tasks where each new task follows the completion of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Zhongyi Cai , Yi Du , Chen Wang , Yu Kong

We explore the task of geometric reconstruction of images captured from a mixture of ground and aerial views. Current state-of-the-art learning-based approaches fail to handle the extreme viewpoint variation between aerial-ground image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Khiem Vuong , Anurag Ghosh , Deva Ramanan , Srinivasa Narasimhan , Shubham Tulsiani

As embodied intelligence emerges as a core frontier in artificial intelligence research, simulation platforms must evolve beyond low-level physical interactions to capture complex, human-centered social behaviors. We introduce FreeAskWorld,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Yuhang Peng , Yizhou Pan , Xinning He , Jihaoyu Yang , Xinyu Yin , Han Wang , Xiaoji Zheng , Chao Gao , Jiangtao Gong

The integration of geometric reconstruction and generative modeling remains a critical challenge in developing AI systems capable of human-like spatial reasoning. This paper proposes Aether, a unified framework that enables geometry-aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Aether Team , Haoyi Zhu , Yifan Wang , Jianjun Zhou , Wenzheng Chang , Yang Zhou , Zizun Li , Junyi Chen , Chunhua Shen , Jiangmiao Pang , Tong He

Recent advances in the areas of Multimodal Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have led to the development of challenging tasks at the intersection of Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, and Robotics. Whereas many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Jonathan Francis , Nariaki Kitamura , Felix Labelle , Xiaopeng Lu , Ingrid Navarro , Jean Oh

Modern visual world modeling systems increasingly rely on high-capacity architectures and large-scale data to produce plausible motion, yet they often fail to preserve underlying 3D geometry or physically consistent camera dynamics. A key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Andrew Bond , Ilkin Umut Melanlioglu , Erkut Erdem , Aykut Erdem

Realistic long-horizon tasks like image-goal navigation involve exploratory and exploitative phases. Assigned with an image of the goal, an embodied agent must explore to discover the goal, i.e., search efficiently using learned priors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Justin Wasserman , Karmesh Yadav , Girish Chowdhary , Abhinav Gupta , Unnat Jain

Humans can intuitively compose and arrange scenes in the 3D space for photography. However, can advanced AI image generators plan scenes with similar 3D spatial awareness when creating images from text or image prompts? We present GenSpace,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Zehan Wang , Jiayang Xu , Ziang Zhang , Tianyu Pang , Chao Du , Hengshuang Zhao , Zhou Zhao

Earth system science is producing increasingly large, high-dimensional datasets from physics based Earth system models to AI-based weather and climate models. Embedding-based representations can make these data searchable through similarity…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2026-05-05 Nihanth W. Cherukuru , Matt Rehme , Kirsten J. Mayer , David John Gagne , John Schreck , John Clyne , Charlie Becker

Real-world robots localize objects from natural-language instructions while scenes around them keep changing. Yet most of the existing 3D visual grounding (3DVG) method still assumes a reconstructed and up-to-date point cloud, an assumption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Miao Hu , Zhiwei Huang , Tai Wang , Jiangmiao Pang , Dahua Lin , Nanning Zheng , Runsen Xu

Experience Goal Visual Rearrangement task stands as a foundational challenge within Embodied AI, requiring an agent to construct a robust world model that accurately captures the goal state. The agent uses this world model to restore a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Arjun P S , Andrew Melnik , Gora Chand Nandi

Visual navigation models often struggle in real-world dynamic environments due to limited robustness to the sim-to-real gap and the difficulty of training policies tailored to target deployment environments (e.g., households, restaurants,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Seungyeon Yoo , Youngseok Jang , Dabin Kim , Youngsoo Han , Seungwoo Jung , H. Jin Kim

The increasing importance of Vision-Based Navigation (VBN) algorithms in space missions raises numerous challenges in ensuring their reliability and operational robustness. Sensor faults can lead to inaccurate outputs from navigation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Riccardo Gallon , Fabian Schiemenz , Alessandra Menicucci , Eberhard Gill

Topological mapping offers a compact and robust representation for navigation, but progress in the field is hindered by the lack of standardized evaluation metrics, datasets, and protocols. Existing systems are assessed using different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Jiaming Wang , Diwen Liu , Jizhuo Chen , Harold Soh

Vision-aided wireless sensing is emerging as a cornerstone of 6G mobile computing. While data-driven approaches have advanced rapidly, establishing a precise geometric correspondence between ego-centric visual data and radio propagation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Yingzhe Mao , Chao Zou , Yanqun Tang

Previous works leveraging video models for image-to-3D scene generation tend to suffer from geometric distortions and blurry content. In this paper, we renovate the pipeline of image-to-3D scene generation by unlocking the potential of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Yuhao Wan , Lijuan Liu , Jingzhi Zhou , Zihan Zhou , Xuying Zhang , Dongbo Zhang , Shaohui Jiao , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng

Image-goal navigation enables a robot to reach the location where a target image was captured, using visual cues for guidance. However, current methods either rely heavily on data and computationally expensive learning-based approaches or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Wugang Meng , Tianfu Wu , Huan Yin , Fumin Zhang