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Learning robot manipulation from abundant human videos offers a scalable alternative to costly robot-specific data collection. However, domain gaps across visual, morphological, and physical aspects hinder direct imitation. To effectively…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Yangcen Liu , Woo Chul Shin , Yunhai Han , Zhenyang Chen , Harish Ravichandar , Danfei Xu

The ability to learn manipulation skills by watching videos of humans has the potential to unlock a new source of highly scalable data for robot learning. Here, we tackle prehensile manipulation, in which tasks involve grasping an object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Albert J. Zhai , Kuo-Hao Zeng , Jiasen Lu , Ali Farhadi , Shenlong Wang , Wei-Chiu Ma

Generating text-editable and pose-controllable character videos have an imperious demand in creating various digital human. Nevertheless, this task has been restricted by the absence of a comprehensive dataset featuring paired video-pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Yue Ma , Yingqing He , Xiaodong Cun , Xintao Wang , Siran Chen , Ying Shan , Xiu Li , Qifeng Chen

Imitation learning is a popular paradigm to teach robots new tasks, but collecting robot demonstrations through teleoperation or kinesthetic teaching is tedious and time-consuming. In contrast, directly demonstrating a task using our human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Nick Heppert , Minh Quang Nguyen , Abhinav Valada

Can we learn robot manipulation for everyday tasks, only by watching videos of humans doing arbitrary tasks in different unstructured settings? Unlike widely adopted strategies of learning task-specific behaviors or direct imitation of a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Homanga Bharadhwaj , Abhinav Gupta , Shubham Tulsiani , Vikash Kumar

Humanoid robots that autonomously interact with physical environments over extended horizons represent a central goal of embodied intelligence. Existing approaches rely on reference motions or task-specific rewards, tightly coupling…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Yutang Lin , Jieming Cui , Yixuan Li , Baoxiong Jia , Yixin Zhu , Siyuan Huang

Humanoid robots capable of autonomous operation in diverse environments have long been a goal for roboticists. However, autonomous manipulation by humanoid robots has largely been restricted to one specific scene, primarily due to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yanjie Ze , Zixuan Chen , Wenhao Wang , Tianyi Chen , Xialin He , Ying Yuan , Xue Bin Peng , Jiajun Wu

GANs are able to perform generation and manipulation tasks, trained on a single video. However, these single video GANs require unreasonable amount of time to train on a single video, rendering them almost impractical. In this paper we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Niv Haim , Ben Feinstein , Niv Granot , Assaf Shocher , Shai Bagon , Tali Dekel , Michal Irani

With the rapid advancement in video generation, people can conveniently use video generation models to create videos tailored to their specific desires. As a result, there are also growing concerns about the potential misuse of video…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yan Pang , Baicheng Chen , Yang Zhang , Tianhao Wang

Imitating tool manipulation from human videos offers an intuitive approach to teaching robots, while also providing a promising and scalable alternative to labor-intensive teleoperation data collection for visuomotor policy learning. While…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Chao Tang , Anxing Xiao , Yuhong Deng , Tianrun Hu , Wenlong Dong , Hanbo Zhang , David Hsu , Hong Zhang

Human-Centric Video Generation (HCVG) methods seek to synthesize human videos from multimodal inputs, including text, image, and audio. Existing methods struggle to effectively coordinate these heterogeneous modalities due to two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Liyang Chen , Tianxiang Ma , Jiawei Liu , Bingchuan Li , Zhuowei Chen , Lijie Liu , Xu He , Gen Li , Qian He , Zhiyong Wu

A long-standing objective in humanoid robotics is the realization of versatile agents capable of following diverse multimodal instructions with human-level flexibility. Despite advances in humanoid control, bridging high-level multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Nan Jiang , Zimo He , Wanhe Yu , Lexi Pang , Yunhao Li , Hongjie Li , Jieming Cui , Yuhan Li , Yizhou Wang , Yixin Zhu , Siyuan Huang

Generating videos of complex human motions such as flips, cartwheels, and martial arts remains challenging for current video diffusion models. Text-only conditioning is temporally ambiguous for fine-grained motion control, while explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ashkan Taghipour , Morteza Ghahremani , Zinuo Li , Hamid Laga , Farid Boussaid , Mohammed Bennamoun

We present DexMan, an automated framework that converts human visual demonstrations into bimanual dexterous manipulation skills for humanoid robots in simulation. Operating directly on third-person videos of humans manipulating rigid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Jhen Hsieh , Kuan-Hsun Tu , Kuo-Han Hung , Tsung-Wei Ke

Human egocentric video captures rich manipulation demonstrations without any robot hardware, yet transferring these skills to robots remains challenging due to the embodiment gap between human and robot in both visual appearance and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zhi Wang , Botao He , Kelin Yu , Seungjae Lee , Ruohan Gao , Furong Huang , Yiannis Aloimonos

Motion mimicking, i.e., encouraging the control policy to mimic human motion, facilitates the learning of complex tasks via reinforcement learning (RL) for humanoid robots. Although standard RL frameworks demonstrate impressive locomotion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ludwig Chee-Ying Tay , I-Chia Chang , Yan Gu

Human reaction generation represents a significant research domain for interactive AI, as humans constantly interact with their surroundings. Previous works focus mainly on synthesizing the reactive motion given a human motion sequence.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Chengjun Yu , Wei Zhai , Yuhang Yang , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha

Generative world models hold significant potential for simulating interactions with visuomotor policies in varied environments. Frontier video models can enable generation of realistic observations and environment interactions in a scalable…

Generating high-fidelity human video with specified identities has attracted significant attention in the content generation community. However, existing techniques struggle to strike a balance between training efficiency and identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Xuanhua He , Quande Liu , Shengju Qian , Xin Wang , Tao Hu , Ke Cao , Keyu Yan , Jie Zhang

We address the problem of generating long-horizon videos for robotic manipulation tasks. Text-to-video diffusion models have made significant progress in photorealism, language understanding, and motion generation but struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Liudi Yang , Yang Bai , George Eskandar , Fengyi Shen , Mohammad Altillawi , Dong Chen , Soumajit Majumder , Ziyuan Liu , Gitta Kutyniok , Abhinav Valada