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We focus on the task of language-conditioned grasping in clutter, in which a robot is supposed to grasp the target object based on a language instruction. Previous works separately conduct visual grounding to localize the target object, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Kechun Xu , Shuqi Zhao , Zhongxiang Zhou , Zizhang Li , Huaijin Pi , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong

An adaptive guidance system that supports equipment operators requires a comprehensive model, which involves a variety of user behaviors that considers different skill and knowledge levels, as well as rapid-changing task situations. In the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Chen Long-fei , Yuichi Nakamura , Kazuaki Kondo

A key challenge with procedure planning in instructional videos lies in how to handle a large decision space consisting of a multitude of action types that belong to various tasks. To understand real-world video content, an AI agent must…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Fen Fang , Yun Liu , Ali Koksal , Qianli Xu , Joo-Hwee Lim

The goal of this paper is to improve the performance and reliability of vision-language-action (VLA) models through iterative online interaction. Since collecting policy rollouts in the real world is expensive, we investigate whether a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yanjiang Guo , Tony Lee , Lucy Xiaoyang Shi , Jianyu Chen , Percy Liang , Chelsea Finn

Despite recent breakthroughs in reinforcement learning (RL) and imitation learning (IL), existing algorithms fail to generalize beyond the training environments. In reality, humans can adapt to new tasks quickly by leveraging prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Tianshi Cao , Jingkang Wang , Yining Zhang , Sivabalan Manivasagam

Reinforcement learning (RL) can refine Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies beyond behavior cloning, but real-world RL remains expensive due to extensive rollouts, resets, supervision, and safety risks. Action-conditioned video world…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xiaokang Liu , Zechen Bai , Hai Ci , Kevin Yuchen Ma , Mike Zheng Shou

Speech emotion recognition is a challenging classification task with natural emotional speech, especially when the distribution of emotion types is imbalanced in the training and test data. In this case, it is more difficult for a model to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-31 Mingjie Chen , Hezhao Zhang , Yuanchao Li , Jiachen Luo , Wen Wu , Ziyang Ma , Peter Bell , Catherine Lai , Joshua Reiss , Lin Wang , Philip C. Woodland , Xie Chen , Huy Phan , Thomas Hain

Human activity recognition based on mobile device sensor data has been an active research area in mobile and pervasive computing for several years. While the majority of the proposed techniques are based on supervised learning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Gabriele Civitarese , Riccardo Presotto , Claudio Bettini

Vision-language-action models have reshaped autonomous driving to incorporate languages into the decision-making process. However, most existing pipelines only utilize the language modality for scene descriptions or reasoning and lack the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Sicheng Zuo , Yuxuan Li , Wenzhao Zheng , Zheng Zhu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks such as Room-to-Room (R2R) require machine agents to interpret natural language instructions and learn to act in visually realistic environments to achieve navigation goals. The overall task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Haoshuo Huang , Vihan Jain , Harsh Mehta , Alexander Ku , Gabriel Magalhaes , Jason Baldridge , Eugene Ie

To have a robot actively supporting a human during a collaborative task, it is crucial that robots are able to identify the current action in order to predict the next one. Common approaches make use of high-level knowledge, such as object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Markus Eich , Sareh Shirazi , Gordon Wyeth

Learning new skills by observing humans' behaviors is an essential capability of AI. In this work, we leverage instructional videos to study humans' decision-making processes, focusing on learning a model to plan goal-directed actions in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Jing Bi , Jiebo Luo , Chenliang Xu

We present Interactive Gibson Benchmark, the first comprehensive benchmark for training and evaluating Interactive Navigation: robot navigation strategies where physical interaction with objects is allowed and even encouraged to accomplish…

We present our three branch solutions for International Challenge on Activity Recognition at CVPR2019. This model seeks to fuse richer information of global video clip, short human attention and long-term human activity into a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Jin Xia , Jiajun Tang , Cewu Lu

As agentic systems increasingly rely on reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards, standardized ``gym'' infrastructure has become essential for rapid iteration, reproducibility, and fair comparison. Vision agents lack such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Fanqing Meng , Lingxiao Du , Jiawei Gu , Jiaqi Liao , Linjie Li , Zijian Wu , Xiangyan Liu , Ziqi Zhao , Mengkang Hu , Zichen Liu , Jiaheng Zhang , Michael Qizhe Shieh

Visual Question Answering (VQA) requires models to reason over multimodal information, combining visual and textual data. With the development of continual learning, significant progress has been made in retaining knowledge and adapting to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Zhifei Li , Yiran Wang , Chenyi Xiong , Yujing Xia , Xiaoju Hou , Yue Zhao , Miao Zhang , Kui Xiao , Bing Yang

Accomplishing household tasks requires to plan step-by-step actions considering the consequences of previous actions. However, the state-of-the-art embodied agents often make mistakes in navigating the environment and interacting with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Byeonghwi Kim , Jinyeon Kim , Yuyeong Kim , Cheolhong Min , Jonghyun Choi

This paper presents a novel approach that integrates vision foundation models with reinforcement learning to enhance object interaction capabilities in simulated environments. By combining the Segment Anything Model (SAM) and YOLOv5 with a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Ahmad Farooq , Kamran Iqbal

Human action recognition plays a critical role in healthcare and medicine, supporting applications such as patient behavior monitoring, fall detection, surgical robot supervision, and procedural skill assessment. While traditional models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Utkarsh Shandilya , Marsha Mariya Kappan , Sanyam Jain , Vijeta Sharma

Action Quality Assessment (AQA) has broad applications in physical therapy, sports coaching, and competitive judging. Although Vision Language Models (VLMs) hold considerable promise for AQA, their actual performance in this domain remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Miguel Monte e Freitas , Rui Henriques , Ricardo Rei , Pedro Henrique Martins