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Learning a generalist embodied agent capable of completing multiple tasks poses challenges, primarily stemming from the scarcity of action-labeled robotic datasets. In contrast, a vast amount of human videos exist, capturing intricate tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Haoran He , Chenjia Bai , Ling Pan , Weinan Zhang , Bin Zhao , Xuelong Li

Video-Action Models (VAMs) have emerged as a promising framework for embodied intelligence, learning implicit world dynamics from raw video streams to produce temporally consistent action predictions. Although such models demonstrate strong…

Ergodic control synthesizes optimal coverage behaviors over spatial distributions for nonlinear systems. However, existing formulations model the robot as a non-volumetric point, whereas in practice a robot interacts with the environment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jueun Kwon , Max M. Sun , Todd Murphey

Embodied navigation in open, dynamic environments demands accurate foresight of how the world will evolve and how actions will unfold over time. We propose AstraNav-World, an end-to-end world model that jointly reasons about future visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Jintao Chen , Junjun Hu , Haochen Bai , Minghua Luo , Xinda Xue , Botao Ren , Chengyu Bai , Shichao Xie , Ziyi Chen , Fei Liu , Zedong Chu , Xiaolong Wu , Mu Xu , Shanghang Zhang

Recent advancements in generative models have revolutionized video synthesis and editing. However, the scarcity of diverse, high-quality datasets continues to hinder video-conditioned robotic learning, limiting cross-platform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yang Bai , Liudi Yang , George Eskandar , Fengyi Shen , Dong Chen , Mohammad Altillawi , Ziyuan Liu , Gitta Kutyniok

This paper presents a whole-body robot control method for exploring and probing a given region of interest. The ergodic control formalism behind such an exploration behavior consists of matching the time-averaged statistics of a robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Cem Bilaloglu , Tobias Löw , Sylvain Calinon

We propose CLAD -- a Constrained Latent Action Diffusion model for vision-language procedure planning in instructional videos. Procedure planning is the challenging task of predicting intermediate actions given a visual observation of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Lei Shi , Andreas Bulling

Recent advancements in diffusion models have significantly facilitated text-guided video editing. However, there is a relative scarcity of research on image-guided video editing, a method that empowers users to edit videos by merely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Zhi-Lin Huang , Yixuan Liu , Chujun Qin , Zhongdao Wang , Dong Zhou , Dong Li , Emad Barsoum

Despite the fact that visuomotor-based policies obtained via imitation learning demonstrate good performances in complex manipulation tasks, they usually struggle to achieve the same accuracy and speed as traditional control based methods.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Jonne Van Haastregt , Bastian Orthmann , Michael C. Welle , Yuchong Zhang , Danica Kragic

Surround-view perception is increasingly important for robotic navigation and loco-manipulation, especially in human-in-the-loop settings such as teleoperation, data collection, and emergency takeover. However, current robotic visual…

With the rapid development of embodied artificial intelligence, significant progress has been made in vision-language-action (VLA) models for general robot decision-making. However, the majority of existing VLAs fail to account for the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Hongyin Zhang , Pengxiang Ding , Shangke Lyu , Ying Peng , Donglin Wang

Realizing active visual tracking with a single unified model across diverse robots is challenging, as the physical constraints and motion dynamics vary drastically from one platform to another. Existing approaches typically train separate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Kui Wu , Hao Chen , Jinzhu Han , Haijun Liu , Churan Wang , Yizhou Wang , Zhoujun Li , Si Liu , Fangwei Zhong

Robotic manipulation requires understanding both the 3D spatial structure of the environment and its temporal evolution, yet most existing policies overlook one or both. They typically rely on 2D visual observations and backbones pretrained…

With the increasing availability of open-source robotic data, imitation learning has become a promising approach for both manipulation and locomotion. Diffusion models are now widely used to train large, generalized policies that predict…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Shashank Hegde , Satyajeet Das , Gautam Salhotra , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

Modeling generalized robot control policies poses ongoing challenges for language-guided robot manipulation tasks. Existing methods often struggle to efficiently utilize cross-dataset resources or rely on resource-intensive vision-language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Wenhui Tan , Bei Liu , Junbo Zhang , Ruihua Song , Jianlong Fu

Recent years have witnessed an increasing interest in end-to-end learned video compression. Most previous works explore temporal redundancy by detecting and compressing a motion map to warp the reference frame towards the target frame. Yet,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-21 Ren Yang , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

We present Diffuse-CLoC, a guided diffusion framework for physics-based look-ahead control that enables intuitive, steerable, and physically realistic motion generation. While existing kinematics motion generation with diffusion models…

Future robots are envisioned as versatile systems capable of performing a variety of household tasks. The big question remains, how can we bridge the embodiment gap while minimizing physical robot learning, which fundamentally does not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Hanzhi Chen , Boyang Sun , Anran Zhang , Marc Pollefeys , Stefan Leutenegger

Recent advances in robot foundation models trained on large-scale human teleoperation data have enabled robots to perform increasingly complex real-world tasks. However, scaling these systems remains difficult because collecting…

Video generation has drawn significant interest recently, pushing the development of large-scale models capable of producing realistic videos with coherent motion. Due to memory constraints, these models typically generate short video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Idan Kligvasser , Regev Cohen , George Leifman , Ehud Rivlin , Michael Elad