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Learning visuomotor control policies in robotic systems is a fundamental problem when aiming for long-term behavioral autonomy. Recent supervised-learning-based vision and motion perception systems, however, are often separately built with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Marvin Chancán , Michael Milford

Making predictions of future frames is a critical challenge in autonomous driving research. Most of the existing methods for video prediction attempt to generate future frames in simple and fixed scenes. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Henglai Wei , Xiaochuan Yin , Penghong Lin

Expanding on neural operators, we propose a novel framework for stochastic process learning across arbitrary domains. In particular, we develop operator flow matching (OFM) for learning stochastic process priors on function spaces. OFM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yaozhong Shi , Zachary E. Ross , Domniki Asimaki , Kamyar Azizzadenesheli

We propose SlowFast-LLaVA (or SF-LLaVA for short), a training-free video large language model (LLM) that can jointly capture detailed spatial semantics and long-range temporal context without exceeding the token budget of commonly used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Mingze Xu , Mingfei Gao , Zhe Gan , Hong-You Chen , Zhengfeng Lai , Haiming Gang , Kai Kang , Afshin Dehghan

This study explores the utility of various internet data sources to select among a set of template robot behaviors to perform skills. Learning contact-rich skills involving tool use from internet data sources has typically been challenging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Mrinal Verghese , Christopher Atkeson

We introduce \textbf{LaMP}, a dual-expert Vision-Language-Action framework that embeds dense 3D scene flow as a latent motion prior for robotic manipulation. Existing VLA models regress actions directly from 2D semantic visual features,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Xinkai Wang , Chenyi Wang , Yifu Xu , Mingzhe Ye , Fu-Cheng Zhang , Jialin Tian , Xinyu Zhan , Lifeng Zhu , Cewu Lu , Lixin Yang

Learning transferable knowledge from unlabeled video data and applying it in new environments is a fundamental capability of intelligent agents. This work presents VideoWorld 2, which extends VideoWorld and offers the first investigation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Zhongwei Ren , Yunchao Wei , Xiao Yu , Guixun Luo , Yao Zhao , Bingyi Kang , Jiashi Feng , Xiaojie Jin

Everyday tasks of long-horizon and comprising a sequence of multiple implicit subtasks still impose a major challenge in offline robot control. While a number of prior methods aimed to address this setting with variants of imitation and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Erick Rosete-Beas , Oier Mees , Gabriel Kalweit , Joschka Boedecker , Wolfram Burgard

With the rapid advancement of diffusion-based generative models, portrait image animation has achieved remarkable results. However, it still faces challenges in temporally consistent video generation and fast sampling due to its iterative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Taekyung Ki , Dongchan Min , Gyeongsu Chae

This paper studies optical flow estimation, a critical task in motion analysis with applications in autonomous navigation, action recognition, and film production. Traditional optical flow methods require consecutive frames, which are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Mo Zhou , Jianwei Wang , Xuanmeng Zhang , Dylan Campbell , Kai Wang , Long Yuan , Wenjie Zhang , Xuemin Lin

Learning from visual data opens the potential to accrue a large range of manipulation behaviors by leveraging human demonstrations without specifying each of them mathematically, but rather through natural task specification. In this paper,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Haoyu Xiong , Quanzhou Li , Yun-Chun Chen , Homanga Bharadhwaj , Samarth Sinha , Animesh Garg

Unpaired video-to-video translation aims to translate videos between a source and a target domain without the need of paired training data, making it more feasible for real applications. Unfortunately, the translated videos generally suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Kaihong Wang , Kumar Akash , Teruhisa Misu

Visual imitation learning (VIL) provides an efficient and intuitive strategy for robotic systems to acquire novel skills. Recent advancements in foundation models, particularly Vision Language Models (VLMs), have demonstrated remarkable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Guangyan Chen , Meiling Wang , Te Cui , Yao Mu , Haoyang Lu , Zicai Peng , Mengxiao Hu , Tianxing Zhou , Mengyin Fu , Yi Yang , Yufeng Yue

Learning long-horizon robotic manipulation requires jointly achieving expressive behavior modeling, real-time inference, and stable execution, which remains challenging for existing generative policies. Diffusion-based approaches offer…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Wu Songwei , Jiang Zhiduo , Sun Wandong , Xie Guanghu , Zhao Rui , Liu Hong , Liu Yang

Humans can easily segment moving objects without knowing what they are. That objectness could emerge from continuous visual observations motivates us to model grouping and movement concurrently from unlabeled videos. Our premise is that a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Runtao Liu , Zhirong Wu , Stella X. Yu , Stephen Lin

Unsupervised learning of latent motion from Internet videos is crucial for robot learning. Existing discrete methods generally mitigate the shortcut learning caused by extracting excessive static backgrounds through vector quantization with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Jiange Yang , Yansong Shi , Haoyi Zhu , Mingyu Liu , Kaijing Ma , Yating Wang , Gangshan Wu , Tong He , Limin Wang

For robots operating in the real world, it is desirable to learn reusable behaviours that can effectively be transferred and adapted to numerous tasks and scenarios. We propose an approach to learn abstract motor skills from data using a…

This paper presents a framework that leverages pre-trained foundation models for robotic manipulation without domain-specific training. The framework integrates off-the-shelf models, combining multimodal perception from foundation models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Sushil Samuel Dinesh , Shinkyu Park

Humans learn powerful representations of objects and scenes by observing how they evolve over time. Yet, outside of specific tasks that require explicit temporal understanding, static image pretraining remains the dominant paradigm for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Nikhil Parthasarathy , S. M. Ali Eslami , João Carreira , Olivier J. Hénaff

Methods that extract policy primitives from offline demonstrations using deep generative models have shown promise at accelerating reinforcement learning(RL) for new tasks. Intuitively, these methods should also help to trainsafeRLagents…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Dylan Slack , Yinlam Chow , Bo Dai , Nevan Wichers