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Recent progress in video-to-video (V2V) translation has enabled realistic resimulation of embodied AI demonstrations, a capability that allows pretrained robot policies to be transferable to new environments without additional data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 George Eskandar , Fengyi Shen , Mohammad Altillawi , Dong Chen , Yang Bai , Liudi Yang , Ziyuan Liu

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

Recent advancements in diffusion models have set new benchmarks in image and video generation, enabling realistic visual synthesis across single- and multi-frame contexts. However, these models still struggle with efficiently and explicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Qihang Zhang , Shuangfei Zhai , Miguel Angel Bautista , Kevin Miao , Alexander Toshev , Joshua Susskind , Jiatao Gu

Autonomous driving requires an understanding of the static environment from sensor data. Learned Bird's-Eye View (BEV) encoders are commonly used to fuse multiple inputs, and a vector decoder predicts a vectorized map representation from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Thomas Monninger , Zihan Zhang , Zhipeng Mo , Md Zafar Anwar , Steffen Staab , Sihao Ding

Human videos are a scalable source of training data for robot learning. However, humans and robots significantly differ in embodiment, making many human actions infeasible for direct execution on a robot. Still, these demonstrations convey…

Building perceptual systems for robotics which perform well under tight computational budgets requires novel architectures which rethink the traditional computer vision pipeline. Modern vision architectures require the agent to build a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Aaron Walsman , Yonatan Bisk , Saadia Gabriel , Dipendra Misra , Yoav Artzi , Yejin Choi , Dieter Fox

Passive visual systems typically fail to recognize objects in the amodal setting where they are heavily occluded. In contrast, humans and other embodied agents have the ability to move in the environment, and actively control the viewing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Jianwei Yang , Zhile Ren , Mingze Xu , Xinlei Chen , David Crandall , Devi Parikh , Dhruv Batra

Observing that the key for robotic action planning is to understand the target-object motion when its associated part is manipulated by the end effector, we propose to generate the 3D object-part scene flow and extract its transformations…

Visual imitation learning enables robotic agents to acquire skills by observing expert demonstration videos. In the one-shot setting, the agent generates a policy after observing a single expert demonstration without additional fine-tuning.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Raktim Gautam Goswami , Prashanth Krishnamurthy , Yann LeCun , Farshad Khorrami

Generative modeling has recently shown remarkable promise for visuomotor policy learning, enabling flexible and expressive control across diverse embodied AI tasks. However, existing generative policies often struggle with data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Jianlei Chang , Ruofeng Mei , Wei Ke , Xiangyu Xu

Text-driven Image to Video Generation (TI2V) aims to generate controllable video given the first frame and corresponding textual description. The primary challenges of this task lie in two parts: (i) how to identify the target objects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Xingrui Wang , Xin Li , Yaosi Hu , Hanxin Zhu , Chen Hou , Cuiling Lan , Zhibo Chen

Video prediction models combined with planning algorithms have shown promise in enabling robots to learn to perform many vision-based tasks through only self-supervision, reaching novel goals in cluttered scenes with unseen objects.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Suraj Nair , Chelsea Finn

Recent advances in diffusion models have opened new avenues for research into embodied AI agents and robotics. Despite significant achievements in complex robotic locomotion and skills, mobile manipulation-a capability that requires the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Sixu Yan , Zeyu Zhang , Muzhi Han , Zaijin Wang , Qi Xie , Zhitian Li , Zhehan Li , Hangxin Liu , Xinggang Wang , Song-Chun Zhu

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

In recent years, deep generative models have been shown to 'imagine' convincing high-dimensional observations such as images, audio, and even video, learning directly from raw data. In this work, we ask how to imagine goal-directed visual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Thanard Kurutach , Aviv Tamar , Ge Yang , Stuart Russell , Pieter Abbeel

While language-guided image manipulation has made remarkable progress, the challenge of how to instruct the manipulation process faithfully reflecting human intentions persists. An accurate and comprehensive description of a manipulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Yasheng Sun , Yifan Yang , Houwen Peng , Yifei Shen , Yuqing Yang , Han Hu , Lili Qiu , Hideki Koike

Diffusion models have shown incredible capabilities as generative models; indeed, they power the current state-of-the-art models on text-conditioned image generation such as Imagen and DALL-E 2. In this work we review, demystify, and unify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Calvin Luo

In this paper, we study the problem of procedure planning in instructional videos, which aims to make a plan (i.e. a sequence of actions) given the current visual observation and the desired goal. Previous works cast this as a sequence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Hanlin Wang , Yilu Wu , Sheng Guo , Limin Wang

Recent advancements in 3D reconstruction and neural rendering have enhanced the creation of high-quality digital assets, yet existing methods struggle to generalize across varying object shapes, textures, and occlusions. While Next Best…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Zhenghao Qi , Shenghai Yuan , Fen Liu , Haozhi Cao , Tianchen Deng , Jianfei Yang , Lihua Xie

We introduce the novel Diffusion Visual Programmer (DVP), a neuro-symbolic image translation framework. Our proposed DVP seamlessly embeds a condition-flexible diffusion model within the GPT architecture, orchestrating a coherent sequence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Cheng Han , James C. Liang , Qifan Wang , Majid Rabbani , Sohail Dianat , Raghuveer Rao , Ying Nian Wu , Dongfang Liu