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Learning latent actions from large-scale videos is crucial for the pre-training of scalable embodied foundation models, yet existing methods often struggle with action-irrelevant distractors. Although incorporating action supervision can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xizhou Bu , Jiexi Lyu , Fulei Sun , Ruichen Yang , Zhiqiang Ma , Wei Li

Video prediction is a useful function for autonomous driving, enabling intelligent vehicles to reliably anticipate how driving scenes will evolve and thereby supporting reasoning and safer planning. However, existing models are constrained…

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We present PoseDiff, a conditional diffusion model that unifies robot state estimation and control within a single framework. At its core, PoseDiff maps raw visual observations into structured robot states-such as 3D keypoints or joint…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Haozhuo Zhang , Michele Caprio , Jing Shao , Qiang Zhang , Jian Tang , Shanghang Zhang , Wei Pan

Scene flow estimation is a crucial component in the development of autonomous driving and 3D robotics, providing valuable information for environment perception and navigation. Despite the advantages of learning-based scene flow estimation…

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Diffusion and flow-based models have enabled significant progress in generation tasks across various modalities and have recently found applications in predictive learning. However, unlike typical generation tasks that encourage sample…

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Propagation-based video inpainting using optical flow at the pixel or feature level has recently garnered significant attention. However, it has limitations such as the inaccuracy of optical flow prediction and the propagation of noise over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Minhyeok Lee , Suhwan Cho , Chajin Shin , Jungho Lee , Sunghun Yang , Sangyoun Lee

Motion estimation is one of the core challenges in computer vision. With traditional dual-frame approaches, occlusions and out-of-view motions are a limiting factor, especially in the context of environmental perception for vehicles due to…

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The interpretation of ego motion and scene change is a fundamental task for mobile robots. Optical flow information can be employed to estimate motion in the surroundings. Recently, unsupervised optical flow estimation has become a research…

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The performance of video prediction has been greatly boosted by advanced deep neural networks. However, most of the current methods suffer from large model sizes and require extra inputs, e.g., semantic/depth maps, for promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Xiaotao Hu , Zhewei Huang , Ailin Huang , Jun Xu , Shuchang Zhou

A world model is essential for an agent to predict the future and plan in domains such as autonomous driving and robotics. To achieve this, recent advancements have focused on video generation, which has gained significant attention due to…

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Existing video prediction methods mainly rely on observing multiple historical frames or focus on predicting the next one-frame. In this work, we study the problem of generating consecutive multiple future frames by observing one single…

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Bimanual manipulation is crucial in robotics, enabling complex tasks in industrial automation and household services. However, it poses significant challenges due to the high-dimensional action space and intricate coordination requirements.…

Multi-step prediction models, such as diffusion and rectified flow models, have emerged as state-of-the-art solutions for generation tasks. However, these models exhibit higher latency in sampling new frames compared to single-step methods.…

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Current video understanding models excel at recognizing "what" is happening but fall short in high-level cognitive tasks like causal reasoning and future prediction, a limitation rooted in their lack of commonsense world knowledge. To…

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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

In this paper, we propose a novel framework for controllable video diffusion, OmniVDiff , aiming to synthesize and comprehend multiple video visual content in a single diffusion model. To achieve this, OmniVDiff treats all video visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Dianbing Xi , Jiepeng Wang , Yuanzhi Liang , Xi Qiu , Yuchi Huo , Rui Wang , Chi Zhang , Xuelong Li

Effective robot navigation in unseen environments is a challenging task that requires precise control actions at high frequencies. Recent advances have framed it as an image-goal-conditioned control problem, where the robot generates…

Learning robust visuomotor policies that generalize across diverse objects and interaction dynamics remains a central challenge in robotic manipulation. Most existing approaches rely on direct observation-to-action mappings or compress…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Sangjun Noh , Dongwoo Nam , Kangmin Kim , Geonhyup Lee , Yeonguk Yu , Raeyoung Kang , Kyoobin Lee