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Defining reward functions for skill learning has been a long-standing challenge in robotics. Recently, vision-language models (VLMs) have shown promise in defining reward signals for teaching robots manipulation skills. However, existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Kaifeng Zhang , Zhao-Heng Yin , Weirui Ye , Yang Gao

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

Advances in large vision-language models (VLMs) have stimulated growing interest in vision-language-action (VLA) systems for robot manipulation. However, existing manipulation datasets remain costly to curate, highly embodiment-specific,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Hao Li , Ziqin Wang , Zi-han Ding , Shuai Yang , Yilun Chen , Yang Tian , Xiaolin Hu , Tai Wang , Dahua Lin , Feng Zhao , Si Liu , Jiangmiao Pang

Creating photorealistic materials for 3D rendering requires exceptional artistic skill. Generative models for materials could help, but are currently limited by the lack of high-quality training data. While recent video generative models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Bowen Xue , Saeed Hadadan , Zheng Zeng , Fabrice Rousselle , Zahra Montazeri , Milos Hasan

Video generation models are rapidly improving in their ability to synthesize human actions in novel contexts, holding the potential to serve as high-level planners for contextual robot control. To realize this potential, a key research…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-12 James Ni , Zekai Wang , Wei Lin , Amir Bar , Yann LeCun , Trevor Darrell , Jitendra Malik , Roei Herzig

Video generative models (VGMs) pretrained on large-scale internet data can produce temporally coherent rollout videos that capture rich object dynamics, offering a compelling foundation for zero-shot robotic manipulation. However, VGMs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Gehao Zhang , Zhenyang Ni , Payal Mohapatra , Han Liu , Ruohan Zhang , Qi Zhu

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated great potential in interpreting remote sensing (RS) images through language-guided semantic. However, the effectiveness of these VLMs critically depends on high-quality image-text training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Dilxat Muhtar , Enzhuo Zhang , Zhenshi Li , Feng Gu , Yanglangxing He , Pengfeng Xiao , Xueliang Zhang

Video diffusion models provide powerful real-world simulators for embodied AI but remain limited in controllability for robotic manipulation. Recent works on trajectory-conditioned video generation address this gap but often rely on 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Yang Bai , Liudi Yang , George Eskandar , Fengyi Shen , Mohammad Altillawi , Ziyuan Liu , Gitta Kutyniok

Training generalist robots demands large-scale, diverse manipulation data, yet real-world collection is prohibitively expensive, and existing simulators are often constrained by fixed asset libraries and manual heuristics. To bridge this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Songjia He , Zixuan Chen , Hongyu Ding , Dian Shao , Jieqi Shi , Chenxu Li , Jing Huo , Yang Gao

From rearranging objects on a table to putting groceries into shelves, robots must plan precise action points to perform tasks accurately and reliably. In spite of the recent adoption of vision language models (VLMs) to control robot…

Extracting human motion from large-scale web videos offers a scalable solution to the data scarcity issue in character animation. However, some human parts in many video frames cannot be seen due to off-screen captures or occlusions. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Boyuan Li , Sipeng Zheng , Bin Cao , Ruihua Song , Zongqing Lu

Simulation engines are widely adopted in robotics. However, they lack either full simulation control, ROS integration, realistic physics, or photorealism. Recently, synthetic data generation and realistic rendering has advanced tasks like…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Elia Bonetto , Chenghao Xu , Aamir Ahmad

Visual augmentation has become a crucial technique for enhancing the visual robustness of imitation learning. However, existing methods are often limited by prerequisites such as camera calibration or the need for controlled environments…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Chengbo Yuan , Suraj Joshi , Shaoting Zhu , Hang Su , Hang Zhao , Yang Gao

Despite the rapid growth in datasets for video activity, stable robust activity recognition with neural networks remains challenging. This is in large part due to the explosion of possible variation in video -- including lighting changes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Yi Zhang , Xinyue Wei , Weichao Qiu , Zihao Xiao , Gregory D. Hager , Alan Yuille

When designing robots to assist in everyday human activities, it is crucial to enhance user requests with visual cues from their surroundings for improved intent understanding. This process is defined as a multimodal classification task.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Shang-Chi Tsai , Seiya Kawano , Angel Garcia Contreras , Koichiro Yoshino , Yun-Nung Chen

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown great potential in general robotic decision-making tasks via imitation learning. However, the variable quality of training data often constrains the performance of these models. On the other…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Hongyin Zhang , Zifeng Zhuang , Han Zhao , Pengxiang Ding , Hongchao Lu , Donglin Wang

Large vision-language models have achieved remarkable capabilities by training on massive internet-scale data, yet a fundamental asymmetry persists: while LLMs can leverage self-supervised pretraining on abundant text and image data, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Kidus Zewde , Yuchen Zhou , Dennis Ng , Neo Tiangratanakul , Tommy Duong , Ankit Raj , Yuxin Zhang , Xingyu Shen , Simiao Ren

From the perspective of future developments in robotics, it is crucial to verify whether foundation models trained exclusively on offline data, such as images and language, can understand the robot motion. In particular, since Vision…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Kanata Suzuki , Shota Shimizu , Tetsuya Ogata

Recent advancements in driving world models enable controllable generation of high-quality RGB videos or multimodal videos. Existing methods primarily focus on metrics related to generation quality and controllability. However, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Kai Zeng , Zhanqian Wu , Kaixin Xiong , Xiaobao Wei , Xiangyu Guo , Zhenxin Zhu , Kalok Ho , Lijun Zhou , Bohan Zeng , Ming Lu , Haiyang Sun , Bing Wang , Guang Chen , Hangjun Ye , Wentao Zhang

We present a scalable, bottom-up and intrinsically diverse data collection scheme that can be used for high-level reasoning with long and medium horizons and that has 2.2x higher throughput compared to traditional narrow top-down…