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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…

Real-world robotic manipulation demands visuomotor policies capable of robust spatial scene understanding and strong generalization across diverse camera viewpoints. While recent advances in 3D-aware visual representations have shown…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Di Zhang , Weicheng Duan , Dasen Gu , Hongye Lu , Hai Zhang , Hang Yu , Junqiao Zhao , Guang Chen

Robotic manipulation in dynamic environments often requires seamless transitions between different grasp types to maintain stability and efficiency. However, achieving smooth and adaptive grasp transitions remains a challenge, particularly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Kuanqi Cai , Chunfeng Wang , Zeqi Li , Haowen Yao , Weinan Chen , Luis Figueredo , Aude Billard , Arash Ajoudani

Videos inherently represent 2D projections of a dynamic 3D world. However, our analysis suggests that video diffusion models trained solely on raw video data often fail to capture meaningful geometric-aware structure in their learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Haoyu Wu , Diankun Wu , Tianyu He , Junliang Guo , Yang Ye , Yueqi Duan , Jiang Bian

Computer vision is largely based on 2D techniques, with 3D vision still relegated to a relatively narrow subset of applications. However, by building on recent advances in 3D models such as neural radiance fields, some authors have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Vadim Tschernezki , Diane Larlus , Iro Laina , Andrea Vedaldi

3D scene generation is a core technology for gaming, film/VFX, and VR/AR. Growing demand for rapid iteration, high-fidelity detail, and accessible content creation has further increased interest in this area. Existing methods broadly follow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Haozhi Zhu , Miaomiao Zhao , Dingyao Liu , Runze Tian , Yan Zhang , Jie Guo , Fenggen Yu

Robotic manipulation systems benefit from complementary sensing modalities, where each provides unique environmental information. Point clouds capture detailed geometric structure, while RGB images provide rich semantic context. Current…

Molecular property prediction is an important problem in drug discovery and materials science. As geometric structures have been demonstrated necessary for molecular property prediction, 3D information has been combined with various graph…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-04 Xu Wang , Huan Zhao , Weiwei Tu , Quanming Yao

Although the performance of 3D human pose and shape estimation methods has improved significantly in recent years, existing approaches typically generate 3D poses defined in camera or human-centered coordinate system. This makes it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Seong Hyun Kim , Sunwon Jeong , Sungbum Park , Ju Yong Chang

Object-level manipulation, relocating or reorienting objects in images or videos while preserving scene realism, is central to film post-production, AR, and creative editing. Yet existing methods struggle to jointly achieve three core…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Penghui Ruan , Bojia Zi , Xianbiao Qi , Youze Huang , Rong Xiao , Pichao Wang , Jiannong Cao , Yuhui Shi

3D object generation from a single image involves estimating the full 3D geometry and texture of unseen views from an unposed RGB image captured in the wild. Accurately reconstructing an object's complete 3D structure and texture has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Hritam Basak , Hadi Tabatabaee , Shreekant Gayaka , Ming-Feng Li , Xin Yang , Cheng-Hao Kuo , Arnie Sen , Min Sun , Zhaozheng Yin

3D perceptual representations are well suited for robot manipulation as they easily encode occlusions and simplify spatial reasoning. Many manipulation tasks require high spatial precision in end-effector pose prediction, which typically…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Theophile Gervet , Zhou Xian , Nikolaos Gkanatsios , Katerina Fragkiadaki

Despite recent advances in leveraging generative prior from pre-trained diffusion models for 3D scene reconstruction, existing methods still face two critical limitations. First, due to the lack of reliable geometric supervision, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Junfeng Ni , Yixin Chen , Zhifei Yang , Yu Liu , Ruijie Lu , Song-Chun Zhu , Siyuan Huang

Humanoid robot manipulation is a crucial research area for executing diverse human-level tasks, involving high-level semantic reasoning and low-level action generation. However, precise scene understanding and sample-efficient learning from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Xuetao Li , Wenke Huang , Mang Ye , Jifeng Xuan , Bo Du , Sheng Liu , Miao Li

End-to-end learning of robot control policies, structured as neural networks, has emerged as a promising approach to robotic manipulation. To complete many common tasks, relevant objects are required to pass in and out of a robot's field of…

Grasping target objects is a fundamental skill for robotic manipulation, but in cluttered environments with stacked or occluded objects, a single-step grasp is often insufficient. To address this, previous work has introduced pushing as an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Lijingze Xiao , Jinhong Du , Yang Cong , Supeng Diao , Yu Ren

Coordinating the motion of robots with high degrees of freedom (DoF) to grasp objects gives rise to many challenges. In this paper, we propose a novel imitation learning approach to learn a policy that directly predicts 23 DoF grasp…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Martin Matak , Karl Van Wyk , Tucker Hermans

We tackle the problem of forecasting bimanual 3D hand motion & articulation from a single image in everyday settings. To address the lack of 3D hand annotations in diverse settings, we design an annotation pipeline consisting of a diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Aditya Prakash , David Forsyth , Saurabh Gupta

Demystifying complex human-ground interactions is essential for accurate and realistic 3D human motion reconstruction from RGB videos, as it ensures consistency between the humans and the ground plane. Prior methods have modeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Sihan Ma , Qiong Cao , Hongwei Yi , Jing Zhang , Dacheng Tao

Generalist robot policies built upon 2D visual representations excel at semantic reasoning but inherently lack the explicit 3D spatial awareness required for high-precision tasks. Existing 3D integration methods struggle to bridge this gap…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Xinzhang Yang , Renjun Wu , Jinyan Liu , Xuesong Li