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We tackle the problem of learning complex, general behaviors directly in the real world. We propose an approach for robots to efficiently learn manipulation skills using only a handful of real-world interaction trajectories from many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Russell Mendonca , Shikhar Bahl , Deepak Pathak

There has been a recent explosion of impressive generative models that can produce high quality images (or videos) conditioned on text descriptions. However, all such approaches rely on conditional sentences that contain unambiguous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Tanzila Rahman , Hsin-Ying Lee , Jian Ren , Sergey Tulyakov , Shweta Mahajan , Leonid Sigal

Robot learning requires adaptation methods that improve reliably from limited, mixed-quality interaction data. This is especially challenging in long-horizon, contact-rich tasks, where end-to-end policy finetuning remains inefficient and…

Production of photorealistic, navigable 3D site models requires a large volume of carefully collected images that are often unavailable to first responders for disaster relief or law enforcement. Real-world challenges include limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Neil Joshi , Joshua Carney , Nathanael Kuo , Homer Li , Cheng Peng , Myron Brown

3D asset generation is getting massive amounts of attention, inspired by the recent success of text-guided 2D content creation. Existing text-to-3D methods use pretrained text-to-image diffusion models in an optimization problem or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Lukas Höllein , Aljaž Božič , Norman Müller , David Novotny , Hung-Yu Tseng , Christian Richardt , Michael Zollhöfer , Matthias Nießner

The success of deep learning in computer vision is based on availability of large annotated datasets. To lower the need for hand labeled images, virtually rendered 3D worlds have recently gained popularity. Creating realistic 3D content is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-07 Hassan Abu Alhaija , Siva Karthik Mustikovela , Lars Mescheder , Andreas Geiger , Carsten Rother

Constrained generative modeling is fundamental to applications such as robotic control and autonomous driving, where models must respect physical laws and safety-critical constraints. In real-world settings, these constraints rarely take…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xiaoxuan Liang , Saeid Naderiparizi , Yunpeng Liu , Berend Zwartsenberg , Frank Wood

Change detection has been a challenging visual task due to the dynamic nature of real-world scenes. Good performance of existing methods depends largely on prior background images or a long-term observation. These methods, however, suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Chao Chen , Sheng Zhang , Cuibing Du

Video world models should maintain evolving states when evidence is unobserved, yet current generators often freeze hidden states upon interruption. This is not simply a capacity problem: pretrained video diffusion transformers already…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Tianshuo Xu , Yichen Xie , Depu Meng , Chensheng Peng , Quentin Herau , Bo Jiang , Yihan Hu , Wei Zhan

Synthesizing photo-realistic images and videos is at the heart of computer graphics and has been the focus of decades of research. Traditionally, synthetic images of a scene are generated using rendering algorithms such as rasterization or…

Real-world applications like video gaming and virtual reality often demand the ability to model 3D scenes that users can explore along custom camera trajectories. While significant progress has been made in generating 3D objects from text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Tianyu Huang , Wangguandong Zheng , Tengfei Wang , Yuhao Liu , Zhenwei Wang , Junta Wu , Jie Jiang , Hui Li , Rynson W. H. Lau , Wangmeng Zuo , Chunchao Guo

Video generation aims to produce temporally coherent sequences of visual frames, representing a pivotal advancement in Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC). Compared to static image generation, video generation poses unique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Zhiyu Yin , Kehai Chen , Xuefeng Bai , Ruili Jiang , Juntao Li , Hongdong Li , Jin Liu , Yang Xiang , Jun Yu , Min Zhang

Foundational world models must be both interactive and preserve spatiotemporal coherence for effective future planning with action choices. However, present models for long video generation have limited inherent world modeling capabilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Taiye Chen , Xun Hu , Zihan Ding , Chi Jin

World building with 3D scene representations is increasingly important for content creation, simulation, and interactive experiences, yet real workflows are inherently iterative: creators must repeatedly extend an existing scene under user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Zijian He , Renjie Liu , Yihao Wang , Weizhi Zhong , Huan Yuan , Kun Gai , Guangrun Wang , Guanbin Li

Identifying predictive world models for robots in novel environments from sparse online observations is essential for robot task planning and execution in novel environments. However, existing methods that leverage differentiable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Yifan Zhu , Tianyi Xiang , Aaron Dollar , Zherong Pan

Mobile GUI agents excel at immediate reactive control but frequently fail in realistic, long-horizon tasks that require memory. This failure stems from a fundamental conflict between limited context windows and token-heavy screenshots. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Junyang Wang , Haiyang Xu , Xi Zhang , Zhaoqing Zhu , Ming Yan , Jieping Ye , Jitao Sang

While diffusion models have revolutionized text-to-image generation with their ability to synthesize realistic and diverse scenes, they continue to struggle to generate consistent and legible text within images. This shortcoming is commonly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Tianyu Zhang , Xinyu Wang , Lu Li , Zhenghan Tai , Jijun Chi , Jingrui Tian , Hailin He , Suyuchen Wang

Automating immersive VR scene creation remains a primary research challenge. Existing methods typically rely on complex geometry with post-simplification, resulting in inefficient pipelines or limited realism. In this paper, we introduce…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jinyan Yuan , Bangbang Yang , Keke Wang , Panwang Pan , Lin Ma , Xuehai Zhang , Xiao Liu , Zhaopeng Cui , Yuewen Ma

Continual learning enables models to acquire new knowledge over time while retaining previously learned capabilities. However, its application to text-to-3D generation remains unexplored. We present ReConText3D, the first framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Muhammad Ahmed Ullah Khan , Muhammad Haris Bin Amir , Didier Stricker , Muhammad Zeshan Afzal

Contemporary artificial intelligence systems achieve strong performance through large-scale parameterization, retrieval augmentation, and training on extensive static corpora. Despite these advances, they continue to face limitations in…

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