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The Gaussian diffusion model, initially designed for image generation, has recently been adapted for 3D point cloud generation. However, these adaptations have not fully considered the intrinsic geometric characteristics of 3D shapes,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Dengsheng Chen , Jie Hu , Xiaoming Wei , Enhua Wu

We propose an action-conditioned dynamics model that predicts scene changes caused by object and agent interactions in a viewpoint-invariant 3D neural scene representation space, inferred from RGB-D videos. In this 3D feature space, objects…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Hsiao-Yu Fish Tung , Zhou Xian , Mihir Prabhudesai , Shamit Lal , Katerina Fragkiadaki

We introduce latent intuitive physics, a transfer learning framework for physics simulation that can infer hidden properties of fluids from a single 3D video and simulate the observed fluid in novel scenes. Our key insight is to use latent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Xiangming Zhu , Huayu Deng , Haochen Yuan , Yunbo Wang , Xiaokang Yang

Intelligent agents need a physical understanding of the world to predict the impact of their actions in the future. While learning-based models of the environment dynamics have contributed to significant improvements in sample efficiency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Eric Heiden , David Millard , Hejia Zhang , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

Robotic manipulation of deformable objects is a difficult problem especially because of the complexity of the many different ways an object can deform. Searching such a high dimensional state space makes it difficult to recognize, track,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-18 Yinxiao Li , Yan Wang , Yonghao Yue , Danfei Xu , Michael Case , Shih-Fu Chang , Eitan Grinspun , Peter Allen

Differentiable physics simulation provides an avenue to tackle previously intractable challenges through gradient-based optimization, thereby greatly improving the efficiency of solving robotics-related problems. To apply differentiable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Min Liu , Gang Yang , Siyuan Luo , Lin Shao

Manipulating volumetric deformable objects in the real world, like plush toys and pizza dough, bring substantial challenges due to infinite shape variations, non-rigid motions, and partial observability. We introduce ACID, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Bokui Shen , Zhenyu Jiang , Christopher Choy , Leonidas J. Guibas , Silvio Savarese , Anima Anandkumar , Yuke Zhu

Vision foundation models trained on massive amounts of visual data have shown unprecedented reasoning and planning skills in open-world settings. A key challenge in applying them to robotic tasks is the modality gap between visual data and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Ruoshi Liu , Alper Canberk , Shuran Song , Carl Vondrick

The use of machine learning in fluid dynamics is becoming more common to expedite the computation when solving forward and inverse problems of partial differential equations. Yet, a notable challenge with existing convolutional neural…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-10 Siming Shan , Pengkai Wang , Song Chen , Jiaxu Liu , Chao Xu , Shengze Cai

Dancing with music is always an essential human art form to express emotion. Due to the high temporal-spacial complexity, long-term 3D realist dance generation synchronized with music is challenging. Existing methods suffer from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Siqi Yang , Zejun Yang , Zhisheng Wang

Underwater visuals undergo various complex degradations, inevitably influencing the efficiency of underwater vision tasks. Recently, diffusion models were employed to underwater image enhancement (UIE) tasks, and gained SOTA performance.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Chen Zhao , Chenyu Dong , Weiling Cai , Yueyue Wang

We present a novel, physically-based morphing technique for elastic shapes, leveraging the differentiable material point method (MPM) with space-time control through per-particle deformation gradients to accommodate complex topology…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Michael Xu , Chang-Yong Song , David I. W. Levin , David Hyde

Modeling the dynamics of flexible objects has become an emerging topic in the community as these objects become more present in many applications, e.g., soft robotics. Due to the properties of flexible materials, the movements of soft…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Kaiyuan Tan , Peilun Li , Thomas Beckers

We present a differentiable soft-body physics simulator that can be composed with neural networks as a differentiable layer. In contrast to other differentiable physics approaches that use explicit forward models to define state…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Junior Rojas , Eftychios Sifakis , Ladislav Kavan

Robots operating in human environments must be able to rearrange objects into semantically-meaningful configurations, even if these objects are previously unseen. In this work, we focus on the problem of building physically-valid structures…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Weiyu Liu , Yilun Du , Tucker Hermans , Sonia Chernova , Chris Paxton

We propose an unsupervised anomaly detection approach based on a physics-informed diffusion model for multivariate time series data. Over the past years, diffusion model has demonstrated its effectiveness in forecasting, imputation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Juhi Soni , Markus Lange-Hegermann , Stefan Windmann

We introduce Diffusion World Model (DWM), a conditional diffusion model capable of predicting multistep future states and rewards concurrently. As opposed to traditional one-step dynamics models, DWM offers long-horizon predictions in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Zihan Ding , Amy Zhang , Yuandong Tian , Qinqing Zheng

Seamlessly moving objects within a scene is a common requirement for image editing, but it is still a challenge for existing editing methods. Especially for real-world images, the occlusion situation further increases the difficulty. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Zheng-Peng Duan , Jiawei Zhang , Siyu Liu , Zheng Lin , Chun-Le Guo , Dongqing Zou , Jimmy Ren , Chongyi Li

We introduce DiffPhysCam, a differentiable camera simulator designed to support robotics and embodied AI applications by enabling gradient-based optimization in visual perception pipelines. Generating synthetic images that closely mimic…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Bo-Hsun Chen , Nevindu M. Batagoda , Dan Negrut

Detecting and recognizing objects interacting with humans lie in the center of first-person (egocentric) daily activity recognition. However, due to noisy camera motion and frequent changes in viewpoint and scale, most of the previous…

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