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A core aspect of human perception is situated awareness, the ability to relate ourselves to the surrounding physical environment and reason over possible actions in context. However, most existing benchmarks for multimodal foundation models…

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Training robotic policies directly in the real world is expensive and unscalable. Although generative simulation enables large-scale data synthesis, current approaches often fail to generate logically coherent long-horizon tasks and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Xiang Liu , Sen Cui , Guocai Yao , Zhong Cao , Jingheng Ma , Min Zhang , Changshui Zhang

World models learn to predict future states of an environment, enabling planning and mental simulation. Current approaches default to Transformer-based predictors operating in learned latent spaces. This comes at a cost: O(N^2) computation…

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Embodied intelligence seamlessly integrates vision, language, and action.~However, most multimodal robotic models rely on massive fine-tuning, incurring high time and hardware costs.~To address this, we introduce RoboBERT, an end-to-end…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Sicheng Wang , Sheng Liu , Weiheng Wang , Jianhua Shan , Bin Fang

Editing images with instructions to reflect non-rigid motions, camera viewpoint shifts, object deformations, human articulations, and complex interactions, poses a challenging yet underexplored problem in computer vision. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Di Chang , Mingdeng Cao , Yichun Shi , Bo Liu , Shengqu Cai , Shijie Zhou , Weilin Huang , Gordon Wetzstein , Mohammad Soleymani , Peng Wang

Diffusion models have made tremendous progress in text-driven image and video generation. Now text-to-image foundation models are widely applied to various downstream image synthesis tasks, such as controllable image generation and image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Fengyuan Shi , Jiaxi Gu , Hang Xu , Songcen Xu , Wei Zhang , Limin Wang

Generating flexible-view 3D scenes, including 360{\deg} rotation and zooming, from single images is challenging due to a lack of 3D data. To this end, we introduce FlexWorld, a novel framework consisting of two key components: (1) a strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Luxi Chen , Zihan Zhou , Min Zhao , Yikai Wang , Ge Zhang , Wenhao Huang , Hao Sun , Ji-Rong Wen , Chongxuan Li

Video generative models pre-trained on large-scale internet datasets have achieved remarkable success, excelling at producing realistic synthetic videos. However, they often generate clips based on static prompts (e.g., text or images),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Haoran He , Yang Zhang , Liang Lin , Zhongwen Xu , Ling Pan

Model-free reinforcement learning has emerged as a powerful method for developing robust robot control policies capable of navigating through complex and unstructured environments. The effectiveness of these methods hinges on two essential…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Youwei Yu , Junhong Xu , Lantao Liu

While video-generation-based embodied world models have gained increasing attention, their reliance on large-scale embodied interaction data remains a key bottleneck. The scarcity, difficulty of collection, and high dimensionality of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Hao Li , Qiao Sun

Lightweight, controllable, and physically plausible human motion synthesis is crucial for animation, virtual reality, robotics, and human-computer interaction applications. Existing methods often compromise between computational efficiency,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Arvin Tashakori , Arash Tashakori , Gongbo Yang , Z. Jane Wang , Peyman Servati

Robotic manipulation requires anticipating how the environment evolves in response to actions, yet most existing systems lack this predictive capability, often resulting in errors and inefficiency. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Songen Gu , Yunuo Cai , Tianyu Wang , Simo Wu , Yanwei Fu

The field of autonomous driving is experiencing a surge of interest in world models, which aim to predict potential future scenarios based on historical observations. In this paper, we introduce DFIT-OccWorld, an efficient 3D occupancy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Haiming Zhang , Ying Xue , Xu Yan , Jiacheng Zhang , Weichao Qiu , Dongfeng Bai , Bingbing Liu , Shuguang Cui , Zhen Li

Humans anticipate, from a glance and a contemplated action of their bodies, how the 3D world will respond, a capability that is equally vital for robotic manipulation. We introduce PointWorld, a large pre-trained 3D world model that unifies…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Wenlong Huang , Yu-Wei Chao , Arsalan Mousavian , Ming-Yu Liu , Dieter Fox , Kaichun Mo , Li Fei-Fei

Embodied visual planning aims to enable manipulation tasks by imagining how a scene evolves toward a desired goal and using the imagined trajectories to guide actions. Video diffusion models, through their image-to-video generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Yuming Gu , Yizhi Wang , Yining Hong , Yipeng Gao , Hao Jiang , Angtian Wang , Bo Liu , Nathaniel S. Dennler , Zhengfei Kuang , Hao Li , Gordon Wetzstein , Chongyang Ma

Predictive manipulation has recently gained considerable attention in the Embodied AI community due to its potential to improve robot policy performance by leveraging predicted states. However, generating accurate future visual states of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Yuhang Huang , Jiazhao Zhang , Shilong Zou , Xinwang Liu , Ruizhen Hu , Kai Xu

We introduce multi-task Visuo-Tactile World Models (VT-WM), which capture the physics of contact through touch reasoning. By complementing vision with tactile sensing, VT-WM better understands robot-object interactions in contact-rich…

To serve as a scalable data source for embodied AI, world models should act as true simulators that infer interaction dynamics strictly from user actions, rather than mere conditional video generators relying on privileged future object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Dayou Li , Lulin Liu , Bangya Liu , Shijie Zhou , Jiu Feng , Ziqi Lu , Minghui Zheng , Chenyu You , Zhiwen Fan

Aerospace embodied intelligence aims to empower unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and other aerospace platforms to achieve autonomous perception, cognition, and action, as well as egocentric active interaction with humans and the environment.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Fanglong Yao , Yuanchang Yue , Youzhi Liu , Xian Sun , Kun Fu

Generative video modeling has emerged as a compelling tool to zero-shot reason about plausible physical interactions for open-world manipulation. Yet, it remains a challenge to translate such human-led motions into the low-level actions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Karthik Dharmarajan , Wenlong Huang , Jiajun Wu , Li Fei-Fei , Ruohan Zhang