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Diffusion models have shown their remarkable ability to synthesize images, including the generation of humans in specific poses. However, current models face challenges in adequately expressing conditional control for detailed hand pose…

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There has been substantial progress in humanoid robots, with new skills continuously being taught, ranging from navigation to manipulation. While these abilities may seem impressive, the teaching methods often remain inefficient. To enhance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Josua Spisak , Matthias Kerzel , Stefan Wermter

Simulation-based testing has emerged as an essential tool for verifying and validating autonomous vehicles (AVs). However, contemporary methodologies, such as deterministic and imitation learning-based driver models, struggle to capture the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Cheng Wang , Lingxin Kong , Massimiliano Tamborski , Stefano V. Albrecht

Constructing robots to accomplish long-horizon tasks is a long-standing challenge within artificial intelligence. Approaches using generative methods, particularly Diffusion Models, have gained attention due to their ability to model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Sigmund Hennum Høeg , Aksel Vaaler , Chaoqi Liu , Olav Egeland , Yilun Du

Large-scale video generative models can synthesize diverse and realistic visual content for dynamic world creation, but they often lack element-wise controllability, hindering their use in editing scenes and training embodied AI agents. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Sicheng Mo , Ziyang Leng , Leon Liu , Weizhen Wang , Honglin He , Bolei Zhou

In this paper, we propose a novel cascaded diffusion-based generative framework for text-driven human motion synthesis, which exploits a strategy named GradUally Enriching SyntheSis (GUESS as its abbreviation). The strategy sets up…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Xuehao Gao , Yang Yang , Zhenyu Xie , Shaoyi Du , Zhongqian Sun , Yang Wu

Human trajectory data, which plays a crucial role in various applications such as crowd management and epidemic prevention, is challenging to obtain due to practical constraints and privacy concerns. In this context, synthetic human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Bangchao Deng , Xin Jing , Tianyue Yang , Bingqing Qu , Dingqi Yang , Philippe Cudre-Mauroux

Legibility of robot motion is critical in human-robot interaction, as it allows humans to quickly infer a robot's intended goal. Although traditional trajectory generation methods typically prioritize efficiency, they often fail to make the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Wenli Shi , Clemence Grislain , Olivier Sigaud , Mohamed Chetouani

Controllable human video generation aims to produce realistic videos of humans with explicitly guided motions and appearances,serving as a foundation for digital humans, animation, and embodied AI.However, the scarcity of largescale,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yuanchen Fei , Yude Zou , Zejian Kang , Ming Li , Jiaying Zhou , Xiangru Huang

Safe and successful deployment of robots requires not only the ability to generate complex plans but also the capacity to frequently replan and correct execution errors. This paper addresses the challenge of long-horizon trajectory planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Zeyu Feng , Hao Luan , Kevin Yuchen Ma , Harold Soh

Navigating through dense human crowds remains a significant challenge for mobile robots. A key issue is the freezing robot problem, where the robot struggles to find safe motions and becomes stuck within the crowd. To address this, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yufei Zhu , Shih-Min Yang , Martin Magnusson , Allan Wang

Generating 3D scenes from human motion sequences supports numerous applications, including virtual reality and architectural design. However, previous auto-regression-based human-aware 3D scene generation methods have struggled to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Xiaolin Hong , Hongwei Yi , Fazhi He , Qiong Cao

We consider joint trajectory generation and tracking control for under-actuated robotic systems. A common solution is to use a layered control architecture, where the top layer uses a simplified model of system dynamics for trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Anusha Srikanthan , Fengjun Yang , Igor Spasojevic , Dinesh Thakur , Vijay Kumar , Nikolai Matni

Learning motion tracking from rich human motion data is a foundational task for achieving general control in humanoid robots, enabling them to perform diverse behaviors. However, discrepancies in morphology and dynamics between humans and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Yuhan Li , Peiyuan Zhi , Yunshen Wang , Tengyu Liu , Sixu Yan , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang , Baoxiong Jia , Siyuan Huang

Physics-based humanoid control relies on training with motion datasets that have diverse data distributions. However, the fixed difficulty distribution of datasets limits the performance ceiling of the trained control policies.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Weisheng Xu , Qiwei Wu , Jiaxi Zhang , Tan Jing , Yangfan Li , Yuetong Fang , Jiaqi Xiong , Kai Wu , Rong Ou , Renjing Xu

Path planning for a robotic system in high-dimensional cluttered environments needs to be efficient, safe, and adaptable for different environments and hardware. Conventional methods face high computation time and require extensive…

Existing video generation models excel at producing photo-realistic videos from text or images, but often lack physical plausibility and 3D controllability. To overcome these limitations, we introduce PhysCtrl, a novel framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Chen Wang , Chuhao Chen , Yiming Huang , Zhiyang Dou , Yuan Liu , Jiatao Gu , Lingjie Liu

Diffusion Models represent a significant advancement in generative modeling, employing a dual-phase process that first degrades domain-specific information via Gaussian noise and restores it through a trainable model. This framework enables…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Benedikt Hartl , Yanbo Zhang , Hananel Hazan , Michael Levin

This paper presents a novel approach to generating the 3D motion of a human interacting with a target object, with a focus on solving the challenge of synthesizing long-range and diverse motions, which could not be fulfilled by existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Huaijin Pi , Sida Peng , Minghui Yang , Xiaowei Zhou , Hujun Bao

Field robot systems have recently been applied to a wide range of research fields. Making such systems more automated, advanced, and activated requires cooperation among heterogeneous robots. Classic control theory is inefficient in…

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