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A visual metaphor constitutes a high-order form of human creativity, employing cross-domain semantic fusion to transform abstract concepts into impactful visual rhetoric. Despite the remarkable progress of generative AI, existing models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yu Xu , Yuxin Zhang , Juan Cao , Lin Gao , Chunyu Wang , Oliver Deussen , Tong-Yee Lee , Fan Tang

In this study, our goal is to create interactive avatar agents that can autonomously plan and animate nuanced facial movements realistically, from both visual and behavioral perspectives. Given high-level inputs about the environment and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Duomin Wang , Bin Dai , Yu Deng , Baoyuan Wang

This paper presents a novel approach for the Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task in continuous 3D environments, which requires an autonomous agent to follow natural language instructions in unseen environments. Existing end-to-end…

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a promising approach for enabling robots to follow language instructions and predict corresponding actions. However, current VLA models mainly rely on 2D visual inputs, neglecting the rich…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Lin Sun , Bin Xie , Yingfei Liu , Hao Shi , Tiancai Wang , Jiale Cao

The evolution of text to visual components facilitates people's daily lives, such as generating image, videos from text and identifying the desired elements within the images. Computer vision models involving the multimodal abilities in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Chris Kelly , Luhui Hu , Jiayin Hu , Yu Tian , Deshun Yang , Bang Yang , Cindy Yang , Zihao Li , Zaoshan Huang , Yuexian Zou

Advances in 3D generative AI have enabled the creation of physical objects from text prompts, but challenges remain in creating objects involving multiple component types. We present a pipeline that integrates 3D generative AI with…

This paper focuses on embodied task planning, where an agent acquires visual observations from the environment and executes atomic actions to accomplish a given task. Although recent Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved impressive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Peiran Xu , Jiaqi Zheng , Yadong Mu

Bridging the gap between complex human instructions and precise 3D object grounding remains a significant challenge in vision and robotics. Existing 3D segmentation methods often struggle to interpret ambiguous, reasoning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Changyue Shi , Minghao Chen , Yiping Mao , Chuxiao Yang , Xinyuan Hu , Jiajun Ding , Zhou Yu

Recent approaches integrating vision-language models (VLMs) as prompt encoders for generative model conditioning typically rely on expensive end-to-end training or map features to compressed representations, discarding the dense spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Polytimi Anna Gkotsi , Andrii Zadaianchuk , Mohammad Mahdi Derakhshani

We study long-horizon planning in 3D environments from under-specified natural-language goals using only visual observations, focusing on multi-step 3D box rearrangement tasks. Existing approaches typically rely on symbolic planners with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Ashish Malik , Caleb Lowe , Aayam Shrestha , Stefan Lee , Fuxin Li , Alan Fern

Real-world robots localize objects from natural-language instructions while scenes around them keep changing. Yet most of the existing 3D visual grounding (3DVG) method still assumes a reconstructed and up-to-date point cloud, an assumption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Miao Hu , Zhiwei Huang , Tai Wang , Jiangmiao Pang , Dahua Lin , Nanning Zheng , Runsen Xu

We show that multi-agent systems guided by vision-language models (VLMs) improve end-to-end autonomous scientific discovery. By treating plots as verifiable checkpoints, a VLM-as-a-judge evaluates figures against dynamically generated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Kahaan Gandhi , Boris Bolliet , Inigo Zubeldia

We study the task of embodied visual active learning, where an agent is set to explore a 3d environment with the goal to acquire visual scene understanding by actively selecting views for which to request annotation. While accurate on some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 David Nilsson , Aleksis Pirinen , Erik Gärtner , Cristian Sminchisescu

Current vision-language-action (VLA) models, pre-trained on large-scale robotic data, exhibit strong multi-task capabilities and generalize well to variations in visual and language instructions for manipulation. However, their success rate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Han Zhao , Jiaxuan Zhang , Wenxuan Song , Pengxiang Ding , Donglin Wang

Vision-language model (VLM) fine-tuning for application-specific visual grounding based on natural language instructions has become one of the most popular approaches for learning-enabled autonomous systems. However, such fine-tuning relies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Joshua R. Waite , Md. Zahid Hasan , Qisai Liu , Zhanhong Jiang , Chinmay Hegde , Soumik Sarkar

Language-guided embodied navigation requires an agent to interpret object-referential instructions, search across multiple rooms, localize the referenced target, and execute reliable motion toward it. Existing systems remain limited in real…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Zhongyuang Liu , Min He , Shaonan Yu , Xinhang Xu , Muqing Cao , Jianping Li , Jianfei Yang , Lihua Xie

Recent advances in vision language models (VLMs) have shown strong potential for spatial reasoning and 3D scene layout generation from open-ended language instructions. However, generating layouts that are not only semantically coherent but…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ali Shamsaddinlou

While large language models have become the prevailing approach for agentic reasoning and planning, their success in symbolic domains does not readily translate to the physical world. Spatial intelligence, the ability to perceive 3D…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Gloria Felicia , Nolan Bryant , Handi Putra , Ayaan Gazali , Eliel Lobo , Esteban Rojas

Vision-language models (VLMs) show great promise for 3D scene understanding but are mainly applied to indoor spaces or autonomous driving, focusing on low-level tasks like segmentation. This work expands their use to urban-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Valentin Bieri , Marco Zamboni , Nicolas S. Blumer , Qingxuan Chen , Francis Engelmann

Exploration is essential for general-purpose robotic learning, especially in open-ended environments where dense rewards, explicit goals, or task-specific supervision are scarce. Vision-language models (VLMs), with their semantic reasoning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Seungjae Lee , Daniel Ekpo , Haowen Liu , Furong Huang , Abhinav Shrivastava , Jia-Bin Huang