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Spatial understanding is a critical aspect of most robotic tasks, particularly when generalization is important. Despite the impressive results of deep generative models in complex manipulation tasks, the absence of a representation that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Niklas Funk , Julen Urain , Joao Carvalho , Vignesh Prasad , Georgia Chalvatzaki , Jan Peters

Recent advances in generative modeling have led to promising results in robot motion planning, particularly through diffusion and flow matching (FM)-based models that capture complex, multimodal trajectory distributions. However, these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Xiaobing Dai , Zewen Yang , Dian Yu , Fangzhou Liu , Hamid Sadeghian , Sami Haddadin , Sandra Hirche

Co-manipulation requires multiple humans to synchronize their motions with a shared object while ensuring reasonable interactions, maintaining natural poses, and preserving stable states. However, most existing motion generation approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Jiahao Xu , Xiaohan Yuan , Xingchen Wu , Chongyang Xu , Kun Li , Buzhen Huang

Iterative generative models such as Flow Matching and Diffusion models have demonstrated strong test-time scaling behavior, where additional inference computation can improve generation quality. In contrast, Drift Models offer efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Chenrui Ma , Xi Xiao , Lin Zhao , Tianyang Wang , Ferdinando Fioretto , Yanning Shen

In egocentric scenarios, anticipating both the next action and its visual outcome is essential for understanding human-object interactions and for enabling robotic planning. However, existing paradigms fall short of jointly modeling these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Binjie Zhang , Mike Zheng Shou

Autonomous driving requires reasoning about interactions with surrounding traffic. A prevailing approach is large-scale imitation learning on expert driving datasets, aimed at generalizing across diverse real-world scenarios. For online…

Controllable and physically grounded egocentric video generation is essential for embodied agents to reason about how their own and others' actions manifest and change the world. Compared to generic video synthesis, egocentric generation is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Qiao Gu , Lingni Ma , Adam W Harley , Richard Newcombe , Florian Shkurti , Julian Straub

Scene flow estimation aims to predict 3D motion from consecutive point cloud frames, which is of great interest in autonomous driving field. Existing methods face challenges such as insufficient spatio-temporal modeling and inherent loss of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Jiehao Luo , Jintao Cheng , Xiaoyu Tang , Qingwen Zhang , Bohuan Xue , Rui Fan

Training deep neural networks remains computationally intensive due to the itera2 tive nature of gradient-based optimization. We propose Gradient Flow Matching (GFM), a continuous-time modeling framework that treats neural network training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Xiao Shou , Yanna Ding , Jianxi Gao

The possibility of sharing one's point of view makes use of wearable cameras compelling. These videos are often long, boring and coupled with extreme shake, as the camera is worn on a moving person. Fast forwarding (i.e. frame sampling) is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Tavi Halperin , Yair Poleg , Chetan Arora , Shmuel Peleg

Flow Matching (FM) has recently emerged as a leading approach for high-fidelity visual generation, offering a robust continuous-time alternative to ordinary differential equation (ODE) based models. However, despite their success, FM models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Dayu Wang , Jiaye Yang , Weikang Li , Jiahui Liang , Yang Li

We introduce EgoSim, a closed-loop egocentric world simulator that generates spatially consistent interaction videos and persistently updates the underlying 3D scene state for continuous simulation. Existing egocentric simulators either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Jinkun Hao , Mingda Jia , Ruiyan Wang , Xihui Liu , Ran Yi , Lizhuang Ma , Jiangmiao Pang , Xudong Xu

Obtaining the ground truth labels from a video is challenging since the manual annotation of pixel-wise flow labels is prohibitively expensive and laborious. Besides, existing approaches try to adapt the trained model on synthetic datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Yunhui Han , Kunming Luo , Ao Luo , Jiangyu Liu , Haoqiang Fan , Guiming Luo , Shuaicheng Liu

Estimating per-pixel motion between video frames, known as optical flow, is a long-standing problem in video understanding and analysis. Most contemporary optical flow techniques largely focus on addressing the cross-image matching with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Ao Luo , Fan Yang , Kunming Luo , Xin Li , Haoqiang Fan , Shuaicheng Liu

We introduce Gradient Equilibrium Propagation (GradEP), a mechanism that extends Equilibrium Propagation (EP) to train energy gradients rather than energy minima, enabling EP to be applied to tasks where the learning objective depends on…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-26 Alex Gower

Generating realistic, context-aware two-person motion conditioned on diverse modalities remains a fundamental challenge for graphics, animation and embodied AI systems. Real-world applications such as VR/AR companions, social robotics and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Prerit Gupta , Shourya Verma , Ananth Grama , Aniket Bera

Finding a suitable layout represents a crucial task for diverse applications in graphic design. Motivated by simpler and smoother sampling trajectories, we explore the use of Flow Matching as an alternative to current diffusion-based layout…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Julian Jorge Andrade Guerreiro , Naoto Inoue , Kento Masui , Mayu Otani , Hideki Nakayama

Efficient navigation in dynamic environments requires anticipating how motion patterns evolve beyond the robot's immediate perceptual range, enabling preemptive rather than purely reactive planning in crowded scenes. Maps of Dynamics (MoDs)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Iacopo Catalano , David Morilla-Cabello , Jorge Pena-Queralta , Eduardo Montijano

Current End-to-End Autonomous Driving (E2E-AD) methods resort to unifying modular designs for various tasks (e.g. perception, prediction and planning). Although optimized with a fully differentiable framework in a planning-oriented manner,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Haisheng Su , Wei Wu , Zhenjie Yang , Isabel Guan

Current state-of-the-art generative models map noise to data distributions by matching flows or scores. A key limitation of these models is their inability to readily integrate available partial observations and additional priors. In…