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Recent years in robotics and imitation learning have shown remarkable progress in training large-scale foundation models by leveraging data across a multitude of embodiments. The success of such policies might lead us to wonder: just how…

Stochastic video generation is particularly challenging when the camera is mounted on a moving platform, as camera motion interacts with observed image pixels, creating complex spatio-temporal dynamics and making the problem partially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Meenakshi Sarkar , Devansh Bhardwaj , Debasish Ghose

A goal of artificial intelligence is to construct an agent that can solve a wide variety of tasks. Recent progress in text-guided image synthesis has yielded models with an impressive ability to generate complex novel images, exhibiting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Yilun Du , Mengjiao Yang , Bo Dai , Hanjun Dai , Ofir Nachum , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Dale Schuurmans , Pieter Abbeel

A core challenge for an agent learning to interact with the world is to predict how its actions affect objects in its environment. Many existing methods for learning the dynamics of physical interactions require labeled object information.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Chelsea Finn , Ian Goodfellow , Sergey Levine

The field of advanced text-to-image generation is witnessing the emergence of unified frameworks that integrate powerful text encoders, such as CLIP and T5, with Diffusion Transformer backbones. Although there have been efforts to control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Liang Chen , Shuai Bai , Wenhao Chai , Weichu Xie , Haozhe Zhao , Leon Vinci , Junyang Lin , Baobao Chang

Learning from demonstration is a powerful method for teaching robots new skills, and having more demonstration data often improves policy learning. However, the high cost of collecting demonstration data is a significant bottleneck. Videos,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Chuan Wen , Xingyu Lin , John So , Kai Chen , Qi Dou , Yang Gao , Pieter Abbeel

People interact with the real-world largely dependent on visual signal, which are ubiquitous and illustrate detailed demonstrations. In this paper, we explore utilizing visual signals as a new interface for models to interact with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Wentao Zhang , Junliang Guo , Tianyu He , Li Zhao , Linli Xu , Jiang Bian

World model-based policy evaluation is a practical proxy for testing real-world robot control by rolling out candidate actions in action-conditioned video diffusion models. As these models increasingly adopt latent diffusion modeling (LDM),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Nilaksh , Saurav Jha , Artem Zholus , Sarath Chandar

To catch a thrown object, a robot must be able to perceive the object's motion and generate control actions in a timely manner. Rather than explicitly estimating the object's 3D position, this work focuses on a novel approach that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Seongyong Kim , Junhyeon Cho , Kang-Won Lee , Soo-Chul Lim

Humans are excellent at understanding language and vision to accomplish a wide range of tasks. In contrast, creating general instruction-following embodied agents remains a difficult challenge. Prior work that uses pure language-only models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Hao Liu , Lisa Lee , Kimin Lee , Pieter Abbeel

Machines are a long way from robustly solving open-world perception-control tasks, such as first-person view (FPV) aerial navigation. While recent advances in end-to-end Machine Learning, especially Imitation and Reinforcement Learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Rogerio Bonatti , Ratnesh Madaan , Vibhav Vineet , Sebastian Scherer , Ashish Kapoor

Behavioral Foundation Models (BFMs) proved successful in producing policies for arbitrary tasks in a zero-shot manner, requiring no test-time training or task-specific fine-tuning. Among the most promising BFMs are the ones that estimate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Maksim Bobrin , Ilya Zisman , Alexander Nikulin , Vladislav Kurenkov , Dmitry Dylov

Recent advances in generalist robot manipulation leverage pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and large-scale robot demonstrations to tackle diverse tasks in a zero-shot manner. A key challenge remains: scaling high-quality,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Alexander Spiridonov , Jan-Nico Zaech , Nikolay Nikolov , Luc Van Gool , Danda Pani Paudel

Robotic manipulation requires understanding both the 3D spatial structure of the environment and its temporal evolution, yet most existing policies overlook one or both. They typically rely on 2D visual observations and backbones pretrained…

Zero-Shot Action Recognition has attracted attention in the last years and many approaches have been proposed for recognition of objects, events and actions in images and videos. There is a demand for methods that can classify instances…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Valter Estevam , Helio Pedrini , David Menotti

Video generation models have significantly advanced embodied intelligence, unlocking new possibilities for generating diverse robot data that capture perception, reasoning, and action in the physical world. However, synthesizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Yufan Deng , Zilin Pan , Hongyu Zhang , Xiaojie Li , Ruoqing Hu , Yufei Ding , Yiming Zou , Yan Zeng , Daquan Zhou

We present a unified framework for multi-task locomotion and manipulation policy learning grounded in a contact-explicit representation. Instead of designing different policies for different tasks, our approach unifies the definition of a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Shafeef Omar , Majid Khadiv

While a general embodied agent must function as a unified system, current methods are built on isolated models for understanding, world modeling, and control. This fragmentation prevents unifying multimodal generative capabilities and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Hongzhe Bi , Hengkai Tan , Shenghao Xie , Zeyuan Wang , Shuhe Huang , Haitian Liu , Ruowen Zhao , Yao Feng , Chendong Xiang , Yinze Rong , Hongyan Zhao , Hanyu Liu , Zhizhong Su , Lei Ma , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Model-free reinforcement learning has recently been shown to be effective at learning navigation policies from complex image input. However, these algorithms tend to require large amounts of interaction with the environment, which can be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Jake Bruce , Niko Sünderhauf , Piotr Mirowski , Raia Hadsell , Michael Milford

This paper investigates the problem of zero-shot action recognition, in the setting where no training videos with seen actions are available. For this challenging scenario, the current leading approach is to transfer knowledge from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Carlo Bretti , Pascal Mettes