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Driving simulators play a large role in developing and testing new intelligent vehicle systems. The visual fidelity of the simulation is critical for building vision-based algorithms and conducting human driver experiments. Low visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Ekim Yurtsever , Dongfang Yang , Ibrahim Mert Koc , Keith A. Redmill

Deep reinforcement learning provides a promising approach for vision-based control of real-world robots. However, the generalization of such models depends critically on the quantity and variety of data available for training. This data can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Katie Kang , Suneel Belkhale , Gregory Kahn , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine

Collecting large amounts of real-world interaction data to train general robotic policies is often prohibitively expensive, thus motivating the use of simulation data. However, existing methods for data generation have generally focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Lirui Wang , Yiyang Ling , Zhecheng Yuan , Mohit Shridhar , Chen Bao , Yuzhe Qin , Bailin Wang , Huazhe Xu , Xiaolong Wang

A key challenge in manipulation is learning a policy that can robustly generalize to diverse visual environments. A promising mechanism for learning robust policies is to leverage video generative models, which are pretrained on large-scale…

This paper introduces a novel pipeline for generating large-scale, highly realistic, and automatically labeled datasets for computer vision tasks in robotic environments. Our approach addresses the critical challenges of the domain gap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Patryk Niżeniec , Marcin Iwanowski

Robotic simulation today remains challenging to scale up due to the human efforts required to create diverse simulation tasks and scenes. Simulation-trained policies also face scalability issues as many sim-to-real methods focus on a single…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Pu Hua , Minghuan Liu , Annabella Macaluso , Yunfeng Lin , Weinan Zhang , Huazhe Xu , Lirui Wang

The field of robotics has made significant advances towards generalist robot manipulation policies. However, real-world evaluation of such policies is not scalable and faces reproducibility challenges, which are likely to worsen as policies…

The increase in complexity of autonomous systems is accompanied by a need of data-driven development and validation strategies. Advances in computer graphics and cloud clusters have opened the way to massive parallel high fidelity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Osama Maqbool , Jürgen Roßmann

Reconstructing physically valid 3D scenes from single-view observations is a prerequisite for bridging the gap between visual perception and robotic control. However, in scenarios requiring precise contact reasoning, such as robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Tianyi Xiang , Jiahang Cao , Sikai Guo , Guoyang Zhao , Andrew F. Luo , Jun Ma

Due to the difficulty of acquiring extensive real-world data, robot simulation has become crucial for parallel training and sim-to-real transfer, highlighting the importance of scalable simulated robotic tasks. Foundation models have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Feng Chen , Botian Xu , Pu Hua , Peiqi Duan , Yanchao Yang , Yi Ma , Huazhe Xu

Imitation learning methods need significant human supervision to learn policies robust to changes in object poses, physical disturbances, and visual distractors. Reinforcement learning, on the other hand, can explore the environment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Marcel Torne , Anthony Simeonov , Zechu Li , April Chan , Tao Chen , Abhishek Gupta , Pulkit Agrawal

Current vision-based robotics simulation benchmarks have significantly advanced robotic manipulation research. However, robotics is fundamentally a real-world problem, and evaluation for real-world applications has lagged behind in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Xuning Yang , Clemens Eppner , Jonathan Tremblay , Dieter Fox , Stan Birchfield , Fabio Ramos

Deep learning approaches have become the standard solution to many problems in computer vision and robotics, but obtaining sufficient training data in high enough quality is challenging, as human labor is error prone, time consuming, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Jan Blumenkamp , Andreas Baude , Tim Laue

Learning robust and generalizable world models is crucial for enabling efficient and scalable robotic control in real-world environments. In this work, we introduce a novel framework for learning world models that accurately capture…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Chenhao Li , Andreas Krause , Marco Hutter

Robots must integrate multiple sensory modalities to act effectively in the real world. Yet, learning such multimodal policies at scale remains challenging. Simulation offers a viable solution, but while vision has benefited from…

Understanding and replicating the real world is a critical challenge in Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) research. To achieve this, many existing approaches, such as world models, aim to capture the fundamental principles governing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yuqi Hu , Longguang Wang , Xian Liu , Ling-Hao Chen , Yuwei Guo , Yukai Shi , Ce Liu , Anyi Rao , Zeyu Wang , Hui Xiong

The significant progress on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have made it possible to generate surprisingly realistic images for single object based on natural language descriptions. However, controlled generation of images for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Hongdong Zheng , Yalong Bai , Wei Zhang , Tao Mei

Constructing simulation scenes that are both visually and physically realistic is a problem of practical interest in domains ranging from robotics to computer vision. This problem has become even more relevant as researchers wielding large…

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly advanced the field of computer vision by enabling machines to create and interpret visual data with unprecedented sophistication. This transformation builds upon a foundation of generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Daochang Liu , Junyu Zhang , Anh-Dung Dinh , Eunbyung Park , Shichao Zhang , Ajmal Mian , Mubarak Shah , Chang Xu

Training robots in simulation requires diverse 3D scenes that reflect the specific challenges of downstream tasks. However, scenes that satisfy strict task requirements, such as high-clutter environments with plausible spatial arrangement,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Nicholas Pfaff , Hongkai Dai , Sergey Zakharov , Shun Iwase , Russ Tedrake