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Contact force in contact-rich environments is an essential modality for robots to perform general-purpose manipulation tasks, as it provides information to compensate for the deficiencies of visual and proprioceptive data in collision…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Bo Zhou , Ruixuan Jiao , Yi Li , Xiaogang Yuan , Fang Fang , Shihua Li

This paper proposes a unified vision-based manipulation framework using image contours of deformable/rigid objects. Instead of using human-defined cues, the robot automatically learns the features from processed vision data. Our method…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Jihong Zhu , David Navarro-Alarcon , Robin Passama , Andrea Cherubini

Reconstructing dynamic 4D scenes from monocular videos is a fundamental yet challenging task. While recent 3D foundation models provide strong geometric priors, their performance significantly degrades in dynamic environments. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Ying Zang , Xuanyi Liu , Yidong Han , Deyi Ji , Chaotao Ding , Yuanqi Hu , Qi Zhu , Xuanfu Li , Jin Ma , Lingyun Sun , Tianrun Chen , Lanyun Zhu

3D Visual Grounding (3DVG) aims to locate objects in 3D scenes based on text prompts, which is essential for applications such as robotics. However, existing 3DVG methods encounter two main challenges: first, they struggle to handle the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Liwei Liao , Xufeng Li , Xiaoyun Zheng , Boning Liu , Feng Gao , Ronggang Wang

Robot learning of manipulation skills is hindered by the scarcity of diverse, unbiased datasets. While curated datasets can help, challenges remain in generalizability and real-world transfer. Meanwhile, large-scale "in-the-wild" video…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Chrisantus Eze , Christopher Crick

Video stabilization is pivotal for video processing, as it removes unwanted shakiness while preserving the original user motion intent. Existing approaches, depending on the domain they operate, suffer from several issues (e.g. geometric…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Zinuo You , Stamatios Georgoulis , Anpei Chen , Siyu Tang , Dengxin Dai

Reconstructing dynamic 4D scenes is an important yet challenging task. While 3D foundation models like VGGT excel in static settings, they often struggle with dynamic sequences where motion causes significant geometric ambiguity. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Ying Zang , Yidong Han , Chaotao Ding , Yuanqi Hu , Deyi Ji , Qi Zhu , Xuanfu Li , Jin Ma , Lingyun Sun , Tianrun Chen , Lanyun Zhu

A fundamental bottleneck in Novel View Synthesis (NVS) for autonomous driving is the inherent supervision gap on novel trajectories: models are tasked with synthesizing unseen views during inference, yet lack ground truth images for these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Hongbo Lu , Liang Yao , Chenghao He , Fan Liu , Wenlong Liao , Tao He , Pai Peng

Reconstructing large-scale colored point clouds is an important task in robotics, supporting perception, navigation, and scene understanding. Despite advances in LiDAR inertial visual odometry (LIVO), its performance remains highly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Lijie Wang , Lianjie Guo , Ziyi Xu , Qianhao Wang , Fei Gao , Xieyuanli Chen

We propose GGS, a Generalizable Gaussian Splatting method for Autonomous Driving which can achieve realistic rendering under large viewpoint changes. Previous generalizable 3D gaussian splatting methods are limited to rendering novel views…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Huasong Han , Kaixuan Zhou , Xiaoxiao Long , Yusen Wang , Chunxia Xiao

Existing end-to-end approaches of robotic manipulation often lack generalization to unseen objects or tasks due to limited data and poor interpretability. While recent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate strong commonsense…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zilong Xie , Jingyu Gong , Xin Tan , Zhizhong Zhang , Yuan Xie

End-to-end autonomous driving has evolved from the conventional paradigm based on sparse perception into vision-language-action (VLA) models, which focus on learning language descriptions as an auxiliary task to facilitate planning. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Sicheng Zuo , Zixun Xie , Wenzhao Zheng , Shaoqing Xu , Fang Li , Hanbing Li , Long Chen , Zhi-Xin Yang , Jiwen Lu

Vision is well-known for its use in manipulation, especially using visual servoing. Due to the 3D nature of the world, using multiple camera views and merging them creates better representations for Q-learning and in turn, trains more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Abdulaziz Almuzairee , Rohan Patil , Dwait Bhatt , Henrik I. Christensen

The goal of Novel View Synthesis (NVS) is to generate realistic images of a given content from unseen viewpoints. But how can we trust that a generated image truly reflects the intended transformation? Evaluating its reliability remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Saar Stern , Ido Sobol , Or Litany

We present ViewSplat, a view-adaptive 3D Gaussian splatting network for novel view synthesis from unposed images. While recent feed-forward 3D Gaussian splatting has significantly accelerated 3D scene reconstruction by bypassing per-scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Moonyeon Jeong , Seunggi Min , Suhyeon Lee , Hongje Seong

We present VISTA (Viewpoint-based Image selection with Semantic Task Awareness), an active exploration method for robots to plan informative trajectories that improve 3D map quality in areas most relevant for task completion. Given an…

The generalization ability of imitation learning policies for robotic manipulation is fundamentally constrained by the diversity of expert demonstrations, while collecting demonstrations across varied environments is costly and difficult in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Yichen Xie , Yixiao Wang , Shuqi Zhao , Cheng-En Wu , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Jianwen Xie , Hao-Shu Fang

Vision-based policies have achieved a good performance in robotic manipulation due to the accessibility and richness of visual observations. However, purely visual sensing becomes insufficient in contact-rich and force-sensitive tasks where…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Jiuzhou Lei , Chang Liu , Yu She , Xiao Liang , Minghui Zheng

Recent advances in diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in isolated computer vision tasks such as text-to-image generation, depth estimation, and optical flow. However, these models are often restricted by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Yilin Gao , Shuguang Dou , Junzhou Li , Zhiheng Yu , Yin Li , Dongsheng Jiang , Shugong Xu

Active perception and manipulation are crucial for robots to interact with complex scenes. Existing methods struggle to unify semantic-driven active perception with robust, viewpoint-invariant execution. We propose SaPaVe, an end-to-end…