English
Related papers

Related papers: KinDER: A Physical Reasoning Benchmark for Robot L…

200 papers

Although great progress has been made in 3D visual grounding, current models still rely on explicit textual descriptions for grounding and lack the ability to reason human intentions from implicit instructions. We propose a new task called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Chenming Zhu , Tai Wang , Wenwei Zhang , Kai Chen , Xihui Liu

Achieving human-like reasoning in deep learning models for complex tasks in unknown environments remains a critical challenge in embodied intelligence. While advanced vision-language models (VLMs) excel in static scene understanding, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jinzhou Tang , Jusheng zhang , Sidi Liu , Waikit Xiu , Qinhan Lv , Xiying Li

Are current Vision Language Models (VLMs) ready to comprehend and reason about complex embodied interactions in 3D environments? We introduce Embodied3DBench, a robot-centric benchmark targeting low-level spatial intelligence in embodied 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jiyao Zhang , Mingxu Zhang , Yitong Peng , Haoxuan Liu , Chenshuo Wang , Yuxing Long , Haoyang Huang , Dongjiang Li , Nan Duan , Hui Shen , Hao Dong

Learning is usually performed by observing real robot executions. Physics-based simulators are a good alternative for providing highly valuable information while avoiding costly and potentially destructive robot executions. We present a…

The Baxter robot is a standard research platform used widely in research tasks, supported with an SDK provided by the developers, Rethink Robotics. Despite the ubiquitous use of the robot, the official software support is sub-standard.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Akshay Kumar , Ashwin Sahasrabudhe , Chaitanya Perugu , Sanjuksha Nirgude , Aakash Murugan

Humanoid robots hold great promise in assisting humans in diverse environments and tasks, due to their flexibility and adaptability leveraging human-like morphology. However, research in humanoid robots is often bottlenecked by the costly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Carmelo Sferrazza , Dun-Ming Huang , Xingyu Lin , Youngwoon Lee , Pieter Abbeel

When human acquire physical skills (e.g., tennis) from experts, we tend to first learn from merely observing the expert. But this is often insufficient. We then engage in practice, where we try to emulate the expert and ensure that our…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Yunhai Han , Zhenyang Chen , Kyle A Williams , Harish Ravichandar

One of today's goals for industrial robot systems is to allow fast and easy provisioning for new tasks. Skill-based systems that use planning and knowledge representation have long been one possible answer to this. However, especially with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Matthias Mayr , Faseeh Ahmad , Konstantinos Chatzilygeroudis , Luigi Nardi , Volker Krueger

Egocentric video understanding is inherently complex due to the dynamic 4D nature of the environment, where camera motion and object displacements necessitate a continuous re-evaluation of spatial relations. In this work, we target a suite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Fangrui Zhu , Yunfeng Xi , Jianmo Ni , Mu Cai , Boqing Gong , Long Zhao , Chen Qu , Ian Miao , Yi Li , Cheng Zhong , Huaizu Jiang , Shwetak Patel

Synthesizing physiologically-accurate human movement in a variety of conditions can help practitioners plan surgeries, design experiments, or prototype assistive devices in simulated environments, reducing time and costs and improving…

Despite rapid progress in multimodal foundation models, embodied intelligence community still lacks a unified, physically grounded foundation model that integrates perception, reasoning, and planning within real-world spatial-temporal…

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

For machine agents to successfully interact with humans in real-world settings, they will need to develop an understanding of human mental life. Intuitive psychology, the ability to reason about hidden mental variables that drive observable…

Unified multimodal models (UMMs) have emerged as a powerful paradigm for seamlessly unifying text and image understanding and generation. However, prevailing evaluations treat these abilities in isolation, such that tasks with multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yongyuan Liang , Wei Chow , Feng Li , Ziqiao Ma , Xiyao Wang , Jiageng Mao , Jiuhai Chen , Jiatao Gu , Yue Wang , Furong Huang

Modern extended reality XR systems provide rich analysis of image data and fusion of sensor input and demand AR/VR applications that can reason about 3D scenes in a semantic manner. We present a spatial reasoning framework that bridges…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Steven Häsler , Philipp Ackermann

Simulating physical systems is a core component of scientific computing, encompassing a wide range of physical domains and applications. Recently, there has been a surge in data-driven methods to complement traditional numerical simulations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Karl Otness , Arvi Gjoka , Joan Bruna , Daniele Panozzo , Benjamin Peherstorfer , Teseo Schneider , Denis Zorin

When AI interacts with the physical world -- as a robot or an assistive agent -- new safety challenges emerge beyond those of purely ``digital AI". In such interactions, the potential for physical harm is direct and immediate. How well do…

Humans have mental models that allow them to plan, experiment, and reason in the physical world. How should an intelligent agent go about learning such models? In this paper, we will study if models of the world learned in an open-ended…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Chuang Gan , Abhishek Bhandwaldar , Antonio Torralba , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Phillip Isola

Recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and large language models (LLMs) have greatly enhanced visual reasoning, a key capability for embodied AI agents like robots. However, existing visual reasoning benchmarks often suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Simindokht Jahangard , Mehrzad Mohammadi , Yi Shen , Zhixi Cai , Hamid Rezatofighi

We propose a new deep learning model for goal-driven tasks that require intuitive physical reasoning and intervention in the scene to achieve a desired end goal. Its modular structure is motivated by hypothesizing a sequence of intuitive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Augustin Harter , Andrew Melnik , Gaurav Kumar , Dhruv Agarwal , Animesh Garg , Helge Ritter