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This paper addresses the challenge of perceiving complete object shapes through visual perception. While prior studies have demonstrated encouraging outcomes in segmenting the visible parts of objects within a scene, amodal segmentation, in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Jinyu Zhang , Yongchong Gu , Jianxiong Gao , Haitao Lin , Qiang Sun , Xinwei Sun , Xiangyang Xue , Yanwei Fu

Recent advances in diffusion transformers have empowered video generation models to generate high-quality video clips from texts or images. However, world models with the ability to predict long-horizon futures from past observations and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Yixuan Zhu , Jiaqi Feng , Wenzhao Zheng , Yuan Gao , Xin Tao , Pengfei Wan , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Learning robot policies using imitation learning requires collecting large amounts of costly action-labeled expert demonstrations, which fundamentally limits the scale of training data. A promising approach to address this bottleneck is to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Anthony Liang , Pavel Czempin , Matthew Hong , Yutai Zhou , Erdem Biyik , Stephen Tu

World action models (WAMs) have emerged as a promising direction for robot policy learning, as they can leverage powerful video backbones to model the future states. However, existing approaches often rely on separate action modules, or use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Haoyu Zhen , Zixian Gao , Qiao Sun , Yilin Zhao , Yuncong Yang , Yilun Du , Pengsheng Guo , Tsun-Hsuan Wang , Yi-Ling Qiao , Chuang Gan

Vision Language Models (VLMs) play a crucial role in robotic manipulation by enabling robots to understand and interpret the visual properties of objects and their surroundings, allowing them to perform manipulation based on this multimodal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Nurhan Bulus Guran , Hanchi Ren , Jingjing Deng , Xianghua Xie

Language-guided robotic manipulation is a challenging task that requires an embodied agent to follow abstract user instructions to accomplish various complex manipulation tasks. Previous work trivially fitting the data without revealing the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Kaidong Zhang , Pengzhen Ren , Bingqian Lin , Junfan Lin , Shikui Ma , Hang Xu , Xiaodan Liang

Robotic systems are increasingly expected to operate in human-centered, unstructured environments where safety, adaptability, and generalization are essential. Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have been proposed as a language guided…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Haochen Su , Cristian Meo , Francesco Stella , Andrea Peirone , Kai Junge , Josie Hughes

Robot manipulation learning from human demonstrations offers a rapid means to acquire skills but often lacks generalization across diverse scenes and object placements. This limitation hinders real-world applications, particularly in…

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong potential for general-purpose robotic manipulation, but their reliance on expert demonstrations limits their ability to learn from failures and perform self-corrections. Reinforcement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Fangqi Zhu , Zhengyang Yan , Zicong Hong , Quanxin Shou , Xiao Ma , Song Guo

The goal of this paper is to improve the performance and reliability of vision-language-action (VLA) models through iterative online interaction. Since collecting policy rollouts in the real world is expensive, we investigate whether a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yanjiang Guo , Tony Lee , Lucy Xiaoyang Shi , Jianyu Chen , Percy Liang , Chelsea Finn

Accurate and reliable motion forecasting is essential for the safe deployment of autonomous vehicles (AVs), particularly in rare but safety-critical scenarios known as corner cases. Existing models often underperform in these situations due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Haicheng Liao , Bonan Wang , Junxian Yang , Chengyue Wang , Zhengbin He , Guohui Zhang , Chengzhong Xu , Zhenning Li

Vision-language-action models (VLAs) have become increasingly popular in robot manipulation for their end-to-end design and remarkable performance. However, existing VLAs rely heavily on vision-language models (VLMs) that only support…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Wei Zhao , Pengxiang Ding , Min Zhang , Zhefei Gong , Shuanghao Bai , Han Zhao , Donglin Wang

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated strong performance in robotic manipulation, yet their closed-loop deployment is hindered by the high latency and compute cost of repeatedly running large vision-language backbones at…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Wenda Yu , Tianshi Wang , Fengling Li , Jingjing Li , Lei Zhu

This paper presents a novel approach for pretraining robotic manipulation Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models using a large corpus of unscripted real-life video recordings of human hand activities. Treating human hand as dexterous robot…

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

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently emerged as powerful generalists for robotic manipulation. However, due to their predominant reliance on visual modalities, they fundamentally lack the physical intuition required for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Yuzhe Huang , Pei Lin , Wanlin Li , Daohan Li , Jiajun Li , Jiaming Jiang , Chenxi Xiao , Ziyuan Jiao

Object-centric learning (OCL) extracts the representation of objects with slots, offering an exceptional blend of flexibility and interpretability for abstracting low-level perceptual features. A widely adopted method within OCL is slot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Ke Fan , Zechen Bai , Tianjun Xiao , Tong He , Max Horn , Yanwei Fu , Francesco Locatello , Zheng Zhang

Learning-based 3D object reconstruction enables single- or few-shot estimation of 3D object models. For robotics, this holds the potential to allow model-based methods to rapidly adapt to novel objects and scenes. Existing 3D reconstruction…

Human Object Interaction (HOI) detection aims to localize and infer the relationships between a human and an object. Arguably, training supervised models for this task from scratch presents challenges due to the performance drop over rare…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Ting Lei , Fabian Caba , Qingchao Chen , Hailin Jin , Yuxin Peng , Yang Liu

The reliance on language in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models introduces ambiguity, cognitive overhead, and difficulties in precise object identification and sequential task execution, particularly in environments with multiple visually…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Donggeon Kim , Seungwon Jan , Hyeonjun Park , Daegyu Lim