arXiv:2607. 07885v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dynamic obstacle avoidance in unstructured outdoor environments remains a critical challenge for autonomous mobile robots, particularly when large-scale robot-specific training data and simulation-based policies are impractical.
By Erik Jagnandan, Mulugeta Haile, Gregory Barber, Pratik Chaudhari
arXiv:2608. 04515v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Slice-based MLLMs leverage mature 2D encoders by representing 3D volumes as sequences of 2D slices.
By Zhenyu Yi, Qiang Hu, Zhenhao Li, Jiaxuan Zhao, Yusong Sun, Lichi Zhang
arXiv:2606. 00746v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision foundation models are bottlenecked by the quadratic cost of self-attention, which limits usable resolution and increases the cost of large-scale pretraining.
By Yitong Jiang, Hongjun Wang, Collin McCarthy, Hanrong Ye, David Wehr, Xinhao Li, Qi Dou, Tianfan Xue, Ka Chun Cheung, Simon See, Wonmin Byeon, Ke Chen, Kai Han, Jinwei Gu, Hongxu Yin, Pavlo Molchanov, Jan Kautz, Sifei Liu
Monocular depth estimation has seen remarkable progress through foundation models achieving robust zero-shot generalization, yet their computational demands place them far beyond the reach of embedded and mobile platforms. Lightweight alternatives exist, but have been developed almost exclusively within single-domain, self-supervised paradigms, failing silently under domain shift.
arXiv:2606. 29350v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models and vision-language action models endow the robot with unprecedented capabilities.
By Junzhou Chen, Jindong Wang, Gang Zhou
arXiv:2606. 03940v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In robotics systems, vast amounts of visual data are easily captured at high resolution using low-cost, low-power hardware.
By Dan Jacobellis, Neeraja J. Yadwadkar