arXiv Computer Vision
MotionSync: Non-Causal Refinement of Causal Tracker for Label-Efficient 3D Perception
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arXiv Computer Vision
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CST-WM: A Causally Structured World Model for Embodied Visual Tracking
CST‑WM is a causally structured world model designed for embodied visual tracking, where a robot must keep a moving target visible and recover it after occlusion or drift. The model separates state into target‑evidence, robot, and observation branches, removing direct action‑to‑target‑evidence edges to prevent causal hallucination and instead letting actions influence evidence through robot motion and resulting views. Evaluated on EVT‑Bench, Habitat 3.0, and real‑world trials with a Unitree Go2 quadruped, CST‑WM outperforms reactive trackers and other world‑model baselines in following, distance control, safety, and re‑acquisition, achieving 20 of 30 successful real‑world recoveries versus 14 for TrackVLA.
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 28
DAPEVO: Deep Adaptive Patch Frame-Event Visual Odometry
DAPEVO is a learned visual odometry system that independently estimates image and event correspondences at shared patch locations and fuses their correlation evidence before motion refinement. It maintains image and event descriptors for each tracked patch, using a learned scalar gate to combine modality-specific correlation embeddings for each patch–frame edge, followed by a shared recurrent refinement and bundle‑adjustment update. The method supports event‑only observations and modality‑aware keyframe culling, achieving low trajectory error even when RGB frames are sparse or degraded, outperforming DPVO, RAMP‑VO, and event‑only DEVO on UZH‑FPV and TartanEvent datasets.
arXiv AI
Jul 20
Think at 5 Hz, Act at 20 Hz: Asynchronous Fast-Slow Vision-Language-Action Inference for Closed-Loop Driving
arXiv:2607. 15621v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models bring instruction following and scene reasoning to end-to-end driving, but their inference latency collides with the control rate a vehicle requires.
arXiv AI
Aug 24
ForeTime-VLA: Causal Future-Token Distillation from a World Action Model for Conveyor-Belt Manipulation
ForeTime‑VLA is a causal vision‑language‑action policy that distills future‑aware representations from a frozen Fast‑WAM teacher, enabling it to anticipate contact events during conveyor‑belt manipulation. The method compresses current and future video latents into a 64‑dimensional target, uses an eight‑frame history encoder to predict this target along with manipulation phase and time‑to‑transition, and conditions a VLM prefix on future tokens and phase. On a deduplicated conveyor‑belt dataset, ForeTime‑VLA reduces test MAE by 2.63% and L2 by 3.02%, while real‑robot experiments show significantly higher grasp success rates compared to the next‑best reference. whyItMatters":"The approach demonstrates that distilling future‑token knowledge from a world‑action model can improve dynamic manipulation performance without the computational cost of running the teacher at inference time."
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 21
Where Grounding Accuracy Lives on the IoU Curve: Label-Free Inference-Time Boundary Refinement
arXiv:2608. 19553v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision--language models can identify the correct referent while returning an imprecise bounding box.
arXiv AI
Sep 28
Action Forcing: Training World Models on Unsupervised Video by Recovering Underlying Egomotion Bases
The paper introduces Action Forcing, a method that transforms ordinary unlabeled video into action‑supervised training data by extracting egomotion bases through principal component analysis of pixel displacements. This approach yields grounded throttle–yaw control signals without requiring instrumented platforms or manual annotation, and it trains a high‑capacity video model while preventing pixel‑level overfitting via an online latent critic. The authors also critique standard video generation metrics and propose a reference‑free evaluation that measures controllability, plausibility, conjuring, and geometric integrity, showing that their model can reverse, scale, and compose actions despite limited reverse‑action data.