Projector-camera (ProCams) systems achieve active scene perception and controllable appearance manipulation via structured illumination, serving as a core infrastructure for spatial augmented reality, projection mapping, and surface reflectance acquisition. Existing inverse-rendering methods for ProCams deliver high-fidelity results but rely on time-consuming per-scene optimization, while mainstream feed-forward 3D reconstruction models produce baked appearance that cannot adapt to spatially varying projector illumination.
Class-agnostic 3D instance segmentation is critical for robotic systems operating in unknown environments, enabling perception of previously unseen objects for reliable manipulation and navigation. Existing approaches typically project per-frame 2D instance masks into 3D and merge them, which often breaks object identities across time and yields fragmented 3D instances.
Recent sign language generation (SLG) systems increasingly output dense 3D body representations, which better preserve full-body kinematics and geometry for downstream embodiment on humanoid robots. However, these generated motions frequently exhibit self-intersections such as hand-hand and hand-torso penetration.
Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) provides a powerful framework for learning from demonstrations. However, real-world tasks often exhibit substantial natural variations (e.
In logistics automation, precise segmentation of unseen objects is crucial for efficient robotic manipulation in cluttered environments. Tasks such as bin-picking and shelf-picking require robust perception to handle occlusions, varying object shapes, and complex spatial arrangements.
arXiv:2607. 16012v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-Task Learning (MTL) in robotics perception systems supports comprehensive 3D spatial scene understanding by integrating semantic segmentation and depth estimation.
By Jehun Kang, Jungha Wang, Youngjun Hwang, David Hyunchul Shim
arXiv:2508. 00307v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce a U-net model for 360{\deg} acoustic source localization formulated as a spherical semantic segmentation task.
By Belman Jahir Rodriguez, Sergio F. Chevtchenko, Marcelo Herrera Martinez, Yeshwanth Bethi, Saeed Afshar
arXiv:2607. 15880v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Imitation Learning aims to learn skills from extensive observations and demonstrations for robots, so it suffers from data scarcity and environment generalization.
By Zhenduo Shang, Xiyao Liu, Bohan Li, Xudong Wang, Teng Ren, Lianqing Liu, Zhi Han
arXiv:2603. 03751v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Cooperative object transport in unstructured environments remains challenging for assistive humanoids because strong, time-varying interaction forces can make tracking-centric whole-body control unreliable, especially in close-contact support tasks.
By Hao Zhang, Yves Tseng, Ding Zhao, H. Eric Tseng
arXiv:2603. 13545v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: AI development has a fiction dependency problem.
By Katherine Elkins
arXiv:2607. 15935v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has a longstanding tradition in addressing the reach-avoid task problem, especially for controlling robotic arms.
By Jonas Weihing, Shahram Eivazi
arXiv:2607. 15883v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are broadly capable, yet in sustained one-to-one conversation they still read as flat: competent, responsive, and somehow not quite the presence of a mind.
By Sebastian Cochinescu
arXiv:2607. 15589v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Communication-limited robots in mission-critical scenarios such as disaster inspection and search-and-rescue must make reliable onboard decisions without access to remote operators or high-capacity reasoning services.
By Rajat Bhattacharjya, Hyeonjong Ju, Sing-Yao Wu, Eli Bozorgzadeh, Nikil Dutt
arXiv:2607. 16074v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The post-training of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models is essential due to the diversity of simulators, robot embodiments, and task objectives.
By Haoran Sun, Wentao Zhang, Junyang Hua, Hedan Yang, Yongjian Guo, Yifei Zhang, Xiaolong Xiang, Mingxi Luo, Jing Long, Chen Zhao, Chen Zhou, Wanting Xu, Qiming Yang, Hui Zhang, Song Wang, Xiaodong Bai, Shuai Di, Xu Chu, Xiaotie Deng, Yicheng Gong, Junwu Xiong
arXiv:2510. 00182v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While we know that large language models (LLMs) can solve some planning problems, we do not understand the extent of these capabilities for robotics.
By Jorge Mendez-Mendez
arXiv:2607. 15868v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human motion capture from head-mounted devices (HMDs) offers a scalable way to acquire real-world human motion and interaction data, which is crucial for applications in embodied AI and VR/AR.
By Jiaxi Jiang, Bharat Lal Bhatnagar, Nan Yang, Lingni Ma, Sebastian Starke, Robin Kips, Nadine Bertsch, Christian Holz, Federica Bogo
arXiv:2607. 15713v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate and robust wireless localization is a critical enabler for emerging 5G/6G applications, including autonomous driving, extended reality, and smart manufacturing.
By Yong Chu, Xun Zhou, Zenglin Xu, Hui Wang, Yue Yu
arXiv:2601. 00898v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion-based policies have gained growing popularity in solving a wide range of decision-making tasks due to their superior expressiveness and controllable generation during inference.
By Ruiming Liang, Yinan Zheng, Kexin Zheng, Tianyi Tan, Jianxiong Li, Liyuan Mao, Zhihao Wang, Guang Chen, Hangjun Ye, Jingjing Liu, Jinqiao Wang, Xianyuan Zhan
arXiv:2607. 15620v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-driving laboratories increasingly rely on low-cost liquid handlers such as the Opentrons OT-2, which ship without the pressure-based aspiration monitoring of Hamilton or Tecan systems and are typically run open-loop.
By Priyanka V. Setty, Arvind Ramanathan, Ian Foster, Rick Stevens
arXiv:2506. 04147v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Building capable household and industrial robots requires mastering the control of versatile, high-degree-of-freedom (DoF) systems such as mobile manipulators.
By Jiaheng Hu, Peter Stone, Roberto Mart\'in-Mart\'in