Reliable uncertainty estimation is important across visual recognition tasks, providing information about the confidence and reliability of model predictions. Many uncertainty estimation methods…
Geometric structure is essential for robotic manipulation and understanding the 3D world. Most VLA models rely on 2D representations of current observations, while geometry-aware approaches often…
Autonomous mobile robots operating in dense crowds and cluttered sites require $360^\circ$ perception to react to surrounding hazards. While panoramic LiDAR offers full-surround coverage, learning…
Movement primitives commonly represent robot mo- tions through basis functions indexed by time or phase. Inspired by spacetime representations employed in physics, we propose a spline-based…
This paper presents a novel strategy for UAV detection through visible (RGB) and infrared (IR) fusion, in order to improve accuracy and precision in harsh environments and weather conditions. In this…
Vision-language perception has achieved impressive progress in aligning natural language with visual observations, yet grounding high-level semantics into part-level physical interaction remains…
With the advent of foundation models, robots are increasingly capable of understanding and executing explicitly specified human tasks. Extending these capabilities to open-ended tasks, however,…
Compact chest X-ray (CXR) models that localize findings suit deployment, but box annotations are limited and report-aware multimodal models are expensive at inference. We introduce APED-CXR, which…
Vision-language-action (VLA) policies need to recognize gaps in their training knowledge to request useful demonstrations or assistance in new situations, especially when failures are costly.…
We present SpatialDex, a framework that learns 3D-grounded bimanual dexterity from RGB-only human videos through reconstruction-augmented visuomotor pre-training. The central idea is to learn human…
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) show promising reasoning capabilities, but reliable physical interaction requires planning that accounts for when actions are executable and how they change…
Backpropagation remains the dominant training paradigm, using backward gradients and local updates that can suffer from vanishing or exploding gradients in deep networks. Although the Forward-Forward…
During steady pouring, images and robot pose may remain nearly unchanged while transferred mass accumulates, making the return decision ambiguous for a whole-task vision-language-action (VLA) policy.…
As social agents become embedded in human relationships, they are expected not only to provide smooth assistance but also to handle rejection, discomfort, jealousy, persistence, and other forms of…
Video anomaly detection (VAD) is a challenging task for surveillance systems due to the scarcity and diversity of anomalous events. While semi-supervised VAD approaches have advanced the field, many…
Many robotic construction applications, such as progress tracking, require registering a sensor trajectory to a prior 2D floor plan. Visual capture is attractive for its low cost and availability,…
Object detection models for autonomous driving commonly experience substantial performance drops when deployed under adverse weather due to the domain shift between training data and real-world…
Iris recognition systems are vulnerable to presentation attacks (PAs), including textured contact lenses, print replays, and synthetic irises. Existing PAD methods rely on supervised learning with…
Despite the success of foundation models in image synthesis, achieving fine-grained spatial control remains a significant challenge, typically requiring auxiliary structural adapters or complex…
In this article, we propose ContactFlowFilter, a novel approach for contact estimation that determines the number of active contacts, their locations, and the associated force vectors. We consider a…
Fine-grained multimodal intelligence requires models to both understand a designated region and localize it from language. Existing methods learn these directions with separate objectives and…
Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have seen broad adoption, but their biases are still far less examined than those of standard LLMs, creating possible social harms when deployed in…
Curriculum learning orders samples by difficulty, but difficulty alone does not establish supervision reliability for dense prediction. Easy samples can expose shortcuts, hard samples can be…
Low-NFE generative ODE sampling is constrained not only by solver order, but also by how a fixed budget of network evaluations is distributed along the flow. We develop a density-level backward-error…