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20242026
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7 papers

cs.RO2026

Imitating What Works: Simulation-Filtered Modular Policy Learning from Human Videos

Albert J. Zhai, Kuo-Hao Zeng, Jiasen Lu +3

The ability to learn manipulation skills by watching videos of humans has the potential to unlock a new source of highly scalable data for robot learning. Here, we tackle prehensil…

cs.CV2026

CropCraft: Complete Structural Characterization of Crop Plants From Images

Albert J. Zhai, Xinlei Wang, Kaiyuan Li +6

The ability to automatically build 3D digital twins of plants from images has countless applications in agriculture, environmental science, robotics, and other fields. However, cur…

cs.CV2025

Demeter: A Parametric Model of Crop Plant Morphology from the Real World

Tianhang Cheng, Albert J. Zhai, Evan Z. Chen +13

Learning 3D parametric shape models of objects has gained popularity in vision and graphics and has showed broad utility in 3D reconstruction, generation, understanding, and simula…

cs.RO2025

Human-like Navigation in a World Built for Humans

Bhargav Chandaka, Gloria X. Wang, Haozhe Chen +3

When navigating in a man-made environment they haven't visited before--like an office building--humans employ behaviors such as reading signs and asking others for directions. Thes…

cs.CV2025

Uni4D: Unifying Visual Foundation Models for 4D Modeling from a Single Video

David Yifan Yao, Albert J. Zhai, Shenlong Wang

This paper presents a unified approach to understanding dynamic scenes from casual videos. Large pretrained vision foundation models, such as vision-language, video depth predictio…

cs.CV2024

AutoVFX: Physically Realistic Video Editing from Natural Language Instructions

Hao-Yu Hsu, Zhi-Hao Lin, Albert Zhai +2

Modern visual effects (VFX) software has made it possible for skilled artists to create imagery of virtually anything. However, the creation process remains laborious, complex, and…