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20172026
most citedWenLan: Bridging Vision and Language by Large-Scale Multi-Modal Pre-Training

84 citations · 262 across the 47 of their papers we have counts for

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51 papers

cs.CV2026

Flow Matching in Feature Space for Stochastic World Modeling

Francois Porcher, Nicolas Carion, Karteek Alahari +1

World modeling requires forecasting uncertain futures while preserving information useful for downstream perception. Existing visual world models often struggle to satisfy both goa…

cs.RO2026

PointACT: Vision-Language-Action Models with Multi-Scale Point-Action Interaction

Shizhe Chen, Paul Pacaud, Cordelia Schmid

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong potential for general-purpose robotic manipulation by leveraging large pretrained vision-language backbones. However, most exi…

cs.CV2026

MAGICIAN: Efficient Long-Term Planning with Imagined Gaussians for Active Mapping

Shiyao Li, Antoine Guédon, Shizhe Chen +1

Active mapping aims to determine how an agent should move to efficiently reconstruct unknown environments. Most existing approaches rely on greedy next-best-view prediction, result…

cs.CV2026

HO-Flow: Generalizable Hand-Object Interaction Generation with Latent Flow Matching

Zerui Chen, Rolandos Alexandros Potamias, Shizhe Chen +3

Generating realistic 3D hand-object interactions (HOI) is a fundamental challenge in computer vision and robotics, requiring both temporal coherence and high-fidelity physical plau…

cs.RO2025

Guardian: Detecting Robotic Planning and Execution Errors with Vision-Language Models

Paul Pacaud, Ricardo Garcia, Shizhe Chen +1

Robust robotic manipulation requires reliable failure detection and recovery. Although recent Vision-Language Models (VLMs) show promise in robot failure detection, their generaliz…

cs.RO2025

FOM-Nav: Frontier-Object Maps for Object Goal Navigation

Thomas Chabal, Shizhe Chen, Jean Ponce +1

This paper addresses the Object Goal Navigation problem, where a robot must efficiently find a target object in an unknown environment. Existing implicit memory-based methods strug…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

FACap: A Large-scale Fashion Dataset for Fine-grained Composed Image Retrieval

François Gardères, Shizhe Chen, Camille-Sovanneary Gauthier +1

The composed image retrieval (CIR) task is to retrieve target images given a reference image and a modification text. Recent methods for CIR leverage large pretrained vision-langua…

cs.RO2025

Gondola: Grounded Vision Language Planning for Robotic Manipulation

Shizhe Chen, Ricardo Garcia, Paul Pacaud +1

Vision-language-action (VLA) models have shown promising progress in robotic manipulation. However, directly mapping visual observations and language instructions to low-level acti…

cs.CV2025

ComposeAnything: Composite Object Priors for Text-to-Image Generation

Zeeshan Khan, Shizhe Chen, Cordelia Schmid

Generating images from text involving complex and novel object arrangements remains a significant challenge for current text-to-image (T2I) models. Although prior layout-based meth…

cs.CV2025

HORT: Monocular Hand-held Objects Reconstruction with Transformers

Zerui Chen, Rolandos Alexandros Potamias, Shizhe Chen +1

Reconstructing hand-held objects in 3D from monocular images remains a significant challenge in computer vision. Most existing approaches rely on implicit 3D representations, which…

cs.CV2025

NextBestPath: Efficient 3D Mapping of Unseen Environments

Shiyao Li, Antoine Guédon, Clémentin Boittiaux +2

This work addresses the problem of active 3D mapping, where an agent must find an efficient trajectory to exhaustively reconstruct a new scene. Previous approaches mainly predict t…

cs.RO2024

Towards Generalizable Vision-Language Robotic Manipulation: A Benchmark and LLM-guided 3D Policy

Ricardo Garcia, Shizhe Chen, Cordelia Schmid

Generalizing language-conditioned robotic policies to new tasks remains a significant challenge, hampered by the lack of suitable simulation benchmarks. In this paper, we address t…

cs.CV2024

Think-Program-reCtify: 3D Situated Reasoning with Large Language Models

Qingrong He, Kejun Lin, Shizhe Chen +2

This work addresses the 3D situated reasoning task which aims to answer questions given egocentric observations in a 3D environment. The task remains challenging as it requires com…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

ViViDex: Learning Vision-based Dexterous Manipulation from Human Videos

Zerui Chen, Shizhe Chen, Etienne Arlaud +2

In this work, we aim to learn a unified vision-based policy for multi-fingered robot hands to manipulate a variety of objects in diverse poses. Though prior work has shown benefits…

cs.CV2024

SUGAR: Pre-training 3D Visual Representations for Robotics

Shizhe Chen, Ricardo Garcia, Ivan Laptev +1

Learning generalizable visual representations from Internet data has yielded promising results for robotics. Yet, prevailing approaches focus on pre-training 2D representations, be…

cs.RO2023★ 4 cited

PolarNet: 3D Point Clouds for Language-Guided Robotic Manipulation

Shizhe Chen, Ricardo Garcia, Cordelia Schmid +1

The ability for robots to comprehend and execute manipulation tasks based on natural language instructions is a long-term goal in robotics. The dominant approaches for language-gui…

cs.CV2023

Explore and Tell: Embodied Visual Captioning in 3D Environments

Anwen Hu, Shizhe Chen, Liang Zhang +1

While current visual captioning models have achieved impressive performance, they often assume that the image is well-captured and provides a complete view of the scene. In real-wo…

cs.CV2023

Object Goal Navigation with Recursive Implicit Maps

Shizhe Chen, Thomas Chabal, Ivan Laptev +1

Object goal navigation aims to navigate an agent to locations of a given object category in unseen environments. Classical methods explicitly build maps of environments and require…

cs.RO2023

Robust Visual Sim-to-Real Transfer for Robotic Manipulation

Ricardo Garcia, Robin Strudel, Shizhe Chen +3

Learning visuomotor policies in simulation is much safer and cheaper than in the real world. However, due to discrepancies between the simulated and real data, simulator-trained po…

cs.CV2023

InfoMetIC: An Informative Metric for Reference-free Image Caption Evaluation

Anwen Hu, Shizhe Chen, Liang Zhang +1

Automatic image captioning evaluation is critical for benchmarking and promoting advances in image captioning research. Existing metrics only provide a single score to measure capt…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

gSDF: Geometry-Driven Signed Distance Functions for 3D Hand-Object Reconstruction

Zerui Chen, Shizhe Chen, Cordelia Schmid +1

Signed distance functions (SDFs) is an attractive framework that has recently shown promising results for 3D shape reconstruction from images. SDFs seamlessly generalize to differe…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

TeViS:Translating Text Synopses to Video Storyboards

Xu Gu, Yuchong Sun, Feiyue Ni +5

A video storyboard is a roadmap for video creation which consists of shot-by-shot images to visualize key plots in a text synopsis. Creating video storyboards, however, remains cha…

cs.CV2022★ 14 cited

Language Conditioned Spatial Relation Reasoning for 3D Object Grounding

Shizhe Chen, Pierre-Louis Guhur, Makarand Tapaswi +2

Localizing objects in 3D scenes based on natural language requires understanding and reasoning about spatial relations. In particular, it is often crucial to distinguish similar ob…

cs.RO2022★ 7 cited

Instruction-driven history-aware policies for robotic manipulations

Pierre-Louis Guhur, Shizhe Chen, Ricardo Garcia +3

In human environments, robots are expected to accomplish a variety of manipulation tasks given simple natural language instructions. Yet, robotic manipulation is extremely challeng…