Visual affordance and function understanding: A survey

M Hassanin, S Khan, M Tahtali - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2021 - dl.acm.org
Nowadays, robots are dominating the manufacturing, entertainment, and healthcare
industries. Robot vision aims to equip robots with the capabilities to discover information …

Affordpose: A large-scale dataset of hand-object interactions with affordance-driven hand pose

J Jian, X Liu, M Li, R Hu, J Liu - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
How human interact with objects depends on the functional roles of the target objects, which
introduces the problem of affordance-aware hand-object interaction. It requires a large …

Dark, beyond deep: A paradigm shift to cognitive ai with humanlike common sense

Y Zhu, T Gao, L Fan, S Huang, M Edmonds, H Liu… - Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Recent progress in deep learning is essentially based on a “big data for small tasks”
paradigm, under which massive amounts of data are used to train a classifier for a single …

Earthquake safety training through virtual drills

C Li, W Liang, C Quigley, Y Zhao… - IEEE transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent popularity of consumer-grade virtual reality devices, such as the Oculus Rift and the
HTC Vive, has enabled household users to experience highly immersive virtual …

Configurable 3d scene synthesis and 2d image rendering with per-pixel ground truth using stochastic grammars

C Jiang, S Qi, Y Zhu, S Huang, J Lin, LF Yu… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Springer
We propose a systematic learning-based approach to the generation of massive quantities
of synthetic 3D scenes and arbitrary numbers of photorealistic 2D images thereof, with …

See the glass half full: Reasoning about liquid containers, their volume and content

R Mottaghi, C Schenck, D Fox… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Humans have rich understanding of liquid containers and their contents; for example, we
can effortlessly pour water from a pitcher to a cup. Doing so requires estimating the volume …

Benchmarking progress to infant-level physical reasoning in AI

L Weihs, A Yuile, R Baillargeon, C Fisher… - … on Machine Learning …, 2022 - openreview.net
To what extent do modern AI systems comprehend the physical world? We introduce the
open-access Infant-Level Physical Reasoning Benchmark (InfLevel) to gain insight into this …

X-voe: Measuring explanatory violation of expectation in physical events

B Dai, L Wang, B Jia, Z Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Intuitive physics is pivotal for human understanding of the physical world, enabling
prediction and interpretation of events even in infancy. Nonetheless, replicating this level of …

Learning a Generative Model for Multi‐Step Human‐Object Interactions from Videos

H Wang, S Pirk, E Yumer, VG Kim… - Computer Graphics …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Creating dynamic virtual environments consisting of humans interacting with objects is a
fundamental problem in computer graphics. While it is well‐accepted that agent interactions …

Functional workspace optimization via learning personal preferences from virtual experiences

W Liang, J Liu, Y Lang, B Ning… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The functionality of a workspace is one of the most important considerations in both virtual
world design and interior design. To offer appropriate functionality to the user, designers …