CH ETH ZurichComputer Science (D-INFK)
Researches computer vision, including 3D reconstruction, visual localization and mapping, and spatial perception for mixed reality and robotics.
3D vision & neural rendering Embodied & active vision Robot perception & SLAM2026 DROID-SLAM in the Wild CVPR 2026 From Indoor to Open World: Revealing the Spatial Reasoning Gap in MLLMs CVPR 106 T1 · 119 papers · 24 members · 55 alumni SaveUS StanfordComputer Science Dec 8
Chelsea Finn Assistant Professor of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering Develops robot learning methods, including meta-learning and vision-language-action policies for manipulation.
Manipulation & robot learning Robot perception & SLAM Vision-language & multimodal2026 ALOHA Lightning: Learning Fast and Precise Manipulation ICRA 2026 Cosmos Policy: Fine-Tuning Video Models for Visuomotor Control and Planning ICLR 98 T1 · 112 papers · Group size not listed SaveCN PekingSchool of Computer Science Jan 15
Hao Dong Associate Professor with Tenure Researches embodied AI and intelligent robots, with deep generative models and computer vision for robot manipulation.
Manipulation & robot learning Robot perception & SLAM Generative & foundation models2026 A3D: Adaptive Affordance Assembly with Dual-Arm Manipulation AAAI 2026 AT-VLA: Adaptive Tactile Injection for Enhanced Feedback Reaction in Vision-Language-Action Models CVPR 87 T1 · 120 papers · Group size not listed SaveSG NUSDepartment of Computer Science Dec 15
Angela Yao Dean's Chair Associate Professor Studies visual perception of people, including video understanding of human actions and 3D pose and shape estimation of the body and hands.
3D vision & neural rendering Recognition, detection & segmentation Robot perception & SLAM2026 Adaptive Latent Trajectory Anchoring for Action Segmentation Dataset Condensation ECCV 2026 AffineGS: Unlocking Accurate Geometry in 3DGS via Spatially Varying Affine Rectification NeurIPS 79 T1 · 92 papers · 12 members · 14 alumni SaveCN ZhejiangCollege of Control Science and Engineering Feb 28
Works on robot intelligent perception and learning, including deep learning, SLAM and robot vision.
Robot perception & SLAM Planning, control & multi-robot systems2026 Automatic Data-Free Pruning via Channel Similarity Reconstruction Neurocomputing 2026 KFS: KAN Based Adaptive Frequency Selection Learning Architecture for Long-term Time Series Forecasting Advanced Engineering Informatics 72 T1 · 133 papers · 78 members · 80 alumni SaveCN SJTUDepartment of Automation May 31
Hesheng Wang Tang Jun Yuan Chair Professor Works on intelligent robots, embodied AI, autonomous vehicles and machine vision, directing the Intelligent Robotics and Machine Vision Lab.
Robot perception & SLAM Autonomous vehicles & drones Embodied & active vision2026 A Shared Control Framework for Mobile Robots with Planning-Level Intention Prediction T-RO 2026 ARFlow: Auto-regressive Optical Flow Estimation for Arbitrary-Length Videos via Progressive Next-Frame Forecasting ICLR 64 T1 · 113 papers · 103 members · 87 alumni SaveUS CMURobotics Institute Dec 9
Studies computer vision, including 3D perception for autonomous vehicles, recognition and dynamic scene reconstruction.
3D vision & neural rendering Embodied & active vision Robot perception & SLAM2026 Any4D: Unified Feed-Forward Metric 4D Reconstruction CVPR 2026 Building a Precise Video Language with Human-AI Oversight CVPR 63 T1 · 77 papers · 7 members · 50 alumni SaveCN TsinghuaDepartment of Computer Science and Technology Feb 28
Works on intelligent control, robot and aircraft navigation and control, and perception for artificial cognitive systems.
Planning, control & multi-robot systems Robot perception & SLAM Embodied & active vision2026 All-in-One Image Restoration via Causal-Deconfounding Wavelet-Disentangled Prompt Network TIP 2026 Behavior Regularization with Flow Latent Policy for Offline Reinforcement Learning AAAI 58 T1 · 182 papers · Group size not listed SaveCN ZhejiangCollege of Control Science and Engineering Feb 28
Works on intelligent robotics, including robot perception, cognition, planning, reasoning, decision making and learning.
Planning, control & multi-robot systems Robot perception & SLAM Reasoning & agents2026 Predictive Local Planning with Multi-Step Reward and Q-Value Forecasting ICRA 2026 Shape Sensing and Tip Tracking via Reciprocating Magnet in the Soft Continuum Robot ICRA 58 T1 · 126 papers · Group size not listed SaveCN TsinghuaInstitute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS) Feb 28
Huazhe Xu Assistant Professor Works on deep reinforcement learning, robotics, computer vision, and tactile sensing.
Robot perception & SLAM Reinforcement learning2025 A Forget-and-Grow Strategy for Deep Reinforcement Learning Scaling in Continuous Control ICML 2025 Catch It! Learning to Catch in Flight with Mobile Dexterous Hands ICRA 57 T1 · 58 papers · 12 members SaveUS USCComputer Science Dec 15
Yue Wang Assistant Professor of Computer Science Researches 3D computer vision and robot perception.
3D vision & neural rendering Embodied & active vision Robot perception & SLAM2026 AnchorDream: Repurposing Video Diffusion for Embodiment-Aware Robot Data Synthesis ICRA 2026 Concurrent Prehensile and Nonprehensile Manipulation: A Practical Approach to Multi-Stage Dexterous Tasks IROS 57 T1 · 59 papers · 23 members · 8 alumni SaveCN TsinghuaInstitute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS) Feb 28
Li Yi Assistant Professor Works on 3D computer vision, 3D deep learning, robot perception, and geometric processing.
3D vision & neural rendering Embodied & active vision Robot perception & SLAM2026 AdaDexTrack: Dynamic Modulation for Adaptive and Generalizable Dexterous Manipulation Tracking CVPR 2026 DexNDM: Closing the Reality Gap for Dexterous In-Hand Rotation via Joint-Wise Neural Dynamics Model ICLR 56 T1 · 62 papers · Group size not listed SaveCN TsinghuaInstitute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS) Feb 28
Yang Gao Assistant Professor Works on computer vision and reinforcement learning for robot learning.
Manipulation & robot learning Robot perception & SLAM Reinforcement learning2026 Best of Sim and Real: Decoupled Visuomotor Manipulation via Learning Control in Simulation and Perception in Real ICRA 2026 EasyInsert: A Data Efficient and Generalizable Insertion Policy IROS 53 T1 · 53 papers · 18 members · 6 alumni SaveUS CMURobotics Institute Dec 9
Studies autonomous aerial and ground robots, including SLAM, perception and navigation in degraded environments.
Robot perception & SLAM Autonomous vehicles & drones Embodied & active vision2026 Any4D: Unified Feed-Forward Metric 4D Reconstruction CVPR 2026 AnyThermal: Towards Learning Universal Representations for Thermal Perception ICRA 52 T1 · 83 papers · 42 members · 75 alumni SaveCN SJTUSchool of Artificial Intelligence May 31
Works on embodied intelligence, computer vision and robot learning, leading the MVIG lab.
Manipulation & robot learning Robot perception & SLAM2025 Arti-PG: A Toolbox for Procedurally Synthesizing Large-Scale and Diverse Articulated Objects with Rich Annotations ICCV 2025 CAGE: Causal Attention Enables Data-Efficient Generalizable Robotic Manipulation ICRA 50 T1 · 64 papers · Group size not listed SaveUS UIUCSiebel School of Computing and Data Science Dec 1
Studies computer vision and machine learning, including open-world perception, few-shot learning and 3D and video generation.
3D vision & neural rendering Video understanding Robot perception & SLAM2025 3DGS-Drag: Dragging Gaussians for Intuitive Point-Based 3D Editing ICLR 2025 Aligning Generative Denoising with Discriminative Objectives Unleashes Diffusion for Visual Perception ICLR 50 T1 · 56 papers · 13 members SaveCN ZhejiangCollege of Computer Science and Technology Feb 28
Hao Chen Research Professor Builds vision foundation models, including repurposing generative models for perception tasks (DiCeption, GenPercept) and metric depth estimation (Metric3D).
3D vision & neural rendering Generative & foundation models Robot perception & SLAM2026 ACTIVE-o3: Empowering MLLMs with Active Perception via Pure Reinforcement Learning ICML 2026 Efficient Self-Evaluation for Diffusion Language Models via Sequence Regeneration ACL 48 T1 · 54 papers · Group size not listed SaveCH EPFLCivil Engineering Institute (IIC, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering ENAC) Dec 1
Leads the Visual Intelligence for Transportation lab, developing computer vision and deep learning for autonomous mobility, such as human trajectory…
Embodied & active vision Robot perception & SLAM Time series, anomaly & spatio-temporal data2026 Deformable Gaussian Occupancy: Decoupling Rigid and Nonrigid Motion with Factorized Distillation CVPR 2026 EverAnimate: Minute-Scale Human Animation via Latent Flow Restoration NeurIPS 45 T1 · 107 papers · 12 members · 8 alumni SaveUS StanfordElectrical Engineering Dec 8
Develops robot learning and perception for manipulation, including data collection systems for policies.
Manipulation & robot learning Robot perception & SLAM2026 DexMachina: Functional Retargeting for Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation ICML 2026 DF-ExpEnse: Diffusion Filtered Exploration for Sample Efficient Finetuning ICML 43 T1 · 43 papers · 14 members · 35 alumni SaveUS UC BerkeleyElectrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Dec 1
Studies 3D perception of people and animals from images and video, including neural radiance fields.
3D vision & neural rendering Video understanding Robot perception & SLAM2026 Finite Difference Flow Optimization for RL Post-Training of Text-to-Image Models ECCV 2026 Flow Matching Policy Gradients ICLR 42 T1 · 46 papers · 11 members · 23 alumni Save