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ARXIV:2604.02060 · ROBOTICS AFFORDANCE GROUNDING · SUBMITTED 03 APR · 20:50 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2604.02060ROBOTICS AFFORDANCE GROUNDINGSUBMITTED 03 APR · 20:50 UTCFRESHNESS STALEJingliang Li · Jindou Jia · Tuo An · Chuhao Zhou · Xiangyu Chen · Shilin Shan · +4 at arXiv
A new benchmark and framework for robots to understand implicit intent and select the correct object for a task in cluttered environments.
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A new benchmark and framework for robots to understand implicit intent and select the correct object for a task in cluttered environments. In real-world scenes, multiple objects may share identical affordances, yet only one…
When told to "cut the apple," a robot must choose the knife over nearby scissors, despite both objects affording the same cutting function. In real-world scenes, multiple objects may share identical affordances, yet only…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. Extensive experiments demonstrate state-of-the-art results on both seen and unseen queries, and deployment on a robotic manipulator confirms effective transfer to real-world grasping in…
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A new benchmark and framework for robots to understand implicit intent and select the correct object for a task in cluttered environments.
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10.48550/arXiv.2604.02060A new benchmark and framework for robots to understand implicit intent and select the correct object for a task in cluttered environments.
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When told to "cut the apple," a robot must choose the knife over nearby scissors, despite both objects affording the same cutting function. In real-world scenes, multiple objects may share identical affordances, yet only one is appropriate under the given task context. We call such cases confusing pairs. However, existing 3D affordance methods largely sidestep this challenge by evaluating isolated single objects, often with explicit category names provided in the query. We formalize Multi-Object Affordance Grounding under Intent-Driven Instructions, a new 3D affordance setting that requires predicting a per-point affordance mask on the correct object within a cluttered multi-object point cloud, conditioned on implicit natural language intent. To study this problem, we construct CompassAD, the first benchmark centered on implicit intent in confusable multi-object scenes. It comprises 30 confusing object pairs spanning 16 affordance types, 6,422 scenes, and 88K+ query-answer pairs. Furthermore, we propose CompassNet, a framework that incorporates two dedicated modules tailored to this task. Instance-bounded Cross Injection (ICI) constrains language-geometry alignment within object boundaries to prevent cross-object semantic leakage. Bi-level Contrastive Refinement (BCR) enforces discrimination at both geometric-group and point levels, sharpening distinctions between target and confusable surfaces. Extensive experiments demonstrate state-of-the-art results on both seen and unseen queries, and deployment on a robotic manipulator confirms effective transfer to real-world grasping in confusing multi-object scenes.
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A new benchmark and framework for robots to understand implicit intent and select the correct object for a task in cluttered environments. In real-world scenes, multiple objects may share identical affordances, yet only one is appropriate under the given task context.
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When told to "cut the apple," a robot must choose the knife over nearby scissors, despite both objects affording the same cutting function. In real-world scenes, multiple objects may share identical affordances, yet only one is appropriate under the given task context.
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. Extensive experiments demonstrate state-of-the-art results on both seen and unseen queries, and deployment on a robotic manipulator confirms effective transfer to real-world grasping in confusing multi-ob...
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Robotics Affordance Grounding moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
existing 3D affordance methods largely sidestep this challenge by evaluating isolated single objects, often with explicit category names provided in the query
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We construct CompassAD, the first benchmark centered on implicit intent in confusable multi-object scenes
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It comprises 30 confusing object pairs spanning 16 affordance types, 6,422 scenes, and 88K+ query-answer pairs
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Instance-bounded Cross Injection (ICI) constrains language-geometry alignment within object boundaries to prevent cross-object semantic leakage
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Bi-level Contrastive Refinement (BCR) enforces discrimination at both geometric-group and point levels, sharpening distinctions between target and confusable surfaces
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Extensive experiments demonstrate state-of-the-art results on both seen and unseen queries
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deployment on a robotic manipulator confirms effective transfer to real-world grasping in confusing multi-object scenes
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We formalize Multi-Object Affordance Grounding under Intent-Driven Instructions, a new 3D affordance setting
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