固有感覚で画像と視線を整列させる視点ロバスト操作の表現学習
PAIR: Proprioception-Aligned Image-Ray Representations for Viewpoint-Robust Manipulation
ロボットの固有感覚を手がかりに画像とカメラ視線の表現を対比学習で揃え、視点が変わっても頑健に操作できる視覚運動方策を実現するフレームワークPAIRを提案した。
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著者: Sung-Wook Lee, Xuhui Kang, Dylan Losey, Yen-Ling Kuo
分類: cs.RO
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While imitation learning has made substantial progress toward generalizable robot manipulation through scaling, viewpoint robustness remains a major bottleneck. Visuomotor policies rely heavily on visual inputs, yet images provide an inherently ambiguous signal under viewpoint change: similar scenes may appear markedly different across viewpoints, while distinct states may share certain visual overlaps. A policy must therefore infer not only the task-relevant state, but also how it is visually projected under a particular camera configuration. This entanglement of viewpoint-dependent appearance and task-relevant state can make learning inefficient and limit generalization to unseen viewpoints. Recent work has begun to address this challenge through camera-ray conditioning and representation learning using geometric cues to induce invariance. However, providing camera information as additional context does not by itself ground visual representations in how the task scene is visually projected, while geometric alignment without camera context can introduce spurious correspondences by ignoring viewpoint-dependent projection. We propose PAIR, a contrastive learning framework that aligns joint image-ray representations using robot proprioception. PAIR encourages observations with similar robot states to remain close in representation space across viewpoints, providing a structured grounding signal for learning viewpoint-robust features. PAIR is a highly adaptable framework: it can be used to train Diffusion Policy (DP) or post-train vision-language-action (VLA) models. In simulated and real-world manipulation benchmarks with camera variation, PAIR consistently outperforms the behavior cloning baseline without ray conditioning by 12.7% and 26.7% points, respectively, demonstrating stronger generalization to unseen viewpoints. Project website: PAIRrobot.github.io.