ImitDiff: Transferring Foundation-Model Priors for Distraction Robust Visuomotor Policy

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Hauptverfasser: Dong, Yuhang, Ge, Haizhou, Zeng, Yupei, Zhang, Jiangning, Tian, Beiwen, Zhu, Hongrui, Jia, Yufei, Wang, Ruixiang, Xue, Zhucun, Zhou, Guyue, Ma, Longhua, Tian, Guanzhong
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author Dong, Yuhang
Ge, Haizhou
Zeng, Yupei
Zhang, Jiangning
Tian, Beiwen
Zhu, Hongrui
Jia, Yufei
Wang, Ruixiang
Xue, Zhucun
Zhou, Guyue
Ma, Longhua
Tian, Guanzhong
author_facet Dong, Yuhang
Ge, Haizhou
Zeng, Yupei
Zhang, Jiangning
Tian, Beiwen
Zhu, Hongrui
Jia, Yufei
Wang, Ruixiang
Xue, Zhucun
Zhou, Guyue
Ma, Longhua
Tian, Guanzhong
contents Visuomotor imitation learning policies enable robots to efficiently acquire manipulation skills from visual demonstrations. However, as scene complexity and visual distractions increase, policies that perform well in simple settings often experience substantial performance degradation. To address this challenge, we propose ImitDiff, a diffusion-based imitation learning policy guided by fine-grained semantics within a dual-resolution workflow. Leveraging pretrained priors of vision-language foundation models, our method transforms high-level instructions into pixel-level visual semantic masks. These masks guide a dual-resolution perception pipeline that captures both global context (e.g., overall layout) from low-resolution observation and fine-grained local features (e.g., geometric details) from high-resolution observation, enabling the policy to focus on task-relevant regions. Additionally, we introduce a consistency-driven diffusion transformer action head that bridges visual semantic conditions and real-time action generation. Extensive experiments demonstrate that ImitDiff outperforms state-of-the-art vision-language manipulation frameworks, as well as visuomotor imitation learning policies, particularly under increased scene complexity and visual distractions. Notably, ImitDiff exhibits strong generalization in zero-shot settings involving novel objects and visual distractions. Furthermore, our consistency-driven action head achieves an order-of-magnitude improvement in inference speed while maintaining competitive success rates.
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spellingShingle ImitDiff: Transferring Foundation-Model Priors for Distraction Robust Visuomotor Policy
Dong, Yuhang
Ge, Haizhou
Zeng, Yupei
Zhang, Jiangning
Tian, Beiwen
Zhu, Hongrui
Jia, Yufei
Wang, Ruixiang
Xue, Zhucun
Zhou, Guyue
Ma, Longhua
Tian, Guanzhong
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Robotics
Visuomotor imitation learning policies enable robots to efficiently acquire manipulation skills from visual demonstrations. However, as scene complexity and visual distractions increase, policies that perform well in simple settings often experience substantial performance degradation. To address this challenge, we propose ImitDiff, a diffusion-based imitation learning policy guided by fine-grained semantics within a dual-resolution workflow. Leveraging pretrained priors of vision-language foundation models, our method transforms high-level instructions into pixel-level visual semantic masks. These masks guide a dual-resolution perception pipeline that captures both global context (e.g., overall layout) from low-resolution observation and fine-grained local features (e.g., geometric details) from high-resolution observation, enabling the policy to focus on task-relevant regions. Additionally, we introduce a consistency-driven diffusion transformer action head that bridges visual semantic conditions and real-time action generation. Extensive experiments demonstrate that ImitDiff outperforms state-of-the-art vision-language manipulation frameworks, as well as visuomotor imitation learning policies, particularly under increased scene complexity and visual distractions. Notably, ImitDiff exhibits strong generalization in zero-shot settings involving novel objects and visual distractions. Furthermore, our consistency-driven action head achieves an order-of-magnitude improvement in inference speed while maintaining competitive success rates.
title ImitDiff: Transferring Foundation-Model Priors for Distraction Robust Visuomotor Policy
topic Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09649