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OC-VLA++ advances robotic manipulation by enforcing cross-view action equivariance, ensuring consistent robot commands despite limited camera coverage or viewpoint shifts. This approach complements existing observation-centric grounding methods to improve generalization in real-world deployment scenarios where visual data is sparse. By explicitly supervising how predictions transform across geometrically related viewpoints, the model mitigates overfitting without relying solely on image-level augmentation.
OC-VLA++: Monocular Geometry-Guided Cross-View Consistency for Viewpoint-Robust Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2608.01066v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose OC-VLA++, an extension of OC-VLA for viewpoint generalization under limited camera coverage. While OC-VLA grounds robot actions in the camera coordinate system to align action supervision with visual observations, camera-space grounding alone can still overfit to the few viewpoints observed during training. OC-VLA++ addresses this limitation by introducing geometry-guided paired-view supervision and an explicit cross-view action-equivariance objective. Given paired observations of the same manipulation scene from geometrically related viewpoints, the model is trained such that their camera-space predictions correspond to the same robot-frame action. This objective explicitly supervises how action predictions should transform across viewpoints, rather than relying solely on image-level augmentation. Experiments demonstrate substantial improvements in unseen-view generalization under limited camera coverage, with performance degrading more gracefully under increasing camera displacement. These results establish cross-view action equivariance as an effective complement to observation-centric action grounding for robust real-world deployment.
Abstract:We propose OC-VLA++, an extension of OC-VLA for viewpoint generalization under limited camera coverage. While OC-VLA grounds robot actions in the camera coordinate system to align action supervision with visual observations, camera-space grounding alone can still overfit to the few viewpoints observed during training. OC-VLA++ addresses this limitation by introducing geometry-guided paired-view supervision and an explicit cross-view action-equivariance objective. Given paired observations of the same manipulation scene from geometrically related viewpoints, the model is trained such that their camera-space predictions correspond to the same robot-frame action. This objective explicitly supervises how action predictions should transform across viewpoints, rather than relying solely on image-level augmentation. Experiments demonstrate substantial improvements in unseen-view generalization under limited camera coverage, with performance degrading more gracefully under increasing camera displacement. These results establish cross-view action equivariance as an effective complement to observation-centric action grounding for robust real-world deployment.
Robotics (cs.RO)
arXiv:2608.01066 [cs.RO]
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