We present DemoBridge, an toolkit that turns a single-view RGB stereo recording of a human hand demonstration into an executable, physics-validated robot-arm trajectory. Retargeting across the embodiment gap is hard. A robot arm reaches a target with a long, articulated body whose links carry far more collision volume than a hand. Solving inverse kinematics for the mapped end-effector pose often yields no collision-free solution, and a trajectory imposes this at every waypoint. A single view adds noise, leaving the demonstrated reference inaccurate. At the core of DemoBridge is a single collision-aware planner. It optimizes the whole joint trajectory at once, reasoning jointly over alternative grasp poses, whole-arm and grasped-object collision, and fidelity to the demonstrated path. A physics simulator runs in the loop. It validates each phase as it is produced and backtracks on failure, so a demonstration that cannot be reproduced as given is re-planned rather than discarded. The resulting action sequence is dynamically stable and faithful to the demonstrated manipulation. It also doubles as a ready-to-use simulation rollout for policy learning. Grasp timing is inferred automatically, and the perception backends, robot, and pipeline stages are swappable from configuration. We evaluate whole-pipeline retargeting on three real-demonstration tasks and the planner on a controlled synthetic benchmark. Our code is available at https://gitlab.kuleuven.be/u0123974/demo-bridge/ .
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Composition, the deliberate arrangement of visual elements, is central to how meaning, emotion, and aesthetic quality are conveyed in artwork, yet it remains among the least formalized dimensions of visual understanding. Prior work highlights a persistent gap in learning meaningful compositional representations, attributing it to semantic bias and suggesting that human-inspired approaches may be key. We compare two parallel paradigms for composition analysis: a human-inspired method grounded in perceptual grouping, and fine-tuned foundation models enabled by recent large-scale compositional datasets. The human-inspired approach uses object-centric models for region-level decomposition and a graph attention network to capture spatial relationships between elements. Both paradigms are evaluated on composition score/category prediction, compositional image retrieval, and visual saliency detection. With frozen encoders, the human-inspired method achieves competitive performance while remaining interpretable. When sufficient data enables fine-tuning, large self-supervised models outperform significantly, but at the cost of interpretability and cross-domain generalization. Code and pre-trained models are available on GitHub.
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This work presents a comprehensive survey of CSSL for vision, with connections to emerging vision-language settings and argues that advancing CSSL requires moving beyond small-scale benchmarks towards continual pre-training paradigms for large-scale systems.
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The results suggest that the empirical success of memory replay goes beyond the mitigation of forgetting, actively reintroducing the benefits of data co-observation into the learning process.
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