ResearchResearch paperRobotics & Embodied AI1 source · Oct 20, 2026

Real2Sem2Real: 3D Semantic Augmentations for Robot Learning from a Single Human RGB Demonstration

We present Real2Sem2Real (R2Sem2R), a real-to-semantic-to-real pipeline that turns one monocular RGB video of a human demonstration into thousands of robot demonstrations across the semantic object instances of a category.

Key points

  • Human video scales easily and does not need robot hardware, but existing methods require depth sensing, overlay the robot onto 2D video, or generate data only for the demonstrated objects.
  • R2Sem2R tracks the SE(3) pose of each object with DINOv3-distilled Gaussian splats, outperforming existing methods and FoundationPose with estimated metric depth.
  • R2Sem2R maps the human hand to a feasible robot grasp that extends to the cousins.
  • On two real robots and four tasks, we train a vision-language-action policy on data from one human video per task, and policies trained on our data match or exceed policies trained on teleoperation across diverse object instances.

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  • [1]Real2Sem2Real: 3D Semantic Augmentations for Robot Learning from a Single Human RGB Demonstration
    arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 20, 07:59 PM
    We present Real2Sem2Real (R2Sem2R), a real-to-semantic-to-real pipeline that turns one monocular RGB video of a human demonstration into thousands of robot demonstrations across the semantic object instances of a category.
    Human video scales easily and does not need robot hardware, but existing methods require depth sensing, overlay the robot onto 2D video, or generate data only for the demonstrated objects.

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