ResearchResearch paperRobotics & Embodied AI · Multimodal Models1 source · Oct 21, 2026

UniRAP: Towards Unified Part-level Physical Affordance Reasoning and Actionable Perception

To address this gap, we propose UniRAP, a unified model for inferring part-level physical affordances and mapping language instructions to actionable geometric representations.

Key points

  • Vision-language perception has achieved impressive progress in aligning natural language with visual observations, yet grounding high-level semantics into part-level physical interaction remains challenging.
  • To predict executable contact geometry, we introduce a Unified Affordance Decoder (UAD), which jointly performs object detection, part-level affordance segmentation, and 4-DoF interaction pose estimation by leveraging intermediate segmentation features.
  • In addition, we propose a curriculum-based transfer training strategy that progressively adapts the model from general visual parsing to interaction-aware perception, improving data efficiency under limited textual annotations.
  • Experiments show that UniRAP achieves state-of-the-art performance on referring expression segmentation, affordance grounding, and interaction pose estimation, while maintaining strong spatiotemporal consistency in dynamic video scenarios.

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  • [1]UniRAP: Towards Unified Part-level Physical Affordance Reasoning and Actionable Perception
    arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 21, 02:02 PM
    To address this gap, we propose UniRAP, a unified model for inferring part-level physical affordances and mapping language instructions to actionable geometric representations.
    Vision-language perception has achieved impressive progress in aligning natural language with visual observations, yet grounding high-level semantics into part-level physical interaction remains challenging.

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