GPT-4V(ision) for Robotics: Multimodal Task Planning from Human
  Demonstration
Authors: name: Naoki Wake, name: Atsushi Kanehira, name: Kazuhiro Sasabuchi, name: Jun Takamatsu, name: Katsushi Ikeuchi

We introduce a pipeline that enhances a general-purpose Vision Language
Model, GPT-4V(ision), by integrating observations of human actions to
facilitate robotic manipulation. This system analyzes videos of humans
performing tasks and creates executable robot programs that incorporate
affordance insights. The computation starts by analyzing the videos with GPT-4V
to convert environmental and action details into text, followed by a
GPT-4-empowered task planner. In the following analyses, vision systems
reanalyze the video with the task plan. Object names are grounded using an
open-vocabulary object detector, while focus on the hand-object relation helps
to detect the moment of grasping and releasing. This spatiotemporal grounding
allows the vision systems to further gather affordance data (e.g., grasp type,
way points, and body postures). Experiments across various scenarios
demonstrate this method's efficacy in achieving real robots' operations from
human demonstrations in a zero-shot manner. The prompts of GPT-4V/GPT-4 are
available at this project page:
https://microsoft.github.io/GPT4Vision-Robot-Manipulation-Prompts/