# Visual Affordance Prediction: Survey and Reproducibility

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05074 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.05074/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 96 of its 147 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 8 May 2025.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 96)

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## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Uncertainty Estimation in Instance Segmentation of Affordances via Bayesian Visual Transformers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.03614/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Affordances are the potential actions an agent can perform on an object, as observed by a camera. Visual affordance prediction is formulated differently for tasks such as grasping detection, affordance classification, affordance segmentation, and hand pose estimation. This diversity in formulations leads to inconsistent definitions that prevent fair comparisons between methods. In this paper, we propose a unified formulation of visual affordance prediction by accounting for the complete information on the objects of interest and the interaction of the agent with the objects to accomplish a task. This unified formulation allows us to comprehensively and systematically review disparate visual affordance works, highlighting strengths and limitations of both methods and datasets. We also discuss reproducibility issues, such as the unavailability of methods implementation and experimental setups details, making benchmarks for visual affordance prediction unfair and unreliable. To favour transparency, we introduce the Affordance Sheet, a document that details the solution, datasets, and validation of a method, supporting future reproducibility and fairness in the community.