DemoBridge: A Simulation-in-the-Loop Toolkit for Single-View Human Demonstration Retargeting

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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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