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This work deals with a practical everyday problem: stable object placement on flat surfaces starting from unknown initial poses. Common object-placing approaches require either complete scene specifications or extrinsic sensor measurements,…

Location modeling, or determining where non-existing objects could feasibly appear in a scene, has the potential to benefit numerous computer vision tasks, from automatic object insertion to scene creation in virtual reality. Yet, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Jooyeol Yun , Davide Abati , Mohamed Omran , Jaegul Choo , Amirhossein Habibian , Auke Wiggers

Flexible pick-and-place is a fundamental yet challenging task within robotics, in particular due to the need of an object model for a simple target pose definition. In this work, the robot instead learns to pick-and-place objects using…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Lars Berscheid , Pascal Meißner , Torsten Kröger

We present an algorithm determining where to relocate objects inside a cluttered and confined space while rearranging objects to retrieve a target object. Although methods that decide what to remove have been proposed, planning for the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Sang Hun Cheong , Brian Y. Cho , Jinhwi Lee , ChangHwan Kim , Changjoo Nam

Image editing approaches have become more powerful and flexible with the advent of powerful text-conditioned generative models. However, placing objects in an environment with a precise location and orientation still remains a challenge, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Mohamed Omran , Dimitris Kalatzis , Jens Petersen , Amirhossein Habibian , Auke Wiggers

Robotics research has made significant strides in learning, yet mastering basic skills like object placement remains a fundamental challenge. A key bottleneck is the acquisition of large-scale, high-quality data, which is often a manual and…

Reorienting objects by using supports is a practical yet challenging manipulation task. Owing to the intricate geometry of objects and the constrained feasible motions of the robot, multiple manipulation steps are required for object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Peng Xu , Hu Cheng , Jiankun Wang , Max Q. -H. Meng

We introduce a planner designed to guide robot manipulators in stably placing objects within intricate scenes. Our proposed method reverses the traditional approach to object placement: our planner selects contact points first and then…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Philippe Nadeau , Jonathan Kelly

Robotic pick and place stands at the heart of autonomous manipulation. When conducted in cluttered or complex environments robots must jointly reason about the selected grasp and desired placement locations to ensure success. While several…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Mohanraj Devendran Shanthi , Tucker Hermans

Inexpensive RGB-D cameras that give an RGB image together with depth data have become widely available. We use this data to build 3D point clouds of a full scene. In this paper, we address the task of labeling objects in this 3D point cloud…

Robotics · Computer Science 2011-06-29 Hema Swetha Koppula , Abhishek Anand , Thorsten Joachims , Ashutosh Saxena

Robotic object rearrangement combines the skills of picking and placing objects. When object models are unavailable, typical collision-checking models may be unable to predict collisions in partial point clouds with occlusions, making…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Michael Danielczuk , Arsalan Mousavian , Clemens Eppner , Dieter Fox

The choice of a grasp plays a critical role in the success of downstream manipulation tasks. Consider a task of placing an object in a cluttered scene; the majority of possible grasps may not be suitable for the desired placement. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Zhanpeng He , Nikhil Chavan-Dafle , Jinwook Huh , Shuran Song , Volkan Isler

Place classification is a fundamental ability that a robot should possess to carry out effective human-robot interactions. It is a nontrivial classification problem which has attracted many research. In recent years, there is a high…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Yiyi Liao , Sarath Kodagoda , Yue Wang , Lei Shi , Yong Liu

This work proposes a process for efficiently training a point-wise object detector that enables localizing objects and computing their 6D poses in cluttered and occluded scenes. Accurate pose estimation is typically a requirement for robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Jean-Philippe Mercier , Chaitanya Mitash , Philippe Giguère , Abdeslam Boularias

We consider the problem of sorting a densely cluttered pile of unknown objects using a robot. This yet unsolved problem is relevant in the robotic waste sorting business. By extending previous active learning approaches to grasping, we show…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Janne V. Kujala , Tuomas J. Lukka , Harri Holopainen

For planning rearrangements of objects in a clutter, it is required to know the goal configuration of the objects. However, in real life scenarios, this information is not available most of the time. We introduce a novel method that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Abdul Rahman Dabbour , Esra Erdem , Volkan Patoglu

Robotic grasping in cluttered environments is often infeasible due to obstacles preventing possible grasps. Then, pre-grasping manipulation like shifting or pushing an object becomes necessary. We developed an algorithm that can learn, in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Lars Berscheid , Pascal Meißner , Torsten Kröger

Learning to insert an object instance into an image in a semantically coherent manner is a challenging and interesting problem. Solving it requires (a) determining a location to place an object in the scene and (b) determining its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Donghoon Lee , Sifei Liu , Jinwei Gu , Ming-Yu Liu , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Jan Kautz

While general object recognition is still far from being solved, this paper proposes a way for a robot to recognize every object at an almost human-level accuracy. Our key observation is that many robots will stay in a relatively closed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-13 Shuran Song , Linguang Zhang , Jianxiong Xiao

Relative placement tasks are an important category of tasks in which one object needs to be placed in a desired pose relative to another object. Previous work has shown success in learning relative placement tasks from just a small number…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Jenny Wang , Octavian Donca , David Held