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In recent times, object detection and pose estimation have gained significant attention in the context of robotic vision applications. Both the identification of objects of interest as well as the estimation of their pose remain important…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-20 S. K. Paul , M. T. Chowdhury , M. Nicolescu , M. Nicolescu

This paper introduces an active object detection and localization framework that combines a robust untextured object detection and 3D pose estimation algorithm with a novel next-best-view selection strategy. We address the detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-24 Marco Imperoli , Alberto Pretto

Picking up transparent objects is still a challenging task for robots. The visual properties of transparent objects such as reflection and refraction make the current grasping methods that rely on camera sensing fail to detect and localise…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Jiaqi Jiang , Guanqun Cao , Aaron Butterworth , Thanh-Toan Do , Shan Luo

To achieve a successful grasp, gripper attributes such as its geometry and kinematics play a role as important as the object geometry. The majority of previous work has focused on developing grasp methods that generalize over novel object…

Robotic dexterous grasping is a challenging problem due to the high degree of freedom (DoF) and complex contacts of multi-fingered robotic hands. Existing deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based methods leverage human demonstrations to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Qingtao Liu , Yu Cui , Qi Ye , Zhengnan Sun , Haoming Li , Gaofeng Li , Lin Shao , Jiming Chen

We present a novel approach to robotic grasp planning using both a learned grasp proposal network and a learned 3D shape reconstruction network. Our system generates 6-DOF grasps from a single RGB-D image of the target object, which is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Daniel Yang , Tarik Tosun , Ben Eisner , Volkan Isler , Daniel Lee

Robotic grasp detection is a fundamental capability for intelligent manipulation in unstructured environments. Previous work mainly employed visual and tactile fusion to achieve stable grasp, while, the whole process depending heavily on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Teng Xue , Wenhai Liu , Mingshuo Han , Zhenyu Pan , Jin Ma , Quanquan Shao , Weiming Wang

This study presents a grasping method for objects with uneven mass distribution by leveraging diffusion models to localize the center of gravity (CoG) on unknown objects. In robotic grasping, CoG deviation often leads to postural…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Kang Xiangli , Yage He , Xianwu Gong , Zehan Liu , Yuru Bai

This paper presents a comprehensive survey on vision-based robotic grasping. We conclude three key tasks during vision-based robotic grasping, which are object localization, object pose estimation and grasp estimation. In detail, the object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Guoguang Du , Kai Wang , Shiguo Lian , Kaiyong Zhao

Image recognition is the need of the hour. In order to be able to recognize an image, it is of immense importance that the image should be distinguishable from the background. In the present work, an approach is presented for automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-08 Vivek Kumar , Sumit Pandey , Amrindra Pal , Sandeep Sharma

Recognizing and grasping novel-category objects remains a crucial yet challenging problem in real-world robotic applications. Despite its significance, limited research has been conducted in this specific domain. To address this, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Li Meng , Zhao Qi , Lyu Shuchang , Wang Chunlei , Ma Yujing , Cheng Guangliang , Yang Chenguang

We introduce a novel robotic system for improving unseen object instance segmentation in the real world by leveraging long-term robot interaction with objects. Previous approaches either grasp or push an object and then obtain the…

Autonomous robotic grasping plays an important role in intelligent robotics. However, how to help the robot grasp specific objects in object stacking scenes is still an open problem, because there are two main challenges for autonomous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Hanbo Zhang , Xuguang Lan , Site Bai , Lipeng Wan , Chenjie Yang , Nanning Zheng

We consider the problem of detecting robotic grasps in an RGB-D view of a scene containing objects. In this work, we apply a deep learning approach to solve this problem, which avoids time-consuming hand-design of features. This presents…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-08-22 Ian Lenz , Honglak Lee , Ashutosh Saxena

Locating and grasping of objects by robots is typically performed using visual sensors. Haptic feedback from contacts with the environment is only secondary if present at all. In this work, we explored an extreme case of searching for and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Karel Bartunek , Lukas Rustler , Matej Hoffmann

How should a robot direct active vision so as to ensure reliable grasping? We answer this question for the case of dexterous grasping of unfamiliar objects. By dexterous grasping we simply mean grasping by any hand with more than two…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Ermano Arruda , Jeremy Wyatt , Marek Kopicki

This work introduces our approach to the flat and textureless object grasping problem. In particular, we address the tableware and cutlery manipulation problem where a service robot has to clean up a table. Our solution integrates colour…

In this paper we propose a novel method for in-hand object recognition. The method is composed of a grasp stabilization controller and two exploratory behaviours to capture the shape and the softness of an object. Grasp stabilization plays…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Massimo Regoli , Nawid Jamali , Giorgio Metta , Lorenzo Natale

We present a novel framework for self-supervised grasped object segmentation with a robotic manipulator. Our method successively learns an agnostic foreground segmentation followed by a distinction between manipulator and object solely by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Wout Boerdijk , Martin Sundermeyer , Maximilian Durner , Rudolph Triebel

Object segmentation is an important capability for robotic systems, in particular for grasping. We present a graph- based approach for the segmentation of simple objects from RGB-D images. We are interested in segmenting objects with large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-13 Giorgio Toscana , Stefano Rosa