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A fundamental challenge in manipulating fabric for clothes folding and textiles manufacturing is computing "pick points" to effectively modify the state of an uncertain manifold. We present a supervised deep transfer learning approach to…

Assistive robots should be able to wash, fold or iron clothes. However, due to the variety, deformability and self-occlusions of clothes, creating robot systems for cloth manipulation is challenging. Synthetic data is a promising direction…

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In this paper, we present a novel deep neural network architecture for joint class-agnostic object segmentation and grasp detection for robotic picking tasks using a parallel-plate gripper. We introduce depth-aware Coordinate Convolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Stefan Ainetter , Christoph Böhm , Rohit Dhakate , Stephan Weiss , Friedrich Fraundorfer

Research on automated, image based identification of clothing categories and fashion landmarks has recently gained significant interest due to its potential impact on areas such as robotic clothing manipulation, automated clothes sorting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Thomas Ziegler , Judith Butepage , Michael C. Welle , Anastasiia Varava , Tonci Novkovic , Danica Kragic

Robotic grasp should be carried out in a real-time manner by proper accuracy. Perception is the first and significant step in this procedure. This paper proposes an improved pipeline model trying to detect grasp as a rectangle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Hamed Hosseini , Mehdi Tale Masouleh , Ahmad Kalhor

Early detection and assessment of polyps play a crucial role in the prevention and treatment of colorectal cancer (CRC). Polyp segmentation provides an effective solution to assist clinicians in accurately locating and segmenting polyp…

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Clothes grasping and unfolding is a core step in robotic-assisted dressing. Most existing works leverage depth images of clothes to train a deep learning-based model to recognize suitable grasping points. These methods often utilize physics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Xingyu Zhu , Xin Wang , Jonathan Freer , Hyung Jin Chang , Yixing Gao

Object grasping is a fundamental challenge in robotics and computer vision, critical for advancing robotic manipulation capabilities. Deformable objects, like fabrics and cloths, pose additional challenges due to their non-rigid nature. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Domen Tabernik , Jon Muhovič , Matej Urbas , Danijel Skočaj

Comparing robotic cloth-manipulation systems in a real-world setup is challenging. The fidelity gap between simulation-trained cloth neural controllers and real-world operation hinders the reliable deployment of these methods in physical…

Understanding of deformable object manipulations such as textiles is a challenge due to the complexity and high dimensionality of the problem. Particularly, the lack of a generic representation of semantic states (e.g., \textit{crumpled},…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Georgies Tzelepis , Eren Erdal Aksoy , Júlia Borràs , Guillem Alenyà

Fabric manipulation is a long-standing challenge in robotics due to the enormous state space and complex dynamics. Learning approaches stand out as promising for this domain as they allow us to learn behaviours directly from data. Most…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Robert Lee , Jad Abou-Chakra , Fangyi Zhang , Peter Corke

To be effective in unstructured and changing environments, robots must learn to recognize new objects. Deep learning has enabled rapid progress for object detection and segmentation in computer vision; however, this progress comes at the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Victoria Florence , Jason J. Corso , Brent Griffin

Clothing segmentation and fine-grained attribute recognition are challenging tasks at the crossing of computer vision and fashion, which segment the entire ensemble clothing instances as well as recognize detailed attributes of the clothing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Hao Tian , Yu Cao , P. Y. Mok

The reliability of grasp detection for target objects in complex scenes is a challenging task and a critical problem that needs to be solved urgently in practical application. At present, the grasp detection location comes from searching…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Mingshuai Dong , Shimin Wei , Xiuli Yu , Jianqin Yin

This review presents various image segmentation methods using complex networks. Image segmentation is one of the important steps in image analysis as it helps analyze and understand complex images. At first, it has been tried to classify…

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We present an accurate, real-time approach to robotic grasp detection based on convolutional neural networks. Our network performs single-stage regression to graspable bounding boxes without using standard sliding window or region proposal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Joseph Redmon , Anelia Angelova

Benchmarking of robotic manipulations is one of the open issues in robotic research. An important factor that has enabled progress in this area in the last decade is the existence of common object sets that have been shared among different…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Irene Garcia-Camacho , Júlia Borràs , Berk Calli , Adam Norton , Guillem Alenyà

Garment manipulation is a significant challenge for robots due to the complex dynamics and potential self-occlusion of garments. Most existing methods of efficient garment unfolding overlook the crucial role of standardization of flattened…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Changshi Zhou , Feng Luan , Jiarui Hu , Shaoqiang Meng , Zhipeng Wang , Yanchao Dong , Yanmin Zhou , Bin He

Learning to manipulate cloth is both a paradigmatic problem for robotic research and a problem of immediate relevance to a variety of applications ranging from assistive care to the service industry. The complex physics of the deformable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Jack Rome , Stephen James , Subramanian Ramamoorthy

With more and more household objects built on planned obsolescence and consumed by a fast-growing population, hazardous waste recycling has become a critical challenge. Given the large variability of household waste, current recycling…

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