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Supervised learning with large scale labeled datasets and deep layered models has made a paradigm shift in diverse areas in learning and recognition. However, this approach still suffers generalization issues under the presence of a domain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-03-28 Ozan Sener , Hyun Oh Song , Ashutosh Saxena , Silvio Savarese

Multimodal information (e.g., visible and thermal) can generate robust pedestrian detections to facilitate around-the-clock computer vision applications, such as autonomous driving and video surveillance. However, it still remains a crucial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Dayan Guan , Xing Luo , Yanpeng Cao , Jiangxin Yang , Yanlong Cao , George Vosselman , Michael Ying Yang

Integrating robotically driven contact-based material characterization techniques into self-driving laboratories can enhance measurement quality, reliability, and throughput. While deep learning models support robust autonomy, current…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Alexander E. Siemenn , Basita Das , Kangyu Ji , Fang Sheng , Tonio Buonassisi

This paper presents a Simple and effective unsupervised adaptation method for Robust Object Detection (SimROD). To overcome the challenging issues of domain shift and pseudo-label noise, our method integrates a novel domain-centric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Rindra Ramamonjison , Amin Banitalebi-Dehkordi , Xinyu Kang , Xiaolong Bai , Yong Zhang

The hype about sensorimotor learning is currently reaching high fever, thanks to the latest advancement in deep learning. In this paper, we present an open-source framework for collecting large-scale, time-synchronised synthetic data from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-24 A. Barsky , C. Zito , H. Mori , T. Ogata , J. L. Wyatt

Many of the existing methods for learning joint embedding of images and text use only supervised information from paired images and its textual attributes. Taking advantage of the recent success of unsupervised learning in deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Yao-Hung Hubert Tsai , Liang-Kang Huang , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Wearable devices like exoskeletons are designed to reduce excessive loads on specific joints of the body. Specifically, single- or two-degrees-of-freedom (DOF) upper-body industrial exoskeletons typically focus on compensating for the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Emir Mobedi , Gokhan Solak , Arash Ajoudani

Model-based controllers using a linearized model around the system's equilibrium point is a common approach in the control of a wheeled humanoid due to their less computational load and ease of stability analysis. However, controlling a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Donghoon Baek , Youngwoo Sim , Amartya Purushottam , Saurabh Gupta , Joao Ramos

Unsupervised domain adaptation aims to transfer knowledge from a source domain to a target domain so that the target domain data can be recognized without any explicit labelling information for this domain. One limitation of the problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Qian Wang , Penghui Bu , Toby P. Breckon

Scalable systems for automated driving have to reliably cope with an open-world setting. This means, the perception systems are exposed to drastic domain shifts, like changes in weather conditions, time-dependent aspects, or geographic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Larissa T. Triess , Mariella Dreissig , Christoph B. Rist , J. Marius Zöllner

Unsupervised domain adaptation aims to transfer knowledge from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain. Previous methods focus on learning domain-invariant features to decrease the discrepancy between the feature distributions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Yuntao Du , Yinghao Chen , Fengli Cui , Xiaowen Zhang , Chongjun Wang

With the rapid development of deep reinforcement learning technology, it gradually demonstrates excellent potential and is becoming the most promising solution in the robotics. However, in the smart manufacturing domain, there is still not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Matsive Ali , Sandesh Giri , Sen Liu , Qin Yang

Soft robots manufactured with flexible materials can be highly compliant and adaptive to their surroundings, which facilitates their application in areas such as dexterous manipulation and environmental exploration. This paper aims at…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Renjie Ma , Ziyao Qu , Zhijian Hu , Dong Zhao , Marios M. Polycarpou

Sub-\SI{50}{\gram} nano-drones are gaining momentum in both academia and industry. Their most compelling applications rely on onboard deep learning models for perception despite severe hardware constraints (\ie sub-\SI{100}{\milli\watt}…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Elia Cereda , Manuele Rusci , Alessandro Giusti , Daniele Palossi

Accurate lane detection, a crucial enabler for autonomous driving, currently relies on obtaining a large and diverse labeled training dataset. In this work, we explore learning from abundant, randomly generated synthetic data, together with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Noa Garnett , Roy Uziel , Netalee Efrat , Dan Levi

Robotic learning in simulation environments provides a faster, more scalable, and safer training methodology than learning directly with physical robots. Also, synthesizing images in a simulation environment for collecting large-scale image…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Tadanobu Inoue , Subhajit Chaudhury , Giovanni De Magistris , Sakyasingha Dasgupta

Soft bodies made from flexible and deformable materials are popular in many robotics applications, but their proprioceptive sensing has been a long-standing challenge. In other words, there has hardly been a method to measure and model the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Ruoyu Wang , Shiheng Wang , Songyu Du , Erdong Xiao , Wenzhen Yuan , Chen Feng

Due to their inherent compliance, soft robots are more versatile than rigid linked robots when they interact with their environment, such as object manipulation or biomimetic motion, and considered the key element in introducing robots to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Yasunori Toshimitsu , Ki Wan Wong , Thomas Buchner , Robert Katzschmann

Soft robots have gained significant attention due to their flexibility and safety, particularly in human-centric applications. The co-design of structure and controller in soft robotics has presented a longstanding challenge owing to the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Yuki Sato , Changyoung Yuhn , Hiroki Kobayashi , Atsushi Kawamoto , Tsuyoshi Nomura

In a developmental framework, autonomous robots need to explore the world and learn how to interact with it. Without an a priori model of the system, this opens the challenging problem of having robots master their interface with the world:…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-08-04 Alban Laflaquière