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Recently, deep learning has been successfully applied to robotic grasp detection. Based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs), there have been lots of end-to-end detection approaches. But end-to-end approaches have strict requirements for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Zhe Chu , Mengkai Hu , Xiangyu Chen

This paper presents a point cloud based robotic system for arc welding. Using hand gesture controls, the system scans partial point cloud views of workpiece and reconstructs them into a complete 3D model by a linear iterative closest point…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Peng Zhou , Rui Peng , Maggie Xu , Victor Wu , David Navarro-Alarcon

Mapping the environment has been an important task for robot navigation and Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM). LIDAR provides a fast and accurate 3D point cloud map of the environment which helps in map building. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-14 Aritra Mukherjee , Sourya Dipta Das , Jasorsi Ghosh , Ananda S. Chowdhury , Sanjoy Kumar Saha

Robust grasping in cluttered, unstructured environments remains challenging for mobile legged manipulators due to occlusions that lead to partial observations, unreliable depth estimates, and the need for collision-free, execution-feasible…

Sensing gloves have become important tools for teleoperation and robotic policy learning as they are able to provide rich signals like speed, acceleration and tactile feedback. A common approach to track gloved hands is to directly use the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Wenhui Cui , Ziyi Kou , Chuan Qin , Ergys Ristani , Li Guan

Robotic grasping is a cornerstone capability of embodied systems. Many methods directly output grasps from partial information without modeling the geometry of the scene, leading to suboptimal motion and even collisions. To address these…

Recent advances in multi-fingered robotic grasping have enabled fast 6-Degrees-Of-Freedom (DOF) single object grasping. Multi-finger grasping in cluttered scenes, on the other hand, remains mostly unexplored due to the added difficulty of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Jens Lundell , Francesco Verdoja , Ville Kyrki

Estimating the geometry level of human-scene contact aims to ground specific contact surface points at 3D human geometries, which provides a spatial prior and bridges the interaction between human and scene, supporting applications such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Chengfeng Wang , Wei Zhai , Yuhang Yang , Yang Cao , Zhengjun Zha

Spatio-temporal action recognition has been a challenging task that involves detecting where and when actions occur. Current state-of-the-art action detectors are mostly anchor-based, requiring sensitive anchor designs and huge computations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Shentong Mo , Jingfei Xia , Xiaoqing Tan , Bhiksha Raj

This paper proposes a visual-servoing method dedicated to grasping of daily-life objects. In order to obtain an affordable solution, we use a low-accurate robotic arm. Our method corrects errors by using an RGB-D sensor. It is based on SURF…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Ludovic Hofer , Michio Tanaka , Hakaru Tamukoh , Amir Ali Forough Nassiraei , Takashi Morie

Point cloud is a collection of 3D coordinates that are discrete geometric samples of an object's 2D surfaces. Using a low-cost 3D scanner to acquire data means that point clouds are often in lower resolution than desired for rendering on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-20 Chinthaka Dinesh , Gene Cheung , Ivan V. Bajic

High-level autonomous operations depend on a robot's ability to construct a sufficiently expressive model of its environment. Traditional three-dimensional (3D) scene representations, such as point clouds and occupancy grids, provide…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Chad R Samuelson , Timothy W McLain , Joshua G Mangelson

Robotic grasping is a fundamental ability for a robot to interact with the environment. Current methods focus on how to obtain a stable and reliable grasping pose in object level, while little work has been studied on part (shape)-wise…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Yaoxian Song , Penglei Sun , Piaopiao Jin , Yi Ren , Yu Zheng , Zhixu Li , Xiaowen Chu , Yue Zhang , Tiefeng Li , Jason Gu

A significant challenge for real-world robotic manipulation is the effective 6DoF grasping of objects in cluttered scenes from any single viewpoint without the need for additional scene exploration. This work reinterprets grasping as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Snehal Jauhri , Ishikaa Lunawat , Georgia Chalvatzaki

Time varying sequences of 3D point clouds, or 4D point clouds, are now being acquired at an increasing pace in several applications (e.g., LiDAR in autonomous or assisted driving). In many cases, such volume of data is transmitted, thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Lorenzo Berlincioni , Stefano Berretti , Marco Bertini , Alberto Del Bimbo

Semantic outdoor scene understanding based on 3D LiDAR point clouds is a challenging task for autonomous driving due to the sparse and irregular data structure. This paper takes advantages of the uneven range distribution of different LiDAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Tzu-Hsuan Chen , Tian Sheuan Chang

We present a powerful method to extract per-point semantic class labels from aerialphotogrammetry data. Labeling this kind of data is important for tasks such as environmental modelling, object classification and scene understanding. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Carlos Becker , Nicolai Häni , Elena Rosinskaya , Emmanuel d'Angelo , Christoph Strecha

6-DoF robotic grasping is a long-lasting but unsolved problem. Recent methods utilize strong 3D networks to extract geometric grasping representations from depth sensors, demonstrating superior accuracy on common objects but perform…

Traditional 3D garment creation requires extensive manual operations, resulting in time and labor costs. Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting has achieved breakthrough progress in 3D scene reconstruction and rendering, attracting widespread…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Zhihao Tang , Shenghao Yang , Hongtao Zhang , Mingbo Zhao

Grasping and manipulating objects is an important human skill. Since hand-object contact is fundamental to grasping, capturing it can lead to important insights. However, observing contact through external sensors is challenging because of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Samarth Brahmbhatt , Cusuh Ham , Charles C. Kemp , James Hays