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The ability to estimate joint parameters is essential for various applications in robotics and computer vision. In this paper, we propose CAPT: category-level articulation estimation from a point cloud using Transformer. CAPT uses an…

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We present the Multi-vAlue Rule Set (MARS) model for interpretable classification with feature efficient presentations. MARS introduces a more generalized form of association rules that allows multiple values in a condition. Rules of this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Tong Wang

Dynamic Object-aware SLAM (DOS) exploits object-level information to enable robust motion estimation in dynamic environments. Existing methods mainly focus on identifying and excluding dynamic objects from the optimization. In this paper,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Yuheng Qiu , Chen Wang , Wenshan Wang , Mina Henein , Sebastian Scherer

This paper presents the first active object mapping framework for complex robotic manipulation and autonomous perception tasks. The framework is built on an object SLAM system integrated with a simultaneous multi-object pose estimation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Yanmin Wu , Yunzhou Zhang , Delong Zhu , Xin Chen , Sonya Coleman , Wenkai Sun , Xinggang Hu , Zhiqiang Deng

We propose novel motion representations for animating articulated objects consisting of distinct parts. In a completely unsupervised manner, our method identifies object parts, tracks them in a driving video, and infers their motions by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Aliaksandr Siarohin , Oliver J. Woodford , Jian Ren , Menglei Chai , Sergey Tulyakov

Understanding and manipulating articulated objects, such as doors and drawers, is crucial for robots operating in human environments. We wish to develop a system that can learn to articulate novel objects with no prior interaction, after…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Harry Zhang , Ben Eisner , David Held

Recent advancements in multimodal large language models and vision-languageaction models have significantly driven progress in Embodied AI. As the field transitions toward more complex task scenarios, multi-agent system frameworks are…

Text-based person search (TBPS) is a problem that gained significant interest within the research community. The task is that of retrieving one or more images of a specific individual based on a textual description. The multi-modal nature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Alex Ergasti , Tomaso Fontanini , Claudio Ferrari , Massimo Bertozzi , Andrea Prati

Point cloud-based motion capture leverages rich spatial geometry and privacy-preserving sensing, but learning robust representations from noisy, unstructured point clouds remains challenging. Existing approaches face a struggle trade-off…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Yiming Ren , Yujing Sun , Aoru Xue , Kwok-Yan Lam , Yuexin Ma

Radio maps reflect the spatial distribution of signal strength and are essential for applications like smart cities, IoT, and wireless network planning. However, reconstructing accurate radio maps from sparse measurements remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Chuyun Deng , Na Liu , Wei Xie , Lianming Xu , Li Wang

Perception in robot manipulation has been actively explored with the goal of advancing and integrating vision and touch for global and local feature extraction. However, it is difficult to perceive certain object internal states, and the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Shihan Lu , Heather Culbertson

Articulated objects are pervasive in daily life. However, due to the intrinsic high-DoF structure, the joint states of the articulated objects are hard to be estimated. To model articulated objects, two kinds of shape deformations namely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Han Xue , Liu Liu , Wenqiang Xu , Haoyuan Fu , Cewu Lu

Modality-agnostic Semantic Segmentation (MaSS) aims to achieve robust scene understanding across arbitrary combinations of input modality. Existing methods typically rely on explicit feature alignment to achieve modal homogenization, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Lekang Wen , Jing Xiao , Liang Liao , Jiajun Chen , Mi Wang

Multi-object Tracking (MOT) generally can be split into two sub-tasks, i.e., detection and association. Many previous methods follow the tracking by detection paradigm, which first obtain detections at each frame and then associate them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Mingfei Chen , Yue Liao , Si Liu , Fei Wang , Jenq-Neng Hwang

We address the challenge of making spatial audio datasets by proposing a shared mechanized recording space that can run custom acoustic experiments: a Mechatronic Acoustic Research System (MARS). To accommodate a wide variety of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-03 Austin Lu , Ethaniel Moore , Arya Nallanthighall , Kanad Sarkar , Manan Mittal , Ryan M. Corey , Paris Smaragdis , Andrew Singer

Recent advancements in perception for autonomous driving are driven by deep learning. In order to achieve robust and accurate scene understanding, autonomous vehicles are usually equipped with different sensors (e.g. cameras, LiDARs,…

Accurately manipulating articulated objects is a challenging yet important task for real robot applications. In this paper, we present a novel framework called Sim2Real$^2$ to enable the robot to manipulate an unseen articulated object to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Liqian Ma , Jiaojiao Meng , Shuntao Liu , Weihang Chen , Jing Xu , Rui Chen

A robot operating in a real-world environment needs to perform reasoning over a variety of sensor modalities such as vision, language and motion trajectories. However, it is extremely challenging to manually design features relating such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Jaeyong Sung , Ian Lenz , Ashutosh Saxena

To obtain the best possible scientific result, astronomers must understand the properties of the available instrumentation well. This is important both when designing new instruments and when using existing instruments close to the limits…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 Hans Moritz Günther , Jason Frost , Adam Theriault-Shay

Robotic manipulation systems benefit from complementary sensing modalities, where each provides unique environmental information. Point clouds capture detailed geometric structure, while RGB images provide rich semantic context. Current…