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A metric-accurate semantic 3D representation is essential for many robotic tasks. This work proposes a simple, yet powerful, way to integrate the 2D embeddings of a Vision-Language Model in a metric-accurate 3D representation at real-time.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Christian Rauch , Björn Ellensohn , Linus Nwankwo , Vedant Dave , Elmar Rueckert

We present a novel solution to the problem of simulation-to-real transfer, which builds on recent advances in robot skill decomposition. Rather than focusing on minimizing the simulation-reality gap, we learn a set of diverse policies that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Ryan Julian , Eric Heiden , Zhanpeng He , Hejia Zhang , Stefan Schaal , Joseph J. Lim , Gaurav Sukhatme , Karol Hausman

Deep reinforcement learning models are notoriously data hungry, yet real-world data is expensive and time consuming to obtain. The solution that many have turned to is to use simulation for training before deploying the robot in a real…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Joanne Truong , Sonia Chernova , Dhruv Batra

Deep neural network based reinforcement learning (RL) can learn appropriate visual representations for complex tasks like vision-based robotic grasping without the need for manually engineering or prior learning a perception system.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Kanishka Rao , Chris Harris , Alex Irpan , Sergey Levine , Julian Ibarz , Mohi Khansari

Image to image translation aims to learn a mapping that transforms an image from one visual domain to another. Recent works assume that images descriptors can be disentangled into a domain-invariant content representation and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Raul Gomez , Yahui Liu , Marco De Nadai , Dimosthenis Karatzas , Bruno Lepri , Nicu Sebe

Recently it has been shown that precise dose control and an increase in the overall acquisition speed of atomic resolution scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) images can be achieved by acquiring only a small fraction of the…

Recent image-to-image translation works have been transferred from supervised to unsupervised settings due to the expensive cost of capturing or labeling large amounts of paired data. However, current unsupervised methods using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Pan Zhang , Jianmin Bao , Ting Zhang , Dong Chen , Fang Wen

Service robots should be able to interact naturally with non-expert human users, not only to help them in various tasks but also to receive guidance in order to resolve ambiguities that might be present in the instruction. We consider the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Georgios Tziafas , Hamidreza Kasaei

Imitation learning is a popular method for teaching robots new behaviors. However, most existing methods focus on teaching short, isolated skills rather than long, multi-step tasks. To bridge this gap, imitation learning algorithms must not…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Leon Keller , Daniel Tanneberg , Jan Peters

Professional photo editing remains challenging, requiring extensive knowledge of imaging pipelines and significant expertise. While recent deep learning approaches, particularly style transfer methods, have attempted to automate this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-11 Omar Elezabi , Marcos V. Conde , Zongwei Wu , Radu Timofte

We propose a novel spatially-correlative loss that is simple, efficient and yet effective for preserving scene structure consistency while supporting large appearance changes during unpaired image-to-image (I2I) translation. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Chuanxia Zheng , Tat-Jen Cham , Jianfei Cai

Reinforcement learning has shown a wide usage in robotics tasks, such as insertion and grasping. However, without a practical sim2real strategy, the policy trained in simulation could fail on the real task. There are also wide researches in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Yiwen Chen , Xue Li , Sheng Guo , Xian Yao Ng , Marcelo Ang

Learning generalizable visual representations across different embodied environments is essential for effective robotic manipulation in real-world scenarios. However, the limited scale and diversity of robot demonstration data pose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jiaming Zhou , Teli Ma , Kun-Yu Lin , Zifan Wang , Ronghe Qiu , Junwei Liang

Despite the substantial progress in deep learning, its adoption in industrial robotics projects remains limited, primarily due to challenges in data acquisition and labeling. Previous sim2real approaches using domain randomization require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Kaixin Bai , Lei Zhang , Zhaopeng Chen , Fang Wan , Jianwei Zhang

Simulation has recently become key for deep reinforcement learning to safely and efficiently acquire general and complex control policies from visual and proprioceptive inputs. Tactile information is not usually considered despite its…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Alex Church , John Lloyd , Raia Hadsell , Nathan F. Lepora

Simulation to Real-World Transfer allows affordable and fast training of learning-based robots for manipulation tasks using Deep Reinforcement Learning methods. Currently, Sim2Real uses Asymmetric Actor-Critic approaches to reduce the rich…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Lingfeng Tao , Jiucai Zhang , Qiaojie Zheng , Xiaoli Zhang

Robot-assisted surgical systems have demonstrated significant potential in enhancing surgical precision and minimizing human errors. However, existing systems cannot accommodate individual surgeons' unique preferences and requirements.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Amr Gomaa , Bilal Mahdy , Niko Kleer , Antonio Krüger

Unpaired image-to-image translation is a class of vision problems whose goal is to find the mapping between different image domains using unpaired training data. Cycle-consistency loss is a widely used constraint for such problems. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Yihao Zhao , Ruihai Wu , Hao Dong

Recently image-to-image translation has attracted significant interests in the literature, starting from the successful use of the generative adversarial network (GAN), to the introduction of cyclic constraint, to extensions to multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Zengming Shen , S. Kevin Zhou , Yifan Chen , Bogdan Georgescu , Xuqi Liu , Thomas S. Huang

In this paper, we deal with the reality gap from a novel perspective, targeting transferring Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) policies learned in simulated environments to the real-world domain for visual control tasks. Instead of adopting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Jingwei Zhang , Lei Tai , Peng Yun , Yufeng Xiong , Ming Liu , Joschka Boedecker , Wolfram Burgard