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Shape matching has been a long-studied problem for the computer graphics and vision community. The objective is to predict a dense correspondence between meshes that have a certain degree of deformation. Existing methods either consider the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Mahdi Saleh , Shun-Cheng Wu , Luca Cosmo , Nassir Navab , Benjamin Busam , Federico Tombari

Higher-dimensional orthogonal packing problems have a wide range of practical applications, including packing, cutting, and scheduling. Previous efforts for exact algorithms have been unable to avoid structural problems that appear for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Sandor P. Fekete , Joerg Schepers

Manipulation of large objects over long horizons (such as carts in a warehouse) is an essential skill for deployable robotic systems. Large objects require mobile manipulation which involves simultaneous manipulation, navigation, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yajvan Ravan , Zhutian Yang , Tao Chen , Tomás Lozano-Pérez , Leslie Pack Kaelbling

Standing-up control is crucial for humanoid robots, with the potential for integration into current locomotion and loco-manipulation systems, such as fall recovery. Existing approaches are either limited to simulations that overlook…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Tao Huang , Junli Ren , Huayi Wang , Zirui Wang , Qingwei Ben , Muning Wen , Xiao Chen , Jianan Li , Jiangmiao Pang

For robots to operate robustly in the real world, they should be aware of their uncertainty. However, most methods for object pose estimation return a single point estimate of the object's pose. In this work, we propose two learned methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Brian Okorn , Mengyun Xu , Martial Hebert , David Held

The use of local detectors and descriptors in typical computer vision pipelines work well until variations in viewpoint and appearance change become extreme. Past research in this area has typically focused on one of two approaches to this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Udit Singh Parihar , Aniket Gujarathi , Kinal Mehta , Satyajit Tourani , Sourav Garg , Michael Milford , K. Madhava Krishna

Recent years have witnessed a rapid growth of applying deep spatiotemporal methods in traffic forecasting. However, the prediction of origin-destination (OD) demands is still a challenging problem since the number of OD pairs is usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Ruixing Zhang , Liangzhe Han , Boyi Liu , Jiayuan Zeng , Leilei Sun

Place recognition is an important capability for autonomously navigating vehicles operating in complex environments and under changing conditions. It is a key component for tasks such as loop closing in SLAM or global localization. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Junyi Ma , Jun Zhang , Jintao Xu , Rui Ai , Weihao Gu , Xieyuanli Chen

Precision is a crucial performance indicator for robot arms, as high precision manipulation allows for a wider range of applications. Traditional methods for improving robot arm precision rely on error compensation. However, these methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Qu Weiming , Liu Tianlin , Luo Dingsheng

Aligning electron density maps from Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a first key step for studying multiple conformations of a biomolecule. As this step remains costly and challenging, with standard alignment tools being…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-19 A. Tajmir Riahi , G. Woollard , F. Poitevin , A. Condon , K. Dao Duc

This paper presents an integrated system for performing precision harvesting missions using a legged harvester. Our harvester performs a challenging task of autonomous navigation and tree grabbing in a confined, GPS denied forest…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Edo Jelavic , Dominic Jud , Pascal Egli , Marco Hutter

Computational optimal transport (OT) offers a principled framework for generative modeling. Neural OT methods, which use neural networks to learn an OT map (or potential) from data in an amortized way, can be evaluated out of sample after…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Alessandro Micheli , Yueqi Cao , Anthea Monod , Samir Bhatt

Optimal Transport (OT) problems are a cornerstone of many applications, but solving them is computationally expensive. To address this problem, we propose UNOT (Universal Neural Optimal Transport), a novel framework capable of accurately…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Jonathan Geuter , Gregor Kornhardt , Ingimar Tomasson , Vaios Laschos

Tidy-up tasks by service robots in home environments are challenging in robotics applications because they involve various interactions with the environment. In particular, robots are required not only to grasp, move, and release various…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Akira Taniguchi , Shota Isobe , Lotfi El Hafi , Yoshinobu Hagiwara , Tadahiro Taniguchi

In recent years, there is an influx of deep learning models for 3D vehicle object detection. However, little attention was paid to orientation prediction. Existing research work proposed various vehicle orientation representation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Huahong Tu , Siyuan Peng , Vladimir Leung , Richard Gao

Deep reinforcement learning algorithms require large and diverse datasets in order to learn successful policies for perception-based mobile navigation. However, gathering such datasets with a single robot can be prohibitively expensive.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Katie Kang , Gregory Kahn , Sergey Levine

We present our novel deep multi-task learning method for medical image segmentation. Existing multi-task methods demand ground truth annotations for both the primary and auxiliary tasks. Contrary to it, we propose to generate the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-06 Binod Bhattarai , Ronast Subedi , Rebati Raman Gaire , Eduard Vazquez , Danail Stoyanov

Visuomotor policies often suffer from perceptual challenges, where visual differences between training and evaluation environments degrade policy performance. Policies relying on state estimations, like 6D pose, require task-specific…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Yunchu Zhang , Shubham Mittal , Zhengyu Zhang , Liyiming Ke , Siddhartha Srinivasa , Abhishek Gupta

This paper introduces a comprehensive planning and navigation framework that address these limitations by integrating semantic mapping, adaptive coverage planning, dynamic obstacle avoidance and precise trajectory tracking. Our framework…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Zexuan Fan , Sunchun Zhou , Hengye Yang , Junyi Cai , Ran Cheng , Lige Liu , Tao Sun

Technological developments call for increasing perception and action capabilities of robots. Among other skills, vision systems that can adapt to any possible change in the working conditions are needed. Since these conditions are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Massimiliano Mancini , Hakan Karaoguz , Elisa Ricci , Patric Jensfelt , Barbara Caputo