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Model explanations such as saliency maps can improve user trust in AI by highlighting important features for a prediction. However, these become distorted and misleading when explaining predictions of images that are subject to systematic…

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This letter introduces DiffAero, a lightweight, GPU-accelerated, and fully differentiable simulation framework designed for efficient quadrotor control policy learning. DiffAero supports both environment-level and agent-level parallelism…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Xinhong Zhang , Runqing Wang , Yunfan Ren , Jian Sun , Hao Fang , Jie Chen , Gang Wang

Existing image-to-video generation methods often produce physically implausible motions and lack precise control over object dynamics. While prior approaches have incorporated physics simulators, they remain confined to 2D planar motions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tianyidan Xie , Zhentao Huang , Mingjie Wang , Xin Huang , Jun Zhou , Minglun Gong , Zili Yi

Depth sensing is an important problem for 3D vision-based robotics. Yet, a real-world active stereo or ToF depth camera often produces noisy and incomplete depth which bottlenecks robot performances. In this work, we propose D3RoMa, a…

Differentiable rendering is a technique that aims to invert the rendering process to enable optimizing rendering parameters from a set of images. In this article, we present a differentiable volume rendering solution called DiffTetVR for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Christoph Neuhauser

Reconstructing transparent objects from a set of multi-view images is a challenging task due to the complicated nature and indeterminate behavior of light propagation. Typical methods are primarily tailored to specific scenarios, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Changpu Li , Shuang Wu , Songlin Tang , Guangming Lu , Jun Yu , Wenjie Pei

Model explanations such as saliency maps can improve user trust in AI by highlighting important features for a prediction. However, these become distorted and misleading when explaining predictions of images that are subject to systematic…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Wencan Zhang , Mariella Dimiccoli , Brian Y. Lim

The realism of digital avatars is crucial in enabling telepresence applications with self-expression and customization. While physical simulations can produce realistic motions for clothed humans, they require high-quality garment assets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yifei Li , Hsiao-yu Chen , Egor Larionov , Nikolaos Sarafianos , Wojciech Matusik , Tuur Stuyck

Robotic cutting of soft materials is critical for applications such as food processing, household automation, and surgical manipulation. As in other areas of robotics, simulators can facilitate controller verification, policy learning, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Eric Heiden , Miles Macklin , Yashraj Narang , Dieter Fox , Animesh Garg , Fabio Ramos

Intelligent agents need a physical understanding of the world to predict the impact of their actions in the future. While learning-based models of the environment dynamics have contributed to significant improvements in sample efficiency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Eric Heiden , David Millard , Hejia Zhang , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

We present a novel, fast differentiable simulator for soft-body learning and control applications. Existing differentiable soft-body simulators can be classified into two categories based on their time integration methods: Simulators using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Tao Du , Kui Wu , Pingchuan Ma , Sebastien Wah , Andrew Spielberg , Daniela Rus , Wojciech Matusik

Recent progress of video diffusion models have enabled extensive simulation of the physical world. While simulation with hand object interaction has been less explored. We propose DexSIM, a dexterous simulation framework for simulating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Adam Lee

Differentiable simulators provide an avenue for closing the sim-to-real gap by enabling the use of efficient, gradient-based optimization algorithms to find the simulation parameters that best fit the observed sensor readings. Nonetheless,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Eric Heiden , David Millard , Erwin Coumans , Yizhou Sheng , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

Radars are an ideal complement to cameras: both are inexpensive, solid-state sensors, with cameras offering fine angular resolution, while radars provide metric depth and robustness under adverse weather. However, radar data is more…

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Image classification is a well-studied task in computer vision, and yet it remains challenging under high-uncertainty conditions, such as when input images are corrupted or training data are limited. Conventional classification approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Omer Belhasin , Shelly Golan , Ran El-Yaniv , Michael Elad

Manipulating transparent objects presents significant challenges due to the complexities introduced by their reflection and refraction properties, which considerably hinder the accurate estimation of their 3D shapes. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Haoxiao Wang , Kaichen Zhou , Binrui Gu , Zhiyuan Feng , Weijie Wang , Peilin Sun , Yicheng Xiao , Jianhua Zhang , Hao Dong

The capability to transfer mastered skills to accomplish a range of similar yet novel tasks is crucial for intelligent robots. In this work, we introduce $\textit{Diff-Transfer}$, a novel framework leveraging differentiable physics…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Yuqi Xiang , Feitong Chen , Qinsi Wang , Yang Gang , Xiang Zhang , Xinghao Zhu , Xingyu Liu , Lin Shao

Monocular camera calibration is a key precondition for numerous 3D vision applications. Despite considerable advancements, existing methods often hinge on specific assumptions and struggle to generalize across varied real-world scenarios,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Xiankang He , Guangkai Xu , Bo Zhang , Hao Chen , Ying Cui , Dongyan Guo

Infrared imaging is essential for autonomous driving and robotic operations as a supportive modality due to its reliable performance in challenging environments. Despite its popularity, the limitations of infrared cameras, such as low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Xingyuan Li , Zirui Wang , Yang Zou , Zhixin Chen , Jun Ma , Zhiying Jiang , Long Ma , Jinyuan Liu

Differentiable simulators provide analytic gradients, enabling more sample-efficient learning algorithms and paving the way for data intensive learning tasks such as learning from images. In this work, we demonstrate that locomotion…