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Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) captures a greater level of spectral detail than traditional optical imaging, making it a potentially valuable intraoperative tool when precise tissue differentiation is essential. Hardware limitations of current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Charlie Budd , Jianrong Qiu , Oscar MacCormac , Martin Huber , Christopher Mower , Mirek Janatka , Théo Trotouin , Jonathan Shapey , Mads S. Bergholt , Tom Vercauteren

Robust local feature representations are essential for spatial intelligence tasks such as robot navigation and augmented reality. Establishing reliable correspondences requires descriptors that provide both high discriminative power and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Haodi Yao , Fenghua He , Ning Hao , Yao Su

This paper presents a framework for learning vision-based robotic policies for contact-rich manipulation tasks that generalize spatially across task configurations. We focus on achieving robust spatial generalization of the policy for the…

One of the main challenges in peg-in-a-hole (PiH) insertion tasks is in handling the uncertainty in the location of the target hole. In order to address it, high-dimensional sensor inputs from sensor modalities such as vision, force/torque…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Yifang Liu , Diego Romeres , Devesh K. Jha , Daniel Nikovski

Object insertion tasks are prone to failure under pose uncertainty and environmental variation, often requiring manual fine-tuning or controller retraining. We present a novel approach for robust and resilient object insertion using a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Mimo Shirasaka , Cristian C. Beltran-Hernandez , Masashi Hamaya , Yoshitaka Ushiku

Hyperspectral Image (HSI) classification is an important issue in remote sensing field with extensive applications in earth science. In recent years, a large number of deep learning-based HSI classification methods have been proposed.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Ning Chen , Jun Yue , Leyuan Fang , Shaobo Xia

The diffusion model is widely leveraged for either video generation or video editing. As each field has its task-specific problems, it is difficult to merely develop a single diffusion for completing both tasks simultaneously. Video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Haoyu Zhao , Tianyi Lu , Jiaxi Gu , Xing Zhang , Qingping Zheng , Zuxuan Wu , Hang Xu , Yu-Gang Jiang

In this paper, we propose a Contact Diffusion Model (CDM), a novel learning-based approach for multi-contact point localization. We consider a robot equipped with joint torque sensors and a force/torque sensor at the base. By leveraging a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Seo Wook Han , Min Jun Kim

Incremental few-shot learning is highly expected for practical robotics applications. On one hand, robot is desired to learn new tasks quickly and flexibly using only few annotated training samples; on the other hand, such new additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Yiting Li , Haiyue Zhu , Sichao Tian , Fan Feng , Jun Ma , Chek Sing Teo , Cheng Xiang , Prahlad Vadakkepat , Tong Heng Lee

Diffusion policies have shown impressive results in robot imitation learning, even for tasks that require satisfaction of kinematic equality constraints. However, task performance alone is not a reliable indicator of the policy's ability to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Lexi Foland , Thomas Cohn , Adam Wei , Nicholas Pfaff , Boyuan Chen , Russ Tedrake

Precise grasp force regulation in tendon-driven surgical instruments is fundamentally limited by nonlinear coupling between motor dynamics, transmission compliance, friction, and distal mechanics. Existing solutions typically rely on distal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Edoardo Fazzari , Omar Mohamed , Khalfan Hableel , Hamdan Alhadhrami , Cesare Stefanini

Goal-conditioned dynamic manipulation is inherently challenging due to complex system dynamics and stringent task constraints, particularly in deformable object scenarios characterized by high degrees of freedom and underactuation. Prior…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Guanzhou Lan , Yuqi Yang , Anup Teejo Mathew , Feiping Nie , Rong Wang , Xuelong Li , Federico Renda , Bin Zhao

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

Redundant manipulators, with their higher Degrees of Freedom (DoFs), offer enhanced kinematic performance and versatility, making them suitable for applications like manufacturing, surgical robotics, and human-robot collaboration. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Xudong Mou , Xiaohan Zhang , Tiejun Wang , Tianyu Wo , Cangbai Xu , Ningbo Gu , Rui Wang , Xudong Liu

Robotic assembly is a longstanding challenge, requiring contact-rich interaction and high precision and accuracy. Many applications also require adaptivity to diverse parts, poses, and environments, as well as low cycle times. In other…

In recent years roboticists have achieved remarkable progress in solving increasingly general tasks on dexterous robotic hardware by leveraging high capacity Transformer network architectures and generative diffusion models. Unfortunately,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Sudeep Dasari , Oier Mees , Sebastian Zhao , Mohan Kumar Srirama , Sergey Levine

Building general-purpose robots to perform a diverse range of tasks in a large variety of environments in the physical world at the human level is extremely challenging. It requires the robot learning to be sample-efficient, generalizable,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Jun Lv , Qiaojun Yu , Lin Shao , Wenhai Liu , Wenqiang Xu , Cewu Lu

Recently, the Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DPM)-based methods have achieved substantial success in the field of medical image segmentation. However, most of these methods fail to enable the diffusion model to learn edge features and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Tingwei Liu , Miao Zhang , Leiye Liu , Jialong Zhong , Shuyao Wang , Yongri Piao , Huchuan Lu

Recently, feature upsampling has gained increasing attention owing to its effectiveness in enhancing vision foundation models (VFMs) for pixel-level understanding tasks. Existing methods typically rely on high-resolution features from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xiaoqiong Liu , Heng Fan

Reinforcement learning algorithms have shown great success in solving different problems ranging from playing video games to robotics. However, they struggle to solve delicate robotic problems, especially those involving contact…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Miroslav Bogdanovic , Majid Khadiv , Ludovic Righetti