A review of robot learning for manipulation: Challenges, representations, and algorithms

O Kroemer, S Niekum, G Konidaris - Journal of machine learning research, 2021 - jmlr.org
A key challenge in intelligent robotics is creating robots that are capable of directly
interacting with the world around them to achieve their goals. The last decade has seen …

Category-level articulated object pose estimation

X Li, H Wang, L Yi, LJ Guibas… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - openaccess.thecvf.com
This paper addresses the task of category-level pose estimation for articulated objects from
a single depth image. We present a novel category-level approach that correctly …

Captra: Category-level pose tracking for rigid and articulated objects from point clouds

Y Weng, H Wang, Q Zhou, Y Qin… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
In this work, we tackle the problem of category-level online pose tracking for objects from
point cloud sequences. For the first time, we propose a unified framework that can handle …

A-sdf: Learning disentangled signed distance functions for articulated shape representation

J Mu, W Qiu, A Kortylewski, A Yuille… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Recent work has made significant progress on using implicit functions, as a continuous
representation for 3D rigid object shape reconstruction. However, much less effort has been …

Full-body articulated human-object interaction

N Jiang, T Liu, Z Cao, J Cui, Z Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Fine-grained capture of 3D Human-Object Interactions (HOIs) boosts human activity
understanding and facilitates various downstream visual tasks. Prior models mostly assume …

Cla-nerf: Category-level articulated neural radiance field

WC Tseng, HJ Liao, L Yen-Chen… - … Conference on Robotics …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose CLA-NeRF-a Category-Level Articulated Neural Radiance Field that can
perform view synthesis, part segmentation, and articulated pose estimation. CLA-NeRF is …

Screwnet: Category-independent articulation model estimation from depth images using screw theory

A Jain, R Lioutikov, C Chuck… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robots in human environments will need to interact with a wide variety of articulated objects
such as cabinets, drawers, and dishwashers while assisting humans in performing day-to …

Single-view robot pose and joint angle estimation via render & compare

Y Labbé, J Carpentier, M Aubry… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We introduce RoboPose, a method to estimate the joint angles and the 6D camera-to-robot
pose of a known articulated robot from a single RGB image. This is an important problem to …

Markerless camera-to-robot pose estimation via self-supervised sim-to-real transfer

J Lu, F Richter, MC Yip - … of the IEEE/CVF Conference on …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Solving the camera-to-robot pose is a fundamental requirement for vision-based robot
control, and is a process that takes considerable effort and cares to make accurate …

Understanding 3d object articulation in internet videos

S Qian, L Jin, C Rockwell, S Chen… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We propose to investigate detecting and characterizing the 3D planar articulation of objects
from ordinary RGB videos. While seemingly easy for humans, this problem poses many …