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Publications (25)

cs.CV2025

Two Effects, One Trigger: On the Modality Gap, Object Bias, and Information Imbalance in Contrastive Vision-Language Models

Simon Schrodi, David T. Hoffmann, Max Argus +2

Contrastive vision-language models (VLMs), like CLIP, have gained popularity for their versatile applicability to various downstream tasks. Despite their successes in some tasks, l…

cs.CV2019

FreiHAND: A Dataset for Markerless Capture of Hand Pose and Shape from Single RGB Images

Christian Zimmermann, Duygu Ceylan, Jimei Yang +3

Estimating 3D hand pose from single RGB images is a highly ambiguous problem that relies on an unbiased training dataset. In this paper, we analyze cross-dataset generalization whe…

cs.RO2023

Compositional Servoing by Recombining Demonstrations

Max Argus, Abhijeet Nayak, Martin Büchner +3

Learning-based manipulation policies from image inputs often show weak task transfer capabilities. In contrast, visual servoing methods allow efficient task transfer in high-precis…

cs.RO2025

Efficient Learning of Object Placement with Intra-Category Transfer

Adrian Röfer, Russell Buchanan, Max Argus +2

Efficient learning from demonstration for long-horizon tasks remains an open challenge in robotics. While significant effort has been directed toward learning trajectories, a recen…

cs.LG2024

Concept Bottleneck Models Without Predefined Concepts

Simon Schrodi, Julian Schur, Max Argus +1

There has been considerable recent interest in interpretable concept-based models such as Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs), which first predict human-interpretable concepts and the…

cs.RO2022

RobotIO: A Python Library for Robot Manipulation Experiments

Lukas Hermann, Max Argus, Adrian Roefer +2

Setting up robot environments to quickly test newly developed algorithms is still a difficult and time consuming process. This presents a significant hurdle to researchers interest…