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20192026
most citedLearning to Seek: Autonomous Source Seeking with Deep Reinforcement Learning Onboard a Nano Drone Microcontroller

20 citations · 39 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.RO2026

Modality-Autoregressive World-Action Models

Adam Hung, Bardienus P. Duisterhof, Deva Ramanan +1

World-action models (WAMs) jointly model future observations and actions, typically predicting the future as RGB images. Other visual modalities such as depth, pretrained visual fe…

cs.CV2026

Sparse auto-regressive modeling for scene generation from multi-view images

Thomas Lucas, Maxime Pietrantoni, Philippe Weinzaepfel +4

Generating complete 3D scenes from sparse, unconstrained views is a fundamental challenge in 3D vision which requires reasoning beyond observed content while remaining computationa…

cs.CV2026

Modality Forcing for Scalable Spatial Generation

Bardienus Pieter Duisterhof, Deva Ramanan, Jeffrey Ichnowski +2

Text-to-image (T2I) models contain rich spatial priors. Synthesizing photorealistic, cluttered scenes requires an understanding of geometry, including perspective and relative scal…

cs.RO2026

Wiggle and Go! System Identification for Zero-Shot Dynamic Rope Manipulation

Arthur Jakobsson, Abhinav Mahajan, Karthik Pullalarevu +6

Many robotic tasks are unforgiving; a single mistake in a dynamic throw can lead to unacceptable delays or unrecoverable failure. We introduce Wiggle and Go!, a two-stage framework…

cs.RO2026

3PoinTr: From Human Videos to Robot Policies with 3D Point-Track Plans

Adam Hung, Bardienus Pieter Duisterhof, Jeffrey Ichnowski

Human videos could reduce the reliance on expensive robot demonstrations, but extracting task-relevant features remains challenging. We introduce 3PoinTr, a method that provides ro…

cs.RO2025

Hearing the Slide: Acoustic-Guided Constraint Learning for Fast Non-Prehensile Transport

Yuemin Mao, Bardienus P. Duisterhof, Moonyoung Lee +1

Object transport tasks are fundamental in robotic automation, emphasizing the importance of efficient and secure methods for moving objects. Non-prehensile transport can significan…

cs.CV2025

RaySt3R: Predicting Novel Depth Maps for Zero-Shot Object Completion

Bardienus P. Duisterhof, Jan Oberst, Bowen Wen +3

3D shape completion has broad applications in robotics, digital twin reconstruction, and extended reality (XR). Although recent advances in 3D object and scene completion have achi…

cs.CV2025

Cloth-Splatting: 3D Cloth State Estimation from RGB Supervision

Alberta Longhini, Marcel Büsching, Bardienus P. Duisterhof +4

We introduce Cloth-Splatting, a method for estimating 3D states of cloth from RGB images through a prediction-update framework. Cloth-Splatting leverages an action-conditioned dyna…

cs.CV2024

MASt3R-SfM: a Fully-Integrated Solution for Unconstrained Structure-from-Motion

Bardienus Duisterhof, Lojze Zust, Philippe Weinzaepfel +3

Structure-from-Motion (SfM), a task aiming at jointly recovering camera poses and 3D geometry of a scene given a set of images, remains a hard problem with still many open challeng…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

DynOMo: Online Point Tracking by Dynamic Online Monocular Gaussian Reconstruction

Jenny Seidenschwarz, Qunjie Zhou, Bardienus Duisterhof +2

Reconstructing scenes and tracking motion are two sides of the same coin. Tracking points allow for geometric reconstruction [14], while geometric reconstruction of (dynamic) scene…

cs.CV2024

Residual-NeRF: Learning Residual NeRFs for Transparent Object Manipulation

Bardienus P. Duisterhof, Yuemin Mao, Si Heng Teng +1

Transparent objects are ubiquitous in industry, pharmaceuticals, and households. Grasping and manipulating these objects is a significant challenge for robots. Existing methods hav…

cs.CV2023★ 7 cited

DeformGS: Scene Flow in Highly Deformable Scenes for Deformable Object Manipulation

Bardienus P. Duisterhof, Zhao Mandi, Yunchao Yao +8

Teaching robots to fold, drape, or reposition deformable objects such as cloth will unlock a variety of automation applications. While remarkable progress has been made for rigid o…

cs.CV2022★ 4 cited

TartanCalib: Iterative Wide-Angle Lens Calibration using Adaptive SubPixel Refinement of AprilTags

Bardienus P Duisterhof, Yaoyu Hu, Si Heng Teng +2

Wide-angle cameras are uniquely positioned for mobile robots, by virtue of the rich information they provide in a small, light, and cost-effective form factor. An accurate calibrat…

cs.LG2022★ 4 cited

Tiny Robot Learning: Challenges and Directions for Machine Learning in Resource-Constrained Robots

Sabrina M. Neuman, Brian Plancher, Bardienus P. Duisterhof +8

Machine learning (ML) has become a pervasive tool across computing systems. An emerging application that stress-tests the challenges of ML system design is tiny robot learning, the…

cs.RO2021★ 2 cited

Sniffy Bug: A Fully Autonomous Swarm of Gas-Seeking Nano Quadcopters in Cluttered Environments

Bardienus P. Duisterhof, Shushuai Li, Javier Burgués +2

Nano quadcopters are ideal for gas source localization (GSL) as they are safe, agile and inexpensive. However, their extremely restricted sensors and computational resources make G…

cs.RO2019★ 20 cited

Learning to Seek: Autonomous Source Seeking with Deep Reinforcement Learning Onboard a Nano Drone Microcontroller

Bardienus P. Duisterhof, Srivatsan Krishnan, Jonathan J. Cruz +5

We present fully autonomous source seeking onboard a highly constrained nano quadcopter, by contributing application-specific system and observation feature design to enable infere…

cs.RO2019★ 1 cited

The Role of Compute in Autonomous Aerial Vehicles

Behzad Boroujerdian, Hasan Genc, Srivatsan Krishnan +7

Autonomous-mobile cyber-physical machines are part of our future. Specifically, unmanned-aerial-vehicles have seen a resurgence in activity with use-cases such as package delivery.…