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20162023
most citedLearning Particle Dynamics for Manipulating Rigid Bodies, Deformable Objects, and Fluids

169 citations · 661 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

cs.RO2023★ 1 cited

DFields: Dynamic 3D Descriptor Fields for Zero-Shot Generalizable Rearrangement

Yixuan Wang, Mingtong Zhang, Zhuoran Li +5

Scene representation is a crucial design choice in robotic manipulation systems. An ideal representation is expected to be 3D, dynamic, and semantic to meet the demands of diverse…

cs.RO2023★ 87 cited

VoxPoser: Composable 3D Value Maps for Robotic Manipulation with Language Models

Wenlong Huang, Chen Wang, Ruohan Zhang +3

Large language models (LLMs) are shown to possess a wealth of actionable knowledge that can be extracted for robot manipulation in the form of reasoning and planning. Despite the p…

cs.RO2023★ 1 cited

Dynamic-Resolution Model Learning for Object Pile Manipulation

Yixuan Wang, Yunzhu Li, Katherine Driggs-Campbell +2

Dynamics models learned from visual observations have shown to be effective in various robotic manipulation tasks. One of the key questions for learning such dynamics models is wha…

cs.RO2023

Multi-Object Manipulation via Object-Centric Neural Scattering Functions

Stephen Tian, Yancheng Cai, Hong-Xing Yu +5

Learned visual dynamics models have proven effective for robotic manipulation tasks. Yet, it remains unclear how best to represent scenes involving multi-object interactions. Curre…

cs.RO2023★ 7 cited

RoboCook: Long-Horizon Elasto-Plastic Object Manipulation with Diverse Tools

Haochen Shi, Huazhe Xu, Samuel Clarke +2

Humans excel in complex long-horizon soft body manipulation tasks via flexible tool use: bread baking requires a knife to slice the dough and a rolling pin to flatten it. Often reg…

cs.CV2023

The ObjectFolder Benchmark: Multisensory Learning with Neural and Real Objects

Ruohan Gao, Yiming Dou, Hao Li +5

We introduce the ObjectFolder Benchmark, a benchmark suite of 10 tasks for multisensory object-centric learning, centered around object recognition, reconstruction, and manipulatio…

cs.CV2023

Partial-View Object View Synthesis via Filtered Inversion

Fan-Yun Sun, Jonathan Tremblay, Valts Blukis +11

We propose Filtering Inversion (FINV), a learning framework and optimization process that predicts a renderable 3D object representation from one or few partial views. FINV address…

cs.LG2022★ 6 cited

Does Learning from Decentralized Non-IID Unlabeled Data Benefit from Self Supervision?

Lirui Wang, Kaiqing Zhang, Yunzhu Li +2

Decentralized learning has been advocated and widely deployed to make efficient use of distributed datasets, with an extensive focus on supervised learning (SL) problems. Unfortuna…

cs.LG2022★ 15 cited

Reinforcement Learning with Neural Radiance Fields

Danny Driess, Ingmar Schubert, Pete Florence +2

It is a long-standing problem to find effective representations for training reinforcement learning (RL) agents. This paper demonstrates that learning state representations with su…

cs.RO2022

RoboCraft: Learning to See, Simulate, and Shape Elasto-Plastic Objects with Graph Networks

Haochen Shi, Huazhe Xu, Zhiao Huang +2

Modeling and manipulating elasto-plastic objects are essential capabilities for robots to perform complex industrial and household interaction tasks (e.g., stuffing dumplings, roll…

cs.CV2022★ 14 cited

ComPhy: Compositional Physical Reasoning of Objects and Events from Videos

Zhenfang Chen, Kexin Yi, Yunzhu Li +4

Objects' motions in nature are governed by complex interactions and their properties. While some properties, such as shape and material, can be identified via the object's visual a…

cs.LG2022★ 14 cited

DiffSkill: Skill Abstraction from Differentiable Physics for Deformable Object Manipulations with Tools

Xingyu Lin, Zhiao Huang, Yunzhu Li +3

We consider the problem of sequential robotic manipulation of deformable objects using tools. Previous works have shown that differentiable physics simulators provide gradients to…

cs.CV2022★ 19 cited

Learning Multi-Object Dynamics with Compositional Neural Radiance Fields

Danny Driess, Zhiao Huang, Yunzhu Li +2

We present a method to learn compositional multi-object dynamics models from image observations based on implicit object encoders, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs), and graph neural…

cs.LG2020★ 22 cited

Visual Grounding of Learned Physical Models

Yunzhu Li, Toru Lin, Kexin Yi +5

Humans intuitively recognize objects' physical properties and predict their motion, even when the objects are engaged in complicated interactions. The abilities to perform physical…

cs.LG2019★ 50 cited

Learning Compositional Koopman Operators for Model-Based Control

Yunzhu Li, Hao He, Jiajun Wu +2

Finding an embedding space for a linear approximation of a nonlinear dynamical system enables efficient system identification and control synthesis. The Koopman operator theory lay…

cs.CV2019★ 69 cited

CLEVRER: CoLlision Events for Video REpresentation and Reasoning

Kexin Yi, Chuang Gan, Yunzhu Li +4

The ability to reason about temporal and causal events from videos lies at the core of human intelligence. Most video reasoning benchmarks, however, focus on pattern recognition fr…

cs.CV2019★ 10 cited

Connecting Touch and Vision via Cross-Modal Prediction

Yunzhu Li, Jun-Yan Zhu, Russ Tedrake +1

Humans perceive the world using multi-modal sensory inputs such as vision, audition, and touch. In this work, we investigate the cross-modal connection between vision and touch. Th…

cs.LG2018★ 169 cited

Learning Particle Dynamics for Manipulating Rigid Bodies, Deformable Objects, and Fluids

Yunzhu Li, Jiajun Wu, Russ Tedrake +2

Real-life control tasks involve matters of various substances---rigid or soft bodies, liquid, gas---each with distinct physical behaviors. This poses challenges to traditional rigi…

cs.AI2018★ 11 cited

Propagation Networks for Model-Based Control Under Partial Observation

Yunzhu Li, Jiajun Wu, Jun-Yan Zhu +3

There has been an increasing interest in learning dynamics simulators for model-based control. Compared with off-the-shelf physics engines, a learnable simulator can quickly adapt…

cs.LG2017★ 136 cited

InfoGAIL: Interpretable Imitation Learning from Visual Demonstrations

Yunzhu Li, Jiaming Song, Stefano Ermon

The goal of imitation learning is to mimic expert behavior without access to an explicit reward signal. Expert demonstrations provided by humans, however, often show significant va…

cs.CV2016★ 28 cited

Skin Cancer Detection and Tracking using Data Synthesis and Deep Learning

Yunzhu Li, Andre Esteva, Brett Kuprel +3

Dense object detection and temporal tracking are needed across applications domains ranging from people-tracking to analysis of satellite imagery over time. The detection and track…

cs.CV2016★ 2 cited

Face Detection with End-to-End Integration of a ConvNet and a 3D Model

Yunzhu Li, Benyuan Sun, Tianfu Wu +1

This paper presents a method for face detection in the wild, which integrates a ConvNet and a 3D mean face model in an end-to-end multi-task discriminative learning framework. The…