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20202023
most citedThe RoboDepth Challenge: Methods and Advancements Towards Robust Depth Estimation

4 citations · 8 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.CV2023★ 4 cited

The RoboDepth Challenge: Methods and Advancements Towards Robust Depth Estimation

Lingdong Kong, Yaru Niu, Shaoyuan Xie +39

Accurate depth estimation under out-of-distribution (OoD) scenarios, such as adverse weather conditions, sensor failure, and noise contamination, is desirable for safety-critical a…

cs.RO2023

GOATS: Goal Sampling Adaptation for Scooping with Curriculum Reinforcement Learning

Yaru Niu, Shiyu Jin, Zeqing Zhang +3

In this work, we first formulate the problem of robotic water scooping using goal-conditioned reinforcement learning. This task is particularly challenging due to the complex dynam…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Group Distributionally Robust Reinforcement Learning with Hierarchical Latent Variables

Mengdi Xu, Peide Huang, Yaru Niu +8

One key challenge for multi-task Reinforcement learning (RL) in practice is the absence of task indicators. Robust RL has been applied to deal with task ambiguity, but may result i…

cs.RO2022

Domain Knowledge Driven Pseudo Labels for Interpretable Goal-Conditioned Interactive Trajectory Prediction

Lingfeng Sun, Chen Tang, Yaru Niu +5

Motion forecasting in highly interactive scenarios is a challenging problem in autonomous driving. In such scenarios, we need to accurately predict the joint behavior of interactin…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

Learning Interpretable, High-Performing Policies for Autonomous Driving

Rohan Paleja, Yaru Niu, Andrew Silva +3

Gradient-based approaches in reinforcement learning (RL) have achieved tremendous success in learning policies for autonomous vehicles. While the performance of these approaches wa…

cs.RO2020

Active Hierarchical Imitation and Reinforcement Learning

Yaru Niu, Yijun Gu

Humans can leverage hierarchical structures to split a task into sub-tasks and solve problems efficiently. Both imitation and reinforcement learning or a combination of them with h…

cs.RO2020★ 1 cited

Modification of Gesture-Determined-Dynamic Function with Consideration of Margins for Motion Planning of Humanoid Robots

Zhijun Zhang, Lingdong Kong, Yaru Niu +1

The gesture-determined-dynamic function (GDDF) offers an effective way to handle the control problems of humanoid robots. Specifically, GDDF is utilized to constrain the movements…