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20182026
most citedScalable Differentiable Physics for Learning and Control

31 citations · 92 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.RO2026

Act, Sense, Act: Learning Active Perception from Large-Scale Egocentric Human Data

Jialiang Li, Yi Qiao, Yunhan Guo +2

Achieving generalizable manipulation in unconstrained environments requires the robot to proactively resolve information uncertainty, i.e., the capability of active perception. How…

cs.RO2025

IndustryNav: Exploring Spatial Reasoning of Embodied Agents in Dynamic Industrial Navigation

Yifan Li, Lichi Li, Anh Dao +15

While Visual Large Language Models (VLLMs) show great promise as embodied agents, they continue to face substantial challenges in spatial reasoning. Existing embodied benchmarks la…

cs.CV2023

HandyPriors: Physically Consistent Perception of Hand-Object Interactions with Differentiable Priors

Shutong Zhang, Yi-Ling Qiao, Guanglei Zhu +6

Various heuristic objectives for modeling hand-object interaction have been proposed in past work. However, due to the lack of a cohesive framework, these objectives often possess…

cs.GR2023

Dynamic Mesh-Aware Radiance Fields

Yi-Ling Qiao, Alexander Gao, Yiran Xu +3

Embedding polygonal mesh assets within photorealistic Neural Radience Fields (NeRF) volumes, such that they can be rendered and their dynamics simulated in a physically consistent…

cs.RO2023★ 2 cited

Towards Generalist Robots: A Promising Paradigm via Generative Simulation

Zhou Xian, Theophile Gervet, Zhenjia Xu +3

This document serves as a position paper that outlines the authors' vision for a potential pathway towards generalist robots. The purpose of this document is to share the excitemen…

cs.CV2023★ 7 cited

PAC-NeRF: Physics Augmented Continuum Neural Radiance Fields for Geometry-Agnostic System Identification

Xuan Li, Yi-Ling Qiao, Peter Yichen Chen +4

Existing approaches to system identification (estimating the physical parameters of an object) from videos assume known object geometries. This precludes their applicability in a v…

quant-ph2022★ 5 cited

Differentiable Analog Quantum Computing for Optimization and Control

Jiaqi Leng, Yuxiang Peng, Yi-Ling Qiao +2

We formulate the first differentiable analog quantum computing framework with a specific parameterization design at the analog signal (pulse) level to better exploit near-term quan…

cs.CV2022★ 8 cited

NeuPhysics: Editable Neural Geometry and Physics from Monocular Videos

Yi-Ling Qiao, Alexander Gao, Ming C. Lin

We present a method for learning 3D geometry and physics parameters of a dynamic scene from only a monocular RGB video input. To decouple the learning of underlying scene geometry…

cs.GR2022

Differentiable Hybrid Traffic Simulation

Sanghyun Son, Yi-Ling Qiao, Jason Sewall +1

We introduce a novel differentiable hybrid traffic simulator, which simulates traffic using a hybrid model of both macroscopic and microscopic models and can be directly integrated…

cs.LG2022★ 10 cited

Differentiable Simulation of Soft Multi-body Systems

Yi-Ling Qiao, Junbang Liang, Vladlen Koltun +1

We present a method for differentiable simulation of soft articulated bodies. Our work enables the integration of differentiable physical dynamics into gradient-based pipelines. We…

cs.LG2021★ 6 cited

Efficient Differentiable Simulation of Articulated Bodies

Yi-Ling Qiao, Junbang Liang, Vladlen Koltun +1

We present a method for efficient differentiable simulation of articulated bodies. This enables integration of articulated body dynamics into deep learning frameworks, and gradient…

cs.LG2020★ 31 cited

Scalable Differentiable Physics for Learning and Control

Yi-Ling Qiao, Junbang Liang, Vladlen Koltun +1

Differentiable physics is a powerful approach to learning and control problems that involve physical objects and environments. While notable progress has been made, the capabilitie…

cs.RO2020★ 1 cited

OF-VO: Efficient Navigation among Pedestrians Using Commodity Sensors

Jing Liang, Yi-Ling Qiao, Tianrui Guan +1

We present a modified velocity-obstacle (VO) algorithm that uses probabilistic partial observations of the environment to compute velocities and navigate a robot to a target. Our s…

cs.GR2019

Learning-based Real-time Detection of Intrinsic Reflectional Symmetry

Yi-Ling Qiao, Lin Gao, Shu-Zhi Liu +3

Reflectional symmetry is ubiquitous in nature. While extrinsic reflectional symmetry can be easily parametrized and detected, intrinsic symmetry is much harder due to the high solu…

cs.GR2019★ 10 cited

LaplacianNet: Learning on 3D Meshes with Laplacian Encoding and Pooling

Yi-Ling Qiao, Lin Gao, Jie Yang +3

3D models are commonly used in computer vision and graphics. With the wider availability of mesh data, an efficient and intrinsic deep learning approach to processing 3D meshes is…

cs.GR2018★ 12 cited

Learning Bidirectional LSTM Networks for Synthesizing 3D Mesh Animation Sequences

Yi-Ling Qiao, Lin Gao, Yu-Kun Lai +1

In this paper, we present a novel method for learning to synthesize 3D mesh animation sequences with long short-term memory (LSTM) blocks and mesh-based convolutional neural networ…