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20182024
most citedRGB-D Object Detection and Semantic Segmentation for Autonomous Manipulation in Clutter

166 citations · 328 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.RO2024

MOTPose: Multi-object 6D Pose Estimation for Dynamic Video Sequences using Attention-based Temporal Fusion

Arul Selvam Periyasamy, Sven Behnke

Cluttered bin-picking environments are challenging for pose estimation models. Despite the impressive progress enabled by deep learning, single-view RGB pose estimation models perf…

cs.CV2023

Efficient Multi-Object Pose Estimation using Multi-Resolution Deformable Attention and Query Aggregation

Arul Selvam Periyasamy, Vladimir Tsaturyan, Sven Behnke

Object pose estimation is a long-standing problem in computer vision. Recently, attention-based vision transformer models have achieved state-of-the-art results in many computer vi…

cs.CV2023

YOLOPose V2: Understanding and Improving Transformer-based 6D Pose Estimation

Arul Selvam Periyasamy, Arash Amini, Vladimir Tsaturyan +1

6D object pose estimation is a crucial prerequisite for autonomous robot manipulation applications. The state-of-the-art models for pose estimation are convolutional neural network…

cs.CV2022

Learning Implicit Probability Distribution Functions for Symmetric Orientation Estimation from RGB Images Without Pose Labels

Arul Selvam Periyasamy, Luis Denninger, Sven Behnke

Object pose estimation is a necessary prerequisite for autonomous robotic manipulation, but the presence of symmetry increases the complexity of the pose estimation task. Existing…

cs.CV2022★ 3 cited

ConvPoseCNN2: Prediction and Refinement of Dense 6D Object Poses

Arul Selvam Periyasamy, Catherine Capellen, Max Schwarz +1

Object pose estimation is a key perceptual capability in robotics. We propose a fully-convolutional extension of the PoseCNN method, which densely predicts object translations and…

cs.CV2022★ 3 cited

YOLOPose: Transformer-based Multi-Object 6D Pose Estimation using Keypoint Regression

Arash Amini, Arul Selvam Periyasamy, Sven Behnke

6D object pose estimation is a crucial prerequisite for autonomous robot manipulation applications. The state-of-the-art models for pose estimation are convolutional neural network…

cs.CV2021

T6D-Direct: Transformers for Multi-Object 6D Pose Direct Regression

Arash Amini, Arul Selvam Periyasamy, Sven Behnke

6D pose estimation is the task of predicting the translation and orientation of objects in a given input image, which is a crucial prerequisite for many robotics and augmented real…

cs.RO2021

SynPick: A Dataset for Dynamic Bin Picking Scene Understanding

Arul Selvam Periyasamy, Max Schwarz, Sven Behnke

We present SynPick, a synthetic dataset for dynamic scene understanding in bin-picking scenarios. In contrast to existing datasets, our dataset is both situated in a realistic indu…

cs.RO2021

Team NimbRo's UGV Solution for Autonomous Wall Building and Fire Fighting at MBZIRC 2020

Christian Lenz, Jan Quenzel, Arul Selvam Periyasamy +7

Autonomous robotic systems for various applications including transport, mobile manipulation, and disaster response are becoming more and more complex. Evaluating and analyzing suc…

cs.RO2020

Autonomous Wall Building with a UGV-UAV Team at MBZIRC 2020

Christian Lenz, Max Schwarz, Andre Rochow +4

Constructing large structures with robots is a challenging task with many potential applications that requires mobile manipulation capabilities. We present two systems for autonomo…

cs.CV2019

Refining 6D Object Pose Predictions using Abstract Render-and-Compare

Arul Selvam Periyasamy, Max Schwarz, Sven Behnke

Robotic systems often require precise scene analysis capabilities, especially in unstructured, cluttered situations, as occurring in human-made environments. While current deep-lea…

cs.RO2019★ 72 cited

Remote Mobile Manipulation with the Centauro Robot: Full-body Telepresence and Autonomous Operator Assistance

Tobias Klamt, Max Schwarz, Christian Lenz +21

Solving mobile manipulation tasks in inaccessible and dangerous environments is an important application of robots to support humans. Example domains are construction and maintenan…

cs.RO2018

Autonomous Dual-Arm Manipulation of Familiar Objects

Dmytro Pavlichenko, Diego Rodriguez, Max Schwarz +3

Autonomous dual-arm manipulation is an essential skill to deploy robots in unstructured scenarios. However, this is a challenging undertaking, particularly in terms of perception a…

cs.CV2018★ 2 cited

Robust 6D Object Pose Estimation in Cluttered Scenes using Semantic Segmentation and Pose Regression Networks

Arul Selvam Periyasamy, Max Schwarz, Sven Behnke

Object pose estimation is a crucial prerequisite for robots to perform autonomous manipulation in clutter. Real-world bin-picking settings such as warehouses present additional cha…

cs.RO2018

Team NimbRo at MBZIRC 2017: Autonomous Valve Stem Turning using a Wrench

Max Schwarz, David Droeschel, Christian Lenz +7

The Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC) 2017 has defined ambitious new benchmarks to advance the state-of-the-art in autonomous operation of ground-based an…

cs.RO2018★ 82 cited

Fast Object Learning and Dual-arm Coordination for Cluttered Stowing, Picking, and Packing

Max Schwarz, Christian Lenz, Germán Martín García +4

Robotic picking from cluttered bins is a demanding task, for which Amazon Robotics holds challenges. The 2017 Amazon Robotics Challenge (ARC) required stowing items into a storage…

cs.CV2018★ 166 cited

RGB-D Object Detection and Semantic Segmentation for Autonomous Manipulation in Clutter

Max Schwarz, Anton Milan, Arul Selvam Periyasamy +1

Autonomous robotic manipulation in clutter is challenging. A large variety of objects must be perceived in complex scenes, where they are partially occluded and embedded among many…