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most citedRDFC-GAN: RGB-Depth Fusion CycleGAN for Indoor Depth Completion

13 citations · 42 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

cs.RO2025

Let Me Show You: Learning by Retrieving from Egocentric Video for Robotic Manipulation

Yichen Zhu, Feifei Feng

Robots operating in complex and uncertain environments face considerable challenges. Advanced robotic systems often rely on extensive datasets to learn manipulation tasks. In contr…

cs.RO2025

PointVLA: Injecting the 3D World into Vision-Language-Action Models

Chengmeng Li, Junjie Wen, Yan Peng +3

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models excel at robotic tasks by leveraging large-scale 2D vision-language pretraining, but their reliance on RGB images limits spatial reasoning criti…

cs.RO2025

ObjectVLA: End-to-End Open-World Object Manipulation Without Demonstration

Minjie Zhu, Yichen Zhu, Jinming Li +6

Imitation learning has proven to be highly effective in teaching robots dexterous manipulation skills. However, it typically relies on large amounts of human demonstration data, wh…

cs.RO2025★ 2 cited

ChatVLA: Unified Multimodal Understanding and Robot Control with Vision-Language-Action Model

Zhongyi Zhou, Yichen Zhu, Minjie Zhu +8

Humans possess a unified cognitive ability to perceive, comprehend, and interact with the physical world. Why can't large language models replicate this holistic understanding? Thr…

cs.RO2025

DexVLA: Vision-Language Model with Plug-In Diffusion Expert for General Robot Control

Junjie Wen, Yichen Zhu, Jinming Li +3

Enabling robots to perform diverse tasks across varied environments is a central challenge in robot learning. While vision-language-action (VLA) models have shown promise for gener…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

CoA-VLA: Improving Vision-Language-Action Models via Visual-Textual Chain-of-Affordance

Jinming Li, Yichen Zhu, Zhibin Tang +8

Robot foundation models, particularly Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, have garnered significant attention for their ability to enhance robot policy learning, greatly improving…

cs.LG2024★ 9 cited

ACL-QL: Adaptive Conservative Level in Q-Learning for Offline Reinforcement Learning

Kun Wu, Yinuo Zhao, Zhiyuan Xu +5

Offline Reinforcement Learning (RL), which operates solely on static datasets without further interactions with the environment, provides an appealing alternative to learning a saf…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

Diffusion-VLA: Generalizable and Interpretable Robot Foundation Model via Self-Generated Reasoning

Junjie Wen, Minjie Zhu, Yichen Zhu +8

In this paper, we present DiffusionVLA, a novel framework that seamlessly combines the autoregression model with the diffusion model for learning visuomotor policy. Central to our…

cs.CV2024

EDT: An Efficient Diffusion Transformer Framework Inspired by Human-like Sketching

Xinwang Chen, Ning Liu, Yichen Zhu +2

Transformer-based Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have shown more potential than CNN-based DPMs, yet their extensive computational requirements hinder widespread practical ap…

cs.RO2024

Scaling Diffusion Policy in Transformer to 1 Billion Parameters for Robotic Manipulation

Minjie Zhu, Yichen Zhu, Jinming Li +8

Diffusion Policy is a powerful technique tool for learning end-to-end visuomotor robot control. It is expected that Diffusion Policy possesses scalability, a key attribute for deep…

cs.RO2024★ 3 cited

TinyVLA: Towards Fast, Data-Efficient Vision-Language-Action Models for Robotic Manipulation

Junjie Wen, Yichen Zhu, Jinming Li +9

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown remarkable potential in visuomotor control and instruction comprehension through end-to-end learning processes. However, current VLA…

cs.RO2024

MMRo: Are Multimodal LLMs Eligible as the Brain for In-Home Robotics?

Jinming Li, Yichen Zhu, Zhiyuan Xu +7

It is fundamentally challenging for robots to serve as useful assistants in human environments because this requires addressing a spectrum of sub-problems across robotics, includin…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Mipha: A Comprehensive Overhaul of Multimodal Assistant with Small Language Models

Minjie Zhu, Yichen Zhu, Xin Liu +7

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have showcased impressive skills in tasks related to visual understanding and reasoning. Yet, their widespread application faces obstacles…

cs.RO2024

Language-Conditioned Robotic Manipulation with Fast and Slow Thinking

Minjie Zhu, Yichen Zhu, Jinming Li +8

The language-conditioned robotic manipulation aims to transfer natural language instructions into executable actions, from simple pick-and-place to tasks requiring intent recogniti…

cs.RO2024

Object-Centric Instruction Augmentation for Robotic Manipulation

Junjie Wen, Yichen Zhu, Minjie Zhu +8

Humans interpret scenes by recognizing both the identities and positions of objects in their observations. For a robot to perform tasks such as \enquote{pick and place}, understand…

cs.RO2024

Visual Robotic Manipulation with Depth-Aware Pretraining

Wanying Wang, Jinming Li, Yichen Zhu +7

Recent work on visual representation learning has shown to be efficient for robotic manipulation tasks. However, most existing works pretrained the visual backbone solely on 2D ima…

cs.CV2023★ 6 cited

DTF-Net: Category-Level Pose Estimation and Shape Reconstruction via Deformable Template Field

Haowen Wang, Zhipeng Fan, Zhen Zhao +7

Estimating 6D poses and reconstructing 3D shapes of objects in open-world scenes from RGB-depth image pairs is challenging. Many existing methods rely on learning geometric feature…

cs.LG2023

Make A Long Image Short: Adaptive Token Length for Vision Transformers

Qiqi Zhou, Yichen Zhu

The vision transformer is a model that breaks down each image into a sequence of tokens with a fixed length and processes them similarly to words in natural language processing. Al…

cs.CV2023★ 13 cited

RDFC-GAN: RGB-Depth Fusion CycleGAN for Indoor Depth Completion

Haowen Wang, Zhengping Che, Yufan Yang +6

Raw depth images captured in indoor scenarios frequently exhibit extensive missing values due to the inherent limitations of the sensors and environments. For example, transparent…

cs.RO2023★ 1 cited

CMG-Net: An End-to-End Contact-Based Multi-Finger Dexterous Grasping Network

Mingze Wei, Yaomin Huang, Zhiyuan Xu +7

In this paper, we propose a novel representation for grasping using contacts between multi-finger robotic hands and objects to be manipulated. This representation significantly red…

cs.CV2023★ 3 cited

CP: Channel Pruning Plug-in for Point-based Networks

Yaomin Huang, Ning Liu, Zhengping Che +7

Channel pruning can effectively reduce both computational cost and memory footprint of the original network while keeping a comparable accuracy performance. Though great success ha…

cs.CV2022

Label-Guided Auxiliary Training Improves 3D Object Detector

Yaomin Huang, Xinmei Liu, Yichen Zhu +7

Detecting 3D objects from point clouds is a practical yet challenging task that has attracted increasing attention recently. In this paper, we propose a Label-Guided auxiliary trai…

cs.CV2022

RGB-Depth Fusion GAN for Indoor Depth Completion

Haowen Wang, Mingyuan Wang, Zhengping Che +5

The raw depth image captured by the indoor depth sensor usually has an extensive range of missing depth values due to inherent limitations such as the inability to perceive transpa…

cs.CV2021★ 2 cited

Make A Long Image Short: Adaptive Token Length for Vision Transformers

Yichen Zhu, Yuqin Zhu, Jie Du +4

The vision transformer splits each image into a sequence of tokens with fixed length and processes the tokens in the same way as words in natural language processing. More tokens n…