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most citedToward General-Purpose Robots via Foundation Models: A Survey and Meta-Analysis

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cs.CV2024

Robust Bayesian Scene Reconstruction with Retrieval-Augmented Priors for Precise Grasping and Planning

Herbert Wright, Weiming Zhi, Martin Matak +2

Constructing 3D representations of object geometry is critical for many robotics tasks, particularly manipulation problems. These representations must be built from potentially noi…

cs.RO2024

SplaTraj: Camera Trajectory Generation with Semantic Gaussian Splatting

Xinyi Liu, Tianyi Zhang, Matthew Johnson-Roberson +1

Many recent developments for robots to represent environments have focused on photorealistic reconstructions. This paper particularly focuses on generating sequences of images from…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

PhotoReg: Photometrically Registering 3D Gaussian Splatting Models

Ziwen Yuan, Tianyi Zhang, Matthew Johnson-Roberson +1

Building accurate representations of the environment is critical for intelligent robots to make decisions during deployment. Advances in photorealistic environment models have enab…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

Embodied-RAG: General Non-parametric Embodied Memory for Retrieval and Generation

Quanting Xie, So Yeon Min, Pengliang Ji +7

There is no limit to how much a robot might explore and learn, but all of that knowledge needs to be searchable and actionable. Within language research, retrieval augmented genera…

cs.CV2024

RecGS: Removing Water Caustic with Recurrent Gaussian Splatting

Tianyi Zhang, Weiming Zhi, Kaining Huang +3

Water caustics are commonly observed in seafloor imaging data from shallow-water areas. Traditional methods that remove caustic patterns from images often rely on 2D filtering or p…

cs.RO2024

3D Foundation Models Enable Simultaneous Geometry and Pose Estimation of Grasped Objects

Weiming Zhi, Haozhan Tang, Tianyi Zhang +1

Humans have the remarkable ability to use held objects as tools to interact with their environment. For this to occur, humans internally estimate how hand movements affect the obje…

cs.CV2024

From Perfect to Noisy World Simulation: Customizable Embodied Multi-modal Perturbations for SLAM Robustness Benchmarking

Xiaohao Xu, Tianyi Zhang, Sibo Wang +6

Embodied agents require robust navigation systems to operate in unstructured environments, making the robustness of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) models critical to…

cs.CV2024

Learning Shared RGB-D Fields: Unified Self-supervised Pre-training for Label-efficient LiDAR-Camera 3D Perception

Xiaohao Xu, Ye Li, Tianyi Zhang +3

Constructing large-scale labeled datasets for multi-modal perception model training in autonomous driving presents significant challenges. This has motivated the development of sel…

cs.RO2024

Unifying Scene Representation and Hand-Eye Calibration with 3D Foundation Models

Weiming Zhi, Haozhan Tang, Tianyi Zhang +1

Representing the environment is a central challenge in robotics, and is essential for effective decision-making. Traditionally, before capturing images with a manipulator-mounted c…

cs.RO2024

Teaching Robots Where To Go And How To Act With Human Sketches via Spatial Diagrammatic Instructions

Qilin Sun, Weiming Zhi, Tianyi Zhang +1

This paper introduces Spatial Diagrammatic Instructions (SDIs), an approach for human operators to specify objectives and constraints that are related to spatial regions in the wor…

cs.CV2024

DarkGS: Learning Neural Illumination and 3D Gaussians Relighting for Robotic Exploration in the Dark

Tianyi Zhang, Kaining Huang, Weiming Zhi +1

Humans have the remarkable ability to construct consistent mental models of an environment, even under limited or varying levels of illumination. We wish to endow robots with this…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

Customizable Perturbation Synthesis for Robust SLAM Benchmarking

Xiaohao Xu, Tianyi Zhang, Sibo Wang +6

Robustness is a crucial factor for the successful deployment of robots in unstructured environments, particularly in the domain of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). Sim…