5 papers
Training People to Reward Robots
Endong Sun, Yuqing Zhu, Matthew Howard
Learning from demonstration (LfD) is a technique that allows expert teachers to teach task-oriented skills to robotic systems. However, the most effective way of guiding novice tea…
Efficient Continual Adaptation of Pretrained Robotic Policy with Online Meta-Learned Adapters
Ruiqi Zhu, Endong Sun, Guanhe Huang +1
Continual adaptation is essential for general autonomous agents. For example, a household robot pretrained with a repertoire of skills must still adapt to unseen tasks specific to…
Using Machine Teaching to Boost Novices' Robot Teaching Skill
Yuqing Zhu, Endong Sun, Matthew Howard
Recent evidence has shown that, contrary to expectations, it is difficult for users, especially novices, to teach robots tasks through LfD. This paper introduces a framework that l…
Braille-to-Speech Generator: Audio Generation Based on Joint Fine-Tuning of CLIP and Fastspeech2
Chun Xu, En-Wei Sun
An increasing number of Chinese people are troubled by different degrees of visual impairment, which has made the modal conversion between a single image or video frame in the visu…
Knowledge Distilled Ensemble Model for sEMG-based Silent Speech Interface
Wenqiang Lai, Qihan Yang, Ye Mao +2
Voice disorders affect millions of people worldwide. Surface electromyography-based Silent Speech Interfaces (sEMG-based SSIs) have been explored as a potential solution for decade…