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On the Numerical Reliability of Differentiable Physics-Based Optimization for Robotic Material Manipulation
Xintong Yang, Minglun Wei, Yu-Kun Lai +1
Differentiable physics is increasingly used in robotic material manipulation for system identification, trajectory or skill optimization, demonstration generation, and robot or end…
Differentiable Skill Optimisation for Powder Manipulation in Laboratory Automation
Minglun Wei, Xintong Yang, Yu-Kun Lai +1
Robotic automation is accelerating scientific discovery by reducing manual effort in laboratory workflows. However, precise manipulation of powders remains challenging, particularl…
SEA: Semantic Map Prediction for Active Exploration of Uncertain Areas
Hongyu Ding, Xinyue Liang, Yudong Fang +7
In this paper, we propose SEA, a novel approach for active robot exploration through semantic map prediction and a reinforcement learning-based hierarchical exploration policy. Unl…
DDBot: Differentiable Physics-based Digging Robot for Unknown Granular Materials
Xintong Yang, Minglun Wei, Yu-Kun Lai +1
Automating the manipulation of granular materials poses significant challenges due to complex contact dynamics, unpredictable material properties, and intricate system states. Exis…
MirrorSAM2: Segment Mirror in Videos with Depth Perception
Mingchen Xu, Yukun Lai, Ze Ji +1
This paper presents MirrorSAM2, the first framework that adapts Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) to the task of RGB-D video mirror segmentation. MirrorSAM2 addresses key challenges…
Skeletonization Quality Evaluation: Geometric Metrics for Point Cloud Analysis in Robotics
Qingmeng Wen, Yu-Kun Lai, Ze Ji +1
Skeletonization is a powerful tool for shape analysis, rooted in the inherent instinct to understand an object's morphology. It has found applications across various domains, inclu…
Differentiable Physics-based System Identification for Robotic Manipulation of Elastoplastic Materials
Xintong Yang, Ze Ji, Yu-Kun Lai
Robotic manipulation of volumetric elastoplastic deformable materials, from foods such as dough to construction materials like clay, is in its infancy, largely due to the difficult…
Fusion of Short-term and Long-term Attention for Video Mirror Detection
Mingchen Xu, Jing Wu, Yukun Lai +1
Techniques for detecting mirrors from static images have witnessed rapid growth in recent years. However, these methods detect mirrors from single input images. Detecting mirrors f…
A Physics-informed Demonstration-guided Learning Framework for Granular Material Manipulation
Minglun Wei, Xintong Yang, Yu-Kun Lai +2
Due to the complex physical properties of granular materials, research on robot learning for manipulating such materials predominantly either disregards the consideration of their…
Training-Free Video Editing via Optical Flow-Enhanced Score Distillation
Lianghan Zhu, Yanqi Bao, Jing Huo +4
The rapid advancement in visual generation, particularly the emergence of pre-trained text-to-image and text-to-video models, has catalyzed growing interest in training-free video…
Feature Proliferation -- the "Cancer" in StyleGAN and its Treatments
Shuang Song, Yuanbang Liang, Jing Wu +2
Despite the success of StyleGAN in image synthesis, the images it synthesizes are not always perfect and the well-known truncation trick has become a standard post-processing techn…