5 papers
Constrained Decoding for Safe Robot Navigation Foundation Models
Parv Kapoor, Akila Ganlath, Michael Clifford +3
Recent advances in the development of robotic foundation models have led to promising end-to-end and general-purpose capabilities in robotic systems. Trained on vast datasets of si…
SmokeSeer: 3D Gaussian Splatting for Smoke Removal and Scene Reconstruction
Neham Jain, Andrew Jong, Sebastian Scherer +1
Smoke in real-world scenes can severely degrade image quality and hamper visibility. Recent image restoration methods either rely on data-driven priors that are susceptible to hall…
The Overlooked Value of Test-time Reference Sets in Visual Place Recognition
Mubariz Zaffar, Liangliang Nan, Sebastian Scherer +1
Given a query image, Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is the task of retrieving an image of the same place from a reference database with robustness to viewpoint and appearance chang…
Bilevel Learning for Bilevel Planning
Bowen Li, Tom Silver, Sebastian Scherer +1
A robot that learns from demonstrations should not just imitate what it sees -- it should understand the high-level concepts that are being demonstrated and generalize them to new…
General Place Recognition Survey: Towards Real-World Autonomy
Peng Yin, Jianhao Jiao, Shiqi Zhao +5
In the realm of robotics, the quest for achieving real-world autonomy, capable of executing large-scale and long-term operations, has positioned place recognition (PR) as a corners…