2 papers
cs.CV2026
Show, Don't Tell: Detecting Novel Objects by Watching Human Videos
James Akl, Jose Nicolas Avendano Arbelaez, James Barabas +16
How can a robot quickly identify and recognize new objects shown to it during a human demonstration? Existing closed-set object detectors frequently fail at this because the object…
cs.RO2025
ViTa-Zero: Zero-shot Visuotactile Object 6D Pose Estimation
Hongyu Li, James Akl, Srinath Sridhar +2
Object 6D pose estimation is a critical challenge in robotics, particularly for manipulation tasks. While prior research combining visual and tactile (visuotactile) information has…