Differentiable visual computing for inverse problems and machine learning

A Spielberg, F Zhong, K Rematas… - Nature Machine …, 2023 - nature.com
Modern 3D computer graphics technologies are able to reproduce the dynamics and
appearance of real-world environments and phenomena, building on theoretical models in …

A survey on physics informed reinforcement learning: Review and open problems

C Banerjee, K Nguyen, C Fookes, M Raissi - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The inclusion of physical information in machine learning frameworks has revolutionized
many application areas. This involves enhancing the learning process by incorporating …

Ppr: Physically plausible reconstruction from monocular videos

G Yang, S Yang, JZ Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Given monocular videos, we build 3D models of articulated objects and environments
whose 3D configurations satisfy dynamics and contact constraints. At its core, our method …

Grasp'd: Differentiable contact-rich grasp synthesis for multi-fingered hands

D Turpin, L Wang, E Heiden, YC Chen… - … on Computer Vision, 2022 - Springer
The study of hand-object interaction requires generating viable grasp poses for high-
dimensional multi-finger models, often relying on analytic grasp synthesis which tends to …

Neuphysics: Editable neural geometry and physics from monocular videos

YL Qiao, A Gao, M Lin - Advances in Neural Information …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We present a method for learning 3D geometry and physics parameters of a dynamic scene
from only a monocular RGB video input. To decouple the learning of underlying scene …

Efficient tactile simulation with differentiability for robotic manipulation

J Xu, S Kim, T Chen, AR Garcia… - … on Robot Learning, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Efficient simulation of tactile sensors can unlock new opportunities for learning tactile-based
manipulation policies in simulation and then transferring the learned policy to real systems …

Hierarchical Diffusion Policy for Kinematics-Aware Multi-Task Robotic Manipulation

X Ma, S Patidar, I Haughton… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Abstract This paper introduces Hierarchical Diffusion Policy (HDP) a hierarchical agent for
multi-task robotic manipulation. HDP factorises a manipulation policy into a hierarchical …

Fluidlab: A differentiable environment for benchmarking complex fluid manipulation

Z Xian, B Zhu, Z Xu, HY Tung, A Torralba… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Humans manipulate various kinds of fluids in their everyday life: creating latte art, scooping
floating objects from water, rolling an ice cream cone, etc. Using robots to augment or …

Acting as inverse inverse planning

K Chandra, TM Li, J Tenenbaum… - Acm siggraph 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Great storytellers know how to take us on a journey. They direct characters to act—not
necessarily in the most rational way—but rather in a way that leads to interesting situations …

Roboninja: Learning an adaptive cutting policy for multi-material objects

Z Xu, Z Xian, X Lin, C Chi, Z Huang, C Gan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We introduce RoboNinja, a learning-based cutting system for multi-material objects (ie, soft
objects with rigid cores such as avocados or mangos). In contrast to prior works using open …