Interactive perception: Leveraging action in perception and perception in action

J Bohg, K Hausman, B Sankaran… - IEEE Transactions …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent approaches in robot perception follow the insight that perception is facilitated by
interaction with the environment. These approaches are subsumed under the term …

Learning to singulate objects using a push proposal network

A Eitel, N Hauff, W Burgard - Robotics Research: The 18th International …, 2020 - Springer
Learning to act in unstructured environments such as cluttered piles of objects poses a
substantial challenge for manipulation robots. We present a novel neural network-based …

Perceiving, learning, and exploiting object affordances for autonomous pile manipulation

D Katz, A Venkatraman, M Kazemi, JA Bagnell… - Autonomous …, 2014 - Springer
Autonomous manipulation in unstructured environments will enable a large variety of
exciting and important applications. Despite its promise, autonomous manipulation remains …

Active articulation model estimation through interactive perception

K Hausman, S Niekum, S Osentoski… - … on Robotics and …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We introduce a particle filter-based approach to representing and actively reducing
uncertainty over articulated motion models. The presented method provides a probabilistic …

Online interactive perception of articulated objects with multi-level recursive estimation based on task-specific priors

RM Martin, O Brock - 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To successfully manipulate in unknown environments, a robot must be able to perceive
degrees of freedom of objects in its environment. Based on the resulting kinematic model …

Probabilistic segmentation and targeted exploration of objects in cluttered environments

H Van Hoof, O Kroemer, J Peters - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Creating robots that can act autonomously in dynamic unstructured environments requires
dealing with novel objects. Thus, an offline learning phase is not sufficient for recognizing …

Autoscanning for coupled scene reconstruction and proactive object analysis

K Xu, H Huang, Y Shi, H Li, P Long, J Caichen… - ACM Transactions on …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Detailed scanning of indoor scenes is tedious for humans. We propose autonomous scene
scanning by a robot to relieve humans from such a laborious task. In an autonomous setting …

Color image segmentation metrics

M Harouni, HY Baghmaleki - Encyclopedia of Image Processing, 2018 - books.google.com
An automatic image segmentation procedure is an inevitable part of many image analyses
and computer vision which deeply affect the rest of the system; therefore, a set of interactive …

Self-supervised transfer learning for instance segmentation through physical interaction

A Eitel, N Hauff, W Burgard - 2019 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Instance segmentation of unknown objects from images is regarded as relevant for several
robot skills including grasping, tracking and object sorting. Recent results from computer …

Physical interaction for segmentation of unknown textured and non-textured rigid objects

D Schiebener, A Ude, T Asfour - 2014 IEEE International …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present an approach for autonomous interactive object segmentation by a humanoid
robot. The visual segmentation of unknown objects in a complex scene is an important …