no code implementations • 22 Apr 2024 • Jiaqi Chen, Daniel Barath, Iro Armeni, Marc Pollefeys, Hermann Blum
As such, we need methods that interface between natural language and map representations of the environment.
no code implementations • 18 Apr 2024 • Oliver Lemke, Zuria Bauer, René Zurbrügg, Marc Pollefeys, Francis Engelmann, Hermann Blum
This allows for accurate detection directly in 3D scenes, object- and environment-aware grasp prediction, as well as robust and repeatable robotic manipulation.
no code implementations • 20 Nov 2023 • Silvan Weder, Hermann Blum, Francis Engelmann, Marc Pollefeys
Semantic annotations are indispensable to train or evaluate perception models, yet very costly to acquire.
no code implementations • 4 Oct 2023 • Matthew Hanlon, Boyang Sun, Marc Pollefeys, Hermann Blum
However, localizing e. g. a ground robot in the map of a drone or head-mounted MR headset presents unique challenges due to viewpoint changes.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2023 • Zhizheng Liu, Francesco Milano, Jonas Frey, Roland Siegwart, Hermann Blum, Cesar Cadena
Due to the mismatch between training and deployment data, adapting the model on the new scenes is often crucial to obtain good performance.
1 code implementation • 21 Jun 2022 • Hermann Blum, Marcus G. Müller, Abel Gawel, Roland Siegwart, Cesar Cadena
In order to operate in human environments, a robot's semantic perception has to overcome open-world challenges such as novel objects and domain gaps.
no code implementations • 6 Oct 2021 • Boyang Sun, Jiaxu Xing, Hermann Blum, Roland Siegwart, Cesar Cadena
The proposed framework infers task failures by evaluating the individual prediction, across multiple visual perception tasks for different regions in an image.
1 code implementation • 4 May 2021 • Hermann Blum, Francesco Milano, René Zurbrügg, Roland Siegward, Cesar Cadena, Abel Gawel
We find memory replay an effective measure to reduce forgetting and show how the robotic system can improve even when switching between different environments.
2 code implementations • 30 Apr 2021 • Robin Chan, Krzysztof Lis, Svenja Uhlemeyer, Hermann Blum, Sina Honari, Roland Siegwart, Pascal Fua, Mathieu Salzmann, Matthias Rottmann
State-of-the-art semantic or instance segmentation deep neural networks (DNNs) are usually trained on a closed set of semantic classes.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2021 • Giancarlo Di Biase, Hermann Blum, Roland Siegwart, Cesar Cadena
The inability of state-of-the-art semantic segmentation methods to detect anomaly instances hinders them from being deployed in safety-critical and complex applications, such as autonomous driving.
Ranked #3 on Anomaly Detection on Lost and Found (using extra training data)
no code implementations • 5 Dec 2020 • Janis Postels, Hermann Blum, Yannick Strümpler, Cesar Cadena, Roland Siegwart, Luc van Gool, Federico Tombari
We find that this leads to improved OOD detection of epistemic uncertainty at the cost of ambiguous calibration close to the data distribution.
no code implementations • 4 Dec 2019 • Abel Gawel, Hermann Blum, Johannes Pankert, Koen Krämer, Luca Bartolomei, Selen Ercan, Farbod Farshidian, Margarita Chli, Fabio Gramazio, Roland Siegwart, Marco Hutter, Timothy Sandy
We present a fully-integrated sensing and control system which enables mobile manipulator robots to execute building tasks with millimeter-scale accuracy on building construction sites.
no code implementations • 2 Sep 2019 • David Haldimann, Hermann Blum, Roland Siegwart, Cesar Cadena
There has been a remarkable progress in the accuracy of semantic segmentation due to the capabilities of deep learning.
no code implementations • 1 Aug 2019 • Nicolas Marchal, Charlotte Moraldo, Roland Siegwart, Hermann Blum, Cesar Cadena, Abel Gawel
Foreground objects are therefore detected as areas in an image for which the descriptors are unlikely given the background distribution.
1 code implementation • 5 Apr 2019 • Hermann Blum, Paul-Edouard Sarlin, Juan Nieto, Roland Siegwart, Cesar Cadena
Deep learning has enabled impressive progress in the accuracy of semantic segmentation.
Ranked #13 on Anomaly Detection on Fishyscapes L&F (using extra training data)
1 code implementation • 30 Jul 2018 • Hermann Blum, Abel Gawel, Roland Siegwart, Cesar Cadena
Sensor fusion is a fundamental process in robotic systems as it extends the perceptual range and increases robustness in real-world operations.