1 code implementation • 22 Feb 2022 • Kentaro Wada, Stephen James, Andrew J. Davison
Robots need the capability of placing objects in arbitrary, specific poses to rearrange the world and achieve various valuable tasks.
1 code implementation • 11 Feb 2022 • Kentaro Wada, Stephen James, Andrew J. Davison
We evaluate our methods using the YCB objects in both simulation and the real world, achieving safe object extraction from piles.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2022 • Stephen James, Kentaro Wada, Tristan Laidlow, Andrew J. Davison
We present a coarse-to-fine discretisation method that enables the use of discrete reinforcement learning approaches in place of unstable and data-inefficient actor-critic methods in continuous robotics domains.
Ranked #7 on Robot Manipulation on RLBench
no code implementations • 26 Feb 2021 • Jiahua Zhang, Kentaro Wada, Takashi Oguchi
This paper proposes a macroscopic model to describe the equilibrium distribution of passenger arrivals for the morning commute problem in a congested urban rail transit system.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2020 • Kentaro Wada, Edgar Sucar, Stephen James, Daniel Lenton, Andrew J. Davison
Robots and other smart devices need efficient object-based scene representations from their on-board vision systems to reason about contact, physics and occlusion.
no code implementations • 9 Apr 2020 • Edgar Sucar, Kentaro Wada, Andrew Davison
The choice of scene representation is crucial in both the shape inference algorithms it requires and the smart applications it enables.
no code implementations • 21 Jan 2020 • Kentaro Wada, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba
We present joint learning of instance and semantic segmentation for visible and occluded region masks.
no code implementations • 21 Jan 2020 • Kentaro Wada, Shingo Kitagawa, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba
We present a robotic system for picking a target from a pile of objects that is capable of finding and grasping the target object by removing obstacles in the appropriate order.
no code implementations • 16 Jan 2020 • Kentaro Wada, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba
Probabilistic 3D map has been applied to object segmentation with multiple camera viewpoints, however, conventional methods lack of real-time efficiency and functionality of multilabel object mapping.
no code implementations • 15 Jan 2020 • Kentaro Wada, Masaki Murooka, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba
Picking objects in a narrow space such as shelf bins is an important task for humanoid to extract target object from environment.