no code implementations • 30 Jul 2024 • Hamidreza Kasaei, Mohammadreza Kasaei
Imitation Learning (IL) has emerged as a powerful approach in robotics, allowing robots to acquire new skills by mimicking human actions.
no code implementations • 26 Jun 2024 • Georgios Tziafas, Yucheng Xu, Zhibin Li, Hamidreza Kasaei
In this work, we show that this approach leads to sub-optimal 3D features, both in terms of grounding accuracy, as well as segmentation crispness.
no code implementations • 26 Jun 2024 • Georgios Tziafas, Hamidreza Kasaei
We propose OWG, an open-world grasping pipeline that combines VLMs with segmentation and grasp synthesis models to unlock grounded world understanding in three stages: open-ended referring segmentation, grounded grasp planning and grasp ranking via contact reasoning, all of which can be applied zero-shot via suitable visual prompting mechanisms.
1 code implementation • 9 Nov 2023 • Georgios Tziafas, Yucheng Xu, Arushi Goel, Mohammadreza Kasaei, Zhibin Li, Hamidreza Kasaei
To address these limitations, we develop a challenging benchmark based on cluttered indoor scenes from OCID dataset, for which we generate referring expressions and connect them with 4-DoF grasp poses.
no code implementations • 11 Oct 2023 • Bangguo Yu, Hamidreza Kasaei, Ming Cao
In advanced human-robot interaction tasks, visual target navigation is crucial for autonomous robots navigating unknown environments.
no code implementations • 28 Jun 2023 • Junhyung Jo, Hamidreza Kasaei
In the offline stage, instance-based learning (IBL) is used to form a new category and we use K-fold cross-validation to evaluate the obtained object recognition performance.
no code implementations • 9 Mar 2023 • Yucheng Xu, Li Nanbo, Arushi Goel, Zijian Guo, Zonghai Yao, Hamidreza Kasaei, Mohammadreze Kasaei, Zhibin Li
Videos depict the change of complex dynamical systems over time in the form of discrete image sequences.
no code implementations • 7 Oct 2022 • Tomas van der Velde, Hamed Ayoobi, Hamidreza Kasaei
The obtained dataset is then used to train the GraspCaps network.
1 code implementation • 3 Oct 2022 • Georgios Tziafas, Hamidreza Kasaei
Finally, we integrate our method with a robot framework and demonstrate how it can serve as an interpretable solution for an interactive object-picking task, both in simulation and with a real robot.
no code implementations • 3 Oct 2022 • Yongliang Wang, Hamidreza Kasaei
Additionally, to enhance the performance of the model in reaching tasks, we introduce the action ensembles method and design the policy to directly participate in value function updates in PPO.
no code implementations • 3 Oct 2022 • Georgios Tziafas, Hamidreza Kasaei
We explore which depth representation is better in terms of resulting accuracy and compare early and late fusion techniques for aligning the RGB and depth modalities within the ViT architecture.
1 code implementation • 3 Oct 2022 • Songsong Xiong, Georgios Tziafas, Hamidreza Kasaei
Robots operating in human-centered environments, such as retail stores, restaurants, and households, are often required to distinguish between similar objects in different contexts with a high degree of accuracy.
no code implementations • 24 May 2022 • Georgios Tziafas, Hamidreza Kasaei
Service robots should be able to interact naturally with non-expert human users, not only to help them in various tasks but also to receive guidance in order to resolve ambiguities that might be present in the instruction.
no code implementations • 4 May 2022 • Hamidreza Kasaei, Songsong Xiong
The proposed model is suitable for open-ended learning scenarios where the number of 3D object categories is not fixed and can grow over time.
1 code implementation • 23 Sep 2021 • Krishnakumar Santhakumar, Hamidreza Kasaei
In this paper, we proposed a hybrid model architecture consists of a dynamically growing dual-memory recurrent neural network (GDM) and an autoencoder to tackle object recognition and grasping simultaneously.
no code implementations • 3 Jun 2021 • Hamidreza Kasaei, Sha Luo, Remo Sasso, Mohammadreza Kasaei
We demonstrate the ability of our approach to grasp never-seen-before objects and to rapidly learn new object categories using very few examples on-site in both simulation and real-world settings.
no code implementations • 25 Mar 2021 • Sha Luo, Hamidreza Kasaei, Lambert Schomaker
Imitation learning (IL) enables robots to acquire skills quickly by transferring expert knowledge, which is widely adopted in reinforcement learning (RL) to initialize exploration.
no code implementations • 17 Mar 2021 • Giorgos Tziafas, Hamidreza Kasaei
Natural Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is one of the key components for service robots to be able to work in human-centric environments.
1 code implementation • 15 Sep 2020 • Sudhakaran Jain, Hamidreza Kasaei
Towards addressing this challenge, we propose a new deep transfer learning approach based on a dynamic architectural method to make robots capable of open-ended learning about new 3D object categories.
no code implementations • 7 Feb 2020 • Sha Luo, Hamidreza Kasaei, Lambert Schomaker
Reinforcement learning has shown great promise in the training of robot behavior due to the sequential decision making characteristics.
1 code implementation • 8 Feb 2019 • Hamidreza Kasaei
Nowadays, service robots are appearing more and more in our daily life.