no code implementations • 12 Mar 2025 • Ermanno Bartoli, Dennis Rotondi, Kai O. Arras, Iolanda Leite
Long-term planning for robots operating in domestic environments poses unique challenges due to the interactions between humans, objects, and spaces.
no code implementations • 10 Mar 2025 • Dennis Rotondi, Fabio Scaparro, Hermann Blum, Kai O. Arras
In contrast, our goal is to develop a representation that enables robots to directly interact with their environment by identifying both the location of functional interactive elements and how these can be used.
no code implementations • 3 Aug 2021 • Timm Linder, Narunas Vaskevicius, Robert Schirmer, Kai O. Arras
We compare the performance of state-of-the-art person detectors for 2D range data, 3D lidar, and RGB-D data as well as selected combinations thereof in a challenging industrial use-case.
no code implementations • 17 Feb 2021 • Andrey Rudenko, Luigi Palmieri, Johannes Doellinger, Achim J. Lilienthal, Kai O. Arras
Understanding and anticipating human activity is an important capability for intelligent systems in mobile robotics, autonomous driving, and video surveillance.
Autonomous Driving
Robotics
1 code implementation • 12 Jul 2020 • István Sárándi, Timm Linder, Kai O. Arras, Bastian Leibe
Heatmap representations have formed the basis of human pose estimation systems for many years, and their extension to 3D has been a fruitful line of recent research.
Ranked #1 on
3D Human Pose Estimation
on 3D Poses in the Wild Challenge
(MPJPE metric)
1 code implementation • 7 Mar 2020 • Eric Heiden, Luigi Palmieri, Kai O. Arras, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Sven Koenig
Planning smooth and energy-efficient motions for wheeled mobile robots is a central task for applications ranging from autonomous driving to service and intralogistic robotics.
1 code implementation • 5 Mar 2020 • István Sárándi, Timm Linder, Kai O. Arras, Bastian Leibe
Furthermore, as the image space is decoupled from the heatmap space, the network can learn to reason about joints beyond the image boundary.
Ranked #170 on
3D Human Pose Estimation
on Human3.6M
3 code implementations • 2 Mar 2020 • Mirco Colosi, Irvin Aloise, Tiziano Guadagnino, Dominik Schlegel, Bartolomeo Della Corte, Kai O. Arras, Giorgio Grisetti
Nowadays, SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) is considered by the Robotics community to be a mature field.
Robotics
1 code implementation • CVPR 2020 • Martin Sundermeyer, Maximilian Durner, En Yen Puang, Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Narunas Vaskevicius, Kai O. Arras, Rudolph Triebel
We introduce a scalable approach for object pose estimation trained on simulated RGB views of multiple 3D models together.
no code implementations • 15 May 2019 • Andrey Rudenko, Luigi Palmieri, Michael Herman, Kris M. Kitani, Dariu M. Gavrila, Kai O. Arras
With growing numbers of intelligent autonomous systems in human environments, the ability of such systems to perceive, understand and anticipate human behavior becomes increasingly important.
1 code implementation • 13 Sep 2018 • István Sárándi, Timm Linder, Kai O. Arras, Bastian Leibe
In this paper we present our winning entry at the 2018 ECCV PoseTrack Challenge on 3D human pose estimation.
Ranked #234 on
3D Human Pose Estimation
on Human3.6M
2 code implementations • 28 Aug 2018 • István Sárándi, Timm Linder, Kai O. Arras, Bastian Leibe
Occlusion is commonplace in realistic human-robot shared environments, yet its effects are not considered in standard 3D human pose estimation benchmarks.
Ranked #245 on
3D Human Pose Estimation
on Human3.6M
1 code implementation • 6 Apr 2018 • Lucas Beyer, Alexander Hermans, Timm Linder, Kai O. Arras, Bastian Leibe
Detecting humans is a key skill for mobile robots and intelligent vehicles in a large variety of applications.
no code implementations • 28 Oct 2015 • Luigi Palmieri, Andrey Rudenko, Kai O. Arras
We introduce and show preliminary results of a fast randomized method that finds a set of K paths lying in distinct homotopy classes.