no code implementations • 21 Dec 2024 • Sanghyun Son, Matheus Gadelha, Yang Zhou, Matthew Fisher, Zexiang Xu, Yi-Ling Qiao, Ming C. Lin, Yi Zhou
Recent probabilistic methods for 3D triangular meshes capture diverse shapes by differentiable mesh connectivity, but face high computational costs with increased shape details.
1 code implementation • 3 Nov 2024 • Connor Clayton, Jiaqi Leng, Gengzhi Yang, Yi-Ling Qiao, Ming C. Lin, Xiaodi Wu
Compared to the classical approaches, our method achieves a super-quadratic speedup.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2023 • Sanghyun Son, Laura Yu Zheng, Ryan Sullivan, Yi-Ling Qiao, Ming C. Lin
We introduce a novel policy learning method that integrates analytical gradients from differentiable environments with the Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) algorithm.
no code implementations • 28 Nov 2023 • Shutong Zhang, Yi-Ling Qiao, Guanglei Zhu, Eric Heiden, Dylan Turpin, Jingzhou Liu, Ming Lin, Miles Macklin, Animesh Garg
We demonstrate that HandyPriors attains comparable or superior results in the pose estimation task, and that the differentiable physics module can predict contact information for pose refinement.
1 code implementation • ICCV 2023 • Yi-Ling Qiao, Alexander Gao, Yiran Xu, Yue Feng, Jia-Bin Huang, Ming C. Lin
Embedding polygonal mesh assets within photorealistic Neural Radience Fields (NeRF) volumes, such that they can be rendered and their dynamics simulated in a physically consistent manner with the NeRF, is under-explored from the system perspective of integrating NeRF into the traditional graphics pipeline.
no code implementations • 17 May 2023 • Zhou Xian, Theophile Gervet, Zhenjia Xu, Yi-Ling Qiao, Tsun-Hsuan Wang, Yian Wang
This document serves as a position paper that outlines the authors' vision for a potential pathway towards generalist robots.
no code implementations • 9 Mar 2023 • Xuan Li, Yi-Ling Qiao, Peter Yichen Chen, Krishna Murthy Jatavallabhula, Ming Lin, Chenfanfu Jiang, Chuang Gan
In this work, we aim to identify parameters characterizing a physical system from a set of multi-view videos without any assumption on object geometry or topology.
1 code implementation • 28 Oct 2022 • Jiaqi Leng, Yuxiang Peng, Yi-Ling Qiao, Ming Lin, Xiaodi Wu
We formulate the first differentiable analog quantum computing framework with a specific parameterization design at the analog signal (pulse) level to better exploit near-term quantum devices via variational methods.
no code implementations • 22 Oct 2022 • Yi-Ling Qiao, Alexander Gao, Ming C. Lin
We present a method for learning 3D geometry and physics parameters of a dynamic scene from only a monocular RGB video input.
no code implementations • 14 Oct 2022 • Sanghyun Son, Yi-Ling Qiao, Jason Sewall, Ming C. Lin
To compute the gradient flow between two types of traffic models in a hybrid framework, we present a novel intermediate conversion component that bridges the lanes in a differentiable manner as well.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2021 • Yi-Ling Qiao, Junbang Liang, Vladlen Koltun, Ming C. Lin
We present a method for differentiable simulation of soft articulated bodies.
3 code implementations • 16 Sep 2021 • Yi-Ling Qiao, Junbang Liang, Vladlen Koltun, Ming C. Lin
We derive the gradients of the forward dynamics using spatial algebra and the adjoint method.
2 code implementations • ICML 2020 • Yi-Ling Qiao, Junbang Liang, Vladlen Koltun, Ming C. Lin
Differentiable physics is a powerful approach to learning and control problems that involve physical objects and environments.
no code implementations • 23 Apr 2020 • Jing Liang, Yi-Ling Qiao, Dinesh Manocha
Overall, our OF-VO algorithm using learning-based perception and model-based planning methods offers better performance than prior algorithms in terms of navigation time and success rate of collision avoidance.
Robotics
no code implementations • 1 Nov 2019 • Yi-Ling Qiao, Lin Gao, Shu-Zhi Liu, Ligang Liu, Yu-Kun Lai, Xilin Chen
In this paper, we propose \YL{a} learning-based approach to intrinsic reflectional symmetry detection.
no code implementations • 30 Oct 2019 • Yi-Ling Qiao, Lin Gao, Jie Yang, Paul L. Rosin, Yu-Kun Lai, Xilin Chen
3D models are commonly used in computer vision and graphics.
no code implementations • 4 Oct 2018 • Yi-Ling Qiao, Lin Gao, Yu-Kun Lai, Shihong Xia
In this paper, we present a novel method for learning to synthesize 3D mesh animation sequences with long short-term memory (LSTM) blocks and mesh-based convolutional neural networks (CNNs).
Graphics