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ICRA 2025 Papers with Code

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Β· 182 papers with a public code repository

$U^2$ Frame: A Unified and Unsupervised Learning Framework for LiDAR-Based Loop Closing

Yixin Zhang, Yulan Guo

CodePose EstimationSimultaneous Localization and MappingPoint Cloud

🎯 What it does: Proposes U^2 Frame, a unified LiDAR loop closure framework that can simultaneously perform loop closure detection and relative pose estimation without any ground truth training data.

3D Whole-Body Pose Estimation Using Graph High-Resolution Network for Humanoid Robot Teleoperation

Mingyu Zhang, Yulan Guo

CodePose EstimationRobotic IntelligenceConvolutional Neural NetworkGraph Neural Network

🎯 What it does: Propose the GraphHRNet framework for precise 3D full-body pose estimation, supporting teleoperation of humanoid robots.

A Comprehensive LLM-powered Framework for Driving Intelligence Evaluation

Shanhe You, Jiangtao Gong

CodeAutonomous DrivingTransformerLarge Language ModelText

🎯 What it does: Proposed and validated an LLM-based intelligent driving behavior assessment framework, constructed a natural language assessment dataset, and verified its effectiveness through CARLA simulation and human evaluation.

A Data-Driven Aggressive Autonomous Racing Framework Utilizing Local Trajectory Planning with Velocity Prediction

Zhouheng Li, Hongye Su

CodeAutonomous DrivingOptimizationHyperparameter Search

🎯 What it does: Proposes a local trajectory planning and speed prediction method based on VPMPCC, learning optimal parameters through Bayesian optimization and a specially designed racing objective function OFR.

A Hybrid Approach to Indoor Social Navigation: Integrating Reactive Local Planning and Proactive Global Planning

Arnab Debnath (George Mason University), Jana Kosecka

CodeRobotic IntelligenceReinforcement LearningBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Proposes a modular indoor social navigation framework that combines classical global planning with deep reinforcement learning (DRL) local planning, enabling rapid goal-reaching while avoiding collisions with people in crowded and confined environments.

A Light-Weight Framework for Open-Set Object Detection with Decoupled Feature Alignment in Joint Space

Yonghao He, Song Liu

CodeObject DetectionConvolutional Neural NetworkTransformerVision Language ModelMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Proposed a lightweight open-set object detection framework called DOSOD, combining YOLO-World with a visual language model and an MLP adapter to align cross-modal features in a joint space, enhancing real-time performance.

A Novel Decomposed Feature-Oriented Framework for Open-Set Semantic Segmentation on LiDAR Data

Wenbang Deng, Huimin Lu

CodeSegmentationAnomaly DetectionAutonomous DrivingPoint Cloud

🎯 What it does: Proposed a feature-based decomposed dual-decoder framework to achieve open-set semantic segmentation for LiDAR data.

A Skeleton-Based Topological Planner for Exploration in Complex Unknown Environments

Haochen Niu, Peilin Liu

CodeOptimizationRobotic IntelligenceSimultaneous Localization and Mapping

🎯 What it does: Propose an autonomous exploration framework based on skeleton topological graphs, utilizing global topological information to improve exploration efficiency and reduce computational costs

A Synergistic Framework for Learning Shape Estimation and Shape-Aware Whole-Body Control Policy for Continuum Robots

M. Kasaei, Mohsen Khadem

CodeRobotic IntelligencePhysics RelatedOrdinary Differential Equation

🎯 What it does: Proposes a collaborative learning framework for shape estimation and shape-aware whole-body control strategies for tendon-driven continuous robots;

A Unified End-to-End Network for Category-Level and Instance-Level Object Pose Estimation from RGB Images

Jiale Ren, Peifeng Jiang

CodePose EstimationImagePoint Cloud

🎯 What it does: Proposes an end-to-end unified network called CIPE for category-level and instance-level 6-DoF pose estimation from RGB images.

Active Semantic Mapping with Mobile Manipulator in Horticultural Environments

JosΓ© CuarΓ‘n, Girish Chowdhary

CodeRobotic IntelligenceSimultaneous Localization and MappingImagePoint CloudAgriculture Related

🎯 What it does: Proposes an efficient and scalable active semantic mapping method for horticultural environments, utilizing a mobile robot gripper and RGB-D camera. The method employs probabilistic semantic maps to detect semantic targets, generate candidate viewpoints, and calculate information gain, while introducing an efficient ray casting strategy and a novel information utility function.

AF-RLIO: Adaptive Fusion of Radar-LiDAR-Inertial Information for Robust Odometry in Challenging Environments

Chenglong Qian, Liang Li

CodeAutonomous DrivingOptimizationRobotic IntelligenceSimultaneous Localization and MappingMultimodalityPoint Cloud

🎯 What it does: Propose AF-RLIO, achieving robust odometry estimation by fusing 4D millimeter-wave radar, LiDAR, IMU, and GPS.

An Active Perception Game for Robust Information Gathering

Siming He, Pratik Chaudhari

CodeOptimizationRobotic Intelligence

🎯 What it does: Proposes a game-theoretic active sensing framework that estimates the difference between predicted information gain and actual information gain, achieving sublinear regret through online estimation to reduce the suboptimality of active sensing systems.

Annealed Winner-Takes-All for Motion Forecasting

Yihong Xu, Matthieu Cord

CodeAutonomous DrivingComputational Efficiency

🎯 What it does: Demonstrate integrating the annealed Winner-Takes-All (aWTA) loss into state-of-the-art motion prediction models to minimize the number of hypotheses and improve performance.

Asymptotically-Optimal Multi-Query Path Planning for a Polygonal Robot

Duo Zhang, Jingjin Yu

CodeOptimizationRobotic Intelligence

🎯 What it does: For multi-query 2D environment polyhedral global robot path planning, the rotational stacked visibility graph (RVG) algorithm is proposed, achieving fast computation of near-optimal paths while supporting simultaneous translation and rotation.

Asynchronous Multi-Object Tracking with an Event Camera

Angus Apps, Robert Mahony

CodeObject TrackingOptical FlowVideo

🎯 What it does: Proposed the AEMOT algorithm, which achieves the detection and tracking of multiple objects by asynchronously processing raw events using an event camera.

Atom: Adaptive Theory-of-Mind-Based Human Motion Prediction in Long-Term Human-Robot Interactions

Yuwen Liao, Lihua Xie

CodeExplainability and InterpretabilityRobotic Intelligence

🎯 What it does: Propose an adaptive human motion prediction model based on Theory-of-Mind (ToM) for long-term human-robot interaction scenarios

Autonomous Navigation in Ice-Covered Waters with Learned Predictions on Ship-Ice Interactions

Ninghan Zhong, Stephen L. Smith

CodeAutonomous DrivingRobotic IntelligenceSimultaneous Localization and Mapping

🎯 What it does: Proposed a deep learning-based ice movement prediction model integrated into a graph search planner, achieving real-time autonomous navigation in icy areas, with verification showing a significant reduction in collisions with ice floes.

CAFE-AD: Cross-Scenario Adaptive Feature Enhancement for Trajectory Planning in Autonomous Driving

Junrui Zhang, Yanyong Zhang

CodeAutonomous DrivingPoint Cloud

🎯 What it does: Propose the CAFE-AD method, which enhances feature representation in trajectory planning through adaptive feature pruning and cross-scenario feature interpolation, addressing causal confusion and long-tail scenario distribution issues caused by open training.

CAO-RONet: A Robust 4D Radar Odometry with Exploring More Information from Low-Quality Points

Zhiheng Li, Zheng Fang

CodePose EstimationAutonomous DrivingOptimizationSimultaneous Localization and MappingPoint Cloud

🎯 What it does: Proposes a learning-based 4D mmWave radar odometry framework, including local completion, context-aware hierarchical association, and window-based optimizer, to achieve robust ego-motion estimation under low-quality radar points.

CDMFusion: RGB-T Image Fusion Based on Conditional Diffusion Models via Few Denoising Steps in Open Environments

Luojie Yang, Yufeng Yue

CodeRestorationDiffusion modelMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Proposes CDMFusion, a three-branch conditional diffusion model for RGB-T image fusion, which adaptively enhances multimodal features through a dynamic gating module and accelerates the generation process using a skip patrol mechanism.

CGTrack: Cascade Gating Network with Hierarchical Feature Aggregation for UAV Tracking

Weihong Li, Libo Zhang

CodeObject Tracking

🎯 What it does: Proposes CGTrack, a UAV tracker based on Hierarchical Feature Cascade (HFC) and Lightweight Gated Center Head (LGCH), which expands network capacity through a coarse-to-fine two-tier framework.

Chameleon: Fast-Slow Neuro-Symbolic Lane Topology Extraction

Zongzheng Zhang, Hao Zhao

CodeAutonomous DrivingComputational EfficiencyVision Language ModelImageChain-of-Thought

🎯 What it does: Proposed a fast-slow neuro-symbolic lane topology extraction algorithm called Chameleon, which alternates between using a fast system for direct inference of detection instances and a slow system that leverages VLM chain-of-thought to handle edge cases

Chemistry3D: Robotic Interaction Toolkit for Chemistry Experiments

Shoujie Li, Wenbo Ding

CodeRobotic IntelligenceReinforcement LearningImage

🎯 What it does: Proposed the Chemistry3D robot interaction toolkit, enabling robots to perform chemical experiments and real-time visualization of temperature, color, and pH changes.

CloudTrack: Scalable UAV Tracking with Cloud Semantics

Yannik Blei, Wolfram Burgard

CodeObject TrackingVision Language ModelImageText

🎯 What it does: Proposes a scalable drone-based object tracking method leveraging cloud semantics, enabling open-vocabulary tracking based on verbal descriptions (e.g., shirt color).

CoDynTrust: Robust Asynchronous Collaborative Perception via Dynamic Feature Trust Modulus

Yunjiang Xu, Jianping Wang

CodeObject DetectionAutonomous Driving

🎯 What it does: Proposes the CoDynTrust framework, leveraging dynamic feature trust modulus (DFTM) and a multi-scale fusion module to achieve robust fusion for asynchronous collaborative perception.

CognitiveOS: Large Multimodal Model Based System to Endow Any Type of Robot with Generative AI

Artem Lykov, D. Tsetserukou

CodeGenerationRobotic IntelligenceTransformerAgentic AIVision-Language-Action ModelMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Built a cognitive robot operating system called CognitiveOS that can run on multiple robot platforms, utilizing a multimodal large model multi-agent system, modular and configurable, supporting complex tasks.

COHERENT: Collaboration of Heterogeneous Multi-Robot System with Large Language Models

Kehui Liu, Xuelong Li

CodeRobotic IntelligenceLarge Language ModelTextBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Proposes the COHERENT framework, which utilizes large language models (LLMs) for task planning in heterogeneous multi-robot collaboration, and designs a Proposal-Execution-Feedback-Adjustment (PEFA) loop mechanism.

Context Graph-Based Visual-Language Place Recognition

Soojin Woo, Seong-Woo Kim

CodeRetrievalRepresentation LearningConvolutional Neural NetworkVision Language ModelMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Proposed a visual-language place recognition method based on a zero-shot language-driven semantic segmentation model, leveraging pixel-level embeddings to construct semantic image descriptors;

Continuous Convolution for Automated Measurement of Sperm Flagella

Yufei Jin, Zhuoran Zhang

CodeSegmentationConvolutional Neural NetworkBiomedical Data

🎯 What it does: Developed an automatic high-throughput tool based on continuous convolution for quantitative analysis of sperm flagellar vibrations.

coVoxSLAM: GPU Accelerated Globally Consistent Dense SLAM

Emiliano HΓΆss, Pablo De Crist'oforis

CodeSimultaneous Localization and Mapping

🎯 What it does: Proposed and implemented a GPU-accelerated global consistent dense SLAM system called coVoxSLAM

Dashing for the Golden Snitch: Multi-Drone Time-Optimal Motion Planning with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Xian Wang, Shuo Li

CodeOptimizationReinforcement Learning

🎯 What it does: Proposed a decentralized multi-agent reinforcement learning strategy network for time-optimal flight in multi-quadcopters, incorporating a soft collision avoidance mechanism.

Deep Height Decoupling for Precise Vision-Based 3D Occupancy Prediction

Yuanwei Wu, Jian Yang

CodeSegmentationAutonomous DrivingSupervised Fine-TuningImageBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Proposed the Deep Height Decoupling (DHD) framework, which predicts height maps and uses Mask Guided Height Sampling (MGHS) to separate image features by height ranges, followed by a Synergistic Feature Aggregation (SFA) module to enhance feature representation, thereby achieving more accurate vision-based 3D occupancy prediction.

DENSER: 3D Gaussian Splatting for Scene Reconstruction of Dynamic Urban Environments

Mahmud A. Mohamad, RaphaΓ«l Frank

CodeAutonomous DrivingGaussian SplattingPoint Cloud

🎯 What it does: Proposes the DENSER framework based on 3D Gaussian splatting for dynamic urban environment reconstruction, significantly enhancing the appearance and shape modeling of foreground dynamic objects.

Digital Beamforming Enhanced Radar Odometry

Jingqi Jiang, Sen Wang

CodePose EstimationSimultaneous Localization and Mapping

🎯 What it does: Developed a radar signal processing pipeline integrating spatial domain beamforming technology and extended it to 3D angle estimation;

Distributed Invariant Kalman Filter for Object-Level Multi-Robot Pose SLAM

Haoying Li, Junfeng Wu

CodeRobotic IntelligenceSimultaneous Localization and Mapping

🎯 What it does: Propose a distributed invariant Kalman filter based on covariance intersection (CI) for multi-robot pose estimation, and adopt an object-level measurement model to reduce communication burden.

DiTer++: Diverse Terrain and Multi-Modal Dataset for Multi-Robot SLAM in Multi-Session Environments

Juwon Kim, Younggun Cho

CodeSimultaneous Localization and MappingMultimodalityBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Proposed the DiTer++ dataset for large-scale SLAM research in multi-robot, multi-session environments.

Domain Adaptation-Based Crossmodal Knowledge Distillation for 3D Semantic Segmentation

Jialiang Kang, Dingsheng Luo

CodeSegmentationDomain AdaptationKnowledge DistillationConvolutional Neural NetworkMultimodalityPoint Cloud

🎯 What it does: Propose two cross-modal knowledge distillation methods (UDAKD and FSKD), leveraging synchronized camera and LiDAR data to achieve 3D point cloud semantic segmentation without 3D annotations.

Doppler Former: Velocity Supervision of Raw Radar Data

Shuo Zhao, Zhaoyi Jiang

CodeAutonomous DrivingConvolutional Neural NetworkPoint Cloud

🎯 What it does: Propose the Doppler Former (DPF) module to efficiently extract velocity information from raw radar data, and propose a Fully Complex Convolutional Network (FCCN) backbone network that is more suitable for raw data; integrate DPF into FCCN to enhance the performance of downstream radar perception tasks.

DP-Habitat: Bridging the Gap Between Simulation and Reality for Visual Navigation in Dynamic Pedestrian Environments

Liang Qin, Houqiang Li

CodeAutonomous DrivingBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Developed the DP-Habitat dynamic pedestrian simulator on the Habitat platform, and proposed the Adaptive Object Navigation with Dynamic Mapping (AON-DM) baseline method specifically designed for dynamic pedestrian environments.

Dual-AEB: Synergizing Rule-Based and Multimodal Large Language Models for Effective Emergency Braking

Wei Zhang, Yilun Chen

CodeAutonomous DrivingTransformerLarge Language ModelMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Proposed the Dual-AEB system, which integrates advanced multimodal large language models (MLLM) with traditional rule-based fast AEB to enhance adaptability in open scenarios.

Dynamic End Effector Trajectory Tracking for Small-Scale Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator Systems (UVMS): Modeling, Control, and Experimental Validation

Niklas Trekel, R. Seifried

CodeRobotic Intelligence

🎯 What it does: Implement dynamic end-effector trajectory tracking on a small underwater vehicle-manipulator system (UVMS), and complete modeling, control, and experimental validation using a task-priority control approach.

Efficient 7-DoF Grasp for Target-Driven Object in Dense Cluttered Scenes

Tianjiao Lei, Tao Jiang

CodePose EstimationRobotic IntelligencePoint Cloud

🎯 What it does: Propose a data and model-agnostic, efficient 7-DoF grasping method that generates grasping configurations for arbitrary target objects using single-view point cloud data, and rapidly adjusts the grasping configurations through object detection and multi-region point cloud distribution perception, enabling real-time precise grasping by robots in dense cluttered environments; meanwhile, design a grasping framework to reduce the time consumed during grasping and improve the grasping efficiency for specified target objects.

Ego-$A^{\mathbf{3}}$: Adaptive Fusion-Based Disentangled Transformer for Egocentric Action Anticipation

Minhyuk Kim, S. Yoo

CodeRecognitionTransformerVideo

🎯 What it does: Proposed the Ego-A³ model, which improves action prediction from the wearable camera perspective using an adaptive fusion and separation Transformer architecture;

Enhancing 3D Robotic Vision Robustness by Minimizing Adversarial Mutual Information through Curriculum Training

Nastaran Darabi, A. Trivedi

CodeAutonomous DrivingAdversarial AttackRobotic IntelligenceGraph Neural NetworkTransformerPoint Cloud

🎯 What it does: Propose a training objective that simultaneously minimizes prediction loss and mutual information under adversarial perturbations, and gradually introduces adversarial objectives through a curriculum learning guide to enhance the robustness of 3D vision.

Ephemerality Meets Lidar-Based Lifelong Mapping

Hyeonjae Gil, Ayoung Kim

CodeAutonomous DrivingSimultaneous Localization and MappingWorld ModelPoint Cloud

🎯 What it does: We propose the ELite framework, which achieves seamless alignment of multi-session LiDAR data, dynamic object removal, and end-to-end map updating.

EPRecon: An Efficient Framework for Real-Time Panoptic 3D Reconstruction from Monocular Video

Zhen Zhou, M. Tan

CodeSegmentationDepth EstimationComputational EfficiencyVideo

🎯 What it does: Proposed an efficient and real-time panoramic 3D reconstruction framework called EPRecon.

ERetinex: Event Camera Meets Retinex Theory for Low-Light Image Enhancement

Xuejian Guo, Yue Gao

CodeRestorationImage

🎯 What it does: Propose a low-light image enhancement method called ERetinex by combining event cameras with Retinex theory

ETSM: Automating Dissection Trajectory Suggestion and Confidence Map-Based Safety Margin Prediction for Robot-Assisted Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection

Mengya Xu, Hongliang Ren

CodeRobotic IntelligenceVideoBiomedical Data

🎯 What it does: Constructed the ETSM dataset and proposed RCMNet, which automatically suggests resection trajectories and predicts safety margins based on confidence maps.

EVLoc: Event-Based Visual Localization in LiDAR Maps via Event-Depth Registration

Kuangyi Chen, Friedrich Fraundorfer

CodePose EstimationConvolutional Neural NetworkOptical FlowPoint Cloud

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes a visual localization method based on an event camera, which utilizes existing LiDAR maps for pose refinement. The process includes first projecting LiDAR point clouds into 2D to obtain a depth map with a rough initial pose, then aligning events with the 2D depth map using an optical flow estimation network, followed by estimating the camera pose via a PnP solver. Additionally, the authors introduce a novel frame-based event representation to enhance structural clarity and design an auxiliary variable prediction module as a regularization term to mitigate the impact of biases in real poses on network convergence.

Expert-Enhanced Masked Point Modeling for Point Cloud Self-Supervised Learning

YuJun Liu, Shu-Tao Xia

CodeRepresentation LearningMixture of ExpertsPoint Cloud

🎯 What it does: Introduce an expert-enhanced masked point modeling method in self-supervised learning for point clouds, achieving routing and analysis of different semantics by inserting a Sparse Mixture of Experts (SMoE) layer after each backbone block.

FACET: Fast and Accurate Event-Based Eye Tracking Using Ellipse Modeling for Extended Reality

Junyuan Ding, Qinyu Chen

CodePose EstimationOptimizationComputational EfficiencyConvolutional Neural NetworkTime Series

🎯 What it does: Developed a gaze tracking system called FACET based on event cameras, which directly outputs pupil ellipse parameters from event data.

FedDet: Data Poisoning Attack Detection for Federated Skeleton-based Action Recognition

Min Hyuk Kim, S. Yoo

CodeRecognitionFederated LearningAdversarial AttackGraph

🎯 What it does: Propose FedDet, a method for detecting data poisoning attacks in federated skeleton action recognition, and develop a prototype-based attack detector.

Fine-Grained Open-Vocabulary Object Detection with Fined-Grained Prompts: Task, Dataset and Benchmark

Ying Liu, Tengqi Ye

CodeObject DetectionPrompt EngineeringImageBenchmark

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes the 3F-OVD task, extending supervised fine-grained object detection to open-vocabulary scenarios, creating the NEU-171K fine-grained dataset, benchmarking existing state-of-the-art object detectors on this dataset, and proposing a simple and effective post-processing technique.

FogROS2-PLR: Probabilistic Latency-Reliability for Cloud Robotics

Kai-Peng Chen, Kenneth Y. Goldberg

CodeOptimizationRobotic Intelligence

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes the FogROS2-PLR framework, which utilizes multi-path network interfaces and cloud server redundancy to enhance the latency reliability of cloud robotics systems.

FreeDriveRF: Monocular RGB Dynamic NeRF Without Poses for Autonomous Driving via Point-Level Dynamic-Static Decoupling

Yue Wen, Hesheng Wang

CodeAutonomous DrivingOptimizationNeural Radiance FieldOptical FlowImage

🎯 What it does: Construct a dynamic driving scene NeRF using only continuous RGB images without pose input, employing point-level dynamic-static decoupling and optical flow constraints.

GaRLIO: Gravity Enhanced Radar-LiDAR-Inertial Odometry

Chiyun Noh, Ayoung Kim

CodePose EstimationAutonomous DrivingSimultaneous Localization and MappingPoint Cloud

🎯 What it does: Proposes a gravity-enhanced trajectory estimation method called GaRLIO, which integrates radar, LiDAR, and inertial measurement unit (IMU) data. The method leverages direct velocity information from radar to improve gravity estimation accuracy and reduces vertical drift by eliminating dynamic objects using radar data.

GenCo: A Dual VLM Generate-Correct Framework for Adaptive Peg-in-Hole Robotics

Zhengxue Zhou, A. I. Cooper

CodeRobotic IntelligenceSupervised Fine-TuningMixture of ExpertsVision Language ModelMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Implemented a Generate-Correct framework based on dual Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for adaptive blind peg-in-hole robotic tasks, integrating a motion generator and a motion expert to generate and correct actions during execution.

Gradient-Based Trajectory Optimization with Parallelized Differentiable Traffic Simulation

Sanghyun Son, Ming C. Lin

CodeAutonomous DrivingOptimizationWorld ModelVideoTime Series

🎯 What it does: Proposed a parallel differentiable traffic simulator based on the Intelligent Driver Model (IDM), utilizing the simulator to achieve trajectory denoising, dense trajectory reconstruction, and future trajectory prediction, and optimizing IDM parameters through gradient methods.

Ground-Optimized 4D Radar-Inertial Odometry Via Continuous Velocity Integration Using Gaussian Process

Wooseong Yang, Ayoung Kim

CodeAutonomous DrivingOptimizationSimultaneous Localization and MappingPoint CloudTime Series

🎯 What it does: Proposes a ground-optimized noise filtering and continuous velocity pre-integration method based on radar to achieve more accurate radar-inertial odometry

HARP: Human-Assisted Regrouping With Permutation Invariant Critic for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Huawen Hu, Shu Zhang

CodeReinforcement Learning from Human FeedbackReinforcement Learning

🎯 What it does: Proposes the HARP framework, integrating multi-agent automatic reorganization and deployment with human assistance, enabling non-experts to provide effective guidance with minimal intervention; during the training phase, agents dynamically adjust groupings, and during deployment, they proactively seek human assistance, utilizing permutation-invariant group evaluators to assess and refine human-proposed groupings.

Helios: Heterogeneous Lidar Place Recognition via Overlap-Based Learning and Local Spherical Transformer

Minwoo Jung, Ayoung Kim

CodeRetrievalTransformerContrastive LearningPoint Cloud

🎯 What it does: Developed HeLiOS, a deep network for heterogeneous LiDAR, used for LiDAR location recognition, leveraging small local windows and spherical transformers along with clustering assignment based on optimal transport to generate robust global descriptors, and improving performance through overlapping foundation data mining and guided triplet loss.

HGSLoc: 3DGS-Based Heuristic Camera Pose Refinement

Zhongyan Niu, Dewen Hu

CodePose EstimationOptimizationGaussian SplattingImage

🎯 What it does: Propose a lightweight, plug-and-play HGSLoc framework that combines 3D reconstruction with heuristic optimization to improve the accuracy of camera pose estimation.

Hide-in-Motion: Embedding Steganographic Copyright Information into 4D Gaussian Splatting Assets

Hengyu Liu (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Yixuan Yuan (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

CodeGaussian SplattingPoint Cloud

🎯 What it does: Proposed a 4D steganography method called Hide-in-Motion, which hides information through deformation in Gaussian splatting assets.

Hier-SLAM: Scaling-Up Semantics in SLAM with a Hierarchically Categorical Gaussian Splatting

Boying Li, Hamid Rezatofighi

CodeLarge Language ModelGaussian SplattingSimultaneous Localization and Mapping

🎯 What it does: Propose Hier-SLAM, a semantic SLAM method that utilizes hierarchical category 3D Gaussian splatting to achieve accurate global semantic mapping, scalability, and explicit semantic label prediction.

High Accuracy Aerial Maneuvers on Legged Robots using Variational Integrator Discretized Trajectory Optimization

S. Beck, Quan Nguyen

CodeOptimizationRobotic IntelligenceOrdinary Differential Equation

🎯 What it does: Propose a whole-body trajectory optimization method using variational integration for aggressive maneuvers during long flight periods

Illumination Adaptation for SAM to Achieve Accurate Segmentation of Images Taken in Low-Light Scenes

Hongmin Mu, Zhengcai Cao

CodeSegmentationDomain AdaptationTransformerImage

🎯 What it does: An adaptive method for the Segment Anything Model (SAM) is proposed to address low-light scenarios, incorporating self-training, low-light feature enhancement head, and domain shift compensation loss to achieve more accurate image segmentation.

IMOST: Incremental Memory Mechanism with Online Self-Supervision for Continual Traversability Learning

Kehui Ma, Ling Pei

CodeAutonomous DrivingComputational EfficiencyRepresentation Learning

🎯 What it does: Designed and implemented the IMOST framework, leveraging incremental dynamic memory and online self-supervised annotation to achieve continuous traversability learning.

Implicit Articulated Robot Morphology Modeling with Configuration Space Neural Signed Distance Functions

Yiting Chen, A. Billard

CodeComputational EfficiencyRobotic Intelligence

🎯 What it does: Proposes an implicit robot morphology modeling method based on the configuration space signature distance function (Robot Neural Distance Function, RNDF), utilizing forward kinematics to achieve precise encoding and optimize the computational efficiency and accuracy of distance queries.

Improving Generalization Ability for 3D Object Detection by Learning Sparsity-Invariant Features

Hsin-Cheng Lu, Winston H. Hsu

CodeObject DetectionDomain AdaptationKnowledge DistillationPoint Cloud

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes a 3D object detection method for a single source domain, aiming to enhance the model's generalization capability in target domains with different sensor configurations and scene distributions.

Improving Indoor Localization Accuracy by Using an Efficient Implicit Neural Map Representation

Haofei Kuang, C. Stachniss

CodePose EstimationRobotic IntelligenceSimultaneous Localization and MappingPoint Cloud

🎯 What it does: Propose an implicit neural map representation to capture position and orientation geometric features from 2D LiDAR scans, and combine a lightweight neural network with a traditional Monte Carlo localization framework to design an efficient observation model, achieving real-time robot pose estimation.

Improving Probe Localization for Freehand 3D Ultrasound Using Lightweight Cameras

Dianye Huang, Zhongliang Jiang

CodePose EstimationDomain AdaptationConvolutional Neural NetworkAuto EncoderContrastive LearningImageBiomedical DataUltrasound

🎯 What it does: Propose a cost-effective and scalable method for handheld 3D ultrasound probe pose localization using two lightweight cameras.

Indoor Localization of UAVs Using Only Few Measurements by Output-Sensitive Preimage Intersection

Michael M. Bilevich, Dan Halperin

CodeRobotic IntelligenceSimultaneous Localization and Mapping

🎯 What it does: Propose a deterministic indoor UAV positioning method using only a small number of downward distance measurements and corresponding odometry, achieved through preimage intersection and spatial subdivision search.

InsCMPR: Efficient Cross-Modal Place Recognition via Instance-Aware Hybrid Mamba-Transformer

Shuaifeng Jiao, Xieyuanli Chen

CodeRetrievalAutonomous DrivingTransformerImagePoint Cloud

🎯 What it does: Proposed InsCMPR, an instance-aware cross-modal pose recognition method, which generates descriptors through pixel-level and instance-level modality alignment as well as a dual-branch hybrid Mamba-Transformer network;

IRef-VLA: A Benchmark for Interactive Referential Grounding with Imperfect Language in 3D Scenes

Haochen Zhang, Wenshan Wang

CodeGraph Neural NetworkVision Language ModelPoint CloudGraphBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Constructed and released the IRef-VLA dataset for interactive referential localization tasks, containing natural language instructions and navigation goals in 3D scenes.

Is Discretization Fusion All You Need for Collaborative Perception?

Kang Yang, Deying Li

CodeObject DetectionAutonomous DrivingVideoPoint Cloud

🎯 What it does: Proposed a anchor-based collaborative perception framework named ACCO for target detection in multi-agent systems; the framework includes anchor feature block (AFB), anchor confidence generator (ACG), and local-global fusion modules (LAAF and SACA)

JORD: A Benchmark Dataset for Off-Road LiDAR Place Recognition and SLAM

Wei Zhou, Gang Wang

CodeSimultaneous Localization and MappingPoint CloudBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Proposed and released the first benchmark dataset JORD specifically designed for airborne LiDAR SLAM, and conducted benchmark testing with multiple advanced methods.

KARMA: Augmenting Embodied AI Agents with Long-and-Short Term Memory Systems

Zixuan Wang, Yiming Gan

CodeRobotic IntelligenceLarge Language ModelPrompt EngineeringRetrieval-Augmented Generation

🎯 What it does: Proposed the KARMA memory system, integrating long-term and short-term memory modules to enhance the planning capabilities of embodied AI agents when performing complex household tasks.

KISS-Matcher: Fast and Robust Point Cloud Registration Revisited

Hyungtae Lim, L. Carlone

CodePose EstimationComputational EfficiencyPoint Cloud

🎯 What it does: Developed an open-source C++ library called KISS-Matcher for point cloud registration, integrating a new feature detector Faster-PFH and a graph theory pruning algorithm based on k-core, forming a complete and user-friendly registration pipeline.

LaMOT: Language-Guided Multi-Object Tracking

Yunhao Li, Libo Zhang

CodeObject TrackingVision Language ModelVideoBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Proposed a language-oriented unified task framework for multi-object tracking, created the LaMOT benchmark dataset, and introduced a concise and effective tracker called LaMOTer.

Learning Better Representations for Crowded Pedestrians in Offboard LiDAR-Camera 3D Tracking-by-detection

Shichao Li, Xiaozhi Chen

CodeObject TrackingRepresentation LearningImageMultimodalityPoint CloudBenchmark

🎯 What it does: This study addresses the problem of pedestrian 3D tracking in highly crowded urban environments by constructing an offline automatic annotation system and proposing a high-resolution, density-aware, and relation-aware representation learning method;

Learning Multiple Probabilistic Decisions from Latent World Model in Autonomous Driving

Lingyu Xiao, Jingdong Wang

CodeAutonomous DrivingWorld ModelBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Propose the LatentDriver framework, which uses an autoregressive world model to infer a mixed distribution of the next environmental state and possible vehicle actions through multiple probabilistic hypotheses, and generates deterministic control signals from it

Learning Quadrotor Control from Visual Features Using Differentiable Simulation

Johannes Heeg, Davide Scaramuzza

CodeAutonomous DrivingReinforcement LearningWorld ModelImage

🎯 What it does: Learning control for quadrotors using differentiable simulation, comparing with model-agnostic RL, and finding that differentiable simulation significantly outperforms traditional RL in sample efficiency and training time, capable of achieving recovery within seconds using vehicle states and accomplishing control within minutes relying solely on visual features.

LidarDM: Generative LiDAR Simulation in a Generated World

Vlas Zyrianov, Shenlong Wang

CodeData SynthesisAutonomous DrivingDiffusion modelWorld ModelPoint CloudTime Series

🎯 What it does: Proposes LidarDM, a generative model capable of generating realistic, layout-aware, physically feasible, and temporally consistent LiDAR videos and 4D point cloud sequences; the model can guide LiDAR generation based on driving scenarios.

LiDARDustX: A LiDAR Dataset for Dusty Unstructured Road Environments

Chenfeng Wei, Shenhong Wang

CodeAutonomous DrivingPoint CloudBenchmark

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes the LiDARDustX dataset, which collects 30,000 frames of LiDAR point clouds in dusty environments, equipped with 3D bounding box annotations and semantic segmentation from six types of sensors. Based on this dataset, a benchmark experiment for 3D detection and segmentation is established, further analyzing the impact of dust on perception accuracy.

LiftFeat: 3D Geometry-Aware Local Feature Matching

Yepeng Liu, Yongchao Xu

CodePose EstimationDepth EstimationRetrievalImage

🎯 What it does: Proposes a lightweight network called LiftFeat, which enhances the robustness of 2D descriptors by leveraging 3D geometric features.

Lightstereo: Channel Boost is All You Need for Efficient 2D Cost Aggregation

Xianda Guo, Long Chen

CodeDepth EstimationImage

🎯 What it does: Propose the LightStereo network, which accelerates stereo matching by focusing on the channel dimension of the 3D cost volume.

LiLoc: Lifelong Localization Using Adaptive Submap Joining and Egocentric Factor Graph

Yixin Fang, Gim Hee Lee

CodeAutonomous DrivingOptimizationSimultaneous Localization and MappingPoint Cloud

🎯 What it does: Proposes a lifelong LiDAR-based localization framework named LiLoc, which utilizes adaptive subgraph connections between central sessions and sub-sessions, coarse-to-fine pose initialization, and joint optimization with self-centered factor graphs, supporting switching between relocalization and incremental localization modes.

Logic-RAG: Augmenting Large Multimodal Models with Visual-Spatial Knowledge for Road Scene Understanding

Imran Kabir, S. Billah

CodeAutonomous DrivingLarge Language ModelVision Language ModelVideoRetrieval-Augmented Generation

🎯 What it does: Propose the Logic-RAG framework, applying visual-spatial knowledge retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) technology to large-scale multimodal models to enhance road scene understanding.

LoGS: Visual Localization via Gaussian Splatting with Fewer Training Images

Yuzhou Cheng, Dimitrios Kanoulas

CodePose EstimationRetrievalGaussian SplattingImage

🎯 What it does: Proposed the LoGS visual localization pipeline, utilizing 3D Gaussian Splatting as the scene representation to achieve high-quality view synthesis and accomplish localization.

LoRD: Adapting Differentiable Driving Policies to Distribution Shifts

Christopher Diehl, Torsten Bertram

CodeDomain AdaptationAutonomous DrivingSupervised Fine-Tuning

🎯 What it does: Study the performance of differentiable driving policies under distribution shift, propose the LoRD low-rank residual decoder and multi-task fine-tuning, and improve model performance in closed-loop evaluation.

Magnetometer-Calibrated Hybrid Transformer for Robust Inertial Tracking in Robotics

Xinzhe Zheng, Chenshu Wu

CodeRobotic IntelligenceRecurrent Neural NetworkTransformerTime SeriesSequential

🎯 What it does: Proposes NeurIT, a hybrid transformer integrating magnetometer calibration for robust inertial tracking.

Maintaining Strong $r$-Robustness in Reconfigurable Multi-Robot Networks Using Control Barrier Functions

Haejoon Lee, Dimitra Panagou

CodeRobotic Intelligence

🎯 What it does: Propose a control barrier function to ensure sufficient strong $r$-robustness in multi-robot networks during reconfiguration, enabling leader-follower consensus.

MambaGlue: Fast and Robust Local Feature Matching with Mamba

Kihwan Ryoo, Hyun Myung

CodeImage

🎯 What it does: Proposed a Mamba-based local feature matching method called MambaGlue, and designed two modules: MambaAttention mixer and depth confidence score regressor.

MBE-ARI: A Multimodal Dataset Mapping Bi-Directional Engagement in Animal-Robot Interaction

Ian Noronha, Upinder Kaur

CodePose EstimationMultimodalityBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Created the MBE-ARI multi-modal dataset and proposed a full-body pose estimation model for quadrupeds.

MDC-Seg: Multi-Directional Convolution-Based Semantic Segmentation for LiDAR Point Clouds

Ouyang Xin, Wei Liu

CodeSegmentationAutonomous DrivingConvolutional Neural NetworkPoint Cloud

🎯 What it does: Propose MDC-Seg, which utilizes multi-directional convolution (MDConv) to perform parallel sparse feature encoding on bird's eye view (BEV) and range view (RV) planes, combined with attention mechanisms, effective multi-feature fusion (EMFF) module, and point voxel constraint (PVC) module, achieving effective receptive field expansion and accuracy improvement for 3D point cloud semantic segmentation.

ME-PATS: Mutually Enhancing Search-Based Planner and Learning-Based Agent for Tractor-Trailer Systems

Ke Fan, Zufeng Zhang

CodeAutonomous Driving

🎯 What it does: Proposed the ME-PATS framework, aiming to plan dynamically feasible paths for tractor-trailer systems through mutually enhancing search planners and learning agents;

MERLION: Marine ExploRation with Language guIded Online iNformative Visual Sampling and Enhancement

Shrutika Vishal Thengane, Malika Meghjani

CodeRestorationVision Language ModelImageText

🎯 What it does: Proposes the MERLION framework for semantic alignment and visual enhancement in monitoring and exploration of turbid waters;

MI-HGNN: Morphology-Informed Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network for Legged Robot Contact Perception

D. Butterfield, Lu Gan

CodeRobotic IntelligenceGraph Neural NetworkGraph

🎯 What it does: Proposed a morphology-based heterogeneous graph neural network (MI-HGNN) for contact perception in legged robots.

Monocular Depth Estimation and Segmentation for Transparent Object with Iterative Semantic and Geometric Fusion

Jiangyuan Liu, Wei Zou

CodeSegmentationDepth EstimationImage

🎯 What it does: Proposed a monocular framework that simultaneously performs segmentation and depth estimation of transparent objects using a single RGB image.