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PhD Speaking Qualifier
April
21
Thu
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NeRF for Robotics
Abstract:
In this talk I’ll describe how recent advances in neural rendering and novel view synthesis – namely NeRF – can be leveraged by robotic agents to improve performance in manipulation tasks. Specifically, I’ll argue that NeRF can enable robotic policies to: (1) generalize to new viewpoints; (2) perceive specular and reflective surfaces in a more accurate fashion; and (3) efficiently generate 3D object correspondences.
Committee:
Abhinav Gupta
Shubham Tulsiani
Deepak Pathak
Thomas Weng