Thursday, April 21
12:20 pm to 1:00 pm
GHC 8102
12:20 pm to 1:00 pm
GHC 8102
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