NeRF for Robotics
GHC 8102Abstract: 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 [...]
Search Algorithms and Search Spaces for Neural Architecture Search
NSH 4305Abstract: Neural architecture search (NAS) is recently proposed to automate the process of designing network architectures. Instead of manually designing network architectures, NAS automatically finds the optimal architecture in a data-driven way. Despite its impressive progress, NAS is still far from being widely adopted as a common paradigm for architecture design in practice. This thesis [...]