Robotics Ph.D. Speaking Qualifier
Speaker
SUDEEP DASARI
Ph.D. Student
Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
When
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Where
In Person and Virtual Presentation - ET
Description
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 In Person and Zoom Participation. See announcement.