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Carlyn Dougherty

3 accepted papers

2026

VISTA: Open-Vocabulary, Task-Relevant Robot Exploration With Online Semantic Gaussian Splatting

RA-L 2026

We present VISTA (Viewpoint-based Image selection with Semantic Task Awareness), an active exploration method for robots to plan informative trajectories that improve 3D map quality in areas most relevant for task completion. Given an open-vocabulary search instruction (e.g., “find a person”), VISTA

Cited by 4SourcecodeScholar
2026

VISTA: Open-Vocabulary, Task-Relevant Robot Exploration with Online Semantic Gaussian Splatting

ICRA 2026poster

We present VISTA (Viewpoint-based Image selection with Semantic Task Awareness), an active exploration method for robots to plan informative trajectories that improve 3D map quality in areas most relevant for task completion. Given an open-vocabulary search instruction (e.g., "find a person"), VISTA…

2024

Clio: Real-Time Task-Driven Open-Set 3D Scene Graphs

RA-L 2024

Modern tools for class-agnostic image segmentation (e.g., SegmentAnything) and open-set semantic understanding (e.g., CLIP) provide unprecedented opportunities for robot perception and mapping. While traditional closed-set metric-semantic maps were restricted to tens or hundreds of semantic classes,

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