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Giulia Pasquale

11 accepted papers

2025

HannesImitation: Grasping with the Hannes Prosthetic Hand via Imitation Learning

IROS 2025

Recent advancements in control of prosthetic hands have focused on increasing autonomy through the use of cameras and other sensory inputs. These systems aim to reduce the cognitive load on the user by automatically controlling certain degrees of freedom. In robotics, imitation learning has emerged

Cited by 1SourcecodeScholar
2025

KDPE: A Kernel Density Estimation Strategy for Diffusion Policy Trajectory Selection

CoRL 2025poster

Learning robot policies that capture multimodality in the training data has been a long-standing open challenge for behavior cloning. Recent approaches tackle the problem by modeling the conditional action distribution with generative models. One of these approaches is Diffusion Policy, which relies…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2024

ConCon-Chi: Concept-Context Chimera Benchmark for Personalized Vision-Language Tasks

CVPR 2024poster

While recent Vision-Language (VL) models excel at open-vocabulary tasks it is unclear how to use them with specific or uncommon concepts. Personalized Text-to-Image Retrieval (TIR) or Generation (TIG) are recently introduced tasks that represent this challenge where the VL model has to learn a conce…

2022

Grasp Pre-shape Selection by Synthetic Training: Eye-in-hand Shared Control on the Hannes Prosthesis

IROS 2022poster

We consider the task of object grasping with a prosthetic hand capable of multiple grasp types. In this setting, communicating the intended grasp type often requires a high user cognitive load which can be reduced adopting shared autonomy frameworks. Among these, so-called eye-in-hand systems automa…

Cited by 23SourcecodeScholar
2022

ROFT: Real-Time Optical Flow-Aided 6D Object Pose and Velocity Tracking

RA-L 2022

6D object pose tracking has been extensively studied in the robotics and computer vision communities. The most promising solutions, leveraging on deep neural networks and/or filtering and optimization, exhibit notable performance on standard benchmarks. However, to our best knowledge, these have not

Cited by 26SourceScholar
2021

Fast Object Segmentation Learning with Kernel-based Methods for Robotics

ICRA 2021poster

Object segmentation is a key component in the visual system of a robot that performs tasks like grasping and object manipulation, especially in presence of occlusions. Like many other computer vision tasks, the adoption of deep architectures has made available algorithms that perform this task with…

Cited by 11SourcecodeScholar
2018

Improving Superquadric Modeling and Grasping with Prior on Object Shapes

ICRA 2018poster

This paper proposes an object modeling and grasping pipeline for humanoid robots. This work improves our previous approach based on superquadric functions. In particular, we speed up and refine the modeling process by using prior information on the object shape provided by an object classifier. We u…

Cited by 23SourceScholar
2018

Speeding-Up Object Detection Training for Robotics with FALKON

IROS 2018poster

Latest deep learning methods for object detection provide remarkable performance, but have limits when used in robotic applications. One of the most relevant issues is the long training time, which is due to the large size and imbalance of the associated training sets, characterized by few positive…

Cited by 27SourceScholar
2017

Incremental robot learning of new objects with fixed update time

ICRA 2017poster

We consider object recognition in the context of lifelong learning, where a robotic agent learns to discriminate between a growing number of object classes as it accumulates experience about the environment. We propose an incremental variant of the Regularized Least Squares for Classification (RLSC)…

Cited by 51SourcecodeScholar
2016

Object identification from few examples by improving the invariance of a Deep Convolutional Neural Network

IROS 2016poster

The development of reliable and robust visual recognition systems is a main challenge towards the deployment of autonomous robotic agents in unconstrained environments. Learning to recognize objects requires image representations that are discriminative to relevant information while being invariant…

Cited by 69SourceScholar