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Kaifeng Zhang

12 accepted papers

2026

IDK-S: Incremental Distributional Kernel for Streaming Anomaly Detection

AAAI 2026technical

Anomaly detection on data streams presents significant challenges, requiring methods to maintain high detection accuracy among evolving distributions while ensuring real-time efficiency. Here we introduce IDK-S, a novel Incremental Distributional Kernel for Streaming anomaly detection that effective

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2026

Real-To-Sim Robot Policy Evaluation with Gaussian Splatting Simulation of Soft-Body Interactions

ICRA 2026poster

Robotic manipulation policies are advancing rapidly, but their direct evaluation in the real world remains costly, time-consuming, and difficult to reproduce, particularly for tasks involving deformable objects. Simulation provides a scalable and systematic alternative, yet existing simulators often…

2026

Spatially-Anchored Tactile Awareness for Robust Dexterous Manipulation

ICRA 2026poster

Abstract— Dexterous manipulation requires precise geometric reasoning, yet existing visuo-tactile learning methods struggle with sub-millimeter precision tasks that are routine for traditional model-based approaches. We identify a key limitation: while tactile sensors provide rich contact informatio…

2026

ViTacFormer: Learning Cross-Modal Representation for Visuo-Tactile Dexterous Manipulation

RSS 2026poster

Dexterous manipulation is a cornerstone capability for robotic systems aiming to interact with the physical world in a human-like manner. Although vision-based methods have advanced rapidly, tactile sensing remains crucial for fine-grained control—particularly in unstructured or visually occluded se…

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2025

Learning Manipulation Skills through Robot Chain-of-Thought with Sparse Failure Guidance

IROS 2025

Reward engineering for policy learning has been a long-standing challenge in robotics. Recently, to avoid manual reward designs, vision-language models (VLMs) have shown promise in defining rewards for teaching robots manipulation skills. However, existing work often provides reward guidance that is

Cited by 10SourceScholar
2025

Particle-Grid Neural Dynamics for Learning Deformable Object Models from RGB-D Videos

RSS 2025poster

Modeling the dynamics of deformable objects is challenging due to their diverse physical properties and the difficulty of estimating states from limited visual information. We address these challenges with a neural dynamics framework that combines object particles and spatial grids in a hybrid repre…

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2025

PhysTwin: Physics-Informed Reconstruction and Simulation of Deformable Objects from Videos

ICCV 2025poster

Creating a physical digital twin of a real-world object has immense potential in robotics, content creation, and XR. In this paper, we present PhysTwin, a novel framework that uses sparse videos of dynamic objects in interaction to produce a photo- and physically realistic, real-time interactive vir…

2024

AdaptiGraph: Material-Adaptive Graph-Based Neural Dynamics for Robotic Manipulation

RSS 2024poster

Predictive models are a crucial component of many robotic systems. Yet, constructing accurate predictive models for a variety of deformable objects, especially those with unknown physical properties, remains a significant challenge. This paper introduces AdaptiGraph, a learning-based dynamics modeli…

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2023

Self-Supervised Geometric Correspondence for Category-Level 6D Object Pose Estimation in the Wild

ICLR 2023poster

While 6D object pose estimation has wide applications across computer vision and robotics, it remains far from being solved due to the lack of annotations. The problem becomes even more challenging when moving to category-level 6D pose, which requires generalization to unseen instances. Current appr…

2023

Towards a Persistence Diagram that is Robust to Noise and Varied Densities

ICML 2023poster

Recent works have identified that existing methods, which construct persistence diagrams in Topological Data Analysis (TDA), are not robust to noise and varied densities in a point cloud. We analyze the necessary properties of an approach that can address these two issues, and propose a new filter f…

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