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Matthew Strong

8 accepted papers

2026

DexFruit: Dexterous Manipulation and Gaussian Splatting Inspection of Fruit

RA-L 2026

Dexfruit is a robotic manipulation framework that enables gentle, autonomous handling of fragile fruit and precise evaluation of damage. Soft fruits have long faced an issue of produce loss in both the harvesting and post-harvesting processes due to their extreme fragility and susceptibility to brui

Cited by 2SourcecodeScholar
2026

DexFruit: Dexterous Manipulation and Gaussian Splatting Inspection of Fruit

ICRA 2026poster

DexFruit is a robotic manipulation framework that enables gentle, autonomous handling of fragile fruit and precise evaluation of damage. Soft fruits have long faced an issue of produce loss in both the harvesting and post-harvesting processes due to their extreme fragility and susceptibility to brui…

2026

Learning to Drive is a Free Gift: Large-Scale Label-Free Autonomy Pretraining from Unposed In-The-Wild Videos

CVPR 2026

Ego-centric driving videos available online provide an abundant source of visual data for autonomous driving, yet their lack of annotations makes it difficult to learn representations that capture both semantic structure and 3D geometry. Recent advances in large feedforward spatial models demonstrat

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

SPACeR: Self-Play Anchoring with Centralized Reference Models

ICLR 2026poster

Developing autonomous vehicles (AVs) requires not only safety and efficiency, but also realistic, human-like behaviors that are socially aware and predictable. Achieving this requires sim agent policies that are human-like, fast, and scalable in multi-agent settings. Recent progress in imitation lea…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Next Best Sense: Guiding Vision and Touch with FisherRF for 3D Gaussian Splatting

ICRA 2025

We propose a framework for active next best view and touch selection for robotic manipulators using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). 3DGS is emerging as a useful explicit 3D scene representation for robotics, as it has the ability to represent scenes in a both photorealistic and geometrically accurate

Cited by 11SourcecodeScholar
2024

Touch-GS: Visual-Tactile Supervised 3D Gaussian Splatting

IROS 2024poster

In this work, we propose a novel method to supervise 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) scenes using optical tactile sensors. Optical tactile sensors have become widespread in their use in robotics for manipulation and object representation; however, raw optical tactile sensor data is unsuitable to direct…

Cited by 8SourcecodeScholar
2021

Contact Anticipation for Physical Human–Robot Interaction with Robotic Manipulators using Onboard Proximity Sensors

IROS 2021poster

In this paper, we present a framework that unites obstacle avoidance and deliberate physical interaction for robotic manipulators. As humans and robots begin to coexist in work and household environments, pure collision avoidance is insufficient, as human–robot contact is inevitable and, in some sit…

Cited by 33SourceScholar
2021

Self-Contained Kinematic Calibration of a Novel Whole-Body Artificial Skin for Human-Robot Collaboration

IROS 2021poster

In this paper, we present an accelerometer-based kinematic calibration algorithm to accurately estimate the pose of multiple sensor units distributed along a robot body. Our approach is self-contained, can be used on any robot provided with a Denavit-Hartenberg kinematic model, and on any skin equip…

Cited by 13SourceScholar