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Nikolaos Tsagkas

4 accepted papers

2026

The Temporal Trap: Entanglement in Pre-Trained Visual Representations for Visuomotor Policy Learning

ICRA 2026poster

The integration of pre-trained visual representations (PVRs) has significantly advanced visuomotor policy learning. However, effectively leveraging these models remains a challenge. We identify temporal entanglement as a critical, inherent issue when using these time-invariant models in sequential d…

2025

Fast Flow-based Visuomotor Policies via Conditional Optimal Transport Couplings

CoRL 2025poster

Diffusion and flow matching policies have recently demonstrated remarkable performance in robotic applications by accurately capturing multimodal robot trajectory distributions. However, their computationally expensive inference, due to the numerical integration of an ODE or SDE, limits their applic…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Learning Precise Affordances from Egocentric Videos for Robotic Manipulation

ICCV 2025poster

Affordance, defined as the potential actions that an object offers, is crucial for embodied AI agents. For example, such knowledge directs an agent to grasp a knife by the handle for cutting or by the blade for safe handover. While existing approaches have made notable progress, affordance research…

2024

Click to Grasp: Zero-Shot Precise Manipulation via Visual Diffusion Descriptors

IROS 2024poster

Precise manipulation that is generalizable across scenes and objects remains a persistent challenge in robotics. Current approaches for this task heavily depend on having a significant number of training instances to handle objects with pronounced visual and/or geometric part ambiguities. Our work e…

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