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Ziang Cao

17 accepted papers

2026

PhysX-Anything: Simulation-Ready Physical 3D Assets from Single Image

CVPR 2026

3D modeling is shifting from static visual representations toward physical, articulated assets that can be directly used in simulation and interaction. However, most existing 3D generation methods overlook key physical and articulation properties, thereby limiting their utility in embodied AI. To br

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2025

3DTopia-XL: Scaling High-quality 3D Asset Generation via Primitive Diffusion

CVPR 2025highlight

The increasing demand for high-quality 3D assets across various industries necessitates efficient and automated 3D content creation. Despite recent advancements in 3D generative models, existing methods still face challenges with optimization speed, geometric fidelity, and the lack of assets for phy…

2024

EquiBot: SIM(3)-Equivariant Diffusion Policy for Generalizable and Data Efficient Learning

CoRL 2024poster

Building effective imitation learning methods that enable robots to learn from limited data and still generalize across diverse real-world environments is a long-standing problem in robot learning. We propose EquiBot, a robust, data-efficient, and generalizable approach for robot manipulation task l…

Cited by 38SourceScholar
2024

Large-Vocabulary 3D Diffusion Model with Transformer

ICLR 2024poster

Creating diverse and high-quality 3D assets with an automatic generative model is highly desirable. Despite extensive efforts on 3D generation, most existing works focus on the generation of a single category or a few categories. In this paper, we introduce a diffusion-based feed-forward framework f…

2024

NoisyMix: Boosting Model Robustness to Common Corruptions

AISTATS 2024poster

The robustness of neural networks has become increasingly important in real-world applications where stable and reliable performance is valued over simply achieving high predictive accuracy. To address this, data augmentation techniques have been shown to improve robustness against input perturbatio…

2024

Unpacking Failure Modes of Generative Policies: Runtime Monitoring of Consistency and Progress

CoRL 2024poster

Robot behavior policies trained via imitation learning are prone to failure under conditions that deviate from their training data. Thus, algorithms that monitor learned policies at test time and provide early warnings of failure are necessary to facilitate scalable deployment. We propose Sentinel,…

Cited by 62SourceScholar
2023

What Went Wrong? Closing the Sim-to-Real Gap via Differentiable Causal Discovery

CoRL 2023poster

Training control policies in simulation is more appealing than on real robots directly, as it allows for exploring diverse states in an efficient manner. Yet, robot simulators inevitably exhibit disparities from the real-world \rebut{dynamics}, yielding inaccuracies that manifest as the dynamical si…

Cited by 33SourceScholar
2022

Ad2Attack: Adaptive Adversarial Attack on Real-Time UAV Tracking

ICRA 2022poster

Visual tracking is adopted to extensive unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-related applications, which leads to a highly demanding requirement on the robustness of UAV trackers. However, adding imperceptible perturbations can easily fool the tracker and cause tracking failures. This risk is often overloo…

Cited by 28SourcecodeScholar
2022

Egocentric Prediction of Action Target in 3D

CVPR 2022poster

We are interested in anticipating as early as possible the target location of a person's object manipulation action in a 3D workspace from egocentric vision. It is important in fields like human-robot collaboration, but has not yet received enough attention from vision and learning communities. To s…

Cited by 17PDFScholar
2022

Local Perception-Aware Transformer for Aerial Tracking

IROS 2022poster

Transformer-based visual object tracking has been utilized extensively. However, the Transformer structure is lack of enough inductive bias. In addition, only focusing on encoding the global feature does harm to modeling local details, which restricts the capability of tracking in aerial robots. Spe…

Cited by 10SourcecodeScholar
2022

TCTrack: Temporal Contexts for Aerial Tracking

CVPR 2022poster

Temporal contexts among consecutive frames are far from being fully utilized in existing visual trackers. In this work, we present TCTrack, a comprehensive framework to fully exploit temporal contexts for aerial tracking. The temporal contexts are incorporated at two levels: the extraction of featur…

Cited by 213PDFcodeScholar
2022

Tracker Meets Night: A Transformer Enhancer for UAV Tracking

RA-L 2022

Most previous progress in object tracking is realized in daytime scenes with favorable illumination. State-of-the-arts can hardly carry on their superiority at night so far, thereby considerably blocking the broadening of visual tracking-related unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications. To realize

Cited by 77SourcecodeScholar
2021

DarkLighter: Light Up the Darkness for UAV Tracking

IROS 2021poster

Recent years have witnessed the fast evolution and promising performance of the convolutional neural network (CNN)-based trackers, which aim at imitating biological visual systems. However, current CNN-based trackers can hardly generalize well to low-light scenes that are commonly lacked in the exis…

Cited by 49SourcecodeScholar
2021

HiFT: Hierarchical Feature Transformer for Aerial Tracking

ICCV 2021poster

Most existing Siamese-based tracking methods execute the classification and regression of the target object based on the similarity maps. However, they either employ a single map from the last convolutional layer which degrades the localization accuracy in complex scenarios or separately use multipl…

Cited by 297PDFcodeScholar
2021

SiamAPN++: Siamese Attentional Aggregation Network for Real-Time UAV Tracking

IROS 2021poster

Recently, the Siamese-based method has stood out from multitudinous tracking methods owing to its state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance. Nevertheless, due to various special challenges in UAV tracking, e.g., severe occlusion and fast motion, most existing Siamese-based trackers hardly combine superior…

Cited by 151SourcecodeScholar
2021

Siamese Anchor Proposal Network for High-Speed Aerial Tracking

ICRA 2021poster

In the domain of visual tracking, most deep learning-based trackers highlight the accuracy but casting aside efficiency. Therefore, their real-world deployment on mobile platforms like the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is impeded. In this work, a novel two-stage Siamese network-based method is propo…

Cited by 94SourcecodeScholar