In order to function in unstructured environments, robots need the ability to recognize unseen objects. We take a step in this direction by tackling the problem of segmenting unseen object instances in tabletop environments. However, the type of large-scale real-world dataset required for this task typically does not exist for most robotic settings, which motivates the use of synthetic data. Our proposed method, UOIS-Net, separately leverages synthetic RGB and synthetic depth for unseen object instance segmentation. UOIS-Net is comprised of two stages: first, it operates only on depth to produce object instance center votes in 2D or 3D and assembles them into rough initial masks. Secondly, these initial masks are refined using RGB. Surprisingly, our framework is able to learn from synthetic RGB-D data where the RGB is non-photorealistic. To train our method, we introduce a large-scale synthetic dataset of random objects on tabletops. We show that our method can produce sharp and accurate segmentation masks, outperforming state-of-the-art methods on unseen object instance segmentation. We also show that our method can segment unseen objects for robot grasping.
Segmenting unseen objects in cluttered scenes is an important skill that robots need to acquire in order to perform tasks in new environments. In this work, we propose a new method for unseen object instance segmentation by learning RGB-D feature embeddings from synthetic data. A metric learning loss function is utilized to learn to produce pixel-wise feature embeddings such that pixels from the same object are close to each other and pixels from different objects are separated in the embedding space. With the learned feature embeddings, a mean shift clustering algorithm can be applied to disc…
In order to function in unstructured environments, robots need the ability to recognize unseen novel objects. We take a step in this direction by tackling the problem of segmenting unseen object instances in tabletop environments. However, the type of large-scale real-world dataset required for this task typically does not exist for most robotic settings, which motivates the use of synthetic data. We propose a novel method that separately leverages synthetic RGB and synthetic depth for unseen object instance segmentation. Our method is comprised of two stages where the first stage operates onl…
Graz University of Technology（格拉茨技术大学）；University of Klagenfurt（克拉根福大学）
In this paper, we present a novel deep neural network architecture for joint class-agnostic object segmentation and grasp detection for robotic picking tasks using a parallel-plate gripper. We introduce depth-aware Coordinate Convolution (CoordConv), a method to increase accuracy for point proposal based object instance segmentation in complex scenes without adding any additional network parameters or computation complexity. Depth-aware CoordConv uses depth data to extract prior information about the location of an object to achieve highly accurate object instance segmentation. These resulting…
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology（光州科学技术院）
Instance-aware segmentation of unseen objects is essential for a robotic system in an unstructured environment. Although previous works achieved encouraging results, they were limited to segmenting the only visible regions of unseen objects. For robotic manipulation in a cluttered scene, amodal perception is required to handle the occluded objects behind others. This paper addresses Unseen Object Amodal Instance Segmentation (UOAIS) to detect 1) visible masks, 2) amodal masks, and 3) occlusions on unseen object instances. For this, we propose a Hierarchical Occlusion Modeling (HOM) scheme desi…
We present joint learning of instance and semantic segmentation for visible and occluded region masks. Sharing the feature extractor with instance occlusion segmentation, we introduce semantic occlusion segmentation into the instance segmentation model. This joint learning fuses the instance- and image-level reasoning of the mask prediction on the different segmentation tasks, which was missing in the previous work of learning instance segmentation only (instance-only). In the experiments, we evaluated the proposed joint learning comparing the instance-only learning on the test dataset. We als…
Scalable Unseen Objects 6-DoF Absolute Pose Estimation with Robotic Integration
National Engineering Research Center for Robot Visual Perception and Control Technology, School of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Hunan University（机器人视觉感知与控制技术国家工程研究中心，人工智能与机器人学院，湖南大学）；School of Architecture and Art, Central South University（建筑与艺术学院，中南大学）；School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University（计算与通讯学院，兰卡斯特大学）；Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Western Australia（计算机科学与软件工程系，西澳大学）；School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University（电子与电气工程学院，南洋理工大学）
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院自动化研究所）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）；Nanjing Artificial Intelligence Research of IA（南京人工智能创新研究院）
Segmenting unseen objects is a crucial ability for the robot since it may encounter new environments during the operation. Recently, a popular solution is leveraging RGB-D features of large-scale synthetic data and directly applying the model to unseen real-world scenarios. However, the domain shift caused by the sim2real gap is inevitable, posing a crucial challenge to the segmentation model. In this paper, we emphasize the adaptation process across sim2real domains and model it as a learning problem on the BatchNorm parameters of a simulation-trained model. Specifically, we propose a novel n…
In this work, we introduce a novel, end-to-end trainable CNN-based architecture to deliver high quality results for grasp detection suitable for a parallel-plate gripper, and semantic segmentation. Utilizing this, we propose a novel refinement module that takes advantage of previously calculated grasp detection and semantic segmentation and further increases grasp detection accuracy. Our proposed network delivers state-of-the-art accuracy on two popular grasp dataset, namely Cornell and Jacquard. As additional contribution, we provide a novel dataset extension for the OCID dataset, making it p…
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology（香港科技大学）
The segmentation of drivable areas and road anomalies are critical capabilities to achieve autonomous navigation for robotic wheelchairs. The recent progress of semantic segmentation using deep learning techniques has presented effective results. However, the acquisition of large-scale datasets with hand-labeled ground truth is time-consuming and labor-intensive, making the deep learning-based methods often hard to implement in practice. We contribute to the solution of this problem for the task of drivable area and road anomaly segmentation by proposing a self-supervised learning approach. We…
The University of Texas at Dallas（德克萨斯大学达拉斯分校）；Rice University（莱斯大学）
We introduce a novel robotic system for improving unseen object instance segmentation in the real world by leveraging long-term robot interaction with objects. Previous approaches either grasp or push an object and then obtain the segmentation mask of the grasped or pushed object after one action. Instead, our system defers the decision on segmenting objects after a sequence of robot pushing actions. By applying multi-object tracking and video object segmentation on the images collected via robot pushing, our system can generate segmentation masks of all the objects in these images in a self-s…
LiPS: Lightweight Panoptic Segmentation for Resource-Constrained Robotics
Université Paris-Saclay, CEA LIST（巴黎-萨克雷大学，CEA LIST）；U2IS, ENSTA, Institut Polytechnique de Paris（U2IS、ENSTA、巴黎理工学院）；University of Bonn, Center for Robotics（波恩大学，机器人中心）
German Aerospace Center (DLR)（德国航空航天中心）；Technical University of Munich (TUM)（慕尼黑工业大学）
Accurate object segmentation is a crucial task in the context of robotic manipulation. However, creating sufficient annotated training data for neural networks is particularly time consuming and often requires manual labeling. To this end, we propose a simple, yet robust solution for learning to segment unknown objects grasped by a robot. Specifically, we exploit motion and temporal cues in RGB video sequences. Using optical flow estimation we first learn to predict segmentation masks of our given manipulator. Then, these annotations are used in combination with motion cues to automatically di…
The ability to interpret a scene is an important capability for a robot that is supposed to interact with its environment. The knowledge of what is in front of the robot is, for example, relevant for navigation, manipulation, or planning. Semantic segmentation labels each pixel of an image with a class label and thus provides a detailed semantic annotation of the surroundings to the robot. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are popular methods for addressing this type of problem. The available software for training and the integration of CNNs for real robots, however, is quite fragmented and…
Adaptive Feature Fusion Neural Network for Glaucoma Segmentation on Unseen Fundus Images
International Medical College（国际医学院）；Chongqing Medical University（重庆医科大学）；The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University（重庆医科大学第一附属医院）；Centre for Frontier AI Research (CFAR)（前沿人工智能研究中心）；Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR)（新加坡科技研究局）
NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering (NGS)（新加坡国立大学综合科学与工程研究生院（NGS））；National University of Singapore（新加坡国立大学）；University of Moratuwa（莫拉图瓦大学）；NIT Trichy（印度国立理工学院蒂鲁吉拉伯利分校）
Robot-assisted surgery is an emerging technology which has undergone rapid growth with the development of robotics and imaging systems. Innovations in vision, haptics and accurate movements of robot arms have enabled surgeons to perform precise minimally invasive surgeries. Real-time semantic segmentation of the robotic instruments and tissues is a crucial step in robot-assisted surgery. Accurate and efficient segmentation of the surgical scene not only aids in the identification and tracking of instruments but also provided contextual information about the different tissues and instruments be…
Depth-Only Open-Vocabulary 3D Semantic Segmentation For Privacy-Preserving Robotic Applications
Humanoid Robots Lab, University of Bonn（波恩大学仿人机器人实验室）；Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence（拉马尔机器学习和人工智能研究所）；Center for Robotics, Bonn, Germany（波恩机器人中心）
University of Waterloo（滑铁卢大学）；Karlsruhe Institute of Technology（卡尔斯鲁厄理工学院）
There has been increasing interest in smart factories powered by robotics systems to tackle repetitive, laborious tasks. One impactful yet challenging task in robotics-powered smart factory applications is robotic grasping: using robotic arms to grasp objects autonomously in different settings. Robotic grasping requires a variety of computer vision tasks such as object detection, segmentation, grasp prediction, pick planning, etc. While significant progress has been made in leveraging of machine learning for robotic grasping, particularly with deep learning, a big challenge remains in the need…
The Chinese University of Hong Kong（香港中文大学）；Stanford University（斯坦福大学）；Shenzhen University（深圳大学）；Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院深圳先进技术研究院）
Deep convolutional neural networks have significantly boosted the performance of fundus image segmentation when test datasets have the same distribution as the training datasets. However, in clinical practice, medical images often exhibit variations in appearance for various reasons, e.g., different scanner vendors and image quality. These distribution discrepancies could lead the deep networks to over-fit on the training datasets and lack generalization ability on the unseen test datasets. To alleviate this issue, we present a novel Domain-oriented Feature Embedding (DoFE) framework to improv…
Zero-shot learning has been actively studied for image classification task to relieve the burden of annotating image labels. Interestingly, semantic segmentation task requires more labor-intensive pixel-wise annotation, but zero-shot semantic segmentation has only attracted limited research interest. Thus, we focus on zero-shot semantic segmentation, which aims to segment unseen objects with only category-level semantic representations provided for unseen categories. In this paper, we propose a novel Context-aware feature Generation Network (CaGNet), which can synthesize context-aware pixel-wi…
University of Pittsburgh（匹兹堡大学）；Carnegie Mellon University（卡内基梅隆大学）；The University of Melbourne（墨尔本大学）
An organ segmentation method that can generalize to unseen contrasts and scanner settings can significantly reduce the need for retraining of deep learning models. Domain Generalization (DG) aims to achieve this goal. However, most DG methods for segmentation require training data from multiple domains during training. We propose a novel adversarial domain generalization method for organ segmentation trained on data from a \emph{single} domain. We synthesize the new domains via learning an adversarial domain synthesizer (ADS) and presume that the synthetic domains cover a large enough area of …
This work tackles scene understanding for outdoor robotic navigation, solely relying on images captured by an on-board camera. Conventional visual scene understanding interprets the environment based on specific descriptive categories. However, such a representation is not directly interpretable for decision-making and constrains robot operation to a specific domain. Thus, we propose to segment egocentric images directly in terms of how a robot can navigate in them, and tailor the learning problem to an autonomous navigation task. Building around an image segmentation network, we present a gen…
Technical Report for ICRA 2026 GOOSE 2D Fine-Grained Semantic Segmentation Challenge: Leveraging DINOv3 for Robust Outdoor Scene Understanding in Field Robotics
Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST)（大邱庆北科学技术院）；Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)（麻省理工学院）
Interdisciplinary Program in AI, Seoul National University（首尔国立大学人工智能跨学科项目）；Artificial Intelligence Institute, Seoul National University（首尔国立大学人工智能研究所）；Department of Computer Science, Seoul National University（首尔国立大学计算机科学系）
Bimodal SegNet: Instance Segmentation Fusing Events and RGB Frames for Robotic Grasping
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing, Kingston University（科学、工程与计算学院，金斯顿大学）；Aerospace Engineering Department, Khalifa University of Science and Technology（航空航天工程系，哈利法大学科技学院）；Dubai Future Labs - RLab（迪拜未来实验室-RLab）
Recent mask proposal models have significantly improved the performance of zero-shot semantic segmentation. However, the use of a `background' embedding during training in these methods is problematic as the resulting model tends to over-learn and assign all unseen classes as the background class instead of their correct labels. Furthermore, they ignore the semantic relationship of text embeddings, which arguably can be highly informative for zero-shot prediction as seen classes may have close relationship with unseen classes. To this end, this paper proposes novel class enhancement losses to …
Politecnico di Torino（都灵理工大学）；Italian Institute of Technology（意大利理工学院）；MPI for Informatics（马克斯·普朗克信息学研究所）；University of Tübingen（蒂宾根大学）；MPI for Intelligent Systems（马克斯·普朗克智能系统研究所）
Being able to segment unseen classes not observed during training is an important technical challenge in deep learning, because of its potential to reduce the expensive annotation required for semantic segmentation. Prior zero-label semantic segmentation works approach this task by learning visual-semantic embeddings or generative models. However, they are prone to overfitting on the seen classes because there is no training signal for them. In this paper, we study the challenging generalized zero-label semantic segmentation task where the model has to segment both seen and unseen classes at t…
Stanford University（斯坦福大学）；University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign（伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校）
Current semantic segmentation models cannot easily generalize to new object classes unseen during train time: they require additional annotated images and retraining. We propose a novel segmentation model that injects visual priors into semantic segmentation architectures, allowing them to segment out new target labels without retraining. As visual priors, we use the activations of pretrained image classifiers, which provide noisy indications of the spatial location of both the target object and distractor objects in the scene. We leverage language semantics to obtain these activations for a t…
Shape-Space Deformer: Unified Visuo-Tactile Representations for Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects
CSIRO Robotics, Data61, CSIRO（CSIRO机器人部、Data61、CSIRO）；School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), The University of Queensland（电气工程与计算机科学学院（EECS）、昆士兰大学）
Semantic segmentation in a supervised learning manner has achieved significant progress in recent years. However, its performance usually drops dramatically due to the data-distribution discrepancy between seen and unseen domains when we directly deploy the trained model to segment the images of unseen (or new coming) domains. To this end, we propose a novel domain generalization framework for the generalizable semantic segmentation task, which enhances the generalization ability of the model from two different views, including the training paradigm and the test strategy. Concretely, we exploi…
Surgical-DeSAM: Decoupling SAM for Instrument Segmentation in Robotic Surgery
Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (WEISS)（Wellcome/EPSRC介入与外科科学中心（WEISS））；University College London（伦敦大学学院）；Dept. of Computer Science, University College London（伦敦大学学院计算机科学系）
Dynamics-Aware Meta-Imitation for Generalization to Unseen Robotic Manipulation
State Key Laboratory of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院沈阳自动化研究所机器人学国家重点实验室）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）；Shenyang University of Technology（沈阳工业大学）
The Chinese University of Hong Kong（香港中文大学）；Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院深圳先进技术研究院）
Domain generalization typically requires data from multiple source domains for model learning. However, such strong assumption may not always hold in practice, especially in medical field where the data sharing is highly concerned and sometimes prohibitive due to privacy issue. This paper studies the important yet challenging single domain generalization problem, in which a model is learned under the worst-case scenario with only one source domain to directly generalize to different unseen target domains. We present a novel approach to address this problem in medical image segmentation, which …
PIC4SeR PoliTo Interdepartmental Center for Service Robotics（PIC4SeR都灵理工大学服务机器人跨部门中心）；Politecnico di Torino（都灵理工大学）
The game of Jenga represents an inspiring benchmark for developing innovative manipulation solutions for complex tasks. Indeed, it encouraged the study of novel robotics methods to successfully extract blocks from the tower. A Jenga game round undoubtedly embeds many traits of complex industrial or surgical manipulation tasks, requiring a multi-step strategy, the combination of visual and tactile data, and the highly precise motion of the robotic arm to perform a single block extraction. In this work, we propose a novel, cost-effective architecture for playing Jenga with e.Do, a 6-DOF anthropo…
The ability to identify and localize new objects robustly and effectively is vital for robotic grasping and manipulation in warehouses or smart factories. Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have achieved the state-of-the-art performance on established image datasets for object detection and segmentation. However, applying DCNNs in dynamic industrial scenarios, e.g., warehouses and autonomous production, remains a challenging problem. DCNNs quickly become ineffective when tasked with detecting objects that they have not been trained on. Given that re-training using the latest data is ti…
SKU-Patch: Towards Efficient Instance Segmentation for Unseen Objects in Auto-Store
The Chinese University of Hong Kong（香港中文大学）；Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院深圳先进技术研究院）；Huazhong University of Science and Technology（华中科技大学）
Semantic segmentation models are limited in their ability to scale to large numbers of object classes. In this paper, we introduce the new task of zero-shot semantic segmentation: learning pixel-wise classifiers for never-seen object categories with zero training examples. To this end, we present a novel architecture, ZS3Net, combining a deep visual segmentation model with an approach to generate visual representations from semantic word embeddings. By this way, ZS3Net addresses pixel classification tasks where both seen and unseen categories are faced at test time (so called "generalized" zer…
