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    • 3D human pose tracking priors using geodesic mixture models 

      Simó Serra, Edgar; Torras, Carme; Moreno-Noguer, Francesc (2017-04-01)
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      We present a novel approach for learning a finite mixture model on a Riemannian manifold in which Euclidean metrics are not applicable and one needs to resort to geodesic distances consistent with the manifold geometry. ...
    • 3D modelling of leaves from color and ToF data for robotized plant measuring 

      Alenyà Ribas, Guillem; Dellen, Babette; Torras, Carme (2011)
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      Supervision of long-lasting extensive botanic experiments is a promising robotic application that some recent technological advances have made feasible. Plant modelling for this application has strong demands, particularly ...
    • 3D object reconstruction from Swissranger sensor data using a spring-mass model 

      Dellen, Babette; Alenyà Ribas, Guillem; Foix Salmerón, Sergi; Torras, Carme (INSTICC Press. Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication, 2009)
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      We register close-range depth images of objects using a Swissranger sensor and apply a spring-mass model for 3D object reconstruction. The Swissranger sensor delivers depth images in real time which have, compared with ...
    • 3D sensor planning framework for leaf probing 

      Foix Salmerón, Sergi; Alenyà Ribas, Guillem; Torras, Carme (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015)
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      Modern plant phenotyping requires active sensing technologies and particular exploration strategies. This article proposes a new method for actively exploring a 3D region of space with the aim of localizing special areas ...
    • A 3D descriptor to detect task-oriented grasping points in clothing 

      Ramisa Ayats, Arnau; Alenyà Ribas, Guillem; Moreno-Noguer, Francesc; Torras, Carme (2016)
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      Manipulating textile objects with a robot is a challenging task, especially because the garment perception is difficult due to the endless configurations it can adopt, coupled with a large variety of colors and designs. ...
    • A cognitive architecture for automatic gardening 

      Agostini, Alejandro Gabriel; Alenyà Ribas, Guillem; Fischbach, Andreas; Scharr, Hanno; Woergoetter, Florentin; Torras, Carme (2017-06-01)
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      In large industrial greenhouses, plants are usually treated following well established protocols for watering, nutrients, and shading/light. While this is practical for the automation of the process, it does not tap the ...
    • A family of quadratically-solvable 5-SPU parallel robots 

      Borràs Sol, Júlia; Thomas, Federico; Torras, Carme (2010)
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      A 5-SPU robot with collinear universal joints is well suited to handling an axisymmetric tool, since it has 5 controllable DoFs and the remaining one is a free rotation around the tool. The kinematics of such a robot having ...
    • A friction-model-based framework for reinforcement learning of robotic tasks in non-rigid environments 

      Colomé Figueras, Adrià; Planells Valencia, Antoni; Torras, Carme (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015)
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      Learning motion tasks in a real environment with deformable objects requires not only a Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithm, but also a good motion characterization, a preferably compliant robot controller, and an agent ...
    • A general strategy for interactive decision-making in robotic platforms 

      Agostini, Alejandro Gabriel; Torras, Carme; Wörgötter, Florentin (2011)
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      This work presents an intergated strategy for planning and learning suitable to execute tasks with robotic platforms without any previous task specification. The approach rapidly learns planning operators from few action ...
    • A Grasping-centered analysis for cloth manipulation 

      Borràs Sol, Júlia; Alenyà Ribas, Guillem; Torras, Carme (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020-06-01)
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      Compliant and soft hands have gained a lot of atten- tion in the past decade because of their ability to adapt to the shape of the objects, increasing their effectiveness for grasping. However, when it comes to grasping ...
    • A joint model for 2D and 3D pose estimation from a single image 

      Simó Serra, Edgar; Quattoni, Ariadna Julieta; Torras, Carme; Moreno-Noguer, Francesc (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013)
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      We introduce a novel approach to automatically recover 3D human pose from a single image. Most previous work follows a pipelined approach: initially, a set of 2D features such as edges, joints or silhouettes are detected ...
    • A personal account of Turing’s imprint on the development of computer science 

      Díaz Cort, Josep; Torras, Carme (Elsevier, 2012)
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      The rst part of the XX century saw the development of the digital computer and the eld of computer science. In the present paper, we sketch our vision of that period and of the role that Alan Turing and some of his ...
    • A representation of cloth states based on a derivative of the Gauss linking integral 

      Coltraro, Franco; Fontana, Josep; Amorós Torrent, Jaume; Alberich Carramiñana, Maria; Borràs Sol, Júlia; Torras, Carme (Elsevier, 2023-11-15)
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      Robotic manipulation of cloth is a complex task because of the infinite-dimensional shape-state space of textiles, which makes their state estimation very difficult. In this paper we introduce the dGLI Cloth Coordinates, ...
    • A robot learning from demonstration framework to perform force-based manipulation tasks 

      Rozo Castañeda, Leonel; Jiménez Schlegl, Pablo; Torras, Carme (Springer, 2013)
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      This paper proposes an end-to-end learning from demonstration framework for teaching force-based manipulation tasks to robots. The strengths of this work are manyfold. First, we deal with the problem of learning through ...
    • A taxonomy of preferences for physically assistive robots 

      Canal Camprodon, Gerard; Alenyà Ribas, Guillem; Torras, Carme (IEEE Press, 2017)
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      Assistive devices and technologies are getting common and some commercial products are starting to be available. However, the deployment of robots able to physically interact with a person in an assistive manner is still ...
    • A topological extension of movement primitives for curvature modulation and sampling of robot motion 

      Colomé Figueras, Adrià; Torras, Carme (Springer Nature, 2021)
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      This paper proposes to enrich robot motion data with trajectory curvature information. To do so,we use an approximate implementation of a topological feature named writhe, which measures the curling of a closed curve around ...
    • A Versatile Gripper for Cloth Manipulation 

      Donaire Cónsul, Sònia; Borràs Sol, Júlia; Alenyà Ribas, Guillem; Torras, Carme (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020-10)
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      Cloth manipulation has been mostly advancing in perception and modeling methods for cloth state estimation and grasping point detection. In comparison, less attention has been put on end-effector design. Indeed, most ...
    • A virtual reality framework for fast dataset creation applied to cloth manipulation with automatic semantic labelling 

      Borràs Sol, Júlia; Boix Granell, Arnau; Foix Salmerón, Sergi; Torras, Carme (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023)
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      Teaching complex manipulation skills, such as folding garments, to a bi-manual robot is a very challenging task, which is often tackled through learning from demonstration. The few datasets of garment-folding demonstrations ...
    • Action recognition based on efficient deep feature learning in the spatio-temporal domain 

      Husain, Syed Farzad; Dellen, Babette; Torras, Carme (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016)
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      Hand-crafted feature functions are usually designed based on the domain knowledge of a presumably controlled environment and often fail to generalize, as the statistics of real-world data cannot always be modeled correctly. ...
    • Action rule induction from cause-effect pairs learned through robot-teacher interaction 

      Agostini, Alejandro Gabriel; Celaya Llover, Enric; Torras, Carme; Wörgötter, Florentin (University of Karlsruhe, 2008)
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      In this work we propose a decision-making system that efficiently learns behaviors in the form of rules using natural human instructions about cause-effect relations in currently observed situations, avoiding complicated ...