Camera geometry makes robot policies more data-efficient and position-robust

BIND links candidate 3D end-effector positions to projected image features, avoiding the need to learn this spatial correspondence from demonstrations.

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Cameron Smith · Arsh Tangri · Vitor Guizilini · Yue Wang · Zubair Irshad · Sergey Zakharov

University of Southern California · Toyota Research Institute

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Conventional behavioral-cloning policies commonly pool an image encoder's features into one global vector, then use a multilayer perceptron to regress robot coordinates.

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From Toyota Research Institute and University of Southern California

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BIND improves robot policy data efficiency and robustness by binding 3D actions to 2D image features via camera projection.

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