{"id":33,"date":"2025-05-06T20:56:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T20:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2025team14\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2025-12-09T22:03:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T22:03:39","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2025team14\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Motivation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Manipulation tasks benefit from accurate depth and shape understanding.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>New 3D vision foundation models enable fast, calibration-free, multi-view 3D reconstruction using standard RGB cameras.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Problem Statements<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Faster global alignment to achieve robust, real-time multi-view 3D reconstruction for manipulation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Leverage geometric foundation models (VGGT) to provide stronger geometric features that improve scene understanding and downstream manipulation tasks.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Use learning-based shape completion to turn partial RGB-D observations into complete point clouds, enabling more stable and reliable grasp planning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motivation Problem Statements<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Introduction - Improving Robot Manipulation with 3D Vision Models<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2025team14\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Introduction - Improving Robot Manipulation with 3D Vision Models\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Motivation Problem Statements\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2025team14\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Improving Robot Manipulation with 3D Vision Models\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-12-09T22:03:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\\\/2025team14\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\\\/2025team14\\\/\",\"name\":\"Introduction - Improving Robot Manipulation with 3D Vision Models\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\\\/2025team14\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-06T20:56:16+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-12-09T22:03:39+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\\\/2025team14\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\\\/2025team14\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\\\/2025team14\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\\\/2025team14\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Introduction\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\\\/2025team14\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\\\/2025team14\\\/\",\"name\":\"Improving Robot Manipulation with 3D Vision Models\",\"description\":\"Rajath Aralikatti, Santhoshini Gongidi | Collaborators: Bardenious Duisterhof, Jeffrey Ke | Advisor: Jeffrey Ichnowski\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\\\/2025team14\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Introduction - Improving Robot Manipulation with 3D Vision Models","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2025team14\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Introduction - Improving Robot Manipulation with 3D Vision Models","og_description":"Motivation Problem Statements","og_url":"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2025team14\/","og_site_name":"Improving Robot Manipulation with 3D Vision Models","article_modified_time":"2025-12-09T22:03:39+00:00","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2025team14\/","url":"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2025team14\/","name":"Introduction - Improving Robot Manipulation with 3D Vision Models","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2025team14\/#website"},"datePublished":"2025-05-06T20:56:16+00:00","dateModified":"2025-12-09T22:03:39+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2025team14\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2025team14\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2025team14\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2025team14\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Introduction"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2025team14\/#website","url":"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2025team14\/","name":"Improving Robot Manipulation with 3D Vision Models","description":"Rajath Aralikatti, Santhoshini Gongidi | Collaborators: Bardenious Duisterhof, Jeffrey Ke | Advisor: Jeffrey Ichnowski","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2025team14\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2025team14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2025team14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2025team14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2025team14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2025team14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2025team14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2025team14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscvprojects.ri.cmu.edu\/2025team14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}