Fanbo Xiang, Yuzhe Qin, Kaichun Mo, Yikuan Xia, Hao Zhu, Fangchen Liu, Minghua Liu, Hanxiao Jiang, Yifu Yuan, He Wang, Li Yi, Angel X.Chang, Leonidas J. Guibas and Hao Su, SAPIEN: A SimulAted Part-based Interactive ENvironment. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020 (Oral)

Abstract:

Building home assistant robots has long been a pursuit for vision and robotics researchers. To achieve this task, a simulated environment with physically realistic simulation, sufficient articulated objects, and transferability to the real robot is indispensable. Existing environments achieve these requirements for robotics simulation with different levels of simplification and focus. We take one step further in constructing an environment that supports household tasks for training robot learning algorithm. Our work, SAPIEN, is a realistic and physics-rich simulated environment that hosts a large-scale set for articulated objects. Our SAPIEN enables various robotic vision and interaction tasks that require detailed part-level understanding.We evaluate state-of-the-art vision algorithms for part detection and motion attribute recognition as well as demonstrate robotic interaction tasks using heuristic approaches and reinforcement learning algorithms. We hope that our SAPIEN can open a lot of research directions yet to be explored, including learning cognition through interaction, part motion discovery, and construction of robotics-ready simulated game environment.

Bibtex: 

@InProceedings{xqmxzlljywycgs-saspie-20,
    author = {Xiang, Fanbo and Qin, Yuzhe and Mo, Kaichun and Xia, Yikuan and Zhu, Hao and Liu, Fangchen and Liu, Minghua and Jiang, Hanxiao and Yuan, Yifu and Wang, He and Yi, Li and Chang, Angel X. and Guibas, Leonidas J. and Su, Hao},
    title = {{SAPIEN}: A SimulAted Part-based Interactive ENvironment},
    booktitle = {The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
    month = {June},
    year = {2020}
}