Hermann Blum
hermannblum.bsky.social
Hermann Blum
@hermannblum.bsky.social
ML & CV for robot perception
assistant professor @ Uni Bonn & Lamarr Institute
interested in self-learning & autonomous robots, likes all the messy hardware problems of real-world experiments

https://rpl.uni-bonn.de/

https://hermannblum.net/
October 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
We just released code, models, and data for FrontierNet!
Key idea 💡Instead of detecting froniers in a map, we directly predict them from images. Hence, FrontierNet can implicitly learn visual semantic priors to estimate information gain. That speeds up exploration compared to geometric heuristics.
July 17, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Turns out aria-glasses are a very useful tool to demonstrate actions to robots: Based on egocentric video we track dynamic changes in a scene graph and use the representation to replay or plan interactions for robots
🔗 behretj.github.io/LostAndFound/
📄 arxiv.org/abs/2411.19162
📺 youtu.be/xxMsaBSeMXo
December 3, 2024 at 12:01 PM
Are you also a bit exhausted after
#ICRA
submission week? Let us brighten your day with a real "SpotLight" 💡
🔗 timengelbracht.github.io/SpotLight/
📄 arxiv.org/abs/2409.11870
We detect and generate interaction for almost any light switch and can then map which switch turns on which light
#Robotics
September 19, 2024 at 12:56 PM