Gaze-Guided Robot Manipulation at UC Davis

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Duration: July 2025 – October 2025
Institution: UC Davis, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Advisor: Prof. Iman Soltani

  • Assisted in developing a real-robot teleoperation system for gaze-labeled manipulation demonstrations
  • Developed preprocessing and augmentation pipelines including gaze-conditioned cropping and foveated masking
  • Integrated pretrained models and adapted foveated ViT architectures for imitation learning
  • Reproduced algorithm modules from recent papers and benchmarked them on collected data

Project Page: https://ian-chuang.github.io/gaze-av-aloha/