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Human-object interaction (HOI) detection aims to locate human-object pairs and identify their interaction categories in images. Most existing methods primarily focus on supervised learning, which relies on extensive manual HOI annotations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Weiying Xue , Qi Liu , Qiwei Xiong , Yuxiao Wang , Zhenao Wei , Xiaofen Xing , Xiangmin Xu

We propose a zero-shot approach to image harmonization, aiming to overcome the reliance on large amounts of synthetic composite images in existing methods. These methods, while showing promising results, involve significant training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Jianqi Chen , Yilan Zhang , Zhengxia Zou , Keyan Chen , Zhenwei Shi

This paper describes the initial steps towards the design of a robotic system that intends to perform actions autonomously in a naturalistic play environment. At the same time it aims for social human-robot interaction~(HRI), focusing on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Vicky Charisi , Bram Ridder , Jaebok Kim , Vanessa Evers

This paper describes an initiation of interaction(IoI) detection framework without keywords for human-robot interaction(HRI) based on audio and vision sensor fusion in a domestic environment. In the proposed framework, the robot has its own…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Guhnoo Yun , Juhan Yoo , Kijung Kim , Dong Hwan Kim

Despite the recent advancements in robotics and machine learning (ML), the deployment of autonomous robots in our everyday lives is still an open challenge. This is due to multiple reasons among which are their frequent mistakes, such as…

Accurate prediction of human behavior is crucial for effective human-robot interaction (HRI) systems, especially in dynamic environments where real-time decisions are essential. This paper addresses the challenge of forecasting future human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Wentao Gao , Cheng Zhou

Comprehensive perception of human beings is the prerequisite to ensure the safety of human-robot interaction. Currently, prevailing visual sensing approach typically involves a single static camera, resulting in a restricted and occluded…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Yuanjiong Ying , Xian Huang , Wei Dong

A phrase grounding system localizes a particular object in an image referred to by a natural language query. In previous work, the phrases were restricted to have nouns that were encountered in training, we extend the task to Zero-Shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Arka Sadhu , Kan Chen , Ram Nevatia

Human emotions are expressed through multiple modalities, including verbal and non-verbal information. Moreover, the affective states of human users can be the indicator for the level of engagement and successful interaction, suitable for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Baijun Xie , Chung Hyuk Park

Human-object interaction (HOI) synthesis is crucial for applications in animation, simulation, and robotics. However, existing approaches either rely on expensive motion capture data or require manual reward engineering, limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Zekai Deng , Ye Shi , Kaiyang Ji , Lan Xu , Shaoli Huang , Jingya Wang

Video object segmentation is an essential task in robot manipulation to facilitate grasping and learning affordances. Incremental learning is important for robotics in unstructured environments, since the total number of objects and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Mennatullah Siam , Chen Jiang , Steven Lu , Laura Petrich , Mahmoud Gamal , Mohamed Elhoseiny , Martin Jagersand

This paper presents INGRESS, a robot system that follows human natural language instructions to pick and place everyday objects. The core issue here is the grounding of referring expressions: infer objects and their relationships from input…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Mohit Shridhar , David Hsu

Gestures play a pivotal role in human communication, often serving as a preferred or complementary medium to verbal expression due to their superior spatial reference capabilities. A finger-pointing gesture conveys vital information…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Eran Bamani , Eden Nissinman , Lisa Koenigsberg , Inbar Meir , Yoav Matalon , Avishai Sintov

Human-robot interaction benefits greatly from multimodal sensor inputs as they enable increased robustness and generalization accuracy. Despite this observation, few HRI methods are capable of efficiently performing inference for multimodal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Joseph Campbell , Simon Stepputtis , Heni Ben Amor

Human-robot interaction (HRI) research is progressively addressing multi-party scenarios, where a robot interacts with more than one human user at the same time. Conversely, research is still at an early stage for human-robot collaboration.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Francesco Semeraro , Jon Carberry , Angelo Cangelosi

Deploying humanoid robots to interact with real-world environments--such as carrying objects or sitting on chairs--requires generalizable, lifelike motions and robust scene perception. Although prior approaches have advanced each capability…

Human-robot teaming (HRT) systems often rely on large-scale datasets of human and robot interactions, especially for close-proximity collaboration tasks such as human-robot handovers. Learning robot manipulation policies from raw,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Yuekun Wu , Yik Lung Pang , Andrea Cavallaro , Changjae Oh

We propose a low cost and effective way to combine a free simulation software and free CAD models for modeling human-object interaction in order to improve human & object segmentation. It is intended for research scenarios related to safe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-30 Vivek Sharma , Sule Yildirim-Yayilgan , Luc Van Gool

Aiming to link natural language descriptions to specific regions in a 3D scene represented as 3D point clouds, 3D visual grounding is a very fundamental task for human-robot interaction. The recognition errors can significantly impact the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Ziyang Lu , Yunqiang Pei , Guoqing Wang , Yang Yang , Zheng Wang , Heng Tao Shen

Accurate 3D human keypoints localization is a critical technology enabling robots to achieve natural and safe physical interaction with users. Conventional 3D human keypoints estimation methods primarily focus on the whole-body…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Ao Li , Yonggen Ling , Yiyang Lin , Yuji Wang , Yong Deng , Yansong Tang