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As the use of Augmented Reality (AR) to enhance interactions between human agents and robotic systems in a work environment continues to grow, robots must communicate their intents in informative yet straightforward ways. This improves the…

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has significantly advanced in recent years, driving innovation across various fields, especially in robotics. Even though robots can perform complex tasks with increasing autonomy, challenges remain in ensuring…

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Video Object Grounding (VOG) is the problem of associating spatial object regions in the video to a descriptive natural language query. This is a challenging vision-language task that necessitates constructing the correct cross-modal…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Mengze Li , Tianbao Wang , Haoyu Zhang , Shengyu Zhang , Zhou Zhao , Wenqiao Zhang , Jiaxu Miao , Shiliang Pu , Fei Wu

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

Generating talking avatars is a fundamental task in video generation. Although existing methods can generate full-body talking avatars with simple human motion, extending this task to grounded human-object interaction (GHOI) remains an open…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Youliang Zhang , Zhengguang Zhou , Zhentao Yu , Ziyao Huang , Teng Hu , Sen Liang , Guozhen Zhang , Ziqiao Peng , Shunkai Li , Yi Chen , Zixiang Zhou , Yuan Zhou , Qinglin Lu , Xiu Li

Human-Object Interaction (HOI) detection devotes to learn how humans interact with surrounding objects. Latest end-to-end HOI detectors are short of relation reasoning, which leads to inability to learn HOI-specific interactive semantics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Dongming Yang , Yuexian Zou , Can Zhang , Meng Cao , Jie Chen

The increasing transition of human-robot interaction (HRI) context from controlled settings to dynamic, real-world public environments calls for enhanced adaptability in robotic systems. This can go beyond algorithmic navigation or…

Effective Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is crucial for future service robots in aging societies. Existing solutions are biased toward only well-trained objects, creating a gap when dealing with new objects. Currently, HRI systems using…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Yuzhi Lai , Shenghai Yuan , Youssef Nassar , Mingyu Fan , Thomas Weber , Matthias Rätsch

We explore new aspects of assistive living on smart human-robot interaction (HRI) that involve automatic recognition and online validation of speech and gestures in a natural interface, providing social features for HRI. We introduce a…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-11-07 A. Zlatintsi , I. Rodomagoulakis , P. Koutras , A. C. Dometios , V. Pitsikalis , C. S. Tzafestas , P. Maragos

Recently, human-robot interaction (HRI) is an extensive research topic and theme which gained importance and significance. HRI aims at the complementary combination between the robot capabilities and human skills. The robots assist humans…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Abdel-Nasser Sharkawy

We design and develop a new shared Augmented Reality (AR) workspace for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), which establishes a bi-directional communication between human agents and robots. In a prototype system, the shared AR workspace enables…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Shuwen Qiu , Hangxin Liu , Zeyu Zhang , Yixin Zhu , Song-Chun Zhu

During human-robot interaction (HRI), we want the robot to understand us, and we want to intuitively understand the robot. In order to communicate with and understand the robot, we can leverage interactions, where the human and robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Dylan P. Losey , Marcia K. O'Malley

Temporal Sentence Grounding in Videos (TSGV) aims to temporally localize segments of a video that correspond to a given natural language query. Despite recent progress, most existing TSGV approaches operate under closed-vocabulary settings,…

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The human language is one of the most natural interfaces for humans to interact with robots. This paper presents a robot system that retrieves everyday objects with unconstrained natural language descriptions. A core issue for the system is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Mohit Shridhar , David Hsu

Humanoid robots have shown success in locomotion and manipulation. Despite these basic abilities, humanoids are still required to quickly understand human instructions and react based on human interaction signals to become valuable…

Humans are able to identify a referred visual object in a complex scene via a few rounds of natural language communications. Success communication requires both parties to engage and learn to adapt for each other. In this paper, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Yan Zhu , Shaoting Zhang , Dimitris Metaxas

Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) has become increasingly important as robots are being integrated into various aspects of daily life. One key aspect of HRI is gesture recognition, which allows robots to interpret and respond to human gestures…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Sandeep Reddy Sabbella , Sara Kaszuba , Francesco Leotta , Pascal Serrarens , Daniele Nardi

This paper focuses on Human-Object Interaction (HOI) detection, addressing the challenge of identifying and understanding the interactions between humans and objects within a given image or video frame. Spearheaded by Detection Transformer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Mu Chen , Minghan Chen , Yi Yang

Visual Grounding, also known as Referring Expression Comprehension and Phrase Grounding, aims to ground the specific region(s) within the image(s) based on the given expression text. This task simulates the common referential relationships…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Linhui Xiao , Xiaoshan Yang , Xiangyuan Lan , Yaowei Wang , Changsheng Xu

The study of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) aims to create close and friendly communication between humans and robots. In the human-center HRI, an essential aspect of implementing a successful and effective HRI is building a natural and…

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