Publications

2016

U. Rafi, J. Gall, B. Leibe

An Efficient Convolutional Network for Human Pose Estimation

BMVC, 2016

O. Islas, G. Varni, M. Andries, M. Chetouani, R. Chatila

Modeling the dynamics of individual behaviors for group detection in crowds using low-level features

IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) 2016, to appear

O. Islas, H. Khambhaita, R. Chatila, M. Chetouani, R. Alami

Robots Learning How and Where to Approach People

IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) 2016, to appear

A. Narr and R. Triebel and D. Cremers

Stream-based Active Learning for Efficient and Adaptive Classification of 3D Objects

Proc. IEEE Int. Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2016, to appear.

T. Linder and K.O. Arras

People Detection, Tracking and Visualization using ROS on a Mobile Service Robot

Robot Operating System (ROS): The Complete Reference. Springer Studies in Systems, Decision and Control. 2016

Lu Zhang and Hayley Hung

Beyond F-formations: Determining Social Involvement in Free Standing Conversing Groups from Static Images

Proc. IEEE conference on computer vision and pattern recognition (CVPR), Las Vegas, 2016, to appear.

S. Breuers, S. Yang, M. Mathias and B. Leibe

Exploring Bounding Box Context for Multi-Object Tracker Fusion

IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2016

Palmieri L., Koenig S. and Arras K. O.

RRT-Based Nonholonomic Motion Planning Using Any-Angle Path Biasing

Proc. IEEE Int. Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2016

Linder T., Breuers, S., Leibe, B. and Arras, K.O

On Multi-Modal People Tracking from Mobile Platforms in Very Crowded and Dynamic Environments

Proc. IEEE Int. Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2016

Okal B. and Arras K.O.

Learning Socially Normative Robot Navigation Behaviors using Bayesian Inverse Reinforcement Learning

Proc. IEEE Int. Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2016

2015

L. Beyer, A. Hermans and B. Leibe

Biternion Nets: Continuous Head Pose Regression from Discrete Training Labels

Pattern Recognition, 2015 [Source code]

M. P. Joosse, M. Lohse and V. Evers

Crowdsourcing Culture in HRI: Lessons Learned From Quantitative and Qualitative Data Collections

ICSR'15 Workshop on Culture Aware Robotics

O. A. Islas Ramirez, H. Khambhaita, R. Chatila, M. Chetouani and R. Alami

Robots Approaching to Interact With People

European Conference on Mobile Robotics (ECMR), Lincoln, UK, Sep 2 - 4, to appear.

T. Piotr Kucner, M. Magnusson and A. J. Lilienthal

Where am I? An improved prior for NDT-MCL

European Conference on Mobile Robotics (ECMR), Lincoln, UK, Sep 2 - 4.

R. Chadalavada, H. Andreasson, R. Krug and A. J. Lilienthal

That's on my Mind! Robot to Human Intention Communication through on-board Projection on Shared Floor Space

European Conference on Mobile Robotics (ECMR), Lincoln, UK, Sep 2 - 4, to appear.

Okal B., Gilbert Hugo and Arras K.O.

Efficient Inverse Reinforcement Learning using Adaptive State Graphs

Proc. Learning from Demonstration: Inverse Optimal Control, Reinforcement Learning and Lifelong Learning Workshop at Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2015

Y. Tao, R. Triebel, D. Cremers

Semi-supervised Online Learning for Efficient Classification of Objects in 3D Data Streams

IEEE/RSJ Int. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2015

T. Linder and K.O. Arras

Real-Time Full-Body Human Attribute Classification in RGB-D Using A Tessellation Boosting Approach

IEEE/RSJ Int. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2015

Rudolph Triebel, Kai Arras, Rachid Alami, Lucas Beyer, Stefan Breuers, Raja Chatila, Mohamed Chetouani, Daniel Cremers, Vanessa Evers, Michelangelo Fiore, Hayley Hung, Omar A. Islas Ramírez, Michiel Joosse, Harmish Khambhaita, Tomasz Kucner, Bastian Leibe, Achim J. Lilienthal, Timm Linder, Manja Lohse, Martin Magnusson, Billy Okal, Luigi Palmieri, Umer Rafi, Marieke van Rooij, and Lu Zhang

SPENCER: A Socially Aware Service Robot for Passenger Guidance and Help in Busy Airports

Field and Service Robotics (FSR), 2015

Umer Rafi, Juergen Gall, Bastian Leibe

A Semantic Occlusion Model for Human Pose Estimation from a Single Depth Image

ChaLearn Looking at People Challenge, 2015

Jered Vroon, Michiel Joosse, Manja Lohse, Jan Kolkmeier, Jaebok Kim, Khiet Truong, Gwenn Englebienne, Dirk Heylen and Vanessa Evers

Dynamics of Social Positioning Patterns in Group-Robot Interactions: An Inductive Method

RO-MAN 2015

Michiel Joosse, Manja Lohse, Vanessa Evers

How a Guide Robot Should Behave at an Airport - Insights Based on Observing Passengers

CTIT Technical Report TR-CTIT-15-01, University of Twente, the Netherlands, 2015

Michiel Joosse, Robin Knuppe, Geert Pingen, Rutger Varkevisser, Josip Vukoja, Manja Lohse, Vanessa Evers

Robots Guiding Small Groups: The Effect of Appearance Change on the User Experience

Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction (NFHRI), Canterbury, U.K., 2015

D. Mitzel, J. Diesel, A. Osep, U. Rafi, B. Leibe

A Fixed-Dimensional Representation for Matching Partial 3D Shapes in Street Scenes

International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2015

R. Mosberger, B. Leibe, H. Andreasson and A. J. Lilienthal

Multi-band Hough Forests for Detecting Humans with Reflective Safety Clothing from Mobile Machinery

International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2015

Martin Magnusson, Narunas Vaskevicius, Todor Stoyanov, Kaustubh Pathak, and Andreas Birk

Beyond Points: Evaluating Recent 3D Scan-Matching Algorithms

International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2015

D. Mund, R. Triebel, D. Cremers

Active Online Confidence Boosting for Efficient Object Classification

International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2015

Palmieri L., Arras K. O.

Distance Metric Learning for RRT-Based Motion Planning with Constant-Time Inference

Proc. IEEE Int. Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2015

Linder T., Wehner S. Arras K. O.

Real-Time Full-Body Human Gender Recognition in (RGB)-D Data

Proc. IEEE Int. Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2015

L. de Silva, R. Yan, F. Ingrand, R. Alami, S. Bensalem

A Verifiable and Correct-by-Construction Controller for Robots in Human Environments

ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Portland, USA, Mar 2 - 5, 2015

M. Fiore, H. Khambhaita, G. Milliez R. Alami

An Adaptive and Proactive Human-Aware Robot Guide

ICSR-15, Miami, USA, Jan 4 - 6, 2015

2014

Palmieri L., Arras K. O.

Distance Metric Learning for RRT-Based Motion Planning for Wheeled Mobile Robots

Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS): Workshop on Machine Learning in Planning and Control of Robot Motion, 2014

Okal B., Arras K. O.

Towards Group-Level Social Activity Recognition for Mobile Robots

Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS): Workshop on Assistance and Service Robotics in a Human Environment, 2014

T. Windheuser, M. Vestner, E. Rodola, R. Triebel, D. Cremers

Optimal Intrinsic Descriptors for Non-Rigid Shape Analysis

British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2014

R. Triebel, J. Stühmer, M. Souiai, D. Cremers

Active Online Learning for Interactive Segmentation Using Sparse Gaussian Processes

German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), 2014

Shoubhik Debnath, Shiv Sankar Baishya, Rudolph Triebel, Varun Dutt, Daniel Cremers

Environment-adaptive Learning: How Clustering Helps to Obtain Good Training Data

Advances in Artificial Intelligence (KI), 2014

Hayley Hung, Gwenn Englebienne, and Laura Cabrera Quiros

Detecting Conversing Groups with a Single Worn Accelerometer

ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), 2014.

Michiel Joosse, Ronald Poppe, Manja Lohse, Vanessa Evers

Cultural Differences in how an Engagement-Seeking Robot should Approach a Group of People

Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Conference on Collaboration Across Boundaries: Culture, Distance & Technology (CABS), Kyoto, 2014.

Sebastiano Vascon, Eyasu Zemene Mequanint, Marco Cristani, Hayley Hung, Marcello Pelillo and Vittorio Murino

A Game-Theoretic Probabilistic Approach for Detecting Conversational Groups

Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2014.

Vasquez D., Okal B., Arras K.O.

Inverse Reinforcement Learning Algorithms and Features for Robot Navigation in Crowds: An Experimental Comparison

Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2014, pp. 1341 - 1346.

Palmieri L., Arras K.O.

POSQ: A Novel RRT Extend Function for Efficient and Smooth Mobile Robot Motion Planning

Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2014.

Linder T., Arras K.O.

Multi-Model Hypothesis Tracking of Groups of People in RGB-D Data

Proc. IEEE Int. Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), 2014, pp. 1 - 7.

Palmieri L., Arras K.O.

Efficient and Smooth RRT Motion Planning Using a Novel Extend Function for Wheeled Mobile Robots

International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS): Workshop on Planning and Robotics, 2014.

O. Hosseini Jafari, D. Mitzel, B. Leibe

Real-Time RGB-D based People Detection and Tracking for Mobile Robots and Head-Worn Cameras

Proc. IEEE Int. Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014. [MP4]

Rafael Valencia, Jari Saarinen, Henrik Andreasson, Joan Vallvé, Juan Andrade-Cetto and Achim Lilienthal

Localization in highly dynamic environments using dual-timescale NDT-MCL

Proc. IEEE Int. Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014, pp. 3956 - 3962.

Manja Lohse, Reinier Rothuis, Daphne Karreman, Vanessa Evers

Robot Gestures Make Difficult Tasks Easier: the Impact of Gestures on Perceived Workload and Task Performance

ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Toronto, Canada 2014, pp. 1459-1466

Michiel Joosse, Manja Lohse, Vanessa Evers

Sound over Matter: The Effects of Functional Noise, Robot Size and Approach Velocity in Human-Robot Encounters

ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Bielefeld, 2014, pp. 184 - 185.

Thibault Kruse, Harmish Khambhaita, Rachid Alami, Alexandra Kirsch

Evaluating Directional Cost Models in Navigation

ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Bielefeld, 2014.

Michiel Joosse, Manja Lohse, Vanessa Evers

Lost in Proxemics: Spatial Behavior for Cross-Cultural HRI

ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) Workshop on Culture Aware Robotics, Bielefeld, 2014.

Michelangelo Fiore, Sandra Devin, Grégoire Milliez, Raphaël Lallement, Aurélie Clodic and Rachid Alami

An architecture for human-robot collaborative tasks

Journées Nationales de la Robotique Interactive, Toulouse, November 2014

Severin Lemaignan, Rachid Alami

A Few AI Challenges Raised while Developing an Architecture for Human-Robot Cooperative Task Achievement

Artificial Intelligence and Human-Robot Interaction, AAAI Fall Symposium 2014, Arlington, Nov 13-15, 2014, USA

2013

Saarinen J., Andreasson H., Stoyanov T., Lilienthal A. J.

3D Normal Distributions Transform Occupancy Maps: An Efficient Representation for Mapping in Dynamic Environments

International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 2013, pp. 1627 - 1644.

Stoyanov T., Saarinen J., Andreasson H., Lilienthal A. J.

Normal Distributions Transform Occupancy Map Fusion: Simultaneous Mapping and Tracking in Large Scale Dynamic Environments

Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2013, pp. 4702 - 4708.

Saarinen J., Stoyanov T., Andreasson H., Lilienthal A. J.

Fast 3D Mapping in Highly Dynamic Environments using Normal Distributions Transform Occupancy Maps

Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2013, pp. 4694 - 4701.

Manja Lohse, Niels van Berkel, Betsy van Dijk, Michiel Joosse, Daphne Karreman, Vanessa Evers

The Influence of Approach Speed and Functional Noise on Users Perception of a Robot

Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2013, pp. 1670 - 1675.

Kucner T., Saarinen J., Martinsson M., Lilienthal A. J.

Conditional Transition Maps: Learning Motion Patterns in Dynamic Environments

Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2013, pp. 1196 - 1201.

Saarinen J., Andreasson H., Stoyanov T., Lilienthal A. J.

Normal Distributions Transform Monte-Carlo Localization (NDT-MCL)

Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2013, pp. 382 - 389.

Luber M., Arras K.O.

Multi-Hypothesis Social Grouping and Tracking for Mobile Robots

Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), Berlin, Germany, 2013
Best Student Paper Award Finalist

Hayley Hung, Gwenn Englebienne and Jeroen Kools

Classifying Social Actions with a Single Accelerometer

Proc. of ACM Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing Adjunct Publication (UbiComp), 2013, pp. 207 - 210.

Hayley Hung and Gwenn Englebienne

Systematic Evaluation of Social Behaviour Modelling with a Single Accelerometer

Proc. of ACM Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing Adjunct Publication (UbiComp), 2013, pp. 127 - 130.

Michiel Joosse, Manja Lohse, Vanessa Evers

Short Duration Robot Interaction at an Airport: Challenges from a Socio-Psychological Point of View

International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR) Workshop on Robots in Public Spaces: Towards Multi-Party, Short-Term, Dynamic Human-Robot Interaction, Bristol, 2013.

F. Setti, H. Hung, and M. Cristani

Group Detection in Still Images by F-formation Modeling: A Comparative Study

14th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS), 2013.