IDEAS Lab

Awards

πŸ† Best Paper Award in ACM SIGGRAPH MIG 2022 for Learning Gait Emotions Using Affective and Deep Features

πŸ† Best Paper Award (Honorable Mention) in in IEEE VR 2022 for ENI: Quantifying Environment Compatibility for Natural Walking in Virtual Reality

πŸ† Best Journal Paper (Honorable Mention) at ISMAR 2021 for Redirected Walking in Static and Dynamic Scenes Using Visibility Polygons (πŸŽ‰ Awarded 3 Virtual Reality awards in 2021 πŸŽ‰ )

πŸ† Best Paper Award in IEEE Virtual Reality 2021 for Text2Gestures: A Transformer-Based Network for Generating Emotive Body Gestures for Virtual Agents

πŸ† Best Paper (Honorable Mention) at IEEE Virtual Reality 2021: ARC: Alignment-based Redirection Controller for Redirected Walking in Complex Environments

πŸ† Invention of the Year Award 2021 (University of Maryland, Nomination): Emotions Don’t Lie: Audio-Visual Deepfake Detection using Affective Cues

πŸ† Invention of the Year Award 2020 (University of Maryland, Nomination): M3ER: Multiplicative Mulimodal Emotion Recognition using Facial, Textual, and Speech Cues

πŸ† Best Poster Award at ACM Symposium of Applied Perception 2019: Identifying Emotions from Walking using Affective and Deep Features

πŸ† Best Presentation Award at ISMAR 2019: Identifying Emotions from Walking using Affective and Deep Features

πŸ† ACM Research Spotlight 2020: This Robot Can Guess How You’re Feeling by the Way You Walk