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IDEAS has three papers accepted at IROS 2024.

1. Adaptive Planning with Generative Models under Uncertainty (Pascal Jutras, Ruqi Zhang, Aniket Bera)
2. TrustNavGPT: Modeling Uncertainty to Improve Trustworthiness of Audio-Guided LLM-Based Robot Navigation (Xingpeng Sun, Yiran Zhang, Xindi Tang, Amrit Singh Bedi, Aniket Bera)
3. Optimizing Crowd-Aware Multi-Agent Path Finding through Local Communication with Graph Neural Networks (Phu Pham, Aniket Bera)

IDEAS has four full papers at CVPR 2024.

1. DL3DV-10K: A Large-Scale Scene Dataset for Deep Learning-based 3D Vision (in collaboration with Adobe Research and Google)
2. Quantifying Uncertainty in Motion Prediction with Variational Bayesian Mixture
3. LaMPilot: An Open Benchmark Dataset for Autonomous Driving with Language Model Programs (in collaboration with Toyota)
4. Speech2UnifiedExpressions: Synchronous Synthesis of Co-Speech Affective Face and Body Expressions from Affordable Inputs (in collaboration with Adobe Research)

IDEAS Lab published 5 papers in ICRA 2023 and IROS 2023.

1. SG-LSTM: Social Group LSTM for Robot Navigation Through Dense Crowds
2. DroNeRF: Real-time Multi-agent Drone Pose Optimization for Computing Neural Radiance Fields
3. RAIST: Learning Risk Aware Traffic Interactions via Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Networks
4. EWareNet: Emotion Aware Human Intent Prediction and Adaptive Spatial Profile Fusion for Social Robot Navigation
5. AZTR: Aerial Video Action Recognition with Auto Zoom and Temporal Reasoning

Team JARVIS not only represented Purdue University for the first time at the finals of the prestigious NASA Suits competition but also brought home the "Pay it Forward" award for our exceptional team spirit and helping attitude!

IDEAS has one paper at AAAI 2024.

1. DanceAnyWay: Synthesizing Beat-Guided 3D Dances With Randomized Temporal Contrastive Learning (Aneesh Bhattacharya, Manas Paranjape, Uttaran Bhattacharya, Aniket Bera)

IDEAS Lab along with the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue to develop a course on "Human-Machine Teaming" aimed toward the Krach Institute's mission to train government officials, business leaders, technologists, and the global foreign policy community.

Organized Multi-modal Affective and Social Behavior Analysis and Synthesis in Extended Reality (MASSXR) workshop at IEEEVR 2024.

IDEAS lab co-organized ACM SCA (Symposium of Computer Animation) 2023

Our Lab IDEAS's Research on AI-driven Human-centric Robotics was recently featured by WRTV / ABC News

Our Lab IDEAS's Research (and other industry and academic researchers working on this very necessary yet complicated AI for mental health space) discussed in NPR article

Three IDEAS papers were accepted at IROS 2023! With this, in 2023, IDEAS published a total of five papers in the top robotics venues (ICRA+IROS)!

Prof. Bera awarded the Ross-Lynn Research Scholar Grant

IDEAS research was covered in Purdue news

IDEAS research was covered in NPR news

Paper accepted at ICRA 2023 for EWareNet: Emotion Aware Human Intent Prediction and Adaptive Spatial Profile Fusion for Social Robot Navigation

Paper accepted at ICRA 2023 for AZTR: Aerial Video Action Recognition with Auto Zoom and Temporal Reasoning

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

Paper accepted at MIG 2022 (Learning Gait Emotions Using Affective and Deep Features)

Paper accepted at WACV 2023 (Placing Human Animations into 3D Scenes by Learning Interaction- and Geometry-Driven Keyframes)

IDEAS Lab moved to Purdue University

Prof. Aniket Bera appointed as Senior Editor for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letter (RA-L) in the area of Planning and Simulation

Grant Awarded by "TEDCO (Maryland Technology Development Corporation)" for Project Dost

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

Paper accepted at CVPR 2022 (3MASSIV: Multilingual, Multimodal and Multi-Aspect dataset of Social Media Short Videos)

Best Paper Award (Honorable Mention) in ISMAR 2021 for Redirected Walking in Static and Dynamic Scenes Using Visibility Polygons

Prof. Aniket Bera was appointed as the Conference Chair for ACM SIGGRAPH MIG 2022

Organizing Indian Contextual Emotion Learning Challenge at IEEE FG2021 with IIIT-Delhi

Runner-up for Innovate Maryland Invention of the Year for M3ER: Multiplicative Multimodal Emotion Recognition using Facial, Textual, and Speech Cues

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

Honorable Mention in IEEE Virtual Reality 2021 for ARC: Alignment-based Redirection Controller for Redirected Walking in Complex Environments

Grant Awarded by Maryland Department of Health on Virtual Embodiment in VR (Initiative on Adaptive Stress Response for individuals in a High-Risk Occupation)

Grant Awarded by "Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration"

"A New Meaning for Mental Health Screening" Maryland Today covers our on-going Mental Health research in-collaboration with the Medical School at Baltimore

Grant Awarded by "Department of Defense DURIP"

"Sci-Fi Social Distancing?" Maryland Today covers our on-going COVID-19 Robot research

"Aniket Bera and Dinesh Manocha Receive the 2020 Brain and Behavior Initiative Seed Grant" BBI Grant Coverage by UMD CS

Grant Awarded by "University of Maryland MPower Grant" COVID-19 Initiative

Grant Awarded by "UMD Brain and Behavior Initiative"