IDEAS Lab

Latest news

21 Jun 2023
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)!
30 May 2023
Prof. Bera awarded the Ross-Lynn Research Scholar Grant
13 Feb 2023
IDEAS research was covered in Purdue news
19 Jan 2023
IDEAS research was covered in NPR news
06 Jan 2023
Paper accepted at ICRA 2023 for EWareNet: Emotion Aware Human Intent Prediction and Adaptive Spatial Profile Fusion for Social Robot Navigation
06 Jan 2023
Paper accepted at ICRA 2023 for AZTR: Aerial Video Action Recognition with Auto Zoom and Temporal Reasoning
05 Nov 2022
Best Paper Award in ACM SIGGRAPH MIG 2022 for Learning Gait Emotions Using Affective and Deep Features
15 Sep 2022
Paper accepted at MIG 2022 (Learning Gait Emotions Using Affective and Deep Features)
20 Aug 2022
Paper accepted at WACV 2023 (Placing Human Animations into 3D Scenes by Learning Interaction- and Geometry-Driven Keyframes)
15 Aug 2022
IDEAS Lab moved to Purdue University
10 May 2022
Prof. Aniket Bera appointed as Senior Editor for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letter (RA-L) in the area of Planning and Simulation
10 May 2022
Grant Awarded by "TEDCO (Maryland Technology Development Corporation)" for Project Dost
10 Mar 2022
Best Paper Award (Honorable Mention) in in IEEE VR 2022 for ENI: Quantifying Environment Compatibility for Natural Walking in Virtual Reality
20 Mar 2022
Paper accepted at CVPR 2022 (3MASSIV: Multilingual, Multimodal and Multi-Aspect dataset of Social Media Short Videos)
01 Oct 2022
Best Paper Award (Honorable Mention) in ISMAR 2021 for Redirected Walking in Static and Dynamic Scenes Using Visibility Polygons
09 Aug 2021
Prof. Aniket Bera was appointed as the Conference Chair for ACM SIGGRAPH MIG 2022
16 Jul 2021
Organizing Indian Contextual Emotion Learning Challenge at IEEE FG2021 with IIIT-Delhi
02 May 2021
Runner-up for Innovate Maryland Invention of the Year for M3ER: Multiplicative Multimodal Emotion Recognition using Facial, Textual, and Speech Cues
01 Apr 2021
Best Paper Award in IEEE Virtual Reality 2021 for Text2Gestures: A Transformer-Based Network for Generating Emotive Body Gestures for Virtual Agents
01 Apr 2021
Honorable Mention in IEEE Virtual Reality 2021 for ARC: Alignment-based Redirection Controller for Redirected Walking in Complex Environments
22 Mar 2021
Grant Awarded by Maryland Department of Health on Virtual Embodiment in VR (Initiative on Adaptive Stress Response for individuals in a High-Risk Occupation)
14 Dec 2020
Grant Awarded by "Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration"
05 Sep 2020
"A New Meaning for Mental Health Screening" Maryland Today covers our on-going Mental Health research in-collaboration with the Medical School at Baltimore
01 Dec 2020
Grant Awarded by "Department of Defense DURIP"
05 Sep 2020
"Sci-Fi Social Distancing?" Maryland Today covers our on-going COVID-19 Robot research
01 Sep 2020
"Aniket Bera and Dinesh Manocha Receive the 2020 Brain and Behavior Initiative Seed Grant" BBI Grant Coverage by UMD CS
04 Aug 2020
Grant Awarded by "University of Maryland MPower Grant" COVID-19 Initiative
24 Jun 2020
Grant Awarded by "UMD Brain and Behavior Initiative"