Search Results for author: Alessandra Sciutti

Found 28 papers, 7 papers with code

Real-time Addressee Estimation: Deployment of a Deep-Learning Model on the iCub Robot

no code implementations9 Nov 2023 Carlo Mazzola, Francesco Rea, Alessandra Sciutti

Addressee Estimation is the ability to understand to whom a person is talking, a skill essential for social robots to interact smoothly with humans.

All by Myself: Learning Individualized Competitive Behaviour with a Contrastive Reinforcement Learning optimization

no code implementations2 Oct 2023 Pablo Barros, Alessandra Sciutti

In this paper, we propose a novel model composed of three neural layers that learn a representation of a competitive game, learn how to map the strategy of specific opponents, and how to disrupt them.

Continual Learning

I am Only Happy When There is Light: The Impact of Environmental Changes on Affective Facial Expressions Recognition

no code implementations28 Oct 2022 Doreen Jirak, Alessandra Sciutti, Pablo Barros, Francesco Rea

Human-robot interaction (HRI) benefits greatly from advances in the machine learning field as it allows researchers to employ high-performance models for perceptual tasks like detection and recognition.

Incorporating Rivalry in Reinforcement Learning for a Competitive Game

2 code implementations22 Aug 2022 Pablo Barros, Ozge Nilay Yalcin, Ana Tanevska, Alessandra Sciutti

Recent advances in reinforcement learning with social agents have allowed such models to achieve human-level performance on specific interaction tasks.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

CIAO! A Contrastive Adaptation Mechanism for Non-Universal Facial Expression Recognition

no code implementations10 Aug 2022 Pablo Barros, Alessandra Sciutti

We finalize our study by discussing how CIAO positions itself within the range of recent findings on non-universal facial expressions perception, and its impact on facial expression recognition research.

Facial Expression Recognition Facial Expression Recognition (FER) +1

Robots with Different Embodiments Can Express and Influence Carefulness in Object Manipulation

no code implementations3 Aug 2022 Linda Lastrico, Luca Garello, Francesco Rea, Nicoletta Noceti, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, Alessandra Sciutti, Alessandro Carfi

Humans have an extraordinary ability to communicate and read the properties of objects by simply watching them being carried by someone else.

Object

Property-Aware Robot Object Manipulation: a Generative Approach

no code implementations8 Jun 2021 Luca Garello, Linda Lastrico, Francesco Rea, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, Nicoletta Noceti, Alessandra Sciutti

When transporting an object, we unconsciously adapt our movement to its properties, for instance by slowing down when the item is fragile.

Object

Cognitive architecture aided by working-memory for self-supervised multi-modal humans recognition

no code implementations16 Mar 2021 Jonas Gonzalez-Billandon, Giulia Belgiovine, Alessandra Sciutti, Giulio Sandini, Francesco Rea

The ability to recognize human partners is an important social skill to build personalized and long-term human-robot interactions, especially in scenarios like education, care-giving, and rehabilitation.

Careful with That! Observation of Human Movements to Estimate Objects Properties

no code implementations2 Mar 2021 Linda Lastrico, Alessandro Carfì, Alessia Vignolo, Alessandra Sciutti, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, Francesco Rea

Our final goal is to enable a robot to autonomously infer the degree of care required in object handling and to discriminate whether the item is light or heavy, just by observing a human manipulation.

Object

Incorporating Rivalry in Reinforcement Learning for a Competitive Game

no code implementations2 Nov 2020 Pablo Barros, Ana Tanevska, Ozge Yalcin, Alessandra Sciutti

Recent advances in reinforcement learning with social agents have allowed us to achieve human-level performance on some interaction tasks.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

The FaceChannelS: Strike of the Sequences for the AffWild 2 Challenge

no code implementations4 Oct 2020 Pablo Barros, Alessandra Sciutti

Predicting affective information from human faces became a popular task for most of the machine learning community in the past years.

Benchmarking BIG-bench Machine Learning

Action similarity judgment based on kinematic primitives

no code implementations30 Aug 2020 Vipul Nair, Paul Hemeren, Alessia Vignolo, Nicoletta Noceti, Elena Nicora, Alessandra Sciutti, Francesco Rea, Erik Billing, Francesca Odone, Giulio Sandini

The results show that both the model and human performance are highly accurate in an action similarity task based on kinematic-level features, which can provide an essential basis for classifying human actions.

Action Classification Selection bias

Moody Learners -- Explaining Competitive Behaviour of Reinforcement Learning Agents

no code implementations30 Jul 2020 Pablo Barros, Ana Tanevska, Francisco Cruz, Alessandra Sciutti

Designing the decision-making processes of artificial agents that are involved in competitive interactions is a challenging task.

Decision Making reinforcement-learning +1

Learning from Learners: Adapting Reinforcement Learning Agents to be Competitive in a Card Game

1 code implementation8 Apr 2020 Pablo Barros, Ana Tanevska, Alessandra Sciutti

Learning how to adapt to complex and dynamic environments is one of the most important factors that contribute to our intelligence.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

It's Food Fight! Introducing the Chef's Hat Card Game for Affective-Aware HRI

1 code implementation25 Feb 2020 Pablo Barros, Alessandra Sciutti, Anne C. Bloem, Inge M. Hootsmans, Lena M. Opheij, Romain H. A. Toebosch, Emilia Barakova

Emotional expressions and their changes during an interaction affect heavily how we perceive and behave towards other persons.

Human-Computer Interaction

Towards Learning How to Properly Play UNO with the iCub Robot

1 code implementation2 Aug 2019 Pablo Barros, Stefan Wermter, Alessandra Sciutti

While interacting with another person, our reactions and behavior are much affected by the emotional changes within the temporal context of the interaction.

The role of ego vision in view-invariant action recognition

no code implementations10 Jun 2019 Gaurvi Goyal, Nicoletta Noceti, Francesca Odone, Alessandra Sciutti

Analysis and interpretation of egocentric video data is becoming more and more important with the increasing availability and use of wearable cameras.

Action Recognition Transfer Learning

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