no code implementations • 7 Dec 2023 • Marco Matarese, Francesco Rea, Alessandra Sciutti
There is an increasing consensus about the effectiveness of user-centred approaches in the explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) field.
no code implementations • 9 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.
no code implementations • 2 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.
1 code implementation • 21 Aug 2023 • Carlo Mazzola, Marta Romeo, Francesco Rea, Alessandra Sciutti, Angelo Cangelosi
Communicating shapes our social word.
no code implementations • 28 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.
2 code implementations • 22 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.
no code implementations • 10 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
no code implementations • 3 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.
no code implementations • 29 Mar 2022 • Luca Garello, Linda Lastrico, Alessandra Sciutti, Nicoletta Noceti, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, Francesco Rea
Object manipulation is a natural activity we perform every day.
no code implementations • 3 Mar 2022 • Maria Tsfasman, Anja Philippsen, Carlo Mazzola, Serge Thill, Alessandra Sciutti, Yukie Nagai
Human perception and behavior are affected by the situational context, in particular during social interactions.
no code implementations • 27 Sep 2021 • Marco Matarese, Francesco Rea, Alessandra Sciutti
The framework aims to provide a structure for interactive XAI solutions thought for non-expert users.
Explainable artificial intelligence Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
no code implementations • 1 Sep 2021 • Linda Lastrico, Alessandro Carfì, Francesco Rea, Alessandra Sciutti, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni
This study is a step towards endowing a humanoid robot with this last capability.
no code implementations • 8 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.
no code implementations • 16 Apr 2021 • Pablo Barros, Alessandra Sciutti
We evaluate how the recently proposed FaceChannel adapts towards recognizing facial expressions from persons with masks.
Facial Expression Recognition Facial Expression Recognition (FER)
no code implementations • 16 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.
no code implementations • 2 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.
no code implementations • 12 Nov 2020 • Jonas Gonzalez-Billandon, Lukas Grasse, Matthew Tata, Alessandra Sciutti, Francesco Rea
In the future robots will interact more and more with humans and will have to communicate naturally and efficiently.
Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +3
no code implementations • 2 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.
no code implementations • 4 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.
no code implementations • 15 Sep 2020 • Pablo Barros, Nikhil Churamani, Alessandra Sciutti
We conclude our paper with an analysis of how FaceChannel learns and adapt the learned facial features towards the different datasets.
Facial Expression Recognition Facial Expression Recognition (FER)
no code implementations • 30 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.
no code implementations • 30 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.
1 code implementation • 17 Apr 2020 • Pablo Barros, Nikhil Churamani, Alessandra Sciutti
Current state-of-the-art models for automatic FER are based on very deep neural networks that are difficult to train.
Facial Expression Recognition Facial Expression Recognition (FER)
1 code implementation • 8 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.
1 code implementation • 12 Mar 2020 • Pablo Barros, Anne C. Bloem, Inge M. Hootsmans, Lena M. Opheij, Romain H. A. Toebosch, Emilia Barakova, Alessandra Sciutti
To achieve social interactions within Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) environments is a very challenging task.
1 code implementation • 25 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
1 code implementation • 2 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.
no code implementations • 10 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.