Search Results - "Saran, Akanksha"

Human Gaze Assisted Artificial Intelligence: A Review by Zhang, Ruohan, Saran, Akanksha, Liu, Bo, Zhu, Yifeng, Guo, Sihang, Niekum, Scott, Ballard, Dana, Hayhoe, Mary

“…Human gaze reveals a wealth of information about internal cognitive state. Thus, gaze-related research has significantly increased in computer vision, natural…”
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Human Gaze Following for Human-Robot Interaction by Saran, Akanksha, Majumdar, Srinjoy, Short, Elaine Schaertl, Thomaz, Andrea, Niekum, Scott

“…Gaze provides subtle informative cues to aid fluent interactions among people. Incorporating human gaze predictions can signify how engaged a person is while…”
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Understanding Acoustic Patterns of Human Teachers Demonstrating Manipulation Tasks to Robots by Saran, Akanksha, Desai, Kush, Chang, Mai Lee, Lioutikov, Rudolf, Thomaz, Andrea, Niekum, Scott

“…Humans use audio signals in the form of spoken language or verbal reactions effectively when teaching new skills or tasks to other humans. While demonstrations…”
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Viewpoint selection for visual failure detection by Saran, Akanksha, Lakic, Branka, Majumdar, Srinjoy, Hess, Juergen, Niekum, Scott

“…The visual difference between outcomes in many robotics tasks is often subtle, such as the tip of a screw being near a hole versus in the hole. Furthermore,…”
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Hand parsing for fine-grained recognition of human grasps in monocular images by Saran, Akanksha, Teney, Damien, Kitani, Kris M.

“…We propose a novel method for performing fine-grained recognition of human hand grasp types using a single monocular image to allow computational systems to…”
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Towards Principled Representation Learning from Videos for Reinforcement Learning by Misra, Dipendra, Saran, Akanksha, Xie, Tengyang, Lamb, Alex, Langford, John

“…We study pre-training representations for decision-making using video data, which is abundantly available for tasks such as game agents and software testing…”
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Prosody as a Teaching Signal for Agent Learning: Exploratory Studies and Algorithmic Implications by Knierim, Matilda, Jain, Sahil, Aydoğan, Murat Han, Mitra, Kenneth, Desai, Kush, Saran, Akanksha, Baraka, Kim

“…Agent learning from human interaction often relies on explicit signals, but implicit social cues, such as prosody in speech, could provide valuable information…”
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A Ranking Game for Imitation Learning by Sikchi, Harshit, Saran, Akanksha, Goo, Wonjoon, Niekum, Scott

“…We propose a new framework for imitation learning -- treating imitation as a two-player ranking-based game between a policy and a reward. In this game, the…”
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EyeO: Autocalibrating Gaze Output with Gaze Input by Saran, Akanksha, Alber, Jacob, Zhang, Cyril, Paradiso, Ann, Bragg, Danielle, Langford, John

“…Gaze tracking devices have the potential to greatly expand interactivity, yet miscalibration remains a significant barrier to use. As devices miscalibrate,…”
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Streaming Active Learning with Deep Neural Networks by Saran, Akanksha, Yousefi, Safoora, Krishnamurthy, Akshay, Langford, John, Ash, Jordan T

“…Active learning is perhaps most naturally posed as an online learning problem. However, prior active learning approaches with deep neural networks assume…”
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Personalized Reward Learning with Interaction-Grounded Learning (IGL) by Maghakian, Jessica, Mineiro, Paul, Panaganti, Kishan, Rucker, Mark, Saran, Akanksha, Tan, Cheng

“…In an era of countless content offerings, recommender systems alleviate information overload by providing users with personalized content suggestions. Due to…”
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Understanding Acoustic Patterns of Human Teachers Demonstrating Manipulation Tasks to Robots by Saran, Akanksha, Desai, Kush, Chang, Mai Lee, Lioutikov, Rudolf, Thomaz, Andrea, Niekum, Scott

“…Humans use audio signals in the form of spoken language or verbal reactions effectively when teaching new skills or tasks to other humans. While demonstrations…”
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Enhancing Robot Learning with Human Social Cues by Saran, Akanksha, Short, Elaine Schaertl, Thomaz, Andrea, Niekum, Scott

“…Imagine a learning scenario between two humans: a teacher demonstrating how to play a new musical instrument or a craftsman teaching a new skill like pottery…”
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Efficiently Guiding Imitation Learning Agents with Human Gaze by Saran, Akanksha, Zhang, Ruohan, Short, Elaine Schaertl, Niekum, Scott

“…Human gaze is known to be an intention-revealing signal in human demonstrations of tasks. In this work, we use gaze cues from human demonstrators to enhance…”
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Interaction-Grounded Learning with Action-inclusive Feedback by Xie, Tengyang, Saran, Akanksha, Foster, Dylan J, Molu, Lekan, Momennejad, Ida, Jiang, Nan, Mineiro, Paul, Langford, John

“…Consider the problem setting of Interaction-Grounded Learning (IGL), in which a learner's goal is to optimally interact with the environment with no explicit…”
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Understanding Teacher Gaze Patterns for Robot Learning by Saran, Akanksha, Short, Elaine Schaertl, Thomaz, Andrea, Niekum, Scott

“…PMLR (2019) 1247-1258 Human gaze is known to be a strong indicator of underlying human intentions and goals during manipulation tasks. This work studies gaze…”
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