HOBI 2020: Hand-Object Interaction: From Human Demonstrations to Robot Manipulation September 7, 2020 |
Conference website | https://theengineroom.dibris.unige.it/index.php/hobi/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hobi2020 |
Submission deadline | August 7, 2020 |
Notification of acceptance | August 15, 2020 |
Camera ready | August 21, 2020 |
Workshop | September 7, 2020 |
A workshop to be held at the 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2020)
Online, September 7, 2020
Humans use their hands to interact with the environment, and they do so for abroad spectrum of activities, from the physical manipulation of objects to non-verbal communication. Examples range from simple grasping of everyday objects, tool usage, deictic gestures, or communication via the sign language. It is therefore of the utmost importance to focus on how humans use their hands with the aim of developing novel robot capabilities to deal with tasks usually considered a human prerogative, and in general being able to interact, collaborate or communicate with humans in a socially acceptable and safe manner. For example, a robot should be able to dexterously make use of tools, to synchronize its movements with the human it is collaborating with, either for joint work or turn-taking, or to manipulate objects such as to enhance a sense of trust in humans. These examples require robot hands to coordinate with human motions, as well as advanced capabilities to deduce objects' affordance, their intrinsic characteristics, and to understand how objects can be manipulated according to the social context. The workshop aims at gathering new approaches and experience from different fields to discuss which conceptual and engineering tools are better suited to sense human hand motions, to recognize objects and their physical characteristics, as well as to model and encode this knowledge to develop new robot behaviors.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal, conference or workshop. Submission type is an extended abstract (2 page limit) in IEEE format describing the contributions of the submission in regards to the workshop theme. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the workshop program committee.
Templates and guidelines can be accessed here.
List of Topics
Topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:
- Data extraction of human handling tasks
- Datasets of in-hand manipulation
- Hand pose estimation and tracking
- Gesture, action, and intent recognition
- Learning from demonstration
- Imitation learning
- Transfer learning
- Object modeling, recognition, pose estimation, and tracking
- Object grasping
- Control of anthropomorphic hands
Invited Speakers
- Lorenzo Natale (Italian Institute of Technology)
- What is this Object? On-the-fly Learning from a Human Demonstrator: Experiments with a Humanoid Robot
- Guillem Alenyà (Institute of Robotics and Industrial Informatics)
- Learning Grasping for Manipulation of Rigids and Clothing
Organizers
- Alessandro Carfi (University of Genoa)
- Timothy Patten (TU Wien)
- Abraham Itzhak Weinberg (Aston University)
- Ali Hammoud (Sorbonne Universitaé)
- Fulvio Mastrogiovanni (University of Genoa)
- Markus Vincze (TU Wien)
- Diego Faria (Aston University)
- Véronique Perdereau (Sorbonne Universitaé)
Venue
The workshop will be held at RO-MAN 2020 in the Royal Continental Hotel and Meeting Centre, Naples, Italy.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to:
- Alessandro Carfi alessandro.carfi@dibris.unige.it
- Timothy Patten patten@acin.tuwien.ac.at
Further Information
Please see the workshop website.