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Publications (10)

cs.CV2023

VEATIC: Video-based Emotion and Affect Tracking in Context Dataset

Zhihang Ren, Jefferson Ortega, Yifan Wang +4

Human affect recognition has been a significant topic in psychophysics and computer vision. However, the currently published datasets have many limitations. For example, most datas…

cs.RO2017

Communicating Robot Arm Motion Intent Through Mixed Reality Head-mounted Displays

Eric Rosen, David Whitney, Elizabeth Phillips +4

Efficient motion intent communication is necessary for safe and collaborative work environments with collocated humans and robots. Humans efficiently communicate their motion inten…

q-bio.NC2026

Human-computer interactions predict mental health

Veith Weilnhammer, Jefferson Ortega, David Whitney

Scalable assessments of mental illness remain a critical roadblock toward accessible and equitable care. Here, we show that everyday human-computer interactions encode mental healt…

stat.ME2025

On Doubly Robust Inference for Double Machine Learning in Semiparametric Regression

Oliver Dukes, Stijn Vansteelandt, David Whitney

Due to concerns about parametric model misspecification, there is interest in using machine learning to adjust for confounding when evaluating the causal effect of an exposure on a…

cs.CL2020

SIMMC: Situated Interactive Multi-Modal Conversational Data Collection And Evaluation Platform

Paul A. Crook, Shivani Poddar, Ankita De +4

As digital virtual assistants become ubiquitous, it becomes increasingly important to understand the situated behaviour of users as they interact with these assistants. To this end…

cs.CV2018

Predicting Driver Attention in Critical Situations

Ye Xia, Danqing Zhang, Jinkyu Kim +3

Robust driver attention prediction for critical situations is a challenging computer vision problem, yet essential for autonomous driving. Because critical driving moments are so r…

cs.RO2013

Curiosity Based Exploration for Learning Terrain Models

Yogesh Girdhar, David Whitney, Gregory Dudek

We present a robotic exploration technique in which the goal is to learn to a visual model and be able to distinguish between different terrains and other visual components in an u…

cs.CL2020

Situated and Interactive Multimodal Conversations

Seungwhan Moon, Satwik Kottur, Paul A. Crook +9

Next generation virtual assistants are envisioned to handle multimodal inputs (e.g., vision, memories of previous interactions, in addition to the user's utterances), and perform m…

cs.CV2019

Periphery-Fovea Multi-Resolution Driving Model guided by Human Attention

Ye Xia, Jinkyu Kim, John Canny +2

Inspired by human vision, we propose a new periphery-fovea multi-resolution driving model that predicts vehicle speed from dash camera videos. The peripheral vision module of the m…

cs.CL2017

Learning Robust Dialog Policies in Noisy Environments

Maryam Fazel-Zarandi, Shang-Wen Li, Jin Cao +4

Modern virtual personal assistants provide a convenient interface for completing daily tasks via voice commands. An important consideration for these assistants is the ability to r…