3 papers
cs.AI2026
Explicit Abstention Knobs for Predictable Reliability in Video Question Answering
Jorge Ortiz
High-stakes deployment of vision-language models (VLMs) requires selective prediction, where systems abstain when uncertain rather than risk costly errors. We investigate whether c…
cs.RO2025
Using Vision-Language Models as Proxies for Social Intelligence in Human-Robot Interaction
Fanjun Bu, Melina Tsai, Audrey Tjokro +3
Robots operating in everyday environments must often decide when and whether to engage with people, yet such decisions often hinge on subtle nonverbal cues that unfold over time an…
cs.HC2024
Designing a User-centric Framework for Information Quality Ranking of Large-scale Street View Images
Tahiya Chowdhury, Ilan Mandel, Jorge Ortiz +1
Street view imagery (SVI), largely captured via outfitted fleets or mounted dashcams in consumer vehicles is a rapidly growing source of geospatial data used in urban sensing and d…