3 papers
cs.HC2025
An AI-Based Shopping Assistant System to Support the Visually Impaired
Larissa R. de S. Shibata, Ankit A. Ravankar, Jose Victorio Salazar Luces +1
Shopping plays a significant role in shaping consumer identity and social integration. However, for individuals with visual impairments, navigating in supermarkets and identifying…
cs.RO2025
Context-Aware Risk Estimation in Home Environments: A Probabilistic Framework for Service Robots
Sena Ishii, Akash Chikhalikar, Ankit A. Ravankar +2
We present a novel framework for estimating accident-prone regions in everyday indoor scenes, aimed at improving real-time risk awareness in service robots operating in human-centr…
cs.RO2025
Enhancing Object Search in Indoor Spaces via Personalized Object-factored Ontologies
Akash Chikhalikar, Ankit A. Ravankar, Jose Victorio Salazar Luces +1
Personalization is critical for the advancement of service robots. Robots need to develop tailored understandings of the environments they are put in. Moreover, they need to be awa…