4 papers
Follow-Bench: A Unified Motion Planning Benchmark for Socially-Aware Robot Person Following
Hanjing Ye, Weixi Situ, Jianwei Peng +4
Robot person following (RPF) -- mobile robots that follow and assist a specific person -- has emerging applications in personal assistance, security patrols, eldercare, and logisti…
Lightweight Facial Landmark Detection in Thermal Images via Multi-Level Cross-Modal Knowledge Transfer
Qiyi Tong, Olivia Nocentini, Marta Lagomarsino +3
Facial Landmark Detection (FLD) in thermal imagery is critical for applications in challenging lighting conditions, but it is hampered by the lack of rich visual cues. Conventional…
RPF-Search: Field-based Search for Robot Person Following in Unknown Dynamic Environments
Hanjing Ye, Kuanqi Cai, Yu Zhan +3
Autonomous robot person-following (RPF) systems are crucial for personal assistance and security but suffer from target loss due to occlusions in dynamic, unknown environments. Cur…
TPT-Bench: A Large-Scale, Long-Term and Robot-Egocentric Dataset for Benchmarking Target Person Tracking
Hanjing Ye, Yu Zhan, Weixi Situ +6
Tracking a target person from robot-egocentric views is crucial for developing autonomous robots that provide continuous personalized assistance or collaboration in Human-Robot Int…