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20122026
most citedBayesOpt: A Bayesian Optimization Library for Nonlinear Optimization, Experimental Design and Bandits

254 citations · 390 across the 30 of their papers we have counts for

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34 papers

cs.CV2026

Integrating Affordances and Attention models for Short-Term Object Interaction Anticipation

Lorenzo Mur Labadia, Ruben Martinez-Cantin, Jose J. Guerrero +2

Short Term object-interaction Anticipation consists in detecting the location of the next active objects, the noun and verb categories of the interaction, as well as the time to co…

cs.CV2025

O-MaMa: Learning Object Mask Matching between Egocentric and Exocentric Views

Lorenzo Mur-Labadia, Maria Santos-Villafranca, Jesus Bermudez-Cameo +3

Understanding the world from multiple perspectives is essential for intelligent systems operating together, where segmenting common objects across different views remains an open p…

cs.CV2025

DIV-FF: Dynamic Image-Video Feature Fields For Environment Understanding in Egocentric Videos

Lorenzo Mur-Labadia, Josechu Guerrero, Ruben Martinez-Cantin

Environment understanding in egocentric videos is an important step for applications like robotics, augmented reality and assistive technologies. These videos are characterized by…

cs.CV2025

FALCONEye: Finding Answers and Localizing Content in ONE-hour-long videos with multi-modal LLMs

Carlos Plou, Cesar Borja, Ruben Martinez-Cantin +1

Finding information in hour-long videos is a challenging task even for top-performing Vision Language Models (VLMs), as encoding visual content quickly exceeds available context wi…

cs.HC2025

Influence of field of view in visual prostheses design: Analysis with a VR system

Melani Sanchez-Garcia, Ruben Martinez-Cantin, Jesus Bermudez-Cameo +1

Visual prostheses are designed to restore partial functional vision in patients with total vision loss. Retinal visual prostheses provide limited capabilities as a result of low re…

cs.RO2024★ 3 cited

Bayesian optimization for robust robotic grasping using a sensorized compliant hand

Juan G. Lechuz-Sierra, Ana Elvira H. Martin, Ashok M. Sundaram +2

One of the first tasks we learn as children is to grasp objects based on our tactile perception. Incorporating such skill in robots will enable multiple applications, such as incre…

cs.RO2024

Gen-Swarms: Adapting Deep Generative Models to Swarms of Drones

Carlos Plou, Pablo Pueyo, Ruben Martinez-Cantin +3

Gen-Swarms is an innovative method that leverages and combines the capabilities of deep generative models with reactive navigation algorithms to automate the creation of drone show…

cs.CV2024

ZARRIO @ Ego4D Short Term Object Interaction Anticipation Challenge: Leveraging Affordances and Attention-based models for STA

Lorenzo Mur-Labadia, Ruben Martinez-Cantin, Josechu Guerrero-Campo +1

Short-Term object-interaction Anticipation (STA) consists of detecting the location of the next-active objects, the noun and verb categories of the interaction, and the time to con…

cs.CV2024

CARLOR @ Ego4D Step Grounding Challenge: Bayesian temporal-order priors for test time refinement

Carlos Plou, Lorenzo Mur-Labadia, Ruben Martinez-Cantin +1

The goal of the Step Grounding task is to locate temporal boundaries of activities based on natural language descriptions. This technical report introduces a Bayesian-VSLNet to add…

cs.CV2024

AFF-ttention! Affordances and Attention models for Short-Term Object Interaction Anticipation

Lorenzo Mur-Labadia, Ruben Martinez-Cantin, Josechu Guerrero +2

Short-Term object-interaction Anticipation consists of detecting the location of the next-active objects, the noun and verb categories of the interaction, and the time to contact f…

cs.RO2024

Active Exploration in Bayesian Model-based Reinforcement Learning for Robot Manipulation

Carlos Plou, Ana C. Murillo, Ruben Martinez-Cantin

Efficiently tackling multiple tasks within complex environments, such as those found in robot manipulation, remains an ongoing challenge in robotics and an opportunity for data-dri…

cs.CV2024

EventSleep: Sleep Activity Recognition with Event Cameras

Carlos Plou, Nerea Gallego, Alberto Sabater +5

Event cameras are a promising technology for activity recognition in dark environments due to their unique properties. However, real event camera datasets under low-lighting condit…

cs.RO2024★ 13 cited

Finding safe 3D robot grasps through efficient haptic exploration with unscented Bayesian optimization and collision penalty

Joao Castanheira, Pedro Vicente, Ruben Martinez-Cantin +2

Robust grasping is a major, and still unsolved, problem in robotics. Information about the 3D shape of an object can be obtained either from prior knowledge (e.g., accurate models…

cs.RO2024★ 38 cited

Bayesian Optimization with Adaptive Kernels for Robot Control

Ruben Martinez-Cantin

Active policy search combines the trial-and-error methodology from policy search with Bayesian optimization to actively find the optimal policy. First, policy search is a type of r…

cs.RO2024★ 11 cited

Gaussian Mixture Models for Affordance Learning using Bayesian Networks

Pedro Osório, Alexandre Bernardino, Ruben Martinez-Cantin +1

Affordances are fundamental descriptors of relationships between actions, objects and effects. They provide the means whereby a robot can predict effects, recognize actions, select…

cs.RO2024★ 46 cited

Body Schema Acquisition through Active Learning

Ruben Martinez-Cantin, Manuel Lopes, Luis Montesano

We present an active learning algorithm for the problem of body schema learning, i.e. estimating a kinematic model of a serial robot. The learning process is done online using Recu…

cs.CV2023

Multi-label affordance mapping from egocentric vision

Lorenzo Mur-Labadia, Jose J. Guerrero, Ruben Martinez-Cantin

Accurate affordance detection and segmentation with pixel precision is an important piece in many complex systems based on interactions, such as robots and assitive devices. We pre…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Bayesian Deep Learning for Affordance Segmentation in images

Lorenzo Mur-Labadia, Ruben Martinez-Cantin, Jose J. Guerrero

Affordances are a fundamental concept in robotics since they relate available actions for an agent depending on its sensory-motor capabilities and the environment. We present a nov…

cs.RO2023

Robust Fusion for Bayesian Semantic Mapping

David Morilla-Cabello, Lorenzo Mur-Labadia, Ruben Martinez-Cantin +1

The integration of semantic information in a map allows robots to understand better their environment and make high-level decisions. In the last few years, neural networks have sho…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

Assessing visual acuity in visual prostheses through a virtual-reality system

Melani Sanchez-Garcia, Roberto Morollon-Ruiz, Ruben Martinez-Cantin +2

Current visual implants still provide very low resolution and limited field of view, thus limiting visual acuity in implanted patients. Developments of new strategies of artificial…

cs.CV2021★ 1 cited

Augmented reality navigation system for visual prosthesis

Melani Sanchez-Garcia, Alejandro Perez-Yus, Ruben Martinez-Cantin +1

The visual functions of visual prostheses such as field of view, resolution and dynamic range, seriously restrict the person's ability to navigate in unknown environments. Implante…

cs.CV2021

Bayesian deep learning of affordances from RGB images

Lorenzo Mur-Labadia, Ruben Martinez-Cantin

Autonomous agents, such as robots or intelligent devices, need to understand how to interact with objects and its environment. Affordances are defined as the relationships between…

cs.LG2020

Robust Policy Search for Robot Navigation

Javier Garcia-Barcos, Ruben Martinez-Cantin

Complex robot navigation and control problems can be framed as policy search problems. However, interactive learning in uncertain environments can be expensive, requiring the use o…

cs.LG2019

Fully Distributed Bayesian Optimization with Stochastic Policies

Javier Garcia-Barcos, Ruben Martinez-Cantin

Bayesian optimization has become a popular method for high-throughput computing, like the design of computer experiments or hyperparameter tuning of expensive models, where sample…