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Spatial Language Understanding for Object Search in Partially Observed City-scale Environments
Kaiyu Zheng, Deniz Bayazit, Rebecca Mathew +2
Humans use spatial language to naturally describe object locations and their relations. Interpreting spatial language not only adds a perceptual modality for robots, but also reduc…
Spoken Language Interaction with Robots: Research Issues and Recommendations, Report from the NSF Future Directions Workshop
Matthew Marge, Carol Espy-Wilson, Nigel Ward
With robotics rapidly advancing, more effective human-robot interaction is increasingly needed to realize the full potential of robots for society. While spoken language must be pa…
Task Scoping: Generating Task-Specific Abstractions for Planning in Open-Scope Models
Michael Fishman, Nishanth Kumar, Cameron Allen +4
A general-purpose planning agent requires an open-scope world model: one rich enough to tackle any of the wide range of tasks it may be asked to solve over its operational lifetime…
Generating Handwriting via Decoupled Style Descriptors
Atsunobu Kotani, Stefanie Tellex, James Tompkin
Representing a space of handwriting stroke styles includes the challenge of representing both the style of each character and the overall style of the human writer. Existing VRNN a…
Steps Towards Best Practices For Robot Videos
Eric Rosen, Stefanie Tellex, Geroge Konidaris
There are unwritten guidelines for how to make robot videos that researchers learn from their advisors and pass onto their students. We believe that it is important for the communi…
Robot Object Retrieval with Contextual Natural Language Queries
Thao Nguyen, Nakul Gopalan, Roma Patel +3
Natural language object retrieval is a highly useful yet challenging task for robots in human-centric environments. Previous work has primarily focused on commands specifying the d…