Come and join us listen to @petitegeek’s talk on Multimodal Learning for Interactive Embodied AI! Very cool demos!
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Dr. Angelica Lim speaks at WiML panel discussion at NeurIPS
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Don’t miss @petitegeek, assistant professor at @SFU_CompSci, sharing their perspective at the panel discussion #WiML at #NeurIPS!
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SFU Computer Science Faculty Position with Diversity Incentives
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We especially encourage women and underrepresented groups from all areas of Computer Science to apply! There is a generous ($250K) award package for women candidates. SFU also has an excellent parental leave policy, with ~9 months of paid leave at 95% salary.
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Simon Fraser University Recruiting Computer Vision Professors
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Interested in moving to beautiful Vancouver, Canada? We are recruiting Assistant and Associate Professors to the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University. We are ranked #1 in Canada in Computer Vision (
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Tweeting Research: Problem and Contribution Framework
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Gold advice on how to tweet your research, from journalists @aihuborg and @BotJunkie
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Physics-Guided Diffusion Predicts Human Movement Nine Seconds Ahead
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How far ahead can we predict a human's movements? We tokenize human poses over time and use physics-guided diffusion to predict a person's trajectory and location up to 9 seconds ahead. Paper: https://
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Vision Language Model Achieves High Precision Emotion Recognition
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Is emotion recognition in the wild possible? This is a hard problem, especially considering context. We fine-tuned a vision language model with 26 categories and found a very high precision, bringing it closer to use on robots. https://
arxiv.org/abs/2405.08992 https://
yasaman-etesam.github.io/Contextual-Emo
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Nonverbal Turing Test for Robots: 188 Behavioral Benchmarks
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How could we define a nonverbal Turing Test for robots? We asked people to use their bodies to test what agents could and could not do. We found they tested physical, emotional and social abilities with 188 unique behaviors! https://
arxiv.org/abs/2409.11602 https://
youtu.be/hc27aTLBv7U?si
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Emotional Intelligence and Nonverbal Communication for Robots
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Excited to be at #IROS2024 for a keynote at the Workshop on Nonverbal Communication + 3 full papers on emotional intelligence for robots and human prediction! http://
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Affective Empathy Missing From Foundation Models and AI Ethics
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Affective empathy, a building block for morality, is missing from foundation models (and also missing from people with psychopathy). While I argued for it in 2014, I am similarly concerned about building it into machines. It means defining pain and linking it to physical function