Towards Embedding Dynamic Personas in Interactive Robots: Masquerading Animated Social Kinematics (MASK)

no code implementations • 15 Mar 2024 • Jeongeun Park, Taemoon Jeong, Hyeonseong Kim, Taehyun Byun, Seungyoon Shin, Keunjun Choi, Jaewoon Kwon, Taeyoon Lee, Matthew Pan, Sungjoon Choi

This paper presents the design and development of an innovative interactive robotic system to enhance audience engagement using character-like personas.

SOCRATES: Text-based Human Search and Approach using a Robot Dog

no code implementations • 10 Feb 2023 • Jeongeun Park, Jefferson Silveria, Matthew Pan, Sungjoon Choi

In this paper, we propose a SOCratic model for Robots Approaching humans based on TExt System (SOCRATES) focusing on the human search and approach based on free-form textual description; the robot first searches for the target user, then the robot proceeds to approach in a human-friendly manner.

Knowledge Distillation

Zero-shot Active Visual Search (ZAVIS): Intelligent Object Search for Robotic Assistants

1 code implementation • 19 Sep 2022 • Jeongeun Park, Taerim Yoon, Jejoon Hong, Youngjae Yu, Matthew Pan, Sungjoon Choi

In this paper, we focus on the problem of efficiently locating a target object described with free-form language using a mobile robot equipped with vision sensors (e. g., an RGBD camera).

Object Robot Navigation