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Topical Collection in Autonomous Robots live
Topical Collection on "Advancing Robotic Grasping and Manipulation for the Real-World" within Autonomous Robots now online link
PublicationCollection Proposal Accepted at Autonomous Robots
Collection proposal on "Advancing Robotic Grasping and Manipulation for the Real-World" (Guest Editor) accepted within the journal Autonomous Robots
PublicationICRA 2026 Competition Proposal Accepted
Accepted proposal for the "11th Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition" at ICRA 2026 (webpage)
EventArtifact Badges Awarded for PoPETs Paper
Awarded the available and functional badges for the peer-reviewed artifact (source code) of our PoPETs paper (github repo)
AwardVisual Affordances Preprint Released
Pre-print of our article "Visual Affordances: Enabling robots to understand object functionality", currently under review, available on ArXiv
PublicationIROS 2025 Workshop Accepted
Workshop "Benchmarking via Competitions in Robotic Grasping and Manipulation (2nd Edition)" accepted at IROS 2025 (webpage)
EventHand-Object Reconstruction Paper Accepted at RA-L
Article titled "Stereo Hand-Object Reconstruction for Human-to-Robot Handover" accepted at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) [arxiv]
PublicationPaper Accepted at PoPETs 2025
Paper accepted at Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) 2025 and in the journal Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs), Volume 2025, Issue 3
PublicationGuest Editor for IEEE RA-P Special Collection
Guest editor for the IEEE RA-P Special Collection of "Autonomous Robotic Grasping and Manipulation in Real-World Applications" [link]
ServiceRGM Competition at ICRA 2025 is live
The Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition at ICRA 2025 is now live and accepting applications. Join our handover track competition link.
EventStereo Hand-Object Reconstruction preprint & webpage
Pre-print and webpage of our recent work on Stereo Hand-Object Reconstruction for Human-to-Robot Handover now online link.
PublicationCompetition column online - IEEE R&A Magazine
Competition column about the Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition at ICRA 2024 is online in the IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine (Issue 4: December 2024) link.
PublicationCompetition column - IEEE R&A Magazine (Dec 2024)
Competition column about the Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition at ICRA 2024 to appear in IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine (December 2024) link.
Publication10th RGM Competition accepted at ICRA 2025
The 10th Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition has been accepted at ICRA 2025 link.
EventReviewer for CVPR 2025
I will serve as a reviewer for the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025 (CVPR) link.
ServiceAccepted at ACVR (ECCV 2024)
Accepted paper at the 12th International Workshop on Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics (ACVR) at ECCV 2024.
PublicationAccepted proposal - Idiap Create Challenge 2024
Accepted proposal for the 2024 Idiap Create Challenge.
EventPresenting at CVPR 2024 (XAI4CV)
Attending CVPR 2024 in Seattle and presenting "Explaining models relating objects and privacy" as a poster at the XAI4CV workshop.
EventOutstanding Reviewer - CVPR 2024
Recognised as an outstanding reviewer for CVPR 2024.
AwardICRA 2024 - Attending & co-organising
Attending the 2024 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Yokohama and co-organising the Human-to-Robot Handovers Sub-track within the Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition.
EventPresenting GraphNEx at CHIST-ERA Seminar 2024
Presenting the project GraphNEx at the annual CHIST-ERA Projects Seminar 2024.
EventPoster accepted at XAI4CV Workshop (CVPR 2024)
Paper accepted as poster at XAI4CV Workshop at CVPR 2024.
PublicationReviewer - ECCV 2024
Reviewer for the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2024.
ServiceReviewer - ICIP 2024
Reviewer for the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2024.
ServiceCo-organiser - Human-to-Robot Handovers Sub-track (ICRA 2024)
Co-organiser of the Human-to-Robot Handovers Sub-track within the Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition at ICRA 2024.
EventAttending GraphNEx workshop (Lyon)
Attending the 3rd GraphNEx workshop in Lyon.
EventReviewer - CVPR 2024
Reviewer for the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2024.
ServiceReviewer - ICASSP 2024
Reviewer for the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
ServiceReviewer - ICRA 2024
Reviewer for the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
ServiceAttending ICCV 2023 (Paris)
Attending the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) in Paris.
EventPaper accepted - ACVR at ICCV 2023
Paper (that I co-authored) accepted at the 11th Int. Workshop on Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics (ACVR) at ICCV 2023.
PublicationOutstanding Reviewer - ICASSP 2023
Awarded outstanding reviewer recognition at IEEE ICASSP 2023.
AwardVisiting - Idiap Research Institute
Visiting at Idiap Research Institute, in Martigny, Switzerland (29 April - 25 May).
EventAttending GraphNEx workshop - Idiap
Attending GraphNEx workshop (3-5 May) at Idiap Research Institute, in Martigny, Switzerland.
EventInternal tutorial: transitioning into the reviewer's shoes
Internal tutorial (day 2): "The reviewer doesn't understand & is wrong! Transitioning into the reviewer's shoes" (online & in-person).
ServicePresenting GraphNEx at CHIST-ERA Seminar 2023
Attending and presenting the project GraphNEx at the CHIST-ERA Projects Seminar 2023 (poster, presentation) link.
EventInternal tutorial (repeat)
Internal tutorial: "The reviewer doesn't understand & is wrong! Transitioning into the reviewer's shoes" (online & in-person).
ServiceLecture on interest points (ECS709)
Lecture on interest points (from SIFT, binary descriptor to recent deep learning based methods) at the ECS709 Module: Introduction to Computer Vision (QMUL).
EventPresenting CORSMAL at ARQ-Robotics Centre Research Day
Presenting the project CORSMAL and its achievements at the ARQ-Robotics Centre Research Day 2022 link.
EventLecture - Deep Learning Models for Computer Vision (ECS709)
Lecture on Deep Learning Models for Computer Vision at the ECS709 Module: Introduction to Computer Vision (QMUL).
EventCORSMAL demo presented at ICDL 2022
Presented a video demo of the project CORSMAL at ICDL 2022 link.
EventChapter webpage - Visual Adversarial Attacks & Defenses
Webpage of the chapter on Visual Adversarial Attacks and Defenses is now online Webpage.
ResourceCORSMAL featured at CHIST-ERA Projects Seminar 2022
CORSMAL features as a CHIST-ERA Open Science Success Story at the CHIST-ERA Projects Seminar 2022 video.
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