Nowadays, robots are dominating the manufacturing, entertainment, and healthcare
industries. Robot vision aims to equip robots with the capabilities to discover information …

JJ Gibson's concept of affordance, one of the central pillars of ecological psychology, is a
truly remarkable idea that provides a concise theory of animal perception predicated on …

Learning from demonstration, or imitation learning, is the process of learning to act in an
environment from examples provided by a teacher. Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) is a …

Being able to detect and recognize human activities is essential for several applications,
including personal assistive robotics. In this paper, we perform detection and recognition of …

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) explores techniques for learning a task policy from
examples provided by a human teacher. The field of LfD has grown into an extensive body …

The concept of affordances appeared in psychology during the late 60s as an alternative
perspective on the visual perception of the environment. It was revolutionary in the intuition …

Being able to detect and recognize human activities is important for making personal
assistant robots useful in performing assistive tasks. The challenge is to develop a system …

Affordances encode relationships between actions, objects, and effects. They play an
important role on basic cognitive capabilities such as prediction and planning. We address …

To act in the world, robots rely on a representation of salient task aspects: for example, to
carry a coffee mug, a robot may consider movement efficiency or mug orientation in its …

We aim to develop an algorithm for robots to manipulate novel objects as tools for
completing different task goals. An efficient and informative representation would facilitate …