Jean Oh
Associate Research Professor
Studies robot intelligence that combines language, vision and planning, including social navigation.
Jean Oh's lab at CMU works on planning, control & multi-robot systems, robot perception & SLAM and embodied & active vision. 52 papers since 2023, 27 at top venues, mostly ICRA and IROS. 11 PhD students and 2 master's students. 76 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 14/ year
- at T1 venues
- 52%
- PhD students
- 11
- MS students
- 2
- alumni listed
- 76
Papers by yearfrom DBLP, 2023–2026
- 10 papers2026 · T1 5 · collecting
- 15 papers2025 · T1 7
- 14 papers2024 · T1 9
- 13 papers2023 · T1 6
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICRA, IROS, HRI, ICCV, IJCAI
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Planning, control & multi-robot systems18 papers
- Robot perception & SLAM12 papers
- Embodied & active vision1 paper
- studies robot0 papers
- combines0 papers
Paper list
From DBLP.
202610 papers
- AAAI Summer SymposiaBefore We Trust Them: Decision-Making Failures in Navigation of Foundation Models (opens in a new tab)
- ECCV (T1)Bridging Online and Offline Handwriting via Differentiable Physical Rendering (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)DYMO-Hair: Generalizable Volumetric DYnamics Modeling for Robot Hair Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.GRAPPA: Generalizing and Adapting Robot Policies via Online Agentic Guidance (opens in a new tab)
- HRI (T1)InterPReT: Interactive Policy Restructuring and Training Enable Effective Imitation Learning from Laypersons (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Learning Social Navigation from Positive and Negative Demonstrations and Rule-Based Specifications (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag.Special Issue on Arts and Robotics [From the Guest Editors] (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Strive: Structured Representation Integrating VLM Reasoning for Efficient Object Navigation (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.SysNav: Multi-Level Systematic Cooperation Enables Real-World, Cross-Embodiment Object Navigation (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.Visual Sculpting: Visually-Aligned Planning Representations for Long-Horizon Robot Clay Sculpting (opens in a new tab)
202515 papers
- ICRA (T1)Bridging Spectral-Wise and Multi-Spectral Depth Estimation Via Geometry-Guided Contrastive Learning (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.FIReStereo: Forest InfraRed Stereo Dataset for UAS Depth Perception in Visually Degraded Environments (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.Flow4D: Leveraging 4D Voxel Network for LiDAR Scene Flow Estimation (opens in a new tab)
- HumanoidsGeodesic Tracing-Based Kinematic Integration of Rolling and Sliding Contact on Manifold Meshes for Dexterous in-Hand Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- RO-MANIf I Move, Do You Move? Investigating the Role of Interpersonal Synchrony in Human-Robot Joint Painting (opens in a new tab)
- ICCV (T1)MOSAIC: Generating Consistent, Privacy-Preserving Scenes from Multiple Depth Views in Multi-Room Environments (opens in a new tab)
- IJCAI (T1)Sample-Efficient Behavior Cloning Using General Domain Knowledge (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.SEAL: Towards Safe Autonomous Driving via Skill-Enabled Adversary Learning for Closed-Loop Scenario Generation (opens in a new tab)
- HRI (T1)Soft and Compliant Contact-Rich Hair Manipulation and Care (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Soft Robotic Dynamic in-Hand Pen Spinning (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.SonicBoom: Contact Localization Using Array of Microphones (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.Spline-FRIDA: Towards Diverse, Humanlike Robot Painting Styles With a Sample-Efficient, Differentiable Brush Stroke Model (opens in a new tab)
202414 papers
- ICRA (T1)CoFRIDA: Self-Supervised Fine-Tuning for Human-Robot Co-Painting (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Complementary Random Masking for RGB-Thermal Semantic Segmentation (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Density-aware Domain Generalization for LiDAR Semantic Segmentation (opens in a new tab)
- RoboSoftDesign and Control Co-Optimization for Automated Design Iteration of Dexterous Anthropomorphic Soft Robotic Hands (opens in a new tab)
- RO-MANHow is the Pilot Doing: VTOL Pilot Workload Estimation by Multimodal Machine Learning on Psycho-physiological Signals (opens in a new tab)
- HRI (T1)MOE-Hair: Toward Soft and Compliant Contact-rich Hair Manipulation and Care (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)POE: Acoustic Soft Robotic Proprioception for Omnidirectional End-effectors (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Robot Synesthesia: A Sound and Emotion Guided Robot Painter (opens in a new tab)
- HumanoidsRoPotter: Toward Robotic Pottery and Deformable Object Manipulation with Structural Priors (opens in a new tab)
- IVSafeShift: Safety-Informed Distribution Shifts for Robust Trajectory Prediction in Autonomous Driving (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)SCoFT: Self-Contrastive Fine-Tuning for Equitable Image Generation (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.SoRTS: Learned Tree Search for Long Horizon Social Robot Navigation (opens in a new tab)
202313 papers
- TPAMI (T1)A Large-Scale Virtual Dataset and Egocentric Localization for Disaster Responses (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Designing Interactive SystemsCollaborative Robotic Painting and Paint Mixing Demonstration (opens in a new tab)
- IJCAI (T1)Core Challenges in Embodied Vision-Language Planning (Extended Abstract) (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Trans. Hum. Robot Interact.Core Challenges of Social Robot Navigation: A Survey (opens in a new tab)
- HumanoidsDesigning Anthropomorphic Soft Hands Through Interaction (opens in a new tab)
- ICCV (T1)EigenTrajectory: Low-Rank Descriptors for Multi-Modal Trajectory Forecasting (opens in a new tab)
- ICTCEmpirical Study: Monocular Depth Estimation from RGB, NIR, Thermal Image in Adverse Weather Conditions (opens in a new tab)
- Adv. Artif. Intell. Mach. Learn.FishRecGAN: An End to End GAN Based Network for Fisheye Rectification and Calibration (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Follow The Rules: Online Signal Temporal Logic Tree Search for Guided Imitation Learning in Stochastic Domains (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)FRIDA: A Collaborative Robot Painter with a Differentiable, Real2Sim2Real Planning Environment (opens in a new tab)
- VLSI Technology and CircuitsOngoing Evolution of DRAM Scaling via Third Dimension -Vertically Stacked DRAM - (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)T2FPV: Dataset and Method for Correcting First-Person View Errors in Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went76 listed, 0% to industry
Industry 0Academia 19
Also to
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Georgia Tech
- KAIST
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