Dinesh Manocha
Professor
Leads the GAMMA group on robot navigation, autonomous driving, audio and multimodal AI, and physically based simulation.
Dinesh Manocha's lab at UMD works on autonomous vehicles & drones, embodied & active vision and vision-language & multimodal. 185 papers since 2023, 125 at top venues, mostly ICRA and IROS.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 48/ year
- at T1 venues
- 68%
- PhD students
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- MS students
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- alumni listed
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Papers by yearfrom DBLP, 2023–2026
- 18 papers2026 · T1 10 · collecting
- 63 papers2025 · T1 46
- 60 papers2024 · T1 42
- 44 papers2023 · T1 27
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICRA, IROS, EMNLP, CVPR, ICLR
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Vision-language & multimodal43 papers
- Embodied & active vision16 papers
- robot navigation15 papers
- Autonomous vehicles & drones5 papers
- physically1 paper
Paper list
From DBLP.
202618 papers
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag.2026 IEEE RAS Award Recipients Announced [Society News] (opens in a new tab)
- Trans. Mach. Learn. Res.A Survey on Foundations and Frontiers of Multimodal Agentic Frameworks: Techniques and Applications (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI (T1)Bi-VLM: Binary Post-Training Quantization for Vision-Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- IVDAVE: Diverse Atomic Visual Elements Dataset with High Representation of Vulnerable Road Users in Complex and Unpredictable Environments (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)DIAGRAMS : A Review Framework for Reasoning-Level Attribution in Diagram QA (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)EgoAVU: Egocentric Audio-Visual Understanding (opens in a new tab)
- EACLEngagement Undermines Safety: How Stereotypes and Toxicity Shape Humor in Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)FIGMA: Towards FIne-Grained Music retrievAl (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI (T1)MMAU-Pro: A Challenging and Comprehensive Benchmark for Holistic Evaluation of Audio General Intelligence (opens in a new tab)
- WACVMoRe: Monocular Geometry Refinement via Graph Optimization for Cross-View Consistency (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Music Flamingo: Scaling Music Understanding in Audio Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)NavMoe: Hybrid Model- and Learning-based Traversability Estimation for Local Navigation via Mixture of Experts (opens in a new tab)
202563 papers
- ICCVWA Survey on Long-Video Storytelling Generation: Architectures, Consistency, and Cinematic Quality (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)Audio Flamingo 2: An Audio-Language Model with Long-Audio Understanding and Expert Reasoning Abilities (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Audio Flamingo 3: Advancing Audio Intelligence with Fully Open Large Audio Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- ICCV (T1)Aurelia: Test-Time Reasoning Distillation in Audio-Visual LLMs (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)AutoSpatial: Visual-Language Reasoning for Social Robot Navigation through Efficient Spatial Reasoning Learning (opens in a new tab)
- ICCV (T1)AVTrustBench: Assessing and Enhancing Reliability and Robustness in Audio-Visual LLMs (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Behav: Behavioral Rule Guided Autonomy Using VLMs for Robot Navigation in Outdoor Scenes (opens in a new tab)
- ECML-PKDDBetter Features, Better Calibration: A Simple Fix for Overconfident Networks (opens in a new tab)
- Trans. Mach. Learn. Res.Beyond Joint Demonstrations: Personalized Expert Guidance for Efficient Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)Bounded Rationality for LLMs: Satisficing Alignment at Inference-Time (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)ChartLens: Fine-grained Visual Attribution in Charts (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Collab: Controlled Decoding using Mixture of Agents for LLM Alignment (opens in a new tab)
202460 papers
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett."Don't Forget to Put the Milk Back!" Dataset for Enabling Embodied Agents to Detect Anomalous Situations (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph."May I Speak?": Multi-Modal Attention Guidance in Social VR Group Conversations (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)A Closer Look at the Limitations of Instruction Tuning (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)ABEX: Data Augmentation for Low-Resource NLU via Expanding Abstract Descriptions (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)AG-Cvg: Coverage Planning with a Mobile Recharging UGV and an Energy-Constrained UAV (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)AGL-Net: Aerial-Ground Cross-Modal Global Localization with Varying Scales (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)AMCO: Adaptive Multimodal Coupling of Vision and Proprioception for Quadruped Robot Navigation in Outdoor Environments (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph.An Overview of Enhancing Distance Learning Through Emerging Augmented and Virtual Reality Technologies (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of ACLASPIRE: Language-Guided Data Augmentation for Improving Robustness Against Spurious Correlations (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPAutoHallusion: Automatic Generation of Hallucination Benchmarks for Vision-Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)AV-RIR: Audio-Visual Room Impulse Response Estimation (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.Can an Embodied Agent Find Your "Cat-shaped Mug"? LLM-Based Zero-Shot Object Navigation (opens in a new tab)
202344 papers
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.3D-Online Generalized Sensed Shape Expansion: A Probabilistically Complete Motion Planner in Obstacle-Cluttered Unknown Environments (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph.A Psychoacoustic Quality Criterion for Path-Traced Sound Propagation (opens in a new tab)
- Trans. Mach. Learn. Res.A Survey on the Possibilities & Impossibilities of AI-generated Text Detection (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)ACLM: A Selective-Denoising based Generative Data Augmentation Approach for Low-Resource Complex NER (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.AdaptiveON: Adaptive Outdoor Local Navigation Method for Stable and Reliable Actions (opens in a new tab)
- ISERAdVENTR: Autonomous Robot Navigation in Complex Outdoor Environments (opens in a new tab)
- ICCV (T1)AdVerb: Visually Guided Audio Dereverberation (opens in a new tab)
- SIGGRAPH Asia Technical CommunicationsAerial Diffusion: Text Guided Ground-to-Aerial View Synthesis from a Single Image using Diffusion Models (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)APoLLo : Unified Adapter and Prompt Learning for Vision Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)AZTR: Aerial Video Action Recognition with Auto Zoom and Temporal Reasoning (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)Beyond Exponentially Fast Mixing in Average-Reward Reinforcement Learning via Multi-Level Monte Carlo Actor-Critic (opens in a new tab)
- SIGIR (T1)BioAug: Conditional Generation based Data Augmentation for Low-Resource Biomedical NER (opens in a new tab)
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