Yiannis Aloimonos
Professor
Studies active vision and robot perception, connecting visual perception, action and language for cognitive robots.
Yiannis Aloimonos's lab at UMD works on embodied & active vision, recognition, detection & segmentation and robot perception & SLAM. 62 papers since 2023, 37 at top venues, mostly ICRA and CVPR. 18 PhD students and 2 master's students. 46 alumni, most often to Amazon and Google.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 16/ year
- at T1 venues
- 60%
- PhD students
- 18
- MS students
- 2
- alumni listed
- 46
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage and DBLP, 2023–2026
- 13 papers2026 · T1 10 · collecting
- 10 papers2025 · T1 8
- 20 papers2024 · T1 12
- 19 papers2023 · T1 7
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICRA, CVPR, IROS, ECCV, ICLR
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Embodied & active vision9 papers
- Recognition, detection & segmentation9 papers
- Robot perception & SLAM7 papers
- action6 papers
- cognitive robots0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage and DBLP.
202613 papers
- ICRA (T1)Adversarial Game-Theoretic Algorithm for Dexterous Grasp Synthesis (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.CodedVO: Coded Visual Odometry (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)DREAM: Domain-aware Reasoning for Efficient Autonomous Underwater Monitoring (opens in a new tab)
- ECCV (T1)FEEL (Force-Enhanced Egocentric Learning): A Dataset for Physical Action Understanding (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)First Frame Is the Place to Go for Video Content Customization (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)From Inpainting to Layer Decomposition: Repurposing Generative Inpainting Models for Image Layer Decomposition (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans Autom. Sci. Eng.Guest Editorial: Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) for Industrial Manufacturing (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI (T1)HiCL: Hippocampal-Inspired Continual Learning (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)Moving Border Ownership for Event-based Motion Segmentation (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)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.PolarDepth: Polarization-Guided Monocular Depth for Visual Odometry (opens in a new tab)
- TPAMI (T1)Single-Step Latent Diffusion for Underwater Image Restoration (opens in a new tab)
202510 papers
- ICRA (T1)Air-FAR: Fast and Adaptable Routing for Aerial Navigation in Large-Scale Complex Unknown Environments (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Discovering Object Attributes by Prompting Large Language Models with Perception-Action APIs (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)FeelAnyForce: Estimating Contact Force Feedback from Tactile Sensation for Vision-Based Tactile Sensors (opens in a new tab)
- AGIHyPE: Hyperdimensional Propagation of Error (opens in a new tab)
- —Learning Normal Flow Directly from Event Neighborhoods
- ICCV (T1)Learning Normal Flow Directly from Events (opens in a new tab)
- HRI (T1)NatSGLD: A Dataset with Speech, Gesture, Logic, and Demonstration for Robot Learning in Natural Human-Robot Interaction (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)ODYSSEE: Oyster Detection Yielded by Sensor Systems on Edge Electronics (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)Repurposing Pre-trained Video Diffusion Models for Event-based Video Interpolation (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)ViewActive: Active viewpoint optimization from a single image (opens in a new tab)
202420 papers
- INDINA Comparative Study of Hough Transform and PCA for Bolt Orientation Detection (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)A Linear Time and Space Local Point Cloud Geometry Encoder, via Vectorized Kernel Mixture (VecKM) (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)AcTExplore: Active Tactile Exploration on Unknown Objects (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Active Human Pose Estimation via an Autonomous UAV Agent (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)CodedEvents: Optimal Point-Spread-Function Engineering for 3D-Tracking with Event Cameras (opens in a new tab)
- WACVContext in Human Action through Motion Complementarity (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Cook2LTL: Translating Cooking Recipes to LTL Formulae using Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Decodable and Sample Invariant Continuous Object Encoder (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of ACLDiving Deep into the Motion Representation of Video-Text Models (opens in a new tab)
- Frontiers Robotics AIEditorial: Enhanced human modeling in robotics for socially-aware place navigation (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Embodiment: Self-Supervised Depth Estimation Based on Camera Models (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)Event3DGS: Event-Based 3D Gaussian Splatting for High-Speed Robot Egomotion (opens in a new tab)
202319 papers
- ISMActive vision: A promising technology for achieving zero-defect manufacturing (opens in a new tab)
- Sci. RoboticsAjna: Generalized deep uncertainty for minimal perception on parsimonious robots (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Detecting Olives with Synthetic or Real Data? Olive the Above (opens in a new tab)
- —Efficient Fusion of Image Attributes: A New Approach to Visual Recognition
- ISTFall detection paradigm for embedded devices based on YOLOv8 (opens in a new tab)
- TPAMI (T1)Forecasting Action Through Contact Representations From First Person Video (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR WorkshopIncorporating Visual Grounding In GCN For Zero-shot Learning Of Human Object Interaction Actions (opens in a new tab)
- —Learning for action-based scene understanding
- ICLR (T1)Mid-Vision Feedback (opens in a new tab)
- —Mid-Vision Feedback for Convolutional Neural Networks
- —NatSGD: A Dataset with Speech, Gestures, and Demonstrations for Robot Learning in Natural Human-Robot Interaction
- ICRA (T1)OysterNet: Enhanced Oyster Detection Using Simulation (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went46 listed, 61% to industry
Industry 11Academia 7
Most often to
- Amazon
- Logos Technologies
Also to
- Australian National University
- NUS
- University of Colorado
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