PUBLICATIONS

  • Aux-AIRL: End-to-End Self-Supervised Reward Learning for Extrapolating beyond Suboptimal Demonstrations
    Yuchen Cui, Bo Liu, Akanksha Saran, Stephen Giguere, Peter Stone, Scott Niekum
    Short version: Workshop on Self-Supervised Learning for Reasoning and Perception, ICML 2021



  • Efficiently Guiding Imitation Learning Agents with Human Gaze
    Akanksha Saran, Ruohan Zhang, Elaine Schaertl Short, Scott Niekum
    Short version: Workshop on Reinforcement Learning in Games, AAAI 2020
    Full version: AAMAS 2021

  • Human Gaze Assisted Artificial Intelligence: A Review
    Ruohan Zhang, Akanksha Saran, Bo Liu, Yifeng Zhu, Sihang Guo, Scott Niekum, Dana H. Ballard, Mary M. Hayhoe
    IJCAI 2020

  • Understanding Teacher Gaze Patterns for Robot Learning
    Akanksha Saran, Elaine Schaertl Short, Andrea Thomaz, Scott Niekum
    Short version: HRI Pioneers 2019
    Full version: CoRL 2019
    [Video] [Code]

  • Human Gaze Following for Human-Robot Interaction
    Akanksha Saran, Srinjoy Majumdar, Elaine Schaertl Short, Andrea Thomaz, Scott Niekum
    Short version: Workshop on Social Robots in the Wild, HRI 2018
    Full version: IROS 2018
    [Video] [Code]

  • Viewpoint Selection for Visual Failure Detection
    Akanksha Saran, Branka Lakic, Srinjoy Majumdar, Juergen Hess, Scott Niekum
    IROS 2017

  • Hand Parsing for Fine-Grained Recognition of Human Grasps in Monocular Images
    Akanksha Saran, Damien Teney, Kris Kitani
    Short version: Workshop on Observing and Understanding Hands in Action, CVPR 2015
    Full version: IROS 2015