European Training Network on PErsonalized Robotics as SErvice Oriented applications

Project Information

PERSEO

Grant agreement ID: 955778

DOI

10.3030/955778

Project closed

EC signature date 12 August 2020

Start date 1 January 2021

End date 31 December 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost

€ 4 067 849,97

EU contribution

€ 4 067 849,97

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II
Italy

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (2)

White Paper on Personal Robotics Curricula

To support the dissemination of the PERSEO excellent training practice after the end of the project, the supervisory team will produce and disseminate a White Paper on Personal Robotics Curricula. This will provide a flexible plan for personal robotics syllabi and teaching pathways for postgraduate training courses.

Recruitment Strategy

Description of the recruitment strategy to be implemented

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

PERSEO website

Publications

Conference proceedings (37)

Bayesian Theory of Mind for False Belief Understanding in Human-Robot Interaction

Author(s): Mehdi Hellou; Samuele Vinanzi; Angelo Cangelosi
Published in: 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2023
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ro-man57019.2023.10309356

On the Emotional Transparency of a Non-humanoid Social Robot

Author(s): Francesco Vigni; Alessandra Rossi; Linda Miccio; Silvia Rossi
Published in: Social Robotics. ICSR 2022, 2023, ISBN 978-3-031-24666-1
Publisher: Springer, Cham
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-24667-8_26

Learning While Sleeping: Integrating Sleep-Inspired Consolidation with Human Feedback Learning

Author(s): Imene Tarakli, Alessandro Di Nuovo
Published in: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), Issue 34, 2024, Page(s) 1-6
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icdl61372.2024.10644266

Familiar Acoustic Cues for Legible Service Robots

Author(s): Georgios Angelopoulos; Francesco Vigni; Alessandra Rossi; Giuseppina Russo; Mario Turco; Silvia Rossi
Published in: 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2022, Page(s) 1187-1192
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ro-man53752.2022.9900699

Using Theory of Mind in Explanations for Fostering Transparency in Human-Robot Interaction

Author(s): Georgios Angelopoulos; Pasquale Imparato; Alessandra Rossi; Silvia Rossi
Published in: Social Robotics. ICSR 2023, 2024
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-8718-4_34

Probabilistic Fusion of Persons' Body Features: The Mr. Potato Algorithm

Author(s): Séverin Lemaignan, Lorenzo Ferrini
Published in: HRI '24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2024
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3610977.3637479

Transparent Interactive Reinforcement Learning Using Emotional Behaviours

Author(s): Georgios Angelopoulos; Alessandra Rossi; Gianluca L’Arco; Silvia Rossi
Published in: Social Robotics. ICSR 2022, 2023, ISBN 978-3-031-24666-1
Publisher: Springer, Cham
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-24667-8_27

Social Robots Personalisation: At the Crossroads between Engineering and Humanities (CONCATENATE)

Author(s): Imene Tarakli; Georgios Angelopoulos; Mehdi Hellou; Camille Vindolet; Boris Abramovic; Rocco Limongelli; Dimitri Lacroix; Andrea Bertolini; Silvia Rossi; Alessandro Di Nuovo; Angelo Cangelosi; Gordon Cheng
Published in: Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2023
Publisher: IEEE/ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3568294.3579953

AIGeN: An Adversarial Approach for Instruction Generation in VLN

Author(s): Niyati Rawal, Roberto Bigazzi, Lorenzo Baraldi, Rita Cucchiara
Published in: 2024 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 2024, Page(s) 2070-2080
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/cvprw63382.2024.00212

Can We Use Diffusion Probabilistic Models for 3D Motion Prediction?

Author(s): Ahn, Hyemin; Mascaro, Esteve Valls; Lee, Dongheui
Published in: Issue 1, 2023
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2302.14503

Know your limits! Optimize the robot’s behavior through self-awareness

Author(s): Esteve Valls Mascaró, Dongheui Lee
Published in: 2024 IEEE-RAS 23rd International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2025, Page(s) 258-265
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/humanoids58906.2024.10769929

Where is My Favourite Toy? Inferring the Mental States of Users in False Belief Understanding

Author(s): Mehdi Hellou, Samuele Vinanzi, Angelo Cangelosi
Published in: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), 2024, Page(s) 1-8
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icdl61372.2024.10644973

Differential Privacy Made Easy

Author(s): Muhammad Aitsam
Published in: 2022 International Conference on Emerging Trends in Electrical, Control, and Telecommunication Engineering (ETECTE), 2022, ISBN 978-1-6654-9242-3
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/etecte55893.2022.10007322

Too Close to You? A Study on Emotion-Adapted Proxemics Behaviours

Author(s): Francesco Vigni, Dimitri Maglietta, Silvia Rossi
Published in: 2024 33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN), 2024, Page(s) 182-188
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ro-man60168.2024.10731458

Kinematically-consistent Real-time 3D Human Body Estimation for Physical and Social HRI

Author(s): Lorenzo Ferrini and Séverin Lemaignan
Published in: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '22), 2022, Page(s) 765–767
Publisher: IEEE Press
DOI: 10.1109/hri53351.2022.9889358

robust human motion forecasting using transformer-based model

Author(s): Esteve Valls Mascaro; Shuo Ma; Hyemin Ahn; Dongheui Lee
Published in: 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/iros47612.2022.9981877

Sweet Robot O’Mine - How a Cheerful Robot Boosts Users' Performance in a Game Scenario

Author(s): Francesco Vigni; Antonio Andriella; Silvia Rossi
Published in: 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2023
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ro-man57019.2023.10309378

ImitationNet: Unsupervised Human-to-Robot Motion Retargeting via Shared Latent Space

Author(s): Yan, Yashuai; Esteve Valls Mascaro; and Dongheui Lee
Published in: IEEE-RAS 22nd International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2023
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/humanoids57100.2023.10375150

User Perception of Teachable Robots: A Comparative Study of Teaching Strategies, Task Complexity and User Characteristics

Author(s): Imene Tarakli; Alessandro Di Nuovo
Published in: Social Robotics. ICSR 2023, 2023
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-8718-4_31

Exploring Non-verbal Strategies for Initiating an HRI

Author(s): Francesco Vigni; Silvia Rossi
Published in: Social Robotics. ICSR 2022, 2023, ISBN 978-3-031-24666-1
Publisher: Springer, Cham
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-24667-8_25

Sigh!!! There is more than just faces and verbal speech to recognize emotion in human-robot interaction

Author(s): Rahul Singh Maharjan, Marta Romeo, Angelo Cangelosi
Published in: 2024 33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN), 2024, Page(s) 62-68
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ro-man60168.2024.10731355

Continual Learning for Adaptive Affective Human-Robot Interaction

Author(s): Rahul Singh Maharjan
Published in: Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW), 2023
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/aciiw57231.2022.10086015

Event Camera-Based Real-Time Gesture Recognition for Improved Robotic Guidance

Author(s): Muhammad Aitsam, Sergio Davies, Alessandro Di Nuovo
Published in: 2024 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Issue 10, 2024, Page(s) 1-8
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ijcnn60899.2024.10650870

A Rosbag Tool to Improve Dataset Reliability

Author(s): Francesco Vigni, Antonio Andriella, Silvia Rossi
Published in: Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2024, Page(s) 1085-1089
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3610978.3640556

Robot Interaction Behavior Generation based on Social Motion Forecasting for Human-Robot Interaction

Author(s): Esteve Valls Mascaro, Yashuai Yan, Dongheui Lee
Published in: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024, Page(s) 17264-17271
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icra57147.2024.10610682

Interactive Reinforcement Learning from Natural Language Feedback

Author(s): Imene Tarakli, Samuele Vinanzi, Alessandro Di Nuovo
Published in: 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024, Page(s) 11478-11484
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/iros58592.2024.10803055

Beyond Data Collection: Safeguarding User Privacy in Social Robotics

Author(s): Mahboobeh Dorafshanian, Muhammad Aitsam, Mohamed Mejri, Alessandro Di Nuovo
Published in: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT), Issue 12, 2024, Page(s) 1-6
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icit58233.2024.10540743

Are Emotions Important? A Study on Social Distances for Path Planning based on Emotions

Author(s): Vasileios Mizaridis, Francesco Vigni, Stratos Arampatzis, Silvia Rossi
Published in: 2024 33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN), 2024, Page(s) 176-181
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ro-man60168.2024.10731180

Intention-Conditioned Long-Term Human Egocentric Action Anticipation

Author(s): Esteve Valls Mascaro, Hyemin Ahn, and Dongheui Lee
Published in: IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2023
Publisher: IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)

Pimp my language! The influence of robot customization duration on psychological ownership and trust

Author(s): Lacroix, Dimitri; Schober, Jonathan; Wullenkord, Ricarda; Eyssel, Friederike
Published in: 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2023
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ro-man57019.2023.10309370

Towards Explainable Navigation and Recounting

Author(s): Samuele Poppi; Roberto Bigazzi; Niyati Rawal; Marcella Cornia; Silvia Cascianelli; Lorenzo Baraldi; Rita Cucchiara
Published in: International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, 2023
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-43148-7_15

Faces are Domains: Domain Incremental Learning for Expression Recognition

Author(s): Rahul Singh Maharjan; Marta Romeo; Angelo Cangelosi
Published in: Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) 2023, 2023
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ijcnn54540.2023.10191542

You Are In My Way: Non-verbal Social Cues for Legible Robot Navigation Behaviors

Author(s): Georgios Angelopoulos; Alessandra Rossi; Claudia Di Napoli; Silvia Rossi
Published in: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022, Page(s) 657-662
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/iros47612.2022.9981754

Open-source Natural Language Processing on the PAL Robotics ARI Social Robot

Author(s): Séverin Lemaignan; Sara Cooper; Raquel Ros; Lorenzo Ferrini; Antonio Andriella; Aina Irisarri
Published in: Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2023
Publisher: IEEE/ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3568294.3580041

Unveiling the learning curve: enhancing transparency in robot’s learning with inner speech and emotions

Author(s): Georgios Angelopoulos; Carmine Di Martino;Alessandra Rossi; Silvia Rossi
Published in: 32n IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2023
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ro-man57019.2023.10309352

HOI4ABOT: Human-Object Interaction Anticipation for Human Intention Reading Collaborative roBOTs

Author(s): Mascaro, Esteve Valls; Sliwowski, Daniel; Lee, Dongheui
Published in: Proceedings of The 7th Conference on Robot Learning, 2023
Publisher: PMLR

Who's in Charge? Using Personalization vs. Customization Distinction to Inform HRI Research on Adaptation to Users

Author(s): Dimitri Lacroix; Ricarda Wullenkord; Friederike Eyssel
Published in: Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2023
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3568294.3580152

Peer reviewed articles (6)

A Unified Masked Autoencoder with Patchified Skeletons for Motion Synthesis

Author(s): Esteve Valls Mascaró, Hyemin Ahn, Dongheui Lee
Published in: Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Issue 38, 2024, Page(s) 5261-5269, ISSN 2374-3468
Publisher: AAAI Press
DOI: 10.1609/aaai.v38i6.28333

Neuromorphic Computing for Interactive Robotics: A Systematic Review

Author(s): Muhammad Aitsam; Sergio Davies; Alessandro Di Nuovo
Published in: IEEE Access, 2022, Page(s) 122261 - 122279, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.1109/access.2022.3219440

Caveat Emptor de AI, from Black Box to Glass Box: Reviewing Consumer Protection against AI-Enabled Manipulation in the European Union

Author(s): Rocco Limongelli
Published in: SSRN Electronic Journal, 2024, ISSN 1556-5068
Publisher: SSRN
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4519937

What is behind the curtain? Increasing transparency in reinforcement learning with human preferences and explanations

Author(s): Georgios Angelopoulos, Luigi Mangiacapra, Alessandra Rossi, Claudia Di Napoli, Silvia Rossi
Published in: Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Issue 149, 2025, Page(s) 110520, ISSN 0952-1976
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2025.110520

Efficient data processing pipeline for event-based vision datasets: techniques and insights

Author(s): Muhammad Aitsam, Alejandro Jimenez Rodriguez, Alessandro Di Nuovo
Published in: Engineering Research Express, Issue 6, 2024, Page(s) 045238, ISSN 2631-8695
Publisher: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/2631-8695/ad9235

Human–object interaction prediction in videos through gaze following

Author(s): Ni, Zhifan; Valls Mascaró, Esteve; Ahn, Hyemin; Lee, Dongheui
Published in: Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Issue 233, 2023, ISSN 1077-3142
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2023.103741

Book chapters (8)

AI & Civil Liability

Author(s): Limongelli, R. and Bertolini, A.
Published in: Regulating Advanced Technologies: Policy Papers of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on the Regulation of Robotics and AI, Issue 1, 2022, Page(s) 39-51
Publisher: Il Campano

Off My Chest with My Robot? The Influence of Psychological Ownership on Self-disclosure to a Robot

Author(s): Dimitri Lacroix, Maja Landwehr, Ricarda Wullenkord, Friederike Eyssel, Angelika Augustine
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Social Robotics, 2025, Page(s) 497-506
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-3519-1_45

A Review of Theory of Mind and Robotics: Mind Reading in Human-Robot Interaction for Proactive Social Robots

Author(s): Mehdi Hellou, Samuele Vinanzi, Angelo Cangelosi
Published in: Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, Human-Friendly Robotics 2024, 2025, Page(s) 197-211
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-81688-8_15

Mask and Compress: Efficient Skeleton-Based Action Recognition in Continual Learning

Author(s): Matteo Mosconi, Andriy Sorokin, Aniello Panariello, Angelo Porrello, Jacopo Bonato, Marco Cotogni, Luigi Sabetta, Simone Calderara, Rita Cucchiara
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Pattern Recognition, 2024, Page(s) 1-15
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-78189-6_1

I Designed It, So I Trust It: The Influence of Customization on Psychological Ownership and Trust Toward Robots

Author(s): DImitri Lacroix, Ricarda Wullenkord, Friederike Eyssel
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNAI,volume 13818), 2023, ISBN 978-3-031-24670-8
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-24670-8_53

Measuring Cognitive Load Through Event Camera Based Human-Pose Estimation

Author(s): Muhammad Aitsam, Dimitri Lacroix, Gaurvi Goyal, Chiara Bartolozzi, Alessandro Di Nuovo
Published in: Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, Human-Friendly Robotics 2024, 2025, Page(s) 229-239
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-81688-8_17

Personalised Interactive Reinforcement Learning with Multi-task Pre-training

Author(s): Imene Tarakli, Alessandro Di Nuovo
Published in: Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, Human-Friendly Robotics 2024, 2025, Page(s) 255-262
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-81688-8_19

reMap: Spatially-Grounded and Queryable Semantics for Interactive Robots

Author(s): Lorenzo Ferrini, Jozsef Palmieri, Alessandro Marino, Dongheui Lee, Séverin Lemaignan
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Social Robotics, 2025, Page(s) 383-396
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-3519-1_35

Other (1)

Social Embeddings: Concept and Initial Investigation

Author(s): Antonio Andriella, Lorenzo Ferrini, Luka Juricic, Youssef Mohamed, Raquel Ros
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Open Research Europe
DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.17296.1