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Magnus Jung

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arXiv2026

Scene-aware Prediction of Diverse Human Movement Goals

Anticipation of human behaviours facilitates autonomous systems in proactive planning. Human behaviour could be stochastic due to varying goals. Human goals typically guide their own movement and could therefore help to predict the human trajectory and human motion in the long-term. To infer the human movement intentions, the environmental context plays a significant role, in addition to the social cues expressed by the individual. Previous works on human goals prediction either require semantic knowledge of the scene, or only tackle interactions with objects. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-goal prediction method using the generative model to address the stochasticity of human movement. It leverages the current RGB scene and the human pose to predict diverse potential future goals of human movement based on the Conditional Variational Autoencoder (CVAE). Our results demonstrate that our approach is capable of generating multiple movement goals in the scene via samplings in latent space of the CVAE and exhibits generalization capability across scenarios in GTA-IM dataset and PROX dataset. Code is publicly available at \href{https://github.com/Q-Y-Yang/DiverseGoalsPrediction.git}{\texttt{https://github.com/Q-Y-Yang/DiverseGoalsPrediction}}.

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arXiv2026

Long-Term Prediction of Local and Global Human Motion with Occlusion Recovery

Human motion describes the three-dimensional full-body movement of a person. Anticipating such motion holds significant relevance across a wide range of application domains such as human-robot interaction, autonomous driving, animation, and healthcare. In recent research, spatial and temporal dependencies are modeled by bidirectional attention mechanisms. These typically anticipate human motion in an autoregressive manner which could cause an accumulation of errors over time. As a consequence, they solely focus on local pose forecasting. To address these limitations, we propose a non-autoregressive transformer based on spatio-temporal attention, and train it not only for local pose anticipation, but also for global motion prediction in space. Furthermore, to enhance its applicability in real-world scenarios, our model is also trained to recover missing joints due to occlusions, and is capable of processing varying lengths of history observations. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/Q-Y-Yang/Prediction-of-Local-and-Global-Human-Motion.

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arXiv2025

IM HERE: Interaction Model for Human Effort Based Robot Engagement

The effectiveness of human-robot interaction often hinges on the ability to cultivate engagement - a dynamic process of cognitive involvement that supports meaningful exchanges. Many existing definitions and models of engagement are either too vague or lack the ability to generalize across different contexts. We introduce IM HERE, a novel framework that models engagement effectively in human-human, human-robot, and robot-robot interactions. By employing an effort-based description of bilateral relationships between entities, we provide an accurate breakdown of relationship patterns, simplifying them to focus placement and four key states. This framework captures mutual relationships, group behaviors, and actions conforming to social norms, translating them into specific directives for autonomous systems. By integrating both subjective perceptions and objective states, the model precisely identifies and describes miscommunication. The primary objective of this paper is to automate the analysis, modeling, and description of social behavior, and to determine how autonomous systems can behave in accordance with social norms for full social integration while simultaneously pursuing their own social goals.

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arXiv2023

NITEC: Versatile Hand-Annotated Eye Contact Dataset for Ego-Vision Interaction

Eye contact is a crucial non-verbal interaction modality and plays an important role in our everyday social life. While humans are very sensitive to eye contact, the capabilities of machines to capture a person's gaze are still mediocre. We tackle this challenge and present NITEC, a hand-annotated eye contact dataset for ego-vision interaction. NITEC exceeds existing datasets for ego-vision eye contact in size and variety of demographics, social contexts, and lighting conditions, making it a valuable resource for advancing ego-vision-based eye contact research. Our extensive evaluations on NITEC demonstrate strong cross-dataset performance, emphasizing its effectiveness and adaptability in various scenarios, that allows seamless utilization to the fields of computer vision, human-computer interaction, and social robotics. We make our NITEC dataset publicly available to foster reproducibility and further exploration in the field of ego-vision interaction. https://github.com/thohemp/nitec

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