Vignesh Prasad

Research Interests

Human-Robot Interaction, Imitation Learning, Human Motion Prediction, Social Robotics, Robot Vision, SLAM, Navigation

Affiliations

Contact

vignesh.prasad@tu-darmstadt.de
Room 150, Building S1|02, TU Darmstadt, Hochschulstr. 1, 64289 Darmstadt
+49-6151-16-24475

Vignesh Prasad joined TU Darmstadt in July 2019 as a Ph.D. student working on Learning Physically Interactive Human-Robot Interaction for Humanoid Social Robots. Vignesh is jointly supervised by Jan Peters, Georgia Chalvatzaki, Dorothea Koert and Ruth Stock-Homburg. His current areas of research include Human-Robot Interaction, Learning from Demonstrations, Human Motion Prediction, and Social Robotics.

Prior to this, Vignesh worked as a researcher in the Machine Vision Group at TCS Innovation Labs, Kolkata under Dr. Brojeshwar Bhowmick, where he worked on Deep Learning for Monocular 3D Reconstruction and Computer Vision. During this time, Vignesh's work won the Best Paper Award at the 2018 Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP). Vignesh pursued his Bachelors and Masters in Computer Science and Engineering from IIIT Hyderabad, India. His Master's thesis titled "Learning Effective Navigational Strategies for Active Monocular Simultaneous Localization and Mapping" was done at the Robotics Research Center under Dr. K. Madhava Krishna in collaboration with Prof. Balaraman Ravindran.

Publications

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Gassen, M.; Metzler, F.; Prescher, E.; Prasad, V.; Scherf, L. Kaiser, F.; Koert, D. (2023). I^3: Interactive Iterative Improvement for Few-Shot Action Segmentation, 32th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN).
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Prasad, V.; Stock-Homburg, R.; Peters, J. (2022). Human-Robot Handshaking: A Review, International Journal of Social Robotics (IJSR), 14, 1, pp.277-293.
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Prasad, V.; Koert, D.; Stock-Homburg, R.; Peters, J.; Chalvatzaki, G. (2022). MILD: Multimodal Interactive Latent Dynamics for Learning Human-Robot Interaction, IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids).
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Prasad, V.; Stock-Homburg, R.; Peters, J. (2021). Learning Human-like Hand Reaching for Human-Robot Handshaking, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
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Stock-Homburg, R.; Peters, J.; Schneider, K.; Prasad, V.; Nukovic, L. (2020). Evaluation of the Handshake Turing Test for anthropomorphic Robots, Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI), Late Breaking Report.
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Prasad, V.; Stock-Homburg, R.; Peters, J. (2020). Advances in Human-Robot Handshaking, International Conference on Social Robotics, Springer.

For a full list of his publications, please see his Google Scholar page.

Supervised Theses and Projects

Year	Thesis/Project	Student(s)	Topic	Together with
Ongoing	Bachelor Thesis	Fabian Hahne	Hierarchical Hidden Markov Models for Interaction Segmentation and Learning
Ongoing	Bachelor Thesis	Arne Backstein	Learning Human-Robot Interaction using Normalizing Flows
2023	Integrated Project	Frederic Metzler, Martina Gassen, Erik Prescher	I^3: Interactive Iterative Improvement for Few-Shot Action Segmentation	Lisa Scherf, Felix Kaiser
2023	Integrated Project	Antonio De Almeida Correia, Yasemin Göksu	Learning Action Representations For Primitives-Based Motion Generation	Alap Kshirsagar
2023	Master Thesis	Ruiyong Pi	Bluetooth Low Enery Localization for the Social Robot Zenbo	Sven Schultze
2023	Master Thesis	Rukang Xu	SLAM-itation: SLAM-based robotic teleoperation	Suman Pal
2023	Bachelor Thesis	Hongzhe Gao	Understanding Haptic Emotions for Human-Robot Handshaking
2022	Bachelor Thesis	Erik Prescher	Visual Hierarchical Interaction Recognition and Segmentation
2022	Bachelor Thesis	Louis Sterker	Social Affordance Segmentation and Learning using Hidden semi-Markov Models
2022	Master Thesis	Oriol Hinojo Comellas	Binaural Sound Localisation with Spiking Neural Networks	Sven Schultze
2022	Master Thesis	Yannik Frisch	Analysis of Self-supervised Keypoint Detection Methods for Robot Learning	Ali Younes, Georgia Chalvatzaki
2022	Master Thesis	Zhicheng Yang	Exploring Gripping Behaviours and Haptic Emotions for Human-Robot Handshaking
2021	Bachelor Thesis	Martina Gassen	Learning a library of Physical Interactions for Social Robots	Dorothea Koert
2021	Master Thesis	Maxim Redkin	Personalizing Customer Interactions with Service Robots using Hand Gestures
2021	Bachelor Thesis	Lennard Scherbring	Analyzing the role of Physical Interactions on Robot Acceptance
2021	Master Thesis	Michel Kohl	Learning Latent Interaction Models using Interaction Primitives
2020	Bachelor Thesis	Yug Ajmera	Learning Movement Primitives for Handshaking Behaviours
2020	Bachelor Thesis	Mark Baierl	Learning Action Representations For Primitives-Based Motion Generation