Nuno Ferreira Duarte
nferreiraduarte@isr.tecnico.ulisboa.pt
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Nuno Ferreira Duarte is a Researcher at ISR-Lisboa in Instituto Superior Técnico. He received his Ph.D (Summa cum laude) in 2023. His PhD was a Joint-Degree between Instituto Superior Técnico (IST-Lisbon) and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) advised by Professor José Santos-Victor
and Professor Aude Billard.
He received a M.Sc (Cum laude) from the University of Lisbon, Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST-Lisbon), Institute of Systems and Robotics (ISR), advised by Professor Pedro U. Lima. His main topics of research are Robotics and Computer Vision with an emphasis on human action understanding from neurological, psychological, and physiological behaviour. The importance non-verbal communication behaviour has on decoding human action intention. Using non-verbal cues as a communication language between humans and robots with the goal of having robots that understand actions as well as understood by humans. He also interned at California Institute of Technology (Caltech SURF Program) under the supervision of Professor Richard Murray. |
Top Publications
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3DSGrasp: 3D Shape-completion for robotic grasp Nuno Ferreira Duarte, Seyed S Mohammadi, et al. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023) [Project page] [Paper] |
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The Role of Object Physical Properties in Human Handover Actions: Applications in Robotics Nuno Ferreira Duarte, Aude Billard, José Santos-Victor IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems 2022 [Project page] [Paper] |
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The Gaze Dialogue Model: Nonverbal Communication in HHI and HRI Nuno Ferreira Duarte, Mirko Raković, Jorge Marques, Aude Billard, José Santos-Victor IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics 2022 [Project page] [Paper] |
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Action Anticipation: Reading the Intentions of Humans and Robots Nuno Ferreira Duarte, Mirko Raković, Jovica Tasevski, Moreno Ignazio Coco, Aude Billard, and José Santos-Victor IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL-Letters 2018) [Project page] [Paper] |
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Action Alignment from Gaze Cues Nuno Ferreira Duarte, Mirko Raković, Jorge Marques, José Santos-Victor European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2018) [Project page] [Paper] |
Software
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Gaze Dialogue controller for iCub Humanoid Robot Nuno Ferreira Duarte, Mirko Raković Human-robot interaction system to recognize and perform pick-and-place and handover actions [Software] [Paper] |
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iCub Face Detection Nuno Ferreira Duarte SSD MobileNet network trained on iCub pictures to detect in real-time the iCub face [Software] |