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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to activity recognition in computer vision
  • 2011 - ACM Distinguished Member

Overview

Aaron F. Bobick is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily within computer science, neuroscience, and psychology.

Their recent publications highlight contributions in areas such as human activity comprehension, human-robot interaction, and event cognition. Notable papers include:

  • "The multi-angle extended three-dimensional activities (META) stimulus set: A tool for studying event cognition," 2022, published in Behavior Research Methods
  • "Modeling human activity comprehension at human scale: Prediction, segmentation, and categorization," 2024, published in PNAS Nexus
  • "Toward Safe and Efficient Human-Robot Interaction via Behavior-Driven Danger Signaling," 2023, published in IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
  • "Robot Action Planning in the Presence of Careless Humans," 2024, published in IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems
  • "Toward Safe and Efficient Human-Robot Interaction via Behavior-Driven Danger Signaling," 2021, published on arXiv (Cornell University)

The range of publication venues where they often contribute includes:

  • PNAS Nexus
  • Behavior Research Methods
  • IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
  • IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Aaron F. Bobick has collaborated frequently with several co-authors such as Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, Bruno Sinopoli, Matthew A. Bezdek, Todd S. Braver, and Jeffrey M. Zacks. These collaborations have often resulted in multiple joint publications.

Their work covers several subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, computer vision and pattern recognition, statistics, probability and uncertainty, and artificial intelligence.

Research topics addressed in their publications encompass neural and behavioral psychology studies, action observation and synchronization, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, risk and safety analysis, generative adversarial networks and image synthesis, and computer graphics and visualization techniques.

Aaron F. Bobick has received awards such as the IEEE Fellow distinction in 2015 for contributions to activity recognition in computer vision, as well as being named an ACM Distinguished Member in 2011.

Best Publications

  • The recognition of human movement using temporal templates

    A.F. Bobick;J.W. Davis

  • Graphcut textures: image and video synthesis using graph cuts

    Vivek Kwatra;Arno Schödl;Irfan Essa;Greg Turk

  • The representation and recognition of human movement using temporal templates

    J.W. Davis;A.F. Bobick

  • Recognition of visual activities and interactions by stochastic parsing

    Y.A. Ivanov;A.F. Bobick

  • Texture optimization for example-based synthesis

    Vivek Kwatra;Irfan Essa;Aaron Bobick;Nipun Kwatra

  • Parametric hidden Markov models for gesture recognition

    A.D. Wilson;A.F. Bobick

  • Interactive exercise apparatus

    W. Thatcher Ulrich;Harvey A. Koselka;Aaron F. Bobick;Michael H. Benjamin

  • Large Occlusion Stereo

    Aaron F. Bobick;Stephen S. Intille

  • The KidsRoom: A Perceptually-Based Interactive and Immersive Story Environment

    Aaron F. Bobick;Stephen S. Intille;James W. Davis;Freedom Baird

  • Gait recognition using static, activity-specific parameters

    A.F. Bobick;A.Y. Johnson

  • Recognition of human body motion using phase space constraints

    L.W. Campbell;A.F. Bobick

  • Movement, activity and action: the role of knowledge in the perception of motion

    Aaron F. Bobick

  • A state-based approach to the representation and recognition of gesture

    A.F. Bobick;A.D. Wilson

  • Real-time closed-world tracking

    S.S. Intille;J.W. Davis;A.F. Bobick

  • Invariant features for 3-D gesture recognition

    L.W. Campbell;D.A. Becker;A. Azarbayejani;A.F. Bobick

  • Fast Lighting Independent Background Subtraction

    Yuri Ivanov;Aaron Bobick;John Liu

  • Real-time recognition of activity using temporal templates

    A. Bobick;J. Davis

  • Disparity-Space Images and Large Occlusion Stereo

    Stephen S. Intille;Aaron F. Bobick

  • Gait recognition from time-normalized joint-angle trajectories in the walking plane

    R. Tanawongsuwan;A. Bobick

  • A Multi-view Method for Gait Recognition Using Static Body Parameters

    Amos Y. Johnson;Aaron F. Bobick

  • On Human Action

    Aaron F. Bobick;Volker Krüger

  • A Perceptually-Based Interactive and Immersive Story Environment

    Aaron F. Bobick;Stephen S. Intille;James W. Davis;Freedom Baird

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew D. Wilson
Andrew D. Wilson Microsoft (United States)
James W. Davis
James W. Davis The Ohio State University
Stephen S. Intille
Stephen S. Intille Northeastern University
Irfan Essa
Irfan Essa Georgia Institute of Technology
James M. Rehg
James M. Rehg University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Allen Tannenbaum
Allen Tannenbaum Stony Brook University
Andrea L. Thomaz
Andrea L. Thomaz The University of Texas at Austin
Magnus Egerstedt
Magnus Egerstedt University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Gregory D. Abowd
Gregory D. Abowd Northeastern University
Elizabeth D. Mynatt
Elizabeth D. Mynatt Northeastern University

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