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Overview

José Santos-Victor is affiliated with Instituto Superior Técnico in Portugal and has an extensive publication record across multiple fields of study, primarily in Computer Science and Engineering.

Their research covers a range of specialized subfields, including:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Social Psychology
  • Artificial Intelligence

The main topics of their work focus on:

  • Robot Manipulation and Learning
  • Human Pose and Action Recognition
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Social Robot Interaction and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Horticultural and Viticultural Research
  • Action Observation and Synchronization

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Santos-Victor include:

  • Nuno Ferreira Duarte
  • Plínio Moreno
  • Atabak Dehban
  • Alexandre Bernardino
  • Gonçalo Victorino

The primary publication venues in which Santos-Victor has contributed most frequently are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OENO One
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
  • IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems

Some recent representative papers illustrate the diversity and scope of their research:

  • "One-shot action recognition in challenging therapy scenarios," 2021, Zaguan (University of Zaragoza Repository)
  • "Yield components detection and image-based indicators for non-invasive grapevine yield prediction at different phenological phases," 2020, OENO One
  • "Design of a Robotic Coach for Motor, Social and Cognitive Skills Training Toward Applications With ASD Children," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
  • "The Gaze Dialogue Model: Nonverbal Communication in HHI and HRI," 2022, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
  • "Automatic Generation of Object Shapes With Desired Affordances Using Voxelgrid Representation," 2020, Frontiers in Neurorobotics

Best Publications

  • The iCub humanoid robot: An open-systems platform for research in cognitive development

    Giorgio Metta;Lorenzo Natale;Francesco Nori;Giulio Sandini

  • Learning Object Affordances: From Sensory--Motor Coordination to Imitation

    L. Montesano;M. Lopes;A. Bernardino;J. Santos-Victor

  • Vision-based navigation and environmental representations with an omnidirectional camera

    J. Gaspar;N. Winters;J. Santos-Victor

  • iCub: the design and realization of an open humanoid platform for cognitive and neuroscience research

    Nikolaos G. Tsagarakis;Giorgio Metta;Giulio Sandini;David Vernon

  • Omni-directional vision for robot navigation

    N. Winters;J. Gaspar;G. Lacey;J. Santos-Victor

  • Design of the robot-cub (iCub) head

    R. Beira;M. Lopes;M. Praca;J. Santos-Victor

  • Underwater Video Mosaics as Visual Navigation Maps

    Nuno Gracias;José Santos-Victor

  • Divergent stereo in autonomous navigation: from bees to robots

    José Santos-Victor;Giulio Sandini;Francesca Curotto;Stefano Garibaldi

  • Multimodal saliency-based bottom-up attention a framework for the humanoid robot iCub

    J. Ruesch;M. Lopes;A. Bernardino;J. Hornstein

  • Affordances in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Robotics: A Survey

    Lorenzo Jamone;Emre Ugur;Angelo Cangelosi;Luciano Fadiga

  • Mosaic-based navigation for autonomous underwater vehicles

    N.R. Gracias;S. van der Zwaan;A. Bernardino;J. Santos-Victor

  • Detection and classification of highway lanes using vehicle motion trajectories

    J. Melo;A. Naftel;A. Bernardino;J. Santos-Victor

  • Learning relational affordance models for robots in multi-object manipulation tasks

    Bogdan Moldovan;Plinio Moreno;Martijn van Otterlo;Jose Santos-Victor

  • Divergent stereo for robot navigation: learning from bees

    J. Santos-Victor;G. Sandini;F. Curotto;S. Garibaldi

  • Visual learning by imitation with motor representations

    M. Lopes;J. Santos-Victor

  • Sound Localization for Humanoid Robots - Building Audio-Motor Maps based on the HRTF

    Jonas Hornstein;Manuel Lopes;Jose Santos-Victor;Francisco Lacerda

  • The design of the iCub humanoid robot

    Alberto Parmiggiani;Marco Maggiali;Lorenzo Natale;Francesco Nori

  • Visual Behaviors for Docking

    José Santos-Victor;Giulio Sandini

  • Constant resolution omnidirectional cameras

    J. Gaspar;C. Decco;J. Okamoto;J. Santos-Victor

  • Binocular tracking: integrating perception and control

    A. Bernardino;J. Santos-Victor

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexandre Bernardino
Alexandre Bernardino Instituto Superior Técnico
Manuel Lopes
Manuel Lopes Instituto Superior Técnico
Giulio Sandini
Giulio Sandini Italian Institute of Technology
Aude Billard
Aude Billard École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Atsuo Takanishi
Atsuo Takanishi Waseda University
Cecilia Laschi
Cecilia Laschi National University of Singapore
Paolo Dario
Paolo Dario Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Auke Jan Ijspeert
Auke Jan Ijspeert École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Luc De Raedt
Luc De Raedt KU Leuven
Susana Cardoso
Susana Cardoso Instituto Superior Técnico

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