Niyati Rawal

AImage Lab, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Via P. Vivarelli 10/1

Modena, Italy

I am currently working as an early-stage researcher in the PERSEO project at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. My research is on combining vision and language for the application of Human-Robot Interaction. Previously, I have worked on emotion expressions in Human-Robot Interaction (TU Darmstadt), human activity recognition and prediction (Inria, Nancy), comparison of deontology and utilitarianism in Pac-Man game setting using knowledge representation (Rovira i Virgili University / Open University of Catalonia) as well as on the underlying mechanism to explain the development of visual attention to faces during infancy (Osaka University).

news

Apr 3, 2025	I defended my PhD thesis titled “Integration of Vision and Language for Physical and Cognitive Human-Robot Interaction”!
Apr 8, 2024	Our paper titled “AIGeN: An Adversarial Approach for Instruction Generation in VLN” has got accepted at CVPRW 2024 (7th Multimodal Learning and Applications Workshop).
Jan 14, 2024	I will be a visiting PGR student at University of Manchester, United Kingdom as a part of my secondment in the PERSEO project.

selected publications

AIGeN: An Adversarial Approach for Instruction Generation in VLN

Niyati Rawal, Roberto Bigazzi, Lorenzo Baraldi, and Rita Cucchiara

In 2024

Accepted in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop

Bib HTML

@inproceedings{rawal2024aigen,
  title = {AIGeN: An Adversarial Approach for Instruction Generation in VLN},
  author = {Rawal, Niyati and Bigazzi, Roberto and Baraldi, Lorenzo and Cucchiara, Rita},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.10054},
  year = {2024},
  emphasis = {Accepted in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop},
}

ExGenNet: Learning to Generate Robotic Facial Expression Using Facial Expression Recognition

Niyati Rawal, Dorothea Koert, Cigdem Turan, Kristian Kersting, Jan Peters, and Ruth Stock-Homburg

Frontiers in Robotics and AI 2022

Bib HTML

@article{rawal2022exgennet,
  title = {ExGenNet: Learning to Generate Robotic Facial Expression Using Facial Expression Recognition},
  author = {Rawal, Niyati and Koert, Dorothea and Turan, Cigdem and Kersting, Kristian and Peters, Jan and Stock-Homburg, Ruth},
  journal = {Frontiers in Robotics and AI},
  volume = {8},
  pages = {730317},
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {Frontiers Media SA},
}