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 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.
Aug 25, 2022	I will be presenting “ExNavIE: An Instruction Generation Approach to Explain Navigation in an Indoor Environment” at the 5th Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning (ACDL), Siena, Tuscany, Italy.

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},
}