VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Keyan Du
dblp:424/6709
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0004-5277-2835ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Vision and language · 100% | |
| Human-computer interaction and pervasive computing
1 paper |
Human-robot interaction · 77% Haptics and multimodal interaction · 23% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Computer vision › Vision and language › visual grounding › referring expression comprehension
embodied referring expression |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Embodied Referring Expression Comprehension in Human-Robot Interaction · HRI 2026 |
Computer vision › Vision and language › visual grounding
referring expression comprehension |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Embodied Referring Expression Comprehension in Human-Robot Interaction · HRI 2026 |
Haptics and multimodal interaction
multimodal interaction |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | Embodied Referring Expression Comprehension in Human-Robot Interaction · HRI 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
pre-trained representations · 2.0multimodal guided residual learning · 2.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Embodied Referring Expression Comprehension in Human-Robot InteractionabstractAs robots enter human workspaces, there is a crucial need for them to comprehend embodied human instructions, enabling intuitive and fluent human-robot interaction (HRI). However, accurate comprehension is challenging due to a lack of large-scale datasets that capture natural embodied interactions in diverse HRI settings. Existing datasets suffer from perspective bias, single-view data collection, inadequate coverage of nonverbal gestures, and a predominant focus on indoor environments. To address these issues, we present the Refer360 dataset, a large-scale dataset of embodied verbal and nonverbal interactions collected across diverse viewpoints in both indoor and outdoor settings. Additionally, we introduce MuRes, a multimodal guided residual module designed to improve embodied referring expression comprehension. MuRes acts as an information bottleneck, extracting salient modality-specific signals and reinforcing them into pre-trained representations to form complementary features for downstream tasks. We conduct extensive experiments on four datasets, including our Refer360 dataset, and demonstrate that current multimodal models fail to capture embodied interactions comprehensively; however, augmenting them with MuRes consistently improves performance. These findings establish Refer360 as a valuable benchmark and exhibit the potential of guided residual learning to advance embodied referring expression comprehension in robots operating within human environments. Md. Mofijul Islam, Alexi Gladstone, Sujan Sarker, Ganesh Nanduru, Md Fahim, Keyan Du, Aman Chadha, Tariq Iqbal |
HRI | 6 |