Keyan Du

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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

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Computer vision › Vision and language › visual grounding › referring expression comprehension
embodied referring expression
1.012026
Embodied Referring Expression Comprehension in Human-Robot Interaction · HRI 2026
Computer vision › Vision and language › visual grounding
referring expression comprehension
1.012026
Embodied Referring Expression Comprehension in Human-Robot Interaction · HRI 2026
Haptics and multimodal interaction
multimodal interaction
0.312026
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
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2026 Embodied Referring Expression Comprehension in Human-Robot Interaction
abstract
As 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
HRI6