Publications de Jean-Marc Odobez

Giving Sense to Inputs: Toward an Accessible Control Framework for Shared Autonomy

While shared autonomy offers significant potential for assistive robotics, key questions remain about how to effectively map 2D control inputs to 6D robot motions. An intuitive framework should allow users to input commands effortlessly, with the robot res ...

IEEE2025

ChildPlay-Hand: A Dataset of Hand Manipulations in the Wild

Jean-Marc Odobez, Samy Tafasca

Hand-Object Interaction (HOI) is gaining significant attention, particularly with the creation of numerous egocentric datasets driven by AR/VR applications. However, third-person view HOI has received less attention, especially in terms of datasets. Most t ...

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH2025

From Forest to Zoo: Great Ape Behavior Recognition with Chimpbehave

Jean-Marc Odobez

This paper addresses the significant challenge of recognizing behaviors in non-human primates, specifically focusing on chimpanzees. Automated behavior recognition is crucial for both conservation efforts and the advancement of behavioral research. However ...

SPRINGER2025

A Unified Model for Gaze Following and Social Gaze Prediction

Jean-Marc Odobez, Anshul Gupta, Samy Tafasca, Naravich Chutisilp

Human gaze plays a crucial role in communication and social interaction. Many recent studies have focused on predicting the 2D pixel location of a person's gaze target in an image. However, this approach has limitations when it comes to studying gaze for d ...

IEEE2024

CCDb-HG: Novel Annotations and Gaze-Aware Representations for Head Gesture Recognition

Jean-Marc Odobez

Despite remarkable progress in various human behavior perception tasks, head gesture recognition (HGR) has received limited attention in terms of datasets, benchmarks, and methods. In this work, we aim to address this gap and make two main contributions. F ...

IEEE2024

ChildPlay: A New Benchmark for Understanding Children's Gaze Behaviour

Jean-Marc Odobez, Anshul Gupta, Samy Tafasca

Gaze behaviors such as eye-contact or shared attention are important markers for diagnosing developmental disorders in children. While previous studies have looked at some of these elements, the analysis is usually performed on private datasets and is rest ...

Ieee Computer Soc2023

A Modular Multimodal Architecture for Gaze Target Prediction: Application to Privacy-Sensitive Settings

Jean-Marc Odobez, Anshul Gupta, Samy Tafasca

Predicting where a person is looking is a complex task, requiring to understand not only the person's gaze and scene content, but also the 3D scene structure and the person's situation (are they manipulating? interacting or observing others? attentive?) to ...

IEEE2022

Robust Unsupervised Gaze Calibration Using Conversation and Manipulation Attention Priors

Jean-Marc Odobez, Rémy Alain Siegfried

Gaze estimation is a difficult task, even for humans. However, as humans, we are good at understanding a situation and exploiting it to guess the expected visual focus of attention of people, and we usually use this information to retrieve people's gaze. I ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2022

Pose Transformers (POTR): Human Motion Prediction with Non-Autoregressive Transformers

Jean-Marc Odobez, Michael Villamizar

We propose to leverage Transformer architectures for non-autoregressive human motion prediction. Our approach decodes elements in parallel from a query sequence, instead of conditioning on previous predictions such as in state-of-the-art RNN-based approach ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2021

Neural Network Adaptation and Data Augmentation for Multi-Speaker Direction-of-Arrival Estimation

Jean-Marc Odobez, Petr Motlicek, Weipeng He

IEEE2021