| Local Time (GMT-5) | Description | Video | ||||||||||||||||||
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| 09:00 - 09:10 (10 min) | Overview and Introductions | |||||||||||||||||||
| Invited Talks Session 1: Predicting Human Intention | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 09:10 - 09:30 (20 min) | Luigi Palmieri: Context-aware Predictive Planning in Human-shared Environments | |||||||||||||||||||
| 09:30 - 09:50 (20 min) | Ilaria Torre: Negotiating and communicating navigational intentions in social robot navigation | |||||||||||||||||||
| 09:50 - 10:30 (40 min) | Moderated Q&A with Luigi Palmieri and Ilaria Torre (Moderators: Rachid Alami & Nathan Tsoi) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10:30 - 11:20 (50 min) | Break & Poster Session 1 (Posters: 1, 11, 10, 3, 17, 12, 2, 6, 18) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Invited Talks Session 2: Learning for Social Navigation | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 11:20 - 11:40 (20 min) | Peter Stone: Leveraging Human Social Navigation Prowess for Robot Social Navigation | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11:40 - 12:00 (20 min) | Dhruv Shah: Steering Robot Foundation Models for Social Compliance | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12:00 - 12:40 (40 min) | Moderated Q&A with Peter Stone and Dhruv Shah (Moderators: Anthony Francis & Claudia Perez D'Arpino) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12:40 - 13:40 (60 min) | Break for Lunch | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13:40 - 13:55 (15 min) | Announcement of all benchmark results | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13:55 - 14:45 (50 min) | Shortlisted Paper Presentations (5 min Pres. +3 min QA) + Benchmark Winners13:55 HEIGHT: Heterogeneous Interaction Graph Transformer for Robot Navigation in Crowded and Constrained Environments 14:03 Multi-Agent Inverse Reinforcement Learning in Real World Unstructured Pedestrian Crowds 14:11 GameChat: Multi-LLM Dialogue for Safe, Agile, and Socially Optimal Multi-Agent Navigation in Constrained Environments 14:19 From Cognition to Precognition: A Future-Aware Framework for Social Navigation 14:27 VL-TGS: Trajectory Generation and Selection using Vision Language Models in Mapless Outdoor Environments
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| 14:45 - 15:35 (50 min) | Break & Poster Session 2 (Posters: 15, 8, 5, 4, 16, 9, 14, 7, 13) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Invited Talks Session 3: Advances in Methods | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 15:35 - 15:55 (20 min) | Nicholas Roy: Hierarchical Models for Navigation | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15:55 - 16:15 (20 min) | Marynel Vázquez: Social Navigation Performance is in the Eye of the Beholder | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16:15 - 16:45 (30 min) | Moderated Q&A with Nicholas Roy and Marynel Vázquez (Moderators: Harold Soh & Allan Wang) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16:45 - 17:00 (15 min) | Awards and Closing remarks | |||||||||||||||||||