Pictured: Students demonstrate nonverbal commands as part of their research.
Tonko Bossen, a visiting graduate student to Ross Greer's Machine Intelligence, Interaction, and Imagination (Mi3) Lab, received the "Best Application Paper Award" at the "DriveX Workshop on Foundation Models for V2X-Based Cooperative Autonomous Driving" at the IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) conference.
The title of the research paper was "Can Vision-Language Models Understand and Interpret Dynamic Gestures from Pedestrians? Pilot Datasets and Exploration Towards Instructive Nonverbal Commands for Cooperative Autonomous Vehicles".
Tonko is a visiting MS student from Aalborg University in Denmark, where he is a member of Andreas Møgelmose's Visual Analysis and Perception (VAP) Lab.
