Pictured: UC Merced students are all smiles after taking first place.
A team of undergraduate students (Alton Chao, Erika Maquiling, Edmund Chao, Shyam Gupta, Roshan Sanjeev) and visiting graduate student (Tonko Bossen) from Ross Greer's Machine Intelligence, Interaction, and Imagination (Mi3) Laboratory won First Place in the Navigation Instruction Generation Challenge at the "Accessibility, Vision, and Autonomy Workshop" at the IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) conference.
The winning approach is titled, "Automated Context-Aware Navigation Support for Individuals with Visual Impairment Using Multimodal Language Models in Urban Environments".
Following presentation at CVPR, an extended version of the work was then accepted to the "Vision Foundation Models and Generative AI for Accessibility: Challenges and Opportunities" workshop at the International Conference on Computer Vision.
