Welcome to the Vision in Human Robotics Lab

The Vision in Human Robotics lab develops intelligent algorithms to empower individuals with mobility disorders. Using visual cues capable of understanding various aspects of human states, we seek to infer and enhance movement capabilities in real-world settings. 

News

• May 2025: Two papers accepted at ICORR 2025!  Shirui (Eric) Lyu will be presenting them in Chicago.

• April 2025: The proposal "Automated Detection of Swollen Joints in Rheumatoid Arthritis" has been funded by the  EPSRC Impact Accelerator Award.  

• March 2025: Grant awarded from the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Charitable Trust with Dr Hammerbeck, Dr Di Giulio, Dr Chapman, and Dr Neate 

• February 2025: Grant awarded from the Private Physiotherapy Educational Foundation with Dr Hammerbeck and Dr Di Giulio

• January 2025: Dr. Gionfrida Programme Chair of The 6th King's UK Manipulation Workshop 

• December 2024: Dr Gionfrida presents at the 60 Years of Robotics at Queen Mary — event here

• November 2024: Secured PPEF funding to recruit a Research Assistant for a stroke rehabilitation project—apply here [CLOSED]

• October 2024: Dr Gionfrida presents at the I-RIM at the Robotics Young Talents roundtable

• September 2024: New article highlighting Dr Gionfrida work, available here 

• August 2024: Dr Gionfrida was awarded a prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowship 

• July 2024: Dr Gionfrida featured in The Engineer, here 

• June 2024: Informatics research showcase, info available here

• May 2024: paper titled "Wearable Robots for the Real World Need Vision" accepted in Science Robotics, here 

• May 2024: paper titled "Muscle architecture parameters inferred from simulated single element ultrasound traces" accepted in BioRob 2024!

• April 2024: The IEEE RAS TC on Computer & Robot Vision is organizing a mentorship event on faculty positions in robotics, sign up here 

• April 2024: Shirui (Eric) Lyu PhD student in VHR Lab has been accepted as a participant in the  ETH Robotics Summer School, well done Eric!

• March 2024: The workshop titled "AI-Based Estimation and Control of Wearable Robotic Systems for Enhancing Human Mobility" has been accepted at the 10th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob 2024).

• March 2024: The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR) has officially a Special Issue focusing on 'Foundation Models and Neural-Symbolic AI for Robotics' with Dr. Gionfrida serving as one of the guest editors. 

• February 2024: The proposal "Affordable myoelectric hand prosthetic to improve user experiences and reduce abandonment rates" has been funded by the  EPSRC Impact Accelerator Award. 

• January 2024: The workshop titled "Supervised Autonomy: how to Shape human-robot Interaction from the Body to the Brain" was accepted at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)  2024.

• December 2023: Welcome Shirui (Eric) Lyu, a new PhD student in VHR Lab working on the role of vision in realistic hand models, co-supervised with Dr. Vittorio Caggiano.

• December 2023: Dr. Gionfrida has received the prestigious Italy Made Me award at the Embassy of Italy in London, funded by Pirelli.

• December 2023: Dr Gionfrida has extended an invitation to Dr. Maurice Fallon from the Dynamic Robot Systems Group at the University of Oxford. 

• December 2023: Dr. Gionfrida has extended an invitation to Dr. Antonia Creswell ex-research Scientist at Deep Mind and co-founder of BobbyChat a workplace wellbeing app.

• November 2023: Dr. Gionfrida has extended an invitation to Abdoul Amadou, who delivered a talk on his work on deep learning and computer vision for healthcare at Siemens Healthineers.

• November 2023: Dr. Gionfrida has extended an invitation to Dr. Tianhing Dai, who delivered a talk on his work on computer vision and reinforcement learning as a new Lecturer in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Aberdeen.

• October 2023: Welcome Chen (Tyrone) Hu, a new PhD student in VHR Lab working on contextually-aware wearable robots, co-supervised with Dr. Shan Luo.

• October 2023: Dr. Gionfrida delivered a talk at the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2023  with a talk titled: SLAM Based Active Mapping in Wearable Robotics (talk available here)

• September 2023: Dr. Gionfrida has extended an invitation to Dr. Vikash Kumar, who will be delivering a seminar titled: 'The Brain's Role in Decision-Making: Unveiling the Business Within.'  Join us for this insightful online event (available here)!

• September 2023: Dr. Gionfrida is the co-organizer of the ICCV 2023 Workshop on Robot Learning and SLAM (here)

• September 2023: Paper presented at ICORR at the Rehabweek in Singapore.

• August 2023: MRC DTP  PhD studentship available on vision in soft tactile for contextual-aware activity recognition. More details here.

• June 2023: One studentship on context-aware control of a wearable robotic system. More details here.

• June 2023: One paper on improved fascicle length estimates from ultrasound was accepted at the IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR) 2023

• June 2023: Two posters on vision-based environmental awareness at the CVWR workshop at ICRA 2023 

• June 2023: Dr. Gionfrida is the co-organizer of the ICRA 2023 Computer Vision for Wearable Robotics (CVWR) Workshop (here)

• June 2023: Dr. Letizia Gionfrida joins the Department of Informatics at King's College London as a Lecturer in Computer Vision!

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