Welcome to the Vision in Human Robotics Lab

Contact:

BH(N) 5.19,

Bush House, Strand Campus,

30, Aldwych,

London WC2B 4BG

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/letizia-gionfrida

Email: letizia.gionfrida@kcl.ac.uk

News

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!