One-day schedule (Monday, January 26th)

9.00-9.10 am

Opening remarks

9.10-9.50 am

Keynote speaker – Whither the human in manufacturing? Manufacturing for humans and manufacturing by humans, Assoc. Prof. Fook Cheong Yee (SIT)  

9.50-10.30 am

Keynote speaker – Soft Robotics and the embodied side of intelligence, Prof. Cecilia Laschi (NUS)

10.30-11.00 am

Coffee break

11.00-12.15 pm

Oral Paper session I 

1. 1.  Intention-Aware Adaptive Planning in Human-Robot Teams (Hadi Banaee, Fatemeh Rastgar, Stephanie Lowry, Franziska Klügl )

1. 2.  Privacy-Preserving Computer Vision for Industry: Three Case Studies in Human-Centric Manufacturing (Sander De Coninck, Emilio Gamba, Bart Van Doninck, Bey Temsamani Abdellatif, Sam Leroux, Pieter Simoens) 

1. 3.  VG-MPP: Visually Grounded Multimodal Procedural Planning from Unstructured Instructional Videos (Muhammet Furkan Ilaslan, Ali Koksal, Qianli Xu) 

1. 4.  Adaptive Cognitive Twins: Modeling Human Attention and Fatigue in Collaborative Manufacturing (Mahule Roy, Subhas Roy) 

1. 5.  From Images to Decisions: Assistive Computer Vision for Non-Metallic Content Estimation in Scrap Metal (Daniil Storonkin, Ilia Dziub, Maksim Golyadkin, Ilya Makarov)

12.15-1.00 pm

Lunch

1.00-2.00 pm

Poster session

2.00-2.45 pm

Oral paper session II 

1.  Assembly-R1: 3D Assembly Reasoning via RL-based Vision Language Models (Yingkai Yang, Junfeng Cheng, Tania Stathak) 

2.  Intelligent Human-Machine Partnership for Manufacturing: Enhancing Warehouse Planning through Simulation-Driven Knowledge Graphs and LLM Collaboration (Himabindu Thogaru, Saisubramaniam Gopalakrishnan, Zishan Ahmad, Anirudh Deodhar) 

3.  A Human-Centric Augmentation Framework for Robust Object Detection (Mei Chee Leong, Yanling Chi, Yanzhu Liu, Ying Sun, Hui Li Tan, Liyuan Lin)  

2.45-3.30 pm

RoCo challenge - Asst. Prof. Ziwei Wang (NTU) & Asst. Prof. Jianfei Yang (NTU) 

Overview and results of the collaborative robot competition

3.30-4.00 pm

Coffee break

4.00-4.50 pm

Panel discussion

Panelists to discuss on related challenges and opportunities in human-centric manufacturing

4.50-5.00 pm

Closing remarks 

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