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AVATAR: Reinforcement Learning to See, Hear, and Reason Over Video
Yogesh Kulkarni and Pooyan Fazli
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026- Paper:
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ChartQA-X: Generating Explanations for Visual Chart Reasoning
Shamanthak Hegde, Pooyan Fazli, and Hasti Seifi
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2026- Paper: PDF
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ViDscribe: Multimodal AI for Customizing Audio Description and Question Answering in Online Videos
Maryam Cheema, Sina Elahimanesh, Pooyan Fazli, and Hasti Seifi
ACM SIGCHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA), 2026- Paper: PDF
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Video Generation Models: A Survey of Post-Training and Alignment
Chaoyu Li, Xiaoyi Gu, Yogesh Kulkarni, Eun Woo Im, Mohammadmahdi Honarmand, Zeyu Wang, Juntong Song, Fei Du, Xilin Jiang, Kexin Zheng, Tianzhi Li, Fei Tao, and Pooyan Fazli
TechRxiv:177220111.17351887, 2026- Paper: PDF
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CASHEW: Stabilizing Multimodal Reasoning via Iterative Trajectory Aggregation
Chaoyu Li, Deeparghya Dutta Barua, Fei Tao, and Pooyan Fazli
arXiv:2601.08010 [cs.CV], 2026- Paper: PDF
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VidHalluc: Evaluating Temporal Hallucinations in Multimodal Large Language Models for Video Understanding
Chaoyu Li, Eun Woo Im, and Pooyan Fazli
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025- Paper: PDF
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VidComposition: Can MLLMs Analyze Compositions in Compiled Video?
Yunlong Tang, JunJia Guo, Hang Hua, Susan Liang, Mingqian Feng, Xinyang Li, Rui Mao, Chao Huang, Jing Bi, Zeliang Zhang, Pooyan Fazli, and Chenliang Xu
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025- Paper: PDF
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VideoPASTA: 7K Pairs That Matter for Video-LLM Alignment
Yogesh Kulkarni and Pooyan Fazli
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2025- Paper: PDF
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VideoSAVi: Self-Aligned Video Language Models without Human Supervision
Yogesh Kulkarni and Pooyan Fazli
Conference on Language Modeling (COLM), 2025- Paper: PDF
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VideoA11y: Method and Dataset for Accessible Video Description
Chaoyu Li, Sid Padmanabhuni, Maryam Cheema, Hasti Seifi, and Pooyan Fazli
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2025- Paper: PDF
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DescribePro: Collaborative Audio Description with Human-AI Interaction
Maryam Cheema, Sina Elahimanesh, Samuel Martin, Pooyan Fazli, and Hasti Seifi
ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS), 2025- Paper: PDF
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Describe Now: User-Driven Audio Description for Blind and Low Vision Individuals
Maryam Cheema, Hasti Seifi, and Pooyan Fazli
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), 2025- Paper: PDF
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RCareGen: An Interface for Scene and Task Generation in RCareWorld
Shuaixing Chen, Ruolin Ye, Saurabh Dingwani, Pooyan Fazli, Hasti Seifi, and Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Late-Breaking Reports (HRI), 2025- Paper: PDF
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VideoA11y-40K: A Large-Scale Dataset for Accessible Video Understanding
Chaoyu Li, Sid Padmanabhuni, Maryam Cheema, Hasti Seifi, and Pooyan Fazli
VizWiz Grand Challenge Workshop, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025- Paper: PDF
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EgoVITA: Learning to Plan and Verify for Egocentric Video Reasoning
Yogesh Kulkarni and Pooyan Fazli
arXiv:2511.18242 [cs.CV], 2025- Paper: PDF
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FrameOracle: Learning What to See and How Much to See in Videos
Chaoyu Li, Tianzhi Li, Fei Tao, Zhenyu Zhao, Ziqian Wu, Maozheng Zhao, Juntong Song, Cheng Niu, and Pooyan Fazli
arXiv:2510.03584 [cs.CV], 2025- Paper: PDF
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ReGATE: Learning Faster and Better with Fewer Tokens in MLLMs
Chaoyu Li, Yogesh Kulkarni, and Pooyan Fazli
arXiv:2507.21420 [cs.CV], 2025- Paper: PDF
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OSCaR: Object State Captioning and State Change Representation
Nguyen Nguyen, Jing Bi, Ali Vosoughi, Yapeng Tian, Pooyan Fazli, and Chenliang Xu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL Findings), 2024- Paper: PDF
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Artificial Intelligence in Virtual Reality for Blind and Low Vision Individuals: A Literature Review
Tianhang Liu, Pooyan Fazli, and Heejin Jeong
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting (HFES), 2024- Paper: PDF
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First-Hand Impressions: Charting and Predicting User Impressions of Robot Hands
Hasti Seifi, Steven A. Vasquez, Hyunyoung Kim, and Pooyan Fazli
ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), 2023- Paper: PDF
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Clustering Social Touch Gestures for Human-Robot Interaction
Ramzi Abou Chahine, Steven Vasquez, Pooyan Fazli, and Hasti Seifi
International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), 2023- Paper: PDF
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Designing and Evaluating Interactive Tools for a Robot Hand Collection
Ramzi Abou Chahine, Sid Padmanabhuni, Pooyan Fazli, and Hasti Seifi
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Late-Breaking Reports (HRI), 2023- Paper: PDF
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CLearViD: Curriculum Learning for Video Description
Cheng-Yu Chuang, Pooyan Fazli
arXiv:2311.04480 [cs.CV], 2023- Paper: PDF
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Charting Visual Impression of Robot Hands
Hasti Seifi, Steven A. Vasquez, Hyunyoung Kim, and Pooyan Fazli
arXiv:2211.09397 [cs.RO], 2022- Paper: PDF
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Automated Video Description for Blind and Low Vision Users
Aditya Bodi, Pooyan Fazli, Shasta Ihorn, Yue-Ting Siu, Andrew Scott, Lothar Narins, Yash Kant, Abhishek Das, and Ilmi Yoon
ACM SIGCHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA), 2021- Paper: PDF
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NarrationBot and InfoBot: A Hybrid System for Automated Video Description
Shasta Ihorn, Yue-Ting Siu, Aditya Bodi, Lothar Narins, Jose M. Castanon, Yash Kant, Abhishek Das, Ilmi Yoon, and Pooyan Fazli
arXiv:2111.03994 [cs.HC], 2021- Paper: PDF
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Multi-Robot Task Allocation with Time Window and Ordering Constraints
Elina Suslova and Pooyan Fazli
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020- Paper: PDF
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Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning to Increase Video Accessibility for Visually Impaired and Blind Users
Beste Yuksel, Pooyan Fazli, Umang Mathur, Vaishali Bisht, Soo Jung Kim, Joshua Junhee Lee, Seung Jung Jin, Yue-Ting Siu, Joshua A. Miele, and Ilmi Yoon
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), 2020- Paper: PDF
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Increasing Video Accessibility for Visually Impaired Users with Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning
Beste Yuksel, Pooyan Fazli, Umang Mathur, Vaishali Bisht, Soo Jung Kim, Joshua Junhee Lee, Seung Jung Jin, Yue-Ting Siu, Joshua A. Miele, and Ilmi Yoon
ACM SIGCHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA), 2020- Paper: PDF
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Decentralized Multi-Robot Task Allocation with Time Window and Ordering Constraints
Elina Suslova and Pooyan Fazli
Workshop on Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Task Allocation and Coordination, Robotics: Science and Systems Conference (RSS), 2020- Paper: PDF
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Ensemble Policy Distillation in Deep Reinforcement Learning
Yuxiang Sun and Pooyan Fazli
Workshop on Reinforcement Learning in Games, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020-
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DeepMoTIon: Learning to Navigate Like Humans
Mahmoud Hamandi, Mike D'Arcy, and Pooyan Fazli
IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2019- Paper: PDF
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Real-time Policy Distillation in Deep Reinforcement Learning
Yuxiang Sun and Pooyan Fazli
ML for Systems Workshop, Thirty-third Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2019- Paper: PDF
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Video Accessibility for the Visually Impaired
Ilmi Yoon, Umang Mathur, Brenna Gibson Tirumalashetty, Pooyan Fazli, and Joshua Miele
AI for Social Good Workshop, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2019- Paper: PDF
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Online Learning of Human Navigational Intentions
Mahmoud Hamandi and Pooyan Fazli
International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), 2018 (Best Paper Award Finalist)- Paper: PDF
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Predicting the Target in Human-Robot Manipulation Tasks
Mahmoud Hamandi, Emre Hatay, and Pooyan Fazli
International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), 2018 (Best Interactive Paper Award Finalist)- Paper: PDF
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Learning Human Navigational Intentions
Mahmoud Hamandi and Pooyan Fazli
Workshop on Towards a Framework for Joint Action: What about Theory of Mind?, Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2018- Paper: PDF
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Human Target Prediction in Cooperative Manipulation Tasks
Mahmoud Hamandi, Emre Hatay, and Pooyan Fazli
Workshop on Towards a Framework for Joint Action: What about Theory of Mind?, Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2018- Paper: PDF
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Learning to Navigate Like Humans
Mahmoud Hamandi, Mike D'Arcy, and Pooyan Fazli
Workshop on Learning and Inference in Robotics, Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2018- Paper: PDF
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Safe Navigation in Dynamic, Unknown, Continuous, and Cluttered Environments
Mike D'Arcy, Pooyan Fazli, and Dan Simon
IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), 2017- Paper: PDF
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Beam: A Collaborative Autonomous Mobile Service Robot
Utkarsh Patel, Emre Hatay, Mike D'Arcy, Ghazal Zand, and Pooyan Fazli
AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction (AI-HRI), 2017- Paper: PDF
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Safe Navigation in Dynamic, Unknown, Continuous, and Cluttered Environments
Mike D'Arcy, Pooyan Fazli, and Dan Simon
Workshop on Planning, Perception and Navigation for Intelligent Vehicles, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2017- Paper: PDF
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Setting Up the Beam for Human-Centered Service Tasks
Utkarsh Patel, Emre Hatay, Mike D'Arcy, Ghazal Zand, and Pooyan Fazli
arxiv:1710.06831 [cs.RO], 2017- Paper: PDF
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Help Me! Sharing of Instructions Between Remote and Heterogeneous Robots
Jianmin Ji, Pooyan Fazli, Song Liu, Tiago Pereira, Dongcai Lu, Jiangchuan Liu, Manuela Veloso, and Xiaoping Chen
International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), 2016- Paper: PDF
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Reports on the 2015 AAAI Workshop Series
Stefano V. Albrecht, J. Christopher Beck, David L. Buckeridge, Adi Botea, Cornelia Caragea, Chi-Hung Chi, Theodoros Damoulas, Bistra N. Dilkina, Eric Eaton, Pooyan Fazli, Sam Ganzfried, Marius Thomas Lindauer, Marlos C. Machado, Yuri Malitsky, Gary Marcus, Sebastiaan Meijer, Francesca Rossi, Arash Shaban-Nejad, Sylvie Thiebaux, Manuela M. Veloso, Toby Walsh, Can Wang, Jie Zhang, and Yu Zheng
AI Magazine, 36(2): 90-101, 2015- Paper: PDF
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Knowledge, Skill, and Behavior Transfer in Autonomous Robots: Proceedings of the 2014 AAAI Fall Symposium
Matteo Leonetti, Eric Eaton, and Pooyan Fazli
AAAI Technical Report FS-14-04, ISBN 978-1-57735-694-3, AAAI Press, 2014- Paper: PDF
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The Effects of Communication and Visual Range in Multi-Robot Repeated Boundary Coverage
Pooyan Fazli and Alan K. Mackworth
IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), 2012- Paper: PDF
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Multi-Robot Repeated Boundary Coverage Under Uncertainty
Pooyan Fazli and Alan K. Mackworth
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2012- Paper: PDF
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Multi-Robot Repeated Area Coverage: Performance Optimization Under Various Visual Ranges
Pooyan Fazli, Alireza Davoodi, and Alan K. Mackworth
Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV), 2012- Paper: PDF
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Multi-Robot Repeated Boundary Coverage Under Uncertainty
Pooyan Fazli, Alireza Davoodi, and Alan K. Mackworth
Workshop on Robotics for Environment Modeling, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2011- Paper: PDF
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Complete and Robust Cooperative Robot Area Coverage with Limited Range
Pooyan Fazli, Alireza Davoodi, Philippe Pasquier, and Alan K. Mackworth
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2010- Paper: PDF
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Curious George: An Integrated Visual Search Platform
David Meger, Marius Muja, Scott Helmer, Ankur Gupta, Catherine Gamroth, Tomas Hoffman, Matthew Baumann, Tristram Southey, Pooyan Fazli, Walter Wohlkinger, Pooja Viswanathan, James J. Little, David G. Lowe, and James Orwell
Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV), 2010- Paper: PDF
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Multi-Robot Area Coverage with Limited Visibility
Pooyan Fazli, Alireza Davoodi, Philippe Pasquier, and Alan K. Mackworth
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), pp. 1501-1502, 2010- Paper: PDF
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Fault-Tolerant Multi-Robot Area Coverage with Limited Visibility
Pooyan Fazli, Alireza Davoodi, Philippe Pasquier, and Alan K. Mackworth
Workshop on Search and Pursuit/Evasion in the Physical World: Efficiency, Scalability, and Guarantees, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2010- Paper: PDF
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On Multi-Robot Area Coverage
Pooyan Fazli
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Doctoral Consortium, 2010- Paper: PDF
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On Multi-Robot Area Coverage
Pooyan Fazli
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Doctoral Consortium, 2010- Paper: PDF
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On Multi-Robot Area Coverage
Pooyan Fazli
Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CanadianAI), Doctoral Consortium, 2010- Paper: PDF
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On Multi-Robot Area Coverage
Pooyan Fazli, Alireza Davoodi, Philippe Pasquier, and Alan K. Mackworth
Japan Conference on Computational Geometry and Graphs (JCCGG), pp. 75-76, 2009- Paper: PDF
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Human-Robot Teams in Entertainment and Other Everyday Scenarios
Pooyan Fazli and Alan K. Mackworth
International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE), 2009- Paper: PDF
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Semantic Robot Vision Challenge : Current State and Future Directions
Scott Helmer, David Meger, Pooja Viswanathan, Sancho McCann, Matthew Dockrey, Pooyan Fazli, Tristram Southey, Marius Muja, Michael Joya, Jim Little, David Lowe, and Alan K. Mackworth
Workshop on Competitions in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2009- Paper: PDF
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Unsupervised Categorization (Filtering) of Google Images based on Visual Consistency
Pooyan Fazli and Ara Bedrosian
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pp. 1796-1797, 2008- Paper: PDF
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The UBC Semantic Robotic Vision System
Scott Helmer, David Meger, Per-Erik Forssen, Tristram Southey, Sancho McCann, Pooyan Fazli, Jim Little, and David Lowe
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pp. 1983-1984, 2007- Paper: PDF
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