Publications

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ICML 2026 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)

Embodied Interpretability: Linking Causal Understanding to Generalization in Vision-Language-Action Models

Hanxin Zhang, Mingshuo Xu, Abdulqader Dhafer, Shigang Yue, Hongbiao Dong, Zhou Daniel Hao

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IROS 2026 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Intent-Handover: Grounding Language in Human-Usage Regions for Trustworthy Robot-to-Human Handovers

Hanxin Zhang, Abdulqader Dhafer, Hongbiao Dong, Zhou Daniel Hao

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IROS 2026 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

R2HandoverSim: A Simulation Framework and Benchmark for Robot-to-Human Object Handovers

Hanxin Zhang, Abdulqader Dhafer, Hongbiao Dong, Zhou Daniel Hao

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Metall. Mater. Trans. B Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 56(3)

Deep Transformers for Analyzing BOF Steelmaking Data

M. Khaksar Ghalati, Zhou Daniel Hao, J. Zhang, Hongbiao Dong

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IEEE T-IP IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

vSTMD: Visual Motion Detection for Extremely Tiny Target at Various Velocities

Mingshuo Xu, Hao Luan, Zhou Daniel Hao, Jigen Peng, Shigang Yue

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Datasets

Dataset Hugging Face

Touch-Ex: A Region-Level, Force-Annotated Visuo-Tactile Dataset

Gemma McLean, Zhou Daniel Hao

A multimodal visuo-tactile dataset captured with the DIGIT optical tactile sensor — 135,000 frames across 14 everyday objects, 14 materials and 5 hardness levels, with region, force and motion annotations plus semantic tactile descriptions.

Hugging Face