Francisco Cruz

Orcid: 0000-0002-1131-3382

Affiliations:
  • University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia (since 2022)
  • Universidad Central de Chile, Santiago, Chile (since 2017)
  • Deakin University, School of Information Technology, Geelong, Australia (2019 - 2022)
  • University of Hamburg, Germany (PhD 2017)
  • Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chila (former)


According to our database1, Francisco Cruz authored at least 89 papers between 2007 and 2026.

Collaborative distances:
  • Dijkstra number2 of four.
  • Erdős number3 of four.

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Bibliography

2026
Self-Predictive Representation for Autonomous UAV Object-Goal Navigation.
CoRR, April, 2026

A survey on deep learning for 2D and 3D human pose estimation.
Artif. Intell. Rev., January, 2026

2025
Conservative Bias in Multi-Teacher Learning: Why Agents Prefer Low-Reward Advisors.
CoRR, December, 2025

Towards Senior-Robot Interaction: Reactive Robot Dog Gestures.
CoRR, December, 2025

Towards Closing the Domain Gap with Event Cameras.
CoRR, December, 2025

LAPX: Lightweight Hourglass Network with Global Context.
CoRR, December, 2025

SWIFT-Nav: Stability-Aware Waypoint-Level TD3 with Fuzzy Arbitration for UAV Navigation in Cluttered Environments.
CoRR, December, 2025

AI apology: a critical review of apology in AI systems.
Artif. Intell. Rev., December, 2025

Understanding User Preferences in Explainable Artificial Intelligence: A Mapping Function Proposal.
ACM Trans. Intell. Syst. Technol., August, 2025

Ensemble Elastic DQN: A novel multi-step ensemble approach to address overestimation in deep value-based reinforcement learning.
CoRR, June, 2025

Modeling and Dynamic Analysis of Fish Robot with Soft Fluidic Actuation.
J. Intell. Robotic Syst., March, 2025

Embodied Generative AI Art for Enhanced Human-Robot Interaction Through a Human-Centric LLM-Guided Robotic Arm Drawing System.
Proceedings of the 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2025

A Fuzzy Supervisory Framework for Real-Time Optimization of Robot Output and LLM Performance in HRI.
Proceedings of the 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2025

HRIxD: End-Effector Specialised in Drumming for Performing Robots.
Proceedings of the 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2025

Help me to Clean: Studying Multi-trainers on Interactive Reinforcement Learning in Domestic Scenarios.
Proceedings of the LI Latin American Computer Conference, 2025

MERCI: A Multimodal Dataset for Personalised and Emotionally-Aware Dialogues.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, 2025

The Consensus Paradox: When Low Disagreement Leads to Catastrophic Failure in Multi-teacher Reinforcement Learning.
Proceedings of the AI 2025: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 2025

PERCY: Personal Emotional Robotic Conversational System.
Proceedings of the AI 2025: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 2025

Depth-Aware Audio Visual Segmentation with Geometry-Heuristic Cross Attention.
Proceedings of the AI 2025: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 2025

2024
UAV control in autonomous object-goal navigation: a systematic literature review.
Artif. Intell. Rev., May, 2024

Elastic step DQN: A novel multi-step algorithm to alleviate overestimation in Deep Q-Networks.
Neurocomputing, 2024

How Can LLMs and Knowledge Graphs Contribute to Robot Safety? A Few-Shot Learning Approach.
CoRR, 2024

Attention-Enhanced Lightweight Hourglass Network for Human Pose Estimation.
CoRR, 2024

PERCY: A Multimodal Dataset and Conversational System for Personalized and Emotionally Aware Human-Robot Interaction.
CoRR, 2024

Adaptive Alignment: Dynamic Preference Adjustments via Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning for Pluralistic AI.
CoRR, 2024

Contextual Affordances for Safe Exploration in Robotic Scenarios.
CoRR, 2024

Self context-aware emotion perception on human-robot interaction.
CoRR, 2024

Visual Object Affordances using Geometric Characteristics for Early Risk Detection.
Proceedings of the IEEE Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence, 2024

eXplainable Reinforcement Learning Using Introspection in a Competitive Scenario.
Proceedings of the IEEE Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence, 2024

A text mining-based method for domains using AI generative text-to-text.
Proceedings of the IEEE Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence, 2024

Safety first: Toward safe action selection with contextual affordances.
Proceedings of the IEEE Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence, 2024

Improving Proximal Policy Optimization Algorithm in Interactive Multi-Agent Systems.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning, 2024

Contextual Recognition Network: Combining DDPG and Contextual Affordances for Robotic Safe Grasping.
Proceedings of the Companion of the 2024 on ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, 2024

A User-Centric Exploration of Axiomatic Explainable AI in Participatory Budgeting.
Proceedings of the Companion of the 2024 on ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, 2024

Human Decision-Making Concepts with Goal-Oriented Reasoning for Explainable Deep Reinforcement Learning.
Proceedings of the AI 2024: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 2024

Boosting Reinforcement Learning Algorithms in Continuous Robotic Reaching Tasks Using Adaptive Potential Functions.
Proceedings of the AI 2024: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 2024

2023
Persistent rule-based interactive reinforcement learning.
Neural Comput. Appl., November, 2023

Explainable robotic systems: understanding goal-driven actions in a reinforcement learning scenario.
Neural Comput. Appl., September, 2023

Human engagement providing evaluative and informative advice for interactive reinforcement learning.
Neural Comput. Appl., September, 2023

Proxemic behavior in navigation tasks using reinforcement learning.
Neural Comput. Appl., August, 2023

AI apology: interactive multi-objective reinforcement learning for human-aligned AI.
Neural Comput. Appl., August, 2023

Explainable reinforcement learning for broad-XAI: a conceptual framework and survey.
Neural Comput. Appl., August, 2023

Human-aligned reinforcement learning for autonomous agents and robots.
Neural Comput. Appl., August, 2023

Vessel Velocity Estimation and Docking Analysis: A Computer Vision Approach.
Algorithms, July, 2023

Editorial: Cognitive inspired aspects of robot learning.
Frontiers Neurorobotics, June, 2023

Towards a Broad-Persistent Advising Approach for Deep Interactive Reinforcement Learning in Robotic Environments.
Sensors, March, 2023

A conceptual framework for externally-influenced agents: an assisted reinforcement learning review.
J. Ambient Intell. Humaniz. Comput., 2023

Asch Meets HRI: Human Conformity to Robot Groups.
CoRR, 2023

Urban Autonomous Driving of Emergency Vehicles with Reinforcement Learning.
Proceedings of the IEEE Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence, 2023

Time estimation for deep learning model's inference in distributed processing units.
Proceedings of the IEEE Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence, 2023

Elastic step DDPG: Multi-step reinforcement learning for improved sample efficiency.
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2023

2022
Event-Based Angular Speed Measurement and Movement Monitoring.
Sensors, 2022

Introspection-based Explainable Reinforcement Learning in Episodic and Non-episodic Scenarios.
CoRR, 2022

Broad-persistent Advice for Interactive Reinforcement Learning Scenarios.
CoRR, 2022

Elastic Step DQN: A novel multi-step algorithm to alleviate overestimation in Deep QNetworks.
CoRR, 2022

Analysis of Explainable Goal-Driven Reinforcement Learning in a Continuous Simulated Environment.
Algorithms, 2022

Convolution Optimization in Fire Classification.
IEEE Access, 2022

Explaining Agent's Decision-making in a Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Scenario.
Proceedings of the 41st International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society, 2022

Reinforcement Learning for UAV control with Policy and Reward Shaping.
Proceedings of the 41st International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society, 2022

Evaluating Human-like Explanations for Robot Actions in Reinforcement Learning Scenarios.
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2022

2021
A Broad-persistent Advising Approach for Deep Interactive Reinforcement Learning in Robotic Environments.
CoRR, 2021

Explainable Deep Reinforcement Learning Using Introspection in a Non-episodic Task.
CoRR, 2021

Learning Proxemic Behavior Using Reinforcement Learning with Cognitive Agents.
CoRR, 2021

Levels of explainable artificial intelligence for human-aligned conversational explanations.
Artif. Intell., 2021

A Robust Approach for Continuous Interactive Actor-Critic Algorithms.
IEEE Access, 2021

2020
Deep Reinforcement Learning with Interactive Feedback in a Human-Robot Environment.
CoRR, 2020

Explainable robotic systems: Interpreting outcome-focused actions in a reinforcement learning scenario.
CoRR, 2020

iCub: Learning Emotion Expressions using Human Reward.
CoRR, 2020

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Control through Domain-Based Automatic Speech Recognition.
Comput., 2020

KutralNet: A Portable Deep Learning Model for Fire Recognition.
Proceedings of the 2020 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2020

Moody Learners - Explaining Competitive Behaviour of Reinforcement Learning Agents.
Proceedings of the Joint IEEE 10th International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics, 2020

A Comparison of Humanoid Robot Simulators: A Quantitative Approach.
Proceedings of the Joint IEEE 10th International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics, 2020

A Robust Approach for Continuous Interactive Reinforcement Learning.
Proceedings of the HAI '20: 8th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, 2020

2019
Lightweight and efficient octave convolutional neural network for fire recognition.
Proceedings of the IEEE Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence, 2019

Human feedback in continuous actor-critic reinforcement learning.
Proceedings of the 27th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, 2019

Memory-Based Explainable Reinforcement Learning.
Proceedings of the AI 2019: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 2019

Reinforcement learning using continuous states and interactive feedback.
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Applications of Intelligent Systems, 2019

2018
Improving interactive reinforcement learning: What makes a good teacher?
Connect. Sci., 2018

Action Selection Methods in a Robotic Reinforcement Learning Scenario.
Proceedings of the IEEE Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence, 2018

Multi-modal Feedback for Affordance-driven Interactive Reinforcement Learning.
Proceedings of the 2018 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2018

2017
Teaching Robots With Interactive Reinforcement Learning.
PhD thesis, 2017

Agent-advising approaches in an interactive reinforcement learning scenario.
Proceedings of the 2017 Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics, 2017

2016
Training Agents With Interactive Reinforcement Learning and Contextual Affordances.
IEEE Trans. Cogn. Dev. Syst., 2016

Multi-modal integration of dynamic audiovisual patterns for an interactive reinforcement learning scenario.
Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2016

Learning contextual affordances with an associative neural architecture.
Proceedings of the 24th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, 2016

2015
Interactive reinforcement learning through speech guidance in a domestic scenario.
Proceedings of the 2015 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2015

2014
Improving reinforcement learning with interactive feedback and affordances.
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics, 2014

2010
Indirect Training with Error Backpropagation in Gray-Box Neural Model: Application to a Chemical Process.
Proceedings of the SCCC 2010, 2010

2007
Indirect Training of Grey-Box Models: Application to a Bioprocess.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Networks, 2007


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