Juan P. Wachs

Orcid: 0000-0002-6425-5745

Affiliations:
  • Purdue University, School of Industrial Engineering, West Lafayette, IN, USA


According to our database1, Juan P. Wachs authored at least 139 papers between 2002 and 2024.

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2024
An Adaptive Human-Robotic Interaction Architecture for Augmenting Surgery Performance Using Real-Time Workload Sensing - Demonstration of a Semi-autonomous Suction Tool.
Hum. Factors, April, 2024

2023
JSSE: Joint Sequential Semantic Encoder for Zero-Shot Event Recognition.
IEEE Trans. Artif. Intell., December, 2023

Tactile and Chemical Sensing With Haptic Feedback for a Telepresence Explosive Ordnance Disposal Robot.
IEEE Trans. Robotics, October, 2023

Physiological Metrics of Surgical Difficulty and Multi-Task Requirement during Robotic Surgery Skills.
Sensors, 2023

Touchless Interfaces in the Operating Room: A Study in Gesture Preferences.
Int. J. Hum. Comput. Interact., 2023

Physiological Measurements of Situation Awareness: A Systematic Review.
Hum. Factors, 2023

TON-ViT: A Neuro-Symbolic AI Based on Task Oriented Network with a Vision Transformer.
Proceedings of the Medical Image Understanding and Analysis - 27th Annual Conference, 2023

Baseline Models for Action Recognition of Unscripted Casualty Care Dataset.
Proceedings of the Medical Image Understanding and Analysis - 27th Annual Conference, 2023

Deep Kernel and Image Quality Estimators for Optimizing Robotic Ultrasound Controller using Bayesian Optimization.
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Medical Robotics, 2023

COMPlacent: A Compliant Whisker Manipulator for Object Tactile Exploration.
IROS, 2023

Robotic Sonographer: Autonomous Robotic Ultrasound using Domain Expertise in Bayesian Optimization.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2023

RUSOpt: Robotic UltraSound Probe Normalization with Bayesian Optimization for In-Plane and Out-Plane Scanning.
Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, 2023

2022
Active Multiobject Exploration and Recognition via Tactile Whiskers.
IEEE Trans. Robotics, 2022

Fast and Robust UAV to UAV Detection and Tracking From Video.
IEEE Trans. Emerg. Top. Comput., 2022

Nonmyopic Informative Path Planning Based on Global Kriging Variance Minimization.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett., 2022

JSE: Joint Semantic Encoder for zero-shot gesture learning.
Pattern Anal. Appl., 2022

Human-centered XAI for Burn Depth Characterization.
CoRR, 2022

2021
Assessing Collaborative Physical Tasks Via Gestural Analysis.
IEEE Trans. Hum. Mach. Syst., 2021

Fingers See Things Differently (FIST-D): An Object Aware Visualization and Manipulation Framework Based on Tactile Observations.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett., 2021

Assessing task understanding in remote ultrasound diagnosis via gesture analysis.
Pattern Anal. Appl., 2021

Active Multi-Object Exploration and Recognition via Tactile Whiskers.
CoRR, 2021

The AI-Medic: an artificial intelligent mentor for trauma surgery.
Comput. methods Biomech. Biomed. Eng. Imaging Vis., 2021

SARTRES: a semi-autonomous robot teleoperation environment for surgery.
Comput. methods Biomech. Biomed. Eng. Imaging Vis., 2021

Triangle-Net: Towards Robustness in Point Cloud Learning.
Proceedings of the IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, 2021

One-Shot Image Recognition Using Prototypical Encoders with Reduced Hubness.
Proceedings of the IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, 2021

Pose-based Sign Language Recognition using GCN and BERT.
Proceedings of the IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision Workshops, 2021

Sequential Prediction with Logic Constraints for Surgical Robotic Activity Recognition.
Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication, 2021

SACHETS: Semi-Autonomous Cognitive Hybrid Emergency Teleoperated Suction.
Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication, 2021

ICONS: Imitation CONStraints for Robot Collaboration.
Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication, 2021

Dexterous Skill Transfer between Surgical Procedures for Teleoperated Robotic Surgery.
Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication, 2021

DESERTS: DElay-tolerant SEmi-autonomous Robot Teleoperation for Surgery.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2021

Learning Multimodal Contact-Rich Skills from Demonstrations Without Reward Engineering.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2021

ZF-SSE: A Unified Sequential Semantic Encoder for Zero-Few-Shot Learning.
Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 2021

2020
Agreement Study Using Gesture Description Analysis.
IEEE Trans. Hum. Mach. Syst., 2020

Evaluation of an augmented reality platform for austere surgical telementoring: a randomized controlled crossover study in cricothyroidotomies.
npj Digit. Medicine, 2020

Eye-Tracking Metrics Predict Perceived Workload in Robotic Surgical Skills Training.
Hum. Factors, 2020

From the DESK (Dexterous Surgical Skill) to the Battlefield - A Robotics Exploratory Study.
CoRR, 2020

PICs for TECH: Pose Imitation Constraints (PICs) for TEaching Collaborative Heterogeneous robots (TECH).
CoRR, 2020

DAISI: Database for AI Surgical Instruction.
CoRR, 2020

Triangle-Net: Towards Robustness in Point Cloud Classification.
CoRR, 2020

How About the Mentor? Effective Workspace Visualization in AR Telementoring.
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, 2020

The AI-Medic: A Multimodal Artificial Intelligent Mentor for Trauma Surgery.
Proceedings of the ICMI '20: International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2020

Message from the General and Program Chairs FG 2020.
Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 2020

The MAGIC of E-Health: A Gesture-Based Approach to Estimate Understanding and Performance in Remote Ultrasound Tasks.
Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 2020

Beyond MAGIC: Matching Collaborative Gestures using an optimization-based Approach.
Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 2020

Feature Selection for Zero-Shot Gesture Recognition.
Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 2020

Gesture Agreement Assessment Using Description Vectors.
Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 2020

2019
Spiking Neural Networks for early prediction in human-robot collaboration.
Int. J. Robotics Res., 2019

Preference elicitation: Obtaining gestural guidelines for PACS in neurosurgery.
Int. J. Medical Informatics, 2019

Robust High-Level Video Stabilization for Effective AR Telementoring.
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, 2019

Transferring Dexterous Surgical Skill Knowledge between Robots for Semi-autonomous Teleoperation.
Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2019

Extending Policy from One-Shot Learning through Coaching.
Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2019

JISAP: Joint Inference for Surgeon Attributes Prediction during Robot-Assisted Surgery.
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2019

DESK: A Robotic Activity Dataset for Dexterous Surgical Skills Transfer to Medical Robots.
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2019

MAGIC: A Fundamental Framework for Gesture Representation, Comparison and Assessment.
Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition, 2019

Database of Gesture Attributes: Zero Shot Learning for Gesture Recognition.
Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition, 2019

2018
Variability Analysis on Gestures for People With Quadriplegia.
IEEE Trans. Cybern., 2018

Early prediction for physical human robot collaboration in the operating room.
Auton. Robots, 2018

A First-Person Mentee Second-Person Mentor AR Interface for Surgical Telementoring.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, 2018

Early Turn-Taking Prediction with Spiking Neural Networks for Human Robot Collaboration.
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2018

Image Exploration Procedure Classification with Spike-timing Neural Network for the Blind.
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2018

Hard Zero Shot Learning for Gesture Recognition.
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2018

Joint Surgeon Attributes Estimation in Robot-Assisted Surgery.
Proceedings of the Companion of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2018

Collaborative Robots in Surgical Research: a Low-Cost Adaptation.
Proceedings of the Companion of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2018

Coherence in One-Shot Gesture Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction.
Proceedings of the Companion of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2018

Biomechanical-Based Approach to Data Augmentation for One-Shot Gesture Recognition.
Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition, 2018

Deep Learning for Moving Object Detection and Tracking from a Single Camera in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs).
Proceedings of the Imaging and Multimedia Analytics in a Web and Mobile World 2018, Burlingame, CA, USA, January 28, 2018

2017
The Effect of Embodied Interaction in Visual-Spatial Navigation.
ACM Trans. Interact. Intell. Syst., 2017

Multimodal Perception of Histological Images for Persons Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired.
ACM Trans. Access. Comput., 2017

Needle in a haystack: Interactive surgical instrument recognition through perception and manipulation.
Robotics Auton. Syst., 2017

A Human-Centered Approach to One-Shot Gesture Learning.
Frontiers Robotics AI, 2017

Communication Modalities for Supervised Teleoperation in Highly Dexterous Tasks - Does one size fit all?
CoRR, 2017

Coherency in One-Shot Gesture Recognition.
CoRR, 2017

ZSGL: zero shot gestural learning.
Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2017

A Semantical & Analytical Approach for Zero Shot Gesture Learning.
Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition, 2017

One-Shot Gesture Recognition: One Step Towards Adaptive Learning.
Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition, 2017

What Makes a Gesture a Gesture? Neural Signatures Involved in Gesture Recognition.
Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition, 2017

Finding a Needle in a Haystack: Recognizing Surgical Instruments through Vision and Manipulation.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Robotics and Industrial Applications using Computer Vision 2017, Burlingame, CA, USA, January 29, 2017

Taxonomy of Communications in the Operating Room.
Proceedings of the Advances in Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare and Medical Devices, 2017

2016
Virtual annotations of the surgical field through an augmented reality transparent display.
Vis. Comput., 2016

User-Centered and Analytic-Based Approaches to Generate Usable Gestures for Individuals With Quadriplegia.
IEEE Trans. Hum. Mach. Syst., 2016

Optimal Modality Selection for Cooperative Human-Robot Task Completion.
IEEE Trans. Cybern., 2016

Special issue on real-time image and video processing for pattern recognition systems and applications.
J. Real Time Image Process., 2016

An optimized real-time hands gesture recognition based interface for individuals with upper-level spinal cord injuries.
J. Real Time Image Process., 2016

Introduction to Special Issue on Body Tracking and Healthcare.
Hum. Comput. Interact., 2016

Enhanced control of a wheelchair-mounted robotic manipulator using 3-D vision and multimodal interaction.
Comput. Vis. Image Underst., 2016

Embodied gesture learning from one-shot.
Proceedings of the 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2016

Avoiding Focus Shifts in Surgical Telementoring Using an Augmented Reality Transparent Display.
Proceedings of the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 22 - NextMed, 2016

A Hand-Held, Self-Contained Simulated Transparent Display.
Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, 2016

Multi-target detection and tracking from a single camera in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs).
Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2016

Early Turn-Taking Prediction in the Operating Room.
Proceedings of the 2016 AAAI Fall Symposia, Arlington, Virginia, USA, November 17-19, 2016, 2016

2015
Model-Based System Specification With Tesperanto: Readable Text From Formal Graphics.
IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. Syst., 2015

A User-Developed 3-D Hand Gesture Set for Human-Computer Interaction.
Hum. Factors, 2015

A review and framework of laser-based collaboration support.
Annu. Rev. Control., 2015

Determining natural and accessible gestures using uncontrolled manifolds and cybernetics.
Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2015

Touchless Telerobotic Surgery - Is It Possible at All?
Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2015

2014
A Machine Vision-Based Gestural Interface for People With Upper Extremity Physical Impairments.
IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. Syst., 2014

Context-based hand gesture recognition for the operating room.
Pattern Recognit. Lett., 2014

Guest Editorial - Special Issue on Robust Recognition Methods for Multimodal Interaction.
Pattern Recognit. Lett., 2014

HEGM: A hierarchical elastic graph matching for hand gesture recognition.
Pattern Recognit., 2014

Integrated vision-based system for efficient, semi-automated control of a robotic manipulator.
Int. J. Intell. Comput. Cybern., 2014

Telerobot-enabled HUB-CI model for collaborative lifecycle management of design and prototyping.
Comput. Ind., 2014

Operation room tool handling and miscommunication scenarios: An object-process methodology conceptual model.
Artif. Intell. Medicine, 2014

Multimodal approach to image perception of histology for the blind or visually impaired.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2014

An augmented reality approach to surgical telementoring.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2014

Linking attention to physical action in complex decision making problems.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2014

An analytic approach to decipher usable gestures for quadriplegic users.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2014

Optimal modality selection for multimodal human-machine systems using RIMAG.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2014

2013
Recognizing hand gestures using the weighted elastic graph matching (WEGM) method.
Image Vis. Comput., 2013

Collaboration with a robotic scrub nurse.
Commun. ACM, 2013

Surgical instrument handling and retrieval in the operating room with a multimodal robotic assistant.
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2013

3D joystick for robotic arm control by individuals with high level spinal cord injuries.
Proceedings of the IEEE 13th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, 2013

Integrated vision-based robotic arm interface for operators with upper limb mobility impairments.
Proceedings of the IEEE 13th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, 2013

Visual Analysis and Filtering to Augment Cognition.
Proceedings of the Foundations of Augmented Cognition, 2013

2012
Does a robotic scrub nurse improve economy of movements?
Proceedings of the Medical Imaging 2012: Image-Guided Procedures, 2012

Gestonurse: a multimodal robotic scrub nurse.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2012

Robot, Pass Me the Scissors! How Robots Can Assist Us in the Operating Room.
Proceedings of the Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications, 2012

Hierarchical Elastic Graph Matching for Hand Gesture Recognition.
Proceedings of the Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications, 2012

Facilitated Gesture Recognition Based Interfaces for People with Upper Extremity Physical Impairments.
Proceedings of the Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications, 2012

Intention, Context and Gesture Recognition for Sterile MRI Navigation in the Operating Room.
Proceedings of the Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications, 2012

2011
Vision-based hand-gesture applications.
Commun. ACM, 2011

A gesture driven robotic scrub nurse.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, 2011

2010
Human posture recognition for intelligent vehicles.
J. Real Time Image Process., 2010

Gaze, Posture and Gesture Recognition to Minimize Focus Shifts for Intelligent Operating Rooms in a Collaborative Support System.
Int. J. Comput. Commun. Control, 2010

AWARE: Autonomous Wireless Agent Robotic Exchange.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Robotics and Applications - Third International Conference, 2010

2009
Recognizing Human Postures and Poses in Monocular Still Images.
Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Image Processing, 2009

The Multi-level Learning and Classification of Multi-class Parts-Based Representations of U.S. Marine Postures.
Proceedings of the Progress in Pattern Recognition, 2009

2008
Technical Brief: A Gesture-based Tool for Sterile Browsing of Radiology Images.
J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc., 2008

Designing Hand Gesture Vocabularies for Natural Interaction by Combining Psycho-Physiological and Recognition Factors.
Int. J. Semantic Comput., 2008

Optimal Consensus Intuitive Hand Gesture Vocabulary Design.
Proceedings of the 2th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2008), 2008

2007
A Method for Selection of Optimal Hand Gesture Vocabularies.
Proceedings of the Gesture-Based Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation, 2007

2006
Human Factors for Design of Hand Gesture Human - Machine Interaction.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, 2006

Optimal Hand Gesture Vocabulary Design Using Psycho-Physiological and Technical Factors.
Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FGR 2006), 2006

A Real-Time Gesture Interface for Hands-Free Control of Electronic Medical Records.
Proceedings of the AMIA 2006, 2006

2005
Cluster labeling and parameter estimation for the automated setup of a hand-gesture recognition system.
IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. Part A, 2005

2004
A Method to Enhance the 'Possibilistic C-Means with Repulsion' Algorithm based on Cluster Validity Index.
Proceedings of the Applied Soft Computing Technologies: The Challenge of Complexity, Proceedings of the 9th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications (WSC9), September 20th, 2004

Hand gesture vocabulary design: a multicriteria optimization.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, 2004

2003
Parameter search for an image processing fuzzy C-means hand gesture recognition system.
Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Image Processing, 2003

2002
Color Face Segmentation Using a Fuzzy Min-Max Neural Network.
Int. J. Image Graph., 2002


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