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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 T. Apicella, A. Xompero, A. Cavallaro 2026 European Conference on Computer Vision #ECCV26 @eccv.bsky.social Workshop on Human-Centered Multimodal Intelligence in the Wild #HCMIW Poster presentation #ComputerVision #Conference #Research

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

📄 Co-authored with Tommaso Apicella and Andrea Cavallaro, our paper, 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, introduces the 𝐀𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐭 to promote transparency and enable reproducible benchmarking and reliable evaluation of multimodal affordance prediction models.

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Limitations in fair benchmarking & performance comparison: * same problem formulated differently * datasets annotated inconsistently * models cannot be tested on multiple benchmarks * missing details about training, testing, and deployment conditions in the experiments #ReproducibilityCrisis

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

📢 𝘈 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 What is Affordance Prediction? Affordance prediction is the identification of potential actions an agent can perform on a target object from multimodal inputs. #AffordanceSheet #AI #Reproducibility #Transparency

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The paper was presented as a poster during the workshop on Human-Centered Multimodal Intelligence in the Wild (HCMIW) at the 2026 European Conference on Computer Vision in Malmö, Sweden #ECCV26 #HCMIW

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Less than 2 days left to submit your work at our workshop (Track 2)! 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐈 𝐭𝐨 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐢𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 📆1 October 📍 Pittsburgh, PA, USA IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems #IROS2026

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Deadline has been extended 👇 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝗜 𝘁𝗼 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗶𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 Workshop at IEEE/RSJ Int. Conference. on Intelligent Robots and Systems #IROS2026 #benchmarking #AI #robotics #humanoid #embeddedAI #PhysicalAI

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Less than a month to submit your contributions to our #IROS2026 Workshop! 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐈 𝐭𝐨 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐢𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 📆1 October 📍 Pittsburgh, PA, USA

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

📢 Call for Contributions 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐈 𝐭𝐨 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐢𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘱 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 2026 𝘐𝘌𝘌𝘌/𝘙𝘚𝘑 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘙𝘰𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴 #IROS2026 📆1 October 📍 Pittsburgh, PA, USA

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Innovating or doing research on robotic #grasping and #manipulation? 🤖 Our 𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 on 𝑨𝒅𝒗𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑹𝒐𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒑𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒍-𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 in 𝘈𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘙𝘰𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘴 (Springer Nature) is accepting submissions on a rolling-based until March 1, 2027. #AI #Robotics #AutonomousRobots

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Dive into the summary of our Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition track on Human-to-Robot Handovers of Unknown Containers with Unknown Content, which happened in Vienna at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

To all the teams for the months of effort, it was rewarding to watch you in action in Vienna. I’m already excited to see what teams will bring to #ICRA 2027 in South Korea 🤖

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘴 for providing robots and mounts, prize funding and competition support, NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano™ Developer Kits for the winners, and objects used during the competition

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 for helping organise and coordinate the track 𝘙𝘎𝘔𝘊 𝘖𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘦: a pleasure to collaborate and make RGMC a success again 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘴 for their work behind the scenes to support all competitions at #ICRA2026

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

For the on-site competition, they performed 24 handover configurations under real-world conditions: - variable lighting & backgrounds - human occlusion We provided 6 unknown containers with varying physical properties (rigid to deformable, opaque to transparent) and 3 contents to vary masses.

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

8 teams qualified and competed live in Vienna on June 4th. Teams brought their own robots or used hardware our sponsors provided, showcasing diverse gripper and touch sensor designs.

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

12 teams (from China, South Korea, Croatia, Austria, Italy, Czech Republic, India, Singapore) designed their robotic control and perception solutions from scratch. Teams competed in a remote qualification phase and executed 288 handover configurations (from the 2019 CORSMAL benchmarking protocol).

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧-𝐭𝐨-𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐔𝐧𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐔𝐧𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 Enabling robots to safely receive unknown objects from humans is still a challenging problem. The track encouraged solutions from the community to address this challenge. corsmal.github.io/events/rgmc/...

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Last week’s @ieeeras.bsky.social International Conference on Robotics and Automation (#ICRA) in Vienna was astonishing. As an organizer of the 11th Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition (#RGMC), I led the Human-to-Robot Handovers track (3rd consecutive year). sites.google.com/view/rgmcomp

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Can your robot perform manipulations, including planar pushing and deformable object control, using the CloudGripper platform? Apply to the Cloud Robotics track (remote only) 11th Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition (RGMC) #ICRA2026

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Can your robot autonomously navigate between multiple workstations, perform precise docking, and execute an industrially inspired assembly task? Apply to the Mobile Manipulation track 11th Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition (RGMC) #ICRA2026

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Can your robot estimate object properties and safely receive items handed by humans, then deliver them to target locations 🫱🥤🤖? Apply to Human-to-Robot Handovers 11th Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition (RGMC) #ICRA2026

The Human-to-Robot Handover track at RGMC 2026 challenges teams to enable robots to safely receive unknown containers with unknown filling from human hands and deliver them to target locations.

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Can your robot pick a mix of known and unknown objects randomly placed inside a transparent box and place them into another box within a specified time limit and with a predefined grasping order? Apply to Picking from Clutter 11th Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition (RGMC) #ICRA2026

RGMC 10 at ICRA 2025: Picking from Clutter demonstration

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Can your robot receive a set of unknown containers with unknown filling handed over by a person 🫱🥤🤖? Join our 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯-𝘵𝘰-𝘙𝘰𝘣𝘰𝘵 𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬 within the 11th Robotic Grasping and Manipulation #competition #RGMC11 IEEE/RAS Int. Conf. Robotics & Automation #ICRA2026 📍Vienna, Austria 📆 June 1-5

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Check out the list of accepted contributions here: - Extended abstracts: sites.google.com/view/iros202... - Abstracts: sites.google.com/view/iros202...

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Join us next week at the #workshop on 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 at #IROS2025 in Hangzhou, China! 𝐎𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐬 S. D'Avella, A. Xompero, C. Oh, A. Cavallaro, K. Hang, B. Calli, Y. Sun #robotics #AI #grasping #manipulation #handover #benchmarking #competitions

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Highlight II ⭐ enabling a robot to successfully receive a diverse range of household objects from a person handing over the objects

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Highlight I ⭐lower object Chamfer distance for hand-object reconstructions

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

StereoHO - novel method for hand-object reconstruction, combining single-view reconstructions probabilistically - generalisation with 3D shape priors learnt from a large synthetic hand-object dataset - only RGB inputs - integration into a human-to-robot handover pipeline 🫱🥤🤖

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

"Stereo Hand-Object Reconstruction for Human-to-Robot Handover" Y. L. Pang, A. Xompero, C. Oh, A. Cavallaro IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol.10, n.6, June 2025 📝Article: doi.org/10.1109/LRA.... #robotics #ai #computervision #handover #grasping #manipulation #3Dreconstruction

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Join our workshop and discussion on 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 at #IROS2025 If you have a published work (journal/conference paper) relevant to the workshop, submit title, abstract, and link to our track for Abstracts: cmt3.research.microsoft.com/RGMCW2025/

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Join the discussions on the current and future challenges of autonomous robotic grasping and manipulation for real-world applications. #IROS2025 workshop: 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 - 2𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 More info: sites.google.com/view/iros202...

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Alessio Xompero @axompi.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

🚩How to predict whether an image is private or public 🖼️🔒? Check out our article in the Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs) 2025 @pet-symposium.bsky.social “Learning Privacy from Visual Entities” Alessio Xompero and Andrea Cavallaro Webpage: graphnex.github.io/privacy-from...

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