Aniket Bera
University of MarylandAssistant Research Professor
Iribe Center Room 5144
8125 Paint Branch Drive
College Park, MD 20742
Phone: (301) 405-4209
email: ab [at] cs.umd.edu

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Dr. Aniket Bera is an Assistant Research Professor at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) with appointments/affiliations with the Department of Computer Science, Maryland Robotics Center (James Clark School of Engineering), Brain and Behavior Institute (BBI), and Maryland Transportation Institute (MTI). Prior to this, he was a Research Assistant Professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his Ph.D. in 2017 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
His core research interests are in Social Robotics, Affective Computing, Computer Graphics (Physically-based Modelling and Simulation, AR/VR), Motion Planning, HRI/HCI, Data-Driven Crowd Simulations, Cognitive modeling: Knowledge, reasoning, and planning for intelligent characters. He is a faculty with the GAMMA group.
His current research focuses on the social perception of intelligent agents and robotics. He also works with the University of Maryland at Baltimore Medical School to build algorithms and systems to help therapists and doctors detect mental health and social anxiety issues. His research involves novel combinations of methods and collaborations in machine learning, computational psychology, computer graphics, and physically-based simulation to develop real-time computational models to learn human behaviors. Dr. Bera has previously worked in many research labs, including Disney Research, Intel, and Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (Govt. of India).
Dr. Bera's research has been featured on CBS, WIRED, Forbes, FastCompany, Times of India etc.
PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS:
Text2Gestures: A Transformer-Based Network for Generating Emotive Body Gestures for Virtual Agents
IEEE VR 2020 Conference Papers
Uttaran Bhattacharya, Nicholas Rewkowski, Abhishek Banerjee, Pooja Guhan, Aniket Bera, Dinesh Manocha
ARC: Alignment-based Redirection Controller for Redirected Walking in Complex Environments
TVCG and IEEE VR 2020 Journal Papers Conference Papers
Niall L. Williams, Aniket Bera, Dinesh Manocha
Generating Emotive Gaits for Virtual Agents Using Affect-Based Autoregression
ISMAR 2020 Conference Papers
Uttaran Bhattacharya, Nicholas Rewkowski, Pooja Guhan, Niall L. Williams, Trisha Mittal, Aniket Bera, Dinesh Manocha
Emotions Don't Lie: A Deepfake Detection Method using Audio-Visual Affective Cues
ACM MM 2020 Conference Papers
Trisha Mittal, Uttaran Bhattacharya, Rohan Chandra, Aniket Bera, Dinesh Manocha
Take an emotion walk: Perceiving emotions from gaits using hierarchical attention pooling and affective mapping
ECCV 2020 Conference Papers
Uttaran Bhattacharya, Christian Roncal, Trisha Mittal, Rohan Chandra, Aniket Bera, Dinesh Manocha
EmotiCon: Context-Aware Multimodal Emotion Recognition Using Frege's Principle
IEEE CVPR 2020 Conference Papers
Trisha Mittal, Pooja Guhan, Uttaran Bhattacharya, Rohan Chandra, Aniket Bera, Dinesh Manocha
ProxEmo: Gait-based Emotion Learning and Multi-view Proxemic Fusion for Socially-Aware Robot Navigation
IEEE IROS 2020 Conference Papers
Venkatraman Narayanan, Bala Murali Manoghar, Vishnu Sashank Dorbala, Dinesh Manocha, Aniket Bera
CMetric: A Driving Behavior Measure Using Centrality Functions
IEEE IROS 2020 Conference Papers
Rohan Chandra, Uttaran Bhattacharya, Trisha Mittal, Aniket Bera, Dinesh Manocha
Forecasting trajectory and behavior of road-agents using spectral clustering in graph-lstms
RAL/IEEE IROS 2020 Journal Papers Conference Papers
Rohan Chandra, Tianrui Guan, Srujan Panuganti, Trisha Mittal, Uttaran Bhattacharya, Aniket Bera, Dinesh Manocha
GraphRQI: Classifying Driver Behaviors Using Graph Spectrums
IEEE ICRA 2020 Conference Papers
Rohan Chandra, Uttaran Bhattacharya, Xiaoyu Li, Trisha Mittal, Aniket Bera, Dinesh Manocha
How are You Feeling? Multimodal Emotion Learning for Socially-Assistive Robot Navigation
IEEE FG 2020 Conference Papers
Aniket Bera, Tanmay Randhavane, Rohan Prinja, Kyra Kapsaskis, Austin Wang, Kurt Gray, Dinesh Manocha
M3ER: Multiplicative Multimodal Emotion Recognition using Facial, Textual, and Speech Cues
AAAI 2020 Conference Papers
Trisha Mittal, Uttaran Bhattacharya, Rohan Chandra, Aniket Bera, Dinesh Manocha
STEP: Spatial Temporal Graph Convolutional Networks for Emotion Perception from Gaits
AAAI 2020 Conference Papers
Uttaran Bhattacharya, Trisha Mittal, Rohan Chandra, Tanmay Randhavane, Aniket Bera, Dinesh Manocha
Modeling data-driven dominance traits for virtual characters using gait analysis
IEEE TVCG 2019 Journal Papers
Tanmay V Randhavane, Aniket Bera, Emily Kubin, Kurt Gray, Dinesh Manocha
RobustTP: End-to-end trajectory prediction for heterogeneous road-agents in dense traffic with noisy sensor inputs
ACM Computer Science in Cars Symposium Symposium Papers
Rohan Chandra, Uttaran Bhattacharya, Christian Roncal, Aniket Bera, Dinesh Manocha
Learning perceived emotion using affective and deep features for mental health applications
IEEE ISMAR 2019 Conference Papers
Tanmay Randhavane, Uttaran Bhattacharya, Kyra Kapsaskis, Kurt Gray, Aniket Bera, Dinesh Manocha
EVA: Modeling Perceived Emotions of Virtual Agents using Expressive Features of Gait and Gaze
ACM SAP 2019 Conference Papers Best Poster Award
Tanmay Randhavane, Aniket Bera, Kyra Kapsaskis, Kurt Gray, Dinesh Manocha
DensePeds: Pedestrian Tracking in Dense Crowds Using FRVO and Sparse Features
IROS 2019 Conference Papers
Rohan Chandra, Uttaran Bhattacharya, Aniket Bera, Dinesh Manocha
FVA: Modeling Perceived Friendliness of Virtual Agents Using Movement Characteristics
TVCG / ISMAR 2019 Journal Papers Conference Papers
Tanmay Randhavane, Aniket Bera, Kyra Kapsaskis, Kurt Gray, Dinesh Manocha
TraPHic: Trajectory Prediction in Dense and Heterogeneous Traffic Using Weighted Interactions
CVPR 2019 Conference Papers
Rohan Chandra, Uttaran Bhattacharya, Aniket Bera, Dinesh Manocha
LCrowdV: Generating labeled videos for pedestrian detectors training and crowd be-havior learning
Neurocomputing 2019 Journal Papers
Ernest Cheung, Tsan Kwong Wong,Aniket Bera, Dinesh Manocha
Pedestrian Dominance Modeling for Socially-Aware Robot Navigation
ICRA 2019 Conference Papers
Tanmay Randhavane,Aniket Bera, Emily Kubin, Austin Wang, Kurt Gray, Dinesh Manocha
TrackNPred: A Software Framework for End-to-End Trajectory Prediction
ACM CSCS 2019 Conference Papers
Rohan Chandra, Uttaran Bhattacharya, Aniket Bera, Dinesh Manocha