Eadom Dessalene

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I am a PhD Candidate in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, where I work with the Perception and Robotics Group and am advised by Yiannis Aloimonos.

My research focuses on understanding human manipulation: how people physically interact with the world, how the structure of those physical interactions can be represented, and how those representations can support robots.

Eadom Dessalene

Selected Research and Publications

FEEL: Force-Enhanced Egocentric Learning for Physical Action Understanding
Eadom Dessalene, Botao He, Michael Maynord, Yonatan Tussa, Pavan Mantripragada, Yianni Karabatis, Nirupam Roy, Yiannis Aloimonos — ECCV 2026 (oral presentation)
View the FEEL dataset on Hugging Face
EmbodiSwap for Zero-Shot Robot Imitation Learning
Eadom Dessalene, Pavan Mantripragada, Michael Maynord, Yiannis Aloimonos — arXiv 2025
Context in Human Action through Motion Complementarity
Eadom Dessalene, Michael Maynord, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos — WACV 2024
LEAP: LLM-Generation of Egocentric Action Programs
Eadom Dessalene, Michael Maynord, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos — arXiv 2023
Therbligs in Action: Video Understanding through Motion Primitives
Eadom Dessalene, Michael Maynord, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos — CVPR 2023
Mid-Vision Feedback
Michael Maynord, Eadom T. Dessalene, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos — ICLR 2023
Forecasting Action through Contact Representations from First-Person Video
Eadom Dessalene, Chinmaya Devaraj, Michael Maynord, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos — PAMI 2021
Using Geometric Features to Represent Near-Contact Behavior in Robotic Grasping
Eadom Dessalene, Yi Herng Ong, John Morrow, Ravi Balasubramanian, Cindy Grimm — ICRA 2019

Recent Talks

Jan 2026Invited talk: Embodied Action Understanding — NASA JPL Vision Seminar, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Dec 2025Invited talk: Generative Models of Action — NVIDIA Research Radar, NVIDIA.
Nov 2024Invited talk: Understanding Actions from Video — NYC Computer Vision Day.
Sep 2024Invited talk: Learning the Organization of Action — University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Jun 2024Invited talk: Learning the Organization of Action — Telluride Neuromorphic Workshop.
May 2023Invited talk: Understanding Actions from Video — CoRL Cognitive Science Workshop.

Competitions

EPIC-Kitchens Action Recognition Challenge 2024 — 4th Place
Alexa Prize SimBot Challenge — Team Lead, University of Maryland (Qualified for Semi-Finals)
EPIC-Kitchens Action Anticipation Challenge 2020 — 1st Place
Amazon Robotics Challenge — Qualified for Finals

Service

Reviewer: ICRA, ICLR, CVPR, PAMI, WACV