Publications

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@inproceedings{designingforant-2026/9,
  title={Designing for Anticipation: Centring Cyclist Perspectives on Trust for Automated Vehicle Interaction},
  author={Baghabrah J, Kunze L & Jirotka MD},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications},
  pages={218-229},
  year = "2026"
}

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@inproceedings{sociotechnicalc-2026/7,
  title={Sociotechnical Challenges of Machine Learning in Healthcare and Social Welfare},
  author={Reinmund T, Kunze L & Jirotka MD},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Interactive Health Conference},
  pages={1-7},
  year = "2026"
}

@misc{quantilecoupled-2026/5,
  title={Quantile-Coupled Flow Matching for Distributional Reinforcement Learning},
  author={Groom M, Darvariu V-A, Kunze L, Wilson J & Hawes N},
  year = "2026"
}

@misc{riskawarereinfo-2026/3,
  title={Risk-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Mobile Manipulation},
  author={Groom M, Wilson J, Hawes N & Kunze L},
  year = "2026"
}

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@inproceedings{minkocctowardsr-2025/11,
  title={MinkOcc: towards real-time label-efficient semantic occupancy prediction},
  author={Sze S, De Martini D & Kunze L},
  booktitle={IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2025)},
  pages={4036-4043},
  year = "2025"
}

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@inproceedings{ensembleofpretr-2025/11,
  title={Ensemble of pre-trained models for long-tailed trajectory prediction},
  author={Thuremella D, Yang Y, Wanna S, Kunze L & De Martini D},
  booktitle={IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2025)},
  pages={2055-2062},
  year = "2025"
}

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@article{avpsysafeariskm-2025/11,
  title={AV-PsySafe: A risk model and analysis method for the psychological safety of human and autonomous vehicles interaction},
  author={Sirgabsou Y, Hardin B, Leblanc F, Raili E, Salvini P et al.},
  journal={Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives},
  volume={34},
  number={101775},
  pages={101775-101775},
  publisher={Elsevier BV},
  year = "2025"
}

@misc{likephysevaluat-2025/10,
  title={LikePhys: Evaluating Intuitive Physics Understanding in Video Diffusion Models via Likelihood Preference},
  author={Yuan J, Pizzati F, Pinto F, Kunze L, Laptev I et al.},
  year = "2025"
}

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@inproceedings{generatingcausa-2025/9,
  title={Generating causal explanations of vehicular agent behavioural interactions with learnt reward profiles},
  author={Howard R, Hawes N & Kunze L},
  booktitle={IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2025)},
  pages={10416-10423},
  year = "2025"
}

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@inproceedings{cobrappmacausal-2025/9,
  title={COBRA-PPM: a causal Bayesian reasoning architecture using probabilistic programming for robot manipulation under uncertainty},
  author={Cannizzaro R, Groom M, Routley J, Ness R & Kunze L},
  booktitle={European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR 2025)},
  year = "2025"
}

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@article{testingautonomo-2025/7,
  title={Testing autonomous vehicles and AI: perspectives and challenges from cybersecurity, transparency, robustness and fairness},
  author={Fernández Llorca D, Hamon R, Junklewitz H, Grosse K, Kunze L et al.},
  journal={European Transport Research Review},
  volume={17},
  number={38},
  publisher={SpringerOpen},
  year = "2025"
}

@inproceedings{extendingstruct-2025/6,
  title={Extending structural causal models for autonomous vehicles to simplify temporal system construction & enable dynamic interactions between agents},
  author={Howard R & Kunze L},
  booktitle={4th Conference on Causal Learning and Reasoning (CLeaR 2025)},
  pages={1477-1505},
  year = "2025"
}

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@article{theoxfordrobotc-2025/5,
  title={The Oxford RobotCycle Project: A Multimodal Urban Cycling Dataset for Assessing the Safety of Vulnerable Road Users},
  author={Panagiotaki E, Thuremella D, Baghabrah J, Sze S, Fu LFT et al.},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics},
  volume={PP},
  pages={1-1},
  publisher={Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)},
  year = "2025"
}

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@article{atransparencypa-2025/2,
  title={A transparency paradox? Investigating the impact of explanation specificity and autonomous vehicle imperfect detection capabilities on passengers},
  author={Omeiza D, Bhattacharyya R, Jirotka M, Hawes N & Kunze L},
  journal={Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and Behaviour},
  volume={109},
  pages={1275-1292},
  publisher={Elsevier},
  year = "2025"
}

@inproceedings{onrobotswithrea-2025/2,
  title={On robots with reasoning capabilities and human-like appearance and behaviour: implications for accident investigations},
  author={Jirotka M},
  booktitle={Robophilosophy Conference 2024},
  year = "2025"
}

@article{platoplanningan-2025/1,
  title={PLATO Planning and Ontology Workshop},
  author={Umbrico A, Sanfilippo EM, Fabio Longo C, Biccheri L, Borgo S et al.},
  journal={Ceur Workshop Proceedings},
  volume={4176},
  year = "2025"
}

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@inproceedings{srafasimulation-2024/11,
  title={S-RAF: a simulation-based robustness assessment framework for responsible autonomous driving},
  author={Omeiza D, Somaiya P, Pattinson J-A, Ten Holter C, Stilgoe J et al.},
  booktitle={AAAI Fall Symposium 2024},
  pages={89-96},
  year = "2024"
}

@misc{naricpneuralexe-2024/10,
  title={NAR-*ICP: Neural Execution of Classical ICP-based Pointcloud Registration Algorithms},
  author={Panagiotaki E, De Martini D, Kunze L & Veličković P},
  year = "2024"
}

@inproceedings{graphsceneondem-2024/10,
  title={GraphSCENE: On-Demand Critical Scenario Generation for Autonomous
  Vehicles in Simulation},
  author={Panagiotaki E, Pramatarov G, Kunze L & Martini DD},
  booktitle={IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems},
  year = "2024"
}

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@inproceedings{whatsmissingfro-2024/9,
  title={What's missing from this picture? Ethical, legal, and practical challenges for autonomous-vehicle data-recorders},
  author={Ten Holter C, Kunze L, Pattinson J-A, Salvini P, Attias J et al.},
  booktitle={2nd International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS 2024)},
  year = "2024"
}

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@inproceedings{icandoanythingw-2024/9,
  title={I can do anything with my AV data (but I won’t do that): public attitudes towards data recorders in self-driving cars},
  author={Pattinson J-A, Ten Holter C, Grieman K, Salvini P, Kunze L et al.},
  booktitle={2nd International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS 2024)},
  year = "2024"
}

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@article{oordtheoxfordof-2024/8,
  title={OORD: the Oxford Offroad Radar Dataset},
  author={Gadd M, De Martini D, Bartlett O, Murcutt P, Towlson M et al.},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems},
  volume={25},
  pages={18779-18790},
  publisher={IEEE},
  year = "2024"
}

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@inproceedings{howwelldodriver-2024/7,
  title={How well do drivers adapt to remote operation? Learning from
remote drivers with on-road experience},
  author={Hardin B, Salvini P, Jirotka M & Kunze L},
  booktitle={35th IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV 2024)},
  pages={23-28},
  year = "2024"
}

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@inproceedings{aloftselfadapti-2024/6,
  title={Aloft: self-adaptive drone controller testbed},
  author={Imrie C, Howard R, Thuremella D, Proma NM, Pandey T et al.},
  booktitle={19th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS 2024)},
  pages={70-76},
  year = "2024"
}

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@article{onselfdrivingca-2024/6,
  title={On self-driving cars and its (broken?) promises. A case study analysis of the German Act on Autonomous Driving},
  author={Salvini P, Kunze L & Jirotka M},
  journal={Technology in Society},
  volume={78},
  number={102628},
  pages={102628-102628},
  publisher={Elsevier BV},
  year = "2024"
}

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@inproceedings{realtimedsemant-2024/6,
  title={Real-time 3D semantic occupancy prediction for autonomous vehicles using memory-efficient sparse convolution},
  author={Sze S & Kunze L},
  booktitle={2024 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)},
  pages={1286-1293},
  year = "2024"
}

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@inproceedings{robotcycleasses-2024/6,
  title={RobotCycle: assessing cycling safety in urban environments},
  author={Panagiotaki E, Reinmund T, Mouton S, Pitt L, Shanthini AS et al.},
  booktitle={35th IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV 2024)},
  pages={357-363},
  year = "2024"
}

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@inproceedings{transitioningto-2024/5,
  title={Transitioning towards a proactive practice: a longitudinal field study on the implementation of a ML system in adult social care},
  author={Reinmund T, Kunze L & Jirotka M},
  booktitle={2024 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024)},
  year = "2024"
}

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@inproceedings{riskawaretrajec-2024/5,
  title={Risk-aware Trajectory Prediction by Incorporating Spatio-temporal Traffic Interaction Analysis},
  author={Thuremella D, Ince L & Kunze L},
  booktitle={2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  pages={14421-14427},
  year = "2024"
}

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@misc{cobrappmacausal-2024/3,
  title={COBRA-PPM: a causal Bayesian reasoning architecture using probabilistic programming for robot manipulation under uncertainty},
  author={Cannizzaro R, Groom M, Routley J, Ness RO & Kunze L},
  year = "2024"
}

@inproceedings{towardsprobabil-2024/2,
  title={Towards probabilistic causal discovery, inference & explanations for autonomous drones in mine surveying tasks},
  author={Cannizzaro R, Howard R, Lewinska P & Kunze L},
  booktitle={IROS 2023 Workshop: Causality for Robotics: Answering the Question of Why },
  year = "2024"
}

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@misc{ragdrivergenera-2024/2,
  title={RAG-Driver: Generalisable Driving Explanations with Retrieval-Augmented In-Context Learning in Multi-Modal Large Language Model},
  author={Yuan J, Sun S, Omeiza D, Zhao B, Newman P et al.},
  year = "2024"
}

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@inproceedings{semgatexplainab-2024/2,
  title={SEM-GAT: explainable semantic pose estimation using learned graph attention},
  author={Panagiotaki E, De Martini D, Pramatarov G, Gadd M & Kunze L},
  booktitle={21st International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR 2023)},
  pages={367-374},
  year = "2024"
}

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@misc{semanticinterpr-2024/2,
  title={Semantic interpretation and validation of graph attention-based explanations for GNN models},
  author={Panagiotaki E, De Martini D & Kunze L},
  year = "2024"
}

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@article{variableautonom-2024/1,
  title={Variable autonomy through responsible robotics: design guidelines and research agenda},
  author={Reinmund T, Salvini P, Kunze L, Jirotka M & Winfield AFT},
  journal={ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction},
  volume={13},
  number={7},
  pages={1-36},
  publisher={Association for Computing Machinery},
  year = "2024"
}

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@misc{oordtheoxfordof-2024/1,
  title={OORD: The Oxford Offroad Radar Dataset},
  author={Gadd M, De Martini D, Bartlett O, Murcutt P, Towlson M et al.},
  year = "2024"
}

@inproceedings{fromfeatureimpo-2024/1,
  title={From Feature Importance to Natural Language Explanations Using LLMs with RAG},
  author={Tekkesinoglu S & Kunze L},
  pages={114-132},
  year = "2024"
}

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@misc{fromfeatureimpo-2024/,
  title={From Feature Importance to Natural Language Explanations Using LLMs with RAG},
  author={Tekkesinoglu S & Kunze L},
  year = "2024"
}

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@inproceedings{cardespotcausal-2023/12,
  title={CAR-DESPOT: causally-informed online POMDP planning for robots in confounded environments},
  author={Cannizzaro R & Kunze L},
  booktitle={2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2023)},
  pages={2018-2025},
  year = "2023"
}

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@article{humaninvolvemen-2023/12,
  title={Human involvement in autonomous decision-making systems. Lessons learned from three case studies in aviation, social care and road vehicles},
  author={Salvini P, Reinmund T, Hardin B, Grieman K, Ten Holter CA et al.},
  journal={Frontiers in Political Science},
  volume={5},
  number={1238461},
  publisher={Frontiers Media},
  year = "2023"
}

@inproceedings{lrocpanguganclo-2023/10,
  title={LROC-PANGU-GAN: closing the simulation gap in learning crater segmentation with planetary simulators},
  author={La J, Phadke J, Hutton M, Schwinning M, De Canio G et al.},
  booktitle={17th Symposium on Advanced Space Technologies in Robotics and Automation (ASTRA 2023)},
  year = "2023"
}

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@misc{ccsggcornercase-2023/9,
  title={CC-SGG: Corner Case Scenario Generation using Learned Scene Graphs},
  author={Drayson G, Panagiotaki E, Omeiza D & Kunze L},
  year = "2023"
}

@inproceedings{evaluatingtempo-2023/8,
  title={Evaluating temporal observation-based causal discovery techniques applied to road driver behaviour},
  author={Howard R & Kunze L},
  booktitle={2nd Conference on Causal Learning and Reasoning (CLeaR 2023)},
  pages={473-498},
  year = "2023"
}

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@article{predictionofsoc-2023/8,
  title={Prediction of social dynamic agents and long-tailed learning challenges: a survey},
  author={Thuremella D & Kunze L},
  journal={Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research},
  volume={77},
  pages={1697-1772},
  publisher={AI Access Foundation},
  year = "2023"
}

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@misc{towardsacausalp-2023/8,
  title={Towards a causal probabilistic framework for prediction, action-selection & explanations for robot block-stacking tasks},
  author={Cannizzaro R, Routley J & Kunze L},
  year = "2023"
}

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@misc{towardsprobabil-2023/8,
  title={Towards probabilistic causal discovery, inference & explanations for autonomous drones in mine surveying tasks},
  author={Cannizzaro R, Howard R, Lewinska P & Kunze L},
  year = "2023"
}

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@misc{effectsofexplan-2023/7,
  title={Effects of Explanation Specificity on Passengers in Autonomous Driving},
  author={Omeiza D, Bhattacharyya R, Hawes N, Jirotka M & Kunze L},
  year = "2023"
}

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@inproceedings{textualexplanat-2023/7,
  title={Textual explanations for automated commentary driving},
  author={Kühn MA, Omeiza D & Kunze L},
  booktitle={IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Vehicle},
  year = "2023"
}

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@inproceedings{explainableacti-2023/7,
  title={Explainable action prediction through self-supervision on scene graphs},
  author={Kochakarn P, De Martini D, Omeiza D & Kunze L},
  booktitle={International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023)},
  pages={1479-1485},
  year = "2023"
}

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@inproceedings{simulationbased-2023/6,
  title={Simulation-Based Counterfactual Causal Discovery on Real World Driver Behaviour},
  author={Howard R & Kunze L},
  booktitle={2023 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)},
  pages={1-8},
  year = "2023"
}