Publications from academics at the Cognitive Robotics Lab at the Oxford Robotics Institute

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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"
}

@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"
}

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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"
}

@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"
}

@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"
}

@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"
}

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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"
}