Vita

Sarwar Paplu completed a B.Sc in Computer Science (CS) from the University of Chittagong and an M.Sc in CS from the University of Kaiserslautern (TUK). His Master's thesis focuses on assessing human personality traits in the context of Human-Robot Interaction. In August 2023, he successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis titled "Personalized Human-Robot Interaction Based on Multimodal Perceptual Cues". The work exploits verbal, visual, and paralinguistic cues to generate personalized robot behavior, establishing long-term relationships with humans. Presently, he is working as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Robotics Research Lab (RRLab), University of Kaiserslautern-Landau. Previously, he worked as a lecturer in Bangladesh.

He is working on the development of a robot control architecture for socially interactive robots named ROBIN and Emah, taking perceptual, memory, and cognitive aspects into account. Based on the perception of verbal and non-verbal cues, the robots can establish fluid interactions with humans. With the integration of speech perception, various aspects of natural language processing have been incorporated into the system. He is also involved with an autonomous shuttle bus project (AutoBus) in which he is incorporating various interaction aspects for the bus.

Publications

2023

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  • Multimodal Episodic Analysis of Human Personality Traits for Personalized Behavior in Social Robots.
    Sarwar Paplu, Bhalachandra Bhat and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), (2023)
    DOI: 10.1109/Humanoids57100.2023.10375182
  • Personalized Human-Robot Interaction Based on Multimodal Perceptual Cues.
    Sarwar Paplu
    (2023)
  • Social Perception and Scene Awareness in Human-Robot Interaction.
    Sarwar Paplu, Prabesh Khadka, Bhalachandra Bhat and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR2023), S. 123 - 132. (2023)
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-8718-4₁1
  • Social Robot Dressing Style. An evaluation of interlocutor preference for University Setting.
    Ashita Ashok, Sarwar Paplu and Karsten Berns
    2023 32nd IEEE International Conferenceon Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), S. 6. (2023)
    DOI: 10.1109/RO-MAN57019.2023.10309491

2022

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  • Harnessing Long-term Memory for Personalized Human-Robot Interactions.
    Sarwar Paplu, Raúl Navarro and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of the 21st IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), S. 377 - 382. (2022)
    DOI: 10.1109/Humanoids53995.2022.10000213
  • Multimodal Perceptual Cues for Context-aware Human-Robot Interaction.
    Sarwar Paplu, Hasnat Ahmed, Ashita Ashok, Sevilay Akkus and Karsten Berns
    The Joint International Conference of the 13th IFToMM International Symposium on Science of Mechanisms and Machines (SYROM 2022) and the XXV International Conference on Robotics (ROBOTICS 2022), Vol. 127, S. 283 - 294. (2022)
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-25655-4₂9
  • Paralinguistic Cues in Speech to Adapt Robot Behavior in Human-Robot Interaction.
    Ashita Ashok, Jakub Pawlak, Sarwar Paplu, Zuhair Zafar and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of the 9th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics & Biomechatronics (BioRob), (2022)
    DOI: 10.1109/BioRob52689.2022.9925505
  • Real-time Emotion Appraisal with Circumplex Model for Human-Robot Interaction.
    Sarwar Paplu, Chinmaya Mishra and Karsten Berns
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.09813, (2022)
    https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.09813
  • Towards Emotion-aware Personalized Human-Robot Interaction.
    Sarwar Paplu
    5th Young Researchers Symposium 2022, S. 43. (2022)

2021

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  • Adapting Behaviour of Socially Interactive Robot based on Text Sentiment.
    Sarwar Paplu, Mohammed Arif and Karsten Berns
    30th International Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region (RAAD), Vol. Advances in Service and Industrial Robotics, S. 221 - 228. (2021)
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-75259-0₂4
  • Exploiting Conversational Topic Awareness for Interactive Robots.
    Sarwar Paplu, Mohammed Arif, Nishan Tamang and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), S. 474 - 479. (2021)
    DOI: 10.1109/ICAR53236.2021.9659484
  • Towards Linguistic and Cognitive Competence for Socially Interactive Robots.
    Sarwar Paplu and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RITA), Nr. 429, S. 520 - 530. (2021)
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-97672-9₄7
  • Utilizing Semantic and Contextual Information during Human-Robot Interaction.
    Sarwar Paplu, Mohammed Arif and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), S. 1 - 6. (2021)
    DOI: 10.1109/ICDL49984.2021.9515611

2020

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  • Pseudo-Randomization in Automating Robot Behaviour during Human-Robot Interaction.
    Sarwar Paplu, Chinmaya Mishra and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-ER), S. 120 - 125. (2020)
    DOI: 10.1109/ICDL-EpiRob48136.2020.9278115

2018

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  • Automatic Assessment of Human Personality Traits. A Step towards Intelligent Human-Robot Interaction.
    Zuhair Zafar, Sarwar Paplu and Karsten Berns
    2018 IEEE-RAS 18th International Conference on Humanoid Robotics (Humanoids), S. 670 - 675. (2018)
    DOI: 10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2018.8624975
  • Personality Traits Recognition in Context of Human-Robot Interaction.
    Sarwar Paplu
    (2018)
  • Real-time Recognition of Extroversion-Introversion Trait in Context of Human-Robot Interaction.
    Zuhair Zafar, Sarwar Paplu and Karsten Berns
    Advances in Service and Industrial Robotics, Vol. 67, S. 63 - 70. (2018)
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-00232-9