Fares Abawi
Office: IKUM, F-214
Vogt-Kölln Str. 30
22527 Hamburg
Hi there! I’m Fares Abawi, a research associate and doctoral candidate at the University of Hamburg. My work is mostly about making computers and robots smarter and more perceptive, especially in understanding what grabs our attention in different situations. I’ve been particularly focused on projects like “GASP: Gated Attention for Saliency Prediction” and exploring how humanoid robots can mimic human-like attention and conflict resolution through multimodal integration.
As an advocate for collaborative technology, I actively contribute to open-source software projects (check out ImageBind-LoRA and Llama LLM distributed with Wrapyfi). I have also developed a framework called Wrapyfi for integrating robots and devices across multiple middleware, including ROS, ROS 2, YARP, ZeroMQ, and MQTT. To access all resources relating to Wrapyfi, visit https://modular.ml or the modular ML organization on GitHub.
Thanks for stopping by!
news
Aug 26, 2024 | We won the Best Paper Award at RO-MAN 2024 InterAI sponsored by Duckietown. “HRI-Free Evaluation of Embodied Social Attention Models Through Cognitive Robotic Simulation” [paper] (password: InterAI_HRI24) |
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Jan 11, 2024 | Our human participant study based on the Wrapyfi [code][paper] framework was accepted at the HRI ‘24 (Boulder, CO, USA) conference Late-Breaking Results (LBR) |
Dec 16, 2023 | Wrapyfi [code][paper] is now available on PyPi https://pypi.org/project/wrapyfi and the documentation on readthedocs https://wrapyfi.readthedocs.io |
Dec 1, 2023 | The Wrapyfi [code][paper] code contribution was accepted at the HRI ‘24 (Boulder, CO, USA) conference and will appear as an SC alongside the full-paper proceedings in March 2024 |