Minsu Jang (장민수)

CONTACT INFORMATION

Social Robotics Research Team
Mobility-Robot Research Division
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)
Gajeong-ro 218, Yuseong-gu
Daejeon-si, 34129
South Korea
(email) minsu[at]etri.re.kr
(google scholar) https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ggkuHCcAAAAJ

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Social Human-Robot Interaction, Robot Software Framework, Foundation Models for Robotics, Machine Learning, Rule/Ontology Modeling and Reasoning, Artificial General Intelligence,

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Computer Science, March 2015 – Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
Dissertation Title: Adaptive acceleration-based gesture recognition using meta-cognitive framework. Hyun Seung Yang, Chair
M.A. in Computer Science, March 1994 – Sogang University
B.A. in Computer Science, March 1992 – Sogang University

AFFILIATION

Human-Robot Interaction Research Lab., Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Principal Researcher, 1999 – Present)

PUBLICATIONS

Peer-reviewed International Journals

  1. Jang, Minsu, Ho Seok Ahn, and Jong-Suk Choi. “Editorial Introduction to Special Issue on Machine Learning for Social Human-Robot Interaction.” International Journal of Social Robotics 15, no. 4 (2023): 581-582.
  2. Hellou, Mehdi, JongYoon Lim, Norina Gasteiger, Minsu Jang, and Ho Seok Ahn. “Technical Methods for Social Robots in Museum Settings: An Overview of the Literature.” International Journal of Social Robotics 14, no. 8 (2022): 1767-1786.
  3. Jang, Minsu, JongSuk Choi, Ho Seok Ahn, and Chung Hyuk Park. “(Editorial) Social human-robot interaction (sHRI) of human-care service robots.” Frontiers in Robotics and AI 9 (2022): 1064440.
  4. Hellou, Mehdi, Norina Gasteiger, Jong Yoon Lim, Minsu Jang, and Ho Seok Ahn. “Personalization and Localization in Human-Robot Interaction: A Review of Technical Methods.” Robotics 10, no. 4 (2021): 120.
  5. Ko, Woo-Ri, Minsu Jang, Jaeyeon Lee, and Jaehong Kim. “AIR-Act2Act: Human–human interaction dataset for teaching non-verbal social behaviors to robots.” The International Journal of Robotics Research 40, no. 4-5 (2021): 691-697.
  6. Yoon, Youngwoo, Bok Cha, Joo-Haeng Lee, Minsu Jang, Jaeyeon Lee, Jaehong Kim, and Geehyuk Lee. “Speech gesture generation from the trimodal context of text, audio, and speaker identity.” ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)39, no. 6 (2020): 1-16.
  7. Jang, Minsu, Jaehong Kim, Yong–Ho Seo, and Hyun–Seung Yang. “Adaptive gesture tracking and recognition using acceleration sensors for a mobile device.” International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing 8, no. 2 (2015): 183-193.

International Conferences (+ arXiv preprints)

  1. Yun, Woo-han, Minsu Jang, and Jaehong Kim. “Model Comparison for Fast Domain Adaptation in Table Service Scenario.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.05092 (2024). (arxiv)
  2. Choi, Jae-Woo, Youngwoo Yoon, Hyobin Ong, Jaehong Kim, and Minsu Jang. “LoTa-Bench: Benchmarking Language-oriented Task Planners for Embodied Agents.” In The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations. 2023. (Open Review, github)
  3. Kim, Taewoo, Donghyung Kim, Minsu Jang, and Jaehong Kim. “Uncertainty-Aware Shared Autonomy System with Hierarchical Conservative Skill Inference.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.02488 (2023). (arxiv)
  4. Jang, Minsu, Youngwoo Yoon, Jaewoo Choi, Hyobin Ong, and Jaehong Kim. “A Structured Prompting based on Belief-Desire-Intention Model for Proactive and Explainable Task Planning.” In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, pp. 375-377. 2023. (pdf)
  5. Shin, Minjung, Minsu Jang, Miyoung Cho, and Jeh-Kwang Ryu. “Uncertainty-Resolving Questions for Social Robots.” In Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pp. 226-230. 2023.
  6. Ko, Woo-Ri, Minsu Jang, Jaeyeon Lee, and Jaehong Kim. “Nonverbal Social Behavior Generation for Social Robots Using End-to-End Learning.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.00930 (2022).
  7. Yoon, Youngwoo, Keunwoo Park, Minsu Jang, Jaehong Kim, and Geehyuk Lee. “SGToolkit: An Interactive Gesture Authoring Toolkit for Embodied Conversational Agents.” In The 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, pp. 826-840. 2021.
  8. Jang, Jinhyeok, Dohyung Kim, Cheonshu Park, Minsu Jang, Jaeyeon Lee, and Jaehong Kim. “ETRI-activity3D: A large-scale RGB-D dataset for robots to recognize daily activities of the elderly.” In 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 10990-10997. IEEE, 2020.
  9. Ko, Woo-Ri, Jaeyeon Lee, Minsu Jang, and Jaehong Kim. “End-to-End Learning of Social Behaviors for Humanoid Robots.” In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), pp. 1200-1205. IEEE, 2020.
  10. Yoon, Youngwoo, Woo-Ri Ko, Minsu Jang, Jaeyeon Lee, Jaehong Kim, and Geehyuk Lee. “Robots learn social skills: End-to-end learning of co-speech gesture generation for humanoid robots.” In 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 4303-4309. IEEE, 2019.
  11. Ko, Woo-Ri, Youngwoo Yoon, Minsu Jang, Jaeyeon Lee, and Jaehong Kim. “End-to-End Learning-based Interaction Behavior Genera-tion for Social Robots.” In Proc. Int. Conf. Social Robotics (ICSR), Qingdao, China. 2018.
  12. Jang, Minsu, Jaehong Kim, and Jaeyeon Lee. “Project AIR: Developing Artificial Social Intelligence for Human-Care Robots.” In 2018 Workshop on Social Human-Robot Interaction for Human-care Robots, 2018.
  13. Jang, Minsu, Cheonshu Park, and Jaehong Kim. “Building a Schema for the Description of HRI Experiments”, Workshop on Towards Standardized Experiments in HRI (IROS2015), 2015. pdf
  14. Jang, Minsu, Jaehong Kim, and Byeong-Kyu Ahn. “A software framework design for social human-robot interaction.” In 2015 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI), pp. 411-412. IEEE, 2015.
  15. Jang, Minsu, Cheonshu Park, and Hyun-Seung Yang. “Building an automated engagement recognizer based on video analysis.” In 2014 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), pp. 182-183. IEEE, 2014.
  16. Jang, Minsu, Dae-Ha Lee, Jaehong Kim, and Youngjo Cho. “Identifying principal social signals in private student-teacher interactions for robot-enhanced education.” In 2013 IEEE RO-MAN, pp. 621-626. IEEE, 2013.
  17. Yu, Wonpil, Jae-Yeong Lee, Heesung Chae, Kyuseo Han, Yucheol Lee, and Minsu Jang. “Robot task control utilizing human-in-the-loop perception.” In RO-MAN 2008-The 17th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, pp. 395-400. IEEE, 2008.
  18. Jang, Minsu, Joo-Chan Sohn, and Youngjo Cho. “Building semantic robot space based on the semantic web.” In RO-MAN 2007-The 16th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, pp. 499-504. IEEE, 2007.
  19. Jang, Minsu, Jaehong Kim, Meekyoung Lee, and Joo-Chan Sohn. “Ubiquitous robot simulation framework and its applications.” In IROS 2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 4077-4082. IEEE, 2005.
  20. Jang, Minsu, and Joo-Chan Sohn. “Bossam: An extended rule engine for OWL inferencing.” In International Workshop on Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web, pp. 128-138. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2004.

국내 학술지 (Korean Journals & Conferences)

  1. 장민수, 김재홍, “대형언어모델로 진화하는 로봇 지능”, 한국통신학회 정보와통신, 제40권 5호, 2023. link

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