Contributor: Baoxiong Jia
Reading list
survey/review/perspective paper book tutorial
Required
- Dark, Beyond Deep: A Paradigm Shift to Cognitive AI with Humanlike Common Sense (Section 6), Engineering 2020
- Discerning intentions in dynamic human action, TiCS 2001
- Teleological reasoning in infancy: the naı̈ve theory of rational action, TiCS 2003
- ‘Obsessed with goals’: Functions and mechanisms of teleological interpretation of actions in humans, Acta Psychologica 2007
- Action understanding as inverse planning, Cognition 2009
- Plan Activity and Intent Recognition Tutorial, AAAI 2019
Optional - Observational Studies
- First-person action experience reveals sensitivity to action efficiency in prereaching infants, PNAS 2013
- Infants selectively encode the goal object of an actor’s reach, Cognition 1998
- Goal-Directed Action Representation in Autism, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorder 2006
- Rational quantitative attribution of beliefs, desires and percepts in human mentalizing, Nature Human Behaviour 2009
- Unwilling Versus Unable: Infants’ Understanding of Intentional Action, Developmental Psychology 2005
- Twelve-month-olds’ comprehension and production of pointing, British Journal of Developmental Psychology 2012
- Understanding Attention: 12- and 18-Month-Olds Know What Is New for Other Persons, Developmental Psychology 2003
- Fourteen- through 18-month-old infants differentially imitate intentional and accidental actions, Infant Behavior and Development 1998
- Do apes ape?, Social Learning in Animals: The Root of Culture (1996)
- Taking the intentional stance at 12 months of age, Cognition 1995
Optional - Goal Attribution
- Inferring “Dark Matter” and “Dark Energy” from Videos, ICCV 2013
- Help or Hinder: Bayesian Models of Social Goal Inference, NeurIPS 2009
- A survey of inverse reinforcement learning: Challenges, methods and progress, Artificial Intelligence 2021
- First-Person Activity Forecasting with Online Inverse Reinforcement Learning, ICCV 2017
- Maximum Entropy Inverse Reinforcement Learning, AAAI 2018
- A Survey of Preferenced-Based Reinforcement Learning Methods, JMLR 2017
Optional - Action Prediction
- Predicting Human Activities Using Stochastic Grammar, ICCV 2017
- In the Eye of Beholder: Joint Learning of Gaze and Actions in First Person Video, ECCV 2018
- Human Activity Recognition and Prediction: A Survey, arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.11230
- Social LSTM: Human Trajectory Prediction in Crowded Spaces, CVPR 2016
- Social GAN: Socially Acceptable Trajectories with Generative Adversarial Networks, CVPR 2018
- A Generalized Earley Parser for Human Activity Parsing and Prediction, PAMI 2020
Essay
In our daily life, goals can be as abstract as a long-term picture or as detailed as an immediate goal condition. Given the related material in the reading list, discuss about possible ways to represent goals and their advantages/disadvantages using a computational framework.