Publications
Vision on the Warehouse Floor: Perceptive HRI for Autonomous Forklifts
Magnus Jung, Thorsten Hempel, Paul Schulz, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
MDPI Robotics 2026 [paper]
See, Spawn, Synchronize: A Digital Twin Pipeline for Smart Production Cells
Malte Herrmann, Dominykas Strazdas, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
MDPI Machines 2026 [paper]
REMA-Net: Real-Time Human Action Recognition via Caption-Guided Dual-Stream Attention
Basheer Al-Tawil, Magnus Jung, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
SSRN Preprint 2026 [preprint]
SAR-SLAM: Semantic-Aware Recognition for Dynamic SLAM in Robotic Applications
Basheer Al-Tawil, Magnus Jung, Thorsten Hempel, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
MDPI Robotics 2026 [paper]
Behnam Ensan, Magnus Jung, Matthias Busch, Andreas Wendemuth
LREC 2026
GESTRO: Skeleton-Based Dynamic Gesture Recognition for Robot Teleoperation
Thorsten Hempel, Magnus Jung, Arman Ahmed Khan, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems 2026 [paper] [code]
Deep Learning-Based Gaze Estimation: A Review
Ahmed A. Abdelrahman, Basheer Al-Tawil, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
MDPI Robotics 2026 [paper]
Think Like a Team: Graph-Based Representation of Shared Mental Models in Human-Agent Collaboration
Moinam Chatterjee, Behnam Ensan, Andreas Wendemuth, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
ESSV 2026
Automating Synthetic Dataset Generation for Image-based 3D Detection: A Literature Review
Paul Schulz, Thorsten Hempel, Magnus Jung, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
Artificial Intelligence Review 2026 [paper]
Automated 3D Dataset Generation for Arbitrary Objects
Paul Schulz, Thorsten Hempel, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
IEEE Access 2025 [paper]
A Real-Time Digital Twin Framework for the TIAGo Service Robot
Malte Herrmann, Thorsten Hempel, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
IEEE SMC 2025 [paper]
Gaze Matters: Eye Contact Detection in Unscripted Human-Robot Interaction Scenarios
Thorsten Hempel, Magnus Jung, Dominykas Strazdas, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
IEEE SMC 2025 [paper]
Dominykas Strazdas, Matthias Busch, Rijin Shaji, Ingo Siegert, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
Frontiers in Robotics and AI 2025 [paper]
MobGazeNet: Robust Gaze Estimation Mobile Network Based on Progressive Attention Mechanisms
Ahmed A. Abdelrahman, Thorsten Hempel, Aly Khalifa, Dominykas Strazdas, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
Machine Vision and Applications 2025 [paper]
Multi-Head Attention-Based Framework with Residual Network for Human Action Recognition
Basheer Al-Tawil, Magnus Jung, Thorsten Hempel, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
MDPI Sensors 2025 [paper]
IM HERE – Interaction Model for Human Effort-Based Robot Engagement
Dominykas Strazdas, Magnus Jung, Jan Marquenie, Ingo Siegert, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
2025 IEEE Conference on Cognitive and Computational Aspects of Situation Management (CogSIMA)
Automating 3D Dataset Generation with Neural Radiance Fields
Paul Schulz, Thorsten Hempel, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
Toward Truly Intelligent Autonomous Systems A Taxonomy of LLM Integration for Everyday Automation
Magnus Jung, Thorsten Hempel, Basheer Al-Tawil, Qiaoyue Yang and Sven Wachsmuth, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
ROBOVIS 2025, accepted
Eye Contact Based Engagement Prediction for Efficient Human-Robot Interaction
Magnus Jung, Ahmed A. Abdelrahmanand, Thorsten Hempel, Basheer Al-Tawil, Qiaoyue Yang, Sven Wachsmuth, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
CIS 2025, accepted
Mobile Robot Navigation with Enhanced 2D Mapping and Multi-Sensor Fusion
Basheer Al-Tawil, Adem Candemir, Magnus Jung, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
MDPI Sensors 2025 [paper]
Fine-grained gaze estimation based on the combination of regression and classification losses
Ahmed A. Abdelrahman, Thorsten Hempel, Aly Khalifa, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
Springer Applied Intelligence 2024 [paper]