Publications

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Do Robots Really Need Anthropomorphic Hands? A Comparison of Human and Robotic Hands

Alexander Fabisch, Wadhah Zai El Amri, Chandandeep Singh, Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero (2026). "Do Robots Really Need Anthropomorphic Hands? A Comparison of Human and Robotic Hands." Springer Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 112, 73.

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SPLIT: Separating Physical-Contact via Latent Arithmetic in Image-Based Tactile Sensors

Wadhah Zai El Amri, Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero (2026). "SPLIT: Separating Physical-Contact via Latent Arithmetic in Image-Based Tactile Sensors." Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Volume 203, 2026, ISSN 0921-8890, 10.1016/j.robot.2026.105498.

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Vibro-Sense: Robust Vibration-based Impulse Response Localization and Trajectory Tracking for Robotic Hands

Wadhah Zai El Amri, Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero (2026). "Vibro-Sense: Robust Vibration-based Impulse Response Localization and Trajectory Tracking for Robotic Hands." Submitted to Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2026.

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ACROSS: A Deformation-Based Cross-Modal Representation for Robotic Tactile Perception

Wadhah Zai El Amri, Malte Kuhlmann, Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero (2025). "ACROSS: A Deformation-Based Cross-Modal Representation for Robotic Tactile Perception." IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Atlanta, USA, 2025.

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Vibro-Sense: A Bio-Inspired Vibration-Based Tactile Sensor for Robotics

Wadhah Zai El Amri, Nicolas Faundes, and Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero (2025). "Vibro-Sense: A Bio-Inspired Vibration-Based Tactile Sensor for Robotics." in 1st German Robotics Conference (GRC), Nuremberg, Germany, March. 2025, pp. 1–3.

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Transferring Tactile Data Across Sensors

Wadhah Zai El Amri, Malte Kuhlmann, and Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero (2024). "Transferring Tactile Data Across Sensors." in 40th Anniversary of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA@40), Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Sept. 2024, pp. 1540–1542.

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Optimizing BioTac Simulation for Realistic Tactile Perception

Wadhah Zai El Amri, Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero (2024). "Optimizing BioTac Simulation for Realistic Tactile Perception." International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Yokohama, Japan, 2024, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/IJCNN60899.2024.10650656.

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A Review of the Role of Causality in Developing Trustworthy AI Systems

Niloy Ganguly, Dren Fazlija, Maryam Badar, Marco Fisichella, Sandipan Sikdar, Johanna Schrader, Jonas Wallat, Koustav Rudra, Manolis Koubarakis, Gourab K. Patro, Wadhah Zai El Amri, and Wolfgang Nejdl (2023). "A Review of the Role of Causality in Developing Trustworthy AI Systems." arXiv:2302.06975.

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Hierarchical Decentralized Deep Reinforcement Learning Architecture for a Simulated Four-Legged Agent

Wadhah Zai El Amri, Luca Hermes, Malte Schilling (2022). "Hierarchical Decentralized Deep Reinforcement Learning Architecture for a Simulated Four-Legged Agent." In: Nicosia, G., et al. Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science. LOD 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13811. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25891-6_20.

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Transfer Learning with Jukebox for Music Source Separation

Wadhah Zai El Amri, Oliver Tautz, Helge Ritter, Andrew Melnik (2022). "Transfer Learning with Jukebox for Music Source Separation." Part of the IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology book series (IFIPAICT,volume 647).

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Open Set Task Augmentation Facilitates Generalization of Deep Neural Networks Trained on Small Data Sets

Wadhah Zai El Amri, Felix Reinhart, Wolfram Schenck (2022). "Open Set Task Augmentation Facilitates Generalization of Deep Neural Networks Trained on Small Data Sets." Neural Computing and Applications, 34, 6067–6083.