Publications

2026

1. HRI

   Real-Time Vision for Socially Aware Robots: Gesture, Pointing, and Visual Engagement Estimation

   Bartomeu Pou and Raquel Ros

   In Companion Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2026

   Bib

   @inproceedings{pou2026real,
     title = {Real-Time Vision for Socially Aware Robots: Gesture, Pointing, and Visual Engagement Estimation},
     author = {Pou, Bartomeu and Ros, Raquel},
     booktitle = {Companion Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction},
     pages = {860--864},
     year = {2026},
   }

2. HRI

   EMY: Supporting Autism Therapy with a Socially Assistive Robot

   Sara Cooper, Bartomeu Pou, Arnau Mayoral-Macau, and 3 more authors

   In Companion Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2026

   Bib

   @inproceedings{cooper2026emy,
     title = {{EMY}: Supporting Autism Therapy with a Socially Assistive Robot},
     author = {Cooper, Sara and Pou, Bartomeu and Mayoral-Macau, Arnau and Lobo-Santos, Antonio and Mart{\'i}n, Miriam and Ros, Raquel},
     booktitle = {Companion Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction},
     pages = {1158--1160},
     year = {2026},
   }

3. ICSR

   EMOROBCARE: A Low-Cost Social Robot for Supporting Children with Autism in Therapeutic Settings

   Sara Cooper, Bartomeu Pou, Arnau Mayoral Macau, and 3 more authors

   In International Conference on Social Robotics, 2026

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{cooper2026emorobcare,
     title = {{EMOROBCARE}: A Low-Cost Social Robot for Supporting Children with Autism in Therapeutic Settings},
     author = {Cooper, Sara and Pou, Bartomeu and Mayoral Macau, Arnau and Redondo, Alberto and Rios, David and Ros, Raquel},
     booktitle = {International Conference on Social Robotics},
     pages = {607--615},
     year = {2026},
     publisher = {Springer Nature Singapore},
     doi = {10.1007/978-981-95-2379-5_53},
   }

2025

1. ICLR

   Simplifying Deep Temporal Difference Learning

   Matteo Gallici, Mattie Fellows, Benjamin Ellis, and 4 more authors

   In Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning RepresentationsCore ranking A* , 2025

   Bib

   @inproceedings{gallici2025simplifying,
     title = {Simplifying Deep Temporal Difference Learning},
     author = {Gallici, Matteo and Fellows, Mattie and Ellis, Benjamin and Pou, Bartomeu and Masmitja, Ivan and Foerster, Jakob Nicolaus and Martin, Mario},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Representations},
     year = {2025},
   }

2024

1. Opt. Express

   Integrating supervised and reinforcement learning for predictive control with an unmodulated pyramid wavefront sensor for adaptive optics

   Bartomeu Pou, Jeffrey Smith, Eduardo Quinones, and 2 more authors

   Optics ExpressWOS JCR IF: 3.3 , 2024

   DOI Bib

   @article{pou2024integrating,
     title = {Integrating supervised and reinforcement learning for predictive control with an unmodulated pyramid wavefront sensor for adaptive optics},
     author = {Pou, Bartomeu and Smith, Jeffrey and Quinones, Eduardo and Martin, Mario and Gratadour, Damien},
     journal = {Optics Express},
     volume = {32},
     number = {21},
     pages = {37011--37035},
     year = {2024},
     publisher = {Optical Society of America},
     doi = {10.1364/OE.530254},
   }

2. SPIE

   Integrating deep neural networks with COSMIC for real-time control

   Bartomeu Pou, Florian Ferreira, Eduardo Quinones, and 2 more authors

   In Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VIII, 2024

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{pou2024integrating_cosmic,
     title = {Integrating deep neural networks with {COSMIC} for real-time control},
     author = {Pou, Bartomeu and Ferreira, Florian and Quinones, Eduardo and Martin, Mario and Gratadour, Damien},
     booktitle = {Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VIII},
     volume = {13101},
     pages = {293--306},
     year = {2024},
     organization = {SPIE},
     doi = {10.1117/12.3019710},
   }

3. SPIE

   Future-proof seamless real-time computing for AO with COSMIC

   Florian Ferreira, Arnaud Sevin, Julien Bernard, and 5 more authors

   In Adaptive Optics Systems IX, 2024

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{ferreira2024future,
     title = {Future-proof seamless real-time computing for {AO} with {COSMIC}},
     author = {Ferreira, Florian and Sevin, Arnaud and Bernard, Julien and Plante, Julien and Cetre, Cyril and Doucet, Nicolas and Pou, Bartomeu and Gratadour, Damien},
     booktitle = {Adaptive Optics Systems IX},
     volume = {13097},
     pages = {561--570},
     year = {2024},
     organization = {SPIE},
     doi = {10.1117/12.3020352},
   }

2022

1. Opt. Express

   Adaptive optics control with multi-agent model-free reinforcement learning

   Bartomeu Pou, Florian Ferreira, Eduardo Quinones, and 2 more authors

   Optics ExpressWOS JCR IF: 3.8 , 2022

   DOI Bib

   @article{pou2022adaptive,
     title = {Adaptive optics control with multi-agent model-free reinforcement learning},
     author = {Pou, Bartomeu and Ferreira, Florian and Quinones, Eduardo and Martin, Mario and Gratadour, Damien},
     journal = {Optics Express},
     volume = {30},
     number = {2},
     pages = {2991--3015},
     year = {2022},
     publisher = {Optical Society of America},
     doi = {10.1364/OE.444099},
   }

2. SPIE

   Model-free reinforcement learning with a non-linear reconstructor for closed-loop adaptive optics control with a pyramid wavefront sensor

   Bartomeu Pou, Jeffrey Smith, Eduardo Quinones, and 2 more authors

   In Adaptive Optics Systems VIII, 2022

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{pou2022model,
     title = {Model-free reinforcement learning with a non-linear reconstructor for closed-loop adaptive optics control with a pyramid wavefront sensor},
     author = {Pou, Bartomeu and Smith, Jeffrey and Quinones, Eduardo and Martin, Mario and Gratadour, Damien},
     booktitle = {Adaptive Optics Systems VIII},
     volume = {12185},
     pages = {945--958},
     year = {2022},
     organization = {SPIE},
     doi = {10.1117/12.2627849},
   }

2020

1. SPIE

   Denoising wavefront sensor images with deep neural networks

   Bartomeu Pou, Eduardo Quinones, Damien Gratadour, and 1 more author

   In Adaptive Optics Systems VII, 2020

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{pou2020denoising,
     title = {Denoising wavefront sensor images with deep neural networks},
     author = {Pou, Bartomeu and Quinones, Eduardo and Gratadour, Damien and Martin, Mario},
     booktitle = {Adaptive Optics Systems VII},
     volume = {11448},
     pages = {910--917},
     year = {2020},
     organization = {SPIE},
     doi = {10.1117/12.2576242},
   }