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Maria Paola Forte

Haptic Intelligence Perceiving Systems Doctoral Researcher

Office: 5N14 @ MPI-IS Stuttgart Max-Planck-Ring 4 72076 Tübingen +49 711 689-2002 [email protected]

Maria-Paola Forte received her BSc degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Genova in 2015 with the thesis "Crowd Motion Analysis using Optical Flow."

In 2018, she earned her MSc degree in Bioengineering (Technologies for Electronics) at Politecnico di Milano. During this time, she participated in an exchange program at the University of Queensland (Brisbane) and conducted her master's thesis research, "Robust Visual Augmented Reality in Robot-Assisted Surgery," at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems under Dr. Katherine J. Kuchenbecker's supervision.

Currently, Forte is an IMPRS-IS Ph.D. Candidate working across two departments at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems: the Haptic Intelligence Department led by Dr. Katherine J. Kuchenbecker and the Perceiving Systems Department led by Dr. Michael J. Black. Her PhD thesis, "An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human Pose Estimation: Application to Sign Language," advances her work in creating assistive technology.

At the core of Forte's research is the development of technology that meaningfully assists people, particularly those with sensory or motor deficits. Through her work on Sign Language Capture, she combines vision-based and sensor-based approaches. Beyond this focus, she investigates how technology can enhance performance in highly specialized contexts, such as robotic surgery, drawing on her interdisciplinary expertise in engineering, computer vision, and human-computer interaction.

	
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Haptic Intelligence Perceiving Systems Article Wrist-to-Wrist Bioimpedance Can Reliably Detect Discrete Self-Touch Forte, M., Vardar, Y., Javot, B., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 74(4006511):1-11, February 2025 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Perceiving Systems Article Learning to Estimate Palpation Forces in Robotic Surgery From Visual-Inertial Data Lee, Y., Mat Husin, H., Forte, M., Lee, S., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, 5(3):496-506, August 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Reconstructing Signing Avatars from Video Using Linguistic Priors Forte, M., Kulits, P., Huang, C. P., Choutas, V., Tzionas, D., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Black, M. J. In IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 12791-12801, CVPR, June 2023 (Published) pdf arXiv project code DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Design of Interactive Augmented Reality Functions for Robotic Surgery and Evaluation in Dry-Lab Lymphadenectomy Forte, M., Gourishetti, R., Javot, B., Engler, T., Gomez, E. D., Kuchenbecker, K. J. The International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery, 18(2):e2351, April 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Estimating Human Handshape by Feeling the Wrist Forte, M., Young, E. M., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Work-in-progress poster presented at EuroHaptics, Leiden, The Netherlands, September 2020 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Vision-based Force Estimation for a da Vinci Instrument Using Deep Neural Networks Lee, Y., Mat Husin, H., Forte, M., Lee, S., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Extended abstract presented as an Emerging Technology ePoster at the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), Cleveland, Ohio, USA, August 2020 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Interactive Augmented Reality for Robot-Assisted Surgery Forte, M., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Workshop extended abstract presented as a podium presentation at the IROS Workshop on Legacy Disruptors in Applied Telerobotics, Macau, November 2019 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous The Haptician and the Alphamonsters Forte, M., L’Orsa, R., Mohan, M., Nam, S., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Student Innovation Challenge on Implementing Haptics in Virtual Reality Environment presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference, Tokyo, Japan, July 2019, Maria-Paola Forte, Rachael L'Orsa, Mayumi Mohan, and Saekwang Nam contributed equally to this publication (Published) Student Innovation Challenge – Virtual Reality BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Interactive Augmented Reality for Robot-Assisted Surgery Forte, M., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Extended abstract presented as an Emerging Technology ePoster at the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), Baltimore, Maryland, USA, April 2019 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Master Thesis Robust Visual Augmented Reality in Robot-Assisted Surgery Forte, M. Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, July 2018, Department of Electronic, Information, and Biomedical Engineering BibTeX

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