Mert Albaba

Publications

Papers and ongoing work in robotics and reinforcement learning.

2026

  1. Dr. Octopus: Universal Hand Controller

    Ongoing work · Paper in preparation

    Developed during my internship at Vesoma with Martin Riedmiller.

  2. Preview of NIL: No-data Imitation Learning

    NIL: No-data Imitation Learning

    Mert Albaba, Chenhao Li, Markos Diomataris, Omid Taheri, Andreas Krause, and Michael J. Black

    CVPR 2026

    Also presented as a spotlight talk at the 2nd Workshop on Agents in Interaction, from Humans to Robots.

    Project arXiv

2025

2024

  1. Preview of MARLUI: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Point-and-Click UIs

    MARLUI: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Point-and-Click UIs

    Thomas Langerak, Sammy Christen, Mert Albaba, Christoph Gebhardt, Christian Holz, and Otmar Hilliges

    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction · 2024

  2. Preview of A Transformer-Based Model for the Prediction of Human Gaze Behavior on Videos

    A Transformer-Based Model for the Prediction of Human Gaze Behavior on Videos

    Süleyman Özdel, Yao Rong, Berat Mert Albaba, Yen-Ling Kuo, Xi Wang, and Enkelejda Kasneci

    Proceedings of the 2024 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications · 2024

2021

  1. Preview of A 3D game theoretical framework for the evaluation of unmanned aircraft systems airspace integration concepts

    A 3D game theoretical framework for the evaluation of unmanned aircraft systems airspace integration concepts

    Berat Mert Albaba, Negin Musavi, and Yildiray Yildiz

    Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies · 2021

  2. Preview of Driver modeling through deep reinforcement learning and behavioral game theory

    Driver modeling through deep reinforcement learning and behavioral game theory

    Berat Mert Albaba, and Yildiray Yildiz

    IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology · 2021

  3. Preview of SyNet: An ensemble network for object detection in UAV images

    SyNet: An ensemble network for object detection in UAV images

    Berat Mert Albaba, and Sedat Ozer

    2020 25th International conference on pattern recognition (ICPR) · 2021

2019

  1. Preview of Stochastic driver modeling and validation with traffic data

    Stochastic driver modeling and validation with traffic data

    Mert Albaba, Yildiray Yildiz, Nan Li, Ilya Kolmanovsky, and Anouck Girard

    2019 American Control Conference (ACC) · 2019

  2. Preview of Modeling cyber-physical human systems via an interplay between reinforcement learning and game theory

    Modeling cyber-physical human systems via an interplay between reinforcement learning and game theory

    Berat Mert Albaba, and Yildiray Yildiz

    Annual Reviews in Control · 2019