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- | <HTML><table><tr valign="top"><td>2019-10-10</td><td>IIS guest <span style="font-weight:bold">Georg Martius</span> gives an invited colloquium <i>Self-Organization of Behavior in Autonomous Robot | + | <HTML><table><tr valign="top"><td>2019-11-08</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>AI Transparency in Autonomous Vehicles</i> at <a href="https://cogvehicles2019.github.io/">Towards Cognitive |
- | Development</i> at IFI Lunchtime Seminar.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-07-17</td><td>Matteo Saveriano contributes a talk <i>From Intuitive Skill Transfer to Large-Scale Robotic Knowledge Bases</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/disc/events/">DiSCourse - The Digital Science Seminar Series</a>, Department of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-07-15</td><td>David Peer contributes a talk <i>Vector Routing in Capsule Networks</i> at School of Learning, Perception and Robotics (SPROuT), Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-07-15</td><td>Sayantan Auddy contributes a talk <i>Progress, Compress and Expand - A framework for lifelong learning of | + | Vehicles: perception, learning and decision making under |
+ | real-world constraints. Is bio-inspiration helpful?</a>, Macau.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-11-03</td><td>Justus Piater, Philipp Gschwandtner, and Simon Haller appear in the media: Österreich-Bild: Bits und Berge - 350 Jahre Forschung in Innsbruck; TV Documentary by ORF 2 (in German).</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-10-23</td><td>Simon Haller appears in the media: TV interview by ORF 2 Tirol Heute (in German).</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-10-11</td><td>Justus Piater appears in the media: <a href="https://issuu.com/eco.nova/docs/eco_06_2019_issuu/24">KI oder | ||
+ | die Geschichte einer gleichzeitigen Über- und Unterschätzung | ||
+ | (eco.nova, in German)</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-10-10</td><td>IIS guest <span style="font-weight:bold">Georg Martius</span>, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, | ||
+ | Tübingen, gives an invited colloquium <i>Control What You Can – Intrinsically Motivated | ||
+ | Hierarchical RL</i> at IIS Colloquium. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem18', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem18Abstract" style="display:none">I will present present a hierarchical reinforcement | ||
+ | learning agent that is intrinsically motivated to learn how to | ||
+ | control its observation space in the fastest possible manner by | ||
+ | optimizing learning progress. The agent mimicks to some extend the | ||
+ | development process how a baby learns. Our agent learns what can | ||
+ | be controlled, how to allocate time and attention, and the | ||
+ | relations between objects in the environment. In a nutshell, our | ||
+ | work combines several task-level planning ideas (e.g., | ||
+ | backtracking search on task graph, probabilistic road-maps, | ||
+ | allocation of search efforts, etc.), in the form of structured | ||
+ | prior, with deep RL control and relational reasoning to learn from | ||
+ | scratch.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-10-10</td><td>IIS guest <span style="font-weight:bold">Georg Martius</span>, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, | ||
+ | Tübingen, gives an invited colloquium <i>Self-Organization of Behavior in Autonomous Robot | ||
+ | Development</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/informatik/forschung/lunchtime-seminar/index.html.en">IFI Lunchtime Seminar</a>. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem19', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem19Abstract" style="display:none">I am studying the question how robots can autonomously | ||
+ | develop skills. Considering children, it seems natural that they | ||
+ | have their own agenda. They explore their environment in a playful | ||
+ | way, without the necessity for somebody to tell them what to do | ||
+ | next. With robots the situation is different. There are many | ||
+ | methods to let robots learn to do something, but it is always | ||
+ | about learning to do a specific task from a supervision | ||
+ | signal. Unfortunately, these methods do not scale well to systems | ||
+ | with many degrees of freedom, except a good prestructuring is | ||
+ | available. The hypothesis is that if the robots first learn to | ||
+ | use their bodies and interact with the environment in a playful | ||
+ | way they can acquire many small skills with which they can later | ||
+ | solve complicated tasks much quicker. In the talk I will present | ||
+ | my steps into this direction. Starting from some general | ||
+ | information theoretic consideration we provide robots with an own | ||
+ | drive to do something and explore their behavioral | ||
+ | capabilities. Technically, this is achieved by considering the | ||
+ | sensorimotor loop as a dynamical system, whose parameters are | ||
+ | adapted online according to a gradient ascent on an approximated | ||
+ | information quantity. I'll show examples of simulated and real | ||
+ | robots behaving in a self-determined way and present future | ||
+ | directions.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-07-17</td><td>Matteo Saveriano contributes a talk <i>From Intuitive Skill Transfer to Large-Scale Robotic Knowledge Bases</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/disc/events/">DiSCourse - The Digital Science Seminar Series</a>, Department of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-07-15</td><td>David Peer contributes a talk <i>Vector Routing in Capsule Networks</i> at School of Learning, Perception and Robotics (SPROuT), Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-07-15</td><td>Sayantan Auddy contributes a talk <i>Progress, Compress and Expand - A framework for lifelong learning of | ||
robotics tasks</i> at School of Learning, Perception and Robotics (SPROuT), Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-07-15</td><td>Justus Piater contributes a talk <i>Towards Open-Ended Robot Learning</i> at School of Learning, Perception and Robotics (SPROuT), Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-07-15</td><td>Matteo Saveriano contributes a talk <i>Learning Structured Robotic Tasks via Human Imitation</i> at School of Learning, Perception and Robotics (SPROuT), Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-07-12</td><td>Simon Haller and Nicolas Stolz appear in the media: Sport und Roboter gehen Hand in Hand (in Liechtensteiner Vaterland).</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-07-04</td><td>Simon Haller teaches a tutorial <i>Introduction to Prototyping autonomous Robots using the Robot | robotics tasks</i> at School of Learning, Perception and Robotics (SPROuT), Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-07-15</td><td>Justus Piater contributes a talk <i>Towards Open-Ended Robot Learning</i> at School of Learning, Perception and Robotics (SPROuT), Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-07-15</td><td>Matteo Saveriano contributes a talk <i>Learning Structured Robotic Tasks via Human Imitation</i> at School of Learning, Perception and Robotics (SPROuT), Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-07-12</td><td>Simon Haller and Nicolas Stolz appear in the media: Sport und Roboter gehen Hand in Hand (in Liechtensteiner Vaterland).</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-07-04</td><td>Simon Haller teaches a tutorial <i>Introduction to Prototyping autonomous Robots using the Robot | ||
Operating System (ROS)</i> at Institut für Informatik, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-06-27</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Selbst lernende Roboter der Zukunft</i> at <a href="http://www.gmar.at/aktuell/">GMAR Robotics Talks | Operating System (ROS)</i> at Institut für Informatik, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-06-27</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Selbst lernende Roboter der Zukunft</i> at <a href="http://www.gmar.at/aktuell/">GMAR Robotics Talks | ||
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Gesellschaft</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/events/2019/06/13/kuenstliche-intelligenz-und-robotik-als-theologisch-ethische-...">Künstliche | Gesellschaft</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/events/2019/06/13/kuenstliche-intelligenz-und-robotik-als-theologisch-ethische-...">Künstliche | ||
Intelligenz und Robotik als theologisch-ethische | Intelligenz und Robotik als theologisch-ethische | ||
- | Herausforderung</a>, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-05-24</td><td>Philipp Zech and Erwan Renaudo co-organize the <a href="https://r1d1.github.io/iwcmar/">2nd International | + | Herausforderung</a>, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-05-24 – 2020-12-31</td><td>Erwan Renaudo edits a guest edition <a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/10337/computational-models-of-affordance-for-robotics/">Special Issue on Computational Models of Affordance in Robotics</a> in <a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neurorobotics">Frontiers in Neurorobotics</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-05-24</td><td>Philipp Zech and Erwan Renaudo co-organize the <a href="https://r1d1.github.io/iwcmar/">2nd International |
Workshop on Computational Models of Affordance in Robotics | Workshop on Computational Models of Affordance in Robotics | ||
</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-05-09</td><td>Erwan Renaudo contributes a talk <i>Action representations in robotics: A taxonomy | </a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-05-09</td><td>Erwan Renaudo contributes a talk <i>Action representations in robotics: A taxonomy | ||
- | and systematic classification</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/informatik/forschung/lunchtime-seminar/events/2019-05-09.html"> | + | and systematic classification</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/informatik/forschung/lunchtime-seminar/events/2019-05-09.html">IFI |
Lunchtime Seminar</a>, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-05-02</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Digitalization: Promises and Challenges</i> at <a href="https://www.andrassyuni.eu/nachrichten/innovation-trifft-geschichte-oder-wie-kommunizieren-wir-digital-und-analog.html">Möglichkeiten | Lunchtime Seminar</a>, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-05-02</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Digitalization: Promises and Challenges</i> at <a href="https://www.andrassyuni.eu/nachrichten/innovation-trifft-geschichte-oder-wie-kommunizieren-wir-digital-und-analog.html">Möglichkeiten | ||
und Herausforderungen der Digitalisierung</a>, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-04-26 – 2019-04-27</td><td>Birgit Juen, Cornelia Vidovic, Manuela Resch, Justus Piater, and Simon Haller co-organize the <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/informatik/schule/robocupjunior/index.html.de">RoboCup Junior Austrian Open 2019</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-04-26</td><td>Justus Piater appears in the media: TV interview on educational and societal aspects of robot | und Herausforderungen der Digitalisierung</a>, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-04-26 – 2019-04-27</td><td>Birgit Juen, Cornelia Vidovic, Manuela Resch, Justus Piater, and Simon Haller co-organize the <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/informatik/schule/robocupjunior/index.html.de">RoboCup Junior Austrian Open 2019</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-04-26</td><td>Justus Piater appears in the media: TV interview on educational and societal aspects of robot | ||
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Playing and Autonomous Testing</i> at <a href="https://www.standort-tirol.at/page.cfm?vpath=veranstaltungen&genericpageid=23118">Taste Digitalization – CAMPUS:digi:TOUR (4)</a>, ICT, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2018-10-05</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Perception of Abstract Concepts</i> at <a href="http://iros2018-uvsp.org/">Unconventional Sensing and | Playing and Autonomous Testing</i> at <a href="https://www.standort-tirol.at/page.cfm?vpath=veranstaltungen&genericpageid=23118">Taste Digitalization – CAMPUS:digi:TOUR (4)</a>, ICT, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2018-10-05</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Perception of Abstract Concepts</i> at <a href="http://iros2018-uvsp.org/">Unconventional Sensing and | ||
Processing for Robotic Visual Perception</a>, Madrid, Spain.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2018-09-21</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Concept Learning For Robot Intelligence</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/congress/quantum-machine-learning-plus/index.html.en">Conference | Processing for Robotic Visual Perception</a>, Madrid, Spain.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2018-09-21</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Concept Learning For Robot Intelligence</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/congress/quantum-machine-learning-plus/index.html.en">Conference | ||
- | on Quantum Machine Learning Plus</a>, Innsbruck, Austria.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2018-07-17</td><td>Simon Haller and Nicolas Stolz appear in the media: <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/informatik/news/medienspiegel/nachlesen/2018_07_17_roboter_zu_besuch_in_liechtenstein-liechtensteiner-vaterland.pdf"> | + | on Quantum Machine Learning Plus</a>, Innsbruck, Austria. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem48', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem48Abstract" style="display:none">Current robot learning, and machine learning in general, |
+ | requires carefully-engineered setups (environments, objective | ||
+ | functions, training data, etc.) for learning to succeed. | ||
+ | Perception and action spaces are specially crafted to meet the | ||
+ | requirements of the learning objective, which is specified in | ||
+ | advance. How can we construct robot learning systems that can | ||
+ | learn in an open-ended fashion, acquire skills not foreseen by its | ||
+ | designers, and scale up to virtually unlimited levels of | ||
+ | complexity? I argue that a key to achieving this lies in the | ||
+ | robot's ability to learn abstract concepts that can be reused as a | ||
+ | basis for future learning, both in autonomous exploration and for | ||
+ | teaching by humans.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2018-07-17</td><td>Simon Haller and Nicolas Stolz appear in the media: <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/informatik/news/medienspiegel/nachlesen/2018_07_17_roboter_zu_besuch_in_liechtenstein-liechtensteiner-vaterland.pdf"> | ||
Roboter zu Besuch in Liechtenstein | Roboter zu Besuch in Liechtenstein | ||
</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2018-07-03</td><td>Simon Haller teaches a tutorial <i>Wie kann ein Roboter lernen, die Welt zu verstehen?</i> at Campustag BORG Schwaz, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2018-06-30</td><td>Philipp Zech, Barry Ridge, and Emre Ugur co-organize the <a href="https://afford.gitlab.io/rss-workshop/">1st | </a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2018-07-03</td><td>Simon Haller teaches a tutorial <i>Wie kann ein Roboter lernen, die Welt zu verstehen?</i> at Campustag BORG Schwaz, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2018-06-30</td><td>Philipp Zech, Barry Ridge, and Emre Ugur co-organize the <a href="https://afford.gitlab.io/rss-workshop/">1st | ||
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Robotics</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2018-06-30</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Objects, Parts, Functions, Affordances, Actions, and Tasks</i> at <a href="https://afford.gitlab.io/rss-workshop/">1st | Robotics</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2018-06-30</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Objects, Parts, Functions, Affordances, Actions, and Tasks</i> at <a href="https://afford.gitlab.io/rss-workshop/">1st | ||
International Workshop on Computational Models of Affordance in | International Workshop on Computational Models of Affordance in | ||
- | Robotics</a>, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2018-06-12</td><td>Justus Piater, Simon Haller, and Olaf Köhler appear in the media: <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/newsroom/music-globe-und-cubeat.html.de"> | + | Robotics</a>, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem53', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem53Abstract" style="display:none">Human-made objects are constructed with functional |
+ | parts. These are closely related to affordances; e.g., a handle | ||
+ | is a part whose function is to be grasped and that affords | ||
+ | grasping. It is these affordances that robots need to detect to | ||
+ | perform tasks flexibly using unknown objects. Since affordances | ||
+ | are often associated with parts, it makes sense for the | ||
+ | segmentation of unknown objects into parts for affordance | ||
+ | detection to be driven by known affordances. Then, the | ||
+ | suitability of an object for a given task is often characterized | ||
+ | by the combination of the actions its various parts afford. For | ||
+ | example, to drive a nail into the wall you would like an object | ||
+ | that possesses a part that affords pounding and another that | ||
+ | affords grasping. I will discuss methods that allow robots to | ||
+ | learn to segment objects in terms of their affordances, and to | ||
+ | learn the suitability of objects for specific tasks as a function | ||
+ | of their combination of affordances.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2018-06-12</td><td>Justus Piater, Simon Haller, and Olaf Köhler appear in the media: <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/newsroom/music-globe-und-cubeat.html.de"> | ||
Music Globe und Cubeat | Music Globe und Cubeat | ||
</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2018-06-12</td><td>Simon Haller teaches a tutorial <i>Robotics im Klassenzimmer</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/informatik/schule/inday-teachers/index.html.de">InDay Teachers 2018</a>, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2018-04-24</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Intelligente Roboter – Freund, Feind oder | </a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2018-06-12</td><td>Simon Haller teaches a tutorial <i>Robotics im Klassenzimmer</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/informatik/schule/inday-teachers/index.html.de">InDay Teachers 2018</a>, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2018-04-24</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Intelligente Roboter – Freund, Feind oder | ||
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Winter School on Robotics</a>, Graz, Austria.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-01-21</td><td>Simon Haller contributes a talk <i>Integrating Perception Neuron motion capturing into ROS</i> at <a href="http://www.gmar.at/pdf/call_gmar_winterschool1.pdf">GMAR | Winter School on Robotics</a>, Graz, Austria.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-01-21</td><td>Simon Haller contributes a talk <i>Integrating Perception Neuron motion capturing into ROS</i> at <a href="http://www.gmar.at/pdf/call_gmar_winterschool1.pdf">GMAR | ||
Winter School on Robotics</a>, Graz, Austria.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-01-21</td><td>Senka Krivic contributes a talk <i>Push Manipulation Skill</i> at <a href="http://www.gmar.at/pdf/call_gmar_winterschool1.pdf">GMAR | Winter School on Robotics</a>, Graz, Austria.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-01-21</td><td>Senka Krivic contributes a talk <i>Push Manipulation Skill</i> at <a href="http://www.gmar.at/pdf/call_gmar_winterschool1.pdf">GMAR | ||
- | Winter School on Robotics</a>, Graz, Austria.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016</td><td>Emre Ugur edits a guest edition <a href="https://iis.uibk.ac.at/public/emre/cfp.html">Computational | + | Winter School on Robotics</a>, Graz, Austria.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-01-01 – 2016-12-31</td><td>Emre Ugur edits a guest edition <a href="https://iis.uibk.ac.at/public/emre/cfp.html">Computational |
Models of Affordances for Cognitive Robots</a> in <a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=4563672">IEEE | Models of Affordances for Cognitive Robots</a> in <a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=4563672">IEEE | ||
Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2015-12-17</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Distributions of Diverse Features For Single and | Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2015-12-17</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Distributions of Diverse Features For Single and |