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• Emre Ugur is guest editor of the Special Issue on Computational Models of Affordances for Cognitive Robots in the IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems.
• Justus Piater is an invited speaker at the 1st International Workshop on Recovering 6D Object Pose, at ICCV in December 2015.
• Antonio Rodriguez-Sanchez is organizing, jointly with George Azzopardi (Univ. Malta) a BICT workshop on Computer Models of the Visual Cortex, to be held in New York in December.
• Justus Piater is co-organizing Dagstuhl Seminar 15411 on Multimodal Manipulation Under Uncertainty in October 2015.
• Justus Piater is an invited speaker at the workshop on Learning Object Affordances: A fundamental step to allow prediction, planning and tool use in autonomous robots, at IROS in September 2015.
• Emre Ugur is co-organizing, with Lorenzo Jamone, Angelo Cangelosi, Tamim Asfour, and Jose Santos-Victor, a workshop on Learning Object Affordances: A fundamental step to allow prediction, planning and tool use in autonomous robots, at IROS in October 2015.
• Justus Piater is an invited speaker at the workshop on Robot Learning, Bottom-up and top-down development of robot skills at ICAR in July 2015.
• Emre Ugur is organizing, with Lorenzo Jamone, Yukie Nagai, and Erhan Oztop, a workshop on Robot Learning, Bottom-up and top-down development of robot skills at ICAR in July 2015.
• Emre Ugur is an invited speaker at the workshop on Learning Reusable Concepts in Robotics at RSS in July 2015.
• Justus Piater is organizing, with Tamim Asfour (KIT), the workshop on Learning Reusable Concepts in Robotics at RSS in July 2015. Check our exciting lineup of invited speakers!
• Our following paper won the Best Robotic Vision Paper Award at CRV 2015:

  Safoura Rezapour Lakani, Mirela Popa, Antonio Rodríguez-Sánchez, Justus Piater, CPS: 3D Compositional Part Segmentation through Grasping. 12th Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, 2015. [PDF] [Abstract] [BibTeX]
• Justus Piater is an invited speaker at the workshop on Robotic Hands, Grasping, and Manipulation May 30, 2015, at ICRA 2015 in Seattle.

• Our following paper won the Best Paper Award at ACML 2014:

  Hanchen Xiong, Sandor Szedmak Justus Piater, Towards Maximum Likelihood: Learning Undirected Graphical Models using Persistent Sequential Monte Carlo. [Abstract] [BibTeX]
• Justus Piater is an invited speaker at the workshop on Human versus Robot Grasping and Manipulation—How Can We Close the Gap? at RSS July 12, 2014, at UC Berkeley.
• Justus Piater is co-organizing the IROS Workshop on Robots in Clutter: Perception and Interaction in Clutter in Chicago, September 18, 2014.
• Antonio Rodriguez-Sanchez is the editor of the special issue on Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience about Hierarchical object representations in the visual cortex and computer vision.

• Justus Piater is lecturing on Robot Vision at the International Autumn School on "Human-Robot-Interaction, November 18th–22nd, 2013, TU Dresden, Germany.
• Emre Ugur is organizing the IROS2013 Workshop on Neuroscience and Robotics: Towards a robot-enabled, neuroscience-guided healthy society in Tokyo, 3 November 2013.
• Our following paper won a Best Vision Paper Award:

  Damien Teney, Justus Piater, Continuous Pose Estimation in 2D Images at Instance and Category Levels. Tenth Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, 2013. [PDF] [Abstract] [BibTeX]
• Justus Piater is co-organizing the R:SS Workshop on Robots in Clutter: Preparing Robots for the Real World in Berlin, 27 June 2013.
• Justus Piater is co-organizing the ICRA 2013 Workshop on Semantics, Identification, and Control of Robot-Human-Environment Interaction in Karlsruhe, 10 May 2013.
• Justus Piater is an invited speaker at the ICRA 2013 Workshop on Bootstrapping Structural Knowledge from Sensory-motor Experience in Karlsruhe, 6 May 2013.
• Nicu Sebe, professor of computer science at the University of Trento, is giving at talk on Human-centered Computing: Challenges and Perspectives on April 18, 2013, at 16:15 in HS D.
• Francisco Valero-Cuevas, Professor of biomedical engineering and biokinesiology and physical therapy at the University of Southern California, is giving a talk on Computational Neuromechanics on March 14, 2013, at 16:15 in HS E.
• Nicolai Petkov is visiting IIS for three days, and is giving a talk on Brain-inspired computing vision for machine vision on 10 January 2013, 16:15, in HS C.
• Justus Piater and Antonio Rodríguez-Sánchez are organizing the 2013 ÖAGM/AAPR Workshop in Innsbruck.

• IIS has published a paper in PLoS One:

  Antonio Rodríguez-Sánchez, John Tsotsos, The roles of endstopped and curvature tuned computations in a hierarchical representation of 2D shape. PLoS ONE 7 (8), pp. 1–13, 2012. [Abstract] [BibTeX]
• Jim Little is giving an extended talk on Finding Objects in Cluttered Scenes for Home Robotics on 24 April 2012, 14:15-15:30, in HS D.
• Justus Piater is an invited speaker at the CogSys 2012 Workshop on Deep Hierarchies in Vision in Vienna, 21 February 2012.

• Ales Leonardis is giving a talk on Combining compositional shape hierarchy and multi-class object taxonomy for efficient object categorisation on 1 December 2011, 16:15, in HS C.
• Justus Piater is an invited speaker at the 29th Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision Colloquium in Prague, 13 October 2011.
• Brian Moore is giving a talk on Transferring grasping skills from humans to robots at the Computer Science Department (ICT Building, Seminar Room 1), 25 May 2011, 12.00-13.00.
• Justus Piater is an invited speaker at the R:SS Workshop on Mobile Manipulation: Learning to Manipulate in Los Angeles, 27 June 2011.
• Justus Piater lectures at the CogX 2011 Spring School in Vienna, 27.4.–5.5.
• Inaugural Lecture – Antrittsvorlesung by Justus Piater: 14 April 2011 17:00 in the large auditorium of civil engineering – Großer Hörsaal der Fakultät für Bauingenieurwissenschaften. Einladung (Invitation, in German only) Video (in German only)