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=====2010-2014=====<tr valign=“top”><td>2017-12-13</td><td>Simon Haller teaches a tutorial <i>Build your own Mini Robot</i>, AK Informatiklehrer, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr></table></HTML>

=====2010-2014=====<tr valign=“top”><td>2017-12-01</td><td>Justus Piater appears in the media: <a href=“https://www.uibk.ac.at/informatik/news/medienspiegel/nachlesen/01122017_zukunftforschung_piater.pdf”>Frage

  der Tradition.  Interview about Open Access publishing by Zukunft
  Forschung, the science and research magazine of the University of
  Innsbruck</a>.</td></tr></table></HTML>

=====2010-2014=====<tr valign=“top”><td>2017-11-24</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Scale Up Machine Learning, And Cognition Will Emerge. Will

  It?</i>, <a href="http://www.eucognition.org/index.php?page=2017-zurich-general-info">EUCognition
  Meeting</a>, Zürich, Switzerland.</td></tr></table></HTML>

=====2010-2014=====<tr valign=“top”><td>2017-11-15</td><td>Simon Haller teaches a tutorial <i>Digitale Kompetenzen entwickeln mit Micro:Bits, Calliope Mini und Co</i>, <a href=“https://www.uibk.ac.at/medien-kommunikation/events/workshops/eintraege/digitale-kompetenzen-entwickeln-mit-microbits-calliope-mini-co.html”>Programm EduMediaLab 2017</a>, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr></table></HTML>

=====2010-2014=====<tr valign=“top”><td>2017-11-09</td><td>Simon Haller and Philipp Zech teach a tutorial <i>Wie kann ein Roboter lernen, die Welt zu verstehen?</i>, <a href=“http://informatik.uibk.ac.at/vwa-und-diplomarbeiten/”>VWA- und Diplomarbeitentag</a>, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr></table></HTML>

=====2010-2014=====<tr valign=“top”><td>2017-10-05</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Open-Ended Robot Learning: First Steps and Next

  Challenges</i>, <a href="http://www.imol-conf.org/">The
  Third International Workshop on Intrinsically Motivated Open-ended
  Learning (IMOL 2017)</a>, Rome, Italy.</td></tr></table></HTML>

=====2010-2014=====<tr valign=“top”><td>2017-09-24</td><td>Justus Piater co-organizes the <a href=“http://h2020sarafun.eu/iros2017_hr/”>IEEE/RSJ IROS

  Workshop on Human in-the-loop robotic manipulation: on the
  influence of the human role</a>.</td></tr></table></HTML>

=====2010-2014=====<tr valign=“top”><td>2017-09-15</td><td>Justus Piater is a panelist at a public discussion on <a href=“https://www.museum-joanneum.at/museum-fuer-geschichte/ihr-besuch/programm/events/event/6511/die-maschine-denkt-die-maschine-lenkt”>Die

  Maschine denkt – die Maschine lenkt: Wie gefährlich ist Künstliche
  Intelligenz?</a> in Graz, Austria.</td></tr></table></HTML>

=====2010-2014=====<tr valign=“top”><td>2017-08-28</td><td>Simon Haller and Andrea Bou-Vinals teach a tutorial <i>Bau eines hydraulischen Roboter Arms</i>, <a href=“https://www.uibk.ac.at/jungeuni/veranstaltungen/ksu/2017/programm-kinder-sommer-unis.pdf”>Kinder-Sommer-Uni 2017 (Programm)</a>, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr></table></HTML>

=====2010-2014=====<tr valign=“top”><td>2017-08-25</td><td>Simon Haller and Katharina Seeber teach a tutorial <i>Ö1 Children’s University Alpbach – Science and Technology for Kids:

  Workshop for the construction of hydraulic robot arms</i>, <a href="https://www.alpbach.org/en/session/tec17-o1-childrens-university-alpbach-science-and-technology-for-kids-08-25-09-00/">European Forum Alpbach 2017 / Technology Symposium</a>, Forum Alpbach.</td></tr></table></HTML>

• Robotik an der Uni Innsbruck - TirolTV vom 1 Dezember 2014
• 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.
• RAI Südtirol - Tagesschau vom 12 Juli 2014
• 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.
• Roboter, die von Menschen lernen - (iPoint 03.01.2014, in German)
• 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.
• Learning from the Brain - UIBK news 21/11/2012 reports on 2DSIL, a biologically-inspired model of shape representation.
• 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.
• Stille Welt - Gehörlos in Tirol - the Tyrolean street newspaper reports on the SignSpeak project. (20er, pp. 6-7, April 2012, in German)
• Justus Piater is an invited speaker at the CogSys 2012 Workshop on Deep Hierarchies in Vision in Vienna, 21 February 2012.
• Übersetzungslücken schließen - the UIBK supplement to an Austrian newspaper reports on our SignSpeak project (wissenswert 18 pp. 16-17, February 2012, in German)
• 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.
• Justus Piater is an invited speaker at the R:SS Workshop on Mobile Manipulation: Learning to Manipulate in Los Angeles, 27 June 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 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)
• Schlaue Roboter im Haushalt (iPoint 13.04.2011, in German)
• Roboter lernen lernen (zukunft forschung 2/2010, in German)