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| ====== Intelligent and Interactive Systems ====== | ====== Intelligent and Interactive Systems ====== | ||
| - | Research at %%IIS%% is situated at the intersection of computer vision, machine learning and robotics. Much of our work is motivated by the perceptual needs of autonomous robots, and focuses on visual inference as it serves activity such as grasping. Other areas of interest include the psychology and biology of perception, and video analysis for applications such as sports or human-computer interaction. | + | //**Making robots learn to perceive and act with understanding**// |
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| + | At %%IIS%% we enable autonomous robots to perceive and act flexibly and robustly in unstructured environments, leveraging machine learning methods to build perceptual, motor and reasoning skills. | ||
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| + | We seek to answer the question: //How can we enable robots to acquire the knowledge and understanding they require to interact sensibly with unstructured environments? // | ||
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| + | Our research addresses complete perception-action loops, from computer vision to grasping and manipulation, using reactive algorithms and/or cognitive models. Much of our work uses machine learning to enable robots to synthesize and improve complex and robust sensorimotor behavior with experience. Related areas of interest include human-robot interaction, image and video analysis, and visual neuroscience. | ||
| ===== Working With Us ===== | ===== Working With Us ===== | ||
| + | * Check our thesis topics for [[theses/start|Bachelor and Master students]]. | ||
| + | * [[:jobs:#notice_for_non-eueea_prospective_master_students|Notice]] for non-[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU|EU]]/[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_Area|EEA]] prospective Master students | ||
| + | * We currently do not have any open PhD positions. | ||
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| - | * We have multiple open positions for [[jobs|doctoral students and postdocs]]. | + | //Bachelor students://{{ ::mobile-manipulator-crop.jpg?nolink&100|}} **Want to create artificial intelligence for autonomous robots?** Want to join our [[@/uibk/piater/courses/RC_Poster2.pdf |interdisciplinary LFUI team]] to compete in the 2020 [[https://www.robocup.org/leagues/16|RoboCup@Work]] competition? Take the [[https://lfuonline.uibk.ac.at/public/lfuonline_lv.details?sem_id_in=19W&lvnr_id_in=703135|Introduction to Robotics]] course in the winter semester 2019-20! |
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| - | * Check our thesis topics for [[theses/start|Bachelor and Master students]]. | + | |
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| ===== News ===== | ===== News ===== | ||
| - | * Our following paper won a **Best Vision Paper Award**: <html><div class="li CONF" id="Teney-2013-CRV" title="Teney-2013-CRV"><p><span class="author"><span class="firstname">Damien</span> <span class="surname">Teney</span></span>, <span class="author"><span class="firstname">Justus</span> <span class="surname">Piater</span></span>, <span class="parttitle">Continuous Pose Estimation in 2D Images at Instance and Category Levels. </span><a href="http://www.computerrobotvision.org/">Tenth Conference on Computer and Robot Vision</a>, <span class="pubdate">2013</span>. <span class="actions"> <a href="/publications#copyright.notice.IEEE" title="IEEE copyright notice">© IEEE</a> <a href="/publications#Teney-2013-CRV">[Link]</a> <a href="https://iis.uibk.ac.at/public/papers/Teney-2013-CRV.pdf">[PDF]</a> <a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('Teney-2013-CRV', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a> <a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('Teney-2013-CRV', 'BibTeX')">[BibTeX]</a></span></p></div></html> | + | <HTML><table><tr valign="top"><td>2025-11-19</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Structural Understanding – The Grand Challenge of Robot |
| - | * Justus Piater is co-organizing the [[http://roboticsconference.org/|R:SS]] **[[http://workshops.acin.tuwien.ac.at/clutter2013|Workshop on Robots in Clutter: Preparing Robots for the Real World]]** in Berlin, 27 June 2013. | + | Learning</i> at <a href="https://elliit.se/news-and-events/focus-period-lund-2025/symposium/">ELLIIT Focus Period Symposium: Robot Learning</a>, Lund University. (The ELLIIT Focus Period Symposium is the highlight of the five-week focus period, during which young international scholars, ELLIIT researchers and other well-established international academics gather in Lund to work together on joint research challenges.) <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem0', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem0Abstract" style="display:none">AI has made great progress in recent years, and the |
| - | * Justus Piater is co-organizing the [[http://www.icra2013.org/|ICRA 2013]] **[[http://www.ynl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~takano/ICRA2013WS/|Workshop on Semantics, Identification, and Control of Robot-Human-Environment Interaction]]** in Karlsruhe, 10 May 2013. | + | sophistication of robots has been rising with costs falling. Yet, |
| - | * Justus Piater is an **invited speaker** at the [[http://www.icra2013.org/|ICRA 2013]] Workshop on **[[http://covil.sdu.dk/workshop-bootstrapping.htm|Bootstrapping Structural Knowledge from Sensory-motor Experience]]** in Karlsruhe, 6 May 2013. | + | the capabilities of AI-enabled robots are not keeping pace. I |
| - | * **[[http://disi.unitn.it/~sebe/|Nicu Sebe]]**, professor of computer science at the University of Trento, is giving at talk on [[events/2013-04-18-sebe|Human-centered Computing: Challenges and Perspectives]] on **April 18, 2013, at 16:15** in HS D. | + | argue that this is due to a lack of structural understanding by |
| - | * **[[http://bbdl.usc.edu/Francisco.php|Francisco Valero-Cuevas]]**, Professor of biomedical engineering and biokinesiology and physical therapy at the University of Southern California, is giving a talk on [[events/2013-03-14-valero-cuevas|Computational Neuromechanics]] on March 14, 2013, at 16:15 in HS E. | + | current AI systems. I will discuss several lines of research in my |
| - | * **[[http://www.cs.rug.nl/~petkov|Nicolai Petkov]]** is visiting %%IIS%% for three days, and is giving a talk on [[http://informatik.uibk.ac.at/index.php/en/kolloquien/243-kolloquium-petkov|Brain-inspired computing vision for machine vision]] on 10 January 2013, 16:15, in HS C. | + | lab that seek to enable robots to generalize better and learn |
| - | * Justus Piater and [[@/public/antonio/|Antonio Rodríguez-Sánchez]] are organizing the **[[https://oagm2013.iis.uibk.ac.at/|2013 ÖAGM/AAPR Workshop]]** in Innsbruck. | + | faster thanks to explicit notions of structure.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-09-18</td><td>Samuele Tosatto gives an invited keynote <i>Where are all the intelligent robots? A quest for efficiency in reinforcement learning</i> at <a href="https://sarl-plus.github.io/RL-Bootcamp2025/">Reinforcement Learning Bootcamp 2025</a>, Salzburg. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem1', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem1Abstract" style="display:none">As artificial intelligence reshapes our digital world at a breathtaking pace, |
| - | * %%IIS%% has published a paper in PLoS One: <html><div class="li JOUR" id="RodriguezSanchez-2012-PLoSONE" title="RodriguezSanchez-2012-PLoSONE"><p><span class="author"><span class="firstname">Antonio</span> <span class="surname">Rodríguez-Sánchez</span></span>, <span class="author"><span class="firstname">John</span> <span class="surname">Tsotsos</span></span>, <span class="parttitle">The roles of endstopped and curvature tuned computations in a hierarchical representation of 2D shape. </span>PLoS ONE 7 (8), pp. 1–13, <span class="pubdate">2012</span>. <span class="actions"> <a title="DOI" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0042058"><img alt="[DOI]" src="doi.png"/></a> <a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('RodriguezSanchez-2012-PLoSONE', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a> <a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('RodriguezSanchez-2012-PLoSONE', 'BibTeX')">[BibTeX]</a></span></p></div></html> | + | a curious question arises: Where are all the real-world, intelligent robots? |
| - | * **[[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~little/|Jim Little]]** is giving an extended talk on [[events/2012-04-24-little|Finding Objects in Cluttered Scenes for Home Robotics]] on 24 April 2012, 14:15-15:30, in HS D. | + | While we have mastered the generation of text, images, and video by leveraging vast web-scale datasets, |
| - | * Justus Piater is an **invited speaker** at the [[http://cogsys2012.acin.tuwien.ac.at/|CogSys 2012]] Workshop on **[[http://kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr/~sinan/DHV/|Deep Hierarchies in Vision]]** in Vienna, 21 February 2012. | + | robotics still faces a fundamental data bottleneck. Reinforcement learning (RL) offers a compelling solution, |
| - | * **[[http://vicos.fri.uni-lj.si/alesl/|Ales Leonardis]]** is giving a talk on [[http://informatik.uibk.ac.at/index.php/en/kolloquien/203-kolloquium-leonardis|Combining compositional shape hierarchy and multi-class object taxonomy for efficient object categorisation]] on 1 December 2011, 16:15, in HS C. | + | enabling agents to learn autonomously by collecting their own experience. |
| - | * Justus Piater is an **invited speaker** at the **[[http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/cmp/events/colloquium-2011.10.13/|29th Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision Colloquium]]** in Prague, 13 October 2011. | + | However, the path to autonomy is often blocked by the staggering inefficiency of current RL algorithms, |
| - | * **Brian Moore** is giving a talk on [[events/2011-05-25-moore|Transferring grasping skills from humans to robots]] at the Computer Science Department (ICT Building, Seminar Room 1), 25 May 2011, 12.00-13.00. | + | which can require millions of trials to master simple tasks. This talk embarks on a quest to tackle this |
| - | * Justus Piater is an **invited speaker** at the [[http://www.roboticsconference.org/|R:SS]] Workshop on **[[http://www.willowgarage.com/workshops/2011/rss|Mobile Manipulation: Learning to Manipulate]]** in Los Angeles, 27 June 2011. | + | efficiency problem head-on. I will argue that a crucial step toward unlocking the potential of |
| - | * Justus Piater lectures at the **[[http://cogx.eu/|CogX]] 2011 Spring School** in Vienna, 27.4.--5.5. | + | robot learning lies in a two-pronged approach: first, by developing statistically efficient |
| - | * **Inaugural Lecture -- //Antrittsvorlesung//** by Justus Piater: 14 April 2011 17:00 in the large auditorium of civil engineering -- //Großer Hörsaal der Fakultät für Bauingenieurwissenschaften//. [[https://iis.uibk.ac.at/public/Antrittsvorlesung_Justus_Piater.pdf|Einladung (Invitation, in German only)]] [[http://streaming.uibk.ac.at/medien/c102/c1021081/j_piater/index.html|Video (in German only)]] | + | algorithms that can reuse data by leveraging sound off-policy techniques, and second, |
| + | by designing better action representations for physical, real-world agents. | ||
| + | By making our algorithms more efficient and refining their core hypotheses, | ||
| + | we can accelerate the journey toward real embodied artificial intelligence.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-07-15</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited keynote <i>Making robots learn to perceive and act with | ||
| + | understanding</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/congress/multibody2025/">The | ||
| + | 12th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Multibody Dynamics</a>, Innsbruck. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem2', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem2Abstract" style="display:none">The flexibility and robustness of current robots is | ||
| + | limited by their lack of understanding of their environment. For | ||
| + | this reason, most robots operate in controlled environments. | ||
| + | Machine learning can circumvent modeling problems but introduces | ||
| + | new problems of generalizing from examples. How can robots acquire | ||
| + | understanding (of structure, function, causality, etc.) that | ||
| + | allows them to generalize from sparse experience? Motivated by | ||
| + | shortcomings of current machine-learning methods, I will argue | ||
| + | that "understanding" is a meaningful notion in AI that reaches | ||
| + | beyond prediction and control. I will discuss examples of our | ||
| + | recent work on learning visual relational concepts, extrapolation | ||
| + | of learned movements beyond the training distribution, learning of | ||
| + | symbolic concepts and rules, and structure-driven skill learning | ||
| + | from sensorimotor experience. Our long-term objective is to | ||
| + | improve abstraction, generalization, robustness, and ultimately | ||
| + | explainability of robot perception and action.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-07-11</td><td>Justus Piater and Alejandro Agostini give an invited talk <i>Learning Symbols and Abstractions in Robot Planning</i> at <a href="https://www.unibz.it/en/events/abstraction-language-science-engineering">Abstraction: | ||
| + | Language - Science - Engineering</a>, Bolzano. (International Workshop)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-04-25</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber gives an invited talk <i>AI-powered tools for real-time transcription and translation in action: A self-hosted open-source framework for digital spaces.</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/medien/veranstaltungen/tagungen/medien-wissen-bildung-2025/">Medien - Wissen - Bildung 2025: Streifzüge an den Nahtstellen von Medien, Bildung und Philosophie</a>, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-04-10</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber gives an invited keynote <i>Hands-on Approaches to Software, Robotics, and AI: Exploring Experiments and Science in Action</i> at <a href="https://iis.uibk.ac.at/public/simon/ECER-2025/">European Conference on Educational Robotics (ECER 2025)</a>, HTL Anichstrasse.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-04-10</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber and Christopher Kelter teach a tutorial <i>Was sind Roboter, was macht eine KI? Entwickle deine eigene KI und programmiere unsere Minibots</i> at Campustag BG/BRG Sillgasse, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-04-03</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited keynote <i>What is AI really?</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/events/2025/04/03/ai-in-law-and-practice-regional-perspectives-on-european-rules">Cross-Border | ||
| + | Seminar: AI in Law and Practice: Regional Perspectives on European | ||
| + | Rules</a>, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-03-06</td><td>Justus Piater teaches a tutorial <i>Funktionsweise, Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von KI</i> at <a href="https://www.tirol.gv.at/fileadmin/themen/bildung/medienzentrum/downloads/07_Magazin_Co/2025_01.pdf">Lieber | ||
| + | gleich berechtigt als später: Hallo KI, hilfst du uns bei der | ||
| + | Gleichstellung?!</a>, Tiroler Bildungsinstitut Grillhof Vill. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem8', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem8Abstract" style="display:none">Künstliche Intelligenz" bezeichnet derzeit Systeme, die | ||
| + | auf maschinellem Lernen (ML) basieren. Dieser Workshop führt in | ||
| + | die Grundlagen des ML ein, mit besonderem Augenmerk auf neuronale | ||
| + | Netze, der derzeit populärsten ML-Technologie. Darauf aufbauend | ||
| + | vermittelt er ein Grundverständnis für prinzipielle Möglichkeiten | ||
| + | und Grenzen von ML und warum es mit derzeitigen Mitteln extrem | ||
| + | schwierig ist, Diskriminierung in KI-Systemen zu | ||
| + | verhindern.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-02-26</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber and Christopher Kelter teach a tutorial <i>Programmieren eines autonomen Roboters anhand einer selbstentwickelten KI</i> at STAIR-Lab INNALP Workshop für das Gymnasium Ursulinenen Innsbruck, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr></table></HTML> | ||
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| - | * [[http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/news/2012/vom-gehirn-lernen.html.en|Learning from the Brain]] - UIBK news 21/11/2012 reports on 2DSIL, a biologically-inspired model of shape representation. | + | **How to find us:** See the [[https://www.uibk.ac.at/informatik/kontakt/anfahrt.html.en|directions]]. |
| - | * [[http://20er.at/|Stille Welt - Gehörlos in Tirol]] - the Tyrolean street newspaper reports on the [[http://www.signspeak.eu/|SignSpeak]] project. ([[http://20er.at/|20er]], pp. 6-7, April 2012, in German) | + | |
| - | * [[http://www.uibk.ac.at/public-relations/medien/wissenswert/wissenswert18.pdf|Übersetzungslücken schließen]] - the UIBK supplement to an Austrian newspaper reports on our [[http://www.signspeak.eu/|SignSpeak]] project ([[http://www.uibk.ac.at/public-relations/medien/wissenswert/|wissenswert]] 18 pp. 16-17, February 2012, in German) | + | |
| - | * [[http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/news/2011/schlaue-roboter-im-haushalt.html.de|Schlaue Roboter im Haushalt]] ([[http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/|iPoint]] 13.04.2011, in German) | + | |
| - | * [[http://www.uibk.ac.at/forschung/magazin/5/artikel/neuberufung.pdf|Roboter lernen lernen]] ([[http://www.uibk.ac.at/forschung/magazin/|zukunft forschung]] [[http://www.uibk.ac.at/forschung/magazin/5/|2/2010]], in German) | + | |
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