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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. | 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. | ||
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| ===== 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. | ||
| - | We have multiple open positions for [[jobs|doctoral students and postdocs]]. | + | <html><!--We currently have [[jobs|one open PhD position]].--></html> |
| - | Check our thesis topics for [[theses/start|Bachelor and Master students]]. | + | <html><!-- |
| + | //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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| - | ===== News ===== | + | <html> |
| - | * Justus Piater is an **invited speaker** at the workshop on [[http://mlhlcr2016.tanichu.com//|Machine Learning Methods for High-Level Cognitive Capabilities in Robotics]] at [[http://www.iros2016.org/|IROS]] in October 2016. | + | <div style="clear:both"><br></div> |
| - | * Justus Piater is an **invited speaker** at the workshop on [[http://rss16ip-rl-oc.robotics.usc.edu/|Robot-Environment Interaction for Perception and Manipulation]] at [[http://www.roboticsconference.org/|RSS]] in June 2016. | + | </html> |
| - | * Emre Ugur is an **invited speakers** at the workshop on [[http://www.bootstrapping-manipulation.com/|Bootstrapping Manipulation Skills]] at [[http://www.roboticsconference.org/|RSS]] in June 2016. | + | |
| - | * Emre Ugur is co-organizing **Shonan Meeting** on [[http://shonan.nii.ac.jp/shonan/blog/2015/10/31/cognitive-development-and-symbol-emergence-in-humans-and-robots/| Cognitive Development and Symbol Emergence in Humans and Robots]], with Tadahiro Taniguchi and George Konidaris, in October 2016, in Japan. | + | |
| - | * Emre Ugur is an **invited speaker** at the [[http://www.cnr.osaka-u.ac.jp/?p=1707&lang=en | 2nd International Workshop on Cognitive Neuroscience Robotics]] in February 2016, in Osaka, Japan. | + | |
| - | * Emre Ugur is guest editor of the Special Issue on [[https://iis.uibk.ac.at/public/emre/cfp.html | Computational Models of Affordances for Cognitive Robots]] in the [[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=4563672 | IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems]]. | + | |
| - | * Justus Piater is an **invited speaker** at the [[http://www.iis.ee.ic.ac.uk/ComputerVision/3DPose-2015.html|1st International Workshop on Recovering 6D Object Pose]], at [[http://pamitc.org/iccv15/|ICCV]] in December 2015. | + | |
| - | * Antonio Rodriguez-Sanchez is organizing, jointly with George Azzopardi (Univ. Malta) a BICT [[http://cmvc.bionetics.org/2015/show/home | 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 [[http://www.dagstuhl.de/15411|Multimodal Manipulation Under Uncertainty]] in October 2015. | + | |
| - | * Justus Piater is an **invited speaker** at the workshop on [[http://objectaffordances.blogspot.pt/|Learning Object Affordances: A fundamental step to allow prediction, planning and tool use in autonomous robots]], at [[http://www.iros2015.org/|IROS]] in September 2015. | + | |
| - | * Emre Ugur is co-organizing, with Lorenzo Jamone, Angelo Cangelosi, Tamim Asfour, and Jose Santos-Victor, a workshop on [[http://objectaffordances.blogspot.pt/|Learning Object Affordances: A fundamental step to allow prediction, planning and tool use in autonomous robots]], at [[http://www.iros2015.org/|IROS]] in October 2015. | + | |
| - | * Justus Piater is an **invited speaker** at the workshop on Robot Learning, [[http://emreugur.net/ICAR2015-WS-RobotLearning/|Bottom-up and top-down development of robot skills]] at [[http://icar2015.org/|ICAR]] in July 2015. | + | |
| - | * Emre Ugur is organizing, with Lorenzo Jamone, Yukie Nagai, and Erhan Oztop, a workshop on Robot Learning, [[http://emreugur.net/ICAR2015-WS-RobotLearning/|Bottom-up and top-down development of robot skills]] at [[http://icar2015.org/|ICAR]] in July 2015. | + | |
| - | * Emre Ugur is an **invited speaker** at the workshop on [[https://iis.uibk.ac.at/conferences/lrc2015/|Learning Reusable Concepts in Robotics]] at [[http://www.roboticsconference.org/|RSS]] in July 2015. | + | |
| - | * Justus Piater is organizing, with Tamim Asfour (KIT), the workshop on [[https://iis.uibk.ac.at/conferences/lrc2015/|Learning Reusable Concepts in Robotics]] at [[http://www.roboticsconference.org/|RSS]] in July 2015. Check our exciting lineup of invited speakers! | + | |
| - | * Our following paper won the **Best Robotic Vision Paper Award** at [[http://www.computerrobotvision.org|CRV 2015]]: <html><div class="li CONF" id="Rezapour-2015-CRV" title="Rezapour-2015-CRV"><span><span class="author"><span class="firstname">Safoura</span> <span class="surname">Rezapour Lakani</span></span>, <span class="author"><span class="firstname">Mirela</span> <span class="surname">Popa</span></span>, <span class="author"><span class="firstname">Antonio</span> <span class="surname">Rodríguez-Sánchez</span></span>, <span class="author"><span class="firstname">Justus</span> <span class="surname">Piater</span></span>, <span class="parttitle">CPS: 3D Compositional Part Segmentation through Grasping. </span><a href="http://www.computerrobotvision.org/">12th Conference on Computer and Robot Vision</a>, <span class="pubdate">2015</span>. <span class="actions"> <a href="https://iis.uibk.ac.at/public/papers/Rezapour-2015-CRV.pdf">[PDF]</a> <a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('Rezapour-2015-CRV', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a> <a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('Rezapour-2015-CRV', 'BibTeX')">[BibTeX]</a></span></span></div></html> | + | |
| - | * Justus Piater is an **invited speaker** at the workshop on [[http://www.rhgm.org/activities/workshopicra15/|Robotic Hands, Grasping, and Manipulation]] May 30, 2015, at [[http://www.icra2015.org/|ICRA 2015]] in Seattle. | + | |
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| - | ===== Press ===== | + | <div style="text-align: center;"> |
| - | * [[http://derstandard.at/2000035773928/Wie-Robin-gelernt-hat-einen-Turm-zu-bauen|Wie Robin gelernt hat, einen Turm zu bauen]] - Der Standard (May 1, 2016) | + | <p>Group picture taken at our 2024 retreat at Meissner Haus.</p> |
| - | * ORF, Austria's public TV and radio service, reports on our work in the context of the [[http://xperience.org/|Xperience]] and [[http://www.squirrel-project.eu/|SQUIRREL]] projects (21.4.2016, in German): | + | |
| - | * [[http://oe1.orf.at/programm/434380|Ö1 Wissen aktuell]] (radio) | + | |
| - | * [[http://tvthek.orf.at/program/Tirol-heute/70023/Tirol-heute/12501058/Lernen-wie-ein-Kind-Lange-Nacht-der-Forschung/12506816|Tirol heute]] (TV) | + | |
| - | * [[http://tirol.orf.at/news/stories/2769952/|tirol.orf.at News]] (text + teaser video) | + | |
| - | * [[https://iis.uibk.ac.at/_media/public/16042016news_zech_lnf_full.pdf | Hier sind die Roboter]] - News (April 16, 2016, in German) | + | |
| - | * [[http://www.tt.com/panorama/11075798-91/fast-wie-science-fiction-ein-roboter-der-lernt-wie-ein-kind.csp|Fast wie Science Fiction: Ein Roboter, der lernt wie ein Kind]] - Tiroler Tageszeitung (February 3, 2016, in German) features [[@/public/emre/research.html|Emre Ugur's work on stacked learning]]. | + | |
| - | * [[http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/news/2015/eine-kamera-als-sehhilfe.html.de|Eine Kamera als Sehhilfe]] ([[http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/|iPoint]] 06.02.2015, in German) | + | |
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| - | <a href="#tiroltvvideo">Robotik an der Uni Innsbruck - TirolTV vom 1 Dezember 2014<span id="tiroltvvideo"><span> | + | |
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| - | #raivideo:target { | + | <HTML><table><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('newsitem0', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem0Abstract" style="display:none">As artificial intelligence reshapes our digital world at a breathtaking pace, |
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| - | <div> | + | enabling agents to learn autonomously by collecting their own experience. |
| - | <a href="#raivideo">RAI Südtirol - Tagesschau vom 12 Juli 2014<span id="raivideo"> | + | However, the path to autonomy is often blocked by the staggering inefficiency of current RL algorithms, |
| - | <video width="560" height="340" controls preload="metadata"> | + | which can require millions of trials to master simple tasks. This talk embarks on a quest to tackle this |
| - | <source src="/public/videos/RAI_Tagesschau_12-07-2014.ogg" | + | efficiency problem head-on. I will argue that a crucial step toward unlocking the potential of |
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| - | <applet code="com.fluendo.player.Cortado.class" | + | algorithms that can reuse data by leveraging sound off-policy techniques, and second, |
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| - | <param name="autoPlay" value"false" /> | + | By making our algorithms more efficient and refining their core hypotheses, |
| - | <param name="url" value="/public/videos/RAI_Tagesschau_12-07-2014.ogg"/> | + | 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 |
| - | </applet> | + | understanding</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/congress/multibody2025/">The |
| - | </video> | + | 12th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Multibody Dynamics</a>, Innsbruck. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem1', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem1Abstract" style="display:none">The flexibility and robustness of current robots is |
| - | </span></a> | + | limited by their lack of understanding of their environment. For |
| - | </div> | + | 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('newsitem7', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem7Abstract" 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><tr valign="top"><td>2025-02-26</td><td>Marko Zarić teaches a tutorial <i>Einführung in das Programmieren mit Microcontrollern</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/blog/1135417.html|Roboter, die von Menschen lernen]] - ([[http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/|iPoint]] 03.01.2014, in German) | + | |
| - | * [[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. | + | |
| - | * [[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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