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 ===== News =====
-<HTML><table><tr valign="top"><td>2020-01-29</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Digital Science</i> at <a href="https://www.graduateacademy.uni-heidelberg.de/karriere/veranstaltungsreihen.html">Vortragsreihe
+<HTML><table><tr valign="top"><td>2022-06-02</td><td>Erwan Renaudo contributes a talk <i>Deep Learning for Fast Segmentation of E-waste Devices’
-    „Primers for Predocs – Strategien für eine erfolgreiche
+    Inner Parts in a Recycling Scenario</i> at <a href="https://icprai2022.sciencesconf.org/">ICPRAI 2022</a>, Paris/online. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem0', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem0Abstract" style="display:none">Recycling obsolete electronic devices (E-waste) is a
-    Promotion“</a>, Universität Heidelberg. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem0', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem0Abstract" style="display:none">Massive availability of data and computing power are
+    dangerous task for human workers. Automated E-waste recycling
-    promoting data-driven methods in all areas of science and
+    is an area of great interest but challenging for current robotic
-    technology.  I will describe how the University of Innsbruck
+    applications. We focus on the problem of segmenting inner parts
-    supports this via its new Digital Science Center, and will give a
+    of E-waste devices into manipulable elements. First, we extend
-    flavor of machine learning for data analysis.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2020-01-03</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Künstliche Intelligenz: Grundlagen, Erfolge,
+    a dataset of hard-drive disk (HDD) components with labelled
-    Herausforderungen</i> at 47. Tagung des Innsbrucker Kreises von MoraltheologInnen
+    occluded and non-occluded points of view of the parts, in order
-    und SozialethikerInnen, Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-12-19</td><td>Justus Piater appears in the media: <a href="https://tvthek.orf.at/profile/Tirol-heute/70023/Tirol-heute/14035670/Alexa-Siri-Co-Spione-im-eigenen-Haus/14610743">TV interview by ORF 2 Tirol Heute RedHaus (in German)</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-12-12</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited lecture <i>Too Smart to Be Trusted – Do I Even Want to
+    to increase the diversity and the quality of the learning data
-    Understand My Robot?</i> at <a href="http://www.trustrobots.eu/">TrustRobots Lecture series
+    with different angles. We then perform an extensive evaluation
-    Trust in Robots</a>, TU Vienna.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-12-05</td><td>IIS guest <span style="font-weight:bold">Heiko Neumann</span>, University of Ulm,  gives an invited colloquium <i>Biologically inspired visual-auditory processing – from
+    with three different state-of-the-art models, namely CenterMask,
-    brain-like computation to neuromorphic algorithms</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('newsitem4', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem4Abstract" style="display:none">A fundamental task of sensory processing is to detect
+    BlendMask and SOLOv2 (including variants) and two types of
-    and integrate feature items to group them into perceptual units
+    metrics: the average precision as well as the frame rate. Our
-    segregating them from other objects and the background. A
+    results show that instance segmentation using state-of-the-art
-    framework is discussed which explains how perceptual grouping at
+    deep learning methods can precisely detect complex shapes along
-    early as well as higher-level cognitive stages may be implemented
+    with their boundaries, as well as being suited for fast tracking of
-    in cortex. Different grouping mechanisms are implemented which are
+    parts in a robotic recycling system. (Rojas et  al. 2022)
-    attuned to basic features and feature combinations and mainly
+    </blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2022-05-20</td><td>Justus Piater appears in the media: <a href="https://radiothek.orf.at/podcasts/tir/derwoche/derwoche-maschinenzukunft">ORF
-    evaluated along the forward sweep of stimulus processing. However,
+    Tirol Podcast (in German)</a>. (Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) ist bereits heute ein täglicher Begleiter, doch vom universellen Haushaltsroboter sind wir noch weit entfernt. Automatisierte Systeme werden zwar Jobs übernehmen, Maschinen werden aber noch lange nicht die Weltherrschaft an sich reißen, falls überhaupt. Zur Langen Nacht der Forschung spricht Martin Kubin im #derWoche „Maschinenzukunft“ mit Prof. Justus Piater vom Institut für Informatik über Chancen und Gefahren von KI. Er weiß auch, warum KI etwa die Justiz unterstützen kann, aber ein KI-Richter niemals objektiv urteilen könnte.)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2022-05-17</td><td>Erwan Renaudo gives an invited talk <i>A Brief tour of autonomous robots' &quot;Cognition&quot;</i> at <a href="https://www.philosophie.uni-konstanz.de/ag-mueller/aktuelles/meldungsdetails-ag-mueller/2022/5/17/event/46426-Creating-Agency-and-Cogn/tx_cal_phpicalendar/">Creating Agency and Cognition in Automated Systems: What can we learn from the Octopus? International Hybrid Workshop</a>, Innsbruck. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem2', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem2Abstract" style="display:none">In the design of &quot;Cognitive Robots&quot; software architectures,
-    due to limitations of local feature detection mechanisms and
+    researchers had to face many organizational problems due to
-    inherent ambiguities, top-down feedback is required to deliver
+    the particular nature of robots. Not only should they manage
-    contextual information helping to disambiguate initial
+    to achieve complex tasks with long-terms goals, but they must
-    measurements. Feedback of contextual information is demonstrated
+    also be reactive to their surroundings to preserve their environment.
-    to improve object recognition performance, stabilize learning of
+    We will go over several layered control paradigms developed over
-    object categories, and integrate multi-sensory representations.
+    the history of robotics and see how these can relate to the
+    knowledge about the Octopus' brain organization, and discuss
-    The canonical principles of neural computation define a set of
+    how the Octopus itself can inspire cognitive robotic research.
-    core operations to implement above-mentioned mechanisms of
+    </blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2022-05-11</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Robots That Learn Like Humans?</i> at <a href="https://pintofscience.at/events/innsbruck">Pint of
-    perceptual and cognitive inference. These operations can be
+    Science</a>, Innsbruck. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem3', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem3Abstract" style="display:none">Wouldn't it be great to have a helper robot that we can
-    mapped, in a simplified form, onto neuromorphic platforms to
+    task with our annoying chores? How would we teach the robot to
-    emulate brain-like computation. It is demonstrated that an
+    perform these tasks? Can we build such robots by equipping them
-    architecture composed of canonical circuit mechanisms can be
+    with artificial intelligence? We will discuss how human and
-    mapped onto neuromorphic chip technology facilitating low-energy
+    machine learning differ and how this impacts what skills,
-    non-von Neumann computation.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-11-26</td><td>IIS guest <span style="font-weight:bold">Tamim Asfour</span>, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology,  gives an invited keynote <i>Engineering Humanoids with Motion Intelligence</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/informatik/studium/inday-students/index.html.en">inday students</a>. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem5', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem5Abstract" style="display:none">Humanoid robotics plays a central role in robotics
+    including for communication, our helper robot will be able to
-    research as well as in understanding intelligence. Engineering
+    learn.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2022-04-28</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber contributes a talk <i>STAIR Learning Lab</i> at <a href="http://rie.science">Robotics in Education 2022</a>, online.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2022-02-19</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Learning as a Creative Process in Humans and
-    humanoid robots that are able to learn from humans and
+    Machines</i> at <a href="https://www.philosophie.uni-konstanz.de/ag-mueller/online-workshop-on-agency-life-and-creativity/">Workshop
-    sensorimotor experience, to predict the consequences of actions
+    on “Agency, Life, and Creativity”</a>, online. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem5', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem5Abstract" style="display:none">Humans constantly engage in creative activity such as
-    and exploit the interaction with the world to extend their
+    finding explanations, improving technology, or solving novel
-    cognitive horizon remains a research grand challenge. Currently,
+    problems in everyday life. Even imitating other humans, e.g. while
-    we are experiencing AI systems with superhuman performance in
+    learning a new skill, is creative in that the imitator has to
-    games, image and speech processing. However, the generation of
+    infer the conceptual structure underlying the observed
-    robot behaviors with human-like motion intelligence and
+    manifestation and to regenerate the latter from the former. In
-    performance has yet to be achieved. In this talk, I will present
+    contrast, current AI-enabled agents are unable to generate and
-    recent progress towards engineering 24/7 humanoid robots that link
+    draw upon such conceptual structures. Their learning is mostly
-    perception and action to generate intelligent behavior. I will
+    driven by statistics, and any ability to produce novelty is
-    show the ARMAR humanoid robots performing complex grasping and
+    largely limited to trial and error. I will try to characterize
-    manipulation tasks in kitchen and industrial environments,
+    this fundamental difference between learning in human and
-    learning actions from human observation and experience as well as
+    artificial agents, and will discuss possible technological
-    reasoning about object-action relations.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-11-25</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Enabling Robots to Learn Abstract Concepts</i> at <a href="https://tricolore.inf.unibz.it/tricolore2019/program/">TriCoLore
+    approaches that might help close this gap.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2021-11-24</td><td>Justus Piater is a panelist at a public discussion on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/elsa-innsbruck_letzte-woche-fand-zum-elsa-day-am-24112021-activity-6871397038093869057-16-7">Privacy
-    – Creativity | Cognition | Computation</a>, Bolzano, Italy.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-11-18</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Künstliche Intelligenz in einer menschlichen
+    in the Digital Age</a>, online. (Organized by ELSA Innsbruck)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2021-10-22</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Robotik und KI in der Medizin – nur
-    Gesellschaft</i> at Robotik in Medizin und Pflege – Jubiläumssymposium
+    Bedarfserweckung?</i> at <a href="https://medical-update-hall.com/veranstaltungen/">Medical
-    des Klinischen Ethikkommittees, A.ö. Landeskrankenhaus – Universitätskliniken
+    Update Hall 2021 – Fit für das neue Jahrzehnt</a>, UMIT, Hall in Tirol.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2021-08-26</td><td>Justus Piater contributes a talk <i>Digital Science at the University of Innsbruck</i> at Aurora Research Conference Digital Society &amp; Global Citizenship, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem8', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem8Abstract" style="display:none">Growing data processing capacities and progress in
-    Innsbruck.</td></tr><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
+    analytical methods and artificial intelligence are motivating
-    Vehicles: perception, learning and decision making under
+    entire branches of science to raise new questions and to develop
-    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></table></HTML>
+    new approaches. This digital transformation requires progressive,
+    interdisciplinary synergies between the computational sciences and
+    all other scientific disciplines.  The Digital Science Center
+    (DiSC) at the University of Innsbruck meets this challenge by
+    integrating and promoting digitalisation of scientific research.
+    In this talk I will present some examples of interdisciplinary
+    research by DiSC staff researchers who are experts in specific
+    aspects of digital science.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2021-08-24</td><td>Justus Piater teaches a tutorial <i>Picking and Placing</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/informatik/forschung/gmar-robotics-school-2021.html">2021 GMAR Summer School</a>, Villa Blanka, Innsbruck.</td></tr></table></HTML>
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