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- | <HTML><table><tr valign="top"><td>2021-03-24</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited lecture <i>Machine Learning, Perception, And Abstract Concepts</i> at Invited lecture at Ontario Tech U, Canada, online. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem0', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem0Abstract" style="display:none">With every spectacular achievement of a machine learning | + | <HTML><table><tr valign="top"><td>2024-03-14</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>The IMAGINE Project: Robot Intuition and Understanding for |
- | system, the long-elusive AI breakthrough is popularly proclaimed | + | Disassembly</i> at <a href="https://reconcycle.eu/erf2024/">Adaptive Robotics for |
- | to be just around the corner. Most recent successes have been due | + | Recycling of Electronic Devices</a>, Rimini, Italy. (Workshop at the European Robotics Forum)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2024-03-14</td><td>Justus Piater co-organizes the <a href="https://reconcycle.eu/erf2024/">Adaptive Robotics for |
- | in large part to massive data and computation, in particular using | + | Recycling of Electronic Devices</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2024-01-16</td><td>Samuele Tosatto gives an invited talk <i>Beyond Monte Carlo Off-Policy Policy Gradient</i> at <a href="https://www.wim.uni-mannheim.de/doering/conferences/rl-2024">Mini-Workshop on Reinforcement Learning</a>, University of Mannheim.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2023-12-01</td><td>Justus Piater is a panelist at a public discussion on <a href="https://www.mediengipfel.at/at/archiv/veranstaltungen/2023.php">15. |
- | deep artificial neural networks. But can artificial cognition | + | Europäischer Mediengipfel</a>, Lech/Arlberg. (Wissenschaftsforum zum Thema „Künstliche Intelligenz – Fluch oder Segen für Politik, Medien, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft?)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2023-11-24</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Demystifying ChatGPT</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/betriebswirtschaft/dlc/">UIBK |
- | really be achieved just by further scaling up existing | + | Digital Leadership Club</a>, Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2023-11-13</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>ChatGPT: Wie es (nicht) funktioniert</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/disc/events/discussion-piater-rath/">Wie |
- | machine-learning techniques? I discuss examples of simple, | + | „denkt“ ChatGPT? Begegnungen mit einer Künstlichen |
- | perceptual problems that are easily solved by humans but very | + | Intelligenz</a>, Stadtbibliothek Innsbruck. (Öffentliche Veranstaltung im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe DiSCussion des Digital Science Centers, organisiert gemeinsam mit dem Vizerektorat für Digitalisierung und Nachhaltigkeit)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2023-11-11</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Wie kann die Medizin von der Künstlichen Intelligenz |
- | difficult for today's machine learning methods. These problems | + | profitieren?</i> at <a href="https://www.dfpkalender.at/public-dfpkalender/viewEvent.jsf?id=784672">Winterfortbildung der Universitätsklinik Gynäkologie und Geburtshilfe Innsbruck</a>, Wattens.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2023-10-24</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited lecture <i>Ramping Up Robot Intelligence</i> at <a href="https://summer2023.reconcycle.eu/">ReconCycle Summer |
- | reflect how humans conceptualize their world. Their mastery is | + | School 2023</a>, Cala Ratjada, Mallorca, Spain.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2023-09-06</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited lecture <i>High-Level AI For Service Robotics</i> at <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gmarobotics_gmar-summer-school-fhtw-activity-7076785981302939648-mdTV/">GMAR Robotics Summer School 2023</a>, FH Technikum Wien.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2023-08-15</td><td>Samuele Tosatto contributes a talk <i>A Continuous-Time Option Framework</i> at <a href="https://www.ias.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/Workshops/IWIALS2023">International Workshop of Intelligent Autonomous Learning Systems 2023</a>, Hirschegg, Kleinwalsertal, Austria. (Research talk about arXiv:2212.04407)</td></tr></table></HTML> |
- | thus likely to be an essential prerequisite for autonomous robots | + | |
- | to attain higher levels of cognitive abilities. To get there, a | + | |
- | few core issues can be identified that should drive research in | + | |
- | cognitive robotics.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2021-01-28</td><td>Matteo Saveriano gives an invited talk <i>Making robots to learn from human observation?</i> at <a href="https://www.bmeia.gv.at/en/austrian-embassy-ottawa/news/events/detail/article/showcasing-young-austrian-scholars-and-scientists-an-original-seven-part-virtual-lectures-ser/">Showcasing Young Austrian Scholars and Scientists, Austrian cultural forum, Ottawa</a>, online.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2021-01-14</td><td>Matteo Saveriano gives an invited talk <i>Hierarchical action decomposition and motion learning for the execution of manipulation tasks</i> at <a href="http://www.gmar.at/aktuell/">Hello Tyrol calling! Robotics Talk online, GMAR, Innsbruck</a>, online.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2020-11-19</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Machine Learning in Robotics</i> at <a href="https://baiome.org/">bAIome PI Talk, Center for | + | |
- | Biomedical AI, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf</a>, online. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem4', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem4Abstract" style="display:none">Machine Learning increasingly equips robots with | + | |
- | learning capabilities and flexibility. This will enable them to | + | |
- | act purposefully in unstructured environments and to react to | + | |
- | unforeseen events. People can teach them intuitively to perform | + | |
- | tasks instead of having to program them in painstaking ways. | + | |
- | Robots can learn from experience and can improve their behavior | + | |
- | over time. In this talk I will give an overview of methods, | + | |
- | opportunities, and challenges of machine learning in | + | |
- | robotics.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2020-11-20</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber and Patrick Lamprecht present a show <i>Explainable AI: A sneak peek into the Black-Box</i> at <a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=4NVfPwdLnCg&t=17m43s">Science Slam</a>, online.</td></tr> | + | |
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- | <tr valign="top"><td>2020-10-22 – 2020-10-23</td><td>Matteo Saveriano, Erwan Renaudo, Antonio Rodríguez-Sánchez, and Justus Piater organize the </i> <a href="https://iis.uibk.ac.at/conferences/hfr2020/"> 13th International Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics (HFR 2020)</a>, Innsbruck (online).</td></tr> | + | |
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- | <tr valign="top"><td>2020-09-30</td><td>Erwan Renaudo contributes a talk <i>ROSSINI: RobOt kidS deSIgn thiNkIng</i> at <a href="https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030674106">Robotics in | + | |
- | Education 2020</a>, online.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2020-06-22</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Conditional Neural Movement Primitives</i> at <a href="http://www.gdr-isis.fr/index.php?page=reunion&idreunion=424">GdR | + | |
- | ISIS Réunion Apprentissage et Robotique</a>, online. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem7', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem7Abstract" style="display:none">Conditional Neural Movement Primitives (CNMP) constitute | + | |
- | a novel framework for robot programming by demonstration based on | + | |
- | Conditional Neural Processes (CNP). Like Bayesian methods such as | + | |
- | Gaussian Processes (GP), CNP learn how target distributions depend | + | |
- | on data, and can be conditioned on specific data points to infer | + | |
- | new target distributions at test time. Unlike GP that are | + | |
- | expensive to train and scale poorly to high dimensions, CNP are | + | |
- | neural networks and are trained by gradient descent. CNMP | + | |
- | leverage CNP to represent motion trajectories that can be | + | |
- | conditioned, at test time, on task paramters such as goal | + | |
- | locations, via points, and/or force readings. Moreover, CNMP are | + | |
- | conditioned on sensor readings during execution, resulting in | + | |
- | robust, reactive behavior. This talk will present an overview of | + | |
- | how CNMP work and how they can be used in various robot | + | |
- | applications.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2020-06-03</td><td>Justus Piater appears in the media: Wie der Roboter denken lernt.</td></tr><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 | + | |
- | „Primers for Predocs – Strategien für eine erfolgreiche | + | |
- | Promotion“</a>, Universität Heidelberg. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem10', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem10Abstract" style="display:none">Massive availability of data and computing power are | + | |
- | promoting data-driven methods in all areas of science and | + | |
- | technology. I will describe how the University of Innsbruck | + | |
- | supports this via its new Digital Science Center, and will give a | + | |
- | flavor of machine learning for data analysis.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2020-01-20</td><td>Joanna Chimiak-Opoka, Carina König, and Justus Piater appear in the media: <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/newsroom/ergaenzung-digital-science-erfolgreich-gestartet.html.de">Ergänzung Digital Science erfolgreich gestartet – UIBK Newsroom</a>.</td></tr></table></HTML> | + | |
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