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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>2022-06-02</td><td>Erwan Renaudo contributes a talk <i>Deep Learning for Fast Segmentation of E-waste Devices’ |
- | system, the long-elusive AI breakthrough is popularly proclaimed | + | 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 |
- | to be just around the corner. Most recent successes have been due | + | dangerous task for human workers. Automated E-waste recycling |
- | in large part to massive data and computation, in particular using | + | is an area of great interest but challenging for current robotic |
- | deep artificial neural networks. But can artificial cognition | + | applications. We focus on the problem of segmenting inner parts |
- | really be achieved just by further scaling up existing | + | of E-waste devices into manipulable elements. First, we extend |
- | machine-learning techniques? I discuss examples of simple, | + | a dataset of hard-drive disk (HDD) components with labelled |
- | perceptual problems that are easily solved by humans but very | + | occluded and non-occluded points of view of the parts, in order |
- | difficult for today's machine learning methods. These problems | + | to increase the diversity and the quality of the learning data |
- | reflect how humans conceptualize their world. Their mastery is | + | with different angles. We then perform an extensive evaluation |
- | thus likely to be an essential prerequisite for autonomous robots | + | with three different state-of-the-art models, namely CenterMask, |
- | to attain higher levels of cognitive abilities. To get there, a | + | BlendMask and SOLOv2 (including variants) and two types of |
- | few core issues can be identified that should drive research in | + | metrics: the average precision as well as the frame rate. Our |
- | 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 | + | results show that instance segmentation using state-of-the-art |
- | 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 | + | deep learning methods can precisely detect complex shapes along |
- | learning capabilities and flexibility. This will enable them to | + | with their boundaries, as well as being suited for fast tracking of |
- | act purposefully in unstructured environments and to react to | + | parts in a robotic recycling system. (Rojas et al. 2022) |
- | unforeseen events. People can teach them intuitively to perform | + | </blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2022-05-17</td><td>Erwan Renaudo gives an invited talk <i>A Brief tour of autonomous robots' "Cognition"</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('newsitem1', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem1Abstract" style="display:none">In the design of "Cognitive Robots" software architectures, |
- | tasks instead of having to program them in painstaking ways. | + | researchers had to face many organizational problems due to |
- | Robots can learn from experience and can improve their behavior | + | the particular nature of robots. Not only should they manage |
- | over time. In this talk I will give an overview of methods, | + | to achieve complex tasks with long-terms goals, but they must |
- | opportunities, and challenges of machine learning in | + | also be reactive to their surroundings to preserve their environment. |
- | 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><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 | + | We will go over several layered control paradigms developed over |
- | 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 | + | the history of robotics and see how these can relate to the |
- | 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 | + | knowledge about the Octopus' brain organization, and discuss |
- | a novel framework for robot programming by demonstration based on | + | how the Octopus itself can inspire cognitive robotic research. |
- | Conditional Neural Processes (CNP). Like Bayesian methods such as | + | </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 |
- | Gaussian Processes (GP), CNP learn how target distributions depend | + | Science</a>, Innsbruck. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem2', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem2Abstract" style="display:none">Wouldn't it be great to have a helper robot that we can |
- | on data, and can be conditioned on specific data points to infer | + | task with our annoying chores? How would we teach the robot to |
- | new target distributions at test time. Unlike GP that are | + | perform these tasks? Can we build such robots by equipping them |
- | expensive to train and scale poorly to high dimensions, CNP are | + | with artificial intelligence? We will discuss how human and |
- | neural networks and are trained by gradient descent. CNMP | + | machine learning differ and how this impacts what skills, |
- | leverage CNP to represent motion trajectories that can be | + | including for communication, our helper robot will be able to |
- | conditioned, at test time, on task paramters such as goal | + | 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 |
- | locations, via points, and/or force readings. Moreover, CNMP are | + | Machines</i> at <a href="https://www.philosophie.uni-konstanz.de/ag-mueller/online-workshop-on-agency-life-and-creativity/">Workshop |
- | conditioned on sensor readings during execution, resulting in | + | on “Agency, Life, and Creativity”</a>, online. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem4', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem4Abstract" style="display:none">Humans constantly engage in creative activity such as |
- | robust, reactive behavior. This talk will present an overview of | + | finding explanations, improving technology, or solving novel |
- | how CNMP work and how they can be used in various robot | + | problems in everyday life. Even imitating other humans, e.g. while |
- | 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 | + | learning a new skill, is creative in that the imitator has to |
- | „Primers for Predocs – Strategien für eine erfolgreiche | + | infer the conceptual structure underlying the observed |
- | 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 | + | manifestation and to regenerate the latter from the former. In |
- | promoting data-driven methods in all areas of science and | + | contrast, current AI-enabled agents are unable to generate and |
- | technology. I will describe how the University of Innsbruck | + | draw upon such conceptual structures. Their learning is mostly |
- | supports this via its new Digital Science Center, and will give a | + | driven by statistics, and any ability to produce novelty is |
- | 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> | + | largely limited to trial and error. I will try to characterize |
+ | this fundamental difference between learning in human and | ||
+ | artificial agents, and will discuss possible technological | ||
+ | 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 | ||
+ | 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 | ||
+ | Bedarfserweckung?</i> at <a href="https://medical-update-hall.com/veranstaltungen/">Medical | ||
+ | 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 & Global Citizenship, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem7', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem7Abstract" style="display:none">Growing data processing capacities and progress in | ||
+ | analytical methods and artificial intelligence are motivating | ||
+ | entire branches of science to raise new questions and to develop | ||
+ | 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 contributes a lecture <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><tr valign="top"><td>2021-07-01</td><td>Justus Piater and Matteo Saveriano give an invited talk <i>Making Robots Learn to Perceive and Act with Understanding</i> at <a href="https://webservices.scientificnet.org/rest/entries/api/v1/blobs/200894">Workshop | ||
+ | and Open Lab on Field Robotics - Interdisciplinary aspects of | ||
+ | robotics and its applications in outdoor scenarios</a>, NOI Techpark, Bolzano, Italy.</td></tr></table></HTML> | ||
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