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-  * We are hiring [[jobs|two doctoral students]] in machine learning for computer vision or robotics.
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-Group picture taken at our retreat in Obergurgl
+Group picture taken at our 2022 retreat in Obergurgl
 ===== News =====
-<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’
+<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
-    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
+    Disassembly</i> at <a href="https://reconcycle.eu/erf2024/">Adaptive Robotics for
-    dangerous task for human workers. Automated E-waste recycling
+    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
-    is an area of great interest but challenging for current robotic
+    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.
-    applications. We focus on the problem of segmenting inner parts
+    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
-    of E-waste devices into manipulable elements. First, we extend
+    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
-    a dataset of hard-drive disk (HDD) components with labelled
+    „denkt“ ChatGPT? Begegnungen mit einer Künstlichen
-    occluded and non-occluded points of view of the parts, in order
+    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
-    to increase the diversity and the quality of the learning data
+    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
-    with different angles. We then perform an extensive evaluation
+    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>
-    with three different state-of-the-art models, namely CenterMask,
-    BlendMask and SOLOv2 (including variants) and two types of
-    metrics: the average precision as well as the frame rate. Our
-    results show that instance segmentation using state-of-the-art
-    deep learning methods can precisely detect complex shapes along
-    with their boundaries, as well as being suited for fast tracking of
-    parts in a robotic recycling system. (Rojas et  al. 2022)
-    </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' &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('newsitem1', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem1Abstract" style="display:none">In the design of &quot;Cognitive Robots&quot; software architectures,
-    researchers had to face many organizational problems due to
-    the particular nature of robots. Not only should they manage
-    to achieve complex tasks with long-terms goals, but they must
-    also be reactive to their surroundings to preserve their environment.
-    We will go over several layered control paradigms developed over
-    the history of robotics and see how these can relate to the
-    knowledge about the Octopus' brain organization, and discuss
-    how the Octopus itself can inspire cognitive robotic research.
-    </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
-    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
-    task with our annoying chores? How would we teach the robot to
-    perform these tasks? Can we build such robots by equipping them
-    with artificial intelligence? We will discuss how human and
-    machine learning differ and how this impacts what skills,
-    including for communication, our helper robot will be able to
-    learn.</blockquote></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
-    Machines</i> at <a href="https://www.philosophie.uni-konstanz.de/ag-mueller/online-workshop-on-agency-life-and-creativity/">Workshop
-    on “Agency, Life, and Creativity”</a>, online. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem3', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem3Abstract" style="display:none">Humans constantly engage in creative activity such as
-    finding explanations, improving technology, or solving novel
-    problems in everyday life. Even imitating other humans, e.g. while
-    learning a new skill, is creative in that the imitator has to
-    infer the conceptual structure underlying the observed
-    manifestation and to regenerate the latter from the former. In
-    contrast, current AI-enabled agents are unable to generate and
-    draw upon such conceptual structures. Their learning is mostly
-    driven by statistics, and any ability to produce novelty is
-    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 &amp; Global Citizenship, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem6', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem6Abstract" 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><tr valign="top"><td>2021-05-26</td><td>Justus Piater contributes a talk <i>Intelligente und interaktive Systeme</i> at <a href="http://www.gmar.at/aktuell/">GMAR Robotics Science
-    Talks</a>, online.</td></tr></table></HTML>
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