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- | <HTML><table><tr valign="top"><td>2022-06-10</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber, Patrick Hofmann, and Thomas Gatterer 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>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>2024-03-26</td><td>Justus Piater co-organizes the <a href="https://airov.at/">AIRoV – The First Austrian |
- | 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('newsitem1', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem1Abstract" style="display:none">Recycling obsolete electronic devices (E-waste) is a | + | Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 26.–27.3.2024</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2024-03-14</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>The IMAGINE Project: Robot Intuition and Understanding for |
- | dangerous task for human workers. Automated E-waste recycling | + | Disassembly</i> at <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>, 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 |
- | applications. We focus on the problem of segmenting inner parts | + | 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. |
- | of E-waste devices into manipulable elements. First, we extend | + | 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 |
- | a dataset of hard-drive disk (HDD) components with labelled | + | 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 |
- | occluded and non-occluded points of view of the parts, in order | + | „denkt“ ChatGPT? Begegnungen mit einer Künstlichen |
- | to increase the diversity and the quality of the learning data | + | 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 |
- | with different angles. We then perform an extensive evaluation | + | 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 three different state-of-the-art models, namely CenterMask, | + | 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></table></HTML> |
- | 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>2022-05-20</td><td>Justus Piater appears in the media: <a href="https://radiothek.orf.at/podcasts/tir/derwoche/derwoche-maschinenzukunft">ORF | + | |
- | Tirol Podcast (in German)</a>. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem2', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem2Abstract" style="display:none">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.</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('newsitem4', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem4Abstract" style="display:none">In the design of "Cognitive Robots" 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('newsitem5', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem5Abstract" 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>2022-04-28</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 | + | |
- | 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('newsitem7', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem7Abstract" 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 & Global Citizenship, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem10', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem10Abstract" 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></table></HTML> | + | |
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