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Emre Ugur [News]
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 ====== Intelligent and Interactive Systems ======
-Research at %%IIS%% is situated at the intersection of computer vision, machine learning and robotics.  Much of our work is motivated by the perceptual needs of autonomous robots, and focuses on visual inference as it serves activity such as grasping.  Other areas of interest include the psychology and biology of perception, and video analysis for applications such as sports or human-computer interaction.
+//**Making robots learn to perceive and act with understanding**//
+At %%IIS%% we enable autonomous robots to perceive and act flexibly and robustly in unstructured environments, leveraging machine learning methods to build perceptual, motor and reasoning skills.
+We seek to answer the question: //How can we enable robots to acquire the knowledge and understanding they require to interact sensibly with unstructured environments? //
+Our research addresses complete perception-action loops, from computer vision to grasping and manipulation, using reactive algorithms and/or cognitive models.  Much of our work uses machine learning to enable robots to synthesize and improve complex and robust sensorimotor behavior with experience. Related areas of interest include human-robot interaction, image and video analysis, and visual neuroscience.
+{{::iis-2017.jpg?570|Group Picture}}\\
+Group picture taken at our retreat in Obergurgl
 ===== Working With Us =====
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-  * We have multiple open positions for [[jobs|doctoral students and postdocs]].
-  * [[asstprof|Assistant Professor position in computer and biological vision]] (apply by 6 November 2014; earliest starting date 5 January, 2015)
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 Check our thesis topics for [[theses/start|Bachelor and Master students]].
 ===== News =====
-  * Emre Ugur is an **invited speaker** at the workshop on [[http://www.bootstrapping-manipulation.com/|Bootstrapping Manipulation Skills]], at [[http://www.roboticsconference.org/|RSS]] in June 2016.
+  * Justus Piater is an **invited speaker** at the [[http://soma-summerschool.dlr.de/|SoMa Summer School on Soft Manipulation]] in July 2017.
+  * Justus Piater is an **invited speaker** at the workshop on [[http://mlhlcr2016.tanichu.com//|Machine Learning Methods for High-Level Cognitive Capabilities in Robotics]] at [[http://www.iros2016.org/|IROS]] in October 2016.
+  * Justus Piater is an **invited speaker** at the NII Shonan Meeting on [[http://shonan.nii.ac.jp/shonan/blog/2015/10/31/cognitive-development-and-symbol-emergence-in-humans-and-robots/| Cognitive Development and Symbol Emergence in Humans and Robots]] in October 2016, in Japan.
+  * Justus Piater is an **invited speaker** at the workshop on [[https://robo21century.physik3.gwdg.de/|Robotics in the 21st century: Challenges and Promises]] in September 2016.
+  * Justus Piater is an **invited Speaker** at the international conference on [[https://www.uibk.ac.at/projects/agency-and-physics/events/aqpic.html|Agency and (Quantum) Physics]] in September 2016.
+  * Emre Ugur is an **invited speakers** at the workshop on [[http://www.bootstrapping-manipulation.com/|Bootstrapping Manipulation Skills]] at [[http://www.roboticsconference.org/|RSS]] in June 2016.
   * Emre Ugur is co-organizing **Shonan Meeting** on [[http://shonan.nii.ac.jp/shonan/blog/2015/10/31/cognitive-development-and-symbol-emergence-in-humans-and-robots/| Cognitive Development and Symbol Emergence in Humans and Robots]], with Tadahiro Taniguchi and George Konidaris, in October 2016, in Japan.
   * Emre Ugur is an **invited speaker** at the [[http://www.cnr.osaka-u.ac.jp/?p=1707&lang=en | 2nd International Workshop on Cognitive Neuroscience Robotics]] in February 2016, in Osaka, Japan.
-  * Emre Ugur is guest editor of the Special Issue on [[https://iis.uibk.ac.at/public/emre/cfp.html | Computational Models of Affordances for Cognitive Robots]] in the [[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=4563672 | IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems]].
-  * Justus Piater is an **invited speaker** at the [[http://www.iis.ee.ic.ac.uk/ComputerVision/3DPose-2015.html|1st International Workshop on Recovering 6D Object Pose]], at [[http://pamitc.org/iccv15/|ICCV]] in December 2015.
-  * Antonio Rodriguez-Sanchez is organizing, jointly with George Azzopardi (Univ. Malta) a BICT [[http://cmvc.bionetics.org/2015/show/home | workshop on Computer Models of the Visual Cortex]], to be held in New York in December.
-  * Justus Piater is co-organizing **Dagstuhl Seminar** 15411 on [[http://www.dagstuhl.de/15411|Multimodal Manipulation Under Uncertainty]] in October 2015.
-  * Justus Piater is an **invited speaker** at the workshop on [[http://objectaffordances.blogspot.pt/|Learning Object Affordances: A fundamental step to allow prediction, planning and tool use in autonomous robots]], at [[http://www.iros2015.org/|IROS]] in September 2015.
-  * Emre Ugur is co-organizing, with Lorenzo Jamone, Angelo Cangelosi, Tamim Asfour, and Jose Santos-Victor, a workshop on [[http://objectaffordances.blogspot.pt/|Learning Object Affordances: A fundamental step to allow prediction, planning and tool use in autonomous robots]], at [[http://www.iros2015.org/|IROS]] in October 2015.
-  * Justus Piater is an **invited speaker** at the workshop on Robot Learning, [[http://emreugur.net/ICAR2015-WS-RobotLearning/|Bottom-up and top-down development of robot skills]] at [[http://icar2015.org/|ICAR]] in July 2015.
-  * Emre Ugur is organizing, with Lorenzo Jamone, Yukie Nagai, and Erhan Oztop, a workshop on Robot Learning, [[http://emreugur.net/ICAR2015-WS-RobotLearning/|Bottom-up and top-down development of robot skills]] at [[http://icar2015.org/|ICAR]] in July 2015.
-  * Emre Ugur is an **invited speaker** at the workshop on [[https://iis.uibk.ac.at/conferences/lrc2015/|Learning Reusable Concepts in Robotics]] at [[http://www.roboticsconference.org/|RSS]] in July 2015.
-  * Justus Piater is organizing, with Tamim Asfour (KIT), the workshop on [[https://iis.uibk.ac.at/conferences/lrc2015/|Learning Reusable Concepts in Robotics]] at [[http://www.roboticsconference.org/|RSS]] in July 2015. Check our exciting lineup of invited speakers!
-  * Our following paper won the **Best Robotic Vision Paper Award** at [[http://www.computerrobotvision.org|CRV 2015]]: <html><div class="li CONF" id="Rezapour-2015-CRV" title="Rezapour-2015-CRV"><span><span class="author"><span class="firstname">Safoura</span> <span class="surname">Rezapour Lakani</span></span>, <span class="author"><span class="firstname">Mirela</span> <span class="surname">Popa</span></span>, <span class="author"><span class="firstname">Antonio</span> <span class="surname">Rodríguez-Sánchez</span></span>, <span class="author"><span class="firstname">Justus</span> <span class="surname">Piater</span></span>, <span class="parttitle">CPS: 3D Compositional Part Segmentation through Grasping. </span><a href="http://www.computerrobotvision.org/">12th Conference on Computer and Robot Vision</a>, <span class="pubdate">2015</span>. <span class="actions"> <a href="https://iis.uibk.ac.at/public/papers/Rezapour-2015-CRV.pdf">[PDF]</a> <a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('Rezapour-2015-CRV', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a> <a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('Rezapour-2015-CRV', 'BibTeX')">[BibTeX]</a></span></span></div></html>
-  * Justus Piater is an **invited speaker** at the workshop on [[http://www.rhgm.org/activities/workshopicra15/|Robotic Hands, Grasping, and Manipulation]] May 30, 2015, at [[http://www.icra2015.org/|ICRA 2015]] in Seattle.
 [[news|Older News]]
 ===== Press =====
+  * [[http://derstandard.at/2000035773928/Wie-Robin-gelernt-hat-einen-Turm-zu-bauen|Wie Robin gelernt hat, einen Turm zu bauen]] - Der Standard (May 1, 2016)
+  * ORF, Austria's public TV and radio service, reports on our work in the context of the [[http://xperience.org/|Xperience]] and [[http://www.squirrel-project.eu/|SQUIRREL]] projects (21.4.2016, in German):
+    * [[http://oe1.orf.at/programm/434380|Ö1 Wissen aktuell]] (radio)
+    * [[http://tvthek.orf.at/program/Tirol-heute/70023/Tirol-heute/12501058/Lernen-wie-ein-Kind-Lange-Nacht-der-Forschung/12506816|Tirol heute]] (TV)
+    * [[http://tirol.orf.at/news/stories/2769952/|tirol.orf.at News]] (text + teaser video)
+  * [[https://iis.uibk.ac.at/_media/public/16042016news_zech_lnf_full.pdf | Hier sind die Roboter]] - News (April 16, 2016, in German)
   * [[http://www.tt.com/panorama/11075798-91/fast-wie-science-fiction-ein-roboter-der-lernt-wie-ein-kind.csp|Fast wie Science Fiction: Ein Roboter, der lernt wie ein Kind]] - Tiroler Tageszeitung (February 3, 2016, in German) features [[@/public/emre/research.html|Emre Ugur's work on stacked learning]].
   * [[http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/news/2015/eine-kamera-als-sehhilfe.html.de|Eine Kamera als Sehhilfe]] ([[http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/|iPoint]] 06.02.2015, in German)
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   * [[http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/news/2011/schlaue-roboter-im-haushalt.html.de|Schlaue Roboter im Haushalt]] ([[http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/|iPoint]] 13.04.2011, in German)
   * [[http://www.uibk.ac.at/forschung/magazin/5/artikel/neuberufung.pdf|Roboter lernen lernen]] ([[http://www.uibk.ac.at/forschung/magazin/|zukunft forschung]] [[http://www.uibk.ac.at/forschung/magazin/5/|2/2010]], in German)
 ===== Postal Address =====
 University of Innsbruck\\
-Institute of Computer Science\\
+Department of Computer Science\\
 Technikerstr. 21a\\
 Innsbruck\\

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