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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>2025-04-25</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber gives an invited talk <i>AI-powered tools for real-time transcription and translation in action: A self-hosted open-source framework for digital spaces.</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/medien/veranstaltungen/tagungen/medien-wissen-bildung-2025/">Medien - Wissen - Bildung 2025: Streifzüge an den Nahtstellen von Medien, Bildung und Philosophie</a>, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-04-10</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber gives an invited keynote <i>Hands-on Approaches to Software, Robotics, and AI: Exploring Experiments and Science in Action</i> at <a href="https://iis.uibk.ac.at/public/simon/ECER-2025/">European Conference on Educational Robotics (ECER 2025)</a>, HTL Anichstrasse.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-04-10</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber and Christopher Kelter 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>2025-04-03</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited keynote <i>What is AI really?</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/events/2025/04/03/ai-in-law-and-practice-regional-perspectives-on-european-rules">Cross-Border |
- | system, the long-elusive AI breakthrough is popularly proclaimed | + | Seminar: AI in Law and Practice: Regional Perspectives on European |
- | to be just around the corner. Most recent successes have been due | + | Rules</a>, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-03-06</td><td>Justus Piater teaches a tutorial <i>Funktionsweise, Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von KI</i> at Lieber gleich berechtigt als später: Hallo KI, hilfst du |
- | in large part to massive data and computation, in particular using | + | uns bei der Gleichstellung?!, Tiroler Bildungsinstitut Grillhof Vill. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem4', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem4Abstract" style="display:none">Künstliche Intelligenz" bezeichnet derzeit Systeme, die |
- | deep artificial neural networks. But can artificial cognition | + | auf maschinellem Lernen (ML) basieren. Dieser Workshop führt in |
- | really be achieved just by further scaling up existing | + | die Grundlagen des ML ein, mit besonderem Augenmerk auf neuronale |
- | machine-learning techniques? I discuss examples of simple, | + | Netze, der derzeit populärsten ML-Technologie. Darauf aufbauend |
- | perceptual problems that are easily solved by humans but very | + | vermittelt er ein Grundverständnis für prinzipielle Möglichkeiten |
- | difficult for today's machine learning methods. These problems | + | und Grenzen von ML und warum es mit derzeitigen Mitteln extrem |
- | reflect how humans conceptualize their world. Their mastery is | + | schwierig ist, Diskriminierung in KI-Systemen zu |
- | thus likely to be an essential prerequisite for autonomous robots | + | verhindern.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-02-26</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber and Christopher Kelter teach a tutorial <i>Programmieren eines autonomen Roboters anhand einer selbstentwickelten KI</i> at STAIR-Lab INNALP Workshop für das Gymnasium Ursulinenen Innsbruck, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-02-26</td><td>Marko Zarić teaches a tutorial <i>Einführung in das Programmieren mit Microcontrollern</i> at STAIR-Lab INNALP Workshop für das Gymnasium Ursulinenen Innsbruck, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-01-31</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited lecture <i>High-Level AI For Autonomous Robots</i> at <a href="https://elias-ai.eu/event/ellis-vismac/">ELIAS-ELLIS-VISMAC |
- | to attain higher levels of cognitive abilities. To get there, a | + | Winter School 2025</a>, Brunico, Italy. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem7', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem7Abstract" style="display:none">What barriers will have to be overcome to raise the |
- | few core issues can be identified that should drive research in | + | flexibility and robustness of autonomous robots to the next level? |
- | 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 | + | I argue that current AI methods are unlikely to get there, no |
- | 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 | + | matter how far we scale them up. Robots need to be able to |
- | learning capabilities and flexibility. This will enable them to | + | "understand" their environment in ways that reach beyond |
- | act purposefully in unstructured environments and to react to | + | prediction and control. I will discuss examples of work (ours and |
- | unforeseen events. People can teach them intuitively to perform | + | others') on learning visual relational concepts, extrapolation of |
- | tasks instead of having to program them in painstaking ways. | + | learned movements beyond the training distribution, learning of |
- | Robots can learn from experience and can improve their behavior | + | symbolic concepts and rules, and structure-driven skill learning |
- | over time. In this talk I will give an overview of methods, | + | from sensorimotor experience.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-01-23</td><td>Marko Zarić teaches a tutorial <i>Einführung in das Programmieren mit Microcontrollern</i> at STAIR-Lab INNALP Workshop für das Gymnasium Ursulinenen Innsbruck, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-01-22</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited lecture <i>Generative Künstliche Intelligenz: Funktion, Fähigkeiten |
- | opportunities, and challenges of machine learning in | + | und Fallen</i> at <a href="https://lfuonline.uibk.ac.at/public/lfuonline_lv.details?sem_id_in=24W&lvnr_id_in=720453">VO |
- | 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 | + | 720453 Spezielle Themen der Persönlichkeits- und Differentiellen |
- | 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 | + | Psychologie</a>, Universität Innsbruck. (Gastvorlesung)</td></tr></table></HTML> |
- | 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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