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Emperical Interference

Haptic Intelligence

Modern Magnetic Systems

Perceiving Systems

Physical Intelligence

Robotic Materials

Social Foundations of Computation


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Autonomous Vision

Autonomous Learning

Bioinspired Autonomous Miniature Robots

Dynamic Locomotion

Embodied Vision

Human Aspects of Machine Learning

Intelligent Control Systems

Learning and Dynamical Systems

Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems

Movement Generation and Control

Neural Capture and Synthesis

Physics for Inference and Optimization

Organizational Leadership and Diversity

Probabilistic Learning Group


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Empirical Inference Conference Paper Self-Paced Deep Reinforcement Learning Klink, P., D’Eramo, C., Peters, J., Pajarinen, J. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 33 (NeurIPS 2020), :9216-9227, (Editors: H. Larochelle and M. Ranzato and R. Hadsell and M. F. Balcan and H. Lin), Curran Associates, Inc., 34th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2020 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Stochastic Stein Discrepancies Gorham, J., Raj, A., Mackey, L. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 33 (NeurIPS 2020), :17931-17942, (Editors: H. Larochelle and M. Ranzato and R. Hadsell and M. F. Balcan and H. Lin), Curran Associates, Inc., 34th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2020 (Published) URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper Synchronicity Trumps Mischief in Rhythmic Human-Robot Social-Physical Interaction Fitter, N. T., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Robotics Research, 10:269-284, Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, (Editors: Amato, Nancy M. and Hager, Greg and Thomas, Shawna and Torres-Torriti, Miguel), Springer, Cham, 18th International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR 2017), 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Worst-Case Risk Quantification under Distributional Ambiguity using Kernel Mean Embedding in Moment Problem Zhu, J., Jitkrittum, W., Diehl, M., Schölkopf, B. In 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), :3457-3463, IEEE, December 2020 (Published) arXiv DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper MATE: Plugging in Model Awareness to Task Embedding for Meta Learning Chen, X., Wang, Z., Tang, S., Muandet, K. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 33 (NeurIPS 2020), :11865-11877, (Editors: H. Larochelle and M. Ranzato and R. Hadsell and M. F. Balcan and H. Lin), Curran Associates, Inc., 34th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2020 (Published) URL BibTeX

Dynamic Locomotion Article Postural stability in human running with step-down perturbations: an experimental and numerical study Drama, Ö., Vielemeyer, J., Badri-Spröwitz, A., Müller, R. Royal Society Open Science, 7(11):200570, November 2020 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Action-Conditional Recurrent Kalman Networks For Forward and Inverse Dynamics Learning Shaj, V., Becker, P., Büchler, D., Pandya, H., van Duijkeren, N., Taylor, C. J., Hanheide, M., Neumann, G. Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 155:765-781, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Jens Kober and Fabio Ramos and Claire J. Tomlin), PMLR, November 2020 (Published) PDF URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Advances in Human-Robot Handshaking Prasad, V., Stock-Homburg, R., Peters, J. Social Robotics - 12th International Conference (ICSR), 12483:478-489, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (Editors: Wager, A. R. and Feil-Seifer, D. and Haring, K. S. and Rossi, S. and Willians, T. and He, H. and Sam Ge, S.), Springer, November 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Ph.D. Thesis Enforcing and Discovering Structure in Machine Learning Locatello, F. ETH Zurich, Switzerland, November 2020, (CLS Fellowship Program) (Published) BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Empirical Inference Conference Paper Grasping Field: Learning Implicit Representations for Human Grasps Karunratanakul, K., Yang, J., Zhang, Y., Black, M., Muandet, K., Tang, S. In 2020 International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV 2020), :333-344, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV 2020), November 2020 (Published) pdf arXiv code DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper High Acceleration Reinforcement Learning for Real-World Juggling with Binary Rewards Ploeger, K., Lutter, M., Peters, J. Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 155:642-653, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Jens Kober and Fabio Ramos and Claire J. Tomlin), PMLR, November 2020 (Published) URL BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Haptic Intelligence Robotics Patent Method for Force Inference of a Sensor Arrangement, Methods for Training Networks, Force Inference Module and Sensor Arrangement Sun, H., Martius, G., Lee, H., Spiers, A., Fiene, J. (PCT/EP2020/083261), Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Max Planck Ring 4, November 2020 () BibTeX

Physics for Inference and Optimization Article Network extraction by routing optimization Baptista, T. D., Leite, D., Facca, E., Putti, M., De Bacco, C. Scientific Reports, 10:20806, November 2020 (Published) Code Preprint DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article Occlusion Boundary: A Formal Definition & Its Detection via Deep Exploration of Context Wang, C., Fu, H., Tao, D., Black, M. J. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 44(5):2641-2656, November 2020 (Published) official version DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Haptic Intelligence Robotics Patent Sensor Arrangement for Sensing Forces and Method for Farbricating a Sensor Arrangement Spiers, A., Sun, H., Lee, H., Martius, G., Fiene, J., Seo, W. H. (PCT/EP2020/083260), November 2020 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Tasty Burgers, Soggy Fries: Probing Aspect Robustness in Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis Xing, X., Jin, Z., Jin, D., Wang, B., Zhang, Q., Huang, X. Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), :3594-3605, (Editors: Bonnie Webber, Trevor Cohn, Yulan He, and Yang Liu), Association for Computational Linguistics, Online, November 2020 (Published) PDF DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Motion Movement Generation and Control Conference Paper TriFinger: An Open-Source Robot for Learning Dexterity Wüthrich, M., Widmaier, F., Grimminger, F., Akpo, J., Joshi, S., Agrawal, V., Hammoud, B., Khadiv, M., Bogdanovic, M., Berenz, V., et al. Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 155:1871-1882, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Jens Kober and Fabio Ramos and Claire J. Tomlin), PMLR, November 2020 (Published) PDF URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Utilizing Interviews and Thematic Analysis to Uncover Specifications for a Companion Robot Burns, R. B., Seifi, H., Lee, H., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Workshop paper (2 pages) presented at the ICSR Workshop on Enriching HRI Research with Qualitative Methods, Virtual, November 2020 (Published) URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper GIF: Generative Interpretable Faces Ghosh, P., Gupta, P. S., Uziel, R., Ranjan, A., Black, M. J., Bolkart, T. In 2020 International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV 2020), 1:868-878, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV 2020), November 2020 (Published) pdf project code video DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper PLACE: Proximity Learning of Articulation and Contact in 3D Environments Zhang, S., Zhang, Y., Ma, Q., Black, M. J., Tang, S. In 2020 International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV 2020), 1:642-651, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV 2020), November 2020 (Published) pdf arXiv project code DOI BibTeX

Dynamic Locomotion Article 3D Anatomy of the Quail Lumbosacral Spinal Canal—Implications for Putative Mechanosensory Function Kamska, V., Daley, M., Badri-Spröwitz, A. Integrative Organismal Biology, 2(1):obaa037, Oxford University Press, October 2020 (Published) 3d model Youtube DOI BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Conference Paper Enabling Remote Whole-Body Control with 5G Edge Computing Zhu, H., Sharma, M., Pfeiffer, K., Mezzavilla, M., Shen, J., Rangan, S., Righetti, L. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), :3553-3560, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), October 2020, Accepted (Accepted) DOI URL BibTeX

Dynamic Locomotion Conference Paper Simulating the response of a neuro-musculoskeletal model to assistive forces: implications for the design of wearables compensating for motor control deficits Stollenmaier, K., Rist, I., Izzi, F., Haeufle, D. F. In 2020 8th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference for Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob 2020), :779-784, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 8th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference for Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob 2020), October 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article 3D Morphable Face Models - Past, Present and Future Egger, B., Smith, W. A. P., Tewari, A., Wuhrer, S., Zollhoefer, M., Beeler, T., Bernard, F., Bolkart, T., Kortylewski, A., Romdhani, S., et al. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 39(5):157, October 2020 (Published) project page pdf preprint DOI BibTeX

Dynamic Locomotion Intelligent Control Systems Article A Learnable Safety Measure Heim, S., Rohr, A. V., Trimpe, S., Badri-Spröwitz, A. Proceedings of the Conference on Robot Learning, 100:627-639, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Kaelbling, Leslie Pack and Kragic, Danica and Sugiura, Komei), PMLR, Conference on Robot Learning, October 2020 (Published) Arxiv BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article AirCapRL: Autonomous Aerial Human Motion Capture Using Deep Reinforcement Learning Tallamraju, R., Saini, N., Bonetto, E., Pabst, M., Liu, Y. T., Black, M., Ahmad, A. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 5(4):6678-6685, IEEE, October 2020, Also accepted and presented in the 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Exploring the Relationship Between EMG Feature Space Characteristics and Control Performance in Machine Learning Myoelectric Control Franzke, A. W., Kristoffersen, M. B., Jayaram, V., Sluis, C. K. V. D., Murgia, A., Bongers, R. M. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 29:21-30, IEEE, October 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Fully Automated and Standardized Segmentation of Adipose Tissue Compartments via Deep Learning in 3D Whole-Body MRI of Epidemiologic Cohort Studies Küstner, T., Hepp, T., Fischer, M., Schwartz, M., Fritsche, A., Häring, H., Nikolaou, K., Bamberg, F., Yang, B., Schick, F., et al. Radiology: Artificial Intelligence, 2(6), October 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Vision Conference Paper Label Efficient Visual Abstractions for Autonomous Driving Behl, A., Chitta, K., Prakash, A., Ohn-Bar, E., Geiger, A. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE, October 2020 () pdf slides video Project Page BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Article Learning Variable Impedance Control for Contact Sensitive Tasks Bogdanovic, M., Khadiv, M., Righetti, L. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 5(4), IEEE, October 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Learning a statistical full spine model from partial observations Meng, D., Keller, M., Boyer, E., Black, M., Pujades, S. In Shape in Medical Imaging, :122-133, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 12474, (Editors: Reuter, Martin and Wachinger, Christian and Lombaert, Hervé and Paniagua, Beatriz and Goksel, Orcun and Rekik, Islem), Springer, Cham, International Workshop on Shape in Medical Imaging (ShapeMI 2020), October 2020 (Published) Gitlab Code PDF DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper MYND: Unsupervised Evaluation of Novel BCI Control Strategies on Consumer Hardware Hohmann, M. R., Konieczny, L., Hackl, M., Wirth, B., Zaman, T., Enficiaud, R., Grosse-Wentrup, M., Schölkopf, B. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), :1071-1084, Association for Computing Machinery, October 2020 (Published) arXiv DOI BibTeX

Dynamic Locomotion Poster Towards Hybrid Active and Passive Compliant Mechanisms in Legged Robots Milad Shafiee Ashtiani, A. A. S., Badri-Sproewitz, A. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE, October 2020, Accepted (Accepted) Abstract Poster BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article A Hierarchical 3D TiO2/Ni Nanostructure as an Efficient Hole‐Extraction and Protection Layer for GaAs Photoanodes Alqahtani, M., Kafizas, A., Sathasivam, S., Ebaid, M., Cui, F., Alymani, A., Jeong, H., Lee, T., Fischer, P., Parkin, I., et al. ChemSusChem, 13(22):6028-6036, September 2020 () DOI URL BibTeX

Physics for Inference and Optimization Article Community detection with node attributes in multilayer networks Contisciani, M., Power, E. A., De Bacco, C. Scientific Reports, 10:15736, Nature, September 2020 (Published) Code Preprint pdf DOI BibTeX

Dynamic Locomotion Intelligent Control Systems Article A little damping goes a long way: a simulation study of how damping influences task-level stability in running Heim, S., Millard, M., Le Mouel, C., Badri-Spröwitz, A. Biology Letters, 16(9):20200467, September 2020 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Scalable Fabrication of Molybdenum Disulfide Nanostructures and their Assembly Huang, Y., Yu, K., Li, H., Liang, Z., Walker, D., Ferreira, P., Fischer, P., Fan, D. Advanced Materials, 32(43):2003439, September 2020 () DOI URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Spatial ultrasound modulation by digitally controlling microbubble arrays Ma, Z., Melde, K., Athanassiadis, A. G., Schau, M., Richter, H., Qiu, T., Fischer, P. Nature Communications, 11:4537, September 2020 () DOI URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Chiroptical spectroscopy of a freely diffusing single nanoparticle Sachs, J., Günther, J., Mark, A. G., Fischer, P. Nature Communications, 11:4513, September 2020 () DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Sweat Softens the Outermost Layer of the Human Finger Pad: Evidence from Simulations and Experiments Nam, S., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Work-in-progress poster presented at EuroHaptics, Leiden, The Netherlands, September 2020 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous A Framework for Analyzing Both Finger-Surface and Tool-Surface Interactions Khojasteh, B., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Work-in-progress poster presented at EuroHaptics, Leiden, The Netherlands, September 2020 (Published) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Ph.D. Thesis Beyond traditional assumptions in fair machine learning Kilbertus, N. University of Cambridge, UK, September 2020, (Cambridge-Tübingen-Fellowship) (Published) BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Bioinspired Autonomous Miniature Robots Article Biodegradable untethered magnetic hydrogel milli-grippers Goudu, S. R., Yasa, I. C., Hu, X., Ceylan, H., Hu, W., Sitti, M. Advanced Functional Materials, 30(50):2004975, 2020 () DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Characterization of a Magnetic Levitation Haptic Interface for Realistic Tool-Based Interactions Lee, H., Tombak, G. I., Park, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Work-in-progress poster presented at EuroHaptics, Leiden, The Netherlands, September 2020 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Detection of diabetes from whole-body magnetic resonance imaging using deep learning Wagner, R., Dietz, B., Machann, J., Schwab, P., Dienes, J., Reichert, S., Birkenfeld, A. L., Haering, H., Schick, F., Stefan, N., et al. Diabetologia - 56th EASD Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, 63(1-supplement):551, September 2020 (Published) Poster URL BibTeX