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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 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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Perceiving Systems Article First Impressions of Personality Traits From Body Shapes Hu, Y., Parde, C. J., Hill, M. Q., Mahmood, N., O’Toole, A. J. Psychological Science, 29(12):1969-–1983, October 2018 () publisher site pdf DOI BibTeX

Intelligent Control Systems Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Conference Paper Gait learning for soft microrobots controlled by light fields Rohr, A. V., Trimpe, S., Marco, A., Fischer, P., Palagi, S. In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2018, :6199-6206, Piscataway, NJ, USA, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October 2018 (Published) arXiv IEEE Xplore DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning to Categorize Bug Reports with LSTM Networks Gondaliya, K., Peters, J., Rueckert, E. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Advances in System Testing and Validation Lifecycle (VALID), :7-12, October 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Mean squared advantage minimization as a consequence of entropic policy improvement regularization Belousov, B., Peters, J. European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL), October 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Book Chapter Nanoscale robotic agents in biological fluids and tissues Palagi, S., Walker, D. Q. T., Fischer, P. In The Encyclopedia of Medical Robotics, 2:19-42, 2, (Editors: Desai, J. P. and Ferreira, A.), World Scientific, October 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Autonomous Vision Conference Paper On the Integration of Optical Flow and Action Recognition Sevilla-Lara, L., Liao, Y., Güney, F., Jampani, V., Geiger, A., Black, M. J. In German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), LNCS 11269:281-297, Springer, Cham, October 2018 () arXiv DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Regularizing Reinforcement Learning with State Abstraction Akrour, R., Veiga, F., Peters, J., Neuman, G. Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), :534-539, October 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Reinforcement Learning of Phase Oscillators for Fast Adaptation to Moving Targets Maeda, G., Koc, O., Morimoto, J. Proceedings of The 2nd Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 87:630-640, (Editors: Aude Billard, Anca Dragan, Jan Peters, Jun Morimoto ), PMLR, October 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Softness, Warmth, and Responsiveness Improve Robot Hugs Block, A. E., Kuchenbecker, K. J. International Journal of Social Robotics, 11(1):49-64, October 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Temporal Interpolation as an Unsupervised Pretraining Task for Optical Flow Estimation Wulff, J., Black, M. J. In German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), LNCS 11269:567-582, Springer, Cham, October 2018 () pdf arXiv DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Vision Conference Paper Towards Robust Visual Odometry with a Multi-Camera System Liu, P., Geppert, M., Heng, L., Sattler, T., Geiger, A., Pollefeys, M. In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2018, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October 2018 () pdf BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Universal custom complex magnetic spring design methodology Woodward, M. A., Sitti, M. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 54(1): 8200213, October 2018 () DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Fast spatial scanning of 3D ultrasound fields via thermography Melde, K., Qiu, T., Fischer, P. Applied Physics Letters, 113(13):133503, September 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Human Motion Parsing by Hierarchical Dynamic Clustering Zhang, Y., Tang, S., Sun, H., Neumann, H. In Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), :269, BMVA Press, 29th British Machine Vision Conference, September 2018 () pdf BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Article ClusterNet: Instance Segmentation in RGB-D Images Shao, L., Tian, Y., Bohg, J. arXiv, September 2018, Submitted to ICRA'19, Submitted (Submitted) URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Deep Directional Statistics: Pose Estimation with Uncertainty Quantification Prokudin, S., Gehler, P., Nowozin, S. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 9:542-559, September 2018 () code pdf BibTeX

Rationality Enhancement Conference Paper Discovering Rational Heuristics for Risky Choice Gul, S., Krueger, P. M., Callaway, F., Griffiths, T. L., Lieder, F. The 14th biannual conference of the German Society for Cognitive Science, GK, The 14th biannual conference of the German Society for Cognitive Science, GK, September 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX

Rationality Enhancement Conference Paper Discovering and Teaching Optimal Planning Strategies Lieder, F., Callaway, F., Krueger, P. M., Das, P., Griffiths, T. L., Gul, S. In The 14th biannual conference of the German Society for Cognitive Science, GK, September 2018, Falk Lieder and Frederick Callaway contributed equally to this publication. () URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Generating 3D Faces using Convolutional Mesh Autoencoders Ranjan, A., Bolkart, T., Sanyal, S., Black, M. J. In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11207:725-741, Springer, Cham, September 2018 () Code (tensorflow) Code (pytorch) Project Page paper supplementary DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Learning Human Optical Flow Ranjan, A., Romero, J., Black, M. J. In 29th British Machine Vision Conference, September 2018 () video code pdf URL BibTeX

Autonomous Vision Conference Paper Learning Priors for Semantic 3D Reconstruction Cherabier, I., Schönberger, J., Oswald, M., Pollefeys, M., Geiger, A. In Computer Vision – ECCV 2018, Springer International Publishing, Cham, September 2018 () pdf suppmat Project Page Video DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Learning an Infant Body Model from RGB-D Data for Accurate Full Body Motion Analysis Hesse, N., Pujades, S., Romero, J., Black, M. J., Bodensteiner, C., Arens, M., Hofmann, U. G., Tacke, U., Hadders-Algra, M., Weinberger, R., et al. In Int. Conf. on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), September 2018 () pdf Project page video extended arXiv version DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Light-triggered drug release from 3D-printed magnetic chitosan microswimmers Ugur Bozuyuk, , Oncay Yasa, , I. Ceren Yasa, , Hakan Ceylan, , Seda Kizilel, , Sitti, M. ACS Nano, 12(9):9617-9625, September 2018 () DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Neural Body Fitting: Unifying Deep Learning and Model-Based Human Pose and Shape Estimation Omran, M., Lassner, C., Pons-Moll, G., Gehler, P. V., Schiele, B. In 3DV, :484-494, September 2018 () arXiv code BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Part-Aligned Bilinear Representations for Person Re-identification Suh, Y., Wang, J., Tang, S., Mei, T., Lee, K. M. In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 11218:418-437, Springer, Cham, September 2018 () pdf supplementary DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Phase separation around a heated colloid in bulk and under confinement Roy, S., Maciolek, A. Soft Matter, 14(46):9326-9335, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, September 2018 () DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Article Playful: Reactive Programming for Orchestrating Robotic Behavior Berenz, V., Schaal, S. IEEE Robotics Automation Magazine, 25(3):49-60, September 2018, In press (In press) playful website playful_IEEE_RAM DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Recovering Accurate 3D Human Pose in The Wild Using IMUs and a Moving Camera Marcard, T. V., Henschel, R., Black, M. J., Rosenhahn, B., Pons-Moll, G. In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11214:614-631, Springer, Cham, September 2018 () pdf SupMat data project DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Risk-Sensitivity in Simulation Based Online Planning Schmid, K., Belzner, L., Kiermeier, M., Neitz, A., Phan, T., Gabor, T., Linnhoff, C. KI 2018: Advances in Artificial Intelligence - 41st German Conference on AI, :229-240, (Editors: F. Trollmann and A. Y. Turhan), Springer, Cham, September 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Separating Reflection and Transmission Images in the Wild Wieschollek, P., Gallo, O., Gu, J., Kautz, J. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Part XIII, 11217:90-105, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (Editors: Vittorio Ferrari and Martial Hebert and Cristian Sminchisescu and Yair Weiss), Springer, September 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Spatio-temporal Transformer Network for Video Restoration Kim, T. H., Sajjadi, M. S. M., Hirsch, M., Schölkopf, B. 15th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Part III, 11207:111-127, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (Editors: Vittorio Ferrari, Martial Hebert,Cristian Sminchisescu and Yair Weiss), Springer, September 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Vision Conference Paper SphereNet: Learning Spherical Representations for Detection and Classification in Omnidirectional Images Coors, B., Condurache, A. P., Geiger, A. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), September 2018 () pdf suppmat BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Texture Transfer for Single Image Super-resolution Gondal, M. W., Schölkopf, B., Hirsch, M. Workshop and Challenge on Perceptual Image Restoration and Manipulation (PIRM) at the 15th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), September 2018 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Autonomous Vision Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Unsupervised Learning of Multi-Frame Optical Flow with Occlusions Janai, J., Güney, F., Ranjan, A., Black, M. J., Geiger, A. In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11220:713-731, Springer, Cham, September 2018 () pdf suppmat Video Project Page DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article Visual Perception and Evaluation of Photo-Realistic Self-Avatars From 3D Body Scans in Males and Females Thaler, A., Piryankova, I., Stefanucci, J. K., Pujades, S., de la Rosa, S., Streuber, S., Romero, J., Black, M. J., Mohler, B. J. Frontiers in ICT, 5:1-14, September 2018 () pdf DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Diffusion Measurements of Swimming Enzymes with Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy Günther, J., Börsch, M., Fischer, P. Accounts of Chemical Research, 51(9):1911-1920, August 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Uphill production of dihydrogen by enzymatic oxidation of glucose without an external energy source Suraniti, E., Merzeau, P., Roche, J., Gounel, S., Mark, A. G., Fischer, P., Mano, N., Kuhn, A. Nature Communications, 9(1):3229, August 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Chemical micromotors self-assemble and self-propel by spontaneous symmetry breaking Yu, T., Chuphal, P., Thakur, S., Reigh, S. Y., Singh, D. P., Fischer, P. Chemical Communications, 54(84):11933-11936, 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Decentralized MPC based Obstacle Avoidance for Multi-Robot Target Tracking Scenarios Tallamraju, R., Rajappa, S., Black, M. J., Karlapalem, K., Ahmad, A. 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), :1-8, IEEE, August 2018 (Published) Published Version DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper From Deterministic ODEs to Dynamic Structural Causal Models Rubenstein, P. K., Bongers, S., Schölkopf, B., Mooij, J. M. Proceedings of the 34th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), :114-123, (Editors: Globerson, Amir and Silva, Ricardo), August 2018 (Published) Arxiv URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Generalized Score Functions for Causal Discovery Huang, B., Zhang, K., Lin, Y., Schölkopf, B., Glymour, C. Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), :1551-1560, (Editors: Yike Guo and Faisal Farooq), ACM, August 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Ph.D. Thesis Instrumentation, Data, and Algorithms for Visually Understanding Haptic Surface Properties Burka, A. L. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, August 2018, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering () BibTeX

Rationality Enhancement Conference Paper Learning to Select Computations Callaway, F., Gul, S., Krueger, P. M., Griffiths, T. L., Lieder, F. In Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence: Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth Conference, August 2018, Frederick Callaway and Sayan Gul and Falk Lieder contributed equally to this publication. (Published) URL BibTeX

Intelligent Control Systems Conference Paper Learning-Based Robust Model Predictive Control with State-Dependent Uncertainty Soloperto, R., Müller, M. A., Trimpe, S., Allgöwer, F. In Proceedings of the IFAC Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC), Madison, Wisconsin, USA, 6th IFAC Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control, August 2018 (Published) PDF BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Statistical Modelling of Fingertip Deformations and Contact Forces during Tactile Interaction Gueorguiev, D., Tzionas, D., Pacchierotti, C., Black, M. J., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Extended abstract presented at the Hand, Brain and Technology conference (HBT), Ascona, Switzerland, August 2018 (Published) BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Miscellaneous A machine from machines Fischer, P. Nature Physics, 14:1072–1073, July 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Chemotaxis of Active Janus Nanoparticles Popescu, M. N., Uspal, W. E., Bechinger, C., Fischer, P. Nano Letters, 18(9):5345-5349, July 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Probabilistic Numerics Conference Paper Kernel Recursive ABC: Point Estimation with Intractable Likelihood Kajihara, T., Kanagawa, M., Yamazaki, K., Fukumizu, K. Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Machine Learning, :2405-2414, PMLR, July 2018 () Paper BibTeX