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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

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Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Holograms for acoustics Melde, K., Mark, A. G., Qiu, T., Fischer, P. Nature, 537:518-522, September 2016, Max Planck press release, Nature News & Views, Nature Video. (Published) Video - Holograms for Sound DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Interlocking Perception-Action Loops at Multiple Time Scales - A System Proposal for Manipulation in Uncertain and Dynamic Environments Bohg, J., Kappler, D., Meier, F., Ratliff, N., Mainprice, J., Issac, J., Wüthrich, M., Garcia Cifuentes, C., Berenz, V., Schaal, S. In International Workshop on Robotics in the 21st century: Challenges and Promises, September 2016 () Workshop Webpage Extended Abstract BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning Probabilistic Features from EMG Data for Predicting Knee Abnormalities Kohlschuetter, J., Peters, J., Rueckert, E. XIV Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing (MEDICON), :668-672, (Editors: Kyriacou, E., Christofides, S., and Pattichis, C. S.), September 2016 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Magnesium plasmonics for UV applications and chiral sensing Jeong, H. H., Mark, A. G., Fischer, P. Chem. Comm., 52(82):12179-12182, September 2016 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper On Version Space Compression Ben-David, S., Urner, R. Algorithmic Learning Theory - 27th International Conference (ALT), 9925:50-64, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (Editors: Ortner, R., Simon, H. U., and Zilles, S.), September 2016 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper A Low-cost Sensor Glove with Vibrotactile Feedback and Multiple Finger Joint and Hand Motion Sensing for Human-Robot Interaction Weber, P., Rueckert, E., Calandra, R., Peters, J., Beckerle, P. 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), :99-104, August 2016 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Article DOOMED: Direct Online Optimization of Modeling Errors in Dynamics Ratliff, N., Meier, F., Kappler, D., Schaal, S. arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.00309, August 2016 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Experimental and causal view on information integration in autonomous agents Geiger, P., Hofmann, K., Schölkopf, B. Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Combinations of Intelligent Methods and Applications (CIMA), :21-28, (Editors: Hatzilygeroudis, I. and Palade, V.), August 2016 (Published) URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article The effect of temperature and humidity on adhesion of a gecko-inspired adhesive: implications for the natural system Stark, A. Y., Klittich, M. R., Sitti, M., Niewiarowski, P. H., Dhinojwala, A. Scientific Reports, 6(1):1-7, 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Conference Paper Targeting of cell mockups using sperm-shaped microrobots in vitro Khalil, I. S., Tabak, A. F., Hosney, A., Klingner, A., Shalaby, M., Abdel-Kader, R. M., Serry, M., Sitti, M. In 2016 6th IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), :495-501, July 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Conference Paper Soft continuous microrobots with multiple intrinsic degrees of freedom Palagi, S., Mark, A. G., Melde, K., Zeng, H., Parmeggiani, C., Martella, D., Wiersma, D. S., Fischer, P. In 2016 International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS), :1-5, Piscataway, NJ, USA, July 2016 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Conference Paper Analysis of the magnetic torque on a tilted permanent magnet for drug delivery in capsule robots Munoz, F., Alici, G., Zhou, H., Li, W., Sitti, M. In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), :1386-1391, July 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Acquiring and Generalizing the Embodiment Mapping from Human Observations to Robot Skills Maeda, G., Ewerton, M., Koert, D., Peters, J. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 1(2):784-791, July 2016 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Active Nanorheology with Plasmonics Jeong, H. H., Mark, A. G., Lee, T., Alarcon-Correa, M., Eslami, S., Qiu, T., Gibbs, J. G., Fischer, P. Nano Letters, 16(8):4887-4894, July 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Magnetic propulsion of robotic sperms at low-Reynolds number Khalil, I. S., Fatih Tabak, A., Klingner, A., Sitti, M. Applied Physics Letters, 109(3):033701, 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Manifold Gaussian Processes for Regression Calandra, R., Peters, J., Rasmussen, C. E., Deisenroth, M. P. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), :3338-3345, IEEE, July 2016 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Intelligent Control Systems Conference Paper Robust Gaussian Filtering using a Pseudo Measurement Wüthrich, M., Garcia Cifuentes, C., Trimpe, S., Meier, F., Bohg, J., Issac, J., Schaal, S. In Proceedings of the American Control Conference (ACC), Boston, MA, USA, July 2016 (Published) Web DOI URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Conference Paper Wireless actuator based on ultrasonic bubble streaming Qiu, T., Palagi, S., Mark, A. G., Melde, K., Fischer, P. In 2016 International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS), :1-5, Piscataway, NJ, USA, July 2016 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article Body Talk: Crowdshaping Realistic 3D Avatars with Words Streuber, S., Quiros-Ramirez, M. A., Hill, M. Q., Hahn, C. A., Zuffi, S., O’Toole, A., Black, M. J. ACM Trans. Graph. (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 35(4):54:1-54:14, July 2016 () pdf web tool video talk (ppt) BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper DeepCut: Joint Subset Partition and Labeling for Multi Person Pose Estimation Pishchulin, L., Insafutdinov, E., Tang, S., Andres, B., Andriluka, M., Gehler, P., Schiele, B. In 2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), :4929-4937, IEEE, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2016 () code pdf supplementary DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper A Kernel Test for Three-Variable Interactions with Random Processes Rubenstein, P. K., Chwialkowski, K. P., Gretton, A. Proceedings of the 32nd Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), :637-646, (Editors: Ihler, Alexander T. and Janzing, Dominik), June 2016 (Published) PDF Supplement Arxiv URL BibTeX

Probabilistic Numerics Conference Paper Active Uncertainty Calibration in Bayesian ODE Solvers Kersting, H., Hennig, P. Proceedings of the 32nd Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), :309-318, (Editors: Ihler, Alexander T. and Janzing, Dominik), June 2016 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Probabilistic Numerics Conference Paper Approximate dual control maintaining the value of information with an application to building control Klenske, E. D., Hennig, P., Schölkopf, B., Zeilinger, M. N. In European Control Conference (ECC), :800-806, June 2016 () PDF DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article Capturing Hands in Action using Discriminative Salient Points and Physics Simulation Tzionas, D., Ballan, L., Srikantha, A., Aponte, P., Pollefeys, M., Gall, J. International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 118(2):172-193, June 2016 (Published) Website pdf DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Continuous Deep Q-Learning with Model-based Acceleration Gu, S., Lillicrap, T., Sutskever, I., Levine, S. Proceedings of the 33nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 48:2829-2838, JMLR Workshop and Conference Proceedings, (Editors: Maria-Florina Balcan and Kilian Q. Weinberger), JMLR.org, June 2016 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Domain Adaptation with Conditional Transferable Components Gong, M., Zhang, K., Liu, T., Tao, D., Glymour, C., Schölkopf, B. Proceedings of the 33nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 48:2839-2848, JMLR Workshop and Conference Proceedings, (Editors: Balcan, M.-F. and Weinberger, K. Q.), June 2016 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Efficient Large-scale Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search on the GPU Wieschollek, P., Wang, O., Sorkine-Hornung, A., Lensch, H. P. A. 29th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), :2027 - 2035, IEEE, June 2016 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Conference Paper Fitting a 3D morphable model to edges: A comparison between hard and soft correspondences Bas, A., Smith, W. A. P., Bolkart, T., Wuhrer, S. In ACCV Workshop on Facial Informatics, :377-391, ACCV 2016 International Workshops, June 2016 () paper code DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Learning Sparse High Dimensional Filters: Image Filtering, Dense CRFs and Bilateral Neural Networks Jampani, V., Kiefel, M., Gehler, P. V. In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), :4452-4461, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2016 () code CVF open-access pdf supplementary poster BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Occlusion boundary detection via deep exploration of context Fu, H., Wang, C., Tao, D., Black, M. J. In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), :241-250, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2016 () pdf BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper On the Identifiability and Estimation of Functional Causal Models in the Presence of Outcome-Dependent Selection Zhang, K., Zhang, J., Huang, B., Schölkopf, B., Glymour, C. Proceedings of the 32nd Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), :825-834, (Editors: Ihler, Alexander T. and Janzing, Dominik), June 2016 (Published) URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Optical Flow with Semantic Segmentation and Localized Layers Sevilla-Lara, L., Sun, D., Jampani, V., Black, M. J. In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), :3889-3898, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2016 () video Kitti Precomputed Data (1.6GB) pdf YouTube Sequences Code BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Autonomous Vision Conference Paper Patches, Planes and Probabilities: A Non-local Prior for Volumetric 3D Reconstruction Ulusoy, A. O., Black, M. J., Geiger, A. In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), :3280-3289, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2016 () YouTube pdf poster suppmat BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Recovery of non-linear cause-effect relationships from linearly mixed neuroimaging data Weichwald, S., Gretton, A., Schölkopf, B., Grosse-Wentrup, M. Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in NeuroImaging (PRNI 2016), June 2016 (Published) PDF Arxiv Code DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Autonomous Vision Conference Paper Semantic Instance Annotation of Street Scenes by 3D to 2D Label Transfer Xie, J., Kiefel, M., Sun, M., Geiger, A. In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), :3688-3697, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2016 (Published) pdf suppmat Project Page BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Six-degree-of-freedom magnetic actuation for wireless microrobotics Diller, E., Giltinan, J., Lum, G. Z., Ye, Z., Sitti, M. The International Journal of Robotics Research, 35(1-3):114-128, 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Conference Paper Stability of Controllers for Gaussian Process Forward Models Vinogradska, J., Bischoff, B., Nguyen-Tuong, D., Romer, A., Schmidt, H., Peters, J. Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 48:545-554, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Maria Florina Balcan and Kilian Q. Weinberger), PMLR, June 2016 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper The Arrow of Time in Multivariate Time Serie Bauer, S., Schölkopf, B., Peters, J. Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 48:2043-2051, JMLR Workshop and Conference Proceedings, (Editors: Balcan, M. F. and Weinberger, K. Q.), JMLR, June 2016 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper The Mondrian Kernel Balog, M., Lakshminarayanan, B., Ghahramani, Z., Roy, D. M., Teh, Y. W. Proceedings of the 32nd Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), :32-41, (Editors: Ihler, Alexander T. and Janzing, Dominik), June 2016 (Published) Arxiv URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Video segmentation via object flow Tsai, Y., Yang, M., Black, M. J. In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), :1426-1434, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2016 () pdf BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Probabilistic Numerics Intelligent Control Systems Conference Paper Automatic LQR Tuning Based on Gaussian Process Global Optimization Marco, A., Hennig, P., Bohg, J., Schaal, S., Trimpe, S. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :270-277, IEEE, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2016 (Published) Video - Automatic LQR Tuning Based on Gaussian Process Global Optimization - ICRA 2016 Video - Automatic Controller Tuning on a Two-legged Robot PDF DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Intelligent Control Systems Conference Paper Depth-based Object Tracking Using a Robust Gaussian Filter Issac, J., Wüthrich, M., Garcia Cifuentes, C., Bohg, J., Trimpe, S., Schaal, S. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2016, IEEE, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2016 (Published) Video Bayesian Object Tracking Library Bayesian Filtering Framework Object Tracking Dataset DOI URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Exemplar-based Prediction of Object Properties from Local Shape Similarity Bohg, J., Kappler, D., Schaal, S. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2016, IEEE, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2016 (Published) pdf DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Optimizing for what matters: the Top Grasp Hypothesis Kappler, D., Schaal, S., Bohg, J. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2016, IEEE, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2016 (Published) pdf DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Robot Arm Pose Estimation by Pixel-wise Regression of Joint Angles Widmaier, F., Kappler, D., Schaal, S., Bohg, J. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2016, IEEE, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2016 (Published) pdf DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Empirical Inference Conference Paper A Lightweight Robotic Arm with Pneumatic Muscles for Robot Learning Büchler, D., Ott, H., Peters, J. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :4086-4092, IEEE, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2016 (Published) ICRA16final DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper A Transfer Learning Approach for Adaptive Classification in P300 Paradigms Jayaram, V., Grosse-Wentrup, M. Sixth International BCI Meeting (BCI), May 2016 (Published) PDF DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper An Improved Cognitive Brain-Computer Interface for Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Hohmann, M. R., Fomina, T., Jayaram, V., Förster, C., Just, J., Synofzik, M., Schölkopf, B., Schöls, L., Grosse-Wentrup, M. Proceedings of the Sixth International BCI Meeting, :44, (Editors: Müller-Putz, G. R. and Huggins, J. E. and Steyrl, D.), BCI, May 2016 (Published) DOI BibTeX