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Perceiving Systems

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Robotic Materials

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Bioinspired Autonomous Miniature Robots

Dynamic Locomotion

Embodied Vision

Human Aspects of Machine Learning

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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 Optical Activity in Third‐Harmonic Rayleigh Scattering: A New Route for Measuring Chirality Ohnoutek, L., Jeong, H., Jones, R., Sachs, J., Olohan, B., Rasadean, D., Pantos, G., Andrews, D., Fischer, P., Valev, V. Laser & Photonics Reviews, 15(11):2100235, September 2021 () DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Ph.D. Thesis A Large Scale Brain-Computer Interface for Patients with Neurological Diseases Hohmann, M. University of Tübingen, Germany, September 2021 (Published) BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Active Visual SLAM with Independently Rotating Camera Bonetto, E., Goldschmid, P., Black, M. J., Ahmad, A. In 2021 European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR 2021), :266-273, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR 2021), 2021 (Published) Code Data DOI URL BibTeX

Physics for Inference and Optimization Conference Paper Convergence properties of optimal transport-based temporal networks Baptista Theuerkauf, D., De Bacco, C. Complex Networks & Their Applications X , 1, Studies in Computational Intelligence , 10th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications (COMPLEX NETWORKS 2021) , September 2021 (Published) Preprint DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Ph.D. Thesis Deep Learning Beyond The Training Distribution Parascandolo, G. ETH Zürich, Switzerland, Zürich, September 2021, (CLS Fellowship Program) (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Deep learning enables fast and dense single-molecule localization with high accuracy Speiser*, A., Müller*, L., Hoess, P., Matti, U., Obara, C. J., Legant, W. R., Kreshuk, A., Macke, J. H., Ries, J., Turaga, S. C. Nature Methods, 18:1082-1090, Nature Publishing Group, New York, NY, September 2021, *equal contribution (Published) bioRxiv DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Detection of diabetes from whole-body MRI using deep learning Dietz*, B., Machann*, J., Agrawal, V., Heni, M., Schwab, P., Dienes, J., Reichert, S., Birkenfeld, A. L., Häring, H., Schick, F., et al. JCI Insight, 6(21), September 2021, *equal contribution (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Estimation of Spontaneous Transient Dynamics based on Peri-event Data Shao, K., Logothetis, N. K., Besserve, M. Bernstein Conference 2021, September 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Generalized phase locking analysis: a multivariate technique for investigating spike-field coupling Safavi, S., Panagiotaropoulos, T. I., Kapoor, V., Ramirez-Villegas, J. F., Logothetis, N. K., Besserve, M. Bernstein Conference 2021, September 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Overcoming Barriers to Data Sharing with Medical Image Generation: A Comprehensive Evaluation DuMont Schütte, A., Hetzel, J., Gatidis, S., Hepp, T., Dietz, B., Bauer, S., Schwab, P. npj Digital Medicine, 4, September 2021 (Published) arXiv DOI URL BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Conference Paper Rapid Convex Optimization of Centroidal Dynamics using Block Coordinate Descent Shah, P., Meduri, A., Merkt, W., Khadiv, M., Havoutis, I., Righetti, L. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2021) , IEEE, 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2021) in Prague, Czech Republic., September 2021, Accepted (Accepted) URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper Sensorimotor-Inspired Tactile Feedback and Control Improve Consistency of Prosthesis Manipulation in the Absence of Direct Vision Thomas, N., Fazlollahi, F., Brown, J. D., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), :6174-6181, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article Separated and overlapping neural coding of face and body identity Foster, C., Zhao, M., Bolkart, T., Black, M. J., Bartels, A., Bülthoff, I. Human Brain Mapping, 42(13):4242-4260, September 2021 (Published) on-line DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Patent Skinned multi-infant linear body model Hesse, N., Pujades, S., Romero, J., Black, M. (US Patent 11,127,163, 2021), September 2021 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Teaching Safe Social Touch Interactions Using a Robot Koala Burns, R. B. Workshop paper (1 page) presented at the IROS Workshop on Proximity Perception in Robotics: Increasing Safety for Human-Robot Interaction Using Tactile and Proximity Perception, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Uncertainty estimation and explainability in deep learning-based age estimation of the human brain: Results from the German National Cohort MRI study Hepp, T., Blum, D., Armanious, K., Schölkopf, B., Stern, D., Yang, B., Gatidis, S. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 92, New York, NY, September 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Uncertainty-Guided Progressive GANs for Medical Image Translation Upadhyay, U., Chen, Y., Hepp, T., Gatidis, S., Akata, Z. International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 12903:614-624, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (Editors: Marleen de Bruijne etal.), Springer, International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), September 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Ph.D. Thesis HuggieBot: An Interactive Hugging Robot With Visual and Haptic Perception Block, A. E. ETH Zürich, Zürich, August 2021, Department of Computer Science () DOI BibTeX

Robotic Materials Book Chapter Electriflow: Augmenting Books With Tangible Animation Using Soft Electrohydraulic Actuators Purnendu, , Novack, S., Acome, E., Alistar, M., Keplinger, C., Gross, M. D., Bruns, C., Leithinger, D. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2021 Labs, :1-2, Association for Computing Machinery, SIGGRAPH, August 2021 (Published) Supplemental Material DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article The role of sexual orientation in the relationships between body perception, body weight dissatisfaction, physical comparison, and eating psychopathology in the cisgender population Meneguzzo, P., Collantoni, E., Bonello, E., Vergine, M., Behrens, S. C., Tenconi, E., Favaro, A. Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity , 26(6):1985-2000, Springer, August 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Boosting Variational Inference With Locally Adaptive Step-Sizes Dresdner, G., Shekhar, S., Pedregosa, F., Locatello, F., Rätsch, G. Proceedings of the 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), :2337-2343, (Editors: Zhi-Hua Zhou), August 2021 (Published) arXiv DOI BibTeX

Conference Paper Efficient Sampling of Transition Constraints for Motion Planning under Sliding Contacts Khoury, M., Orthey, A., Toussaint, M. In 2021 IEEE 17th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2021), :154-1553, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, IEEE 17th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2021), August 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper How Good Is NLP? A Sober Look at NLP Tasks through the Lens of Social Impact Jin, Z., Chauhan, G., Tse, B., Sachan, M., Mihalcea, R. 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP), :3099-3113, Findings of ACL, (Editors: Chengqing Zong and Fei Xia and Wenjie Li and Roberto Navigli), Association for Computational Linguistics, August 2021, also accepted at 1st Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact@ACL-IJCNLP (Published) PDF DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article Learning an Animatable Detailed 3D Face Model from In-the-Wild Images Feng, Y., Feng, H., Black, M. J., Bolkart, T. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 40(4):88:1-88:13, August 2021 (Published) pdf Sup Mat code video talk DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Miscellaneous Method for producing a structure with spatial encoded functionality Sitti, M., Ceylan, H., Yasa, I. C. August 2021, US Patent 11,084,718, 2021 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Proceedings Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact Field, A., Prabhumoye, S., Sap, M., Jin, Z., Zhao, J., Brockett, C. Association for Computational Linguistics, August 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Rationality Enhancement Article Resource-Rational Models of Human Goal Pursuit Prystawski, B., Mohnert, F., Tošić, M., Lieder, F. Topics in Cognitive Science, 14(3):528-549 , Online, Wiley Online Library, August 2021 (Published) Resource-rational models of human goal pursuit DOI URL BibTeX

Robotic Materials Conference Paper Electriflow: Augmenting Books With Tangible Animation Using Soft Electrohydraulic Actuators Purnendu, , Novack, S., Acome, E., Alistar, M., Keplinger, C., Gross, M. D., Bruns, C., Leithinger, D. In SIGGRAPH ’21: ACM SIGGRAPH 2021 Labs, :8, ACM, New York, NY, Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference (SIGGRAPH 2021), July 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Conference Paper CombOptNet: Fit the Right NP-Hard Problem by Learning Integer Programming Constraints Paulus, A., Rolínek, M., Musil, V., Amos, B., Martius, G. In Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Machine Learning, 139:8443-8453, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Meila, Marina and Zhang, Tong), PMLR, The Thirty-eighth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), July 2021 () Arxiv Code Pdf Spotlight video @ ICML 2021 Poster @ ICML 2021 URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Ph.D. Thesis Chemically active micromotors Yu, T. University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, July 2021 () DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Combinatorial growth of multinary nanostructured thin functional films Barad, H., Alarcon-Correa, M., Salinas, G., Oren, E., Peter, F., Kuhn, A., Fischer, P. Materials Today, 50:89-99, July 2021 () DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper A Gradient Based Strategy for Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Hyperparameter Optimization Campbell*, A., Chen*, W., Stimper*, V., Hernández-Lobato, J. M., Y., Z. Proceedings of 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 139:1238-1248, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Meila, Marina and Zhang, Tong), PMLR, July 2021, *equal contribution (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Age-Net: An MRI-Based Iterative Framework for Brain Biological Age Estimation Armanious, K., Abdulatif, S., Shi, W., Salian, S., Kustner, T., Weiskopf, D., Hepp, T., Gatidis, S., Yang, B. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 40(7):1778-1791, IEEE, July 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Algorithmic recourse in partially and fully confounded settings through bounding counterfactual effects von Kügelgen, J., Agarwal, N., Zeitler, J., Mastouri, A., Schölkopf, B. ICML 2021 Workshop on Algorithmic Recourse, July 2021 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper An Empirical Analysis of Measure-Valued Derivatives for Policy Gradients Carvalho, J., Tateo, D., Muratore, F., Peters, J. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), :1-10, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, July 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Bayesian Deep Learning via Subnetwork Inference Daxberger, E., Nalisnick, E., Allingham, J., Antorán, J., Hernández-Lobato, J. M. In Proceedings of 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 139:2510-2521, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Meila, Marina and Zhang, Tong), PMLR, 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2021), July 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Bayesian Quadrature on Riemannian Data Manifolds Fröhlich, C., Gessner, A., Hennig, P., Schölkopf, B., Arvanitidis, G. Proceedings of 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 139:3459-3468, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Meila, Marina and Zhang, Tong), PMLR, July 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Causal Curiosity: RL Agents Discovering Self-supervised Experiments for Causal Representation Learning Sontakke, S., Mehrjou, A., Itti, L., Schölkopf, B. Proceedings of 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 139:9848-9858, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Meila, Marina and Zhang, Tong), PMLR, July 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Composable Energy Policies for Reactive Motion Generation and Reinforcement Learning Urain, J., Anqi, L., Puze, L., D’eramo, C., Peters, J. Robotics: Science and Systems XVII (R:SS 2021), (Editors: Dylan A. Shell and Marc Toussaint and M. Ani Hsieh), July 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Conditional Distributional Treatment Effect with Kernel Conditional Mean Embeddings and U-Statistic Regression Park, J., Shalit, U., Schölkopf, B., Muandet, K. Proceedings of 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 139:8401-8412, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Meila, Marina and Zhang, Tong), PMLR, July 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Convex Regularization in Monte-Carlo Tree Search Dam, T., D’Eramo, C., Peters, J., J., P. Proceedings of 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 139:2365-2375, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Meila, Marina and Zhang, Tong), PMLR, July 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Conference Paper Demystifying Inductive Biases for (Beta-)VAE Based Architectures Zietlow, D., Rolinek, M., Martius, G. In Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 139:12945-12954, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research , The 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2021), July 2021 (Published) Arxiv PDF Paper @ ICML 2021 (spotlight video) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Descending through a Crowded Valley - Benchmarking Deep Learning Optimizers Schmidt, R. M., Schneider, F., Hennig, P. Proceedings of 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 139:9367-9376, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Meila, Marina and Zhang, Tong), PMLR, July 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Rationality Enhancement Conference Paper Encouraging far-sightedness with automatically generated descriptions of optimal planning strategies: Potentials and Limitations Becker, F., Skirzynski, J. M., van Opheusden, B., Lieder, F. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Online, Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, July 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Function Contrastive Learning of Transferable Meta-Representations Gondal, M. W., Joshi, S., Rahaman, N., Bauer, S., Wüthrich, M., Schölkopf, B. Proceedings of 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 139:3755-3765, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Meila, Marina and Zhang, Tong), PMLR, July 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper High-Dimensional Gaussian Process Inference with Derivatives de Ross, F., Gessner, A., Hennig, P. Proceedings of 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 139:2535-2545, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Meila, Marina and Zhang, Tong), PMLR, The 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2021), July 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous How Do Expert Hapticians Evaluate Grounded Force-Feedback Devices? Fazlollahi, F., Seifi, H., MacLean, K., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Work-in-progress paper (1 page) presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), July 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Article Impedance Optimization for Uncertain Contact Interactions Through Risk Sensitive Optimal Control Hammoud, B., Khadiv, M., Righetti, L. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Robotics and Automation Letters, 6(3):4766-4773, IEEE, July 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Kernel Two-Sample and Independence Tests for Non-Stationary Random Processes Laumann, F., von Kügelgen, J., Barahona, M. 7th International Conference on Time Series and Forecasting (ITISE 2021), July 2021 (Published) arXiv BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learnable Uncertainty under Laplace Approximations Kristiadi, A., Hein, M., Hennig, P. 37th International Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 161:344-353, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Cassio P. de Campos and Marloes H. Maathuis and Erik Quaeghebeur), AUAI Press, July 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX