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Dynamic Locomotion

Embodied Vision

Human Aspects of Machine Learning

Intelligent Control Systems

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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 Dynamic Acoustic Levitator Based On Subwavelength Aperture Control Lu, X., Twiefel, J., Ma, Z., Yu, T., Wallaschek, J., Fischer, P. Advanced Science, 8(15):2100888, June 2021 () DOI URL BibTeX

Intelligent Control Systems Conference Paper Probabilistic robust linear quadratic regulators with Gaussian processes von Rohr, A., Neumann-Brosig, M., Trimpe, S. Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Learning for Dynamics and Control, :324-335, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR), Vol. 144, (Editors: Jadbabaie, Ali and Lygeros, John and Pappas, George J. and Parrilo, Pablo A. and Recht, Benjamin and Tomlin, Claire J. and Zeilinger, Melanie N.), PMLR, Brookline, MA 02446 , 3rd Annual Conference on Learning for Dynamics and Control (L4DC), June 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Modern Magnetic Systems Article Light- and magnetically actuated FePt microswimmers Kadiri, V. M., Günther, J., Kottapalli, S. N., Goyal, R., Peter, F., Alarcon-Correa, M., Son, K., Barad, H., Börsch, M., Fischer, P. The European Physical Journal E, 44(6):74, June 2021 () DOI URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Implementation of a Reactive Walking Controller for the New Open-Hardware Quadruped Solo-12 Leziart, P. F. T. G. F. M. N. S. P. Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :5007-5013, IEEE, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), June 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Panoramic imaging assessment of different bladder phantoms – an evaluation study Hackner, R., Suarez-Ibarrola, I., Qiu, T., Lemke, N., Pohlmann, P., Wilhelm, K., Fischer, P., Miernik, A., Wittenberg, T. Urology, 156:e103-e110, June 2021 () DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Approximate Distributionally Robust Nonlinear Optimization with Application to Model Predictive Control: A Functional Approach Nemmour, Y., Schölkopf, B., Zhu, J. Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Learning for Dynamics and Control (L4DC), 144:1255-1269, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Jadbabaie, Ali and Lygeros, John and Pappas, George J. and Parrilo, Pablo A. and Recht, Benjamin and Tomlin, Claire J. and Zeilinger, Melanie N.), PMLR, June 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Automated Morphometric Analysis of the Hip Joint on MRI from the German National Cohort Study Fischer, M., Walter, S. S., Hepp, T., Zimmer, M., Notohamiprodjo, M., Schick, F., Yang, B. Radiology: Artificial Intelligence, 3(5), June 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Ph.D. Thesis Causal Inference in Vision Meding, K. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, June 2021 (Published) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Deep Learning-Based Automated Abdominal Organ Segmentation in the UK Biobank and German National Cohort Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies Kart, T., Fischer, M., Küstner, T., Hepp, T., Bamberg, F., Winzeck, S., Glocker, B., Rueckert, D., Gatidis, S. Investigative Radiology, 56(6):401-408, June 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Conference Paper DeepQ Stepper: A framework for reactive dynamic walking on uneven terrain Meduri, A., Khadiv, M., Righetti, L. The 2021 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021), June 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Discrimination of simple objects decoded from the output of retinal ganglion cells upon sinusoidal electrical stimulation Corna, A., Ramesh, P., Jetter, F., Lee, M., Macke, J. H., Zeck, G. Journal of Neural Engineering, 18(4), June 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Distilling Audio-Visual Knowledge by Compositional Contrastive Learning Chen, Y., Xian, Y., Koepke, A. S., Akata, Z. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), :7016-7025, Computer Vision Foundation / IEEE, CVPR, June 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Autonomous Vision Conference Paper GIRAFFE: Representing Scenes as Compositional Generative Neural Feature Fields Niemeyer, M., Geiger, A. In 2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), :11448-11459 , IEEE, Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2021 (Published) pdf suppmat video Project Page DOI URL BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Conference Paper High-frequency nonlinear model predictive control of a manipulator Kleff, S., Meduri, A., Budhiraja, R., Mansard, N., Righetti, L. In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :7330-7336 , The 2021 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021), June 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Autonomous Learning Article How to Train Your Differentiable Filter Kloss, A., Martius, G., Bohg, J. Autonomous Robots, 45(4):561-578, Springer, June 2021 (Published) arXiv paper DOI URL BibTeX

Rationality Enhancement Talk Improving Human Decision-Making by Discovering Efficient Strategies for Hierarchical Planning Heindrich, L., Consul, S., Stojcheski, J., Lieder, F. Tübingen, Germany, The first edition of Life Improvement Science Conference, June 2021, Accepted (Accepted) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning Decision Trees Recurrently Through Communication Alaniz, S., Marcos, D., Schiele, B., Akata, Z. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), :13518-13527, Computer Vision Foundation / IEEE, CVPR, June 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning Graph Embeddings for Compositional Zero-shot Learning Naeem, M. F., Xian, Y., Tombari, F., Akata, Z. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), :953-962, Computer Vision Foundation / IEEE, CVPR, June 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Conference Paper Learning a Centroidal Motion Planner for Legged Locomotion Viereck, J., Righetti, L. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :4905-4911 , IEEE, The 2021 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021), June 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Rationality Enhancement Conference Paper Leveraging AI to support the self-directed learning of disadvantaged youth in developing countries Teo, J., Pauly, R., Heindrich, L., Amo, V., Lieder, F. The first Life Improvement Science Conference, Tübingen, Germany, The first Life Improvement Science Conference, June 2021, Accepted (Accepted) BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Conference Paper Leveraging Forward Model Prediction Error for Learning Control Bechtle, S., Hammoud, B., Rai, A., Meier, F., Righetti, L. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) , :4445-4451 , IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021), June 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Neural Lyapunov Redesign Mehrjou, A., Ghavamzadeh, M., Schölkopf, B. Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Learning for Dynamics and Control (L4DC), 144:459-470, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Jadbabaie, Ali and Lygeros, John and Pappas, George J. and Parrilo, Pablo A. and Recht, Benjamin and Tomlin, Claire J. and Zeilinger, Melanie N.), PMLR, 3rd Annual Conference on Learning for Dynamics and Control (L4DC) , June 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper On Self-Contact and Human Pose Müller, L., Osman, A. A. A., Tang, S., Huang, C. P., Black, M. J. In 2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), :9985-9994, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), June 2021 (Published) project arXiv poster video code DOI BibTeX

Intelligent Control Systems Conference Paper On exploration requirements for learning safety constraints Massiani, P., Heim, S., Trimpe, S. In Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Learning for Dynamics and Control, :905-916, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR), Vol. 144, (Editors: Jadbabaie, Ali and Lygeros, John and Pappas, George J. and Parrilo, Pablo A. and Recht, Benjamin and Tomlin, Claire J. and Zeilinger, Melanie), PMLR, 3rd Annual Conference on Learning for Dynamics and Control (L4DC), June 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Ph.D. Thesis Optimization Algorithms for Machine Learning Raj, A. University of Tübingen, Germany, June 2021 (Published) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Orthogonal Over-Parameterized Training Liu, W., Lin, R., Liu, Z., Rehg, J., Paull, L., Xiong, L., Song, L., Weller, A. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), :7251-7260, Computer Vision Foundation / IEEE, CVPR, June 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Populating 3D Scenes by Learning Human-Scene Interaction Hassan, M., Ghosh, P., Tesch, J., Tzionas, D., Black, M. J. In 2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), :14703-14713, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), June 2021 (Published) project pdf poster video DOI BibTeX

Rationality Enhancement Poster Promoting metacognitive learning through systematic reflection Frederic Becker, , Lieder, F. The first edition of Life Improvement Science Conference, June 2021 (Published) BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article Red shape, blue shape: Political ideology influences the social perception of body shape Quiros-Ramirez, M. A., Streuber, S., Black, M. J. Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 8:148, June 2021 (Published) pdf on-line sup. mat. sup. figure author pdf DOI BibTeX

Intelligent Control Systems Article Structured learning of rigid-body dynamics: A survey and unified view from a robotics perspective Geist, A. R., Trimpe, S. GAMM-Mitteilungen, 44(2):e202100009, Special Issue: Scientific Machine Learning, 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Rationality Enhancement Article Toward a Formal Theory of Proactivity Lieder, F., Iwama, G. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 42:490-508, Springer, June 2021 (Published) Toward a formal theory of proactivity DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Uncertainty-Based Biological Age Estimation of Brain MRI Scans Armanious, K., Abdulatif, S., Shi, W., Hepp, T., Gatidis, S., Yang, B. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), :1100-1104, IEEE, June 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper We are More than Our Joints: Predicting how 3D Bodies Move Zhang, Y., Black, M. J., Tang, S. In 2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), :3371-3381, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), June 2021 (Published) code arXiv DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper AGORA: Avatars in Geography Optimized for Regression Analysis Patel, P., Huang, C. P., Tesch, J., Hoffmann, D. T., Tripathi, S., Black, M. J. In 2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), :13463-13473, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), June 2021 (Published) dataset pdf video DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper BABEL: Bodies, Action and Behavior with English Labels Punnakkal, A. R., Chandrasekaran, A., Athanasiou, N., Quiros-Ramirez, M. A., Black, M. J. In 2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), :722-731, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021) , June 2021 (Published) dataset poster pdf sup mat video code DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper LEAP: Learning Articulated Occupancy of People Mihajlovic, M., Zhang, Y., Black, M. J., Tang, S. In 2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), :10456-10466, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), June 2021 (Published) project arXiv pdf code DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper SCALE: Modeling Clothed Humans with a Surface Codec of Articulated Local Elements Ma, Q., Saito, S., Yang, J., Tang, S., Black, M. J. In 2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), :16077-16088, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), June 2021 (Published) Project Page Code Video arXiv PDF Supp. Poster DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper SCANimate: Weakly Supervised Learning of Skinned Clothed Avatar Networks Saito, S., Yang, J., Ma, Q., Black, M. J. In 2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), :2885-2896, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), June 2021 (Published) Project Page PDF Supp. Video arXiv Poster code DOI URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Soft urinary bladder phantom for endoscopic training Choi, E., Waldbillig, F., Jeong, M., Li, D., Goyal, R., Weber, P., Miernik, A., Grüne, B., Hein, S., Suarez-Ibarrola, R., et al. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 49(9):2412-2420, May 2021 () DOI URL BibTeX

Robotic Materials Conference Paper Soft Electrohydraulic Actuators for Origami Inspired Shape-Changing Interfaces Purnendu, , Acome, E., Keplinger, C., Gross, M. D., Bruns, C., Leithinger, D. In CHI EA ’21: Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, :377, ACM, New York, NY, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2021), May 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper Ungrounded Vari-Dimensional Tactile Fingertip Feedback for Virtual Object Interaction Young, E. M., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In CHI ’21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, :217, ACM, New York, NY, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2021), May 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper CausalWorld: A Robotic Manipulation Benchmark for Causal Structure and Transfer Learning Ahmed*, O., Träuble*, F., Goyal, A., Neitz, A., Bengio, Y., Schölkopf, B., Wüthrich, M., Bauer, S. In 9th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2021), :20, ICLR, Wien, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2021, *equal contribution (Published) URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Optimizing a Viscoelastic Finite Element Model to Represent the Dry, Natural, and Moist Human Finger Pressing on Glass Nam, S., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 14(2):303-309, IEEE, May 2021, Presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC) (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper A teacher-student framework to distill future trajectories Neitz*, A., Parascandolo*, G., Schölkopf, B. In 9th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2021, *equal contribution (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Fast And Slow Learning Of Recurrent Independent Mechanisms Madan, K., Ke, N. R., Goyal, A., Schölkopf, B., Bengio, Y. In 9th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning explanations that are hard to vary Parascandolo*, G., Neitz*, A., Orvieto, A., Gresele, L., Schölkopf, B. In 9th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2021, *equal contribution (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Predicting Infectiousness for Proactive Contact Tracing Bengio, Y., Gupta, P., Maharaj, T., Rahaman, N., Weiss, M., Deleu, T., Muller, E. B., Qu, M., Schmidt, V., St-Charles, P., et al. In The Ninth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2021), 9th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Rao-Blackwellizing the Straight-Through Gumbel-Softmax Gradient Estimator Paulus, M. B., Maddison, C. J., Krause, A. In The Ninth International Conference on Learning Representations , 9th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2021), May 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX