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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 Autonomous Motion Conference Paper A Comparison of Contact Distribution Representations for Learning to Predict Object Interactions Leischnig, S., Luettgen, S., Kroemer, O., Peters, J. In 15th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, :616-622, Humanoids, November 2015 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Diversity of sharp wave-ripple LFP signatures reveals differentiated brain-wide dynamical events Ramirez-Villegas, J. F., Logothetis, N. K., Besserve, M. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A, 112(46):E6379-E6387, November 2015 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Evaluation of Interactive Object Recognition with Tactile Sensing Hoelscher, J., Peters, J., Hermans, T. In 15th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, :310-317, Humanoids, November 2015 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Motion Conference Paper First-Person Tele-Operation of a Humanoid Robot Fritsche, L., Unverzagt, F., Peters, J., Calandra, R. In 15th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, :997-1002, Humanoids, November 2015 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Learning Torque Control in Presence of Contacts using Tactile Sensing from Robot Skin Calandra, R., Ivaldi, S., Deisenroth, M., Peters, J. In 15th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, :690-695, Humanoids, November 2015 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Optimizing Robot Striking Movement Primitives with Iterative Learning Control Koc, O., Maeda, G., Neumann, G., Peters, J. In 15th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, :80-87, Humanoids, November 2015 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Probabilistic Segmentation Applied to an Assembly Task Lioutikov, R., Neumann, G., Maeda, G., Peters, J. In 15th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, :533-540, Humanoids, November 2015 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Quantifying changes in climate variability and extremes: Pitfalls and their overcoming Sippel, S., Zscheischler, J., Heimann, M., Otto, F. E. L., Peters, J., Mahecha, M. D. Geophysical Research Letters, 42(22):9990-9998, November 2015 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Ph.D. Thesis Causal Discovery Beyond Conditional Independences Sgouritsa, E. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, October 2015 (Published) URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Empirical Inference Probabilistic Numerics Intelligent Control Systems Conference Paper Automatic LQR Tuning Based on Gaussian Process Optimization: Early Experimental Results Marco, A., Hennig, P., Bohg, J., Schaal, S., Trimpe, S. Machine Learning in Planning and Control of Robot Motion Workshop at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (iROS), Machine Learning in Planning and Control of Robot Motion Workshop, October 2015 (Published) PDF DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Poster Diversity of sharp wave-ripples in the CA1 of the macaque hippocampus and their brain wide signatures Ramirez-Villegas, J. F., Logothetis, N. K., Besserve, M. 45th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Neuroscience 2015), October 2015 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Noise masking of White’s illusion exposes the weakness of current spatial filtering models of lightness perception Betz, T., Shapley, R. M., Wichmann, F. A., Maertens, M. Journal of Vision, 15(14):1-17, October 2015 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Permutational Rademacher Complexity: a New Complexity Measure for Transductive Learning Tolstikhin, I., Zhivotovskiy, N., Blanchard, G. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, 9355:209-223, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (Editors: K. Chaudhuri, C. Gentile and S. Zilles), Springer, ALT, October 2015 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Talk Causal Inference for Empirical Time Series Based on the Postulate of Independence of Cause and Mechanism Besserve, M. 53rd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, September 2015 (Published) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Ph.D. Thesis From Points to Probability Measures: A Statistical Learning on Distributions with Kernel Mean Embedding Muandet, K. University of Tübingen, Germany, University of Tübingen, Germany, September 2015 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Ph.D. Thesis Machine Learning Approaches to Image Deconvolution Schuler, C. University of Tübingen, Germany, University of Tübingen, Germany, September 2015 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Combined Pose-Wrench and State Machine Representation for Modeling Robotic Assembly Skills Wahrburg, A., Zeiss, S., Matthias, B., Peters, J., Ding, H. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, :852-857, IROS, September 2015 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Learning Motor Skills from Partially Observed Movements Executed at Different Speeds Ewerton, M., Maeda, G., Peters, J., Neumann, G. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, :456-463, IROS, September 2015 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Model-Free Probabilistic Movement Primitives for Physical Interaction Paraschos, A., Rueckert, E., Peters, J., Neumann, G. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, :2860-2866, IROS, September 2015 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Probabilistic Progress Prediction and Sequencing of Concurrent Movement Primitives Manschitz, S., Kober, J., Gienger, M., Peters, J. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, :449-455, IROS, September 2015 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Reinforcement Learning vs Human Programming in Tetherball Robot Games Parisi, S., Abdulsamad, H., Paraschos, A., Daniel, C., Peters, J. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, :6428-6434, IROS, September 2015 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Semi-Supervised Interpolation in an Anticausal Learning Scenario Janzing, D., Schölkopf, B. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 16:1923-1948, September 2015 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Shifts of Gamma Phase across Primary Visual Cortical Sites Reflect Dynamic Stimulus-Modulated Information Transfer Besserve, M., Lowe, S. C., Logothetis, N. K., Schölkopf, B., Panzeri, S. PLOS Biology, 13(9):e1002257, September 2015 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Stabilizing Novel Objects by Learning to Predict Tactile Slip Veiga, F., van Hoof, H., Peters, J., Hermans, T. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, :5065-5072, IROS, September 2015 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Is Breathing Rate a Confounding Variable in Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) Based on EEG Spectral Power? Ibarra Chaoul, A., Grosse-Wentrup, M. Proceedings of the 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, :1079-1082, EMBC, August 2015 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Testing the role of luminance edges in White’s illusion with contour adaptation Betz, T., Shapley, R. M., Wichmann, F. A., Maertens, M. Journal of Vision, 15(11):1-16, August 2015 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Retrospective motion correction of magnitude-input MR images Loktyushin, A., Schuler, C., Scheffler, K., Schölkopf, B. First International Workshop on Machine Learning Meets Medical Imaging (MLMMI 2015), held in conjunction with ICML 2015, 9487:3-12, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (Editors: K. K. Bhatia and H. Lombaert), Springer, July 2015 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Poster Improving Quantitative Susceptibility and R2* Mapping by Applying Retrospective Motion Correction Feng, X., Loktyushin, A., Deistung, A., Reichenbach, J. R. 23rd Annual Meeting and Exhibition of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, ISMRM, June 2015 (Published) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Book Chapter Kernel methods in medical imaging Charpiat, G., Hofmann, M., Schölkopf, B. In Handbook of Biomedical Imaging, :63-81, 4, (Editors: Paragios, N., Duncan, J. and Ayache, N.), Springer, Berlin, Germany, June 2015 (Published) Web URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Poster Retrospective rigid motion correction of undersampled MRI data Loktyushin, A., Babayeva, M., Gallichan, D., Krueger, G., Scheffler, K., Kober, T. 23rd Annual Meeting and Exhibition of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, ISMRM, June 2015 (Published) BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Empirical Inference Conference Paper Permutohedral Lattice CNNs Kiefel, M., Jampani, V., Gehler, P. V. In ICLR Workshop Track, ICLR, May 2015 (Published) pdf URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Ph.D. Thesis Blind Retrospective Motion Correction of MR Images Loktyushin, A. University of Tübingen, Germany, May 2015 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Talk Independence of cause and mechanism in brain networks Besserve, M. DALI workshop on Networks: Processes and Causality, April 2015 (Published) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Blind multirigid retrospective motion correction of MR images Loktyushin, A., Nickisch, H., Pohmann, R., Schölkopf, B. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 73(4):1457-1468, April 2015 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article A quantum advantage for inferring causal structure Ried, K., Agnew, M., Vermeyden, L., Janzing, D., Spekkens, R. W., Resch, K. J. Nature Physics, 11(5):414-420, March 2015 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Positive definite matrices and the S-divergence Sra, S. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 2015, Published electronically: October 22, 2015 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Adaptive information-theoretic bounded rational decision-making with parametric priors Grau-Moya, J., Braun, D. :1-4, NIPS 2015 Workshop on Bounded Optimality and Rational Metareasoning, December 2015 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper A Cognitive Brain-Computer Interface for Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Hohmann, M. R., Fomina, T., Jayaram, V., Widmann, N., Förster, C., Müller vom Hagen, J., Synofzik, M., Schölkopf, B., Schöls, L., Grosse-Wentrup, M. In Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, :3187-3191, SMC, 2015 (Published) PDF DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Master Thesis A Cognitive Brain-Computer Interface for Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Hohmann, M. Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Germany, 2015 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Motion Conference Paper A Probabilistic Framework for Semi-Autonomous Robots Based on Interaction Primitives with Phase Estimation Maeda, G., Neumann, G., Ewerton, M., Lioutikov, R., Peters, J. In Proceedings of the International Symposium of Robotics Research, ISRR, 2015 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Probabilistic Numerics Conference Paper A Random Riemannian Metric for Probabilistic Shortest-Path Tractography Hauberg, S., Schober, M., Liptrot, M., Hennig, P., Feragen, A. In 18th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, 9349:597-604, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, MICCAI, 2015 (Published) PDF DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article A Reward-Maximizing Spiking Neuron as a Bounded Rational Decision Maker Leibfried, F., Braun, D. Neural Computation, 27(8):1686-1720, July 2015 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article A systematic search for transiting planets in the K2 data Foreman-Mackey, D., Montet, B., Hogg, D., Morton, T., Wang, D., Schölkopf, B. The Astrophysical Journal, 806(2), 2015 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Active Nearest Neighbors in Changing Environments Berlind, C., Urner, R. In Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Machine Learning, 37:1870-1879, JMLR Workshop and Conference Proceedings, (Editors: Bach, F. and Blei, D. ), JMLR, ICML, 2015 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Motion Article Active Reward Learning with a Novel Acquisition Function Daniel, C., Kroemer, O., Viering, M., Metz, J., Peters, J. Autonomous Robots, 39(3):389-405, 2015 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Artificial intelligence: Learning to see and act Schölkopf, B. Nature, News & Views, 518(7540):486-487, 2015 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Assessment of murine brain tissue shrinkage caused by different histological fixatives using magnetic resonance and computed tomography imaging Wehrl, H. F., Bezrukov, I., Wiehr, S., Lehnhoff, M., Fuchs, K., Mannheim, J. G., Quintanilla-Martinez, L., Kneilling, M., Pichler, B. J., Sauter, A. W. Histology and Histopathology, 30(5):601-613, 2015 (Published) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper BACKSHIFT: Learning causal cyclic graphs from unknown shift interventions Rothenhäusler, D., Heinze, C., Peters, J., Meinshausen, N. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 28, :1513-1521, (Editors: C. Cortes, N.D. Lawrence, D.D. Lee, M. Sugiyama and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 29th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2015), 2015 () URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Motion Article Bayesian Optimization for Learning Gaits under Uncertainty Calandra, R., Seyfarth, A., Peters, J., Deisenroth, M. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, :1-19, 2015 () DOI BibTeX