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Modern Magnetic Systems

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Autonomous Learning

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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Empirical Inference Conference Paper Natural Evolution Strategies Wierstra, D., Schaul, T., Peters, J., Schmidhuber, J. In Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2008), CEC 2008, :3381-3387, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, June 2008 () PDF Web DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Non-monotonic Poisson Likelihood Maximization Sra, S., Kim, D., Schölkopf, B. (170), Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, June 2008 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Poster Pairwise Correlations and Multineuronal Firing Patterns in the Primary Visual Cortex of the Awake, Behaving Macaque Berens, P., Ecker, A., Subramaniyan, M., Macke, J., Hauck, P., Bethge, M., Tolias, A. AREADNE 2008: Research in Encoding and Decoding of Neural Ensembles, 2:48, June 2008 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Partitioning of Image Datasets using Discriminative Context Information Lampert, C. In Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2008), CVPR 2008, :1-8, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 2008 () PDF Web DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Talk Thin-Plate Splines Between Riemannian Manifolds Steinke, F., Hein, M., Schölkopf, B. Workshop on Geometry and Statistics of Shapes, June 2008 () Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Unsupervised Bayesian Time-series Segmentation based on Linear Gaussian State-space Models Chiappa, S. (171), Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, June 2008 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Poster Visual saliency re-visited: Center-surround patterns emerge as optimal predictors for human fixation targets Wichmann, F., Kienzle, W., Schölkopf, B., Franz, M. Journal of Vision, 8(6):635, 8th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS 2008), June 2008 () Web DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Information Consistency of Nonparametric Gaussian Process Methods Seeger, M., Kakade, S., Foster, D. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 54(5):2376-2382, May 2008 () Web DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Talk Learning resolved velocity control Peters, J. 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2008), May 2008 () Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Book Chapter New Frontiers in Characterizing Structure and Dynamics by NMR Nilges, M., Markwick, P., Malliavin, T., Rieping, W., Habeck, M. In Computational Structural Biology: Methods and Applications, :655-680, (Editors: Schwede, T. , M. C. Peitsch), World Scientific, New Jersey, NJ, USA, May 2008 () Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Real-time Learning of Resolved Velocity Control on a Mitsubishi PA-10 Peters, J., Nguyen-Tuong, D. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation: ICRA 2008, ICRA 2008, :2872-2877, IEEE Service Center, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2008 () PDF Web DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Reinforcement Learning of Motor Skills with Policy Gradients Peters, J., Schaal, S. Neural Networks, 21(4):682-697, May 2008 () PDF Web DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Ph.D. Thesis Causal inference from statistical data Sun, X. Biologische Kybernetik, Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, April 2008 () Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Thesis Pairwise Correlations and Multineuronal Firing Patterns in Primary Visual Cortex Berens, P. Biologische Kybernetik, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, April 2008 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report A Kernel Method for the Two-sample Problem Gretton, A., Borgwardt, K., Rasch, M., Schölkopf, B., Smola, A. (157), Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics Tübingen, April 2008 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Bayesian Inference and Optimal Design for the Sparse Linear Model Seeger, M. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 9:759-813, April 2008 () PDF PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Talk Bayesian methods for protein structure determination Habeck, M. Machine Learning in Structural Bioinformatics, April 2008 () Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Consistency of Spectral Clustering von Luxburg, U., Belkin, M., Bousquet, O. Annals of Statistics, 36(2):555-586, April 2008 () PDF DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Generalization and Similarity in Exemplar Models of Categorization: Insights from Machine Learning Jäkel, F., Schölkopf, B., Wichmann, F. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 15(2):256-271, April 2008 () PDF Web DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Graph Mining with Variational Dirichlet Process Mixture Models Tsuda, K., Kurihara, K. In Proceedings of the 8th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, SDM 2008, :432-442, (Editors: Zaki, M. J.), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 8th 2008 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, April 2008 () PDF Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning Inverse Dynamics: A Comparison Nguyen-Tuong, D., Peters, J., Seeger, M., Schölkopf, B. In Advances in Computational Intelligence and Learning: Proceedings of the European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN 2008), Advances in Computational Intelligence and Learning: Proceedings of the European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, :13-18, (Editors: M Verleysen), d-side, Evere, Belgium, 16th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN 2008), April 2008 () PDF Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Manifold-valued Thin-plate Splines with Applications in Computer Graphics Steinke, F., Hein, M., Peters, J., Schölkopf, B. Computer Graphics Forum, 27(2):437-448, April 2008 () PDF AVI Web DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Model-Based Reinforcement Learning with Continuous States and Actions Deisenroth, M., Rasmussen, C., Peters, J. In Advances in Computational Intelligence and Learning: Proceedings of the European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN 2008), ESANN 2008, :19-24, (Editors: Verleysen, M. ), d-side, Evere, Belgium, European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, April 2008 () PDF Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Relating the Thermodynamic Arrow of Time to the Causal Arrow Allahverdyan, A., Janzing, D. Journal of Statistical Mechanics, 2008(P04001):1-21, April 2008 () Web DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article The Metric Nearness Problem Brickell, J., Dhillon, I., Sra, S., Tropp, J. SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, 30(1):375-396, April 2008 () Web DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Causal Reasoning by Evaluating the Complexity of Conditional Densities with Kernel Methods Sun, X., Janzing, D., Schölkopf, B. Neurocomputing, 71(7-9):1248-1256, March 2008 () Web DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Inferring Spike Trains From Local Field Potentials Rasch, M., Gretton, A., Murayama, Y., Maass, W., Logothetis, N. Journal of Neurophysiology, 99(3):1461-1476, March 2008 () Web DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Natural Actor-Critic Peters, J., Schaal, S. Neurocomputing, 71(7-9):1180-1190, March 2008 () PDF PDF DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Plant Classification from Bat-Like Echolocation Signals Yovel, Y., Franz, M., Stilz, P., Schnitzler, H. PLoS Computational Biology, 4(3, e1000032):1-13, March 2008 () Web DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Poster The role of stimulus correlations for population decoding in the retina Schwartz, G., Macke, J., Berry, M. Computational and Systems Neuroscience 2008 (COSYNE 2008), 5:172, March 2008 () PDF Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article A Unifying Probabilistic Framework for Analyzing Residual Dipolar Couplings Habeck, M., Nilges, M., Rieping, W. Journal of Biomolecular NMR, 40(2):135-144, February 2008 () PDF DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Fast Projection-based Methods for the Least Squares Nonnegative Matrix Approximation Problem Kim, D., Sra, S., Dhillon, I. Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, 1(1):38-51, February 2008 () Web DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article ISD: A Software Package for Bayesian NMR Structure Calculation Rieping, W., Nilges, M., Habeck, M. Bioinformatics, 24(8):1104-1105, February 2008 () Web DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Probabilistic Structure Calculation Nilges, M., Habeck, M., Rieping, W. Comptes Rendus Chimie, 11(4-5):356-369, February 2008 () Web DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Thesis Development and Application of a Python Scripting Framework for BCI2000 Schreiner, T. Biologische Kybernetik, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, January 2008 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Ph.D. Thesis Efficient and Invariant Regularisation with Application to Computer Graphics Walder, C. Biologische Kybernetik, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, January 2008 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article A Quantum-Statistical-Mechanical Extension of Gaussian Mixture Model Tanaka, K., Tsuda, K. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 95(012023):1-9, January 2008 () PDF PDF DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Contour-propagation Algorithms for Semi-automated Reconstruction of Neural Processes Macke, J., Maack, N., Gupta, R., Denk, W., Schölkopf, B., Borst, A. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 167(2):349-357, January 2008 () PDF Web DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Energy Functionals for Manifold-valued Mappings and Their Properties Hein, M., Steinke, F., Schölkopf, B. (167), Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, January 2008 () PDF BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper A Bayesian approach to empirical local linearizations for robotics Ting, J., D’Souza, A., Vijayakumar, S., Schaal, S. In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2008), Pasadena, CA, USA, May 19-23, 2008, 2008, clmc () URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Book Chapter A Robot System for Biomimetic Navigation: From Snapshots to Metric Embeddings of View Graphs Franz, M., Stürzl, W., Reichardt, W., Mallot, H. In Robotics and Cognitive Approaches to Spatial Mapping, :297-314, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics ; 38, (Editors: Jefferies, M.E. , W.-K. Yeap), Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2008 () PDF PDF DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper A Versatile Stair-Climbing Robot for Search and Rescue Applications Eich, M., Grimminger, F., Kirchner, F. In 2008 IEEE International Workshop on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics, :35-40, October 2008 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article A legged anchoring mechanism for capsule endoscopes using micropatterned adhesives Glass, P., Cheung, E., Sitti, M. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 55(12):2759-2767, IEEE, 2008 () BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Article A library for locally weighted projection regression Klanke, S., Vijayakumar, S., Schaal, S. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 9:623-626, 2008, clmc () URL BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Conference Paper A modular bio-inspired architecture for movement generation for the infant-like robot iCub Degallier, S., Righetti, L., Natale, L., Nori, F., Metta, G., Ijspeert, A. In 2008 2nd IEEE RAS & EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, :795-800, IEEE, Scottsdale, USA, October 2008 () DOI URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Conference Paper A motorized anchoring mechanism for a tethered capsule robot using fibrillar adhesives for interventions in the esophagus Glass, P., Cheung, E., Wang, H., Appasamy, R., Sitti, M. In Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, 2008. BioRob 2008. 2nd IEEE RAS & EMBS International Conference on, :758-764, 2008 () BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Conference Paper A Dynamical System for Online Learning of Periodic Movements of Unknown Waveform and Frequency Gams, A., Righetti, L., Ijspeert, A., Lenarčič, J. In 2008 2nd IEEE RAS & EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, :85-90, IEEE, Scottsdale, USA, October 2008 () DOI URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Article Adaptation to a sub-optimal desired trajectory M. Mistry, E. A. G. L. T. Y. S. S. M. K. Advances in Computational Motor Control VII, Symposium at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Washington DC, 2008, 2008, clmc () PDF BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Book Chapter Adaptive stair-climbing behaviour with a hybrid legged-wheeled robot Eich, M., Grimminger, F., Kirchner, F. In Advances In Mobile Robotics, :768-775, World Scientific, August 2008 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Adhesion of biologically inspired oil-coated polymer micropillars Cheung, E., Sitti, M. Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, 22(5-6):569-589, Taylor & Francis Group, 2008 () BibTeX