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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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Intelligent Control Systems Conference Paper Learning Constrained Dynamics with Gauss Principle adhering Gaussian Processes Geist, A. R., Trimpe, S. In Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Learning for Dynamics and Control, 120:225-234, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR), (Editors: Bayen, Alexandre M. and Jadbabaie, Ali and Pappas, George and Parrilo, Pablo A. and Recht, Benjamin and Tomlin, Claire and Zeilinger, Melanie), PMLR, 2nd Annual Conference on Learning for Dynamics and Control (L4DC), June 2020 (Published) Proceedings of Machine Learning Research URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Learning Physics-guided Face Relighting under Directional Light Nestmeyer, T., Lalonde, J., Matthews, I., Lehrmann, A. M. In 2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2020), :5123-5132, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2020), June 2020 (Published) Paper DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article Learning and Tracking the 3D Body Shape of Freely Moving Infants from RGB-D sequences Hesse, N., Pujades, S., Black, M., Arens, M., Hofmann, U., Schroeder, S. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 42(10):2540-2551, 2020 () pdf Journal DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Learning to Dress 3D People in Generative Clothing Ma, Q., Yang, J., Ranjan, A., Pujades, S., Pons-Moll, G., Tang, S., Black, M. J. In 2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2020), :6468-6477, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2020), June 2020 (Published) Project page Code Long video Short Video arXiv DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Patent Machine learning systems and methods of estimating body shape from images Black, M., Rachlin, E., Heron, N., Loper, M., Weiss, A., Hu, K., Hinkle, T., Kristiansen, M. (US Patent 10,679,046), June 2020 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Phenomenal Causality and Sensory Realism Meding, K., Bruijns, S. A., Schölkopf, B., Berens, P., Wichmann, F. A. i-Perception, 11(3):1-16, June 2020 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Article Walking Control Based on Step Timing Adaptation Khadiv, M., Herzog, A., Moosavian, S. A. A., Righetti, L. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 36(3):629-643, IEEE, June 2020 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper GENTEL: GENerating Training data Efficiently for Learning to segment medical images Thakur, R. P., Pujades, S., Goel, L., Pohmann, R., Machann, J., Black, M. J. RFIAP 2020 - Congrés Reconnaissance des Formes, Image, Apprentissage et Perception , Congrès Reconnaissance des Formes, Image, Apprentissage et Perception (RFAIP 2020) , June 2020 (Published) Project Page PDF URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper VIBE: Video Inference for Human Body Pose and Shape Estimation Kocabas, M., Athanasiou, N., Black, M. J. In 2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2020), :5252-5262, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2020), June 2020 (Published) arXiv code video supplemental video pdf DOI BibTeX

Embodied Vision Conference Paper DirectShape: Photometric Alignment of Shape Priors for Visual Vehicle Pose and Shape Estimation Wang, R., Yang, N., Stückler, J., Cremers, D. In Proceedings of the IEEE international Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :11067 - 11073, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2020), May 2020, arXiv:1904.10097 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Modern Magnetic Systems Article Biocompatible magnetic micro‐ and nanodevices: Fabrication of FePt nanopropellers and cell transfection Kadiri, V. M., Bussi, C., Holle, A. W., Son, K., Kwon, H., Schütz, G., Gutierrez, M. G., Fischer, P. Advanced Materials, 32(25):2001114, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, May 2020 () DOI URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Interface-mediated spontaneous symmetry breaking and mutual communication between drops containing chemically active particles Singh, D. P., Domínguez, A., Choudhury, U., Kottapalli, S. N., Popescu, M. N., Dietrich, S., Fischer, P. Nature Communications, 11:2210, May 2020 () DOI URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Accurate Vision-based Manipulation through Contact Reasoning Kloss, A., Bauza, M., Wu, J., Tenenbaum, J. B., Rodriguez, A., Bohg, J. In International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2020, Accepted (Accepted) Video URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper An ERT-Based Robotic Skin with Sparsely Distributed Electrodes: Structure, Fabrication, and DNN-Based Signal Processing Park, K., Park, H., Lee, H., Park, S., Kim, J. In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2020), :1617-1624, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2020), May 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Autonomous Learning Conference Paper Calibrating a Soft ERT-Based Tactile Sensor with a Multiphysics Model and Sim-to-real Transfer Learning Lee, H., Park, H., Serhat, G., Sun, H., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :1632-1638, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2020), May 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Conference Paper Crocoddyl: An efficient and versatile framework for multi-contact optimal control Mastalli, C., Budhiraja, R., Merkt, W., Saurel, G., Hammoud, B., Naveau, M., Carpentier, J., Righetti, L., Vijayakumar, S., Mansard, N. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, IEEE, International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2020 (Published) BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Conference Paper Curious ilqr: Resolving uncertainty in model-based rl Bechtle, S., Lin, Y., Rai, A., Righetti, L., Meier, F. Conference on Robot Learning, May 2020 (Published) BibTeX

Intelligent Control Systems Article Data-efficient Autotuning with Bayesian Optimization: An Industrial Control Study Neumann-Brosig, M., Marco, A., Schwarzmann, D., Trimpe, S. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 28(3):730-740, May 2020 (Published) arXiv (PDF) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Master Thesis Deep learning for the parameter estimation of tight-binding Hamiltonians Cacioppo, A. University of Roma, La Sapienza, Italy, May 2020 (Published) BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Conference Paper Differentiation of Blackbox Combinatorial Solvers Vlastelica*, M., Paulus*, A., Musil, V., Martius, G., Rolínek, M. In International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR’20, May 2020, *Equal Contribution () Arxiv Code pdf URL BibTeX

Dynamic Locomotion Conference Paper FootTile: a Rugged Foot Sensor for Force and Center of Pressure Sensing in Soft Terrain Ruppert, F., Badri-Spröwitz, A. In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2020), :4810-4816, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2020) , 2020 (Published) Youtube1 Youtube2 Presentation DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article General Movement Assessment from videos of computed 3D infant body models is equally effective compared to conventional RGB Video rating Schroeder, S., Hesse, N., Weinberger, R., Tacke, U., Gerstl, L., Hilgendorff, A., Heinen, F., Arens, M., Bodensteiner, C., Dijkstra, L. J., et al. Early Human Development, 144:104967, May 2020 () DOI BibTeX

Dynamic Locomotion Poster How Quadrupeds Benefit from Lower Leg Passive Elasticity Ruppert, F., Badri-Spröwitz, A. Dynamic Walking, May 2020 () Abstract Poster URL BibTeX

Intelligent Control Systems Conference Paper Robust Model-free Reinforcement Learning with Multi-objective Bayesian Optimization Turchetta, M., Krause, A., Trimpe, S. In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2020), :10702-10708, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2020), May 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Statistical reprogramming of macroscopic self-assembly with dynamic boundaries Culha, U., Davidson, Z. S., Mastrangeli, M., Sitti, M. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(21):11306-11313, 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Subject-Specific Biofeedback for Gait Retraining Outside of the Lab Rokhmanova, N., Shull, P. B., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Halilaj, E. Extended abstract (1 page) presented at the Dynamic Walking Conference, May 2020 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Variational Bayes In Private Settings (VIPS) Park, M., Foulds, J., Chaudhuri, K., Welling, M. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 68:109-157, May 2020 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Dynamic Locomotion Poster Viscous Damping in Legged Locomotion Mo, A., Izzi, F., Haeufle, D. F. B., Badri-Spröwitz, A. Dynamic Walking, May 2020 () Abstract Poster URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Physical Variables Underlying Tactile Stickiness during Fingerpad Detachment Nam, S., Vardar, Y., Gueorguiev, D., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 14:235, April 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Towards Robot Skill Learning Peters, J. Proceedings 2020 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC), :3-3, IEEE, April 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper A meta-transfer objective for learning to disentangle causal mechanisms Bengio, Y., Deleu, T., Rahaman, N., Ke, R., Lachapelle, S., Bilaniuk, O., Goyal, A., Pal, C. 8th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), April 2020 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Dynamic Locomotion Movement Generation and Control Autonomous Motion Empirical Inference Robotics Article An Open Torque-Controlled Modular Robot Architecture for Legged Locomotion Research Grimminger, F., Meduri, A., Khadiv, M., Viereck, J., Wüthrich, M., Naveau, M., Berenz, V., Heim, S., Widmaier, F., Flayols, T., et al. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 5(2):3650-3657, IEEE, April 2020 (Published) Youtube Open Dynamic Robot Initiative DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper BackPACK: Packing more into Backprop Dangel, F., Kunstner, F., Hennig, P. 8th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), April 2020 (Published) URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper Capturing Experts’ Mental Models to Organize a Collection of Haptic Devices: Affordances Outweigh Attributes Seifi, H., Oppermann, M., Bullard, J., MacLean, K. E., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), :268, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2020), April 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Counterfactuals uncover the modular structure of deep generative models Besserve, M., Mehrjou, A., Sun, R., Schölkopf, B. 8th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), April 2020 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Disentangling Factors of Variations Using Few Labels Locatello, F., Tschannen, M., Bauer, S., Rätsch, G., Schölkopf, B., Bachem, O. 8th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), April 2020 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Perceiving Systems Probabilistic Learning Group Conference Paper From Variational to Deterministic Autoencoders Ghosh*, P., Sajjadi*, M. S. M., Vergari, A., Black, M. J., Schölkopf, B. 8th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) , April 2020, *equal contribution (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Master Thesis Learning Algorithms, Invariances, and the Real World Zecevic, M. Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, April 2020 (Published) BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article Learning Multi-Human Optical Flow Ranjan, A., Hoffmann, D. T., Tzionas, D., Tang, S., Romero, J., Black, M. J. International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 128(4):873-890, April 2020 (Published) pdf DOI poster DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning the Arrow of Time for Problems in Reinforcement Learning Rahaman, N., Wolf, S., Goyal, A., Remme, R., Bengio, Y. 8th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), April 2020 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Mixed-curvature Variational Autoencoders Skopek, O., Ganea, O., Becigneul, G. 8th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), April 2020 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Non-linear interlinkages and key objectives amongst the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals Laumann, F., von Kügelgen, J., Barahona, M. ICLR 2020 Workshop "Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning", April 2020 (Published) arXiv PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper On Mutual Information Maximization for Representation Learning Tschannen, M., Djolonga, J., Rubenstein, P. K., Gelly, S., Lucic, M. 8th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), April 2020 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Perceiving Systems Article Real Time Trajectory Prediction Using Deep Conditional Generative Models Gomez-Gonzalez, S., Prokudin, S., Schölkopf, B., Peters, J. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 5(2):970-976, IEEE, April 2020 (Published) arXiv DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Vision Article Self-Supervised Linear Motion Deblurring Liu, P., Janai, J., Pollefeys, M., Sattler, T., Geiger, A. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 5(2):2475-2482, IEEE, April 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Sharing Knowledge in Multi-Task Deep Reinforcement Learning D‘Eramo, C., Tateo, D., Bonarini, A., Restelli, M., Peters, J. 8th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), April 2020 (Published) URL BibTeX