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Perceiving Systems Autonomous Vision Conference Paper Patches, Planes and Probabilities: A Non-local Prior for Volumetric 3D Reconstruction Ulusoy, A. O., Black, M. J., Geiger, A. In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), :3280-3289, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2016 () YouTube pdf poster suppmat BibTeX

Empirical Inference Proceedings Proceedings of the 32nd Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) Ihler, A. T., Janzing, D. :869 pages, AUAI Press, June 2016 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Recovery of non-linear cause-effect relationships from linearly mixed neuroimaging data Weichwald, S., Gretton, A., Schölkopf, B., Grosse-Wentrup, M. Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in NeuroImaging (PRNI 2016), June 2016 (Published) PDF Arxiv Code DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Autonomous Vision Conference Paper Semantic Instance Annotation of Street Scenes by 3D to 2D Label Transfer Xie, J., Kiefel, M., Sun, M., Geiger, A. In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), :3688-3697, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2016 (Published) pdf suppmat Project Page BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Six-degree-of-freedom magnetic actuation for wireless microrobotics Diller, E., Giltinan, J., Lum, G. Z., Ye, Z., Sitti, M. The International Journal of Robotics Research, 35(1-3):114-128, 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Conference Paper Stability of Controllers for Gaussian Process Forward Models Vinogradska, J., Bischoff, B., Nguyen-Tuong, D., Romer, A., Schmidt, H., Peters, J. Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 48:545-554, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Maria Florina Balcan and Kilian Q. Weinberger), PMLR, June 2016 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper The Arrow of Time in Multivariate Time Serie Bauer, S., Schölkopf, B., Peters, J. Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 48:2043-2051, JMLR Workshop and Conference Proceedings, (Editors: Balcan, M. F. and Weinberger, K. Q.), JMLR, June 2016 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper The Mondrian Kernel Balog, M., Lakshminarayanan, B., Ghahramani, Z., Roy, D. M., Teh, Y. W. Proceedings of the 32nd Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), :32-41, (Editors: Ihler, Alexander T. and Janzing, Dominik), June 2016 (Published) Arxiv URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Video segmentation via object flow Tsai, Y., Yang, M., Black, M. J. In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), :1426-1434, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2016 () pdf BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Probabilistic Numerics Intelligent Control Systems Conference Paper Automatic LQR Tuning Based on Gaussian Process Global Optimization Marco, A., Hennig, P., Bohg, J., Schaal, S., Trimpe, S. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :270-277, IEEE, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2016 (Published) Video - Automatic LQR Tuning Based on Gaussian Process Global Optimization - ICRA 2016 Video - Automatic Controller Tuning on a Two-legged Robot PDF DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Intelligent Control Systems Conference Paper Depth-based Object Tracking Using a Robust Gaussian Filter Issac, J., Wüthrich, M., Garcia Cifuentes, C., Bohg, J., Trimpe, S., Schaal, S. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2016, IEEE, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2016 (Published) Video Bayesian Object Tracking Library Bayesian Filtering Framework Object Tracking Dataset DOI URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Exemplar-based Prediction of Object Properties from Local Shape Similarity Bohg, J., Kappler, D., Schaal, S. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2016, IEEE, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2016 (Published) pdf DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Optimizing for what matters: the Top Grasp Hypothesis Kappler, D., Schaal, S., Bohg, J. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2016, IEEE, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2016 (Published) pdf DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Robot Arm Pose Estimation by Pixel-wise Regression of Joint Angles Widmaier, F., Kappler, D., Schaal, S., Bohg, J. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2016, IEEE, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2016 (Published) pdf DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Empirical Inference Conference Paper A Lightweight Robotic Arm with Pneumatic Muscles for Robot Learning Büchler, D., Ott, H., Peters, J. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :4086-4092, IEEE, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2016 (Published) ICRA16final DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper A Transfer Learning Approach for Adaptive Classification in P300 Paradigms Jayaram, V., Grosse-Wentrup, M. Sixth International BCI Meeting (BCI), May 2016 (Published) PDF DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper An Improved Cognitive Brain-Computer Interface for Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Hohmann, M. R., Fomina, T., Jayaram, V., Förster, C., Just, J., Synofzik, M., Schölkopf, B., Schöls, L., Grosse-Wentrup, M. Proceedings of the Sixth International BCI Meeting, :44, (Editors: Müller-Putz, G. R. and Huggins, J. E. and Steyrl, D.), BCI, May 2016 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Poster Autofocusing-based correction of B0 fluctuation-induced ghosting Loktyushin, A., Ehses, P., Schölkopf, B., Scheffler, K. 24th Annual Meeting and Exhibition of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM 2016), May 2016 (Published) URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Conference Paper Auxetic Metamaterial Simplifies Soft Robot Design Mark, A. G., Palagi, S., Qiu, T., Fischer, P. In 2016 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :4951-4956, Piscataway, NJ, USA, May 2016 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Probabilistic Numerics Conference Paper Batch Bayesian Optimization via Local Penalization González, J., Dai, Z., Hennig, P., Lawrence, N. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 51:648-657, JMLR Workshop and Conference Proceedings, (Editors: Gretton, A. and Robert, C. C.), May 2016 (Published) URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Intelligent Control Systems Conference Paper Communication Rate Analysis for Event-based State Estimation Ebner, S., Trimpe, S. In Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Discrete Event Systems, May 2016 (Published) PDF DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Drifting Gaussian Processes with Varying Neighborhood Sizes for Online Model Learning Meier, F., Schaal, S. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2016, IEEE, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2016 () BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Book Chapter Implications of Action-Oriented Paradigm Shifts in Cognitive Science Dominey, P. F., Prescott, T. J., Bohg, J., Engel, A. K., Gallagher, S., Heed, T., Hoffmann, M., Knoblich, G., Prinz, W., Schwartz, A. In The Pragmatic Turn - Toward Action-Oriented Views in Cognitive Science, 18:333-356, 20, Strüngmann Forum Reports, vol. 18, J. Lupp, series editor, (Editors: Andreas K. Engel and Karl J. Friston and Danica Kragic), The MIT Press, 18th Ernst Strüngmann Forum, May 2016, In press (In press) The Pragmatic Turn - Toward Action-Oriented Views in Cognitive Science 18th Ernst Strüngmann Forum Bibliography Chapter URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Book Chapter Learning Action-Perception Cycles in Robotics: A Question of Representations and Embodiment Bohg, J., Kragic, D. In The Pragmatic Turn - Toward Action-Oriented Views in Cognitive Science, 18:309-320, 18, Strüngmann Forum Reports, vol. 18, J. Lupp, series editor, (Editors: Andreas K. Engel and Karl J. Friston and Danica Kragic), The MIT Press, 18th Ernst Strüngmann Forum, May 2016, In press (In press) 18th Ernst Strüngmann Forum The Pragmatic Turn- Toward Action-Oriented Views in Cognitive Science Bibliography Chapter URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning soft task priorities for control of redundant robots Modugno, V., Neumann, G., Rueckert, E., Oriolo, G., Peters, J., Ivaldi, S. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :221-226, IEEE, May 2016 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Movement Primitives with Multiple Phase Parameters Ewerton, M., Maeda, G., Neumann, G., Kisner, V., Kollegger, G., Wiemeyer, J., Peters, J. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :201-206, IEEE, May 2016 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper MuProp: Unbiased Backpropagation for Stochastic Neural Networks Gu, S., Levine, S., Sutskever, I., Mnih, A. 4th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2016 () Arxiv BibTeX

Empirical Inference Probabilistic Learning Group Conference Paper On the Reliability of Information and Trustworthiness of Web Sources in Wikipedia Tabibian, B., Farajtabar, M., Valera, I., Song, L., Schölkopf, B., Gomez Rodriguez, M. Wikipedia workshop at the 10th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), May 2016 (Published) URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Patterned and Specific Attachment of Bacteria on Biohybrid Bacteria-Driven Microswimmers Singh, A. V., Sitti, M. Advanced Healthcare Materials, 5(18):2325-2331, 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Phase Change of Gallium Enables Highly Reversible and Switchable Adhesion (Adv. Mater. 25/2016) Ye, Z., Lum, G. Z., Song, S., Rich, S., Sitti, M. Advanced Materials, 28(25):5088-5092, 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Probabilistic Numerics Conference Paper Probabilistic Approximate Least-Squares Bartels, S., Hennig, P. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 51:676-684, JMLR Workshop and Conference Proceedings, (Editors: Gretton, A. and Robert, C. C. ), May 2016 (Published) URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Bioinspired Autonomous Miniature Robots Article Shape-programmable magnetic soft matter Lum, G. Z., Ye, Z., Dong, X., Marvi, H., Erin, O., Hu, W., Sitti, M. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(41):E6007–E6015, 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Conference Paper Sperm-shaped magnetic microrobots: Fabrication using electrospinning, modeling, and characterization Khalil, I. S., Tabak, A. F., Hosney, A., Mohamed, A., Klingner, A., Ghoneima, M., Sitti, M. In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :1939-1944, May 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Miscellaneous System and method to magnetically actuate a capsule endoscopic robot for diagnosis and treatment Sitti, M., Yim, S. 2016, US Patent 9,445,711 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper TerseSVM : A Scalable Approach for Learning Compact Models in Large-scale Classification Babbar, R., Muandet, K., Schölkopf, B. Proceedings of the 2016 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), :234-242, (Editors: Sanjay Chawla Venkatasubramanian and Wagner Meira), May 2016 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Ph.D. Thesis Chiral Metamaterials Eslami, S. Univ. of Stuttgart, April 2016 () URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Poster Distinct adaptation to abrupt and gradual torque perturbations with a multi-joint exoskeleton robot Oh, Y., Sutanto, G., Mistry, M., Schweighofer, N., Schaal, S. Abstracts of Neural Control of Movement Conference (NCM 2016), Montego Bay, Jamaica, April 2016 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Peer Grading in a Course on Algorithms and Data Structures: Machine Learning Algorithms do not Improve over Simple Baselines Sajjadi, M. S. M., Alamgir, M., von Luxburg, U. Proceedings of the 3rd ACM conference on Learning @ Scale, :369-378, (Editors: Haywood, J. and Aleven, V. and Kay, J. and Roll, I.), ACM, L@S, April 2016, (An earlier version of this paper had been presented at the ICML 2015 workshop for Machine Learning for Education.) (Published) Arxiv Peer-Grading dataset request BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Conference Paper Towards Photo-Induced Swimming: Actuation of Liquid Crystalline Elastomer in Water cerretti, G., Martella, D., Zeng, H., Parmeggiani, C., Palagi, S., Mark, A. G., Melde, K., Qiu, T., Fischer, P., Wiersma, D. In Proc. of SPIE 9738, :Laser 3D Manufacturing III, 97380T, Bellingham, Washington, April 2016 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Chemotaxis of bio-hybrid multiple bacteria-driven microswimmers Zhuang, J., Sitti, M. Scientific reports, 6(1):1-10, 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Dispersion and shape engineered plasmonic nanosensors Jeong, H. H., Mark, A. G., Alarcon-Correa, M., Kim, I., Oswald, P., Lee, T. C., Fischer, P. Nature Communications, 7:11331, March 2016 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Inflated soft actuators with reversible stable deformations Hines, L., Petersen, K., Sitti, M. Advanced Materials, 28(19):3690-3696, 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Targeted drug delivery and imaging using mobile milli/microrobots: A promising future towards theranostic pharmaceutical design Vikram Singh, A., Sitti, M. Current Pharmaceutical Design, 22(11):1418-1428, 2016 () BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Patent Remotely addressable magnetic composite micro-actuators Sitti, M., Diller, E., Miyashita, S. February 2016, US Patent 9,281,112 () URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Appealing female avatars from 3D body scans: Perceptual effects of stylization Fleming, R., Mohler, B., Romero, J., Black, M. J., Breidt, M. In 11th Int. Conf. on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP), February 2016 () pdf BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Parallel microcracks-based ultrasensitive and highly stretchable strain sensors Amjadi, M., Turan, M., Clementson, C. P., Sitti, M. ACS Applied Materials \& Interfaces, 8(8):5618-5626, 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Miscellaneous Remotely addressable magnetic composite micro-actuators Sitti, M., Diller, E., Miyashita, S. 2016, US Patent 9,281,112 () BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Stretchable, Skin-Mountable, and Wearable Strain Sensors and Their Potential Applications: A Review Amjadi, M., Kyung, K., Park, I., Sitti, M. Advanced Functional Materials, 26(11):1678-1698, 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Fabular: Regression Formulas As Probabilistic Programming Borgström, J., Gordon, A. D., Ouyang, L., Russo, C., Ścibior, A., Szymczak, M. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), :271-283, POPL ’16, ACM, January 2016 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article Human Pose Estimation from Video and IMUs Marcard, T. V., Pons-Moll, G., Rosenhahn, B. Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence PAMI, 38(8):1533-1547, January 2016 (Published) data pdf dataset_documentation BibTeX

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