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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

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Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Active colloidal propulsion over a crystalline surface Choudhury, U., Straube, A., Fischer, P., Gibbs, J., Höfling, F. New Journal of Physics, 19:125010, December 2017 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Probabilistic Numerics Intelligent Control Systems Conference Paper On the Design of LQR Kernels for Efficient Controller Learning Marco, A., Hennig, P., Schaal, S., Trimpe, S. Proceedings of the 56th IEEE Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), :5193-5200, IEEE, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 2017 (Published) arXiv PDF On the Design of LQR Kernels for Efficient Controller Learning - CDC presentation DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper AdaGAN: Boosting Generative Models Tolstikhin, I., Gelly, S., Bousquet, O., Simon-Gabriel, C. J., Schölkopf, B. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 30 (NIPS 2017), :5424-5433, (Editors: Guyon I. and Luxburg U.v. and Bengio S. and Wallach H. and Fergus R. and Vishwanathan S. and Garnett R.), Curran Associates, Inc., 31st Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2017 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Avoiding Discrimination through Causal Reasoning Kilbertus, N., Rojas-Carulla, M., Parascandolo, G., Hardt, M., Janzing, D., Schölkopf, B. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 30 (NIPS 2017), :656-666, (Editors: Guyon I. and Luxburg U.v. and Bengio S. and Wallach H. and Fergus R. and Vishwanathan S. and Garnett R.), Curran Associates, Inc., 31st Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2017 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Boosting Variational Inference: an Optimization Perspective Locatello, F., Khanna, R., Ghosh, J., Rätsch, G. Workshop: Advances in Approximate Bayesian Inference at the 31st Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2017 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper ConvWave: Searching for Gravitational Waves with Fully Convolutional Neural Nets Gebhard, T., Kilbertus, N., Parascandolo, G., Harry, I., Schölkopf, B. Workshop on Deep Learning for Physical Sciences (DLPS) at the 31st Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2017 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Probabilistic Learning Group Conference Paper From Parity to Preference-based Notions of Fairness in Classification Zafar, M. B., Valera, I., Gomez Rodriguez, M., Gummadi, K., Weller, A. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 30 (NIPS 2017), :229-239, (Editors: Guyon I. and Luxburg U.v. and Bengio S. and Wallach H. and Fergus R. and Vishwanathan S. and Garnett R.), Curran Associates, Inc., 31st Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2017 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Greedy Algorithms for Cone Constrained Optimization with Convergence Guarantees Locatello, F., Tschannen, M., Rätsch, G., Jaggi, M. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 30 (NIPS 2017), :773-784, (Editors: Guyon I. and Luxburg U.v. and Bengio S. and Wallach H. and Fergus R. and Vishwanathan S. and Garnett R.), Curran Associates, Inc., 31st Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2017 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Interpolated Policy Gradient: Merging On-Policy and Off-Policy Gradient Estimation for Deep Reinforcement Learning Gu, S., Lillicrap, T., Turner, R. E., Ghahramani, Z., Schölkopf, B., Levine, S. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 30 (NIPS 2017), :3849-3858, (Editors: Guyon I. and Luxburg U.v. and Bengio S. and Wallach H. and Fergus R. and Vishwanathan S. and Garnett R.), Curran Associates, Inc., 31st Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2017 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning Independent Causal Mechanisms Parascandolo, G., Rojas-Carulla, M., Kilbertus, N., Schölkopf, B. Workshop: Learning Disentangled Representations: from Perception to Control at the 31st Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2017 (Published) URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Multi-Modal Imitation Learning from Unstructured Demonstrations using Generative Adversarial Nets Hausman, K., Chebotar, Y., Schaal, S., Sukhatme, G., Lim, J. In Proceedings from the conference "Neural Information Processing Systems 2017., (Editors: Guyon I. and Luxburg U.v. and Bengio S. and Wallach H. and Fergus R. and Vishwanathan S. and Garnett R.), Curran Associates, Inc., Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 30 (NIPS 2017), December 2017 () pdf video BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Safe Adaptive Importance Sampling Stich, S. U., Raj, A., Jaggi, M. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 30 (NIPS 2017), :4384-4394, (Editors: Guyon I. and Luxburg U.v. and Bengio S. and Wallach H. and Fergus R. and Vishwanathan S. and Garnett R.), Curran Associates, Inc., 31st Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2017 (Published) URL BibTeX

Autonomous Vision Conference Paper The Numerics of GANs Mescheder, L., Nowozin, S., Geiger, A. In Proceedings from the conference "Neural Information Processing Systems 2017., (Editors: Guyon I. and Luxburg U.v. and Bengio S. and Wallach H. and Fergus R. and Vishwanathan S. and Garnett R.), Curran Associates, Inc., Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 30 (NIPS 2017), December 2017 () pdf BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article 3D chemical patterning of micromaterials for encoded functionality Ceylan, H., Yasa, I. C., Sitti, M. Advanced Materials, 29(9):1605072, 2017 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article A deep learning based fusion of RGB camera information and magnetic localization information for endoscopic capsule robots Turan, M., Shabbir, J., Araujo, H., Konukoglu, E., Sitti, M. International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications, 1(4):442-450, 2017 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Closed-form Inference and Prediction in Gaussian Process State-Space Models Ialongo, A. D., Van Der Wilk, M., Rasmussen, C. E. Time Series Workshop at the 31st Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2017 (Published) PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Discriminative k-shot learning using probabilistic models Bauer*, M., Rojas-Carulla*, M., Świątkowski, J. B., Schölkopf, B., Turner, R. E. Second Workshop on Bayesian Deep Learning at the 31st Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems , December 2017, *equal contribution (Published) URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Evaluation of High-Fidelity Simulation as a Training Tool in Transoral Robotic Surgery Bur, A. M., Gomez, E. D., Newman, J. G., Weinstein, G. S., Bert W. O’Malley, J., Rassekh, C. H., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Laryngoscope, 127(12):2790-2795, December 2017 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Article Interactive Perception: Leveraging Action in Perception and Perception in Action Bohg, J., Hausman, K., Sankaran, B., Brock, O., Kragic, D., Schaal, S., Sukhatme, G. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 33:1273-1291, December 2017 (Published) arXiv DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning Robust Video Synchronization without Annotations Wieschollek, P., Freeman, I., Lensch, H. P. A. 16th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), :92 - 100, (Editors: X. Chen, B. Luo, F. Luo, V. Palade, and M. A. Wani), IEEE, December 2017 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Leveraging the Crowd to Detect and Reduce the Spread of Fake News and Misinformation Kim, J., Tabibian, B., Oh, A., Schölkopf, B., Gomez Rodriguez, M. Workshop on Prioritising Online Content at the 31st Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2017 (Published) URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper Mechanics of pseudo-haptics with computer mouse Kumar, A., Gourishetti, R., Manivannan, M. In :1-6, IEEE, IEEE International Symposium on Haptic, Audio and Visual Environments and Games (HAVE), December 2017 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Optimizing human learning Tabibian, B., Upadhyay, U., De, A., Zarezade, A., Schölkopf, B., Gomez Rodriguez, M. Workshop on Teaching Machines, Robots, and Humans at the 31st Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2017 (Published) URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Soft actuators for small-scale robotics Hines, L., Petersen, K., Lum, G. Z., Sitti, M. Advanced Materials, 29(13):1603483, 2017 () DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Wireless Acoustic-Surface Actuators for Miniaturized Endoscopes Qiu, T., Adams, F., Palagi, S., Melde, K., Mark, A. G., Wetterauer, U., Miernik, A., Fischer, P. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 9(49):42536 - 42543, November 2017 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Behind Distribution Shift: Mining Driving Forces of Changes and Causal Arrows Huang, B., Zhang, K., Zhang, J., Sanchez-Romero, R., Glymour, C., Schölkopf, B. IEEE 17th International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), :913-918, (Editors: Vijay Raghavan,Srinivas Aluru, George Karypis, Lucio Miele and Xindong Wu), November 2017 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper A Comparison of Distance Measures for Learning Nonparametric Motor Skill Libraries Stark, S., Peters, J., Rueckert, E. IEEE-RAS 17th International Conference on Humanoid Robotics (Humanoids), :624-630, IEEE, November 2017 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Article Acquiring Target Stacking Skills by Goal-Parameterized Deep Reinforcement Learning Li, W., Bohg, J., Fritz, M. arXiv, November 2017, Submitted (Submitted) arXiv BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Active Incremental Learning of Robot Movement Primitives Maeda, G., Ewerton, M., Osa, T., Busch, B., Peters, J. Proceedings of the 1st Annual Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 78:37-46, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Sergey Levine, Vincent Vanhoucke and Ken Goldberg), PMLR, November 2017 (Published) URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Biohybrid actuators for robotics: a review of devices actuated by living cells Ricotti, L., Trimmer, B., Feinberg, A. W., Raman, R., Parker, K. K., Bashir, R., Sitti, M., Martel, S., Dario, P., Menciassi, A. Science Robotics, 2(12):eaaq0495 , 2017 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Efficient Online Adaptation with Stochastic Recurrent Neural Networks Tanneberg, D., Peters, J., Rueckert, E. IEEE-RAS 17th International Conference on Humanoid Robotics (Humanoids), :198-204, IEEE, November 2017 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article Embodied Hands: Modeling and Capturing Hands and Bodies Together Romero, J., Tzionas, D., Black, M. J. ACM Transactions on Graphics, (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 36(6):245:1-245:17, 245:1–245:17, ACM, November 2017 () website youtube paper suppl video DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper End-to-End Learning for Image Burst Deblurring Wieschollek, P., Schölkopf, B., Lensch, H. P. A., Hirsch, M. Computer Vision - ACCV 2016 - 13th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, 10114:35-51, Image Processing, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Graphics, (Editors: Lai, S.-H., Lepetit, V., Nishino, K., and Sato, Y. ), Springer, November 2017 (Published) BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article Investigating Body Image Disturbance in Anorexia Nervosa Using Novel Biometric Figure Rating Scales: A Pilot Study Mölbert, S. C., Thaler, A., Streuber, S., Black, M. J., Karnath, H., Zipfel, S., Mohler, B., Giel, K. E. European Eating Disorders Review, 25(6):607-612, November 2017 () publisher DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article Learning a model of facial shape and expression from 4D scans Li, T., Bolkart, T., Black, M. J., Li, H., Romero, J. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 36(6):194:1-194:17, November 2017, Two first authors contributed equally () data/model video code chumpy code tensorflow paper supplemental BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning inverse dynamics models in O(n) time with LSTM networks Rueckert, E., Nakatenus, M., Tosatto, S., Peters, J. IEEE-RAS 17th International Conference on Humanoid Robotics (Humanoids), :811-816, IEEE, November 2017 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Online Learning with Stochastic Recurrent Neural Networks using Intrinsic Motivation Signals Tanneberg, D., Peters, J., Rueckert, E. Proceedings of the 1st Annual Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), :167-174, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Sergey Levine, Vincent Vanhoucke and Ken Goldberg), PMLR, November 2017 (Published) URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Intelligent Control Systems Conference Paper Optimizing Long-term Predictions for Model-based Policy Search Doerr, A., Daniel, C., Nguyen-Tuong, D., Marco, A., Schaal, S., Toussaint, M., Trimpe, S. Proceedings of 1st Annual Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 78:227-238, (Editors: Sergey Levine and Vincent Vanhoucke and Ken Goldberg), 1st Annual Conference on Robot Learning, November 2017 (Published) PDF BibTeX

Probabilistic Numerics Article Probabilistic Line Searches for Stochastic Optimization Mahsereci, M., Hennig, P. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 18(119):1-59, November 2017 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Simulation of the underactuated Sake Robotics Gripper in V-REP Thiem, S., Stark, S., Tanneberg, D., Peters, J., Rueckert, E. Workshop at the International Conference on Humanoid Robots (HUMANOIDS), November 2017 (Published) URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper A Generative Model of People in Clothing Lassner, C., Pons-Moll, G., Gehler, P. V. In Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), :853-862, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), October 2017 () URL BibTeX

Autonomous Vision Conference Paper Bounding Boxes, Segmentations and Object Coordinates: How Important is Recognition for 3D Scene Flow Estimation in Autonomous Driving Scenarios? Behl, A., Jafari, O. H., Mustikovela, S. K., Alhaija, H. A., Rother, C., Geiger, A. In Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), October 2017 () pdf suppmat Poster BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning Blind Motion Deblurring Wieschollek, P., Hirsch, M., Schölkopf, B., Lensch, H. Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), :231-240, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), October 2017 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Online Video Deblurring via Dynamic Temporal Blending Network Kim, T. H., Lee, K. M., Schölkopf, B., Hirsch, M. Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), :4038-4047, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), October 2017 (Published) URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Semantic Video CNNs through Representation Warping Gadde, R., Jampani, V., Gehler, P. V. In Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), :4463-4472, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), October 2017, Accepted (Accepted) pdf Supplementary BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper EnhanceNet: Single Image Super-Resolution through Automated Texture Synthesis Sajjadi, M. S. M., Schölkopf, B., Hirsch, M. Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), :4501-4510, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), October 2017 (Published) Arxiv Project DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article An Online Scalable Approach to Unified Multirobot Cooperative Localization and Object Tracking Ahmad, A., Lawless, G., Lima, P. IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), 33:1184 - 1199, October 2017 (Published) Published Version DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Generalized exploration in policy search van Hoof, H., Tanneberg, D., Peters, J. Machine Learning, 106(9-10):1705-1724 , (Editors: Kurt Driessens, Dragi Kocev, Marko Robnik‐Sikonja, and Myra Spiliopoulou), October 2017, Special Issue of the ECML PKDD 2017 Journal Track (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Poster Improving performance of linear field generation with multi-coil setup by optimizing coils position Aghaeifar, A., Loktyushin, A., Eschelbach, M., Scheffler, K. Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine, 30(Supplement 1):S259, 34th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology (ESMRMB 2017), October 2017 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Multi-frame blind image deconvolution through split frequency - phase recovery Gauci, A., Abela, J., Cachia, E., Hirsch, M., ZarbAdami, K. Proc. SPIE 10225, Eighth International Conference on Graphic and Image Processing (ICGIP 2016), :1022511, (Editors: Yulin Wang, Tuan D. Pham, Vit Vozenilek, David Zhang, Yi Xie), October 2017 () DOI BibTeX