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Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems

Movement Generation and Control

Neural Capture and Synthesis

Physics for Inference and Optimization

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Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Role of symmetry in driven propulsion at low Reynolds number Sachs, J., Morozov, K. I., Kenneth, O., Qiu, T., Segreto, N., Fischer, P., Leshansky, A. M. Phys. Rev. E, 98(6):063105, American Physical Society, December 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Swimming back and forth using planar flagellar propulsion at low reynolds numbers Khalil, I. S. M., Tabak, A. F., Hamed, Y., Mitwally, M. E., Tawakol, M., Klingner, A., Sitti, M. Advanced Science, 5(2):1700461, 2018 () DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper A Computational Camera with Programmable Optics for Snapshot High Resolution Multispectral Imaging Chen, J., Hirsch, M., Eberhardt, B., Lensch, H. P. A. Computer Vision - ACCV 2018 - 14th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Part III, 11363:685-699, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, December 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper A Feasibility Study of Force Feedback using Computer-Mouse Kumar, A., Gourishetti, R., Manivannan, M. :1-6, 26th Conference of National Academy of Psychology, December 2018 (Published) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Adaptive Skip Intervals: Temporal Abstraction for Recurrent Dynamical Models Neitz, A., Parascandolo, G., Bauer, S., Schölkopf, B. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31 (NeurIPS 2018), :9838-9848, (Editors: S. Bengio and H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and K. Grauman and N. Cesa-Bianchi and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 32nd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Assessing Generative Models via Precision and Recall Sajjadi, M. S. M., Bachem, O., Lucic, M., Bousquet, O., Gelly, S. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31 (NeurIPS 2018), :5234-5243, (Editors: S. Bengio and H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and K. Grauman and N. Cesa-Bianchi and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 32nd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Probabilistic Learning Group Conference Paper Bayesian Nonparametric Hawkes Processes Kapoor, J., Vergari, A., Gomez Rodriguez, M., Valera, I. Bayesian Nonparametrics workshop at the 32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018 (Published) PDF URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Probabilistic Learning Group Conference Paper Boosting Black Box Variational Inference Locatello*, F., Dresdner*, G., R., K., Valera, I., Rätsch, G. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31 (NeurIPS 2018), :3405-3415, (Editors: S. Bengio and H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and K. Grauman and N. Cesa-Bianchi and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 32nd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018, *equal contribution (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Consolidating the Meta-Learning Zoo: A Unifying Perspective as Posterior Predictive Inference Gordon*, J., Bronskill*, J., Bauer*, M., Nowozin, S., Turner, R. E. Workshop on Meta-Learning (MetaLearn 2018) at the 32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018, *equal contribution (Published) URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Customized Multi-Person Tracker Ma, L., Tang, S., Black, M. J., Van Gool, L. In Computer Vision – ACCV 2018, Springer International Publishing, Asian Conference on Computer Vision, December 2018 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper DP-MAC: The Differentially Private Method of Auxiliary Coordinates for Deep Learning Harder, F., Köhler, J., Welling, M., Park, M. Workshop on Privacy Preserving Machine Learning at the 32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Data-Efficient Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Nachum, O., Gu, S., Lee, H., Levine, S. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31 (NeurIPS 2018), :3307-3317, (Editors: S. Bengio and H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and K. Grauman and N. Cesa-Bianchi and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 32nd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Deep Nonlinear Non-Gaussian Filtering for Dynamical Systems Mehrjou, A., Schölkopf, B. Workshop: Infer to Control: Probabilistic Reinforcement Learning and Structured Control at the 32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018 (Published) PDF URL BibTeX

Intelligent Control Systems Autonomous Learning Conference Paper Deep Reinforcement Learning for Event-Triggered Control Baumann, D., Zhu, J., Martius, G., Trimpe, S. In Proceedings of the 57th IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), :943-950, 57th IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), December 2018 (Published) arXiv PDF DOI BibTeX

Intelligent Control Systems Empirical Inference Conference Paper Efficient Encoding of Dynamical Systems through Local Approximations Solowjow, F., Mehrjou, A., Schölkopf, B., Trimpe, S. In Proceedings of the 57th IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), :6073 - 6079 , Miami, Fl, USA, December 2018 (Published) arXiv PDF DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Probabilistic Learning Group Conference Paper Enhancing the Accuracy and Fairness of Human Decision Making Valera, I., Singla, A., Gomez Rodriguez, M. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31 (NeurIPS 2018), :1774-1783, (Editors: S. Bengio and H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and K. Grauman and N. Cesa-Bianchi and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 32nd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Generalisation in humans and deep neural networks Geirhos, R., Temme, C. R. M., Rauber, J., Schütt, H., Bethge, M., Wichmann, F. A. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31 (NeurIPS 2018), :7549-7561, (Editors: S. Bengio and H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and K. Grauman and N. Cesa-Bianchi and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 32nd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Generalization in anti-causal learning Kilbertus*, N., Parascandolo*, G., Schölkopf*, B. NeurIPS 2018 Workshop on Critiquing and Correcting Trends in Machine Learning, December 2018, *authors are listed in alphabetical order () arXiv URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Informative Features for Model Comparison Jitkrittum, W., Kanagawa, H., Sangkloy, P., Hays, J., Schölkopf, B., Gretton, A. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31 (NeurIPS 2018), :816-827, (Editors: S. Bengio and H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and K. Grauman and N. Cesa-Bianchi and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 32nd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning Invariances using the Marginal Likelihood van der Wilk, M., Bauer, M., John, S. T., Hensman, J. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31 (NeurIPS 2018), :9960-9970, (Editors: S. Bengio and H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and K. Grauman and N. Cesa-Bianchi and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 32nd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Non-factorised Variational Inference in Dynamical Systems Ialongo, A. D., Van Der Wilk, M., Hensman, J., Rasmussen, C. E. 1st Symposion on Advances in Approximate Bayesian Inference, December 2018 (Published) PDF URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Parallel and functionally segregated processing of task phase and conscious content in the prefrontal cortex Kapoor, V., Besserve, M., Logothetis, N. K., Panagiotaropoulos, T. I. Communications Biology, 1(215):1-12, December 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Resampled Priors for Variational Autoencoders Bauer, M., Mnih, A. Third Workshop on Bayesian Deep Learning at the 32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Versa: Versatile and Efficient Few-shot Learning Gordon*, J., Bronskill*, J., Bauer*, M., Nowozin, S., Turner, R. E. Third Workshop on Bayesian Deep Learning at the 32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018, *equal contribution (Published) URL BibTeX

Statistical Learning Theory Conference Paper When do random forests fail? Tang, C., Garreau, D., von Luxburg, U. In Proceedings Neural Information Processing Systems, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2018) , December 2018 () BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Optical and Thermophoretic Control of Janus Nanopen Injection into Living Cells Maier, C. M., Huergo, M. A., Milosevic, S., Pernpeintner, C., Li, M., Singh, D. P., Walker, D., Fischer, P., Feldmann, J., Lohmüller, T. Nano Letters, 18:7935–7941, November 2018, Accepted (Accepted) DOI URL BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Conference Paper A Whole-Body Model Predictive Control Scheme Including External Contact Forces and CoM Height Variations Mirjalili, R., Yousefi-koma, A., Shirazi, F. A., Nikkhah, A., Nazemi, F., Khadiv, M. Proceedings International Conference on Humanoid Robots, IEEE, Beijing, China, 2018 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, November 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article A swarm of slippery micropropellers penetrates the vitreous body of the eye Wu, Z., Troll, J., Jeong, H. H., Wei, Q., Stang, M., Ziemssen, F., Wang, Z., Dong, M., Schnichels, S., Qiu, T., et al. Science Advances, 4(11):eaat4388, November 2018 (Published) Video: Nanorobots propel through the eye DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous A Large-Scale Fabric-Based Tactile Sensor Using Electrical Resistance Tomography Lee, H., Park, K., Kim, J., Kuchenbecker, K. J. :107-109, Hands-on demonstration (3 pages) presented at AsiaHaptics, Incheon, South Korea, November 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article Deep Inertial Poser: Learning to Reconstruct Human Pose from Sparse Inertial Measurements in Real Time Huang, Y., Kaufmann, M., Aksan, E., Black, M. J., Hilliges, O., Pons-Moll, G. ACM Transactions on Graphics, (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 37:185:1-185:15, ACM, November 2018, Two first authors contributed equally () data code pdf preprint errata video DOI BibTeX

Intelligent Control Systems Conference Paper Depth Control of Underwater Robots using Sliding Modes and Gaussian Process Regression Lima, G. S., Bessa, W. M., Trimpe, S. In Proceeding of the 15th Latin American Robotics Symposium, João Pessoa, Brazil, 15th Latin American Robotics Symposium, November 2018 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Reducing 3D Vibrations to 1D in Real Time Park, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. :21-24, Hands-on demonstration (4 pages) presented at AsiaHaptics, Incheon, South Korea, November 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Constraint-Space Projection Direct Policy Search Akrour, R., Peters, J., Neuman, G. 14th European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL), October 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Control of Musculoskeletal Systems using Learned Dynamics Models Büchler, D., Calandra, R., Schölkopf, B., Peters, J. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 3(4):3161-3168, IEEE, 2018 (Published) RAL18final DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article Deep Neural Network-based Cooperative Visual Tracking through Multiple Micro Aerial Vehicles Price, E., Lawless, G., Ludwig, R., Martinovic, I., Buelthoff, H. H., Black, M. J., Ahmad, A. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Robotics and Automation Letters, 3(4):3193-3200, IEEE, October 2018, Also accepted and presented in the 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). (Published) Published Version DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Domain Randomization for Simulation-Based Policy Optimization with Transferability Assessment Muratore, F., Treede, F., Gienger, M., Peters, J. 2nd Annual Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 87:700-713, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, PMLR, October 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article First Impressions of Personality Traits From Body Shapes Hu, Y., Parde, C. J., Hill, M. Q., Mahmood, N., O’Toole, A. J. Psychological Science, 29(12):1969-–1983, October 2018 () publisher site pdf DOI BibTeX

Intelligent Control Systems Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Conference Paper Gait learning for soft microrobots controlled by light fields Rohr, A. V., Trimpe, S., Marco, A., Fischer, P., Palagi, S. In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2018, :6199-6206, Piscataway, NJ, USA, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October 2018 (Published) arXiv IEEE Xplore DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning to Categorize Bug Reports with LSTM Networks Gondaliya, K., Peters, J., Rueckert, E. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Advances in System Testing and Validation Lifecycle (VALID), :7-12, October 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Mean squared advantage minimization as a consequence of entropic policy improvement regularization Belousov, B., Peters, J. European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL), October 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Book Chapter Nanoscale robotic agents in biological fluids and tissues Palagi, S., Walker, D. Q. T., Fischer, P. In The Encyclopedia of Medical Robotics, 2:19-42, 2, (Editors: Desai, J. P. and Ferreira, A.), World Scientific, October 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Autonomous Vision Conference Paper On the Integration of Optical Flow and Action Recognition Sevilla-Lara, L., Liao, Y., Güney, F., Jampani, V., Geiger, A., Black, M. J. In German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), LNCS 11269:281-297, Springer, Cham, October 2018 () arXiv DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Regularizing Reinforcement Learning with State Abstraction Akrour, R., Veiga, F., Peters, J., Neuman, G. Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), :534-539, October 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Reinforcement Learning of Phase Oscillators for Fast Adaptation to Moving Targets Maeda, G., Koc, O., Morimoto, J. Proceedings of The 2nd Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 87:630-640, (Editors: Aude Billard, Anca Dragan, Jan Peters, Jun Morimoto ), PMLR, October 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Softness, Warmth, and Responsiveness Improve Robot Hugs Block, A. E., Kuchenbecker, K. J. International Journal of Social Robotics, 11(1):49-64, October 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Temporal Interpolation as an Unsupervised Pretraining Task for Optical Flow Estimation Wulff, J., Black, M. J. In German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), LNCS 11269:567-582, Springer, Cham, October 2018 () pdf arXiv DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Vision Conference Paper Towards Robust Visual Odometry with a Multi-Camera System Liu, P., Geppert, M., Heng, L., Sattler, T., Geiger, A., Pollefeys, M. In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2018, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October 2018 () pdf BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Universal custom complex magnetic spring design methodology Woodward, M. A., Sitti, M. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 54(1): 8200213, October 2018 () DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Fast spatial scanning of 3D ultrasound fields via thermography Melde, K., Qiu, T., Fischer, P. Applied Physics Letters, 113(13):133503, September 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX