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Modern Magnetic Systems

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Physical Intelligence

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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

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Empirical Inference Conference Paper Using reward-weighted imitation for robot Reinforcement Learning Peters, J., Kober, J. In Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (IEEE ADPRL 2009), IEEE ADPRL 2009, :226-232, IEEE Service Center, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning, May 2009 () Web DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper A kernel method for unsupervised structured network inference Lippert, C., Stegle, O., Ghahramani, Z., Borgwardt, K. In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AIStats 2009), JMLR Workshop and Conference Proceedings Volume 5: AISTATS 2009, :368-375, (Editors: Van Dyk, D. , M. Welling), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, Twelfth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, April 2009 () PDF Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper An Expectation Maximization Algorithm for Continuous Markov Decision Processes with Arbitrary Reward Hoffman, M., Freitas, N., Doucet, A., Peters, J. In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AIStats 2009), JMLR Workshop and Conference Proceedings Volume 5: AISTATS 2009, :232-239, (Editors: van Dyk, D. , M. Welling), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, Twelfth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, April 2009 () PDF Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Beamforming in Noninvasive Brain-Computer Interfaces Grosse-Wentrup, M., Liefhold, C., Gramann, K., Buss, M. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 56(4):1209-1219, April 2009 () PDF Web DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Block Jacobi-type methods for non-orthogonal joint diagonalisation Shen, H., Hüper, K. In Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP09), ICASSP09, :3285-3288, IEEE Service Center, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 34th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, April 2009 () PDF Web DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Constructing Sparse Kernel Machines Using Attractors Lee, D., Jung, K., Lee, J. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 20(4):721-729, April 2009 () Web DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Convex Perturbations for Scalable Semidefinite Programming Kulis, B., Sra, S., Dhillon, I. In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AIStats 2009), JMLR Workshop and Conference Proceedings Volume 5: AISTATS 2009, :296-303, (Editors: van Dyk, D. , M. Welling), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, Twelfth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, April 2009 () PDF Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Denoising photographs using dark frames optimized by quadratic programming Gomez Rodriguez, M., Kober, J., Schölkopf, B. In Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP 2009), :1-9, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA, First IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP 2009), April 2009 () PDF Web DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Efficient Graphlet Kernels for Large Graph Comparison Shervashidze, N., Vishwanathan, S., Petri, T., Mehlhorn, K., Borgwardt, K. In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AIStats 2009), JMLR Workshop and Conference Proceedings Volume 5: AISTATS 2009, :488-495, (Editors: Van Dyk, D. , M. Welling), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, Twelfth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, April 2009 () PDF Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Poster MR-Based Attenuation Correction for PET/MR Hofmann, M., Steinke, F., Bezrukov, I., Kolb, A., Aschoff, P., Lichy, M., Erb, M., Nägele, T., Brady, M., Schölkopf, B., et al. 17(260), 17th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM 2009), April 2009 () PDF Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper On Pairwise Kernels: An Efficient Alternative and Generalization Analysis Kashima, H., Oyama, S., Yamanishi, Y., Tsuda, K. In Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: 13th Pacific-Asia Conference, :1030-1037, (Editors: Theeramunkong, T. , B. Kijsirikul, N. Cercone, T. B. Ho), Springer, Berlin, Germany, PAKDD, April 2009 () PDF Web DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Online blind deconvolution for astronomical imaging Harmeling, S., Hirsch, M., Sra, S., Schölkopf, B. In Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference Computational Photography (ICCP 2009), :1-7, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA, First IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP 2009), April 2009 () PDF Web DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Optimal construction of k-nearest-neighbor graphs for identifying noisy clusters Maier, M., Hein, M., von Luxburg, U. Theoretical Computer Science, 410(19):1749-1764, April 2009 () PDF PDF DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Poster Optimization of k-Space Trajectories by Bayesian Experimental Design Seeger, M., Nickisch, H., Pohmann, R., Schölkopf, B. 17(2627), 17th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM 2009), April 2009 () PDF Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Overlap and refractory effects in a Brain-Computer Interface speller based on the visual P300 Event-Related Potential Martens, S., Hill, N., Farquhar, J., Schölkopf, B. Journal of Neural Engineering, 6(2):1-9, April 2009 () PDF DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper PAC-Bayesian Generalization Bound for Density Estimation with Application to Co-clustering Seldin, Y., Tishby, N. In In the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2009), JMLR Workshop and Conference Proceedings Volume 5: AISTATS 2009, :472-479, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, April 2009 () PDF Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Ph.D. Thesis Kernel Methods in Computer Vision:Object Localization, Clustering,and Taxonomy Discovery Blaschko, M. Biologische Kybernetik, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, March 2009 () PDF PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Gaussian Process Dynamic Programming Deisenroth, M., Rasmussen, C., Peters, J. Neurocomputing, 72(7-9):1508-1524, March 2009 () PDF PDF DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Nearest Neighbor Clustering: A Baseline Method for Consistent Clustering with Arbitrary Objective Functions Bubeck, S., von Luxburg, U. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 10:657-698, March 2009 () PDF Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Protein Functional Class Prediction With a Combined Graph Shin, H., Tsuda, K., Schölkopf, B. Expert Systems with Applications, 36(2):3284-3292, March 2009 () Web DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Towards quantitative PET/MRI: a review of MR-based attenuation correction techniques Hofmann, M., Pichler, B., Schölkopf, B., Beyer, T. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, 36(Supplement 1):93-104, March 2009 () PDF DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Automatic detection of preclinical neurodegeneration: Presymptomatic Huntington disease Klöppel, S., Chu, C., Tan, G., Draganski, B., Johnson, H., Paulsen, J., Kienzle, W., Tabrizi, S., Ashburner, J., Frackowiak, R. Neurology, 72(5):426-431, February 2009 () Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Enumeration of condition-dependent dense modules in protein interaction networks Georgii, E., Dietmann, S., Uno, T., Pagel, P., Tsuda, K. Bioinformatics, 25(7):933-940, February 2009 () Web DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Generating Spike Trains with Specified Correlation Coefficients Macke, J., Berens, P., Ecker, A., Tolias, A., Bethge, M. Neural Computation, 21(2):397-423, February 2009 () PDF Web DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Book Chapter Large Margin Methods for Part of Speech Tagging Altun, Y. In Automatic Speech and Speaker Recognition: Large Margin and Kernel Methods, :141-160, (Editors: Keshet, J. and Bengio, S.), Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, USA, January 2009 () Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Prototype Classification: Insights from Machine Learning Graf, A., Bousquet, O., Rätsch, G., Schölkopf, B. Neural Computation, 21(1):272-300, January 2009 () PDF Web DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article The DICS repository: module-assisted analysis of disease-related gene lists Dietmann, S., Georgii, E., Antonov, A., Tsuda, K., Mewes, H. Bioinformatics, 25(6):830-831, January 2009 () Web DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article 3D Brownian diffusion of submicron-sized particle clusters Hoffmann, M., Wagner, C. S., Harnau, L., Wittemann, A. ACS Nano, 3(10):3326-3334, 2009 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper A Fast, Consistent Kernel Two-Sample Test Gretton, A., Fukumizu, K., Harchaoui, Z., Sriperumbudur, B. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22: 23rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2009, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22, :673-681, (Editors: Bengio, Y. , D. Schuurmans, J. Lafferty, C. Williams, A. Culotta), Curran, Red Hook, NY, USA, 23rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2009), 2009 () PDF Web BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Article A Sensor-Based Learning Algorithm for the Self-Organization of Robot Behavior Hesse, F., Martius, G., Der, R., Herrmann, J. M. Algorithms, 2(1):398-409, 2009 () URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article A Swallowable Tethered Capsule Endoscope for Diagnosing Barrett’s Esophagus Glass, P., Sitti, M., Pennathur, A., Appasamy, R. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, 69(5):AB106, Mosby, 2009 () BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Conference Paper A miniature ceiling walking robot with flat tacky elastomeric footpads Unver, O., Sitti, M. In Robotics and Automation, 2009. ICRA’09. IEEE International Conference on, :2276-2281, 2009 () BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Conference Paper A novel artificial hair receptor based on aligned PVDF micro/nano fibers Weiting, L., Bilsay, S., Cesare, S., Arianna, M., Fei, L., Dajing, C., Paolo, D., Metin, S., Xin, F. In Robotics and Biomimetics, 2008. ROBIO 2008. IEEE International Conference on, :49-54, 2009 () BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article A scaled bilateral control system for experimental one-dimensional teleoperated nanomanipulation Onal, C. D., Sitti, M. The International Journal of Robotics Research, 28(4):484-497, Sage Publications, 2009 () BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Absolute Asymmetric Reduction Based on the Relative Orientation of Achiral Reactants Kuhn, A., Fischer, P. ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, 48(37):6857-6860, 2009 () DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Article Adaptive compliance control of a multi-legged stair-climbing robot based on proprioceptive data Waldron, K. J., Eich, M., Grimminger, F., Kirchner, F. Industrial Robot: An International Journal, 36:331-339, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, June 2009 () DOI BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Article Adaptive Frequency Oscillators and Applications Righetti, L., Buchli, J., Ijspeert, A. The Open Cybernetics \& Systemics Journal, 3:64-69, 2009 () URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Adhesion of biologically inspired polymer microfibers on soft surfaces Cheung, E., Sitti, M. Langmuir, 25(12):6613-6616, ACS Publications, 2009 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Augmenting Feature-driven fMRI Analyses: Semi-supervised learning and resting state activity Blaschko, M., Shelton, J., Bartels, A. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22: 23rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2009, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22, :126-134, (Editors: Bengio, Y. , D. Schuurmans, J. Lafferty, C. Williams, A. Culotta), Curran, Red Hook, NY, USA, 23rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2009), 2009 () PDF Web BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Conference Paper Automated 2-D nanoparticle manipulation with an atomic force microscope Onal, C. D., Ozcan, O., Sitti, M. In Robotics and Automation, 2009. ICRA’09. IEEE International Conference on, :1814-1819, 2009 () BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Ph.D. Thesis Bayesian Methods for Autonomous Learning Systems (Phd Thesis) Ting, J. Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 2009, clmc () PDF BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Technical Report Biologically Inspired Polymer Microfibrillar Arrays for Mask Sealing Cheung, E., Aksak, B., Sitti, M. CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA, 2009 () BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Biologically-Inspired Patterned and Coated Adhesives for Medical Devices Glass, P., Chung, H., Lee, C., Tworkoski, E., Washburn, N., Sitti, M. Journal of Medical Devices, 3(2):027537, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2009 () BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper CESAR: A lunar crater exploration and sample return robot Schwendner, J., Grimminger, F., Bartsch, S., Kaupisch, T., Yüksel, M., Bresser, A., Akpo, J. B., Seydel, M. K. -., Dieterle, A., Schmidt, S., et al. In 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, :3355-3360, October 2009 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Conference Paper Characterization of bacterial actuation of micro-objects Behkam, B., Sitti, M. In Robotics and Automation, 2009. ICRA’09. IEEE International Conference on, :1022-1027, 2009 () BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Compact models of motor primitive variations for predictible reaching and obstacle avoidance Stulp, F., Oztop, E., Pastor, P., Beetz, M., Schaal, S. In IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2009), Paris, Dec.7-10, 2009, clmc () URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Conference Paper Compliant footpad design analysis for a bio-inspired quadruped amphibious robot Park, H. S., Sitti, M. In Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2009. IROS 2009. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, :645-651, 2009 () BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Compliant quadruped locomotion over rough terrain Buchli, J., Kalakrishnan, M., Mistry, M., Pastor, P., Schaal, S. In Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2009. IROS 2009. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, :814-820, 2009, clmc () URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Article Computational models for neuromuscular function Valero-Cuevas, F., Hoffmann, H., Kurse, M. U., Kutch, J. J., Theodorou, E. A. IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering – (All authors have equally contributed), (2):110?135, 2009, clmc () URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Concept evaluation of a new biologically inspired robot “LittleApe” Kühn, D., Römmermann, M., Sauthoff, N., Grimminger, F., Kirchner, F. In 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, :589-594, October 2009 () DOI BibTeX