DEPARTMENTS

Emperical Interference

Haptic Intelligence

Modern Magnetic Systems

Perceiving Systems

Physical Intelligence

Robotic Materials

Social Foundations of Computation


Research Groups

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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Robot Learning

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2022

Autonomous Learning

Robotics

AI

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Perceiving Systems Ph.D. Thesis Towards Geometric Understanding of Motion Ranjan, A. University of Tübingen, December 2019 () PhD Thesis BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Optimal experimental design via Bayesian optimization: active causal structure learning for Gaussian process networks von Kügelgen, J., Rubenstein, P. K., Schölkopf, B., Weller, A. NeurIPS 2019 Workshop Do the right thing: machine learning and causal inference for improved decision making, December 2019 (Published) arXiv Poster URL BibTeX

Statistical Learning Theory Conference Paper Foundations of Comparison-Based Hierarchical Clustering Ghoshdastidar, D., Perrot, M., von Luxburg, U. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 32 (NIPS 2019), NeurIPS, Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2019 (Published) URL BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Conference Paper Assessing Aesthetics of Generated Abstract Images Using Correlation Structure Khajehabdollahi, S., Martius, G., Levina, A. In Proceedings 2019 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), :306-313, IEEE, 2019 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), December 2019 () Arxiv DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Fisher Efficient Inference of Intractable Models Liu, S., Kanamori, T., Jitkrittum, W., Chen, Y. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 32 (NeurIPS 2019), :8790-8800, (Editors: H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and A. Beygelzimer and F. d’Alché-Buc and E. Fox and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 33rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2019 (Published) URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Modern Magnetic Systems Article Soft-magnetic coatings as possible sensors for magnetic imaging of superconductors Ionescu, A., Simmendinger, J., Bihler, M., Miksch, C., Fischer, P., Soltan, S., Schütz, G., Albrecht, J. Supercond. Sci. and Tech., 33:015002, IOP, December 2019 () DOI URL BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Using the fluctuation-dissipation theorem for nonconservative forces Asheichyk, K., Krüger, M. Physical Review Research, 1(3):033151, American Physical Society (APS), College Park, Maryland, United States, December 2019 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper A Model to Search for Synthesizable Molecules Bradshaw, J., Paige, B., Kusner, M. J., Segler, M., Hernández-Lobato, J. M. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 32 (NeurIPS 2019), :7935-7947, (Editors: H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and A. Beygelzimer and F. d’Alché-Buc and E. Fox and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 33rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2019 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Are Disentangled Representations Helpful for Abstract Visual Reasoning? van Steenkiste, S., Locatello, F., Schmidhuber, J., Bachem, O. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 32 (NeurIPS 2019), :14222-14235, (Editors: H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and A. Beygelzimer and F. d’Alché-Buc and E. Fox and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 33rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2019 (Published) URL BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Conference Paper Control What You Can: Intrinsically Motivated Task-Planning Agent Blaes, S., Vlastelica, M., Zhu, J., Martius, G. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2019), :12520-12531, Curran Associates, Inc., 33rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2019, Accepted (Accepted) PDF Supplementary material NeurIPS Page Project Page Video Poster BibTeX

Intelligent Control Systems Conference Paper Controlling Heterogeneous Stochastic Growth Processes on Lattices with Limited Resources Haksar, R., Solowjow, F., Trimpe, S., Schwager, M. In Proceedings of the 58th IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) , :1315-1322, 58th IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), December 2019 (Published) PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Probabilistic Numerics Conference Paper Convergence Guarantees for Adaptive Bayesian Quadrature Methods Kanagawa, M., Hennig, P. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 32 (NeurIPS 2019), :6234-6245, (Editors: H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and A. Beygelzimer and F. d’Alché-Buc and E. Fox and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 33rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2019 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Exploiting the modularity of deep networks to generate visual counterfactuals Besserve, M., Mehrjou, A., Sun, R., Schölkopf, B. NeurIPS 2019 - Workshop on Shared Visual Representations in Human & Machine Intelligence, December 2019 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Flex-Convolution Groh*, F., Wieschollek*, P., Lensch, H. P. A. Computer Vision - ACCV 2018 - 14th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, 11361:105-122, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (Editors: Jawahar, C. V. and Li, Hongdong and Mori, Greg and Schindler, Konrad), Springer International Publishing, December 2019, *equal contribution (Published) DOI BibTeX

Article Growing the Humanoid Robotics Community Righetti, L., Sugihara, T., Metta, G., Yamane, K. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 26:136-137, December 2019 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Hierarchical Task-Parameterized Learning from Demonstration for Collaborative Object Movement Hu, S., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Applied Bionics and Biomechanics, (9765383), December 2019 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Invert to Learn to Invert Putzky, P., Welling, M. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 32 (NeurIPS 2019), :444-454, (Editors: H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and A. Beygelzimer and F. d’Alché-Buc and E. Fox and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 33rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2019 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Kernel Stein Tests for Multiple Model Comparison Lim, J. N., Yamada, M., Schölkopf, B., Jitkrittum, W. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 32 (NeurIPS 2019), :2240-2250, (Editors: H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and A. Beygelzimer and F. d’Alché-Buc and E. Fox and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 33rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2019 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Probabilistic Numerics Conference Paper Limitations of the empirical Fisher approximation for natural gradient descent Kunstner, F., Hennig, P., Balles, L. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 32 (NeurIPS 2019), :4158-4169, (Editors: H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and A. Beygelzimer and F. d’Alché-Buc and E. Fox and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 33rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2019 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Talk Multivariate coupling estimation between continuous signals and point processes Safavi, S., Logothetis, N., Besserve, M. Neural Information Processing Systems 2019 - Workshop on Learning with Temporal Point Processes, December 2019 (Published) Talk video URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper On the Fairness of Disentangled Representations Locatello, F., Abbati, G., Rainforth, T., Bauer, S., Schölkopf, B., Bachem, O. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 32 (NeurIPS 2019), :14584-14597, (Editors: H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and A. Beygelzimer and F. d’Alché-Buc and E. Fox and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 33rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2019 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Optics and Sensing Laboratory Autonomous Motion Conference Paper On the Transfer of Inductive Bias from Simulation to the Real World: a New Disentanglement Dataset Gondal, M. W., Wüthrich, M., Miladinovic, D., Locatello, F., Breidt, M., Volchkov, V., Akpo, J., Bachem, O., Schölkopf, B., Bauer, S. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 32 (NeurIPS 2019), :15714-15725, (Editors: H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and A. Beygelzimer and F. d’Alché-Buc and E. Fox and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 33rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2019 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Perceiving the arrow of time in autoregressive motion Meding, K., Janzing, D., Schölkopf, B., Wichmann, F. A. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 32 (NeurIPS 2019), :2303-2314, (Editors: H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and A. Beygelzimer and F. d’Alché-Buc and E. Fox and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 33rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2019 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Practical and Consistent Estimation of f-Divergences Rubenstein, P. K., Bousquet, O., Djolonga, J., Riquelme, C., Tolstikhin, I. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 32 (NeurIPS 2019), :4072-4082, (Editors: H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and A. Beygelzimer and F. d’Alché-Buc and E. Fox and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 33rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2019 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Ph.D. Thesis Real Time Probabilistic Models for Robot Trajectories Gomez-Gonzalez, S. Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, December 2019 (Published) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Ph.D. Thesis Robot Learning for Muscular Systems Büchler, D. Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, December 2019 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Selecting causal brain features with a single conditional independence test per feature Mastakouri, A., Schölkopf, B., Janzing, D. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 32 (NeurIPS 2019), :12532-12543, (Editors: H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and A. Beygelzimer and F. d’Alché-Buc and E. Fox and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 33rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2019 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Stochastic Frank-Wolfe for Composite Convex Minimization Locatello, F., Yurtsever, A., Fercoq, O., Cevher, V. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 32 (NeurIPS 2019), :14246-14256, (Editors: H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and A. Beygelzimer and F. d’Alché-Buc and E. Fox and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 33rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2019 (Published) URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Acoustic hologram enhanced phased arrays for ultrasonic particle manipulation Cox, L., Melde, K., Croxford, A., Fischer, P., Drinkwater, B. Phys. Rev. Applied, 12:064055, November 2019 () DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper Deep Neural Network Approach in Electrical Impedance Tomography-Based Real-Time Soft Tactile Sensor Park, H., Lee, H., Park, K., Mo, S., Kim, J. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), (999):7447-7452, IEEE, 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), November 2019 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Improving Local Trajectory Optimisation using Probabilistic Movement Primitives Shyam, R. A., Lightbody, P., Das, G., Liu, P., Gomez-Gonzalez, S., Neumann, G. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), :2666-2671, IEEE, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2019 (IROS) , November 2019 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Experience Reuse with Probabilistic Movement Primitives Stark, S., Peters, J., Rueckert, E. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), :1210-1217, IEEE, November 2019 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Conference Paper Learning to Explore in Motion and Interaction Tasks Bogdanovic, M., Righetti, L. Proceedings 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), :2686-2692, IEEE, 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), November 2019, ISSN: 2153-0866 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Autonomous Vision Conference Paper Attacking Optical Flow Ranjan, A., Janai, J., Geiger, A., Black, M. J. In Proceedings International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), :2404-2413, IEEE, 2019 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), November 2019, ISSN: 2380-7504 (Published) Video Project Page Paper Supplementary Material DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous A Fabric-based Scalable Robotic Skin Mimicking Biological Tactile Hyperacuity Lee, H., Park, K., Kim, J., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Workshop paper (3 pages) presented at the IROS RoboTac Workshop on New Advances in Tactile Sensation, Perception, and Learning in Robotics: Emerging Materials and Technologies for Manipulation, November 2019, Co-Winner of the Award for Best Poster (Published) BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper AirCap – Aerial Outdoor Motion Capture Ahmad, A., Price, E., Tallamraju, R., Saini, N., Lawless, G., Ludwig, R., Martinovic, I., Bülthoff, H. H., Black, M. J. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2019), Workshop on Aerial Swarms, November 2019 () Talk slides BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Chance-Constrained Trajectory Optimization for Non-linear Systems with Unknown Stochastic Dynamics Celik, O., Abdulsamad, H., Peters, J. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), :6828-6833, IEEE, November 2019 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article Decoding subcategories of human bodies from both body- and face-responsive cortical regions Foster, C., Zhao, M., Romero, J., Black, M. J., Mohler, B. J., Bartels, A., Bülthoff, I. NeuroImage, 202(15):116085, November 2019 () paper pdf DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Deep Lagrangian Networks for end-to-end learning of energy-based control for under-actuated systems Lutter, M., Listmann, K., Peters, J. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), :7718-7725, IEEE, November 2019 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Intelligent Control Systems Article Fast Feedback Control over Multi-hop Wireless Networks with Mode Changes and Stability Guarantees Baumann, D., Mager, F., Jacob, R., Thiele, L., Zimmerling, M., Trimpe, S. ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, 4(2):18, November 2019 (Published) arXiv PDF DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Generalized Multiple Correlation Coefficient as a Similarity Measurement between Trajectories Urain, J., Peters, J. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), :1363-1369, IEEE, November 2019 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous HuggieChest: An Inflatable Haptic Sensing Chest for a Hugging Robot Block, A. E., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Workshop paper (4 pages) presented at the IROS RoboTac Workshop on New Advances in Tactile Sensation, Perception, and Learning in Robotics: Emerging Materials and Technologies for Manipulation, November 2019 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Interactive Augmented Reality for Robot-Assisted Surgery Forte, M., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Workshop extended abstract presented as a podium presentation at the IROS Workshop on Legacy Disruptors in Applied Telerobotics, Macau, November 2019 (Published) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Multimodal Uncertainty Reduction for Intention Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction Trick, S., Koert, D., Peters, J., Rothkopf, C. A. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), :7009-7016, IEEE, November 2019 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Perception-based Biomechanical Model Reduction for Needle Insertion Training Simulator Gourishetti, R., Manivannan, M. Poster presentation at Dynamics of Vision and Touch Workshop, Uchisar, Turkey, November 2019 (Published) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Receding Horizon Curiosity Schultheis, M., Belousov, B., Abdulsamad, H., Peters, J. Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 100:1278-1288, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Leslie Pack Kaelbling and Danica Kragic and Komei Sugiura), PMLR, November 2019 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Reinforcement Learning of Trajectory Distributions: Applications in Assisted Teleoperation and Motion Planning Ewerton, M., Guilherme, M., Koert, D., Kolev, Z., Takahashi, M., Peters, J. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), :4294-4300, IEEE, November 2019 (Published) DOI BibTeX