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Our journal article “Whose Emotion Matters? Speaking Activity Localisation without Prior Knowledge” is available online in Neurocomputing. In this study, we address the longstanding lack of reliable...

Our journal article “Learning Bidirectional Action-Language Translation with Limited Supervision and Testing with Incongruent Input” is available online in the international journal of Applied...

Our journal article “Snapture—a Novel Neural Architecture for Combined Static and Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition” is now available online in the journal Cognitive Computation. In this paper, we...

The Knowledge Technology group at the University of Hamburg announces the official release of the NICOL robot environment for the CoppeliaSim simulator. The open-source research platform NICOL...

Between September 26th-29th, Prof. Wermter and our group members Jan-Gerrit Habekost, Josua Spisak, Matthias Kerzel, Martin Gromniak, Theresa Pekarek Rosin, Patrick Eickhoff, Zeynep Birinci and...

Presentation of an experimental setup of  the NICOL robot by our scientific staff Philipp

The 2023 Summer School of the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre on "Crossmodal Learning" (CML) took...

On a sunny Tuesday in September, our group had a fun summer event playing "Boßeln" at Fischbeker Heide. Congratulations, team "Even" for winning!

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The Knowledge Technology (WTM) group in the Department of Computer Science has an immediate opening for a Student Assistant (40 hrs/month) to participate in research projects on the NICOL...

Our group members Mengdi Li and Xufeng Zhao participated in the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) on July 23-29 in Honolulu, Hawaii, US. The presented paper "Internally Rewarded...

Knowledge Technology has got a journal article published in Cognitive Computation.

Title: Snapture—a Novel Neural Architecture for Combined Static and Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition
Authors: Hassan...

Dr. Matthias Kerzel, together with Erik Strahl and Franziska Schmidt, won first place of the University Video competition in the category of computer science with their video "NICO Robot." The video...

We introduce the novel semi-humanoid NICOL, the Neuro-Inspired COLlaborator. NICOL is a large, newly designed, scaled-up version of its well-evaluated predecessor, the Neuro-Inspired COmpanion...

Between May 15th and May 17th, the Knowledge Technology group welcomed the partners of the Horizon Europe project TERAIS. During the 3-day field trip, the visitors were introduced to the group, the...

The Knowledge Technology group is holding the seminar “Explainability and Robot Learning”, promoted by the Horizon Europe project TERAIS (Towards Excellent Robotics and Artificial Intelligence at a...

Knowledge Technology has got a paper accepted at the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023). The conference will be held from the 23rd until 29th of July 2023 in Honolulu...

Knowledge Technology has got a journal article published in International Journal of Social Robotics.

Title: A trained humanoid robot can perform human-like crossmodal social attention and conflict...

Wishing you a blessed Easter from the Knowledge Technology team at Universität Hamburg!

Knowledge Technology is commencing a new research project "TRAIL: TRAnsparent, InterpretabLe Robots".

TRAIL is a new Doctoral Network project as Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action funded by the European...

The special session invites contributions on recent advances in neurorobotics. Neurorobotics brings together interdisciplinary research in machine learning, robotics and bio-inspired artificial...

Knowledge Technology has got a journal article published in ACM Computing Surveys.

Title: Explainable Goal-driven Agents and Robots - A Comprehensive Review
Authors: Fatai Sado, Chu Kiong Loo, Wei...

Knowledge Technology is commencing a new research project “MoReSpace” – Modeling a Robot’s Peripersonal Space and Body Schema for Adaptive Learning and Imitation.

The MoReSpace project is funded by...

Q&A session for the students and lab staff

On February 23rd, a group of high school students from Denmark visited the Knowledge Technology group for an interactive experience with robotics. Led by our...

After three years the "Unitag" was back at the Universität Hamburg. This is a day to let school students find the best-fitting subject to study. The Knowledge Technology group with Dr. Philipp...

Knowledge Technology has got a journal article published in Neural Networks. 

Title: Emphasizing unseen words: New vocabulary acquisition for end-to-end speech recognition
Authors: Leyuan Qu, Cornelius...

Knowledge Technology hosted the first internship student from school since March 2020. The student worked on two small robots with the goal of a collaborative task. Knowledge Technology is happy to be...

Merry Christmas and seasons greetings and a successful new year 2023 from the Knowledge Technology team at Universität Hamburg!

Knowledge Technology has got a journal article published in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.

Title: Adapting the Interplay between Personalized and Generalized Affect Recognition based on an...

Knowledge Technology is commencing a new research project "Towards Excellent Robotics and Artificial Intelligence at a Slovak university (TERAIS)".

The international project funded by the Horizon...

For this year's Christmas get-together, Knowledge Technology went to play „Eisstockschießen“ (sort-of-ice curling). It looks like both team Moon and team Star were enjoying the game :-)

Knowledge Technology has got a journal article published in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS).

Title: LipSound2: Self-Supervised Pre-Training for Lip-to-Speech...

The Knowledge Technology group participated in the Schnupperstudium 2022 at the University of Hamburg. In the Schnupperstudium students from schools have the opportunity to experience the university...

The project “Explainable Visual Question Answering” by Jakob Ambsdorf, Lukas Braach, Jae Hee Lee, and Björn Plüster builds upon the a recent vision-language Transformer-based neural model. The...

The European Neural Network Society (ENNS) has re-elected Prof. Dr. Stefan Wermter from the University of Hamburg, Department of Informatics, Knowledge Technology (WTM) as ENNS President until 2025...

We had a terrific summer barbecue that most of our team members were able to take part in.
Knowledge Technology hopes you enjoy the sunny summer : )

We just received and were handed over the Neural Networks Best Paper Award at the World Conference on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2022) in Padua for the paper "Continual Lifelong Learning with...

Daniel Speck and Zeynep Seda Birinci, students of the MSc program Intelligent Adaptive Systems (IAS), got their project “How green are we?” accepted by the ISA center (Center of Interdisciplinary...

Knowledge Technology has got two papers accepted at the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2022). The Conference has been held on June 20-25, 2022 at the Palais du Pharo...

Knowledge Technology has got a paper accepted at the main conference of the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2022) and a paper accepted at the IJCAI Workshop on...

A new video “Developing The Robot NICO" has been published on the Knowledge Technology Youtube channel. In this video, we show the growth of the humanoid robot NICO (Neuro-Inspired COmpanion). You...

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We took a new group photo where many of our current team members were able to take part.

We are pleased that our paper “Explain yourself! Effects of Explanations in Human-Robot Interaction” was accepted for presentation at the 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human...

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Dr. Xavier Hinaut from Inria at Bordeaux will give a talk in our group as part of the Neural Network MSc course.

Title: Echo State Networks and...

Knowledge Technology is seeking applications for an open position as a Research Associate for the Project “MoreSpace” - Modeling a Robot’s Peripersonal Space and Body Schema for Adaptive Learning and...

The eye tracker will be used to record human eye movements, including fixations, scanpaths, and pupil dilations, to train attention prediction computational models and utilized in the Human-Robot...

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Knowledge Technology got a new journal article published in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.

Title: Semantic Object Accuracy for...

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Knowledge Technology got a new journal article published in Nature Machine Intelligence.

Title: Intelligent problem-solving as integrated hierarchical reinforcement...

This edited e-book comprises articles featured in our research topics on Crossmodal Learning: Adaptivity, Prediction and Interaction. The book is now available online on our website and the Frontiers...

Our paper "CharacterGAN: Few-Shot Keypoint Character Animation and Reposing" won the Best Application Paper Award at WACV 2022. The award will be presented at WACV 2022 during January 5–7, in Hawaii...

Merry Christmas and seasons greetings and a successful new year 2022 from the Knowledge Technology team at Universität Hamburg!