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On April 3rd, 2025, our department once again welcomed schoolgirls to the Informatikum for Girls' Day—a nationwide initiative aimed at introducing young women to the world of computer science. The day...

ICANN'25 will feature a Special Session on Neurorobotics that brings together experts in machine learning, robotics, and bio-inspired artificial intelligence. This session highlights pioneering...

We are excited to announce that Prof. Dr. Jun Tani from the Cognitive Neurorobotics Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology will be giving a talk titled "Development of Compositionality...

The TRAIL project (Transparent Interpretable Robots), part of the EC-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action, has reached a major milestone as it approaches the successful completion of its first half...

Our group member Philipp Allgeuer introduced the newly released state-of-the-art NOVIC model at WACV 2025 in Tucson, Arizona. NOVIC can generate precise, fine-grained textual classification labels in...

Social aWareness for sErvicE roboTs (SWEET) is a new 4 year project for a Doctoral Network with Doctoral Candidates funded by the EU under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. We started the project...

Our group has a new paper published in ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI). Here's more information about the paper:

Title: Influence of Robots’ Voice Naturalness on Trust and...

We had a very successful meeting for the VeriKAS project on the 23rd of January in Hamburg. With the tremendous success of data-driven approaches in neural networks for detection, decision-making and...

We have now released a new video of our humanoid robot NICOL. The underlying research was presented by our group member Jan-Gerrit Habekost at the IROS´24 conference.

Title: Inverse Kinematics for...

Our group has a new paper published in the journal Neural Computing and Applications.

Title: FabuLight-ASD: unveiling speech activity via body language

Authors: Hugo Carneiro, Stefan Wermter 

We...

Merry Christmas and season's greetings and a successful New Year 2025 from the Knowledge Technology team at Universität Hamburg!

During the Christmas season, our group hosted an "International Potluck Dinner." Each person brought a dish from their traditional cuisine, we exchanged gifts and we enjoyed a wonderful time...

On 16.12.2024, our colleague Fares Abawi had the successful defense of his doctoral thesis "Multimodal Social Cue Integration for Attention Modeling and Robot Gaze Control". We congratulate him for...

Our group members Hassan Ali, Josua Spisak and Kun Chu presented their papers at the Humanoids'24 conference in Nancy, France. Here is more information about the papers:

Paper 1

Title: Robots Can...

On November 28-29, the TRR 169 Crossmodal Learning: Adaptivity, Prediction and Interaction project symposium was held at our university. Each day of the symposium began with keynote speeches...

On 05.12.2024, our colleague Ozan Özdemir had the successful defense of his doctoral thesis "Embodied Crossmodal Language Learning Using Neurocognitively Plausible Mechanisms". We congratulate him...

Our group has a new paper published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). Here's more information about the paper:

Title: QT-TDM: Planning With Transformer Dynamics Model and Autoregressive...

Our group members Theresa-Pekarek Rosin, Xiaowen Sun and Hassan Ali presented their papers at the ICSR'24 conference in Odense, Denmark. Here is more information about the papers:

Title: A Framework...

Our group members Ozan Özdemir and Connor Gäde attended the ESANN'24 conference in Bruges, Belgium. (October 9-11 2024). They presented their paper "Embodying Language Models In Robot Action". Here...

In Lugano, at the 33rd International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Philipp Allgeuer received the Springer Best Paper Award from program chair Michael Wand for the paper “When Robots Get...

Our group members Xiaowen Sun and Philipp Allgeuer presented their papers at the ICANN'24 conference in Lugano, Switzerland. Here is more information about the papers:

Title: Details Make a...

This week, we held a very successful meeting for the TRAIL EU project on Transparent Interpretable Robots during the 33rd International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2024) in...

From project TERAIS, Lukáš Gajdošech (Comenius University, Bratislava) has joined our group for two weeks in September, 2024. During this time, Lukáš brought his expertise in 3D vision—his PhD...

From our Knowledge Technology group, Dr. Jae Hee Lee co-organized the 3rd International Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Reasoning and Learning (STRL 2024) with our collaborator Michael Sioutis...

The 33rd International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks will take place on September 17-20th in Lugano, Switzerland. The conference is organized by the European Neural Network Society (ENNS)...

We have a paper accepted at ICANN 2024 which will take place in Lugano, Switzerland. Here is more information about the paper:

Title: When Robots Get Chatty: Grounding Multimodal Human-Robot...

Our group has a new paper published in the journal Transactions on Machine Learning Research.

Title: Read Between the Layers: Leveraging Multi-Layer Representations for Rehearsal-Free Continual...

This summer, our Knowledge Technology group co-organized the multidisciplinary Trustworthy Human-Robot Interaction Summer School (THRISS) in Bratislava, Slovakia. From June 10th to 13th, 2024...

Excellent late-breaking news from the IEEE IJCNN conference for us. 2024 Runner-Up Best Student Paper Award at IJCNN Yokohama! Congratulations on winning the 2024 Runner-Up Best Student Paper Award...

Today, we had a new group photo taken in which most of our members were here to take part.

Our group has a new paper published in IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems. The paper introduces a novel approach for continual, multi-task robot learning, enabling a humanoid...

On 04.06.2024, our colleague Mengdi Li had the successful defense of his doctorate thesis "Active Vision for Embodied Agents Using Reinforcement Learning". We congratulate him for his graduation and...

Our group member Josua Spisak attended the ICDL 2024  in Austin, Texas, USA. He presented the paper "Robotic Imitaiton of Human Actions" which will be published as a full paper. Here's more...

Our group has a new paper published in Natural Language Processing Journal by Elsevier.

Title: Enabling action crossmodality for a pretrained large language model

Authors: Anton Caesar, Ozan Özdemir...

This week we held our workshop meeting in the TRAIL EU project on Transparent Interpretable Robots in Barcelona. It was a great opportunity for the doctoral candidates to present their research and...

Our group member Wenhao Lu clinched a success at the Causal Learning and Reasoning Conference (CLeaR) 2024 in Los Angeles, USA (01 - 03 April). He presented his work on locally explaining...

During this year's Schnupperstudium, the Human Robot Interaction Master Project team presented visiting high school students with a demo of their experiment, allowing them to interact with our NICO...

Our group members Fares Abawi and Di Fu attended the HRI '24 conference in Boulder, CO, USA. (March 12-13 2024). They presented the following papers:

"Wrapyfi: A Python Wrapper for Integrating...

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We are currently running our experiment for the Human Robot Interaction Master Project under the supervision of the WTM group. We are studying the cooperation with a robotic personal assistant...

Our group has a new article available online in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications.

Title: Neuro-Symbolic Spatio-Temporal Reasoning

Authors: Jae Hee Lee, Michael Sioutis, Kyra...

Our group members Jae Hee Lee and Kyra Ahrens attended the EMNLP 2023 conference in Singapore (December 6-10, 2023). They presented their paper “Visually Grounded Continual Language Learning with...

The Knowledge Technology team took part in the TERAIS consortium meeting, which was held in Bratislava from the 16th to the 17th of January 2024. Representatives from all the TERAIS partner...

Our human participant study as Late-Breaking Results (LBR) and our code contribution Wrapyfi framework was accepted at the Human Robot Interaction Conference HRI ‘24 (Boulder, CO, USA) conference.

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Merry Christmas and seasons greetings and a successful new year 2024 from the Knowledge Technology team at Universität Hamburg!

Under the project TERAIS, Knowledge Technology is co-organizing the Trustworthy Human-Robot Interaction Summer School (THRISS) in 2024 in Bratislava. THRISS will take place on 10–13 June 2024 at the...

During the Christmas season, our group has celebrated an "International Potluck Dinner". Everyone brought some of their traditional food, we gave presents to each other, played some games and...

Our group has a new paper published in EMNLP2023.

Title: Visually Grounded Continual Language Learning with Selective Specialization

Authors: Kyra Ahrens, Lennart Bengtson, Jae Hee Lee, Stefan Wermter

The first meeting of the TRAIL project took place in Manchester (UK) between November 20th-21st. TRAIL is a new EU project which focuses on Transparent, InterpretabLe Robots. It is a Doctoral Network...

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...