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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...

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...

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 has a new paper published at RO-MAN 2023..

Title: The Emotional Dilemma: Influence of a Human-like Robot on Trust and Cooperation

Authors: Dennis Becker, Diana Rueda, Felix Beese, Brenda...

Our group has a new paper published at RO-MAN 2023..

Title: The Robot in the Room: Influence of Robot Facial Expressions and Gaze on Human-Human-Robot Collaboration

Authors: Di Fu, Fares Abawi, and...

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...