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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!

To enhance the interdisciplinary and international collaboration within our Transregional Research Centre (TRR 169) on "Crossmodal Learning", we released our first virtual lab-tour video to show our...

The Knowledge Technology team of the Informatics Department is co-organizing the 31st International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2022). ICANN is the annual flagship conference of...

Leyuan Qu successfully defended his doctoral thesis titled "Neural Network Learning for Robust Speech Recognition" on 15 December 2021. This thesis contributes to the robustness of ASR systems by...

Nicholas came and put some sweets in the kitchen of Knowledge Technology : )
The Knowledge Technology group wishes you a very happy St. Nicholas Day.

Dr. Philipp Allgeuer started working with us on 1 December 2021 as Research Associate for the project “Visuelle Bewegungskorrektur mit lernenden Robotern (KI-SIGS)” (Visual motion correction with...

Our paper "Continual lifelong learning with neural networks: A review" won the Neural Networks Best Paper Award. This award is given annually to an outstanding paper published in Neural Networks. The...

The Special Issue on Automated Perception of Human Affect from Longitudinal Behavioral Data has been published in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. The Knowledge Technology group contributed...

Prof. Igor Farkaš from Comenius University in Bratislava will give a talk in our group and our CML project.

Title: Elements of intelligence in cognitive robotics via cross-modal learning

Date...

Knowledge Technology, the European Neural Network Society (ENNS), and Comenius University congratulate the winners of the Best Paper Awards at the International Conference on Artificial Neural...

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We are pleased to announce that Knowledge Technology, the European Neural Network Society (ENNS), and Comenius University are organizing the International Conference on Artificial...

Knowledge Technology is commencing a new research project "Verification of learning AI applications (VeriKAS)".

PI: Prof. Dr. Stefan Wermter
Associates: Wenhao Lu, Dr. Sven Magg, Dr. Matthias Kerzel

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Knowledge Technology is commencing a new research project "LemonSpeech: Next Generation Speech Recognition and Speech Control for German".

Duration: August 1st, 2021 - July 31th, 2022
Mentor: Prof...

Our group member Fares Abawi participated and presented his work in the 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2021) on 19th -26th August 2021, in Montreal, Canada...

Knowledge Technology has got two papers presented at the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2021) on 23rd - 26th August 2021, in Beijing, China (online).

First Paper:
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Knowledge Technology got a new journal article published in Frontiers in Psychology. 

Title: The Embodied Crossmodal Self Forms Language and Interaction: A Computational Cognitive Review
Authors: Frank...

Knowledge Technology has got two papers accepted at the 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2021).

First Paper:
Title: Behavior Self-Organization Supports...

We published a new piece of software, WoZ4U, a remote-control interface for Softbank's Pepper robot. The interface was developed with the goal of being easy to set up and adjust, and comprises almost...

Knowledge Technology has got four papers accepted at the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2021).

1st Paper:
Title: Controlling the Noise Robustness of End-to-End Automatic...

The student team of the MSc program Intelligent Adaptive Systems (IAS) got their paper titled "An Immersive Investment Game to Study Human-Robot Trust" published in Frontiers in Robotics and AI...