News29 November 2023|EventTRAIL Project: First Network Meeting In ManchesterPhoto: UHH Knowledge Technology 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...23 November 2023|EventJournal Article on Speaking Activity Localisation without Prior KnowledgePhoto: UHH Knowledge Technology 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...22 November 2023|EventJournal Article Available Online on Robotic Object Manipulation with Language In- and OutputPhoto: UHH Knowledge Technology 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...20 November 2023|EventJournal Article on Gesture Recognition Available OnlinePhoto: UHH Knowledge Technology 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...9 November 2023|EventKnowledge Technology Releases NICOL Robot Simulation Repository for CoppeliaSimPhoto: UHH Knowledge Technology 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...26 September 2023|EventKnowledge Technology at ICANN 2023Photo: UHH Knowledge Technology 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...21 September 2023|EventCML Lab Visit at Knowledge TechnologyPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyPresentation 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...19 September 2023|EventKnowledge Technology Summer ExcursionPhoto: UHH Knowledge Technology On a sunny Tuesday in September, our group had a fun summer event playing "Boßeln" at Fischbeker Heide. Congratulations, team "Even" for winning!15 September 2023|EventOpen Position: Student Assistant Working on the NICOL RobotPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyDescription: 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...1 August 2023|EventKnowledge Technology at ICML 2023Photo: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyOur 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...18 July 2023|EventNew Paper Published in Cognitive Computation JournalPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyKnowledge Technology has got a journal article published in Cognitive Computation. Title: Snapture—a Novel Neural Architecture for Combined Static and Dynamic Hand Gesture RecognitionAuthors: Hassan...10 July 2023|EventNICO Robot: Winner of the Video Contest in the Category InformaticsPhoto: UHH/Knowledge Technology 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...30 June 2023|EventThe Novel Robot NICOLPhoto: UHH/Knowledge Technology 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...19 June 2023|EventTERAIS Visit and Field Trip at Knowledge TechnologyPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyBetween 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...12 May 2023|EventExplainability and Robot Learning Seminar at Knowledge TechnologyPhoto: terais.euThe 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...10 May 2023|EventAccepted Paper at ICML 2023Photo: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyKnowledge 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...11 April 2023|EventNew Article Published in International Journal of Social RoboticsPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyKnowledge 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...7 April 2023|EventHappy Easter from the Knowledge Technology TeamPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyWishing you a blessed Easter from the Knowledge Technology team at Universität Hamburg!6 April 2023|EventNew Project: "TRAIL: TRAnsparent, InterpretabLe Robots"Photo: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyKnowledge 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...23 March 2023|EventCall for Papers: Special Session on Neurorobotics at ICANN 2023Photo: UHH/Knowledge Technology The special session invites contributions on recent advances in neurorobotics. Neurorobotics brings together interdisciplinary research in machine learning, robotics and bio-inspired artificial...7 March 2023|EventNew Article Published in ACM Computing Surveys on Explainable AgentsPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyKnowledge Technology has got a journal article published in ACM Computing Surveys. Title: Explainable Goal-driven Agents and Robots - A Comprehensive ReviewAuthors: Fatai Sado, Chu Kiong Loo, Wei...2 March 2023|EventNew Project: “Modeling a Robot’s Peripersonal Space and Body Schema for Adaptive Learning and Imitation (MoReSpace)"Photo: activeself.deKnowledge 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...25 February 2023|EventStudents from Denmark Visit Knowledge TechnologyPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyQ&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...24 February 2023|EventKnowledge Technology Shows NICO at Unitag 2023Photo: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyAfter 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...20 February 2023|EventNew Article on Speech Recognition Published in Neural NetworksPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyKnowledge Technology has got a journal article published in Neural Networks. Title: Emphasizing unseen words: New vocabulary acquisition for end-to-end speech recognitionAuthors: Leyuan Qu, Cornelius...20 January 2023|EventInternship School Student Works on Collaborating RobotsPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyKnowledge 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...23 December 2022|EventMerry Christmas from the Knowledge Technology TeamPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyMerry Christmas and seasons greetings and a successful new year 2023 from the Knowledge Technology team at Universität Hamburg!9 December 2022|EventNew Article Published in IEEE Transactions on Affective ComputingPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyKnowledge 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...5 December 2022|EventTERAIS - A New Horizon Europe Funded Project for Cognitive Robotics ResearchPhoto: TERAIS ProjectKnowledge 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...30 November 2022|EventKnowledge Technology Team on the IcePhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyFor 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 :-)17 November 2022|EventNew Article on Lip Reading in IEEE Journal TNNLSPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyKnowledge 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...19 October 2022|EventKnowledge Technology at Schnupperstudium 2022Photo: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyThe 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...17 October 2022|Event"Explainable Visual Question Answering" - Student Project Funded by University of HamburgPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyThe 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...13 September 2022|EventProf. Stefan Wermter elected ENNS PresidentPhoto: e-nns.orgThe 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...2 August 2022|EventSummer BarbecuePhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyWe 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 : )25 July 2022|EventNeural Networks Best Paper Award Received at WCCI 2022Photo: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyWe 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...20 July 2022|Event“How Green are We?” - Student Project Funded by University of HamburgPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyDaniel 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...12 July 2022|EventAccepted Papers at LREC 2022Photo: Hessian Parliament Public DataKnowledge 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...9 July 2022|EventAccepted Papers at IJCAI 2022Photo: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyKnowledge 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...1 July 2022|EventNew Video Published: Developing The Robot NICOPhoto: UHH/Knowledge Technology 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...29 June 2022|EventNew Group PhotoPhoto: UHH/Knowledge Technology Photo: UHH/Knowledge Technology We took a new group photo where many of our current team members were able to take part.28 June 2022|EventMSc Project Paper Accepted at RO-MAN 2022Photo: UHH/Knowledge Technology 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...27 June 2022|EventTalk by Dr. Xavier HinautPhoto: https://sites.google.com/site/xavierhinaut Photo: https://sites.google.com/site/xavierhinaut 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...13 June 2022|EventOpen Position in Project MoreSpacePhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyKnowledge 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...14 April 2022|EventNew Equipment: Eye TrackerPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyThe 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...7 February 2022|EventArticle Published in TPAMIPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyPhoto: UHH/Knowledge Technology Knowledge Technology got a new journal article published in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. Title: Semantic Object Accuracy for...2 February 2022|EventNature Machine Intelligence Article PublishedPhoto: UHH/Knowledge Technology Photo: UHH/Knowledge Technology Knowledge Technology got a new journal article published in Nature Machine Intelligence. Title: Intelligent problem-solving as integrated hierarchical reinforcement...12 January 2022|EventBook Published: Crossmodal Learning: Adaptivity, Prediction and InteractionPhoto: frontiersin.orgThis 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...5 January 2022|EventBest Application Paper Award at WACV 2022Photo: wacv2022.thecvf.com 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...23 December 2021|EventMerry Christmas from the Knowledge Technology TeamPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyMerry Christmas and seasons greetings and a successful new year 2022 from the Knowledge Technology team at Universität Hamburg!Show all news