News (2017)21 December 2017|EventStudent project group set out their research plansPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyOn 21st Dec, Knowledge Technology's student project group on Human Robot Interaction presented the initial research plans for a multimodal interactive game with NICO. Knowldge Technology wishes you a...13 December 2017|EventAccepted Paper at LREC 2018Photo: LREC websiteKnowledge Technology has got a paper accepted at the 11th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC).Title: Annotation and Modelling of Discourse Compositionality: A Context-based Approach...8 December 2017|EventNICO Featured in IEEE SpectrumPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyOur group's NICO robot was featured in IEEE Spectrum for being among the three finalists for “Best Humanoid Photo”. The photo contest was held by the IEEE RAS International Conference on Humanoid...1 December 2017|EventKnowledge Technology at EUCognition 2017Photo: EUCognition websiteOn Nov 23rd-24th, our group members Dr Pablo Barros and Dr Doreen Jirak participated in the Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Systems (EUCOG2017) in Zürich, Switzerland. The presented...29 November 2017|EventKnowledge Technology at DGR Days 2017Photo: uni-bremen.deOn Nov 28th, our group member Dr Matthias Kerzel participated in the 2017 DRG Days (German Society for Robotics) at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Bremen, Germany. Dr Kerzel gave a...24 November 2017|EventNICO under the best of four in humanoid photo contestPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyOur group Neuro-Inspired COmpanion robot (NICO) made it onto the shortlist of the four most popular pictures in the category of "best humanoid photo" in a contest held by the Humanoids 2017...24 November 2017|EventKnowledge Technology at Humanoids 2017Photo: Humanoids websiteOn 15th-17th Nov, our group member Dr Matthias Kerzel participated in the IEEE RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids) in Birmingham, UK. The presented paper featured our recent...20 November 2017|EventTeaching Robots with Interactive Reinforcement Learning wins the LA-CCI Theses ContestPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyOur group member Francisco Cruz participated in the PhD Thesis Contest of the 4th IEEE Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence (LA-CCI) this month in Arequipa, Peru. His thesis...17 November 2017|EventCall for Papers - Special Issue on Crossmodal LearningPhoto: ElsevierKnowledge Technology is announcing a Special Issue on Computational Models for Crossmodal Learning of the Cognitive Systems Research Journal. I. Aim and Scope The ability of processing...2 November 2017|EventSOCRATES project meeting in BarcelonaPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyIn October 2017, at a project meeting of the SOCRATES project in Barcelona, PhD students Alexander Sutherland and Henrique Siqueira from the Knowledge Technology research group of the Universität...23 October 2017|EventKnowledge Technology at HAI 2017Photo: HAI websiteOn Oct 17th - 20th, our group members Nikhil Churamani, Dr Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero, Dr German I. Parisi, and Prof Stefan Wermter participated in the 5th International Conference on Human-Agent...19 October 2017|EventKnowledge Technology Poster on Neural Attention Mechanisms wins 3rd Prize at EXPOPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologySebastian Springenberg won a cash prize at the EXPO 2017, October 18, which is organized anually at the Informatikum. His Independent Studies work on "Attention Mechanisms in Neural Encoder-Decoder...18 October 2017|EventKnowledge Technology students at EXPO 2017Photo: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyOn Oct 18th Knowledge Technology students participated in the Expo 2017 at the Informatics department of the University of Hamburg. Aleksej Logacjov presented his Bachelor thesis on "Künstliche...22 September 2017|EventKnowledge Technology at ICDL-EpiRob 2017Photo: ICDL-EpiRob websiteOn Sep 18th - 21st, our group members Dr Pablo Barros, Dr Francisco Cruz, Burhan Hafez, Dr Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero, Dr German I. Parisi, Johannes Twiefel, and Prof Stefan Wermter participated in the...30 May 2017|EventIntelligent Social Robots Workshop at RO-MAN 2017Photo: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyKnowledge Technology is co-organizing a workshop at the 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN). The workshop titled "Towards Intelligent Social Robots...27 April 2017|EventKnowledge Technology at the GirlsDayPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyThe Knowledge Technology group presented results with neural network architectures for perception and robot grasping at the Girls Day 2017 to motivate joung female school students to study computer...24 April 2017|EventDoctoral Thesis Defense of Doreen JirakPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyDoreen Jirak defended her doctoral thesis "Inspection of echo state networks for dynamic gestures" successfully.30 March 2017|EventStudent project group prepares for final presentation with NICO robotPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyThe student team of the Human-Robot-Interaction project prepares for the final presentation together with the NICO robot. Be invited to join the presentation and watch the NICO performing in a...10 March 2017|EventDoctoral Thesis Defense of German ParisiPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyPhD student German I. Parisi defended his doctoral thesis "Multimodal Learning of Actions with Deep Neural Network Self-Organization" successfully. German was working within the context of the...22 February 2017|EventKnowledge Technology presents neural networks running on Nao robots at the "Unitag"Photo: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyThe Knowledge Technology group presented some of the group's work at the Unitag 2017 to motivate secondary school students to start studying computer science at the University of Hamburg. This time we...16 February 2017|EventKnowledge Technology and the Hamburg Bit-Bots receive a TITAN XPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyWe are grateful to receive a GeForce TITAN X Pascal GPU by the NVIDIA Corporation. The donation is meant to foster the research into convolutional deep learning neural networks and their use for...