News (2018)13 December 2018|EventDoctoral Thesis Defense of Luiza MiciPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyLuiza Mici defended her doctoral thesis "Unsupervised Learning of Human-Object Interactions with Neural Network Self-Organization". For details, check here.12 December 2018|EventArticle AcceptedPhoto: springer.comKnowledge Technology got a new journal article accepted in Neural Computing and Applications. Title: Understanding auditory representations of emotional expressions with neural networks Authors: Iris...22 November 2018|EventCall for Papers - Special Issue on Deep Representation and Transfer Learning for Smart and Connected HealthPhoto: ieee.orgKnowledge Technology is announcing a Special Issue on "Deep Representation and Transfer Learning for Smart and Connected Health" in the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (IEEE...22 November 2018|EventNew Project: "Ideomotor Transfer for Active Self-emergence (IDEAS)"Photo: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyKnowledge Technolog members Dr. Manfred Eppe and Prof. Stefan Wermter got a new research project "Ideomotor Transfer for Active Self-emergence (IDEAS)" accepted. PIs: Dr. Manfred Eppe, Prof. Dr...16 November 2018|EventArticle AcceptedPhoto: ELSEVIERKnowledge Technology got a new journal article accepted in Neurocomputing. Title: Localizing Salient Body Motion in Multi-Person Scenes Using Convolutional Neural Networks Authors: Florian Letsch...26 October 2018|EventAnnouncing OMG-Empathy ChallengePhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyKnowledge Technology is organizing the One-Minute Gradual-Empathy Prediction (OMG-Empathy) Challenge. The challenge is held in partnership with the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and...16 October 2018|EventAccepted Paper at Humanoids 2018Photo: http://humanoids2018.csp.escience.cnKnowledge Technology has got a paper accepted at the 2018 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2018). The paper is a collaboration between the Ph.D. students Henrique...12 October 2018|EventNew Project: "The Neural Microcircuits of Problem-solving and Goal-directed Behaviour"Photo: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyKnowledge Technolog members Dr. Manfred Eppe and Prof. Stefan Wermter have been awarded a grant within the Experiment! programme of the Volkswagen Stiftung (acceptance rate < 5%) to start a new...9 October 2018|EventKnowledge Technology receives Best Paper Award at ICANN 2018Photo: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyKnowledge Technology group members Dr. Manfred Eppe, Tayfun Alpay and Prof. Stefan Wermter received the Best Paper Award at the 27th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN) for...9 October 2018|EventKnowledge Technology student receives ENNS Student Travel AwardPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyKnowledge Technology student Daniel Speck has won an ENNS Student Travel Award for his paper De-noise-GAN: De-noising Images to Improve RoboCup Soccer Ball Detection at the International Conference on...8 October 2018|EventKnowledge Technology at ICANN 2018Photo: e-nns.orgOn Oct 4th-7th, the Knowledge Technology team presented 5 research contributions as papers at the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2018) in Rhodes, Greece. Below is a list...30 September 2018|EventKnowledge Technology at European Researchers' Night 2018Photo: secure-robots.euKnowledge Technology members Mohammad Ali Zamani, Egor Lakomkin and Hadi Beik Mohammadi demonstrated the project "robot that learns how to perform language instructions" in ‘Science is Wonder-ful!’...24 September 2018|EventKnowledge Technology at ICDL-EpiRob 2018Photo: icdl-epirob2018.ogata-lab.jpOn Sep 17th - 20th, our group member Dr. Stefan Heinrich presented a contribution in the 8th Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on EpiGenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob) at...7 September 2018|EventTutorial on Continual Lifelong Learning with Neural NetworksPhoto: innsbddl2019.orgKnowledge Technology is organizing a tutorial on Continual Lifelong Learning with Neural Networks at the 2019 INNS Big Data and Deep Learning (INNSBDDL 2019) conference. The conference will be held on...15 July 2018|EventInvited Talks of 2018Photo: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyIn the summer 2018 Prof Wermter gave several talks and invited talks at various conferences and workshops, including the Wallenberg Symposium on Morphological and Embodied in Computing in Gothemburg...15 July 2018|EventKnowledge Technology at "Tag des Wissens"Photo: UHH/Knowledge-TechnologyAt the "Tag des Wissens" (Day of Knowledge) Knowledge Technology presented some work of the group around neural networks and demonstrated the NICO robot. The event took place at the 20th of September...14 July 2018|EventAccepted Paper at EMNLP 2018Photo: emnlp2018.orgKnowledge Technology has got a paper accepted at the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP2018). Title: KT-Speech-Crawler: Automatic Dataset Construction for Speech...14 July 2018|EventAccepted Papers at IROS 2018Photo: iros2018.orgKnowledge Technology has got six papers accepted at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2018). Title: A Neurorobotic Experiment for Crossmodal Conflict Resolution in...13 July 2018|EventKnowledge Technology student awarded best graduate student prizePhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyKnowledge Technology student Nikhil Churamani has been awarded for his outstanding master's degree in Intelligent Adaptive Systems the best graduate student prize for the summer semester 2018...12 July 2018|EventAccepted Paper at IJCIA 2018 (Open Access)Photo: worldscientific.comKnowledge Technology has got a paper accepted at the International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications (IJCIA).Title: Speeding up the Hyperparameter Optimization of Deep...12 July 2018|EventProf Wermter receives a certificate of acknowledgementPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyProf Stefan Wermter receives a certificate in acknowledgement of his dedication and service to the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society as a member of the Editorial Board for the IEEE Transactions...10 July 2018|EventWorkshop on Intelligent Social Robots at IROS 2018Photo: intelligent-social-robots-ws.comKnowledge Technology via Dr Sascha Griffith is co-organizing the workshop "Towards Intelligent Social Robots: From Naive Robots to Robot Sapiens" at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on...4 July 2018|EventSECURE and SOCRATES organize The International PhD Conference on Safe and Social RoboticsPhoto: socrates-project.euThe International Ph.D. Student Conference on Safe and Social Robotics (SSR) was held in conjunction with the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) in Madrid. It...2 July 2018|EventKnowledge Technology at IJCNN 2018Photo: WCCI websiteIn July 2018, the Knowledge Technology team presents 10 research contributions as papers at the World Congress on Computational Intelligence and the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks...26 June 2018|EventKnowledge Technology hosted school student on "Social Day 2018"Photo: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyOn June 26, 2018, the Knowledge Technology group hosted a school student, who worked on the "social day 2018" (http://www.schueler-helfen-leben.de/de/home/sozialer_tag.html) in our group. On the...6 June 2018|EventAccepted Paper at the INTERSPEECH 2018Photo: interspeech2018.orgKnowledge Technology has got a paper accepted at the INTERSPEECH 2018 conference. Paper Title: "Conversational Analysis using Utterance-level Attention-based Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Networks"....1 June 2018|EventWorkshop on Crossmodal Learning for Intelligent RoboticsPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyKnowledge Technology is co-organizing a Workshop on Crossmodal Learning for Intelligent Robotics at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) on October 5th, 2018...31 May 2018|EventKnowledge Technology at ICRA 2018Photo: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyOn May 21st-25th, our group member Mohammad Ali Zamani participated in the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Brisbane, Australia. Below is a list of the presented papers: ...16 May 2018|EventKnowledge Technology at ESANN 2018Photo: i6doc.comOn April 25th-27th, our group members Tayfun Alpay, Burhan Hafez, Tobias Hinz, Henrique Siqueira, Sebastian Springenberg, and Peer Springstübe participated in the 26th European Symposium on Artificial...10 May 2018|EventProf Wermter gives a talk at the Wallenberg Symposium on Morphological and Embodied Computing, Gothenburg, SwedenPhoto: Chalmers Uni. of Technology & Uni. of GothenburgOn May 8th, Prof Stefan Wermter gave a talk on Neural Models for Crossmodal Learning and Embodied Computing at the Wallenberg Symposium on Morphological and Embodied in Computing, Gothenburg, Sweden...7 May 2018|Event2018 OMG-Emotion Recognition Challenge results announcedPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyThe final results of the 2018 OMG-Emotion Recognition Challenge organized by the Knowledge Technology group at the 2018 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) are out here. The...3 May 2018|EventSOCRATES project meeting in IsraelPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyKnowledge Technology group members Alexander Sutherland, Henrique Siqueira, Dr. Sven Magg, and Prof. Stefan Wermter met project partners from the SOCRATES project at a project meeting in Israel. Our...26 April 2018|EventHumboldt Fellow Prof Chu Kiong Loo joins the Knowledge Technology TeamPhoto: humboldt-foundation.deThe Knowledge Technology group and Prof. Dr. Chu Kiong Loo from the University of Malaya in Malaysia have been selected and been awarded a Georg Forster Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers...18 April 2018|EventKnowledge Technology's book by Wermter, Weber et al hits 65,000 download recordPhoto: SpringerKnowledge Technology's book Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning -- ICANN 2014 reached 64,922 chapter dowloads on SpringerLink in 2017, putting it at the top 25% most downloaded eBooks in...18 April 2018|EventKnowledge Technology at Girls Day 2018Photo: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyOn April 26th, our group members Doreen Jirak and Erik Strahl participated in the Girls Day 2018 where young female school students had the opportunity to learn about our research and our NICO robot.11 April 2018|EventSECURE in the Impact Magazine JournalPhoto: impact.pubScience Impact published a report about the SECURE project. This article is for the dissemination of our research project SECURE for a wider range of audience. You can find the link to the article...30 March 2018|EventRTL Television visit at Knowledge TechnologyPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyGerman National TV (RTL Nachtjournal) visited the Knowledge Technology group to interview Prof. Wermter, Dr. Kerzel and Dipl-Ing. Erik Strahl on a report about the use of AI, Neural networks and the...29 March 2018|EventVOX Television visit at Knowledge TechnologyPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyGerman National TV (VOX News) visited the Knowledge Technology group to interview Prof. Wermter, Dr. Kerzel and Dipl-Ing. Erik Strahl on a report about the use of AI, Neural networks and the framework...8 March 2018|EventCome and play with NICOPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyKnowledge Technology's student project group invite you to join the user study which is conducted as part of our semester project in Human-Robot Interaction. The user study is scheduled to take place...7 March 2018|EventArticles acceptedPhoto: ELSEVIERKnowledge Technology got three new journal articles accepted: Title: Improving interactive reinforcement learning: What makes a good teacher? Authors: Francisco Cruz, Sven Magg, Yukie Nagai, and...7 March 2018|EventKnowledge Technology with NICO robot in the "Hamburger Abendblatt"Photo: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyThe weekend issue from the 17th of February 2018 of the "Hamburger Abendblatt" contained an article about the opportunities and also the challenges for AI. The article reports about recent experiments...20 February 2018|EventKnowledge Technology at Unitag 2018Photo: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyTo inform possible new students in computer science the Knowledge Technology group presented some of the group's work at the Unitag 2018. This time the presentation was done in cooperation with an...29 January 2018|EventVisit from Gymnasium Bornbrook in HamburgPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyKnowledge Technology doctoral students Henrique Siqueira and Alexander Sutherland from the Socrates project talked with 10th Grade students about the challenges facing an aging society, emotional...15 January 2018|EventQuestionnaire on Social Robots for Physical ExercisePhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyYou are being invited to participate in a research study titled Exercising with Social Robots. This research features our NICO robot.The study is being done by Sascha Griffiths, Matthias Kerzel, Erik...12 January 2018|EventAccepted Paper at ICRA 2018Photo: ICRA websiteKnowledge Technology has got a paper accepted at the 2018 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2018). Title: EmoRL: Real-time Acoustic Emotion Classification using Deep...9 January 2018|WTMNew Video Collection from 2017Photo: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyKnowledge Technology has published a collection of videos summarizing some of the groups work in 2017. Two of the video are add-on videos to papers published at the Humanoids 2017 and the Roman 2017...8 January 2018|EventWorkshop on Intelligent Assistive Computing at IJCNN/WCCI 2018Photo: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyKnowledge Technology is coorganizing a Workshop on Intelligent Assistive Computing at the 2018 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2018) in conjunction with the 2018 IEEE World...8 January 2018|EventCall for Papers - Special Session on Neural Models for Behavior RecognitionPhoto: WCCI websiteKnowledge Technology is announcing a Special Session on Neural Models for Behavior Recognition at the 2018 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2018) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The...8 January 2018|EventOne-Minute Gradual-Emotion Behavior ChallengePhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyKnowledge Technology is organizing the One-Minute Gradual-Emotion Behavior Challenge at the 2018 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2018) in Rio de Janeiro,Brazil. In recent...3 January 2018|EventWorkshop on Social Robots for Exercising at HRI 2018Photo: Carlos A. CifuentesKnowledge Technology is co-organizing a Worskhop on Social Robots for Exercising at the ACM/IEEE Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI) on March 5th, 2018 in Chicago, USA. The goal of this...