News (2019)24 December 2019|EventHappy Holidays from the Knowledge Technology TeamPhoto: Zellreder, commons.wikimedia.orgFor this year's Christmas get-together, Knowledge Technology team went to play Kegeln :-) Knowldge Technology wishes you a Happy Christmas and a very good New Year.20 December 2019|EventDonated Knowledge Technology computers found a new purposePhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyFor our work with the newest knowledge technologies, we need sometimes new and fastest computers to work with and so had to sort out 24 previously used machines of the first knowledge technology...10 December 2019|EventAccepted paper at AAAI 2020Photo: aaai.orgHenrique Siqueira will represent the Knowledge Technology group in the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-20) that will take place on 7-12 February 2020 in New York, USA . ...29 November 2019|EventCML Symposium guests visit Knowledge Technology labsPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyDuring the "International Symposium on Crossmodal Learning in Humans and Robots", the guests visited the Human Robot Interaction lab and the NICO lab of the Knowledge Technology group. Dr. Matthias...27 November 2019|EventTransregional Collaborative Research Center successfully enters the second funding periodPhoto: UHH / Erik StrahlThe German Research Foundation (DFG) has decided on funding the German-Chinese Transregional Collaborative Research Center "Crossmodal Learning: Adaptivity, Prediction and Interaction" for the next...27 November 2019|EventAccepted Article in Frontiers in NeuroroboticsPhoto: frontiersin.orgKnowledge Technology got a new journal article accepted in Frontiers in Neurorobotics. Title: Bootstrapping Knowledge Graphs From Images and TextAuthors: Jiayuan Mao, Yuan Yao, Stefan Heinrich, Tobias...27 September 2019|EventProf. Stefan Wermter Elected ENNS PresidentPhoto: e-nns.orgThe European Neural Network Society (ENNS) has elected Prof. Dr. Stefan Wermter from the University of Hamburg, Department of Informatics, Knowledge Technology (WTM) as ENNS President 2020-2022. The...23 September 2019|EventCrossmodal Learning Review in BeijingPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyIn Sep 2019, the review of the DFG- and NSFC funded project on Crossmodal Learning took place in Beijing. All subprojects presented the research of the first four years and the research goals for the...18 September 2019|EventKnowledge Technology at ICANN 2019Photo: e-nns.orgKnowledge Technology member Dr. Doreen Jirak presented the paper "A Reservoir Framework for Continuous Gesture Recognition" at the 1st International Workshop on Reservoir Computing, organized within...30 August 2019|EventAccepted paper at ACII 2019Photo: acii-conf.orgKnowledge Technology has got a paper accepted at the 8th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2019). Title: "The OMG-Empathy Dataset: Evaluating the Impact...30 August 2019|EventKnowledge Technology at ICDL-EpiRob 2019Photo: icdl-epirob2019.orgOn Aug 19th-22nd, our group members Sayantan Auddy, Burhan Hafez, Dr. Matthias Kerzel, Dr. Sven Magg, and Prof. Stefan Wermter participated in the 9th Joint IEEE International Conference on...23 August 2019|EventInterview with the University of Hamburg magazinePhoto: UHH/Knowledge Technology"A look into the future!" Henrique Siqueira, a research associate of the Knowledge Technology group and a fellow of the SOCRATES project, has given an interview to the special 100th-anniversary...9 August 2019|EventKnowledge Technology student awarded best graduate student prizePhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyCongratulations to our MSc student Josip Josifovski who won the first prize for the best Intelligent Adaptive Systems MSc and outstanding performance during his MSc programme. Josip Josifovski also...1 August 2019|EventWorkshop on Personal Robotics and Secure Human-Robot CollaborationPhoto: secure-robots.euKnowledge Technology is organizing a workshop on Personal Robotics and Secure Human-Robot Collaboration at the 9th Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic...26 June 2019|EventKnowledge Technology at ICML 2019Photo: icml.ccOur group member Dr. Pablo Barros participated in the Thirty-sixth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) on June 10-15 in Long Beach, CA, US. The presented paper "A Personalized...19 June 2019|EventNICO featured on Hamburger Abendblatt's front pagePhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyAbendblatt has featured our NICO robot on the front page of the cover of the "Sommer des Wissens" event in today's issue. The "Sommer des Wissens" is organized by the University of Hamburg and will be...18 June 2019|EventKnowledge Technology at CVPR 2019Photo: cvpr2019.thecvf.comKnowledge Technology got a paper accepted and presented at the Sight and Sound workshop held at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) in CA, USA on 17 June. Title: A...17 June 2019|EventICANN 2014 Proceedings edited by Wermter, Weber et al. hit 94,000 downloadsPhoto: SpringerKnowledge Technology's book Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning -- ICANN 2014 reached 94,547 chapter dowloads on SpringerLink in 2018, putting it at the top 25% most downloaded eBooks in...17 June 2019|EventDoctoral Thesis Defense of Nils MeinsPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyNils Meins successfully defended his doctoral thesis titled "Diversity-driven Hopfield Neural Network Ensembles for Face Detection". Congratulations to Nils by the Knowledge Technology team!23 May 2019|EventICRA paper featured in Heise OnlinePhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyHeise Online Magazine featured the work of our 2018 Master Project students, which has recently been presented as a contributed paper at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA...16 May 2019|EventKnowledge Technology at ICLR 2019Photo: iclr.ccOur group member Tobias Hinz participated in the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) on May 6-9 in New Orleans, US. The poster of the presented paper can be downloaded here.3 May 2019|EventDoctoral Thesis Defense of Jorge Davila ChaconPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyJorge Davila Chacon defended his doctoral thesis "Biomimetic Computation and Embodied Embedded Cognition for Spatial Audition in Humanoids". Congratulations to Jorge by the Knowledge Technology team!3 May 2019|EventWorkshop on Empathy-Modelling at FG 2019Photo: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyKnowledge Technology is organizing a workshop on Empathy-Modelling in Real-World Scenarios: Lessons Learned from the OMG Empathy Prediction Challenge at the 14th IEEE International Conference on...23 April 2019|EventStaatsrat visit to Knowledge TechnologyPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyHamburg Staatsrat Jan Pörksen visited the Knowledge Technology group on March 28th. Our group member Dr. Manfred Eppe presented to Mr. Pörksen a human-robot interaction demo with the Pepper robot...23 April 2019|EventKnowledge Technology at Girls Day 2019Photo: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyOn March 28th, our group participated in the Girls Day 2019. Group member Dr. Manfred Eppe presented a human-robot interaction demo with the Pepper robot featuring face detection, face tracking...29 March 2019|EventMaster project group presents NICO robot as a language teacherPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyThe student team of the of the project "Human-Robot-Interaction" presented the results of their Human-Robot-Interaction experiment involving a physical and a virtual instance of the group's NICO robot...6 March 2019|EventIJNS Journal Article Published (Open Access)Photo: worldscientific.comKnowledge Technology got a new journal article published in the International Journal of Neural Systems (IJNS). Title: A Kernel Bayesian Adaptive Resonance Theory with A Topological StructureAuthors...21 February 2019|EventKnowledge Technology at Unitag 2019Photo: UHH/Maria LatosTo motivate school students to study computer science, the Knowledge Technology group presented some of the group's work at the Unitag 2019. The presentation was done in cooperation with an associate...20 February 2019|EventInterview with the MCAA IRRADIUM magazinePhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyThe Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) IRRADIUM magazine interviewed Knowledge Technology group and MCAA member Mohammad Ali Zamani for the February 2019 issue.19 February 2019|EventAccepted Article in Neural Networks (Open Access)Photo: elsevier.comKnowledge Technology got a new journal article accepted in Neural Networks. Title: Continual lifelong learning with neural networks: A review Authors: German I. Parisi, Ronald Kemker, Jose L. Part...6 February 2019|EventAccepted Paper at ICLR 2019Photo: iclr.ccKnowledge Technology has got a paper accepted at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). The paper examines how to model complex images containing multiple objects and how to...4 February 2019|EventArticles Published in NeurocomputingPhoto: ELSEVIERKnowledge Technology got two new journal articles published in Neurocomputing: Title: Continuous convolutional object tracking in developmental robot scenarios Authors: Stefan Heinrich, Peer...31 January 2019|EventAccepted Papers at ICRA 2019Photo: icra2019.orgKnowledge Technology has got two papers accepted at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2019). 1st Paper:Title: Incorporating End-to-End Speech Recognition Models for...14 January 2019|EventIEEE TNNLS Journal Article AcceptedPhoto: ieee.orgKnowledge Technology got a new journal article accepted in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS). Title: Enhanced Robot Speech Recognition Using Biomimetic Binaural Sound...11 January 2019|EventPepper joined the Knowledge Technology groupPhoto: softbankrobotics.comKnowledge Technology welcomes a new robot member Pepper. Pepper is a humanoid robot supporting social interaction. Pepper has been developed for human interaction and is able to engage with people...2 January 2019|EventArticles Accepted in Journal of Behavioral Robotics (Open Access)Photo: degruyter.comKnowledge Technology got two journal articles accepted in Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics: Title: Deep Reinforcement Learning using Compositional Representations for Performing Instructions ...