News (2019)

For 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...

Henrique 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 .

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During 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...

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has decided on funding the German-Chinese Transregional Collaborative Research Center "Crossmodal Learning: Adaptivity, Prediction and Interaction" for the next...

Knowledge Technology got a new journal article accepted in Frontiers in Neurorobotics.

Title: Bootstrapping Knowledge Graphs From Images and Text
Authors: Jiayuan Mao, Yuan Yao, Stefan Heinrich, Tobias...

The 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...

In 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...

Knowledge 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...

Knowledge 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...

On 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...

"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...

Congratulations 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...

Knowledge 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...

Our 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...

Abendblatt 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...

Knowledge 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...

Knowledge 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...

Nils Meins successfully defended his doctoral thesis titled "Diversity-driven Hopfield Neural Network Ensembles for Face Detection". Congratulations to Nils by the Knowledge Technology team!

Heise 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...

Our 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.

Jorge 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!

Knowledge 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...

Hamburg 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...

On 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...

The 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...

Knowledge 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 Structure
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To 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...

The Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) IRRADIUM magazine interviewed Knowledge Technology group and MCAA member Mohammad Ali Zamani for the February 2019 issue.
The full interview is accessible...

Knowledge 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...

Knowledge 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...

Knowledge Technology got two new journal articles published in Neurocomputing:

Title: Continuous convolutional object tracking in developmental robot scenarios 
Authors: Stefan Heinrich, Peer...

Knowledge 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...

Knowledge 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...

Knowledge 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...

Knowledge Technology got two journal articles accepted in Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics:

Title: Deep Reinforcement Learning using Compositional Representations for Performing Instructions 
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