News (2020)

Knowledge Technoledge's paper "Adapting the Interplay between Personalized and Generalized Affect Recognition based on an Unsupervised Neural Framework", in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing...

Chandrakant Bothe successfully defended his doctoral thesis titled "Conversational Language Learning for Human-Robot Interaction" on 18th Nov 2020. During his PhD work, Chandrakant Bothe was a...

The student team of the project "Human-Robot-Interaction" got their paper titled "Exploring Human-Robot Trust Through the Investment Game: An Immersive Space Mission Scenario" accepted at the HAI2020...

Knowledge Technology is announcing a special issue on Human-in-the-loop Machine Learning and its Applications in Neural Computing and Applications.

This special issue will offer the opportunity for...

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

Title: Crossmodal Language Grounding in an Embodied Neurocognitive Model
Authors: Stefan Heinrich, Yuan Yao...

Knowledge Technology got a new journal article published in Cognitive Computation.

Title: Echo State Networks and Long Short-Term Memory for Continuous Gesture Recognition: a Comparative Study
Authors...

The Knowledge Technology team of the Informatics Department has been involved in organizing the 29th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2020) and got a number of papers...

Knowledge Technology got a new journal article published in the Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS). The article describes our research on meta-decision making and experience imagination...

Knowledge Technology got a paper accepted at the INTERSPEECH 2020 conference, October 25-29, 2020, Shanghai, China.

Title: Multimodal Target Speech Separation with Voice and Face References
Authors...

German I. Parisi’s, Ronald Kemker's, Jose L. Part's, Christopher Kanan's and Stefan Wermter's paper Continual lifelong learning with neural networks: A review from 2019 is now ranking as the most...

Knowledge Technology has got a paper accepted at the 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2020).

Title: Model Mediated Teleoperation with a Hand-Arm...

Knowledge Technology got a new journal article published in IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems as a result of a collaboration with the group of Prof. Zhiyuan Liu at the Natural...

The Knowledge Technology group opened a twitter channel to share the news and publications for a wider public. Please find and follow us at https://twitter.com/KnowTechUHH.

Knowledge Technology got a new journal article published in Neural Computing and Applications.

Title: Solving visual object ambiguities when pointing: an unsupervised learning approach
Authors: Doreen...

Knowledge Technology article "Teaching NICO How to Grasp: An Empirical Study on Crossmodal Social Interaction as a Key Factor for Robots Learning From Humans" is published and featured in Frontiers...

Knowledge Technology co-organized a virtual workshop on Human-Robot Handovers at the ICRA 2020. More information and published material can be found here.

Johannes Twiefel successfully defended his doctoral thesis titled "Robust Bidirectional Processing for Speech-controlled Robotic Scenarios" on 20th May. The thesis describes a novel architecture for...

Di Fu was taking a joint doctoral program from the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IPCAS), and the Knowledge Technology Team. Di Fu successfully defended her PhD thesis titled...

Burhan Hafez successfully defended his doctoral thesis titled "Intrinsically Motivated Actor-Critic for Robot Motor Learning" on 7th May. The thesis shows how spatially and temporally local learning...

A video “Learning face and upper-body emotion recognition" produced by Henrique Siqueira has been published in the youtube channel of Knowledge Technology. In this video, he presents his work on deep...

Knowledge Technology publishes a research introduction video with detailed information on the current 2020 MSc teaching offerings. This video might be interesting for you if you would like to know...

Knowledge Technology is organizing a special session on Human-in-the-loop Machine Learning and Its Applications at the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, held on Oct...

The student team of the project "Human Robot Interaction" presented the results of their experiment "Evaluating trust between humans and robots with a modified investment game in a space setting" in a...

Every year in February the "Unitag" takes place at the "Universität Hamburg" to let school students find the best-fitting subject to study. The Knowledge Technology group is contributing to this event...

Knowledge Technology article "Lifelong Learning of Spatiotemporal Representations With Dual-Memory Recurrent Self-Organization" published in Frontiers in Neurorobotics is now featured in a new...

Knowledge Technology has got two papers accepted at the European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN 2020).

1st Paper:
Title: New Results on...