News (2021)23 December 2021|EventMerry Christmas from the Knowledge Technology TeamPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyMerry Christmas and seasons greetings and a successful new year 2022 from the Knowledge Technology team at Universität Hamburg!22 December 2021|EventRelease of Virtual Lab-Tour VideoPhoto: UHH/Knowledge Technology To enhance the interdisciplinary and international collaboration within our Transregional Research Centre (TRR 169) on "Crossmodal Learning", we released our first virtual lab-tour video to show our...21 December 2021|EventCall for Papers - ICANN 2022Photo: e-nns.org The Knowledge Technology team of the Informatics Department is co-organizing the 31st International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2022). ICANN is the annual flagship conference of...15 December 2021|EventDoctoral Thesis Defense of Leyuan QuPhoto: UHH/Knowledge Technology Leyuan Qu successfully defended his doctoral thesis titled "Neural Network Learning for Robust Speech Recognition" on 15 December 2021. This thesis contributes to the robustness of ASR systems by...6 December 2021|EventMerry St. Nicholas DayPhoto: UHH/Knowledge Technology Nicholas came and put some sweets in the kitchen of Knowledge Technology : )The Knowledge Technology group wishes you a very happy St. Nicholas Day.2 December 2021|EventNew Team Member at Knowledge TechnologyPhoto: UHH/Knowledge Technology Dr. Philipp Allgeuer started working with us on 1 December 2021 as Research Associate for the project “Visuelle Bewegungskorrektur mit lernenden Robotern (KI-SIGS)” (Visual motion correction with...22 November 2021|EventThe Neural Networks Best Paper AwardPhoto: Public Domain / openclipart.org Our paper "Continual lifelong learning with neural networks: A review" won the Neural Networks Best Paper Award. This award is given annually to an outstanding paper published in Neural Networks. The...17 November 2021|EventHuman Affect Special Issue in IEEE TACPhoto: computer.orgThe Special Issue on Automated Perception of Human Affect from Longitudinal Behavioral Data has been published in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. The Knowledge Technology group contributed...3 November 2021|EventTalk by Prof. Igor FarkašPhoto: cogsci.fmph.uniba.sk/~farkas/ Prof. Igor Farkaš from Comenius University in Bratislava will give a talk in our group and our CML project. Title: Elements of intelligence in cognitive robotics via cross-modal learning Date...17 September 2021|Event2021 ICANN Best Paper AwardsPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyKnowledge Technology, the European Neural Network Society (ENNS), and Comenius University congratulate the winners of the Best Paper Awards at the International Conference on Artificial Neural...14 September 2021|EventKnowledge Technology at ICANN 2021Photo: e-nns.org Photo: e-nns.org We are pleased to announce that Knowledge Technology, the European Neural Network Society (ENNS), and Comenius University are organizing the International Conference on Artificial...9 September 2021|EventNew Project: "LemonSpeech: Next Generation Speech Recognition and Speech Control for German"Photo: lemonspeech.comKnowledge Technology is commencing a new research project "LemonSpeech: Next Generation Speech Recognition and Speech Control for German". Duration: August 1st, 2021 - July 31th, 2022Mentor: Prof...9 September 2021|EventNew Project: "Verification of learning AI applications (VERIKAS)"Photo: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyKnowledge Technology is commencing a new research project "Verification of learning AI applications (VeriKAS)". PI: Prof. Dr. Stefan WermterAssociates: Wenhao Lu, Dr. Sven Magg, Dr. Matthias Kerzel ...31 August 2021|EventKnowledge Technology at IJCAI 2021Photo: UHH/Knowledge Technology Our group member Fares Abawi participated and presented his work in the 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2021) on 19th -26th August 2021, in Montreal, Canada...30 August 2021|EventKnowledge Technology at ICDL 2021Photo: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyKnowledge Technology has got two papers presented at the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2021) on 23rd - 26th August 2021, in Beijing, China (online). First Paper:...26 August 2021|EventArticle Published in Frontiers in PsychologyPhoto: frontiersin.orgKnowledge Technology got a new journal article published in Frontiers in Psychology. Title: The Embodied Crossmodal Self Forms Language and Interaction: A Computational Cognitive ReviewAuthors: Frank...2 August 2021|EventAccepted Papers at IROS 2021Photo: iros2021.org Knowledge Technology has got two papers accepted at the 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2021). First Paper:Title: Behavior Self-Organization Supports...29 July 2021|EventRelease of WoZ4U: An Open-Source Interface for HRIPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyWe published a new piece of software, WoZ4U, a remote-control interface for Softbank's Pepper robot. The interface was developed with the goal of being easy to set up and adjust, and comprises almost...1 July 2021|EventAccepted Papers at IJCNN 2021Photo: ijcnn.orgKnowledge Technology has got four papers accepted at the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2021). 1st Paper:Title: Controlling the Noise Robustness of End-to-End Automatic...8 June 2021|EventArticle of the IAS Student Team Published in FrontiersPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyThe student team of the MSc program Intelligent Adaptive Systems (IAS) got their paper titled "An Immersive Investment Game to Study Human-Robot Trust" published in Frontiers in Robotics and AI...28 April 2021|EventDoctoral Thesis Defense of Tobias HinzPhoto: UHH/Knowledge Technology Tobias Hinz successfully defended his doctoral thesis titled “Disentanglement, Compositionality, Specification: Representation Learning with Generative Adversarial Networks" on 28 April 2021. The...26 April 2021|EventArticle Published in IEEE AccessPhoto: ieeeaccess.ieee.orgKnowledge Technology got a new journal article published in IEEE Access. Title: Emotion Recognition Using Explainable Genetically Optimized Fuzzy ART EnsemblesAuthors: Wei Shiung Liew, Chu Kiong Loo...24 March 2021|EventDoctoral Thesis Defense of Tayfun AlpayPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyTayfun Alpay successfully defended his doctoral thesis titled "Periodicity, Surprisal, Attention: Skip Conditions for Recurrent Neural Networks" on 24 March 2021. The thesis introduces novel skip...18 February 2021|EventNew Video Published: Squeeze the BallPhoto: UHH/Knowledge Technology A new video “Squeeze the Ball" has been published on the Youtube channel of Knowledge Technology. In this video, NICO classifies different objects not by watching them, but by just squeezing them...15 February 2021|EventNew Knowledge Technology LogoPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyKnowledge Technology has got a new logo! Thanks to all students and staff involved!25 January 2021|EventCall for Papers - ICANN 2021Photo: e-nns.orgThe Knowledge Technology team of the Informatics Department is co-organizing the 30th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2021). This conference is organized by the Faculty...