News (2022)23 December 2022|EventMerry Christmas from the Knowledge Technology TeamPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyMerry Christmas and seasons greetings and a successful new year 2023 from the Knowledge Technology team at Universität Hamburg!9 December 2022|EventNew Article Published in IEEE Transactions on Affective ComputingPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyKnowledge Technology has got a journal article published in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. Title: Adapting the Interplay between Personalized and Generalized Affect Recognition based on an...5 December 2022|EventTERAIS - A New Horizon Europe Funded Project for Cognitive Robotics ResearchPhoto: TERAIS ProjectKnowledge Technology is commencing a new research project "Towards Excellent Robotics and Artificial Intelligence at a Slovak university (TERAIS)". The international project funded by the Horizon...30 November 2022|EventKnowledge Technology Team on the IcePhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyFor this year's Christmas get-together, Knowledge Technology went to play „Eisstockschießen“ (sort-of-ice curling). It looks like both team Moon and team Star were enjoying the game :-)17 November 2022|EventNew Article on Lip Reading in IEEE Journal TNNLSPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyKnowledge Technology has got a journal article published in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS). Title: LipSound2: Self-Supervised Pre-Training for Lip-to-Speech...19 October 2022|EventKnowledge Technology at Schnupperstudium 2022Photo: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyThe Knowledge Technology group participated in the Schnupperstudium 2022 at the University of Hamburg. In the Schnupperstudium students from schools have the opportunity to experience the university...17 October 2022|Event"Explainable Visual Question Answering" - Student Project Funded by University of HamburgPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyThe project “Explainable Visual Question Answering” by Jakob Ambsdorf, Lukas Braach, Jae Hee Lee, and Björn Plüster builds upon the a recent vision-language Transformer-based neural model. The...13 September 2022|EventProf. Stefan Wermter elected ENNS PresidentPhoto: e-nns.orgThe European Neural Network Society (ENNS) has re-elected Prof. Dr. Stefan Wermter from the University of Hamburg, Department of Informatics, Knowledge Technology (WTM) as ENNS President until 2025...2 August 2022|EventSummer BarbecuePhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyWe had a terrific summer barbecue that most of our team members were able to take part in.Knowledge Technology hopes you enjoy the sunny summer : )25 July 2022|EventNeural Networks Best Paper Award Received at WCCI 2022Photo: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyWe just received and were handed over the Neural Networks Best Paper Award at the World Conference on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2022) in Padua for the paper "Continual Lifelong Learning with...20 July 2022|Event“How Green are We?” - Student Project Funded by University of HamburgPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyDaniel Speck and Zeynep Seda Birinci, students of the MSc program Intelligent Adaptive Systems (IAS), got their project “How green are we?” accepted by the ISA center (Center of Interdisciplinary...12 July 2022|EventAccepted Papers at LREC 2022Photo: Hessian Parliament Public DataKnowledge Technology has got two papers accepted at the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2022). The Conference has been held on June 20-25, 2022 at the Palais du Pharo...9 July 2022|EventAccepted Papers at IJCAI 2022Photo: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyKnowledge Technology has got a paper accepted at the main conference of the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2022) and a paper accepted at the IJCAI Workshop on...1 July 2022|EventNew Video Published: Developing The Robot NICOPhoto: UHH/Knowledge Technology A new video “Developing The Robot NICO" has been published on the Knowledge Technology Youtube channel. In this video, we show the growth of the humanoid robot NICO (Neuro-Inspired COmpanion). You...29 June 2022|EventNew Group PhotoPhoto: UHH/Knowledge Technology Photo: UHH/Knowledge Technology We took a new group photo where many of our current team members were able to take part.28 June 2022|EventMSc Project Paper Accepted at RO-MAN 2022Photo: UHH/Knowledge Technology We are pleased that our paper “Explain yourself! Effects of Explanations in Human-Robot Interaction” was accepted for presentation at the 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human...27 June 2022|EventTalk by Dr. Xavier HinautPhoto: https://sites.google.com/site/xavierhinaut Photo: https://sites.google.com/site/xavierhinaut Dr. Xavier Hinaut from Inria at Bordeaux will give a talk in our group as part of the Neural Network MSc course. Title: Echo State Networks and...13 June 2022|EventOpen Position in Project MoreSpacePhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyKnowledge Technology is seeking applications for an open position as a Research Associate for the Project “MoreSpace” - Modeling a Robot’s Peripersonal Space and Body Schema for Adaptive Learning and...14 April 2022|EventNew Equipment: Eye TrackerPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyThe eye tracker will be used to record human eye movements, including fixations, scanpaths, and pupil dilations, to train attention prediction computational models and utilized in the Human-Robot...7 February 2022|EventArticle Published in TPAMIPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyPhoto: UHH/Knowledge Technology Knowledge Technology got a new journal article published in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. Title: Semantic Object Accuracy for...2 February 2022|EventNature Machine Intelligence Article PublishedPhoto: UHH/Knowledge Technology Photo: UHH/Knowledge Technology Knowledge Technology got a new journal article published in Nature Machine Intelligence. Title: Intelligent problem-solving as integrated hierarchical reinforcement...12 January 2022|EventBook Published: Crossmodal Learning: Adaptivity, Prediction and InteractionPhoto: frontiersin.orgThis edited e-book comprises articles featured in our research topics on Crossmodal Learning: Adaptivity, Prediction and Interaction. The book is now available online on our website and the Frontiers...5 January 2022|EventBest Application Paper Award at WACV 2022Photo: wacv2022.thecvf.com Our paper "CharacterGAN: Few-Shot Keypoint Character Animation and Reposing" won the Best Application Paper Award at WACV 2022. The award will be presented at WACV 2022 during January 5–7, in Hawaii...