News (2025)6 August 2025|EventNOVIC Demo is Out!Photo: UHH Knowledge TechnologyOur paper, "Unconstrained Open Vocabulary Image Classification: Zero-Shot Transfer from Text to Image via CLIP Inversion" (referred to as NOVIC), now has a demo available on Hugging Face, which you...1 August 2025|EventNICO - NICOL WorkshopPhoto: UHH Knowledge Technology Our team showcased new results at the Workshop on Artificial and Natural Cognitive Systems: Links and Discrepancies, organized by the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg (July 21–22, 2025)...29 July 2025|EventGuest Talk by Dr. James Xi ZhengPhoto: UHH Knowledge TechnologyOn July 15, our group hosted a guest talk by Dr. James Xi Zheng from Macquarie University, Australia. Below is an abstract of his talk: Learning-enabled Cyber-Physical Systems (LE-CPS), such as...18 July 2025|EventDoctoral Thesis Defense of Kyra AhrensPhoto: UHH Knowledge Technology On 18.07.2025, our colleague Kyra Ahrens had the successful defense of her doctoral thesis "Methods for Downstream Continual Learning with Foundation Models". We congratulate her for successful...15 July 2025|EventKnowledge Technology at IJCNN'25Photo: UHH Knowledge Technology Our group members Jonas Werner and Kun Chu presented their paper at the IJCNN'25 conference in Rome, Italy. Here is more information about the paper: Title: LLM-based Interactive Imitation Learning...14 July 2025|EventDoctoral Thesis Defense of Huajian FangPhoto: UHH Knowledge Technology Our colleague Huajian Fang completed his PhD at the University of Hamburg, under the supervision of Prof. Timo Gerkmann and Prof. Stefan Wermter. His PhD research mainly focuses on advancing speech...24 June 2025|EventTERAIS Project Meeting in BratislavaPhoto: UHH Knowledge Technology On June 16, 2025, members of the Knowledge Technology group participated in the TERAIS event “Supporting Excellence in AI and Robotics Research”, hosted by Comenius University in Bratislava. This...20 June 2025|EventiCub in the CribPhoto: UHH Knowledge Technology From our group, Josua Spisak visited the group of Matej Hoffman at the Department of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, for an international...13 May 2025|EventKnowledge Technology at ESANN'25Photo: UHH Knowledge Technology From our group, Master's student Stig Griebenow presented the OWL×T5 model at ESANN 2025 in Bruges, Belgium. OWL×T5 builds upon the CrossT5 architecture by incorporating the open-vocabulary OWLv2...15 April 2025|EventNICO Girls' Day DemoPhoto: UHH Knowledge TechnologyOn April 3rd, 2025, our department once again welcomed schoolgirls to the Informatikum for Girls' Day—a nationwide initiative aimed at introducing young women to the world of computer science. The day...2 April 2025|EventICANN'25: Neurorobotics Special Session AnnouncedPhoto: UHH Knowledge TechnologyICANN'25 will feature a Special Session on Neurorobotics that brings together experts in machine learning, robotics, and bio-inspired artificial intelligence. This session highlights pioneering...20 March 2025|EventUpcoming Talk by Prof. Jun Tani on Robotics and Language LearningPhoto: UHH Knowledge Technology We are excited to announce that Prof. Dr. Jun Tani from the Cognitive Neurorobotics Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology will be giving a talk titled "Development of Compositionality...19 March 2025|EventTRAIL Project Midterm Meeting in PaduaPhoto: UHH Knowledge Technology The TRAIL project (Transparent Interpretable Robots), part of the EC-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action, has reached a major milestone as it approaches the successful completion of its first half...18 March 2025|EventKnowledge Technology at WACV'25Photo: UHH Knowledge TechnologyOur group member Philipp Allgeuer introduced the newly released state-of-the-art NOVIC model at WACV 2025 in Tucson, Arizona. NOVIC can generate precise, fine-grained textual classification labels in...18 February 2025|EventSWEET Kickoff MeetingPhoto: UHH Knowledge Technology Social aWareness for sErvicE roboTs (SWEET) is a new 4 year project for a Doctoral Network with Doctoral Candidates funded by the EU under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. We started the project...11 February 2025|EventNew Paper Published at ACM-THRIPhoto: UHH Knowledge Technology Our group has a new paper published in ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI). Here's more information about the paper: Title: Influence of Robots’ Voice Naturalness on Trust and...10 February 2025|EventAnnual VeriKAS Project MeetingPhoto: UHH Knowledge Technology We had a very successful meeting for the VeriKAS project on the 23rd of January in Hamburg. With the tremendous success of data-driven approaches in neural networks for detection, decision-making and...9 January 2025|EventNew Video for our Humanoid Robot NICOL and our IROS'24 ResearchPhoto: UHH Knowledge Technology We have now released a new video of our humanoid robot NICOL. The underlying research was presented by our group member Jan-Gerrit Habekost at the IROS´24 conference. Title: Inverse Kinematics for...7 January 2025|EventNew Paper Published in Neural Computing and ApplicationsPhoto: UHH Knowledge TechnologyOur group has a new paper published in the journal Neural Computing and Applications. Title: FabuLight-ASD: unveiling speech activity via body language Authors: Hugo Carneiro, Stefan Wermter We...
