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Empirical Inference Book Chapter Natural Language Processing Jin, Z., Mihalcea, R., Schölkopf, B. In Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication, (Editors: Nai, A. and Grömping, M. and Wirz, D.), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025 (Published) PDF URL BibTeX
Book Chapter Empirical Aesthetics Brielmann, A. In Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2021
{Empirical aesthetics is a research area at the intersection of psychology and neuroscience that aims to understand how people experience, evaluate, and create objects aesthetically. Its central two questions are: How do we experience beauty? How do we experience art? In practice, this means that empirical aesthetics studies (1) prototypically aesthetic responses, such as beauty or chills, and (2) responses to prototypically aesthetic objects, such as paintings and music. Empirical aesthetics also encompasses broader questions about how we experience other aesthetic experiences, such as ugliness and the sublime, and about how we create art. The field of empirical aesthetics aims to understand how such aesthetic experiences and behaviors emerge and unfold. To do so, researchers in the field link the observer\textquoterights characteristics to her responses, link the object properties to the observer\textquoterights responses, or describe an interaction between them. As a science, empirical aesthetics relies heavily on the analysis and interpretation of data. Data is primarily generated from experiments: Researchers conduct studies in which they manipulate the independent variables to observe the effect of those manipulations on one or more independent variables. In addition, empirical aesthetics relies on observational data, where people\textquoterights behavior is observed or surveyed without the introduction of manipulations. Empirical aesthetics is as old as empirical psychology. The first thorough written account dates back to Gustav Fechner, who published Vorschule der Aesthetik in 1876. Nonetheless, the modern field of empirical aesthetics can be considered rather young. Its gain in popularity in the 21st century can be linked to the emergence of neuroaesthetics\textemdashthe study of brain responses associated with aesthetic experiences\textemdashin the late 1990s. Contemporary empirical aesthetics studies aesthetic experiences with a variety of methods, including brain-imaging and measures of other physiological responses, such as the movements of the eyes and facial muscles.}
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Book Chapter Metal Ion Complexes in Paramagnetic Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (ParaCEST) Rodr\’\iguez-Rodr\’\iguez, A., Zaiss, M., Esteban-Gómez, D., Angelovski, G., Platas-Iglesias, C. In Metal Ions in Bio-Imaging Techniques, 101-135, Metal Ions in Life Sciences, De Gruyter, Berlin, Germany, 2021
{Chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) is an emerging mechanism to provide contrast in clinical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). CEST agents are compounds that contain a pool of exchangeable or labile protons involved in exchange with the surrounding}
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Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Book Chapter Adopting the Boundary Homogenization Approximation from Chemical Kinetics to Motile Chemically Active Particles Popescu, M. N., Uspal, W. E. In Chemical Kinetics, 517-540, (Editors: Lindenberg, Katja and Metzler, Ralf and Oshanin, Gleb), World Scientific, New Jersey, NJ, 2020 DOI BibTeX
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Book Chapter Soft Microrobots Based on Photoresponsive Materials Palagi, S. In Mechanically Responsive Materials for Soft Robotics, 327-362, (Editors: Koshima, Hideko), Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2020 DOI BibTeX
Dynamic Locomotion Book Chapter Das Tier als Modell für Roboter, und Roboter als Modell für Tiere Badri-Spröwitz, A. In 167-175, Springer, 2019 DOI BibTeX
Book Chapter General Micromagnetic Theory and Applications Kronmüller, H. In Materials Science and Technology, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2019 DOI BibTeX
Modern Magnetic Systems Book Chapter Nanomagnetismus im Röntgenlicht Schütz, G. In Vielfältige Physik, 173-182, Springer Spektrum, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2019 DOI BibTeX
Book Chapter Attending to the Auditory Scene Improves Situational Awareness Scheer, M., Bülthoff, H., Chuang, L. In Neuroergonomics: the brain at work and in everyday life, 251-252, Elsevier, Academic Press, London, UK, 2019
{Early studies suggested that auditory stimuli are only (cognitively) processed if they are relevant for the task. However, studies that are more recent show that this is not necessarily true. Rather, it depends on the nature of the auditory stimuli. Environmental sounds are processed even when they are irrelevant for the task and even when participants are engaged in demanding visual tasks. These latter results can be interpreted within the framework of situational awareness. To maintain situational awareness, it is essential to continuously scan the environment for unexpected sounds that might not be of immediate task relevance but could inform us about important changes in the environment. In the current study, we investigate whether and how the scanning for, and processing of, environmental sounds\textemdashin other words, situational awareness of the auditory scene\textemdashis influenced by auditory attention manipulations. Here, auditory attention was manipulated by requiring participants to perform an auditory oddball-detection task or not, while task-irrelevant environmental sounds were occasionally presented in the background. The current study answers the following questions: (1) Is the processing of environmental sounds influenced by manipulations of auditory attention or is it an automatic process? (2) Is the processing of irrelevant environmental sounds attenuated or enhanced by auditory attention? On the one hand, the processing of the irrelevant environmental sounds could be attenuated, because the additional task increases the demand for auditory attentional resources. On the other hand, the processing of the environmental sounds could be enhanced because more attention is directed toward the auditory channel to optimize performance in the auditory oddball-detection task.}
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Book Chapter MRS Sequences and Protocols Giapitzakis, I., Henning, A. In Clinical MR Spectroscopy, Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, 2019 BibTeX
Book Chapter When Does the Brain Respond to Information During Visual Scanning? Flad, N., Bülthoff, H., Chuang, L. In Neuroergonomics: the brain at work and in everyday life, 267-268, Elsevier, Academic Press, London, UK, 2019
{High-stress work environments, such as a flight deck or surveillance systems, provide operators with multiple instruments that have to be monitored constantly using eye movements. Eye tracking allows us to infer when an operator\textquoterights overt attention is devoted to an instrument, namely when fixation begins. It is commonly assumed that fixating a visual stimulus equates its processing. In this study, we use an electroencephalogram (EEG) to demonstrate that visual perception, hence processing, can take place even prior to fixation. We show that target onsets give rise to brain responses that are associated with stimulus processing even before targets were fixated. This poses a challenge for the use of the electroencephalogram/event-related potential (EEG/ERP) in visual scanning environments: if fixation onset is not necessarily the onset of perception, it cannot always be used for attributing ERP data.}
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Book Chapter Why Do Auditory Warnings During Steering Allow for Faster Visual Target Recognition? Glatz, C., Bülthoff, H., Chuang, L. In Neuroergonomics: The Brain at Work and in Everyday Life, 249-250, Elsevier, Academic Press, London, UK, 2019
{Auditory cues are often used to capture and direct attention, away from an ongoing task to a critical situation. In the context of driving, previous research have shown that looming sounds, which convey time-to-contact information through their rising-intensity profiles, promote faster braking times to potential front collisions. The current experiment investigates the role of auditory warnings in facilitating the identification of visual objects in the visual periphery during steering. This approximates the use of auditory warnings for cueing possible candidates for side collisions. We expected faster response times for visual targets cued by a looming sound compared to a constant sound. Electroencephalography (EEG) was recorded to determine whether faster response times were due to either earlier or stronger neural responses to the visual target. We hypothesize: (1) earlier event-related potentials (ERPs) for cued compared to non-cued visual targets, and (2) larger amplitudes for visual targets that were cued by looming versus constant sounds.}
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Book Chapter Wie real sind virtuelle Realitäten? Über Chancen und potenzielle Risiken von virtuellen Realitäten de la Rosa, S. In Gehirne unter Spannung: Kognition, Emotion und Identität im digitalen Zeitalter, 99-126, Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2019
{Virtuelle Realit\"at (VR) wird derzeit vielerorts als \quotedblbaseTechnologie der Zukunft\textquotedblleft beschrieben. Schon jetzt treffen VR-verwandte Technologien auf das Interesse der breiten \"Offentlichkeit, wie der bahnbrechende Erfolg von Pok\'emon Go zeigt. Der Kognitionswissenschaftler Stephan de la Rosa (Max-Planck-Institut f\"ur biologische Kybernetik in T\"ubingen) erl\"autert in seinem Beitrag, was in unserem Kopf passiert, wenn wir uns in virtuelle Realit\"aten begeben und woraus sich der realistische Wahrnehmungseindruck ergibt. Auch vielf\"altige Potenziale f\"ur Wissenschaft und Therapie werden diskutiert, ohne eventuelle Gefahren unbeachtet zu lassen.}
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Haptic Intelligence Book Chapter Haptics and Haptic Interfaces Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Encyclopedia of Robotics, 1-9, Springer, May 2018 (Published)
Haptics is an interdisciplinary field that seeks to both understand and engineer touch-based interaction. Although a wide range of systems and applications are being investigated, haptics researchers often concentrate on perception and manipulation through the human hand. A haptic interface is a mechatronic system that modulates the physical interaction between a human and his or her tangible surroundings. Haptic interfaces typically involve mechanical, electrical, and computational layers that work together to sense user motions or forces, quickly process these inputs with other information, and physically respond by actuating elements of the user’s surroundings, thereby enabling him or her to act on and feel a remote and/or virtual environment.
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Empirical Inference Book Chapter Maschinelles Lernen: Entwicklung ohne Grenzen? Schölkopf, B. In Mit Optimismus in die Zukunft schauen. Künstliche Intelligenz - Chancen und Rahmenbedingungen, 26-34, (Editors: Bender, G. and Herbrich, R. and Siebenhaar, K.), B&S Siebenhaar Verlag, 2018 (Published) BibTeX
Empirical Inference Book Chapter Transfer Learning for BCIs Jayaram, V., Fiebig, K., Peters, J., Grosse-Wentrup, M. In Brain–Computer Interfaces Handbook, 425-442, 22, (Editors: Chang S. Nam, Anton Nijholt and Fabien Lotte), CRC Press, 2018 (Published) BibTeX
Book Chapter Complex Role of the Serotonin Receptors in Depression: Implications for Treatment Amidfar, M., Colic, L., Walter, M., Kim, Y. In Understanding Depression: Volume 1. Biomedical and Neurobiological Background, 83-95, Springer, Singapore, 2018
{Evidence from pharmacological, neuroimaging, postmortem, and genetic studies underlines the various roles of 5-HT receptor subtypes in the pathogenesis of major depressive disorder. Recent investigations further supported the notion of their interaction with the antidepressant medication and advanced the knowledge on underlying mechanisms of their action. The heterogeneous properties of individual 5-HT receptors offer a chance for development of new generation of antidepressants, which may be more beneficial and effective than traditional selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). Antagonists of 5-HT2A, 5-HT2C, 5-HT3, 5-HT6, and 5-HT7 receptors, as well as agonists of 5-HT1A, 5-HT1B, 5-HT2C, 5-HT4, and 5-HT6 receptors, were observed to produce antidepressant-like responses. Paradoxical antidepressant-like effects of both agonists and antagonists of 5-HT receptors are likely connected to the diverse neurochemical mechanisms they instantiate. Augmented behavioral effects of SSRIs and other antidepressants used in combined treatment with 5-HT receptor agonists or antagonists have also been reported. The involvement of 5-HT receptors in depression is complex. Identifying the role of 5-HT receptors in response to antidepressants is an essential step in recognizing their mechanisms of action and, thereby, potentially producing more effective antidepressants with fewer side effects in patients with major depressive disorder.}
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Book Chapter Models and Methods for Reinforcement Learning Dayan, P., Nakahara, H. In Stevens’ Handbook of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, 5: Methodology:1-40, 4., Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, USA, 2018
{The temporal difference (TD) learning framework is a major paradigm for understanding value-based decision making and related neural activities (e.g., dopamine activity). The representation of time in neural processes modeled by a TD framework, however, is poorly understood. To address this issue, we propose a TD formulation that separates the time of the operator (neural valuation processes), which we refer to as internal time, from the time of the observer (experiment), which we refer to as conventional time. We provide the formulation and theoretical characteristics of this TD model based on internal time, called internal-time TD, and explore the possible consequences of the use of this model in neural value-based decision making. Due to the separation of the two times, internal-time TD computations, such as TD error, are expressed differently, depending on both the time frame and time unit. We examine this operator-observer problem in relation to the time representation used in previous TD models. An internal time TD value function exhibits the co-appearance of exponential and hyperbolic discounting at different delays in intertemporal choice tasks. We further examine the effects of internal time noise on TD error, the dynamic construction of internal time, and the modulation of internal time with the internal time hypothesis of serotonin function. We also relate the internal TD formulation to research on interval timing and subjective time.}
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Book Chapter Spatial Biases in Wayfinding and Navigation Wiener, J., Meilinger, T. In Spatial Biases in Perception and Cognition, 324-335, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2018 DOI BibTeX
Book Chapter The Role of the Locus Coeruleus in Cellular and Systems Memory Consolidation Eschenko, O. In Handbook of in vivo neural plasticity techniques: a systems neuroscience approach to the neural basis of memory and cognition, 28:327-347, Handbook of Behavioral Neuroscience, Academic Press, London, UK, 2018
{Synaptic plasticity, neuronal replay, and cross-regional communication are considered key physiological processes underlying memory consolidation. Both cellular and systems-level consolidation hypotheses are supported by extensive empirical evidence. However, presently, little is known about the temporal relations between local synaptic modifications and activity dynamics within extended neuronal networks supporting memory. The diffuse ascending neuromodulatory systems, with the locus coeruleus (LC) noradrenergic system being one of them, appear to be ideal candidates for bridging the cellular and systems mechanisms of memory consolidation. According to a canonical view, noradrenaline release from the terminal fields of LC neurons creates a window of heightened synaptic plasticity within a recently activated neuronal network. Importantly, this neuromodulatory input is critical at times of actual learning experience but also functions \textquotedblleftoff-line,\textquotedblright when experience-activated neuronal ensembles replay and protein-dependent synaptic modifications occur. Tracking the connectivity strength within learning-related large-scale networks combined with monitoring neuromodulatory activity and behavioral assessment of memory appear irreplaceable methodology for examining interactions between cellular and systems mechanisms of memory consolidation, which are both dependent on neuromodulation.}
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Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Book Chapter Chapter 8 - Micro- and nanorobots in Newtonian and biological viscoelastic fluids Palagi, S., (Walker) Schamel, D., Qiu, T., Fischer, P. In Microbiorobotics, 133 - 162, 8, Micro and Nano Technologies, Second edition, Elsevier, Boston, March 2017 (Published)
Swimming microorganisms are a source of inspiration for small scale robots that are intended to operate in fluidic environments including complex biomedical fluids. Nature has devised swimming strategies that are effective at small scales and at low Reynolds number. These include the rotary corkscrew motion that, for instance, propels a flagellated bacterial cell, as well as the asymmetric beat of appendages that sperm cells or ciliated protozoa use to move through fluids. These mechanisms can overcome the reciprocity that governs the hydrodynamics at small scale. The complex molecular structure of biologically important fluids presents an additional challenge for the effective propulsion of microrobots. In this chapter it is shown how physical and chemical approaches are essential in realizing engineered abiotic micro- and nanorobots that can move in biomedically important environments. Interestingly, we also describe a microswimmer that is effective in biological viscoelastic fluids that does not have a natural analogue.
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Perceiving Systems Book Chapter Decentralized Simultaneous Multi-target Exploration using a Connected Network of Multiple Robots Nestmeyer, T., Robuffo Giordano, P., Bülthoff, H. H., Franchi, A. In 989-1011, Autonomous Robots, 2017 BibTeX
Movement Generation and Control Book Chapter Momentum-Centered Control of Contact Interactions Righetti, L., Herzog, A. In Geometric and Numerical Foundations of Movements, 117:339-359, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, Springer, Cham, 2017 URL BibTeX
Autonomous Motion Book Chapter Implications of Action-Oriented Paradigm Shifts in Cognitive Science Dominey, P. F., Prescott, T. J., Bohg, J., Engel, A. K., Gallagher, S., Heed, T., Hoffmann, M., Knoblich, G., Prinz, W., Schwartz, A. In The Pragmatic Turn - Toward Action-Oriented Views in Cognitive Science, 18:333-356, 20, Strüngmann Forum Reports, vol. 18, J. Lupp, series editor, (Editors: Andreas K. Engel and Karl J. Friston and Danica Kragic), The MIT Press, 18th Ernst Strüngmann Forum, May 2016 (In press)
An action-oriented perspective changes the role of an individual from a passive observer to an actively engaged agent interacting in a closed loop with the world as well as with others. Cognition exists to serve action within a landscape that contains both. This chapter surveys this landscape and addresses the status of the pragmatic turn. Its potential influence on science and the study of cognition are considered (including perception, social cognition, social interaction, sensorimotor entrainment, and language acquisition) and its impact on how neuroscience is studied is also investigated (with the notion that brains do not passively build models, but instead support the guidance of action). A review of its implications in robotics and engineering includes a discussion of the application of enactive control principles to couple action and perception in robotics as well as the conceptualization of system design in a more holistic, less modular manner. Practical applications that can impact the human condition are reviewed (e.g. educational applications, treatment possibilities for developmental and psychopathological disorders, the development of neural prostheses). All of this foreshadows the potential societal implications of the pragmatic turn. The chapter concludes that an action-oriented approach emphasizes a continuum of interaction between technical aspects of cognitive systems and robotics, biology, psychology, the social sciences, and the humanities, where the individual is part of a grounded cultural system.
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Autonomous Motion Book Chapter Learning Action-Perception Cycles in Robotics: A Question of Representations and Embodiment Bohg, J., Kragic, D. In The Pragmatic Turn - Toward Action-Oriented Views in Cognitive Science, 18:309-320, 18, Strüngmann Forum Reports, vol. 18, J. Lupp, series editor, (Editors: Andreas K. Engel and Karl J. Friston and Danica Kragic), The MIT Press, 18th Ernst Strüngmann Forum, May 2016 (In press)
Since the 1950s, robotics research has sought to build a general-purpose agent capable of autonomous, open-ended interaction with realistic, unconstrained environments. Cognition is perceived to be at the core of this process, yet understanding has been challenged because cognition is referred to differently within and across research areas, and is not clearly defined. The classic robotics approach is decomposition into functional modules which perform planning, reasoning, and problem-solving or provide input to these mechanisms. Although advancements have been made and numerous success stories reported in specific niches, this systems-engineering approach has not succeeded in building such a cognitive agent. The emergence of an action-oriented paradigm offers a new approach: action and perception are no longer separable into functional modules but must be considered in a complete loop. This chapter reviews work on different mechanisms for action- perception learning and discusses the role of embodiment in the design of the underlying representations and learning. It discusses the evaluation of agents and suggests the development of a new embodied Turing Test. Appropriate scenarios need to be devised in addition to current competitions, so that abilities can be tested over long time periods.
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Empirical Inference Book Chapter A cognitive brain–computer interface for patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Hohmann, M., Fomina, T., Jayaram, V., Widmann, N., Förster, C., Just, J., Synofzik, M., Schölkopf, B., Schöls, L., Grosse-Wentrup, M. In Brain-Computer Interfaces: Lab Experiments to Real-World Applications, 228(Supplement C):221-239, 8, Progress in Brain Research, (Editors: Damien Coyle), Elsevier, 2016 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Autonomous Motion Book Chapter Autonomous Robots Schaal, S. In Jahrbuch der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, May 2015 BibTeX
Autonomous Motion Book Chapter Robot Learning Peters, J., Lee, D., Kober, J., Nguyen-Tuong, D., Bagnell, J. A., Schaal, S. In Springer Handbook of Robotics 2nd Edition, 1371-1394, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015 BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Book Chapter Addressing of Micro-robot Teams and Non-contact Micro-manipulation Diller, E., Ye, Z., Giltinan, J., Sitti, M. In Small-Scale Robotics. From Nano-to-Millimeter-Sized Robotic Systems and Applications, 28-38, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014 BibTeX
Autonomous Learning Book Chapter Robot Learning by Guided Self-Organization Martius, G., Der, R., Herrmann, J. M. In Guided Self-Organization: Inception, 9:223-260, Emergence, Complexity and Computation, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014 DOI URL BibTeX
Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Book Chapter Trajectory to trajectory fluctuations in first-passage phenomena in bounded domains Mattos, T. G., Mejia-Monasterio, C., Metzler, R., Oshanin, G., Schehr, G. In First-passage phenomena and their applications, 203-225, World Scientific Publishing, Singapore, 2014 DOI BibTeX
Autonomous Learning Book Chapter Behavior as broken symmetry in embodied self-organizing robots Der, R., Martius, G. In Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2013, 601-608, MIT Press, 2013 BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Book Chapter Class-Specific Hough Forests for Object Detection Gall, J., Lempitsky, V. In Decision Forests for Computer Vision and Medical Image Analysis, 143-157, 11, (Editors: Criminisi, A. and Shotton, J.), Springer, 2013 code BibTeX
Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Book Chapter Dynamics of nanodroplets on structured surfaces Rauscher, M. In Nanodroplets, 18:143-167, Lecture Notes in Nanoscale Science and Technology, Springer, New York, 2013
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Movement Generation and Control Autonomous Motion Book Chapter Using Torque Redundancy to Optimize Contact Forces in Legged Robots Righetti, L., Buchli, J., Mistry, M., Kalakrishnan, M., Schaal, S. In Redundancy in Robot Manipulators and Multi-Robot Systems, 57:35-51, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013
The development of legged robots for complex environments requires controllers that guarantee both high tracking performance and compliance with the environment. More specifically the control of contact interaction with the environment is of crucial importance to ensure stable, robust and safe motions. In the following, we present an inverse dynamics controller that exploits torque redundancy to directly and explicitly minimize any combination of linear and quadratic costs in the contact constraints and in the commands. Such a result is particularly relevant for legged robots as it allows to use torque redundancy to directly optimize contact interactions. For example, given a desired locomotion behavior, it can guarantee the minimization of contact forces to reduce slipping on difficult terrains while ensuring high tracking performance of the desired motion. The proposed controller is very simple and computationally efficient, and most importantly it can greatly improve the performance of legged locomotion on difficult terrains as can be seen in the experimental results.
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Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Book Chapter Wetting Phenomena on the Nanometer Scale Rauscher, M., Dietrich, S., Napiórkowski, M. In Nanoscale Liquid Interfaces: Wetting, Patterning and Force Microscopy at the Molecular Scale, 83-153, (Editors: Ondarçuhu, Thierry and Aimé, Jean-Pierre), Pan Stanford Publishing, Singapore, 2013 DOI BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Book Chapter An Introduction to Random Forests for Multi-class Object Detection Gall, J., Razavi, N., van Gool, L. In Outdoor and Large-Scale Real-World Scene Analysis, 7474:243-263, LNCS, (Editors: Dellaert, Frank and Frahm, Jan-Michael and Pollefeys, Marc and Rosenhahn, Bodo and Leal-Taix’e, Laura), Springer, 2012 code for Hough forest publisher's site pdf BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Book Chapter Automated Tip-Based 2-D Mechanical Assembly of Micro/Nanoparticles Onal, C. D., Ozcan, O., Sitti, M. In Feedback Control of MEMS to Atoms, 69-108, Springer US, 2012 BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Book Chapter Home 3D body scans from noisy image and range data Weiss, A., Hirshberg, D., Black, M. J. In Consumer Depth Cameras for Computer Vision: Research Topics and Applications, 99-118, 6, (Editors: Andrea Fossati and Juergen Gall and Helmut Grabner and Xiaofeng Ren and Kurt Konolige), Springer-Verlag, 2012 BibTeX
Modern Magnetic Systems Book Chapter Rutherford Backscattering Carstanjen, H. D. In Nanoelectronics and Information Technology. Advanced Electronic Materials and Novel Devices, 250-252, WILEY-VCH Verlag, Weinheim, Germany, 2012 BibTeX
Modern Magnetic Systems Book Chapter Structural and chemical characterization on the nanoscale Stierle, A., Carstanjen, H., Hofmann, S. In Nanoelectronics and Information Technology. Advanced Electronic Materials and Novel Devices, 233-254, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2012 BibTeX
Modern Magnetic Systems Book Chapter The principles of XMCD and its application to L-edges in transition metals Schütz, G. In Linear and Chiral Dichroism in the Electron Miroscope, 23-42, Pan Stanford Publishing Pte.Ltd., Singapore, 2012 BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Book Chapter Applications of AFM Based Nanorobotic Systems Xie, H., Onal, C., Régnier, S., Sitti, M. In Atomic Force Microscopy Based Nanorobotics, 313-342, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011 BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Book Chapter Automated Control of AFM Based Nanomanipulation Xie, H., Onal, C., Régnier, S., Sitti, M. In Atomic Force Microscopy Based Nanorobotics, 237-311, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011 BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Book Chapter Benchmark datasets for pose estimation and tracking Andriluka, M., Sigal, L., Black, M. J. In Visual Analysis of Humans: Looking at People, 253-274, (Editors: Moesland and Hilton and Kr"uger and Sigal), Springer-Verlag, London, 2011 publisher's site BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Book Chapter Descriptions and challenges of AFM based nanorobotic systems Xie, H., Onal, C., Régnier, S., Sitti, M. In Atomic Force Microscopy Based Nanorobotics, 13-29, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011 BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Book Chapter Instrumentation Issues of an AFM Based Nanorobotic System Xie, H., Onal, C., Régnier, S., Sitti, M. In Atomic Force Microscopy Based Nanorobotics, 31-86, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011 BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Book Chapter Nanomechanics of AFM based nanomanipulation Xie, H., Onal, C., Régnier, S., Sitti, M. In Atomic Force Microscopy Based Nanorobotics, 87-143, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011 BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Book Chapter Steerable random fields for image restoration and inpainting Roth, S., Black, M. J. In Markov Random Fields for Vision and Image Processing, 377-387, (Editors: Blake, A. and Kohli, P. and Rother, C.), MIT Press, 2011
This chapter introduces the concept of a Steerable Random Field (SRF). In contrast to traditional Markov random field (MRF) models in low-level vision, the random field potentials of a SRF are defined in terms of filter responses that are steered to the local image structure. This steering uses the structure tensor to obtain derivative responses that are either aligned with, or orthogonal to, the predominant local image structure. Analysis of the statistics of these steered filter responses in natural images leads to the model proposed here. Clique potentials are defined over steered filter responses using a Gaussian scale mixture model and are learned from training data. The SRF model connects random fields with anisotropic regularization and provides a statistical motivation for the latter. Steering the random field to the local image structure improves image denoising and inpainting performance compared with traditional pairwise MRFs.
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Physical Intelligence Book Chapter Teleoperation Based AFM Manipulation Control Xie, H., Onal, C., Régnier, S., Sitti, M. In Atomic Force Microscopy Based Nanorobotics, 145-235, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011 BibTeX