DEPARTMENTS

Emperical Interference

Haptic Intelligence

Modern Magnetic Systems

Perceiving Systems

Physical Intelligence

Robotic Materials

Social Foundations of Computation


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Autonomous Vision

Autonomous Learning

Bioinspired Autonomous Miniature Robots

Dynamic Locomotion

Embodied Vision

Human Aspects of Machine Learning

Intelligent Control Systems

Learning and Dynamical Systems

Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems

Movement Generation and Control

Neural Capture and Synthesis

Physics for Inference and Optimization

Organizational Leadership and Diversity

Probabilistic Learning Group


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Intelligent Control Systems Empirical Inference Conference Paper Efficient Encoding of Dynamical Systems through Local Approximations Solowjow, F., Mehrjou, A., Schölkopf, B., Trimpe, S. In Proceedings of the 57th IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 6073 - 6079 , Miami, Fl, USA, December 2018 (Published) arXiv PDF DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Probabilistic Learning Group Conference Paper Enhancing the Accuracy and Fairness of Human Decision Making Valera, I., Singla, A., Gomez Rodriguez, M. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31 (NeurIPS 2018), 1774-1783, (Editors: S. Bengio and H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and K. Grauman and N. Cesa-Bianchi and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 32nd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Generalisation in humans and deep neural networks Geirhos, R., Temme, C. R. M., Rauber, J., Schütt, H., Bethge, M., Wichmann, F. A. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31 (NeurIPS 2018), 7549-7561, (Editors: S. Bengio and H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and K. Grauman and N. Cesa-Bianchi and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 32nd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Generalization in anti-causal learning Kilbertus*, N., Parascandolo*, G., Schölkopf*, B. NeurIPS 2018 Workshop on Critiquing and Correcting Trends in Machine Learning, December 2018, *authors are listed in alphabetical order arXiv URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Informative Features for Model Comparison Jitkrittum, W., Kanagawa, H., Sangkloy, P., Hays, J., Schölkopf, B., Gretton, A. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31 (NeurIPS 2018), 816-827, (Editors: S. Bengio and H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and K. Grauman and N. Cesa-Bianchi and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 32nd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning Invariances using the Marginal Likelihood van der Wilk, M., Bauer, M., John, S. T., Hensman, J. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31 (NeurIPS 2018), 9960-9970, (Editors: S. Bengio and H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and K. Grauman and N. Cesa-Bianchi and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 32nd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Non-factorised Variational Inference in Dynamical Systems Ialongo, A. D., Van Der Wilk, M., Hensman, J., Rasmussen, C. E. 1st Symposion on Advances in Approximate Bayesian Inference, December 2018 (Published) PDF URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Parallel and functionally segregated processing of task phase and conscious content in the prefrontal cortex Kapoor, V., Besserve, M., Logothetis, N. K., Panagiotaropoulos, T. I. Communications Biology, 1(215):1-12, December 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Resampled Priors for Variational Autoencoders Bauer, M., Mnih, A. Third Workshop on Bayesian Deep Learning at the 32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Versa: Versatile and Efficient Few-shot Learning Gordon*, J., Bronskill*, J., Bauer*, M., Nowozin, S., Turner, R. E. Third Workshop on Bayesian Deep Learning at the 32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018, *equal contribution (Published) URL BibTeX

Statistical Learning Theory Conference Paper When do random forests fail? Tang, C., Garreau, D., von Luxburg, U. In Proceedings Neural Information Processing Systems, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2018) , December 2018 BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Optical and Thermophoretic Control of Janus Nanopen Injection into Living Cells Maier, C. M., Huergo, M. A., Milosevic, S., Pernpeintner, C., Li, M., Singh, D. P., Walker, D., Fischer, P., Feldmann, J., Lohmüller, T. Nano Letters, 18:7935–7941, November 2018 (Accepted) DOI URL BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Conference Paper A Whole-Body Model Predictive Control Scheme Including External Contact Forces and CoM Height Variations Mirjalili, R., Yousefi-koma, A., Shirazi, F. A., Nikkhah, A., Nazemi, F., Khadiv, M. Proceedings International Conference on Humanoid Robots, IEEE, Beijing, China, 2018 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, November 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article A swarm of slippery micropropellers penetrates the vitreous body of the eye Wu, Z., Troll, J., Jeong, H. H., Wei, Q., Stang, M., Ziemssen, F., Wang, Z., Dong, M., Schnichels, S., Qiu, T., et al. Science Advances, 4(11):eaat4388, November 2018 (Published) Video: Nanorobots propel through the eye DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous A Large-Scale Fabric-Based Tactile Sensor Using Electrical Resistance Tomography Lee, H., Park, K., Kim, J., Kuchenbecker, K. J. 107-109, Hands-on demonstration (3 pages) presented at AsiaHaptics, Incheon, South Korea, November 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article Deep Inertial Poser: Learning to Reconstruct Human Pose from Sparse Inertial Measurements in Real Time Huang, Y., Kaufmann, M., Aksan, E., Black, M. J., Hilliges, O., Pons-Moll, G. ACM Transactions on Graphics, (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 37:185:1-185:15, ACM, November 2018, Two first authors contributed equally data code pdf preprint errata video DOI BibTeX

Intelligent Control Systems Conference Paper Depth Control of Underwater Robots using Sliding Modes and Gaussian Process Regression Lima, G. S., Bessa, W. M., Trimpe, S. In Proceeding of the 15th Latin American Robotics Symposium, João Pessoa, Brazil, 15th Latin American Robotics Symposium, November 2018 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Reducing 3D Vibrations to 1D in Real Time Park, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. 21-24, Hands-on demonstration (4 pages) presented at AsiaHaptics, Incheon, South Korea, November 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Constraint-Space Projection Direct Policy Search Akrour, R., Peters, J., Neuman, G. 14th European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL), October 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Control of Musculoskeletal Systems using Learned Dynamics Models Büchler, D., Calandra, R., Schölkopf, B., Peters, J. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 3(4):3161-3168, IEEE, 2018 (Published) RAL18final DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article Deep Neural Network-based Cooperative Visual Tracking through Multiple Micro Aerial Vehicles Price, E., Lawless, G., Ludwig, R., Martinovic, I., Buelthoff, H. H., Black, M. J., Ahmad, A. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Robotics and Automation Letters, 3(4):3193-3200, IEEE, October 2018, Also accepted and presented in the 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). (Published) Published Version DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Domain Randomization for Simulation-Based Policy Optimization with Transferability Assessment Muratore, F., Treede, F., Gienger, M., Peters, J. 2nd Annual Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 87:700-713, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, PMLR, October 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article First Impressions of Personality Traits From Body Shapes Hu, Y., Parde, C. J., Hill, M. Q., Mahmood, N., O’Toole, A. J. Psychological Science, 29(12):1969-–1983, October 2018 publisher site pdf DOI BibTeX

Intelligent Control Systems Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Conference Paper Gait learning for soft microrobots controlled by light fields Rohr, A. V., Trimpe, S., Marco, A., Fischer, P., Palagi, S. In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2018, 6199-6206, Piscataway, NJ, USA, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October 2018 (Published) arXiv IEEE Xplore DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning to Categorize Bug Reports with LSTM Networks Gondaliya, K., Peters, J., Rueckert, E. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Advances in System Testing and Validation Lifecycle (VALID), 7-12, October 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Mean squared advantage minimization as a consequence of entropic policy improvement regularization Belousov, B., Peters, J. European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL), October 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Book Chapter Nanoscale robotic agents in biological fluids and tissues Palagi, S., Walker, D. Q. T., Fischer, P. In The Encyclopedia of Medical Robotics, 2:19-42, 2, (Editors: Desai, J. P. and Ferreira, A.), World Scientific, October 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Autonomous Vision Conference Paper On the Integration of Optical Flow and Action Recognition Sevilla-Lara, L., Liao, Y., Güney, F., Jampani, V., Geiger, A., Black, M. J. In German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), LNCS 11269:281-297, Springer, Cham, October 2018 arXiv DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Regularizing Reinforcement Learning with State Abstraction Akrour, R., Veiga, F., Peters, J., Neuman, G. Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 534-539, October 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Reinforcement Learning of Phase Oscillators for Fast Adaptation to Moving Targets Maeda, G., Koc, O., Morimoto, J. Proceedings of The 2nd Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 87:630-640, (Editors: Aude Billard, Anca Dragan, Jan Peters, Jun Morimoto ), PMLR, October 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Softness, Warmth, and Responsiveness Improve Robot Hugs Block, A. E., Kuchenbecker, K. J. International Journal of Social Robotics, 11(1):49-64, October 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Temporal Interpolation as an Unsupervised Pretraining Task for Optical Flow Estimation Wulff, J., Black, M. J. In German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), LNCS 11269:567-582, Springer, Cham, October 2018 pdf arXiv DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Vision Conference Paper Towards Robust Visual Odometry with a Multi-Camera System Liu, P., Geppert, M., Heng, L., Sattler, T., Geiger, A., Pollefeys, M. In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2018, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October 2018 pdf BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Universal custom complex magnetic spring design methodology Woodward, M. A., Sitti, M. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 54(1): 8200213, October 2018 DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Fast spatial scanning of 3D ultrasound fields via thermography Melde, K., Qiu, T., Fischer, P. Applied Physics Letters, 113(13):133503, September 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Human Motion Parsing by Hierarchical Dynamic Clustering Zhang, Y., Tang, S., Sun, H., Neumann, H. In Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 269, BMVA Press, 29th British Machine Vision Conference, September 2018 pdf BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Article ClusterNet: Instance Segmentation in RGB-D Images Shao, L., Tian, Y., Bohg, J. arXiv, September 2018, Submitted to ICRA'19 (Submitted) URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Deep Directional Statistics: Pose Estimation with Uncertainty Quantification Prokudin, S., Gehler, P., Nowozin, S. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 9:542-559, September 2018 code pdf BibTeX

Rationality Enhancement Conference Paper Discovering Rational Heuristics for Risky Choice Gul, S., Krueger, P. M., Callaway, F., Griffiths, T. L., Lieder, F. The 14th biannual conference of the German Society for Cognitive Science, GK, The 14th biannual conference of the German Society for Cognitive Science, GK, September 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX

Rationality Enhancement Conference Paper Discovering and Teaching Optimal Planning Strategies Lieder, F., Callaway, F., Krueger, P. M., Das, P., Griffiths, T. L., Gul, S. In The 14th biannual conference of the German Society for Cognitive Science, GK, September 2018, Falk Lieder and Frederick Callaway contributed equally to this publication. URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Generating 3D Faces using Convolutional Mesh Autoencoders Ranjan, A., Bolkart, T., Sanyal, S., Black, M. J. In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11207:725-741, Springer, Cham, September 2018 Code (tensorflow) Code (pytorch) Project Page paper supplementary DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Learning Human Optical Flow Ranjan, A., Romero, J., Black, M. J. In 29th British Machine Vision Conference, September 2018 video code pdf URL BibTeX

Autonomous Vision Conference Paper Learning Priors for Semantic 3D Reconstruction Cherabier, I., Schönberger, J., Oswald, M., Pollefeys, M., Geiger, A. In Computer Vision – ECCV 2018, Springer International Publishing, Cham, September 2018 pdf suppmat Project Page Video DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Learning an Infant Body Model from RGB-D Data for Accurate Full Body Motion Analysis Hesse, N., Pujades, S., Romero, J., Black, M. J., Bodensteiner, C., Arens, M., Hofmann, U. G., Tacke, U., Hadders-Algra, M., Weinberger, R., et al. In Int. Conf. on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), September 2018 pdf Project page video extended arXiv version DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Light-triggered drug release from 3D-printed magnetic chitosan microswimmers Ugur Bozuyuk, , Oncay Yasa, , I. Ceren Yasa, , Hakan Ceylan, , Seda Kizilel, , Sitti, M. ACS Nano, 12(9):9617-9625, September 2018 DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Neural Body Fitting: Unifying Deep Learning and Model-Based Human Pose and Shape Estimation Omran, M., Lassner, C., Pons-Moll, G., Gehler, P. V., Schiele, B. In 3DV, 484-494, September 2018 arXiv code BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Part-Aligned Bilinear Representations for Person Re-identification Suh, Y., Wang, J., Tang, S., Mei, T., Lee, K. M. In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 11218:418-437, Springer, Cham, September 2018 pdf supplementary DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Phase separation around a heated colloid in bulk and under confinement Roy, S., Maciolek, A. Soft Matter, 14(46):9326-9335, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, September 2018 DOI BibTeX