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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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Perceiving Systems Autonomous Vision Conference Paper Towards Probabilistic Volumetric Reconstruction using Ray Potentials Ulusoy, A. O., Geiger, A., Black, M. J. In 3D Vision (3DV), 2015 3rd International Conference on, 10-18, Lyon, October 2015 code YouTube pdf suppmat DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article SMPL: A Skinned Multi-Person Linear Model Loper, M., Mahmood, N., Romero, J., Pons-Moll, G., Black, M. J. ACM Trans. Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 34(6):248:1-248:16, ACM, New York, NY, October 2015 pdf video code/model errata DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Talk Causal Inference for Empirical Time Series Based on the Postulate of Independence of Cause and Mechanism Besserve, M. 53rd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, September 2015 (Published) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Ph.D. Thesis From Points to Probability Measures: A Statistical Learning on Distributions with Kernel Mean Embedding Muandet, K. University of Tübingen, Germany, University of Tübingen, Germany, September 2015 BibTeX

Empirical Inference Ph.D. Thesis Machine Learning Approaches to Image Deconvolution Schuler, C. University of Tübingen, Germany, University of Tübingen, Germany, September 2015 BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Conference Paper Compliant wing design for a flapping wing micro air vehicle Colmenares, D., Kania, R., Zhang, W., Sitti, M. In Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, 32-39, September 2015 DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Patent Methods of forming dry adhesive structures Sitti, M., Murphy, M., Aksak, B. September 2015, US Patent 9,120,953 BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Combined Pose-Wrench and State Machine Representation for Modeling Robotic Assembly Skills Wahrburg, A., Zeiss, S., Matthias, B., Peters, J., Ding, H. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 852-857, IROS, September 2015 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Learning Motor Skills from Partially Observed Movements Executed at Different Speeds Ewerton, M., Maeda, G., Peters, J., Neumann, G. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 456-463, IROS, September 2015 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Conference Paper Millimeter-scale magnetic swimmers using elastomeric undulations Zhang, J., Diller, E. In 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 1706-1711, September 2015 DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Model-Free Probabilistic Movement Primitives for Physical Interaction Paraschos, A., Rueckert, E., Peters, J., Neumann, G. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2860-2866, IROS, September 2015 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Perception of Strength and Power of Realistic Male Characters Wellerdiek, A. C., Breidt, M., Geuss, M. N., Streuber, S., Kloos, U., Black, M. J., Mohler, B. J. In Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Applied Perception, SAP’15, 7-14, ACM, New York, NY, September 2015 PDF DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Probabilistic Progress Prediction and Sequencing of Concurrent Movement Primitives Manschitz, S., Kober, J., Gienger, M., Peters, J. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 449-455, IROS, September 2015 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Reinforcement Learning vs Human Programming in Tetherball Robot Games Parisi, S., Abdulsamad, H., Paraschos, A., Daniel, C., Peters, J. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 6428-6434, IROS, September 2015 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Semi-Supervised Interpolation in an Anticausal Learning Scenario Janzing, D., Schölkopf, B. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 16:1923-1948, September 2015 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Shifts of Gamma Phase across Primary Visual Cortical Sites Reflect Dynamic Stimulus-Modulated Information Transfer Besserve, M., Lowe, S. C., Logothetis, N. K., Schölkopf, B., Panzeri, S. PLOS Biology, 13(9):e1002257, September 2015 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Stabilizing Novel Objects by Learning to Predict Tactile Slip Veiga, F., van Hoof, H., Peters, J., Hermans, T. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 5065-5072, IROS, September 2015 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article The EChemPen: A Guiding Hand To Learn Electrochemical Surface Modifications Valetaud, M., Loget, G., Roche, J., Hueken, N., Fattah, Z., Badets, V., Fontaine, O., Zigah, D. J. of Chem. Ed., 92(10):1700-1704, September 2015 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Experimental investigation of optimal adhesion of mushroomlike elastomer microfibrillar adhesives Marvi, H., Song, S., Sitti, M. Langmuir, 31(37):10119-10124, American Chemical Society, August 2015 DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Conference Paper 3D-printed Soft Microrobot for Swimming in Biological Fluids Qiu, T., Palagi, S., Fischer, P. In Conf. Proc. IEEE Eng. Med. Biol. Soc., 4922-4925, Piscataway, NJ, USA, August 2015 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Conference Paper A statistical shape space model of the palate surface trained on 3D MRI scans of the vocal tract Hewer, A., Steiner, I., Bolkart, T., Wuhrer, S., Richmond, K. In International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), August 2015 paper BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article Dyna: A Model of Dynamic Human Shape in Motion Pons-Moll, G., Romero, J., Mahmood, N., Black, M. J. ACM Transactions on Graphics, (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 34(4):120:1-120:14, ACM, August 2015 pdf preprint video data DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Is Breathing Rate a Confounding Variable in Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) Based on EEG Spectral Power? Ibarra Chaoul, A., Grosse-Wentrup, M. Proceedings of the 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1079-1082, EMBC, August 2015 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Testing the role of luminance edges in White’s illusion with contour adaptation Betz, T., Shapley, R. M., Wichmann, F. A., Maertens, M. Journal of Vision, 15(11):1-16, August 2015 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Patent Micro-fiber arrays with tip coating and transfer method for preparing same Sitti, M., Washburn, N. R., Glass, P. S., Chung, H. July 2015, US Patent 9,079,215 BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Intelligent Control Systems Conference Paper Direct Loss Minimization Inverse Optimal Control Doerr, A., Ratliff, N., Bohg, J., Toussaint, M., Schaal, S. In Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems, Rome, Italy, Robotics: Science and Systems XI, July 2015 (Published) PDF Video BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article Linking Objects to Actions: Encoding of Target Object and Grasping Strategy in Primate Ventral Premotor Cortex Vargas-Irwin, C. E., Franquemont, L., Black, M. J., Donoghue, J. P. Journal of Neuroscience, 35(30):10888-10897, July 2015 publisher link DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Retrospective motion correction of magnitude-input MR images Loktyushin, A., Schuler, C., Scheffler, K., Schölkopf, B. First International Workshop on Machine Learning Meets Medical Imaging (MLMMI 2015), held in conjunction with ICML 2015, 9487:3-12, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (Editors: K. K. Bhatia and H. Lombaert), Springer, July 2015 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper The Informed Sampler: A Discriminative Approach to Bayesian Inference in Generative Computer Vision Models Jampani, V., Nowozin, S., Loper, M., Gehler, P. V. In Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Special Issue on Generative Models in Computer Vision and Medical Imaging, 136:32-44, Elsevier, July 2015 arXiv-preprint pdf DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article pH-taxis of biohybrid microsystems Zhuang, J., Carlsen, R. W., Sitti, M. Scientific reports, 5, Nature Publishing Group, June 2015 DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Autonomous Vision Conference Paper Displets: Resolving Stereo Ambiguities using Object Knowledge Güney, F., Geiger, A. In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2015, 4165-4175, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2015 pdf abstract suppmat BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Efficient Sparse-to-Dense Optical Flow Estimation using a Learned Basis and Layers Wulff, J., Black, M. J. In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2015), 120-130, June 2015 pdf Extended Abstract Supplemental Material Poster Code BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Intelligent Control Systems Learning and Dynamical Systems Conference Paper Guaranteed H2 Performance in Distributed Event-Based State Estimation Muehlebach, M., Trimpe, S. In Proceeding of the First International Conference on Event-based Control, Communication, and Signal Processing, June 2015 (Published) PDF DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Poster Improving Quantitative Susceptibility and R2* Mapping by Applying Retrospective Motion Correction Feng, X., Loktyushin, A., Deistung, A., Reichenbach, J. R. 23rd Annual Meeting and Exhibition of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, ISMRM, June 2015 (Published) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Book Chapter Kernel methods in medical imaging Charpiat, G., Hofmann, M., Schölkopf, B. In Handbook of Biomedical Imaging, 63-81, 4, (Editors: Paragios, N., Duncan, J. and Ayache, N.), Springer, Berlin, Germany, June 2015 (Published) Web URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Autonomous Vision Conference Paper Object Scene Flow for Autonomous Vehicles Menze, M., Geiger, A. In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2015, 3061-3070, IEEE, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2015 pdf abstract suppmat DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Intelligent Control Systems Conference Paper On the Choice of the Event Trigger in Event-based Estimation Trimpe, S., Campi, M. In Proceeding of the First International Conference on Event-based Control, Communication, and Signal Processing, June 2015 (Published) PDF DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Optimal Length of Low Reynolds Number Nanopropellers Walker (Schamel), D., Kuebler, M., Morozov, K. I., Fischer, P., Leshansky, A. M. Nano Letters, 15(7):4412-4416, June 2015 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Pose-Conditioned Joint Angle Limits for 3D Human Pose Reconstruction Akhter, I., Black, M. J. In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2015), 1446-1455, June 2015 pdf Extended Abstract video project/data/code poster DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Poster Retrospective rigid motion correction of undersampled MRI data Loktyushin, A., Babayeva, M., Gallichan, D., Krueger, G., Scheffler, K., Kober, T. 23rd Annual Meeting and Exhibition of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, ISMRM, June 2015 (Published) BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper The Stitched Puppet: A Graphical Model of 3D Human Shape and Pose Zuffi, S., Black, M. J. In IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2015), 3537-3546, June 2015 pdf Extended Abstract poster code/project video DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Conference Paper Fiberbot: A miniature crawling robot using a directional fibrillar pad Han, Y., Marvi, H., Sitti, M. In Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2015 IEEE International Conference on, 3122-3127, May 2015 DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Conference Paper Platform design and tethered flight of a motor-driven flapping-wing system Hines, L., Colmenares, D., Sitti, M. In Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2015 IEEE International Conference on, 5838-5845, May 2015 DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Structural optimization for flexure-based parallel mechanisms–Towards achieving optimal dynamic and stiffness properties Lum, G. Z., Teo, T. J., Yeo, S. H., Yang, G., Sitti, M. Precision Engineering, 42:195-207, Elsevier, May 2015 DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Empirical Inference Conference Paper Permutohedral Lattice CNNs Kiefel, M., Jampani, V., Gehler, P. V. In ICLR Workshop Track, ICLR, May 2015 (Published) pdf URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article A theoretical study of potentially observable chirality-sensitive NMR effects in molecules Garbacz, P., Cukras, J., Jaszunski, M. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 17(35):22642-22651, May 2015 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Ph.D. Thesis Blind Retrospective Motion Correction of MR Images Loktyushin, A. University of Tübingen, Germany, May 2015 BibTeX