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Seminars and Invited Talks 

Unless otherwise stated IPAB seminars occur at 12:00 on a term-time Thursday, in the Informatics Forum, room 4.31/4.33. (Guest speakers are shown in bold).

For more details about the seminars please contact Hannes Saal.

Upcoming talks 

DATE TIME NAME TITLE ROOM
08/07/09 13.00-14.00 Jinah Park Visualization, Simulation and Interaction 4.31/4.33

Previous talks

DATE TIME NAME TITLE ROOM
16/06/09 13.00-14.00 Naoufel Werghi Extracting topologically ordered features from 3D mesh surface: Framework, applications, and open issues 4.31/4.33
28/05/09 12.00-13.00 Sebastian Bitzer Dimensionality Reduction for Reinforcement Learning 4.31/4.33
21/05/09 14.00-15.00 Joern Diedrichsen How the motor systems exploits redundancy S.1, Psychology building
14/05/09 12.00-13.00 Thomas Larkworthy Accuracy prediction of redundant/parallel modular robots & Comparison of general methods for Self-reconfiguration planning G.03
07/05/09 12.00-13.00 Matthew Whitaker Reinforcement Learning in Multi-Robot Systems - The Role of Communication 4.31/4.33
27/04/09 16.00-17.00 Alan McKinnon A Noise-Bound Method for Detecting Shadow-Free Scene Changes in Image Sequences 4.31/4.33
23/04/09 15.00-16.00 Danica Kragic Active Vision for Detecting, Fixating, Manipulating Objects and Learning of Human Actions 4.31/4.33
16/04/09 12.00-13.00 Alexander Belyaev Skeleton-based free-form shape deformations G.03
02/04/09 12.00-13.00 Hubert Shum Simulating Interaction among Virtual Characters 4.31/4.33
19/03/09 12.00-12.30 Matthew Howard Learning Control Policies from Variable Constraint Data 4.31/4.33
12.30-13.00 Shu Lim Ho Synthesizing human interactions with topological constraints
12/03/09 12.00-13.00 Heba Lakany Brain Computer Interfaces Gaddum LT, 1 George Square
09/03/09 14.00-15.00 Etienne Burdet Motor learning: In humans, for robots 4.31/4.33
26/02/09 12.00-13.00 Finlay Stewart Modelling visual-olfactory integration in free-flying fruit flies 4.31/4.33
19/02/09 12.00-13.00 Takamitsu Matsubara Learning full-body movement skills on humanoid robot via reinforcement learning and human motion prediction with multiple Gaussian process dynamical models G.03
05/02/09 12.00-13.00 Michael (Yijun) Xiao Nonlinear image resizing based on seam carving 4.31/4.33
29/01/09 12.00-13.00 Taku Komura Computer animation in topology space 4.31/4.33
22/01/09 12.00-13.00 Stefan Klanke Dimensionality reduction for movement data 4.31/4.33
15/12/08 14.00-15.00 Paulina Varshavskaya Reinforcement Learning in Distributed Robotic Systems 4.31/4.33
11/12/08 12.00-13.00 Matthijs Snel PhD proposal: The Drive for Emergent Adaptive Behaviour: Embodied Neural Controllers in Dynamic Environments G.03
04/12/08 12.00-13.00 Balazs Csanad Csaji On Parameter Uncertainties of Markov Decision Processes G.03
27/11/08 12.00-13.00 Barbara Webb Non-elemental learning: what is it, and can insects do it? 4.31/33
20/11/08 12.00-13.00 Sethu Vijayakumar Bayesian Multisensory Perception and Sensorimotor Adaptation G.03
18/11/08 11.00-12.00 Ioannis Havoutis PhD proposal: Learning robust humanoid behaviors using composable skill manifolds G.03
13/11/08 12.00-13.00 Ian Saunders PhD proposal: The role of sensory feedback in the context of a closed-loop prosthetic hand G.03
06/11/08 12.00-13.00 Hannes Saal PhD proposal: Human and artificial tactile processing and sensorimotor control G.03
27/10/08 14.15-15.00 Paolo Favaro Superresolution with the light field camera and 3D reconstruction with coded aperture photography G.03
22/10/08 11.00-12.00 Franck Multon Computer Simulation for retrieving plausible bipedal locomotion for living and fossilized hominids G.03
20/10/08 12.00-13.00 Jemery Wyatt Planning to see G.03
16/10/08 12.00-13.00 Prof Florentin Worgotter On the relation between reinforcement and hebbian learning G.03
09/10/08 12.00-13.00 Michael Herrmann Emergence of Agency in Adaptive Agents G.03
25/09/08 12.00-13.00 Prof R.B. Fisher Skin cancer, Time Lapse Videos and Video-Ground Truthing G.03
17/09/08 2.00-3.00 Jo-Anne Ting Towards autonomous Bayesian real-time learning G.03
26/06/08 12.00-13.00 Hannes Saal Spatiotemporal distribution of tactile information across the human fingertip 2511
19/06/08 12.00-13.00 Matt Howard Direct Policy Learning from Constrained Motion Data 2511
12/06/08 12.00-13.00 Matt Snel Evolution of Valence Systems in an Unstable Environment 2511
05/06/08 12.00-13.00 Jan Steffen Dextrous Grasping and Manipulation Using Manifolds 2511
22/05/08 12.30-13.00 Giorgos Petkos Learning dynamics for robot control under varying contexts 2511
22/05/08 12.00-12.30 Mark Payne Mushroom Bodies and Motor Control 2511
15/05/08 12.00-13.00 Michael Mangan Navigation in insects using multiple place memories 2509
01/05/08 12.00-13.00 Tom Larkworthy Self-Reconfiguration Planning Heuristics 2511
24/04/08 12.00-13.00 Jafreezal Jaafar Reactive Behaviour In Game Design Using Fuzzy Logic 2511
17/04/08 12.00-13.00 Theodoros Damoulas From Automated Currency Validation to Protein Fold Recognition: Probabilistic Multi-Class Multi-kernel Learning 2511
10/04/08 12.00-13.00 Joachim Hass Time Perception and Motion Control - Two Sides of the Same Coin? 2511
01/04/08 11.00-12.00 Jochen Steil Online Reservoir Learning of movements for PA10 and ASIMO 2511
27/03/08 12.00-13.00 Edmond Shu Lim Ho Synthesizing human interactions with topological constraints 2511
20/03/08 12.00-12.30 Mark Harrison Automatically Generating Options in Reinforcement Learning 2511
12.30-13.00 Ioannis Havoutis Learning global control strategies for dynamically dexterous robots 2511
13/03/08 12.30-13.00 Adrian Haith A Bayesian Model of Multimodal Motor Adaptation 2511
12.00-12.30 Theo Gonos Using Homeostatic Neurons for Sensor Self-calibration 2511
12/03/08 13.00-14.00 Bill Lewinger Borrowing from Nature: Insect-like Robotics, Behaviour and Functionality 2511
28/02/08 3.30-4.30 Hubert Shum Synthesizing Dense Interactions for Multiple Avatars 2511
21/02/08 12-13.00 Sebastian Bitzer Synthesising Novel Movements through Latent Space Modulation of Scalable Control Policies 2511
07/02/08 12-13.00 Paolo Favaro Boosting Invariance and Efficiency in Supervised Learning 2511
31/01/08 12-12.30 Christoph Kolodziejsk Closed loop control and behavioral learning using a differential Hebbian framework 2511
12.30-13.00 Poramate Manoonpong Neural control for locomotion of walking machines 2511
06/12/07 12-13 Roderich Gross What properties are required for individuals that work in groups and teams 2511
29/11/07 12-13 Stefan Klanke Learning Manifolds with Unsupervised Kernel Regression 2511
22/11/07 12-13 Taku Komura Simulating Interactions of Multiple Avatars 2511
15/11/07 12-13 Subramanian Ramamoorthy Task encoding and machine learning for dynamically dexterous robot behaviours 2511
08/11/07 12-13 Barbara Webb SPARK project summary 2511
01/11/07 12-13 Jochen Ehnes Projected Reality -- Augmenting the Environment with a Network of Controllable Video Projectors 5326
18/10/07 12-13 Gordon Wyeth Using Models of Rodent Hippocampus for Robot Navigation 2511
15/10/07 14-15 Shu Lim Ho Synthesizing human interactions with topological constraints 2511
04/10/07 14-15 Sebastian Bitzer PhD Proposal: Task Relevant Motion Generalisation 2511
27/09/07 12-13 Bob Fisher An empirical model for saturation in classifier spaces 2511
16/08/07 12-1pm Michael Greenspan Is Computational Intelligence Needed to Play Robotic Pool? 2511
08/08/07 14-15 Michael Mangan PhD Proposal: "Desert ant navigation: are idiosyncratic routes formed through the linking of local vectors to snapshots?" 5215
16/07/07 12-1pm Emre Ugur The learning and use of traversability affordance on a mobile robot 2511
05/07/07 12-12:30 Rowland Sillito Incremental One-Class Learning with Bounded Computational Complexity 2511
28/06/07 12-12:30 Aroosha Laghaee Behaviour-based control of an 8 DoF robot arm 2511
22/06/07 12-12:30 Matthew Szenher Visual Homing by Maximising Mutual Image Information 2511
21/06/07 12-1pm Matthew Whitaker PhD Proposal:Investigating the effects of inter-agent communication on multi-agent reinforcement learning 2511
14/06/07 12-12:30 Tim Hospedales An Adaptive Machine Director 2511
12:30-1pm Theophile Gonos Adaptation to the environment: The role of sensory neurons in sensor self-calibration and response to failure 2511
07/06/07 12-1pm Toby Collins Registering and Completing Deformable Isometric Surfaces (or what I did in France) 2511

IPAB: News from 2006-2007 

This page contains information about recent IPAB events.

DATE CONTACT SUMMARY
October 2007 Mark Harrison and Matthijs Snel Mark and Matthijs will be joining us in October as new PhD students under supervision of Gillian
October 2007 Ioannis Havoutis Ioannis will be joining us in October as a new PhD student under supervision of Subramanian
September 2007 Hannes Saal Hannes is being transferred to IPAB from DTC, and will be under Sethu's supervision. He'll be appearing in IPAB soon.
September 2007 Subramanian Ramamoorthy Subramanian joined IPAB on the 4th of September as a Robotics Lecturer
June 2007 Concetto Spampinato Concetto joined IPAB for 3 months as a visitor to work with Bob
May 2007 Francisco Perales and Nisheeth Srivastava Francisco and Nisheeth joined IPAB as visitors for 2 and a half months
April 2007 Stefan Klanke Stefan joined IPAB as an RA to work on SENCOPAC project
March 2007 Sethu Vijayakumar Sethu has been awarded the Microsoft/Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Research Fellowship effective August 2007.
February 2007 Tomoyuki Nishita Professor Nishita (University of Tokyo) visited IPAB for a week
February 2007 Djordje Mitrovic Djordje joined IPAB as an RA to work on the SENSOPAC project
January 2007 Sethu Vijayakumar and Bob Fisher Jonathan Edwards and John Watkins visited IPAB to interview Sethu and Bob for BBC4 program on Artificial Intelligence
November 2006 Barbara Webb Barbara Webb interviewed for podcast on Biorobotics
November 2006 Tom Larkworthy Tom was transferred to IPAB from DTC to start his PhD studies supervised by Gillian
October 2006 Michael Mangan Michael joined IPAB as a PhD student supervised by Barbara
October 2006 Sebastian Bitzer Sebastian joined IPAB as a PhD student supervised by Sethu
September 2006 Bob Fisher The 17th BMVC conference, co-chaired by Bob, was held 4-7 September 2006 in Edinburgh
September 2006 Gianluca Paglia Gianluca joined IPAB for a month as a visitor in September 2006
September 2006 Pak Ho Shum Pak Ho Shum joined IPAB as a PhD student supervised by Taku
July 2006 Vincent Gay-Bellile Vincent joined IPAB for two months as a visitor in August 2006
July 2006 IPAB The institute has new look, logo and of course webpage
July 2006 Shu Lim Ho Shu Lim joined IPAB as a PhD student supervised by Taku
June 2006 George Konidaris George returned to IPAB to work on a summer project
June 2006 Thomas Haferlach Thomas joined IPAB to work as a summer student
May 2006 Toby Breckon PhD student Toby has been offered a lectureship at Cranfield University, to begin July 2006
April 2006 Neil Robertson Neil joined IPAB as a visiting student for the month of April 2006.
March 2006 Masashi Sugiyama Masashi joined IPAB for a month as an academic visitor in March 2006. He will be returning to IPAB for two more months in August and September 2006
February 2006 Taku Komura Taku joined IPAB as the new Robotics lecturer, starting on February 23rd, 2006
February 2006 Mohammed Bennamoun Mohammed will be joining IPAB for two months as an academic visitor in February and March 2006. He will be returning to IPAB for another month in July 2006
February 2006 Heiko Hoffmann Heiko joined IPAB as an RA working on the SENSOPAC project
January 2006 Toby Collins Toby joined IPAB as a PhD student, supervised by Bob
January 2006 Barbara Webb Barbara Webb is on a sabbatical semester, spending two months at the CNR Institute of Cybernetics in Naples, and then two months at EPFL in Lausanne

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