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Heiko Hoffmann Heiko Hoffmann
Heiko joined the SLMC group as a post-doctoral research fellow in February 2006. He works on the EU-sponsored SENSOPAC project. His research interests include learning sensorimotor representations, latent variable models, visual and tactile cognition, and robotics. Heiko completed his PhD in 2004 while working in the Cognitive Robotics group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Munich.

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 Dr. Heiko Hoffmann
IPAB, James Clerk Maxwell Building #2106,
University of Edinburgh,
The King's Buildings, Mayfield Road,
Edinburgh EH9 3JZ.
Email: Heiko.Hoffmann[at]...        replace ... by ed.ac.uk
Tel: (0131) 651-3437

Research projects
SENSOPAC: The goal of this project is to understand tactile cognition by integrating machine learning, haptic robotics, experimental and computational neuroscience, and human psychophysics. At SLMC, we will focus on the machine learning part, which covers the following three problems: how to discover the structure of sensorimotor interactions, how to learn this structure, and how to generalise over multiple contexts. Of particular interest will be how to discover the relevant latent variables that are intrinsic to an object explored manually.

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