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Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour (IPAB)

Overview

One of the central issues of 21st Century Informatics will be how to link, in theory and in practice, computational perception, representation, transformation and generation processes to external worlds. The external world may be the "real" world or another computational environment that has its own character. Examples of where this issue arises include bio-mimetic robotics, computer-based visual perception, dynamic control of the interaction of robotic systems with their environment or each other, computer-based generation of external phenomena, such as images, music or actions, and agent-based interaction with other agents or humans, as in computer games.

The Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour (formed 1998) is focused on activities related to these issue. IPAB is one of several institutes formed by members of the former Departments of Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science and Computer Science, and HCRC.

Activities

The main activities of the Institute are:

• undertaking research into machine learning, robotics, computer vision, computer graphics and related topics
• providing supervision and a research environment for the PhD/MPhil/MSc(Research) research students and annual MSc/UG4 student projects
• hosting a weekly IPAB seminar and occasional Institute topical workshops
• hosting visiting scientists
• promoting the Institute and its research field within the University and in the external scientific world

JOBS

None at the moment

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Institute of Perception, Action, and Behaviour © 2006
(*) Images show the Honda Asimo robot, DLR-LWR arm, Sony AIBO, Koala and Khepera robots.