Informatics Edinburgh University

Seminars and Invited Talks 

Unless otherwise stated IPAB seminars occur at 14:00 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
11/02/10 11.00-12.00 Matt Howard Transferring Impedance Control Strategies via Apprenticeship Learning 4.31/4.33
18/02/10 11.00-12.00 Joanna Young TBA 4.31/4.33
25/02/10 11.00-12.00 Yijun (Michael) Xiao TBA 4.31/4.33
04/03/10 11.00-12.00 Paulina Varshavskaya TBA 4.31/4.33

Previous talks

DATE TIME NAME TITLE ROOM
28/01/10 11.00-12.00 Lucia Ballerini Appearance based skin cancer diagnosis 4.31/4.33
14/01/10 11.00-12.00 Barbara Webb What is associated with what in associative learning? 4.31/4.33
03/12/09 14.00-15.00 Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna A system-wide model of the olfactory pathway for chemosensor arrays 4.31/4.33
26/11/09 14.00-15.00 Georg Martius Goal-Oriented Behavior from Self-Organizing Control in Autonomous Robots 4.31/4.33
19/11/09 14.00-15.00 Subramanian Ramamoorthy Autonomous decision making in financial markets 4.31/4.33
12/11/09 14.00-15.00 Jan Wessnitzer Buridan assay and models of olfactory learning 4.31/4.33
05/11/09 14.00-15.00 Taku Komura Motion Editing and Retargeting based on Spatial Relationships 4.31/4.33
29/10/09 14.00-15.00 He Wang PhD proposal: A topological representation to wrap objects 4.31/4.33
22/10/09 14.00-15.00 Shin Yoshizawa On surface ridges and their use for shape analysis 4.31/4.33
15/10/09 14.00-15.00 Bob Fisher Skin Cancer Diagnosis Using 3D Data 4.31/4.33
08/10/09 14.00-15.00 Michael Herrmann Being and time: Cross-modal distortion of temporal perception 4.31/4.33
01/10/09 14.00-15.00 Djordje Mitrovic A Theory of Impedance Control based on Internal Model uncertainty 4.31/4.33
29/07/09 15.00-16.00 Marc Deisenroth Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Motor Control G.03
08/07/09 13.00-14.00 Jinah Park Visualization, Simulation and Interaction 4.31/4.33
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


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(*) Images show the Honda Asimo robot, DLR-LWR arm, Sony AIBO, Koala and Khepera robots.
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