Informatics Edinburgh University

Seminars and Invited Talks 

Unless otherwise stated IPAB seminars occur at 12:00 on a term-time Thursday, in the Informatics Forum, room G.03. (Guest speakers are shown in bold).

For more details about the seminars please contact Hannes Saal.

Upcoming talks 

DATE TIME NAME TITLE ROOM
20/11/08 12.00-13.00 Sethu Vijayakumar Bayesian Multisensory Perception and Sensorimotor Adaptation G.03
27/11/08 12.00-13.00 Barbara Webb TBA 4.31/33
04/12/08 12.00-13.00 Balazs Csanad Csaji On Parameter Uncertainties of Markov Decision Processes G.03
11/12/08 12.00-13.00 Michael Xiao TBA G.03
18/12/08 12.00-13.00 TBA TBA G.03
15/01/09 12.00-13.00 Jan Wessnitzer TBA TBA
22/01/09 12.00-13.00 Gillian Hayes TBA TBA
29/01/09 12.00-13.00 Taku Komura TBA TBA
05/02/09 12.00-13.00 Eric McKenzie TBA TBA
12/02/09 12.00-13.00 Joanna Young TBA TBA
19/02/09 12.00-13.00 Stefan Klanke TBA TBA
26/02/08 12.00-13.00 Subramanian Ramamoorthy TBA TBA

Previous talks

DATE TIME NAME TITLE ROOM
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
11/10/07 12-13 Jochen Ehnes ********SEMINAR CANCELLED********Projected Reality -- Augmenting the Environment with a Network of Controllable Video Projectors 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
31/05/07 2-3pm Finlay Stewart Visuomotor behaviour of flying Drosophila 2511
24/05/07 12-1pm Jeremy Wyatt Talking with Robots: A Case Study in Architectures for Cognitive Robotics 6206
18/05/07 12-1pm Francisco Perales Perceptual User Interfaces: new paradigms, some applications and examples 2511
17/05/07 12-12:30 Michael Mangan Long range navigation of Desert ants 2511
12:30-1pm Aroosha Laghaee Behaviour-based control of an 8 DoF robot arm 2511
10/05/07 12-12:30 Pak Ho Shum Interaction-graph: Precomputed Avatar Interactions for Real-time Animation 2511
03/05/07 12-12:30 Jafreezal Jaafar A Fuzzy Action Selection Method for Autonomous Navigation in Unknown Environments. 2511
12:30-1pm Georgios Petkos Learning dynamics and control under varying contexts: from discrete to continuous contexts 2511
26/04/07 12-12:30 Hugo Rosano Biologically Inspired Compliant Locomotion 2511
12:30-1pm Mark Payne Simple Tricks for Sensory Integration in the Cricket 2511
19/04/07 2-3pm Adrian Haith PhD Proposal: Implications of non-stationary kinematics and dynamics in motor learning 2511
12/04/07 12-1pm Tom Larkworthy Control for self reconfiguring robots 2511
05/04/07 12-1pm Tim Lukins Looking at Construction Progress with Computer Vision 2511
29/03/07 12-1pm Douglas Aberdeen Developing RL Approaches for Realistic Road Traffic Control 2511
22/03/07 12-12:30pm Shu Lim Ho Extracting topological relationships between avatars with close interactions 2511
12:30-1pm Matthew Howard Learning Utility Surfaces for Movement Selection 2511
15/03/07 12-1pm Tom Erez Gait Generation using Manifold Control 2511
08/03/07 No seminar
01/03/07 12-1pm Tomoyuki Nishita Rendering Methods for Various Natural Phenomena 2511
22/02/07 12:00-12:30 Narayanan Edakkunni Fast Online Regression using a Randomly Varying Coefficient Model 2511
15/02/07 12-12:30pm Sebastian Bitzer Dimensionality Reduction for Movement Data 2511
12:30-1pm Scott Blunsden What are they doing? 2511
8/02/07 2-3pm Leslie Smith Onsets in sound: what they are and why they are interesting? 2511
1/02/07 2-3pm Jan Wessnitzer Associative learning in the Mushroom Body neuropil of the insect brain 2511
25/01/07 2-3pm Barbara Webb Protocognition 2511
18/01/07 2-3pm Ernesto Andrade Event Detection Models for Crowded Scenes 2511
14/12/06 2-3pm Hannah Dee Where are they going? Spatial cognition and surveillance 6206
7/12/06 2-3pm Heiko Hoffmann Tactile input improves robot-arm control under changing context 2511
30/11/06 2-3pm Shigeo Morishima Instant Movie Cast Generator in Future Cast System 2511
23/11/06 2-3pm Sethu Vijayakumar Optimality principles in sensorimotor control 2511
16/11/06 2-3pm Eric McKenzie Towards a new method for Level of Detail in Computer Graphics 2511
09/11/06 2-3pm Taku Komura Simulating the interactions of multiple characters 2511
02/11/06 11-12pm Leslie Pack Kaelbling Life-Sized Learning 2511
26/10/06 2-3pm Bob Fisher Many randomly distributed single pixel cameras / An Empirical Model for Saturation and Capacity in Classifier Spaces 2511
19/10/06 2-3pm Matt Howard Thesis Proposal: Inferring Utility Surfaces for Movement Selection 2511
05/10/06 2-3pm Paolo Favaro Inference of shape and radiance for modelling and Interaction 2511
28/09/06 2-3pm Masashi Sugiyama Value Function Approximation on Non-Linear Manifolds in Reinforcement Learning 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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