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Dynamic Locomotion

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Human Aspects of Machine Learning

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Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems

Movement Generation and Control

Neural Capture and Synthesis

Physics for Inference and Optimization

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Perceiving Systems Conference Paper 3D Object Reconstruction from Hand-Object Interactions Tzionas, D., Gall, J. In International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), :729-737, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), December 2015 () pdf Project's Website Video Spotlight Extended Abstract YouTube DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Detailed Full-Body Reconstructions of Moving People from Monocular RGB-D Sequences Bogo, F., Black, M. J., Loper, M., Romero, J. In International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), :2300-2308, December 2015 () Video pdf BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Enzymatically active biomimetic micropropellers for the penetration of mucin gels Walker (Schamel), D., Käsdorf, B. T., Jeong, H. H., Lieleg, O., Fischer, P. Science Advances, 1(11):e1500501, December 2015 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Autonomous Vision Conference Paper Exploiting Object Similarity in 3D Reconstruction Zhou, C., Güney, F., Wang, Y., Geiger, A. In International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), December 2015 (Published) pdf suppmat BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Autonomous Vision Conference Paper FollowMe: Efficient Online Min-Cost Flow Tracking with Bounded Memory and Computation Lenz, P., Geiger, A., Urtasun, R. In International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), December 2015 (Published) pdf suppmat video project BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Intrinsic Depth: Improving Depth Transfer with Intrinsic Images Kong, N., Black, M. J. In IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), :3514-3522, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), December 2015 () pdf suppmat YouTube official video poster BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Software Workshop Article Scalable Robust Principal Component Analysis using Grassmann Averages Hauberg, S., Feragen, A., Enficiaud, R., Black, M. IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), December 2015 () preprint pdf from publisher supplemental BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Book Chapter Untethered Magnetic Micromanipulation Diller, E., Sitti, M. In Micro-and Nanomanipulation Tools, 13, 10, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, November 2015 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Motion Conference Paper A Comparison of Contact Distribution Representations for Learning to Predict Object Interactions Leischnig, S., Luettgen, S., Kroemer, O., Peters, J. In 15th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, :616-622, Humanoids, November 2015 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Intelligent Control Systems Technical Report Distributed Event-based State Estimation Trimpe, S. Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, November 2015 () arXiv BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Diversity of sharp wave-ripple LFP signatures reveals differentiated brain-wide dynamical events Ramirez-Villegas, J. F., Logothetis, N. K., Besserve, M. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A, 112(46):E6379-E6387, November 2015 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Evaluation of Interactive Object Recognition with Tactile Sensing Hoelscher, J., Peters, J., Hermans, T. In 15th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, :310-317, Humanoids, November 2015 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Motion Conference Paper First-Person Tele-Operation of a Humanoid Robot Fritsche, L., Unverzagt, F., Peters, J., Calandra, R. In 15th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, :997-1002, Humanoids, November 2015 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Learning Torque Control in Presence of Contacts using Tactile Sensing from Robot Skin Calandra, R., Ivaldi, S., Deisenroth, M., Peters, J. In 15th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, :690-695, Humanoids, November 2015 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Optimizing Robot Striking Movement Primitives with Iterative Learning Control Koc, O., Maeda, G., Neumann, G., Peters, J. In 15th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, :80-87, Humanoids, November 2015 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Probabilistic Segmentation Applied to an Assembly Task Lioutikov, R., Neumann, G., Maeda, G., Peters, J. In 15th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, :533-540, Humanoids, November 2015 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Quantifying changes in climate variability and extremes: Pitfalls and their overcoming Sippel, S., Zscheischler, J., Heimann, M., Otto, F. E. L., Peters, J., Mahecha, M. D. Geophysical Research Letters, 42(22):9990-9998, November 2015 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Ph.D. Thesis Causal Discovery Beyond Conditional Independences Sgouritsa, E. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, October 2015 (Published) URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Empirical Inference Probabilistic Numerics Intelligent Control Systems Conference Paper Automatic LQR Tuning Based on Gaussian Process Optimization: Early Experimental Results Marco, A., Hennig, P., Bohg, J., Schaal, S., Trimpe, S. Machine Learning in Planning and Control of Robot Motion Workshop at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (iROS), Machine Learning in Planning and Control of Robot Motion Workshop, October 2015 (Published) PDF DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Poster Diversity of sharp wave-ripples in the CA1 of the macaque hippocampus and their brain wide signatures Ramirez-Villegas, J. F., Logothetis, N. K., Besserve, M. 45th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Neuroscience 2015), October 2015 (Published) URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Intelligent Control Systems Master Thesis Gaussian Process Optimization for Self-Tuning Control Marco, A. Polytechnic University of Catalonia (BarcelonaTech), October 2015 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Noise masking of White’s illusion exposes the weakness of current spatial filtering models of lightness perception Betz, T., Shapley, R. M., Wichmann, F. A., Maertens, M. Journal of Vision, 15(14):1-17, October 2015 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Permutational Rademacher Complexity: a New Complexity Measure for Transductive Learning Tolstikhin, I., Zhivotovskiy, N., Blanchard, G. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, 9355:209-223, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (Editors: K. Chaudhuri, C. Gentile and S. Zilles), Springer, ALT, October 2015 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Proceedings Proceedings of the 37th German Conference on Pattern Recognition Gall, J., Gehler, P., Leibe, B. Springer, German Conference on Pattern Recognition, October 2015 () GCPR conference website BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Autonomous Vision Conference Paper Towards Probabilistic Volumetric Reconstruction using Ray Potentials Ulusoy, A. O., Geiger, A., Black, M. J. In 3D Vision (3DV), 2015 3rd International Conference on, :10-18, Lyon, October 2015 () code YouTube pdf suppmat DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article SMPL: A Skinned Multi-Person Linear Model Loper, M., Mahmood, N., Romero, J., Pons-Moll, G., Black, M. J. ACM Trans. Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 34(6):248:1-248:16, ACM, New York, NY, October 2015 () pdf video code/model errata DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Talk Causal Inference for Empirical Time Series Based on the Postulate of Independence of Cause and Mechanism Besserve, M. 53rd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, September 2015 (Published) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Ph.D. Thesis From Points to Probability Measures: A Statistical Learning on Distributions with Kernel Mean Embedding Muandet, K. University of Tübingen, Germany, University of Tübingen, Germany, September 2015 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Ph.D. Thesis Machine Learning Approaches to Image Deconvolution Schuler, C. University of Tübingen, Germany, University of Tübingen, Germany, September 2015 () BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Conference Paper Compliant wing design for a flapping wing micro air vehicle Colmenares, D., Kania, R., Zhang, W., Sitti, M. In Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, :32-39, September 2015 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Patent Methods of forming dry adhesive structures Sitti, M., Murphy, M., Aksak, B. September 2015, US Patent 9,120,953 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Combined Pose-Wrench and State Machine Representation for Modeling Robotic Assembly Skills Wahrburg, A., Zeiss, S., Matthias, B., Peters, J., Ding, H. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, :852-857, IROS, September 2015 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Learning Motor Skills from Partially Observed Movements Executed at Different Speeds Ewerton, M., Maeda, G., Peters, J., Neumann, G. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, :456-463, IROS, September 2015 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Conference Paper Millimeter-scale magnetic swimmers using elastomeric undulations Zhang, J., Diller, E. In 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), :1706-1711, September 2015 () DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Model-Free Probabilistic Movement Primitives for Physical Interaction Paraschos, A., Rueckert, E., Peters, J., Neumann, G. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, :2860-2866, IROS, September 2015 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Perception of Strength and Power of Realistic Male Characters Wellerdiek, A. C., Breidt, M., Geuss, M. N., Streuber, S., Kloos, U., Black, M. J., Mohler, B. J. In Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Applied Perception, SAP’15, :7-14, ACM, New York, NY, September 2015 () PDF DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Probabilistic Progress Prediction and Sequencing of Concurrent Movement Primitives Manschitz, S., Kober, J., Gienger, M., Peters, J. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, :449-455, IROS, September 2015 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Reinforcement Learning vs Human Programming in Tetherball Robot Games Parisi, S., Abdulsamad, H., Paraschos, A., Daniel, C., Peters, J. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, :6428-6434, IROS, September 2015 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Semi-Supervised Interpolation in an Anticausal Learning Scenario Janzing, D., Schölkopf, B. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 16:1923-1948, September 2015 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Shifts of Gamma Phase across Primary Visual Cortical Sites Reflect Dynamic Stimulus-Modulated Information Transfer Besserve, M., Lowe, S. C., Logothetis, N. K., Schölkopf, B., Panzeri, S. PLOS Biology, 13(9):e1002257, September 2015 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Stabilizing Novel Objects by Learning to Predict Tactile Slip Veiga, F., van Hoof, H., Peters, J., Hermans, T. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, :5065-5072, IROS, September 2015 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article The EChemPen: A Guiding Hand To Learn Electrochemical Surface Modifications Valetaud, M., Loget, G., Roche, J., Hueken, N., Fattah, Z., Badets, V., Fontaine, O., Zigah, D. J. of Chem. Ed., 92(10):1700-1704, September 2015 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Experimental investigation of optimal adhesion of mushroomlike elastomer microfibrillar adhesives Marvi, H., Song, S., Sitti, M. Langmuir, 31(37):10119-10124, American Chemical Society, August 2015 () DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Conference Paper 3D-printed Soft Microrobot for Swimming in Biological Fluids Qiu, T., Palagi, S., Fischer, P. In Conf. Proc. IEEE Eng. Med. Biol. Soc., :4922-4925, Piscataway, NJ, USA, August 2015 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Conference Paper A statistical shape space model of the palate surface trained on 3D MRI scans of the vocal tract Hewer, A., Steiner, I., Bolkart, T., Wuhrer, S., Richmond, K. In International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), August 2015 () paper BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article Dyna: A Model of Dynamic Human Shape in Motion Pons-Moll, G., Romero, J., Mahmood, N., Black, M. J. ACM Transactions on Graphics, (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 34(4):120:1-120:14, ACM, August 2015 () pdf preprint video data DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Is Breathing Rate a Confounding Variable in Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) Based on EEG Spectral Power? Ibarra Chaoul, A., Grosse-Wentrup, M. Proceedings of the 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, :1079-1082, EMBC, August 2015 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Testing the role of luminance edges in White’s illusion with contour adaptation Betz, T., Shapley, R. M., Wichmann, F. A., Maertens, M. Journal of Vision, 15(11):1-16, August 2015 (Published) DOI BibTeX