Seminar Humanoid Robots (Freiburg, Summer 2007)

Humanoid robots have become popular in recent years not only in science fiction, but also in research. 
The seminar covers topics relevant for the design and control of such robots. This includes perception of the robot’s environment, the realization of low-level skills, higher-level behavior control, and learning.

Requirements and Information

• Organizers: Dr. Sven Behnke and Dr. Maren Bennewitz 
• You have to prepare a talk of approx. 30 minutes and write a summary. Both can be done in English or German. Including discussion your slot will be 45 minutes.
  
• The seminar will held as a Blockseminar on
  Monday, 23.07.2007 9:30-15:00 and
  Tuesday, 24.7.2007 9:30-12:45 in
  Room 101.01.018.
• The summaries should be approx. 10 pages long. Much longer summaries will not be accepted. The summaries must be submitted by August 15th, 2007.
• Topics have been assigned in the first meeting.

Schedule

Monday, July 23rd

• 9:30 - 10:15: Localization [Falco Stenzel]
  • Simon Thompson, Satoshi Kagami, and Koichi Nishiwaki
    Localisation for Autonomous Humanoid Navigation.
    In Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS International Conference Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2006.
• 10:15 - 11:00: Human-like Person Tracking [Jan Meyer]
  • Thorsten Spexard, Axel Haasch, Jannik Fritsch, and Gerhard Sagerer
    Human-like Person Tracking with an Anthropomorphic Robot.
    In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2006.

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• 11:15 - 12:00: Emotion Recognition and Cross-modal Mimicry [Matthias Laquai]
  • Frank Hegel, Thorsten Spexard, Britta Wede, Gernot Horstmann, and Thurid Vogt
    Playing a Different Imitation Game: Interaction with an Empathic Android Robot.
    In Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS International Conference Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2006.
  • Thurid Vogt and Elisabeth Andre
    Comparing Feature Sets for Acted and Spontaneous Speech in View of Automatic Emotion Recongition.
    In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), 2006.
• 12:00 - 12:45: Human Motion Capture [Balint Atila Gorog]
  • Petram Azad, Ales Ude, Tamim Asfour, Gordon Cheng, and Rüdiger Dillmann
    Image-Based Markerless 3d Humanoid Motion Capture Using Multiple Cues.
    In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Vision Based Human-Robot Interaction, 2006.

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  Lunch break
  

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• 13:30 - 14:15: Hand Tracking [Johannes Schwenk]
  • Thomas Gumpp, Pedram Azad, Kai Welke, Erhan Oztop, Rüdiger Dillmann, and Gordon Cheng
    Unconstrained Real-time Markerless Hand Tracking for Humanoid Interaction.
    In Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS International Conference Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2006.
• 14:15 - 15:00: Learning to Reach for Joint Attention [Muhammad Awais] 
  • Ganghua Sun and Brian Scassellati
    A fast and efficient model for learning to reach.
    International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, 2005.
  • Marek W. Doniec, Ganghua Sun and Brian Scassellati
    Active Learning of Joint Attention.
    In Proceedings of IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Genova, 2006.