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2017

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Robotic Motion Learning Framework to Promote Social Engagement

Burns, R.

The George Washington University, August 2017 (mastersthesis)

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This paper discusses a novel framework designed to increase human-robot interaction through robotic imitation of the user's gestures. The set up consists of a humanoid robotic agent that socializes with and play games with the user. For the experimental group, the robot also imitates one of the user's novel gestures during a play session. We hypothesize that the robot's use of imitation will increase the user's openness towards engaging with the robot. Preliminary results from a pilot study of 12 subjects are promising in that post-imitation, experimental subjects displayed a more positive emotional state, had higher instances of mood contagion towards the robot, and interpreted the robot to have a higher level of autonomy than their control group counterparts. These results point to an increased user interest in engagement fueled by personalized imitation during interaction.

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hi Burns, R. Robotic Motion Learning Framework to Promote Social Engagement The George Washington University, August 2017 (mastersthesis)

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Development and Evaluation of a Portable BCI System for Remote Data Acquisition

Emde, T.

Graduate School of Neural Information Processing, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, 2017 (mastersthesis)

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ei Emde, T. Development and Evaluation of a Portable BCI System for Remote Data Acquisition Graduate School of Neural Information Processing, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, 2017 (mastersthesis)

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Brain-Computer Interfaces for patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Fomina, T.

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, 2017 (phdthesis)

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ei Fomina, T. Brain-Computer Interfaces for patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, 2017 (phdthesis)

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Causal models for decision making via integrative inference

Geiger, P.

University of Stuttgart, Germany, 2017 (phdthesis)

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ei Geiger, P. Causal models for decision making via integrative inference University of Stuttgart, Germany, 2017 (phdthesis)

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Learning Optimal Configurations for Modeling Frowning by Transcranial Electrical Stimulation

Sücker, K.

Graduate School of Neural Information Processing, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, 2017 (mastersthesis)

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ei Sücker, K. Learning Optimal Configurations for Modeling Frowning by Transcranial Electrical Stimulation Graduate School of Neural Information Processing, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, 2017 (mastersthesis)

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2015

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easyGWAS: An Integrated Computational Framework for Advanced Genome-Wide Association Studies

Grimm, Dominik

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, November 2015 (phdthesis)

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ei Grimm, Dominik easyGWAS: An Integrated Computational Framework for Advanced Genome-Wide Association Studies Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, November 2015 (phdthesis)

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Causal Discovery Beyond Conditional Independences

Sgouritsa, E.

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, October 2015 (phdthesis)

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ei Sgouritsa, E. Causal Discovery Beyond Conditional Independences Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, October 2015 (phdthesis)

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Gaussian Process Optimization for Self-Tuning Control

Marco, A.

Polytechnic University of Catalonia (BarcelonaTech), October 2015 (mastersthesis)

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am ics Marco, A. Gaussian Process Optimization for Self-Tuning Control Polytechnic University of Catalonia (BarcelonaTech), October 2015 (mastersthesis)

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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 (phdthesis)

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ei Muandet, K. From Points to Probability Measures: A Statistical Learning on Distributions with Kernel Mean Embedding University of Tübingen, Germany, University of Tübingen, Germany, September 2015 (phdthesis)

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Machine Learning Approaches to Image Deconvolution

Schuler, C.

University of Tübingen, Germany, University of Tübingen, Germany, September 2015 (phdthesis)

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ei Schuler, C. Machine Learning Approaches to Image Deconvolution University of Tübingen, Germany, University of Tübingen, Germany, September 2015 (phdthesis)

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Adaptive and Learning Concepts in Hydraulic Force Control

Doerr, A.

University of Stuttgart, September 2015 (mastersthesis)

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am ics Doerr, A. Adaptive and Learning Concepts in Hydraulic Force Control University of Stuttgart, September 2015 (mastersthesis)

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Object Detection Using Deep Learning - Learning where to search using visual attention

Kloss, A.

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, May 2015 (mastersthesis)

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Detecting and identifying the different objects in an image fast and reliably is an important skill for interacting with one’s environment. The main problem is that in theory, all parts of an image have to be searched for objects on many different scales to make sure that no object instance is missed. It however takes considerable time and effort to actually classify the content of a given image region and both time and computational capacities that an agent can spend on classification are limited. Humans use a process called visual attention to quickly decide which locations of an image need to be processed in detail and which can be ignored. This allows us to deal with the huge amount of visual information and to employ the capacities of our visual system efficiently. For computer vision, researchers have to deal with exactly the same problems, so learning from the behaviour of humans provides a promising way to improve existing algorithms. In the presented master’s thesis, a model is trained with eye tracking data recorded from 15 participants that were asked to search images for objects from three different categories. It uses a deep convolutional neural network to extract features from the input image that are then combined to form a saliency map. This map provides information about which image regions are interesting when searching for the given target object and can thus be used to reduce the parts of the image that have to be processed in detail. The method is based on a recent publication of Kümmerer et al., but in contrast to the original method that computes general, task independent saliency, the presented model is supposed to respond differently when searching for different target categories.

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Blind Retrospective Motion Correction of MR Images

Loktyushin, A.

University of Tübingen, Germany, May 2015 (phdthesis)

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ei Loktyushin, A. Blind Retrospective Motion Correction of MR Images University of Tübingen, Germany, May 2015 (phdthesis)

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Robot Arm Tracking with Random Decision Forests

Widmaier, F.

Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, May 2015 (mastersthesis)

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For grasping and manipulation with robot arms, knowing the current pose of the arm is crucial for successful controlling its motion. Often, pose estimations can be acquired from encoders inside the arm, but they can have significant inaccuracy which makes the use of additional techniques necessary. In this master thesis, a novel approach of robot arm pose estimation is presented, that works on single depth images without the need of prior foreground segmentation or other preprocessing steps. A random regression forest is used, which is trained only on synthetically generated data. The approach improves former work by Bohg et al. by considerably reducing the computational effort both at training and test time. The forest in the new method directly estimates the desired joint angles while in the former approach, the forest casts 3D position votes for the joints, which then have to be clustered and fed into an iterative inverse kinematic process to finally get the joint angles. To improve the estimation accuracy, the standard training objective of the forest training is replaced by a specialized function that makes use of a model-dependent distance metric, called DISP. Experimental results show that the specialized objective indeed improves pose estimation and it is shown that the method, despite of being trained on synthetic data only, is able to provide reasonable estimations for real data at test time.

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am Widmaier, F. Robot Arm Tracking with Random Decision Forests Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, May 2015 (mastersthesis)

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Policy Search for Imitation Learning

Doerr, A.

University of Stuttgart, January 2015 (thesis)

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am ics Doerr, A. Policy Search for Imitation Learning University of Stuttgart, January 2015 (thesis)

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A Cognitive Brain-Computer Interface for Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Hohmann, M.

Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Germany, 2015 (mastersthesis)

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ei Hohmann, M. A Cognitive Brain-Computer Interface for Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Germany, 2015 (mastersthesis)

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Sequential Image Deconvolution Using Probabilistic Linear Algebra

Gao, M.

Technical University of Munich, Germany, 2015 (mastersthesis)

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ei Gao, M. Sequential Image Deconvolution Using Probabilistic Linear Algebra Technical University of Munich, Germany, 2015 (mastersthesis)

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Causal Inference in Neuroimaging

Casarsa de Azevedo, L.

Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Germany, 2015 (mastersthesis)

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ei Casarsa de Azevedo, L. Causal Inference in Neuroimaging Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Germany, 2015 (mastersthesis)

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The effect of frowning on attention

Ibarra Chaoul, A.

Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Germany, 2015 (mastersthesis)

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ei Ibarra Chaoul, A. The effect of frowning on attention Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Germany, 2015 (mastersthesis)

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