CNCR Seminar Series

• Title: A Hierarchical Computational Model of Statistical Learning of Two Dimensional Visual Shapes.
  Speaker: Ales Leonardis, University of Ljubljana
  Date and time: Thursday 3rd September 2009 at 16:00
  Location: Hills 120, School of Psychology
  Host: Jeremy Wyatt
  Abstract
• Title: Collision control in driving and sport
  Speaker: Rob Gray , Arizona State University
  Date and time: 13 October 2009 at 16:00
  Location: 1.20 Hills Extension, School of Psychology
  Host: Glyn Humphreys
  
• Title: Machine Learning for Sensorimotor Control
  Speaker: Sethu Vijayakumar, University of Edinburgh
  Date and time: 19th November 2009 at 16:00
  Location: UG40, School of Computer Science
  Host: Jeremy Wyatt
  Abstract
• Title: Body and mind of a humanoid robot: where technology meets physiology
  Speaker: Giorgio Metta, Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa
  Date and time: 26th November 2009 at 16:00
  Location: UG40, School of Computer Science
  Host: Jeremy Wyatt
  Abstract
• Title: Recalibration makes sense
  Speaker: Marc Ernst, Max Planck< Tuebingen
  Date and time: 1 December at 16:00
  Location: 1.20, School of Psychology, Hills Building
  Host: Glyn Humphreys
  
• Title: Model-based fMRI and its application to reward-learning and decision making
  Speaker: John O'Doherty , Trinity College Dublin
  Date and time: 8 December 2009 at 16:00
  Location: 1.20, School of Psychology, Hills Building
  Host: Chris Miall
  
• Title: TBA
  Speaker: Helge Ritter, University of Bielefeld
  Date and time: 14 January 2010 at 16:00
  Location: UG40, School of Computer Science
  Host: Jeremy Wyatt
  
• Title: Grandmother cells in the human brain
  Speaker: Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, University of Leicester
  Date and time: 19 January 2010 at 16:00
  Location: 1.20, School of Psychology, Hills Building
  
• Title: View based approaches to scene representation
  Speaker: Andrew Glennerster, University of Reading
  Date and time: 26 January 2010 at 16:00
  Location: 1.20, School of Psychology, Hills Building
  
• Title: 'Immediate' visual recognition: computational models
  Speaker: Gabriel Kreiman, Harvard University
  Date and time: 2 February 2010 at 16:00
  Location: 1.20, School of Psychology, Hills Building
  
• Title: Biomimetic Robotics
  Speaker: Patrick van der Smagt, German Aerospace Centre
  Date and time: 8 February 2010 at 16:00
  Location: UG40, School of Computer Science
  Host: Jeremy Wyatt
  Abstract: "Is it man? Or is it machine?" Alan Turing already addressed this problem in 1950, as he introduced an intelligence test with which the difference between human and computer intelligence could be measured. Passing this "Turing Test" still is "subject to research" and will remain so for quite some time. But while computers cannot keep in pace with the human brain on this issue, copying human motion behaviour is slowly coming to realisation, for a large part due to advances in mechatronic systems. Biology uses the concept of "embodied intelligence" and thus obtains a perfect integration of body and mind. How can we use the concept of embodied intelligence in the development of more advanced robotic systems, which can augment and replace their biological counterparts?