Anna-Lisa Vollmer, Manuel Mühlig, Katharina Rohlfing, Britta Wrede, Angelo Cangelosi , "Demonstrating actions to a robot: How naïve users correct a robot's replication of goal and manner-oriented actions", The 17th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (DialDam), 2013.
AbstractImitation learning in robotics aims at developing mechanisms for robots to learn from a human tutor's demonstrations. In order to replicate an action correctly, the robot needs to understand a demonstrated action which implies knowing what is important about it. But how do tutor's convey this information about an action? Recent research has proposed that in action learning the learner's mental states are aligned to those of the tutor in a bi-dire...
Jannik Fritsch, Andreas Geiger, Tobias Kühnl , "A New Performance Measure and Evaluation Benchmark for Road Detection Algorithms", IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), 2013.
AbstractDetecting the road area and ego-lane ahead of a vehicle is central to modern driver assistance systems. While lane-detection on well-marked roads is already available in modern vehicles, finding the boundaries of unmarked or weakly marked roads and lanes as they appear in inner-city and rural environments remains an unsolved problem due to the high variability in scene layout and illumination conditions, amongst others. While recent years have w...
Jannik Fritsch , "Selected Research Activities in Automotive Industry", ROBOTDOC/ POETICON++ Spring School, 2013.
AbstractThe talk covers selected research activities from HRI-EU that are related to automotive applications and that have been published before (no new material): Road Terrain Analysis and Prediction Road Segmentation (ITSC 2012 Kuehnl) Spatial representation (IV 2012 Alin) 2-Wheel Rear Approach Warning (public material from ITS Vienna) iACC (public material) ...
Andreas Alin, Martin Butz, Jannik Fritsch , "Improved Tracking and Behavior Detection by Using Environment Knowledge from Online Map Databases in Bayesian-Filtering", IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), 2013.
AbstractEstimating and tracking the positions of other vehicles in the environment is important for advanced driver assistant systems (ADAS) and even more so for autonomous driving vehicles. For example, evasive strategies or warnings need accurate and reliable information about the positions and movement directions of the observed traffic participants. Although sensor systems are constantly improving, their data will never be noise-free nor fully reliab...
Toyotaka Sonoda, Rainer Schnell, Toshiyuki Arima, Giles Endicott, Eberhard Nicke , "A Study of a modern transonic low-aspect ratio fan rotor in a small turbofan engine", ASME Turbo Expo 2013, 2013.
AbstractIn this paper, Reynolds effects on a modern transonic low- aspect-ratio fan rotor (Baseline) and the re-designed (optimized) rotor performance are presented with application to a small turbofan engine. The re-design has been done using an in-house numerical optimization system in Honda and the confirmation of the performance was carried out using DLR’s TRACE RANS stage code, assessed with respect to experimental data...
Martin Ernst Heckmann , "Prosodic, Spectral and Visual Features for the Discrimination of Prominent and Non-prominent words", 40. Jahrestagung für Akustik (DAGA), 2013.
AbstractAmongst other things, speakers use prosodic cues to signal the importance words take in an utterance. When we correct what someone has said before, we usually make the corrected word very prominent. Different prosodic features have been proposed in the past to capture this word prominence. In this paper we compare prosodic cues as duration, energy and fundamental frequency as well to spectral cues commonly used for speech recognition, i.e. RASTA-...
Kaname Narukawa , "Effect of Dominance Balance in Many-objective Optimization", Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization, 2013.
AbstractThis paper examines the effect of dominance balance in many-objective optimization. The dominance balance can be defined by the ratio of the dominating space to the objective space. Here, CDAS, which is one of the most powerful evolutionary many-objective optimization algorithms, is known to be able to change the ratio of the dominating space by relaxing the definition of Pareto dominance with its user-specified parameter. However, the dominance ...
Martin Ernst Heckmann , "Visual Contribution to Word Prominence Detection in a Playful Interaction Setting", Natural Interaction with Robots, Knowbots and Smartphones - Putting Spoken Dialog Systems into Practice,, Springer, 2013.
Lars Gräning , "Integration of Secondary School Bilingual Programs with Science Communication for Content and Language Learning", International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, 2013.
Martin Ernst Heckmann , "DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SPEAKERS IN AUDIO-VISUAL CLASSIFICATION OF WORD PROMINENCE", Proc. Konferenz Elektrionische Sprachsignalverarbeitung, 2013.