Alexander Gepperth, Benjamin Dittes, Michael Garcia Ortiz , "The contribution of context information: a case study of object recognition in an intelligent car", Neurocomputing Journal, vol. 94, pp. 77-86, 2012.
AbstractIn this article, we explore the potential contribution of multimodal context information to object detection in an ”intelligent car”. The used car platform incorporates subsystems for the detection of objects from local visual patterns, as well as for the estimation of global scene properties (sometimes denoted ”scene context” or just ”context”) such as the shape of the road area or the 3D position of the ground plane. Annotated data recorded on ...
Lisa Schramm, Yaochu Jin, Bernhard Sendhoff , "Quantitative Analysis of Redundancy in Evolution of Developmental Systems", IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, pp. 61-68, 2012.
AbstractRedundancy is believed to play a key role in robustness and evolvability of biological systems. This paper investigates the influence of redundancy on the evolutionary performance of a gene regulatory network governing a cellular growth process. Extensive simulation results suggest that, for the developmental model studied in this work, maintaining sufficient redundancy helps to improve the ability of the evolutionary algorithm to achieve better ...
Matthias Platho and Julian Eggert , "Deciding what to inspect first: Incremental situation assessment using information gain", IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, pp. 888 - 893, 2012.
AbstractIn order to offer even more sophisticated functionality, future driver assistance systems need the ability to robustly recognize and understand driving situations. Especially in inner-city scenarios the high complexity and variability of situations encountered make their assessment a challenging task. We propose to tackle these challenges by decomposing situations into smaller, more manageable parts. We define such a part as a set consisting of ...
Rujiao Yan, Tobias Rodemann, Britta Wrede , "Audiovisual Integration in Dialog Scenarios", Int. Conf. on Cognitive and Neural Systems, 2012.
AbstractWe present a system of audiovisual integration in dialog scenarios. When a robot is interacting with multiple people, it should understand the dialog situation, e.g. the number and position of interacting partners, as well as who is currently speaking. Since auditory and visual information, derived from the same event, can be integrated across sensory modalities to enhance the representation of the external world, we use audiovisual integration ...
Matthias Platho, Julian Eggert, Horst-Michael Groß , "Traffic Situation Assessment by Recognizing Interrelated Road Users", IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, pp. 1339 - 1344, 2012.
AbstractWith the trend to highly automated driving, future driver assistance systems are required to correctly assess even complex traffic situations and to predict their progress. As soon as other road users are present the number of possible situations becomes infinite, rendering their assessment based on learned situation types impossible. In this paper we propose to break the situation down into sets of interrelated entities by estimating for each ro...
Qiang Li, Martin Meier, Robert Haschke, Helge Ritter, Bram Bolder , "Object Dexterous Manipulation in Hand Based on Finite State Machine", International Journal of Mechatronics and Automation, pp. 1185 - 1190, 2012.
AbstractWe propose a simple but efficient control strategy to in-hand manipulate objects of unknown shape, weight, and friction properties. With this strategy, the object can be manipulated in hand in a large scale regardless there is rolling or sliding motion between the fingertips and object. We define several finger/fingers manipulation primitives and propose the hierarchical plan and control structure to facilitate the performing of the complex objec...
Daniel Sieger, Stefan Menzel, Mario Botsch , "Lloyd-based Kernel Placement for Adaptive RBF Approximation", Eighth International Conference on Mathematical Methods for Curves and Surfaces, 2012.
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Daniel Dornbusch, Robert Haschke, Stefan Menzel, Heiko Wersing , "Decomposition of Multimodal Data for Affordance-based Identification of Potential Grasps", 1st Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM 2012), 2012.
Henry Lehmann and Stefan Menzel , "Evolvability as Concept for the Optimal Design of Free-Form Deformation Control Volumes", Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2012.
Rujiao Yan, Tobias Rodemann, Britta Wrede , "Simple Auditory and Visual Features for Human-Robot Dialog Scene Analysis", Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robot and Systems (IROS), 2012.