Prof. Michael Beetz

Further information:

SpokespersonCRC 1320 EASE

Honors and Memberships:

Since February 2019: Honorary doctorate from the University of Örebro
Since 2019: Associate Fellow of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at Bielefeld University

Ecosystem

Speaker of the scientific focus "Minds Media Machines" (with Tanja Schultz)

Coordinator of the German Collaborative Research Center "Everyday Activity Science and Engineering" (EASE)

Head of the "Institute for Artificial Intelligence" (IAI)

Member of the Mahidol Bremen Medical Informatics Research Unit (MIRU)

Member of the "Lifespan AI" work program

Supervisor for the research training group "CAUSE"

Member of the CoAI JRC Joint Research Center on Cooperative and Cognition enabled AI

Member of the Logdynamics research cluster

Publications

2015 // Conference paper

Robots, pancakes, and computer games: Designing serious games for robot imitation learning

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Walther-Franks, B.; Smeddinck, J.; Szmidt, P.; Haidu, A.; Beetz, M.; Malaka, R.

https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702552

2015 // Conference paper

Toward Robots That Conduct Chemical Experiments

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Lisca, G.; Nyga, D.; Balint-Benczedi, F.; Langer, H.; Beetz, M.

https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2015.7354110

2015 // Journal article

Understanding the Intention Behind Human Activities Through Semantic Perception: Observation, Understanding, and Execution on a Humanoid Robot

Advanced Robotics

Ramirez-Amaro, K.; Beetz, M.; Cheng, G.

https://doi.org/10.1080/01691864.2014.1003096

2014 // Conference paper

Automatic segmentation and recognition of human activities from observations based on semantic reasoning

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Ramirez-Amaro, K.; Beetz, M.; Cheng, G.

https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2014.6943279

2014 // Conference paper

Controlled Natural Languages for Language Generation in Artificial Cognition

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Kirk, N.H.; Nyga, D.; Beetz, M.

https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907843

2014 // Journal article

Inpainting of missing values in the Kinect sensor's depth maps based on background estimates

IEEE Sensors Journal

Stommel, M.; Beetz, M.; Xu, W.

https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2013.2291315

2014 // Journal article

Introduction to the special issue on visual understanding and applications using RGB-D cameras

Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation

Liu, Z.; Beetz, M.; Cremers, D.; Gall, J.; Li, W.; Pangercic, D.; Sturm, J.; Tai, Y.-W.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvcir.2013.07.013

2014 // Book

Knowledge-Based Specification of Robot Motions

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

Tenorth, M.; Bartels, G.; Beetz, M.

https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-419-0-873

2014 // Conference paper

Learning to Predict Task Outcomes for Robot Control from Interactive Environments

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Haidu, A.; Kohlsdorf, D.; Beetz, M.

https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2014.6943183

2014 // Journal article

Part-Based Geometric Categorization and Object Reconstruction in Cluttered Table-Top Scenes: Paper Type: Categories (7) and (5)

Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications

Marton, Z.-C.; Balint-Benczedi, F.; Mozos, O.M.; Blodow, N.; Kanezaki, A.; Goron, L.C.; Pangercic, D.; Beetz, M.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-013-0011-8

2014 // Conference paper

PR2: Looking at Things—Ensemble Learning for Unstructured Information Processing with Markov Logic Networks

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Nyga, D.; Balint-Benczedi, F.; Beetz, M.

https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907427

2014 // Book

Preface

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Beetz, M.; Johnston, B.; Williams, M.-A.

http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84909991732&partnerID=MN8TOARS

2014 // Conference paper

Propagation of Temporal and Pose Uncertainty in True Mobile Manipulation

Proceedings of the Joint Conference of ISR 2014—45th International Symposium on Robotics and ROBOTIK 2014—8th German Conference on Robotics, ISR/ROBOTIK 2014

Rühr, T.; Beetz, M.

http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84908406284&partnerID=MN8TOARS

2013 // Book