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Institute for Artificial Intelligence, University of Bremen
Institute for Artificial Intelligence, University of Bremen
Prof. Michael Beetz
  • Faculty: Faculty 3 - Mathematics & Computer Science; Institute for Artificial Intelligence
  • Subject area:: Artificial Intelligence; Cognition-enabled control of robotic agents
  • Office: TAB 1.59

Further information:

SpokespersonCRC 1320 EASE

 

Honors and Memberships:

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
2013 // Conference paper

Learning Probability Distributions Over Partially Ordered Human Everyday Activities

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Tenorth, M.; De La Torre, F.; Beetz, M.
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2013.6631222
2013 // Conference paper

Personalized Robotic Service Using an N-gram Affective Event Model

ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Lim, G.H.; Hong, S.W.; Lee, I.; Suh, I.H.; Beetz, M.
https://doi.org/10.1109/HRI.2013.6483563
2013 // Journal article

Representation and exchange of knowledge about actions, objects, and environments in the ROBOEARTH framework

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

Tenorth, M.; Perzylo, A.C.; Lafrenz, R.; Beetz, M.
https://doi.org/10.1109/TASE.2013.2244883
2013 // Conference paper

Robot recommender system using an affection-based episode ontology for personalization

Proceedings - IEEE International Workshop on Robot-Human Interactive Communication

Lim, G.H.; Hong, S.W.; Lee, I.; Suh, I.H.; Beetz, M.
https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2013.6628437
2013 // Conference paper

The RoboEarth language: Representing and exchanging knowledge about actions, objects, and environments

IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Tenorth, M.; Perzylo, A.; Lafrenz, R.; Beetz, M.
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84896061627&partnerID=MN8TOARS
2013 // Conference paper

Tracking-Based Interactive Segmentation of Textureless Objects

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Hausman, K.; Balint-Benczedi, F.; Pangercic, D.; Marton, Z.-C.; Ueda, R.; Okada, K.; Beetz, M.
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2013.6630713
2012 // Conference paper

A Generalized Framework for Opening Doors and Drawers in Kitchen Environments

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Ruhr, T.; Sturm, J.; Pangercic, D.; Beetz, M.; Cremers, D.
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2012.6224929
2012 // Journal article

A self-training approach for visual tracking and recognition of complex human activity patterns

International Journal of Computer Vision

Bandouch, J.; Jenkins, O.C.; Beetz, M.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-012-0522-y
2012 // Conference paper

A unified representation for reasoning about robot actions, processes, and their effects on objects

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Tenorth, M.; Beetz, M.
https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2012.6385529
2012 // Journal article

Cognition-enabled autonomous robot control for the implementation of task intelligence in household chores

Proceedings of the IEEE

Beetz, M.; Jain, D.; Mösenlechner, L.; Tenorth, M.; Kunze, L.; Blodow, N.; Pangercic, D.
https://doi.org/10.1109/JPROC.2012.2200552
2012 // Conference paper

Depth-adaptive superpixels

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Weikersdorfer, D.; Gossow, D.; Beetz, M.
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84874563881&partnerID=MN8TOARS
2012 // Conference paper

Distinctive texture features from perspective-invariant keypoints

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Gossow, D.; Weikersdorfer, D.; Beetz, M.
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84874559997&partnerID=MN8TOARS
2012 // Conference paper

Everything Robots Always Wanted to Know About Housework (But Were Afraid to Ask)

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Nyga, D.; Beetz, M.
https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2012.6385923
2012 // Journal article

Grounding the Interaction: Anchoring Situated Discourse in Everyday Human-Robot Interaction

International Journal of Social Robotics

Lemaignan, S.; Ros, R.; Sisbot, E.A.; Alami, R.; Beetz, M.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-011-0123-x
2012 // Conference paper

Improving Robot Manipulation Through Fingertip Perception

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Maldonado, A.; Alvarez, H.; Beetz, M.
https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2012.6385560
2012 // Conference paper

Knowledge Processing for Autonomous Robot Control

AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report

Tenorth, M.; Beetz, M.
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84864870108&partnerID=MN8TOARS
2012 // Journal article

Learning and Reasoning with Action-Related Places for Robust Mobile Manipulation

Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research

Stulp, F.; Fedrizzi, A.; Mösenlechner, L.; Beetz, M.
https://doi.org/10.1613/jair.3451
2012 // Conference paper

Learning Organizational Principles in Human Environments

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Schuster, M.J.; Jain, D.; Tenorth, M.; Beetz, M.
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2012.6224553
2012 // Conference paper

Movement-Aware Action Control—Integrating Symbolic and Control-Theoretic Action Execution

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Kresse, I.; Beetz, M.
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2012.6225119
2012 // Book

Object Categorization in Clutter Using Additive Features and Hashing of Part-Graph Descriptors

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

Marton, Z.-C.; Balint-Benczedi, F.; Seidel, F.; Goron, L.C.; Beetz, M.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32732-2_2
2012 // Conference paper

On the Effect of Perspective Distortions in Face Recognition

VISAPP 2012 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications

Riaz, Z.; Beetz, M.
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84862152696&partnerID=MN8TOARS
2012 // Conference paper

Real-time compression of point cloud streams

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Kammerl, J.; Blodow, N.; Rusu, R.B.; Gedikli, S.; Beetz, M.; Steinbach, E.
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2012.6224647
2012 // Conference paper

Robots that validate learned perceptual models

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Klank, U.; Mosenlechner, L.; Maldonado, A.; Beetz, M.
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2012.6224939
2012 // Conference paper

Reliable Segmentation of Cylindrical and Box-Like Objects in Cluttered Scenes Using Depth Cameras

7th German Conference on Robotics, ROBOTIK 2012

Goron, L.C.; Marton, Z.-C.; Lazea, G.; Beetz, M.
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84911481816&partnerID=MN8TOARS
2012 // Conference paper

Searching for Objects in Large-Scale Indoor Environments: A Decision-Theoretic Approach

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Kunze, L.; Beetz, M.; Saito, M.; Azuma, H.; Okada, K.; Inaba, M.
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2012.6224965

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