CDS TC Task Force on Action-Perception

Aim and Scope:

The CDS Task Force on Action and Perception is primarily concerned with developmental processes as well as learning and representation of action and perception in humans and artificial agents, including action-perception cycle, active perception, sensory-motor learning. Members of this task force observe behavioral data of human and animals, construct basic mathematical models or synthetic computational models, and perform synthetic robotics experiments based on those models in order explore the underlying mechanisms of action and perception.

TF Chair:

Erol Sahin
KOVAN Research Lab.
Computer Engineering Dept.
Middle East Technical University
Ankara, Turkey
E-mail: erol@metu.edu.tr
URL: http://kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr/~erol/

TF Vice-Chair:

Nicolas Pugeault
Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing,
University of Surrey, UK.
E-mail: n.pugeault@surrey.ac.uk
URL: http://personal.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/N.Pugeault/

Members:

Tamim Asfour
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics
Karlsruhe, Germany
E-mail: asfour@kit.edu
URL: www.humanoids.kit.edu

Erhan Oztop
Computer Science
Ozyegin University
Istanbul, Turkey
E-mail: Erhan.Oztop@ozyegin.edu.tr
URL: http://robotics.ozyegin.edu.tr/members/erhan-oztop/

Justus Piater
Intelligent and Interactive Systems
University of Inssbruck,
Innsbruck, Austria
E-mail: justus.piater@uibk.ac.at
URL: https://iis.uibk.ac.at/

Albert Ali Salah
Bogazici University
Bebek, Istanbul
E-mail: salah@boun.edu.tr
URL: http://www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/~salah/

Alexander Stoytchev
Developmental Robotics Laboratory
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Iowa State University
E-mail: alexs@iastate.edu
URL: http://www.ece.iastate.edu/~alexs/

Jun Tani
Department of Electrical Engineering
KAIST
Daejeon, Korea
E-mail: tani@ee.kaist.ac.kr
URL: http://neurorobot.kaist.ac.kr/

Jochen Triesch
Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
Frankfurt University
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
E-mail: triesch@fias.uni-frankfurt.de
URL: http://fias.uni-frankfurt.de/~triesch/

Recent activities:

Previous activities:

  • Jochen Triesch organized the Computational Models of Infant Development ICIS 2014 Pre-Conference, on July 02, 2014,

  • Justus Piater gave a talk as invited speaker at the workshop on Human versus Robot Grasping and Manipulation—How Can We Close the Gap? atRSS July 12, 2014, at UC Berkeley.

  • Justus Piater co-organized the IROS Workshop on Robots in Clutter: Perception and Interaction in Clutter in Chicago, September 18, 2014

  • Erol Sahin co-organized the IROS Workshop on Robot Manipulation: What has been achieved and what remains to be done? in Chicago, September 14, 2014

  • Erol Sahin acted as the Program Chair for the ICDL/EpiRob 2014 in Genoa.

  • Jun Tani and Giorgio Metta assisted organization of ICDL 2013 in Osaka as co-program chairs.

  • Jun Tani provided a tutorial of “Action-Perception Cycles: Neuro-Dynamic Modeling and Robotics Experiments”in ICDL 2013 in Osaka.

  • Ali Salah and his colleagues are organizing a special issue at IEEE Trans. AMD Behavior Understanding and Developmental Robotics.

  • Erhan Oztop and colleagues organized a workshop on “Neuroscience and Robotics Towards a robot-enabled, neuroscience-guided healthy society“in IROS 2013 in Tokyo.