Detailed Program
You can access the program online here: https://ras.papercept.net/conferences/conferences/ICDL22/program/
The conference is single track: all the sessions will be in the ArtsTwo Lecture Theatre. https://www.qmul.ac.uk/study/explore-our-campuses/mile-end/artstwo/
DAY 2: Tuesday, September 13
8:00 Registration desk opens
8:45-9:00 Welcome and Introduction
Lorenzo Jamone (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
9:00-10:00 KEYNOTE: Anil Seth, University of Sussex, UK
From beast machines to dreamachines
Session chair: Jochen Triesch
10:00-11:00 ORAL PRESENTATIONS – Predictive/Adaptive Behaviors
Session chair:
Vieri Giuliano Santucci
10:00-10:20 Developing Hierarchical Anticipations via Neural Network-Based Event Segmentation
Christian Gumbsch, Maurits Adam, Birgit Elsner, Georg Martius, & Martin Volker Butz, University of Tübingen & Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
10:20-10:40 Learning Intrinsically Motivated Transition Models for Autonomous Systems
Khoshrav Doctor, Hia Ghosh, & Rod Grupen, University of Massachusetts
10:40-11:00 RAPid-Learn: A Framework for Learning to Recover for Handling Novelties in Open-World Environments
Shivam Goel, Yash Shukla, Vasanth Sarathy, Matthias Scheutz, & Jivko Sinapov, Tufts University
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 ORAL PRESENTATIONS – Cognition
Session chair:
Anna-Lisa Vollmer
11:30-11:50 MIMo: A Multi-Modal Infant Model for Studying Cognitive Development in Humans and AIs
Dominik Mattern, Francisco Martín López, Markus Roland Ernst, Arthur Aubret, & Jochen Triesch, Goethe Universität Frankfurt
11:50-12:10 The Impact of Action in Visual Representation Learning
Alexandre Devillers, Valentin Chaffraix, Frederic Armetta, Stefan Duffner, & Mathieu Lefort, Université Lyon 1, LIRIS, UMR5205
12:10-12:30 Leveraging Developmental Psychology to Evaluate Artificial Intelligence
David Moore, Lisa Oakes, Victoria Romero, & Koleen McCrink, Pitzer College
12:30-13:00 POSTER TEASERS (2 minutes each)
Session chair: Ana Tanevska
Identifying and Localizing Dynamic Affordances to Improve Interactions with other Agents
Simon L. Gay, Jean-Paul Jamont, & Olivier Georgeon, LCIS, Université Grenoble Alpes
I Have Seen that Before: Memory Augmented Neural Network for Learning Affordances by Analogy
Paul Schydlo, Laura Santos, Atabak Dehban, Akhil John, & José Santos-Victor, University of Lisbon, Instituto Superior Técnico, Institute for Systems and Robotics
Disentangling Patterns and Transformations from One Sequence of Images with Shape-invariant Lie Group Transformer
Takumi Takada, Wataru Shimaya, Yoshiyuki Ohmura, & Yasuo Kuniyoshi, The University of Tokyo
Symbol Emergence as Inter-personal Categorization with Head-to-head Latent Word
Kazuma Furukawa, Akira Taniguchi, Yoshinobu Hagiwara, & Tadahiro Taniguchi, Ritsumeikan University
What Kind of Player are You? Continuous Learning of a Player Profile for Adaptive Robot Teleoperation
Melanie Jouaiti & Kerstin Dautenhahn, University of Waterloo
Evaluating Sensorimotor Abstraction on Curricula for Learning Mobile Manipulation Skills
Oscar Youngquist, Alenna Spiro, Khoshrav Doctor, & Rod Grupen, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Toddler-Inspired Embodied Vision for Learning Object Representations
Arthur Aubret, Celine Teuliere, & Jochen Triesch, , University Clermont Auvergne, CNRS
Master of Puppets: Multi-Modal Robot Activity Segmentation from Teleoperated Demonstrations
Claudio Coppola & Lorenzo Jamone, Queen Mary University of London
Leveraging Symmetry Detection to Speed up Haptic Object Exploration in Robots
Aramis Augusto Bonzini, Lucia Seminara, Simone Macciò, Alessandro Carfì, & Lorenzo Jamone, Queen Mary University of London
Real-time Acoustic Touch Localization in Human-Robot Interaction Based on Steered Response Power
Juan Jose Gamboa-Montero, Meysam Basiri, Jose Carlos Castillo, Sara Marques Villarroya,& Miguel A. Salichs, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Brain-Inspired Probabilistic Generative Model for Double Articulation Analysis of Spoken Language
Akira Taniguchi, Maoko Muro, Hiroshi Yamakawa, & Tadahiro Taniguchi, Ritsumeikan University
13:00-14:00 LUNCH (provided)
14:00-15:00 KEYNOTE: Aikaterini Fotopoulou, University of College London, UK
The Neuroscience of Affective Touch: From Basic Mechanisms to Tactile Emoticons
Session chair: Jim Torresen
15:00-16:00 ORAL PRESENTATIONS – Perception/Vision
Session chair: Javier Ruiz Del-Solar
15:00-15:20 Active Gaze Control for Foveal Scene Exploration
Alexandre Dias, Luís Simões, Plinio Moreno, & Alexandre Bernardino, Instituto Superior Técnico
15:20-15:40 Towards Third-Person Visual Imitation Learning Using Generative Adversarial Networks
Luca Garello, Francesco Rea, Nicoletta Noceti, & Alessandra Sciutti, Italian Institute of Technology and University of Genoa
15:40-16:00 Binding Dancers Into Attractors
Franziska Kaltenberger, Sebastian Otte, & Martin Volker Butz, University of Tübingen
16:00-17:20 POSTER SESSION
Regular Posters (Titles and authors are listed in the poster teaser session above)
Late-Breaking Posters
Domain Adaptation for Imitation Learning Using Generative Adversarial Network
Tho Nguyen Duc, Phan Xuan Tan, & Eiji Kamioka, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo
Learning to SLAM on the Fly Using Surprise
Ali Safa, Tim Verbelen, Ilja Ocket, André Bourdoux, Hichem Sahli, Francky Catthoor, & Georges Gielen, imec, VUB Leuven
Bin Packing Demonstrations Dataset
André Santos, Atabak Dehban, & José Santos-Victor, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon
Permanence with Object-Centric Representations
Toon Van de Maele, Tim Verbelen, Stefano Ferraro, & Bart Dhoedt, imec, Ghent University
17:30-18:30 KEYNOTE: José Santos-Victor, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Understanding and modeling object affordances with cognitive robotics
Session chair: Giulio Sandini
18:45-21:00 WELCOME DRINKS (Graduate Center, 6th and 7th floor)
DAY 3: Wednesday, September 14
8:00 Registration desk opens
9:00-10:00 KEYNOTE: Raia Hadsell, Google DeepMind, UK
The transformative power of modern AI methods
Session chair: Tadahiro Taniguchi
10:00-11:00 ORAL PRESENTATIONS – Early Sensorimotor Development
Session chair: Alexandre Pitti
10:00-10:20 Simulating a Human Fetus in Soft Uterus
Dongmin Kim, Hoshinori Kanazawa, & Yasuo Kuniyoshi, The University of Tokyo
10:20-10:40 Postures of the Arms in the First Two Postnatal Months
Abigail DiMercurio, Cary Springer, & Daniela Corbetta, The University of Tennessee
10:40-11:00 Self-Touch and other Patterns in Spontaneous Behavior of Infants in the First Year
Jason Khoury, Sergiu Tcaci Popescu, Filipe Gama, Valentin Marcel, & Matej Hoffmann, Czech Technical University in Prague
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 ORAL PRESENTATIONS – Language
Session chair: Katharina Rohlfing
11:30-11:50 Embodied Attention in Word-Object Mapping: A Developmental Cognitive Robotics Model
Luca Raggioli & Angelo Cangelosi, University of Manchester
11:50-12:10 Multi-Scale Analysis of Vocal Coordination in Infant-Caregiver Daily Interaction
Jiarui Li, Marisa Casillas, Sho Tsuji, & Yukie Nagai, The University of Tokyo
12:10-12:30 Grounding Hindsight Instructions in Multi-Goal Reinforcement Learning for Robotics
Frank Röder, Manfred Eppe, & Stefan Wermter, Hamburg University of Technology
12:30-13:00 POSTER TEASERS (2 minutes each)
Session chair: Frank Guerin
Dynamical Driving Interactions between Human and Mentalizing-designed Autonomous Vehicle
Yikang Zhang, Shuo Zhang, Zhichao Liang, Hanran Luna Li, Haiyan Wu & Quanying Liu, Southern University of Science and Technology
RADAR: Reactive and Deliberative Adaptive Reasoning – Learning When to Think Fast and When to Think Slow
Ørjan Strand, Didrik Spanne Reilstad, Zhenying Wu, Bruno C. da Silva, Jim Torresen, & Kai Olav Ellefsen, University of Oslo
Validating a Cortisol-Inspired Framework for Human-Robot Interaction with a Replication of the Still Face Paradigm
Sara Mongile, Ana Tanevska, Francesco Rea, & Alessandra Sciutti, University of Genoa, Italian Institute of Technology
Robots or Peers? Evaluating Young Children’s Attitudes Towards Robots Using the Intergroup Contact Theory
Ayşe Doğan & Junko Kanero, Sabanci University, Istanbul
A Kinematic Study on Social Intention during a Human-Robot Interaction
Jean-Marc Bah, Ghiles Mostafaoui, & Laura Cohen, CY Cergy Paris Université
Getting Priorities Right: Intrinsic Motivation with Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning
Yusuf Al-Husaini & Matthias Rolf, Oxford Brookes University
Informed Sampling of Prioritized Experience Replay
Mirza Ramicic, Vaclav Smidl, & Andrea Bonarini, Czech Technical University in Prague
Benchmarking Shape Completion Methods for Robotic Grasping
João Balão, Atabak Dehban, Plinio Moreno, & José Santos-Victor, Institute for Systems and Robotics, IST-ID, Lisbon
Real-time Engagement Detection from Facial Features
Sara Marques Villarroya, Alexandre Bernardino, Jose Carlos Castillo, Juan Jose Gamboa-Montero, Marcos Maroto-Gómez, & Miguel A. Salichs, University Carlos III of Madrid
Feedback-Driven Incremental Imitation Learning Using Sequential VAE
Gabriela Sejnova & Karla Stepanova, Czech Technical University in Prague
Robot Control Using Model-Based Reinforcement Learning with Inverse Kinematics
Dario Luipers, Nicolas Kaulen, Oliver Chojnowski, Sebastian Schneider, Anja Richert, & Sabina Jeschke, University of Applied Sciences Cologne
13:00-13:30 LUNCH (provided)
13:30-15:00 Lab Tour / Break on your own
15:10-16:10 KEYNOTE: Ryota Kanai, Araya, Japan
Towards a Conscious Machine
Session chair: Yukie Nagai
16:20-17:30 POSTER SESSION
Regular Posters (Titles and authors are listed in the poster teaser session above)
Late-Breaking Posters
Cognitive Human-Robot Interaction Architecture for Dementia Reminiscence Therapy
Nathalia Céspedes, Janelle Jones, Anne Hsu, & Ildar Farkhatdinov, Queen Mary University of London
Studying the Delusion of Control from a Humanoid First-Person Perspective
Sean Lynch, Alexis C. Holgago, Erhan Oztop, & Yukie Nagai, International Research Center for Neurointelligence, The University of Tokyo
A Stigmergy Based, Self-Organising, Sequence of Operations by which Honeybees Build their Comb
Vince Gallo & Lars Chittka, Queen Mary University of London
Motivational Trade-Offs and Modulation of Nociception in Bumblebees
Matilda Gibbons, Elisabetta Versace, Andrew Crump, Bartosz Baran, & Lars Chittka, School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London
18:30-22:00 SOCIAL DINNER (Museum of London Docklands, E144AL)
DAY 4: Thursday, September 15
8:00 Registration desk opens
9:00-10:00 KEYNOTE: Lars Chittka, Queen Mary University of London, UK
The Mind of a Bee
Session chair: Elisabetta Versace
10:00-11:00 ORAL PRESENTATIONS – Morphology
Session chair: Matej Hoffmann
10:00-10:20 Dream to Pose in a Tendon-Driven Manipulator with Muscle Synergy
Matthew Ishige, Tadahiro Taniguchi, & Yoshihiro Kawahara, The University of Tokyo
10:20-10:40 Morphological Wobbling Can Help Robots Learn
Fabien Benureau & Jun Tani, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
10:40-11:00 Dual Pathway Architecture Underlying Vocal Learning in Songbirds
Remya Sankar, Arthur Leblois, & Nicolas Rougier, INRIA – Bordeaux
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 ORAL PRESENTATIONS – Autonomous Learning & Social Robots
Session chair: David Crandall
11:30-11:50 Autonomous Learning of Multiple Curricula with Non-Stationary Interdependencies
Alejandro Romero, Gianluca Baldassarre, Richard Duro, & Vieri Giuliano Santucci, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
11:50-12:10 Robots with Different Embodiments Can Express and Influence Carefulness in Object Manipulation
Linda Lastrico, Luca Garello, Francesco Rea, Nicoletta Noceti, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, Alessandra Sciutti, & Alessandro Carfì
12:10-12:30 Using Infant Limb Movement Data to Control Small Aerial Robots
Georgia Kouvoutsakis, Elena Kokkoni, & Konstantinos Karydis, University of California, Riverside
12:30-13:00 POSTER TEASERS (2 minutes each)
Session chair: Atabak Dehban
Training Spiking Autoencoders by Truncated BPTT under Trade-Offs between Simulation Steps and Reconstruction Error
Yohei Shimmyo, Okuyama Yuichi, & Abderaezk Ben Abdallah, University of Aizu
Don’t Forget to Buy Milk: Contextually Aware Grocery Reminder Household Robot
Ali Ayub, Chrystopher Nehaniv, & Kerstin Dautenhahn, University of Waterloo
Forming Robot Trust in Heterogeneous Agents during a Multimodal Interactive Game
Murat Kirtay, Erhan Oztop, Anna Kuhlen, Minoru Asada, & Verena Vanessa Hafner, Humboldt- Universität zu Berlin
Exploiting a Statistical Body Model for Handover Interaction Primitives
Carlos Eduardo Cardoso & Alexandre Bernardino, Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico
Visuo-Motor Remapping for 3D, 6D and Tool-Use Reach Using Gain-Field Networks
Xiaodan Chen & Alexandre Pitti, University of Cergy Pontoise
Learning to Reach to Own Body from Spontaneous Self-Touch Using a Generative Model
Valentin Marcel, J. Kevin O’Regan, & Matej Hoffmann, Czech Technical University in Prague
A Connectionist Model of Associating Proprioceptive and Tactile Modalities in a Humanoid Robot
Kristína Malinovská, Igor Farkaš, Jana Harvanová, & Matej Hoffmann, Comenius University in Bratislava
A Preference Learning System for the Autonomous Selection and Personalization of Entertainment Activities during Human-Robot Interaction
Marcos Maroto-Gómez, Sara Marques Villarroya, Maria Malfaz, Álvaro Castro González, Jose Carlos Castillo, & Miguel A. Salichs, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
The Role of the Caregiver’s Responsiveness in Affect-Grounded Language Learning by a Robot: Architecture and First Experiments
Zakaria Lemhaouri, Laura Cohen, & Lola Canamero, CY Cergy Paris University / Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Action Recognition based on Cross-Situational Action-Object Statistics
Satoshi Tsutsui, Xizi Wang, Guangyuan Weng, Yayun Zhang, David Crandall, & Chen Yu, National University of Singapore
Accelerating the Learning of TAMER with Counterfactual Explanations
Jakob Karalus & Felix Lindner, Ulm University
13:00-14:00 LUNCH (provided)
14:00-15:00 JOURNAL TRACK SESSION
Session chair: Richard Duro
14:00-14:15 Morphological Development at the Evolutionary Timescale: Robotic Developmental Evolution
Fabien C. Y. Benureau & Jun Tani, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
14:15-14:30 Goal-Directed Tactile Exploration for Body Model Learning through Self-Touch on a Humanoid Robot
Filipe Gama, Maksym Shcherban, Matthias Rolf, & Matej Hoffmann, Czech Technical University in Prague
14:30-14:45 Learning Deep Features for Robotic Inference from Physical Interactions
Atabak Dehban, Shanghang Zhang, Nino Cauli, Lorenzo Jamone, & José Santos-Victor, Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico
14:45-15:00 Testing Predictions of a Neural Process Model of Visual Attention in Infancy Across Competitive and Non-Competitive Contexts
John P. Spencer, Shannon Ross-Sheehy, & Bret Eschman, The University of East Anglia
15:05-16:00 Awards and Competitions Session
Session chair: Alexandre Bernardino & Daniela Corbetta
16:10-17:20 POSTER SESSION
Regular Posters (Titles and authors are listed in the poster teaser session above)
Late-Breaking Posters
Newly Hatched Chicks Display Predispositions for the Identification of Adults and Youngs
Laura Freeland, Vera Vasas, Josephine Gomes, & Elisabetta Versace, School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London
Chickens Produce Distinct Call Categories on their First Day of Life by Combining Acoustic Features
Michael G. Emmerson, Shu Wang, Laura Freeland, Emmanouil Benetos,& Elisabetta Versace, School of Behavioural & Biological Sciences, Queen Mary University of London
Modelling How Newly Hatched Chicks Use Predispositions to Achieve Fast Learning
Vera Vasas, Shuge Wang, & Elisabetta Versace, School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London
17:30-18:30 KEYNOTE: Barbara Webb, University of Edinburgh, UK
Modeling the learning circuits of the insect brain
Session chair: Ildar Farkhatdinov
18:30-18:45 Closing
Yukie Nagai (University of Tokyo, Japan)
19:00-22:00 FAREWELL DRINKS (Graduate Center, 6th and 7th floor)