[CompNeuro] 18.5., 11:00 - Pablo Lanillos: Neuroscience-inspired Generative Models of Active Perception

[Matej Hoffmann]

Dear colleagues,

let me invite you to this seminar: 
http://cyber.felk.cvut.cz/seminars/?event=1574

Best regards,

Matej Hoffmann


  Neuroscience-inspired Generative Models of Active Perception

On 2023-05-18 11:00:00 at G205, Karlovo náměstí 13, Praha 2
Traditional robotics research has focused on precision, i.e. performing 
a repetitive task as accurately as possible. This has resulted in very 
reliable machines but with difficulties when adapting to changes in the 
environment. Conversely, biological intelligence, understood as 
adaptation, has endorsed reactive mechanisms that deal with unexpected 
circumstances to maintain their optimal state for survival. 
Accidentally, these functionalities have evolved into the backdrop of 
natural intelligence. How can we achieve natural intelligence without 
paying attention to these basic mechanisms of perception and control? 
Taking as inspiration how the brain may process sensory information and 
generate control actions, my laboratory focus on developing artificial 
intelligence for robotics that endorses adaptation Thus, in the long 
term, we want to provide robots with human-like body perception and 
action. In this talk, I will summarize the state-of-the-art of Active 
Inference in robotics through examples (e.g., humanoid control, 
multidrone navigation), where it is explicit that understanding human 
perception yields novel research directions that improve current 
robotics and AI. I will end with some new applications that we are 
pursuing in recently started projects, such as Metatool and 
Spikeference, that will make the imagination fly into the future.
Reference: Active Inference in Robotics and Artificial Agents: Survey 
and Challenges. https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.01871

-- 
Matej Hoffmann, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Cybernetics
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Czech Technical University in Prague
Karlovo namesti 13
121 35 Praha 2, Czech Republic
https://sites.google.com/site/matejhof/home
https://cyber.felk.cvut.cz/research/groups-teams/humanoids/
+420 224 357 387
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://nimap.feld.cvut.cz/pipermail/compneuro/attachments/20230506/76d5f691/attachment-0002.htm>