Select News and Announcements
- Invited Talk @ International Workshop on Data meets Applied Ontologies in Explainable AI (DAO-XAI 2024 @ ECAI 2024)
European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024), Santiago de Compostela, Spain - October 2024 / www
- Grant Approved @ Stiftelsens för Strategisk Forskning / Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF)
On: Neurocognitive Analytics of Active Vision in Ageing (2024 - 2025)
- Invited Talk @ Knowledge Based Artificial Intelligence (KRDB), Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
On: Design Implications of Ethico-Legal Trustworthines: A Case for Neurosymbolic Commonsense (in Autonomous Vehicles), July 3 2024 / www
- Invited Talk @ Center for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP)
On: "Cognitive Vision: Towards Human-Centred Computational Visual Intelligence" / University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg / Sweden - April 2024 / www
- Keynote @ The Long Road Ahead International Workshop on Autonomous, Connected, and Smart Transportation (LORA Workshop)
On: "Visual Commonsense for the Self-Driving Car: On Deep Neurosymbolic Semantics for Space and Motion" / University of New South Wales Canberra, Canberra / Australia - June 2023 / www
- Invited Talk @ The Importance of Human Factors for Trusted Human-Robot Collaborations
On: "What are the technical/engineering implications of achieving ethical-legal trustworthiness with autonomous vehicles?" / part of : International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, Gothenburg / Sweden - Dec 2023 / www
- Invited Tutorial @ The 39th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2023)
On: "Cognitive Vision" / Imperial College London, London / United Kingdom - June 2023 / www
- Grant Approved @ Vetenskapsrådet / Swedish Research Council - Individual Project Grants
On: Counterfactual Commonsense (2023 - 2026)
- Grant Approved @ Vetenskapsrådet / Swedish Research Council - Doctoral School
On: Multimodality and Intermediality (2023 - 2027)
- Keynote @ 10th Scandinavian Conference on System & Software Safety 2022
On: Visual Commonsense for the Self-Driving Car / Gothenburg, Sweden - Nov 22—23, 2022 / www
- Keynote @ Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Reasoning and Learning, at IJCAI-ECAI 2022
On: ``Visuospatial Commonsense - On Neurosymbolic Reasoning and Learning about Space and Motion" / Vienna, Austria, July 2022 / www
- Invited Guest Lecture @ Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems (CNRS)
On: Artificial Visual Intelligence / University of Plymouth, United Kingdom - Mar 16 2022 / www
- Invited Fellow @ Pascal Institute, University of Paris-Saclay
Ephemeral Lab: Interdisciplinary Research Program on Urban Mobility II / ``Spatial Cognition Atelier", Paris, May 2022 / www
- Media Coverage @ Radio Interview
On: Strategies for the identification of Fake News (Strategien zum Erkennen von Fake News ) / Interviewer: Matthias Hennies - Deutschlandfunk Radio, Germany Sep 15 2022 / www
- Invited Guest Lecture @ Chalmers AI Research Center (CHAIR)
On: Cognitive Vision and Perception / Dec 1 2021 - 10:00 - MB lecture hall, Hörsalsvägen 5, Gamla M-huset
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden / www
- Media Coverage: "Are self-driving cars smarter than a seven-month-old?" / The Economist - Sep 2021
Our research on autonomous vehicles / commonsense reasoning / explainability featured in The Economist / www
- Celebrating Semantics @ Montreal. Berlin. Prague. Riga. RAS. / 2021
www
- Invited Talk @ Future Forum on Artificial Intelligence / 2021
DNB NewTechLab Norway / www
- Invited Talk @ NEC Laboratories Europe / 2020
NEC Germany (Heidelberg), October 2020 / www
- Invited Panelist @ Reasoning in GeoAI / 2020
Focussing on: Explainable AI within the Geographic Domain
``Reasoning in GeoAI: Crime, Env. Psychology & Commonsense Reasoning''
Center for Spatial Studies, UC Santa Barbara / www
- Advisory Committee Invitation @ AIQT Foundation / 2020
Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Technologies (AIQT), Nov 2020 / www
- Distinguished Paper Honourable Mention / IJCAI 2019 - International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
``Out of Sight But Not Out of Mind:
An Answer Set Programming Based Online Abduction Framework for Visual Sensemaking in Autonomous Driving.'' — www
- Grant Approved: EU COST Action / Multi3Generation
Multi-task, Multilingual, Multi-modal Language Generation (CA18231) 2019-2023 — www
- Invited Talk @ Social and Artificial Intelligence for User-Friendly Robots (SoAIR 2019)
IEEE-RAS Spring School, Shonan Village Center, Japan— www
- Invited Talk / Cognitive and Interactive Robots
In conjunction with IEEE RoMAN 2019: International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication, New Delhi, India
- Keynote @ The Eye, The Brain, and The Auto 2018
8th World Research Congress on Vision and Driving. www
Focusing on the Impact of Disruptive Autonomous Vehicle Technology on Health and Wellness
- Keynote @ QR 2018
31st International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning
Co-located at:IJCAI-ECAI-18: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Stockholm, Sweden, July 13-19, 2018. www
- Plenary Talk @ ICMC 2017
at the International Conference on Multimodal Communication:
Developing New Theories and Methods (ICMC 2017). www
- Grant Approved @ DFG CRC EASE
Everyday Activity Science and Engineering
1st Phase (lasting 4 years) approved by German Research Foundation — DFG / commencement 2017. www
- Distinguished Paper Award / LPNMR 2015 - Logic Programming and Non-Monotonic Reasoning
``ASPMT(QS): Non-Monotonic Spatial Reasoning with Answer Set Programming Modulo Theories'' — www
- Keynote @ Tobii Pro Event
Eye Tracking Social 2015., Vienna, Austria. www
- Keynote @ EG-ICE 2015
European Group for Intelligent Computing in Engineering (EG-ICE 2015). www
- Invited Talk @ IROS 2015: International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.
Workshop on Assistance and Service Robotics in a Human Environment. www
- Invited Talk @ Cognitive Science Institute / Institute für Kognitionswissenschaft (IKW) 2015
University of Osbanrück. www
- Invited Talk @ Space Syntax Ltd. 2015
Workshop on Extended Network-Based Description for BIM and Smart Cities, 2015. www
- Falling Walls Lab 2014 — Competition — 2nd Place:
“Breaking the Wall of Computer-Aided Architecture Design”. www
- Invited Talk @ University of Münster
GI Forum, Institute for Geoinformatics. www
- Impulse Magazine
Research featured in Impulse Research Magazine of the University of Bremen. (1/2014). www
- Award Nomination — Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis (HML) 2014
Nominated: University of Bremen candidate for the German Research Foundation (DFG) HML Preis 2014
- Invited Talk @ DAAD Annual Meeting 2013, Berlin.
Germany Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Freie Universität Berlin 2013.
- DW-World TV Feature
Deutsche Welle (DW-World) TV program `Today Tomorrow' in the segment, Brilliant Minds (2012). www
- Best Paper Award / UDMS 2011 - 28th Urban Data Management Symposium
``Toward Accessing Spatial Structure from Building Information Models'' — www
- Invited Panelist @ German Center for Research and Innovation New York (GCRI) / 2011
Panel on: Spatial Cognition for Architectural Design
German Center for Research and Innovation New York (GCRI), German House, New York / www
- Invited Talk @ Artificial Intelligence Centre, SRI (2011)
Stanford Research Insittute (SRI). www
- HIGHLIGHTS Magazine Feature — University of Bremen, 2011. www