Intelligent Autonomous Systems

2015
Journal Articles
	RoboSherlock: Unstructured Information Processing Framework for Robotic Perception (Michael Beetz, Ferenc Bálint-Benczédi, Nico Blodow, Christian Kerl, Zoltán-Csaba Márton, Daniel Nyga, Florian Seidel, Thiemo Wiedemeyer, Jan-Hendrik Worch), In Handling Uncertainty and Networked Structure in Robot Control (Lucian Busoniu, Levente Tamás, eds.), Springer International Publishing, 2015. [bib] [doi]
Conference and Workshop Papers
	RoboSherlock: Unstructured Information Processing for Robot Perception (Michael Beetz, Ferenc Balint-Benczedi, Nico Blodow, Daniel Nyga, Thiemo Wiedemeyer, Zoltan-Csaba Marton), In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2015.(Best Service Robotics Paper Award) [bib]
2014
Journal Articles
	Part-Based Geometric Categorization and Object Reconstruction in Cluttered Table-Top Scenes (Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Ferenc Balint-Benczedi, Oscar Martinez Mozos, Nico Blodow, Asako Kanezaki, Lucian Cosmin Goron, Dejan Pangercic, Michael Beetz), In Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, Springer Netherlands, 2014. [bib]
Conference and Workshop Papers
	3D Pictorial Structures for Multiple Human Pose Estimation (Vasileios Belagiannis, Sikandar Amin, Mykhaylo Andriluka, Bernt Schiele, Nassir Navab, Slobodan Ilic), In 2014 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2014.(Oral) [bib] [pdf]
	Test-time Adaptation for 3D Human Pose Estimation (Sikandar Amin, Philipp Müller, Andreas Bulling, Mykhaylo Andriluka), In German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR/DAGM), 2014.(Oral) [bib] [pdf]
PhD Thesis
	Managing Belief States for Service Robots - Dynamic Scene Perception and Spatio-temporal Memory (Nico Blodow), PhD thesis, Technische Universität München, 2014. [bib]
Other Publications
	Coherent Multi-Sentence Video Description with Variable Level of Detail (Anna Senina, Marcus Rohrbach, Wei Qiu, Annemarie Friedrich, Sikandar Amin, Mykhaylo Andriluka, Manfred Pinkal, Bernt Schiele), 2014. [bib]
2013
Journal Articles
	KnowRob -- A Knowledge Processing Infrastructure for Cognition-enabled Robots. Part 1: The KnowRob System (Moritz Tenorth, Michael Beetz), In International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 2013.(Accepted for publication.) [bib]
	Representation and Exchange of Knowledge about Actions, Objects, and Environments in the RoboEarth Framework (Moritz Tenorth, Alexander Clifford Perzylo, Reinhard Lafrenz, Michael Beetz), In IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), 2013.(Accepted for publication.) [bib]
Conference and Workshop Papers
	Sample consensus fitting of bivariate polynomials for initializing EM-based modeling of smooth 3D surfaces (Christian Nissler, Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Michael Suppa), In Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, 2013. [bib]
	Feature based particle filter registration of 3D surface models and its application in robotics (Christian Rink, Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Daniel Seth, Tim Bodenmuller, Michael Suppa), In Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, 2013. [bib]
	Combining object modeling and recognition for active scene exploration (Simon Kriegel, Manuel Brucker, Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Tim Bodenmuller, Michael Suppa), In Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, 2013. [bib]
	Fast Temporal Projection Using Accurate Physics-Based Geometric Reasoning (Lorenz Mösenlechner, Michael Beetz), In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2013.(Accepted for publication.) [bib]
	Learning Probability Distributions over Partially-Ordered Human Everyday Activities (Moritz Tenorth, Fernando De la Torre, Michael Beetz), In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2013.(Accepted for publication.) [bib]
	Action sequencing and error production in stroke patients with apraxia -- Behavioral modeling using Bayesian Logic Networks (Charmayne Mary Lee Hughes, Moritz Tenorth, Marta Bienkiewicz, Joachim Hermsdörfer), In 6th International Conference on Health Informatics (HEALTHINF 2013), 2013.(Accepted for publication.) [bib]
	Multi-view Pictorial Structures for 3D Human Pose Estimation (Sikandar Amin, Mykhaylo Andriluka, Marcus Rohrbach, Bernt Schiele), In British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2013.(Oral) [bib] [pdf]
	Tracking-based Interactive Segmentation of Textureless Objects (Karol Hausman, Ferenc Balint-Benczedi, Dejan Pangercic, Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Ryohei Ueda, Kei Okada, Michael Beetz), In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2013.(Best Service Robotics Paper Award Finalist) [bib] [pdf]
	Context Aware Shared Autonomy for Robotic Manipulation Tasks (Thomas Witzig, J. Marius Zöllner, Dejan Pangercic, Sarah Osentoski, Philip Roan, Rainer Jäkel, Rüdiger Dillmann), In In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Tokyo Big Sight, Japan, 2013. [bib]
2012
Journal Articles
	Ensembles of Strong Learners for Multi-cue Classification (Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Florian Seidel, Ferenc Balint-Benczedi, Michael Beetz), In Pattern Recognition Letters (PRL), Special Issue on Scene Understandings and Behaviours Analysis, 2012.(In press.) [bib] [pdf]
	Learning and Reasoning with Action-Related Places for Robust Mobile Manipulation (Freek Stulp, Andreas Fedrizzi, Lorenz Mösenlechner, Michael Beetz), In Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), volume 43, 2012. [bib]
	Cognition-Enabled Autonomous Robot Control for the Realization of Home Chore Task Intelligence (Michael Beetz, Dominik Jain, Lorenz Mösenlechner, Moritz Tenorth, Lars Kunze, Nico Blodow, Dejan Pangercic), In Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Quality of Life Technology, volume 100, 2012. [bib]
	A Self-Training Approach for Visual Tracking and Recognition of Complex Human Activity Patterns (Jan Bandouch, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Michael Beetz), In International Journal of Computer Vision, volume 99, 2012. [bib]
	Tutorial: Point Cloud Library: Three-Dimensional Object Recognition and 6 DOF Pose Estimation (Aitor Aldoma, Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Federico Tombari, Walter Wohlkinger, Christian Potthast, Bernhard Zeisl, Radu Bogdan Rusu, Suat Gedikli, Markus Vincze), In Robotics & Automation Magazine, IEEE, IEEE, volume 19, 2012. [bib]
Conference and Workshop Papers
	Towards a Networked Robot Architecture\\ for Distributed Task Execution and Knowledge Exchange (Moritz Tenorth, Koji Kamei, Satoru Satake, Takahiro Miyashita, Norihiro Hagita), In Third International Workshop on Standards and Common Platforms for Robotics (SCPR 2012), in conjunction with SIMPAR 2012, 2012. [bib] [pdf]
	Furniture Classification using WWW CAD Models (Vladyslav Usenko, Florian Seidel, Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Dejan Pangercic Michael Beetz), In IROS’12 Workshop on Active Semantic Perception (ASP’12), 2012. [bib] [pdf]
	The SHERPA project: smart collaboration between humans and ground-aerial robots for improving rescuing activities in alpine environments (L. Marconi, C. Melchiorri, M. Beetz, D. Pangercic†, R. Siegwart, S. Leutenegger, R. Carloni, S. Stramigioli, H. Bruyninckx, P. Doherty, A. Kleiner, V. Lippiello, A. Finzi, B. Siciliano, A. Sala, N. Tomatis), In IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), 2012. [bib] [pdf]
	Making Virtual Pancakes --- Acquiring and Analyzing Data of Everyday Manipulation Tasks through Interactive Physics-based Simulations (Lars Kunze, Andrei Haidu, Michael Beetz), In Poster and Demo Track of the 35th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-2012), 2012. [bib]
	Pouring and Mixing Liquids --- Understanding the Physical Effects of Everyday Robot Manipulation Actions (Reinhard Klapfer, Lars Kunze, Michael Beetz), In 35th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-2012), Workshop on Human Reasoning and Automated Deduction, 2012. [bib]
	Towards Modular Spatio-temporal Perception for Task-adapting Robots (Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Florian Seidel, Michael Beetz), In Postgraduate Conference on Robotics and Development of Cognition (RobotDoC-PhD), a satellite event of the 22nd International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN), 2012. [bib]
	Segmenting Cylindrical and Box-like Objects in Cluttered 3D Scenes (Lucian Cosmin Goron, Zoltan Csaba Marton, Gheorghe Lazea, Michael Beetz), In 7th German Conference on Robotics (ROBOTIK), 2012. [bib] [pdf]
	Improving robot manipulation through fingertip perception (Alexis Maldonado, Humberto Alvarez-Heredia, Michael Beetz), In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012. [bib] [pdf]
	Semantic Object Maps for Robotic Housework - Representation, Acquisition and Use (Dejan Pangercic, Moritz Tenorth, Benjamin Pitzer, Michael Beetz), In 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012. [bib] [pdf]
	Everything Robots Always Wanted to Know about Housework (But were afraid to ask) (Daniel Nyga, Michael Beetz), In 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012. [bib] [pdf]
	A Unified Representation for Reasoning about Robot Actions, Processes, and their Effects on Objects (Moritz Tenorth, Michael Beetz), In 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012. [bib] [pdf]
	Segmentation of Textured and Textureless Objects through Interactive Perception (Christian Bersch, Dejan Pangercic, Sarah Osentoski, Karol Hausman, Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Ryohei Ueda, Kei Okada, Michael Beetz), In RSS Workshop on Robots in Clutter: Manipulation, Perception and Navigation in Human Environments, 2012. [bib] [pdf]
	Depth-Adaptive Superpixels (David Weikersdorfer, David Gossow, Michael Beetz), In 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2012.(Accepted for publication.) [bib]
	Distinctive Texture Features from Perspective-Invariant Keypoints (David Gossow, David Weikersdorfer, Michael Beetz), In 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2012.(Accepted for publication.) [bib]
	Object Categorization in Clutter using Additive Features and Hashing of Part-graph Descriptors (Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Ferenc Balint-Benczedi, Florian Seidel, Lucian Cosmin Goron, Michael Beetz), In Proceedings of Spatial Cognition (SC), 2012. [bib] [pdf]
	Exchange of Action-related Information among Autonomous Robots (Moritz Tenorth, Michael Beetz), In 12th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, 2012. [bib] [pdf]
	RoboEarth Action Recipe Execution (Daniel di Marco, Moritz Tenorth, Kai Häussermann, Oliver Zweigle, Paul Levi), In 12th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, 2012. [bib] [pdf]
	Efficient Part-Graph Hashes for Object Categorization (Ferenc Balint-Benczedi, Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Michael Beetz), In 5th International Conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys), 2012. [bib] [pdf]
	CRAM -- a Cognitive Robot Abstract Machine (Michael Beetz, Lorenz Mösenlechner, Moritz Tenorth, Thomas Rühr), In 5th International Conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys 2012), 2012. [bib] [pdf]
	Semantic Object Maps for Household Tasks (Michael Beetz, Moritz Tenorth, Dejan Pangercic, Benjamin Pitzer), In 5th International Conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys 2012), 2012. [bib] [pdf]
	Knowledge Processing for Autonomous Robot Control (Moritz Tenorth, Michael Beetz), In AAAI Spring Symposium on Designing Intelligent Robots: Reintegrating AI, 2012. [bib] [pdf]
	Movement-aware Action Control -- Integrating Symbolic and Control-theoretic Action Execution (Ingo Kresse, Michael Beetz), In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2012. [bib] [pdf]
	Robots that Validate Learned Perceptual Models (Ulrich Klank, Lorenz Mösenlechner, Alexis Maldonado, Michael Beetz), In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2012. [bib] [pdf]
	Searching Objects in Large-scale Indoor Environments: A Decision-thereotic Approach (Lars Kunze, Michael Beetz, Manabu Saito, Haseru Azuma, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba), In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2012. [bib] [pdf]
	The RoboEarth language: Representing and Exchanging Knowledge about Actions, Objects, and Environments (Moritz Tenorth, Alexander Clifford Perzylo, Reinhard Lafrenz, Michael Beetz), In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2012.(Best Cognitive Robotics Paper Award.) [bib] [pdf]
	A Generalized Framework for Opening Doors and Drawers in Kitchen Environments (Thomas Rühr, Jürgen Sturm, Dejan Pangercic, Michael Beetz, Daniel Cremers), In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2012. [bib] [pdf]
	Learning Organizational Principles in Human Environments (Martin Schuster, Dominik Jain, Moritz Tenorth, Michael Beetz), In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2012. [bib] [pdf]
	A Database for Fine Grained Activity Detection of Cooking Activities (Marcus Rohrbach, Sikandar Amin, Mykhaylo Andriluka, Bernt Schiele), In 2012 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2012.(The dataset and relevant code is available at http://www.d2.mpi-inf.mpg.de/mpii-cooking) [bib]
	Elaborative Evaluation of RGB-D based Point Cloud Registration for Personal Robots (Ross Kidson, Darko Stanimirovic, Dejan Pangercic, Michael Beetz), In ICRA 2012 Workshop on Semantic Perception and Mapping for Knowledge-enabled Service Robotics, 2012. [bib] [pdf]
	Segmentation of Cluttered Scenes through Interactive Perception (Karol Hausman, Christian Bersch, Dejan Pangercic, Sarah Osentoski, Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Michael Beetz), In ICRA 2012 Workshop on Semantic Perception and Mapping for Knowledge-enabled Service Robotics, 2012. [bib] [pdf]
	Script Data for Attribute-based Recognition of Composite Activities (Marcus Rohrbach, Michaela Regneri, Micha Andriluka, Sikandar Amin, Manfred Pinkal, Bernt Schiele), In Computer Vision - ECCV 2012 : 12th European Conference on Computer Vision, Springer, volume 2012, 2012. [bib]
	Real-time Compression of Point Cloud Streams (Julius Kammerl, Nico Blodow, Radu Bogdan Rusu, Suat Gedikli, Michael Beetz, Eckehard Steinbach), In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2012. [bib]
PhD Thesis
	Everyday Perception for Mobile Manipulation in Human Environments (Ulrich Klank), PhD thesis, Technische Universität München, 2012. [bib]
	Probabilistic Cognition for Technical Systems: Statistical Relational Models for High-Level Knowledge Representation, Learning and Reasoning (Dominik Jain), PhD thesis, Technische Universität München, 2012. [bib]
Other Publications
	TUM-ROS code repository (Technische Universität München Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group), 2012. [bib]
	Creating and using RoboEarth object models (Daniel Di Marco, Andreas Koch, Oliver Zweigle, Kai Häussermann, Björn Schieß le, Paul Levi, Dorian Galvez Lopez, Luis Riazuelo, Javier Civera, J.M.M Montiel, Moritz Tenorth, Alexander Clifford Perzylo, Markus Waibel, Marinus Jacobus Gerardus van de Molengraft), IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2012. [bib]
2011
Journal Articles
	Combined 2D-3D Categorization and Classification for Multimodal Perception Systems (Zoltan Csaba Marton, Dejan Pangercic, Nico Blodow, Michael Beetz), In The International Journal of Robotics Research, Sage Publications, volume 30, 2011. [bib] [pdf]
	Furniture Models Learned from the WWW -- Using Web Catalogs to Locate and Categorize Unknown Furniture Pieces in 3D Laser Scans (Oscar Martinez Mozos, Zoltan Csaba Marton, Michael Beetz), In Robotics & Automation Magazine, IEEE, volume 18, 2011. [bib] [pdf]
	RoboEarth - A World Wide Web for Robots (Markus Waibel, Michael Beetz, Raffaello D'Andrea, Rob Janssen, Moritz Tenorth, Javier Civera, Jos Elfring, Dorian Gálvez-López, Kai Häussermann, J.M.M. Montiel, Alexander Perzylo, Björn Schießle, Oliver Zweigle, René van de Molengraft), In Robotics & Automation Magazine, IEEE, volume 18, 2011. [bib]
	Web-enabled Robots -- Robots that Use the Web as an Information Resource (Moritz Tenorth, Ulrich Klank, Dejan Pangercic, Michael Beetz), In Robotics & Automation Magazine, IEEE, volume 18, 2011. [bib] [pdf]
	Grounding the Interaction: Anchoring Situated Discourse in Everyday Human-Robot Interaction (Séverin Lemaignan, Raquel Ros, E. Akin Sisbot, Rachid Alami, Michael Beetz), In International Journal of Social Robots, Springer Netherlands, 2011. [bib]
Conference and Workshop Papers
	CAD-model recognition and 6DOF pose estimation using 3D cues (Aitor Aldoma, Markus Vincze, Nico Blodow, David Gossow, Suat Gedikli, Radu Bogdan Rusu, Gary R. Bradski), In IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, ICCV 2011 Workshops, Barcelona, Spain, November 6-13, 2011, 2011. [bib]
	Diagnostic Hypothesis Enumeration vs. Probabilistic Inference for Hierarchical Automata Models (Paul Maier, Dominik Jain, Martin Sachenbacher), In Proceedings of the 22nd International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX-2011), 2011. [bib]
	Improving Aspects of Empathy and Subjective Performance for HRI through Mirroring Facial Expressions (Barbara Gonsior, Stefan Sosnowski, Christoph Mayer, Jürgen Blume, Bernd Radig, Dirk Wollherr, Kolja Kühnlenz), In Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2011. [bib]
	Learning Displacement Experts from Multi-band Images for Face Model Fitting (Christoph Mayer, Bernd Radig), In International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interaction, 2011. [bib]
	Modeling Cognitive Frames for Situations with Markov Logic Networks (William R. Murray, Dominik Jain), In Proceedings of the 8th International NLPCS Workshop: Human-Machine Interaction in Translation, Copenhagen Studies in Language 41, Samfundslitteratur, 2011. [bib]
	Efficient Surface and Feature Estimation in RGBD (Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Dejan Pangercic, Michael Beetz), In RGB-D Workshop on 3D Perception in Robotics at the European Robotics (euRobotics) Forum, 2011. [bib] [pdf]
	Voxelized Shape and Color Histograms for RGB-D (Asako Kanezaki, Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Dejan Pangercic, Tatsuya Harada, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Michael Beetz), In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Workshop on Active Semantic Perception and Object Search in the Real World, 2011. [bib] [pdf]
	Fast and Robust Object Detection in Household Environments Using Vocabulary Trees with SIFT Descriptors (Dejan Pangercic, Vladimir Haltakov, Michael Beetz), In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Workshop on Active Semantic Perception and Object Search in the Real World, 2011. [bib] [pdf]
	Semantic Object Search in Large-scale Indoor Environments (Manabu Saito, Haseru Chen, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba, Lars Kunze, Michael Beetz), In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Workshop on Active Semantic Perception and Object Search in the Real World, 2011. [bib] [pdf]
	Multimodal Autonomous Tool Analyses and Appropriate Application (Ingo Kresse, Ulrich Klank, Michael Beetz), In 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2011. [bib] [pdf]
	Robotic Roommates Making Pancakes (Michael Beetz, Ulrich Klank, Ingo Kresse, Alexis Maldonado, Lorenz Mösenlechner, Dejan Pangercic, Thomas Rühr, Moritz Tenorth), In 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2011. [bib] [pdf]