Invited Speakers

Dr.Sylvain Calinon, Professor, Idiap Research Institute

Title - Robot learning from few demonstrations by exploiting the structure and geometry of data

Abstract - With the evolution of robotics, many applications would benefit from the development of robots that can acquire new movements and skills from human demonstration, and that can reproduce these movements in new situations. From a machine learning perspective, the challenge is to acquire skills from only few interactions with strong generalization demands. It requires:...

Dr. Boulbaba Ben Amor, Professor, IMT Lille Douai/CRIStAL (France)

Title - Rate-invariant analysis of trajectories on Kendall's shape space and applications

Abstract - The analysis of imaged shapes, either static 2D or 3D, is a well-explored research topic with several elegant literature contributions, such as invariance to rigid transformations, robustness to non-rigid (and even elastic) deformations, tolerance to missing data of shape representations and related applications in recognition, retrieval, clustering, prediction and classification...