Blog: Lab Seminars

This is a collection of all lab seminar topics since 2003. Some entries may be missing.

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• 2024
• 2024-04-22 [Lab Seminar] Spring 2024 Archive
• 2023
• 2023-11-29 [Lab Seminar] 2023 Fall Archive
• 2023-04-14 [Lab Seminar] 2023 Spring Archive
• 2022
• 2022-12-31 [Lab Seminar] 2022 Archive
• 2022-03-30 [Lab Seminar][Tool][Choe] Three Ingredients for Becoming a Proficient Tool User
• 2022-03-05 [Time][Buonomano][Choe][Lab Seminar] The human brain and the nature of time
• 2022-01-19 [Lab Seminar][Body][Choe] Proprioception and the importance of spatial intelligence / bodily experience
• 2021
• 2021-11-08 [Lab Seminar] The Ingredients of Real-World Robotic Reinforcement Learning
• 2021-11-01 [Lab Seminar] Neural heterogeneity promotes robust learning
• 2021-09-27 [Lab Seminar] Soft actor-critic: Off-policy maximum entropy deep reinforcement learning with a stochastic actor.
• 2021-09-07 [Lab Seminar][CNN] Activation atlases
• 2021-09-06 [Lab Seminar] Buzsaki's interview in Neuron 2016
• 2021-07-02 [Lab Seminar][Neural code][Choe] Good decisions require more than information
• 2021-06-24 [Lab Seminar][Stanley] Neuroevolution - Ken Stanley's work
• 2021-04-30 [Lab Seminar] Online virtual training in soft actor-critic for autonomous driving
• 2021-04-23 [Lab Seminar] Curiosity-driven Exploration by Self-supervised Prediction
• 2021-04-16 [Lab Seminar] We’ll never have true AI without first understanding the brain
• 2021-04-09 [Lab Seminar] Rainbow Memory: Continual Learning with a Memory of Diverse Samples
• 2021-03-24 [Lab Seminar] Using Eye Gaze to Enhance Generalization of Imitation Networks to Unseen Environments
• 2021-03-12 [Lab Seminar] Attention is all you need
• 2021-03-05 [Lab Seminar] Transformer is All You Need: Multimodal Multitask Learning with a Unified Transformer
• 2021-02-26 [Lab Seminar] If deep learning is the answer, what is the question?
• 2020
• 2020-11-23 [Lab Seminar] High-frequency Component Helps Explain the Generalization of CNN
• 2020-11-09 [Lab Seminar] Neural circuit policies enabling auditable autonomy
• 2020-11-02 [Lab Seminar] [Choe] Time, Brain, and Neural Networks
• 2020-10-05 [Lab Seminar] Towards Practical Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Multi-lane Autonomous Driving
• 2020-09-28 [Lab Seminar] Few-Shot Learning with Global Class Representations
• 2020-09-21 [Lab Seminar] Towards Universal Representation Learning for Deep Face Recognition
• 2020-08-31 [Lab Seminar] [Li] Synthesizing Light Field From a Single Image with Variable MPI and Two Network Fusion
• 2017
• 2017-04-25 [Lab Seminar] Cassie Bub - Analysis of Time-Delayed Neural Networks in Ball Catching Task
• 2017-04-18 [Lab Seminar] [Nowak][Lee][Choe] Knife-Edge Scanning Microscopy: Towards Full-Scale Analysis of the Cerebrovasculature System of the Whole Mouse Brain
• 2017-04-04 [Lab Seminar] Understanding and Self-Organization
• 2017-03-21 [Lab Seminar] [Evolution] Evolving Deep Neural Networks
• 2017-03-07 [Lab Seminar] [RNN][LeCun] Tracking the World State with Recurrent Entity Networks
• 2017-02-28 [Lab Seminar] [Reams][Choe][Tool] Emergence of tool construction in an articulated limb controlled by evolved neural circuits
• 2017-02-14 [Lab Seminar] Edge.org annual questions
• 2016
• 2016-12-01 [Lab Seminar] Essay by Christoph von der Malsburg 'AI: Tinned human thought?'
• 2016-11-10 [Lab Seminar] [Nguyen][Choe] Explanation of the perceptual oblique effect based on the fidelity of oculomotor control during saccades
• 2016-10-27 [Lab Seminar] Toward an integration of deep learning and neuroscience
• 2016-10-20 [Lab Seminar] [Graves][Memory] Hybrid computing using a neural network with dynamic external memory
• 2016-10-13 [Lab Seminar] [Intrinsic] Hierarchical deep reinforcement learning: Integrating temporal abstraction and intrinsic motivation
• 2016-10-06 [Lab Seminar] Machine learning needs rich feedback for AI teaching: Monash professor
• 2016-09-22 [Lab Seminar] Cognitive Offloading Does Not Prevent but Rather Promotes Cognitive Development
• 2016-09-08 [Lab Seminar] Mirrors and feelings: Have you seen the actors outside?
• 2016-05-06 [Lab Seminar] [Freeman] A neurobiological interpretation of semiotics: meaning, representation, and information
• 2016-04-22 [Lab Seminar] [Clune] Deep neural networks are easily fooled: High confidence predictions for unrecognizable images
• 2016-04-15 [Lab Seminar] [Stigmergy] Stigmergy as a universal coordination mechanism II: Varieties and evolution
• 2016-04-01 [Lab Seminar] [Nowak][Choe] Knife-Edge Scanning Microscopy for in silico Study of Cerebral Blood Flow: from Biological Imaging Data to Flow Simulations
• 2016-03-25 [Lab Seminar] When machines think and feel
• 2016-02-19 [Lab Seminar] The minority report: some common assumptions to reconsider in the modeling of the brain and behavior
• 2016-02-12 [Lab Seminar] The IEEE CIS CDS newsletter, dialog section on representational redescription.
• 2016-02-05 [Lab Seminar] [IIT][Consciousness] The Problem with Phi: A Critique of Integrated Information Theory
• 2016-01-29 [Lab Seminar] Edge.org annaul questions
• 2015
• 2015-12-02 [Lab Seminar] IEEE CIS Newsletter on Autonomous Mental Development
• 2015-11-18 [Lab Seminar] [Beer] Connecting a connectome to behavior: an ensemble of neuroanatomical models of C. elegans klinotaxis
• 2015-11-11 [Lab Seminar] Topological basis for the robust distribution of blood to rodent neocortex
• 2015-10-14 [Lab Seminar] The Future of the Brain: Essays by the World's Leading Neuroscientsts
• 2015-10-07 [Lab Seminar] [Stanley] Improving evolvability through novelty search and self-adaptation
• 2015-09-30 [Lab Seminar] On simplicity and complexity in the brave new world of large-scale neuroscience
• 2015-09-23 [Lab Seminar] [Consciousness][Block] Consciousness, big science, and conceptual clarity
• 2015-09-09 [Lab Seminar] Computational rationality: A converging paradigm for intelligence in brains, minds, and machines
• 2015-04-22 [Lab Seminar] [Parulkar][Choe] Autonomous Grounding of the Optical Flow Detectors in a Simulated Visuomotor System of the Fly
• 2015-04-08 [Lab Seminar] The mouse that roared: neural mechanisms of social hierarchy
• 2015-04-01 [Lab Seminar] [BMI] The brain–computer interface cycle
• 2015-03-25 [Lab Seminar] Self-taught learning: transfer learning from unlabeled data
• 2015-03-11 [Lab Seminar] Deep neural networks for acoustic modeling in speech recognition: The shared views of four research groups
• 2015-03-04 [Lab Seminar] [RL] Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
• 2015-02-25 [Lab Seminar] [Self][Body] Interoceptive inference, emotion, and the embodied self
• 2015-02-18 [Lab Seminar] Machines that learn to segment images: a crucial technology for connectomics
• 2015-02-11 [Lab Seminar] Exploration versus exploitation in space, mind, and society
• 2015-02-04 [Lab Seminar] [RL] Reinforcement learning: Computational theory and biological mechanisms
• 2015-01-21 [Lab Seminar] Edge.org 2015 question center
• 2014
• 2014-12-03 [Lab Seminar] Vectorization of optically sectioned brain microvasculature: Learning aids completion of vascular graphs by connecting gaps and deleting open-ended segments
• 2014-11-05 [Lab Seminar] Place cells, grid cells, and the brain's spatial representation system
• 2014-10-22 [Lab Seminar] [RL] An automated measure of MDP similarity for transfer in reinforcement learning
• 2014-10-08 [Lab Seminar] Brain-machine interfaces: past, present and future
• 2014-09-24 [Lab Seminar] Cortical control of arm movements: a dynamical systems perspective
• 2014-09-17 [Lab Seminar] [Li][Choe][Yoo][Tool] Emergence of Tool Use in an Articulated Limb Controlled by Evolved Neural Circuits
• 2014-09-10 [Lab Seminar] [Consicousness] A Mechanistic Theory of Consciousness
• 2014-09-03 [Lab Seminar] [Koch] Hacking the Soul
• 2014-04-04 [Lab Seminar] Edge.org World Question Center
• 2014-03-28 [Lab Seminar] [Sporns] Complex brain networks: graph theoretical analysis of structural and functional systems
• 2014-03-21 [Lab Seminar] The neuron classification problem
• 2014-02-28 [Lab Seminar] [Choe] Brain Connectivity Mapping. IJCNN tutorial 2013
• 2014-02-14 [Lab Seminar] [Action] Developmental perception of the self and action
• 2014-02-07 [Lab Seminar] [RL] Reinforcement learning transfer using a sparse coded inter-task mapping
• 2014-01-31 [Lab Seminar] Evaluation of 14 nonlinear deformation algorithms applied to human brain MRI registration
• 2013
• 2013-10-18 [Lab Seminar] The Brain's Connective Core and Its Role in Animal Cognition
• 2013-10-11 [Lab Seminar] [DiCarlo] Untangling invariant object recognition
• 2013-10-04 [Lab Seminar] [Schmidhuber] First experiments with PowerPlay
• 2013-09-27 [Lab Seminar] [Causality] Causal Entropic Forces
• 2013-09-20 [Lab Seminar] [Consciousness] The Inevitable Contrast: Conscious versus Unconscious Processes in Action Control
• 2013-09-13 [Lab Seminar] [Consciousness] How to make a robot that is conscious and feels
• 2013-09-06 [Lab Seminar] Representing task context: proposals based on a connectionist model of action
• 2013-04-03 [Lab Seminar] [Time] Time and brain: neurorelativity: The chronoarchitecture of the brain from the neuronal rather than the observer's perspective
• 2013-03-20 [Lab Seminar] [Yoo][Choi][Choe] Motor map development
• 2013-03-06 [Lab Seminar] Differential retinal origins of separate anatomical channels for pattern and motion vision in rabbit
• 2013-02-06 [Lab Seminar] How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci
• 2013-01-30 [Lab Seminar] Dan Pink on Motivation - TED talk
• 2013-01-23 [Lab Seminar] Emotions: From Brain to Robot
• 2012
• 2012-04-25 [Lab Seminar] What is the computational goal of the neocortex
• 2012-04-11 [Lab Seminar] Critique of Pure Vision
• 2012-04-04 [Lab Seminar] Data sharing in neuroimaging research
• 2012-03-28 [Lab Seminar] [Evolution] Evolving Reusable Neural Modules
• 2012-03-21 [Lab Seminar] Pattern recognitionin bees
• 2012-02-29 [Lab Seminar] [Sarma][Choe] Salience in orientation-filter response measured as suspicious coincidence in natural images
• 2012-02-15 [Lab Seminar] Fast and accurate retinal vasculature tracing and kernel-isomap-based feature selection
• 2012-02-08 [Lab Seminar] Fast cell detection in high-throughput imagery using gpu-accelerated machine learning
• 2012-02-01 [Lab Seminar] An Environment Model for Nonstationary Reinforcement Learning
• 2012-01-18 [Lab Seminar] Edge.org Question Center 2012: What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation
• 2011
• 2011-11-08 [Lab Seminar] ./genlab
• 2011-09-20 [Lab Seminar] [Evolution] Evolution of the brain and intelligence
• 2011-09-13 [Lab Seminar] Cortical substrates for exploratory decisions in humans
• 2011-03-29 [Lab Seminar] Fast Delineation and Visualization of Vessels in 3-D Angiographic Images
• 2011-02-01 [Lab Seminar] Exploitation vs. exploration
• 2011-01-25 [Lab Seminar] Pavlov's AI – What did it mean?
• 2010
• 2010-11-30 [Lab Seminar] [RL] Reinforcement learning in finite MDPs: PAC Analysis
• 2010-11-09 [Lab Seminar] [Yang][Choe] Interactive editing tools for EM image analysis
• 2010-10-19 [Lab Seminar] A novel tracing algorithm for high throughput imaging Screening of neuron-based assays
• 2010-10-05 [Lab Seminar] Waxholm space
• 2010-09-28 [Lab Seminar] On vergence control model
• 2010-09-21 [Lab Seminar] Ecological expected utility and the mythical neural code
• 2010-05-13 [Lab Seminar] Singularity and Slow Convergence of the EM algorithm for Gaussian Mixtures
• 2010-04-08 [Lab Seminar] From bottom-up visual attendion to robot action learning
• 2010-02-25 [Lab Seminar] Multiagent learning
• 2010-02-04 [Lab Seminar] [Mann][Choe] Prenatal vs. postnatal developoment
• 2010-01-21 [Lab Seminar] [Choi][Choe] Manifold integration with markov random walk
• 2009
• 2009-04-15 [Lab Seminar] An Energy Minimization Approach to the Data Driven Editing of Presegmented Images/Volumes
• 2009-03-25 [Lab Seminar] Predicting student performance
• 2009-03-04 [Lab Seminar] [Han][Choe] Fast and Accurate Retinal Vasculature Tracing and Kernel-Isomap-based Feature Selection
• 2009-02-18 [Lab Seminar] [Park][Choe] Tactile or Visual?: Stimulus Characteristics Determine Receptive Field Type in a Self-Organizing Map Model of Cortical Development
• 2009-02-04 [Lab Seminar] [Kuipers] Towards the Application of Reinforcement Learning to Undirected Developmental Learning
• 2008
• 2008-09-24 [Lab Seminar] Natural Image Statistics and Efficient Coding
• 2008-09-17 [Lab Seminar] Stereo Pseudo 3D Rendering for Web-Based Display of Scientific Volumetric Data
• 2008-09-10 [Lab Seminar] Modular Neuroevolution for Multilegged Locomotion
• 2008-03-25 [Lab Seminar] [Tactile] Tactile dominance in speeded discrimination of textures
• 2008-03-18 [Lab Seminar] [Choe][Kwon] Internal state predictability as an evolutionary precursor of self-awareness and agency
• 2008-02-26 [Lab Seminar] [Haptics] Geometrical haptic illusions: the role of exploration in the Muller-Lyer, vertical-horizontal, and Delboeuf illusions
• 2008-02-19 [Lab Seminar] Decision making, impulsivity and time perception
• 2008-02-05 [Lab Seminar] Stochastic Models, Estimation, and Control
• 2008-01-29 [Lab Seminar] [Robot][Semantics] Natural Semantics for a Mobile Robot
• 2008-01-22 [Lab Seminar] [Oliva] Natural scene categorization from conjunctions of ecological global properties
• 2008-01-15 [Lab Seminar] Mathematical Representation of the Vascular Structure and Applications
• 2007
• 2007-10-23 [Lab Seminar] Simultaneous Truth and Performance Level Estimation(STAPLE): An Algorithm for the Validation of Image Segmentation
• 2007-10-16 [Lab Seminar] [Evolution] Towards an Empirical Measure of Evolvability
• 2007-10-09 [Lab Seminar][Motor][Kuniyoshi] Early Motor Development from Partially Ordered Neural-body Dynamics: Experiments with a Cortico-spinal-musculo-skeletal Model
• 2007-10-02 [Lab Seminar] [Mikula] Internet-Enabled High-Resolution Brain Mapping and Virtual Microscopy
• 2007-09-25 [Lab Seminar] [BBS][Evolution] Archaeology and Cognitive Evolution
• 2007-09-18 [Lab Seminar] [DiCarlo] Spatial and Temporal Structure of Receptive Fields in Primate Somatosensory Area 3b: Effects of Stimulus Scanning Direction and Orientation
• 2007-09-04 [Lab Seminar][Polani] Empowerment: A Universal Agent-Centric Measure of Control
• 2007-07-18 [Lab Seminar] [Seth][Edelman] Distinguishing Causal Interactions in Neural Populations
• 2007-07-11 [Lab Seminar][Sporns] The Human Connectome: A Structural Description of the Human Brain
• 2007-06-27 [Lab Seminar] Prediction of external events with our motor system: towards a new framework
• 2007-06-20 [Lab Seminar] The skill of seeing: beyond the sensorimotornext term account?
• 2007-05-03 [Lab Seminar] When is Scene Identification Just Texture Recognition?
• 2007-04-19 [Lab Seminar] Projecting Sensations to External Objects: Evidence from Skin Conductance Response
• 2007-04-05 [Lab Seminar] Involuntary Motor Activity in Pianists Evoked by Music Perception
• 2007-03-01 [Lab Seminar] Interpolating Subdivision for Meshes with Arbitrary Topology
• 2007-02-22 [Lab Seminar] Small-World Brain Networks
• 2007-02-08 [Lab Seminar][Sporns] Mapping Informatinon Flow in Sensorimotor Networks
• 2007-02-01 [Lab Seminar] Independent component analysis of natural images sequences yield spatiotemporal filters similar to simple cells in primary visual cortex
• 2006
• 2006-11-29 [Lab Seminar] [Bongard] Resilient Machines Through Continuous Self-Modeling
• 2006-11-08 [Lab Seminar] Rapid Automated Tracing and Feature Extraction from Retinal Fundus Images Using Direct Exploratory Algorithms,
• 2006-11-01 [Lab Seminar] Active vision and receptive field development in evolutionary robots
• 2006-10-25 [Lab Seminar] A model of the ventral visual system based on temporal stability and local memory
• 2006-10-04 [Lab Seminar] [Tool] Tool-use changes multimodal spatial interactions between vision and touch in normal humans
• 2006-09-27 [Lab Seminar][Consciousness] Thinking as simulation of behaviour: an associationist view of cognitive function
• 2006-09-20 [Lab Seminar] Feedback dynamics and cell function: Why systems biology is called systems biology
• 2006-09-06 [Lab Seminar] [Claxton] Wise up: the challenge of life long learning
• 2006-07-27 [Lab Seminar] [Haggard] Conscious intention and motor cognition
• 2006-07-13 [Lab Seminar] [Humphrey] How to solve the mind-body problem
• 2006-06-15 [Lab Seminar] [Lashley] The Problem of Serial Order in Behaviour
• 2006-04-25 [Lab Seminar] Modeling Sensorimotor Learning with Linear Dynamical Systems
• 2006-04-18 [Lab Seminar] Abnormalities in the awareness of action
• 2006-04-11 [Lab Seminar] Thalamus papers by Mumford
• 2006-04-04 [Lab Seminar] Semantic integration of XML heterogenneous data sources
• 2006-03-28 [Lab Seminar] Learning sparse codes with a mixture-of-gaussians prior
• 2006-03-21 [Lab Seminar] The dynamics of active categorical perception in an evolved model agent
• 2006-02-21 [Lab Seminar] Language within our grasp
• 2006-01-31 [Lab Seminar] Rapid visual-motion integration deficit in autism
• 2006-01-24 [Lab Seminar] A topographical method for the development of neural networks for artificial brain evolution
• 2006-01-17 [Lab Seminar] Intrinsically Motivated Reinforcement Learning
• 2005
• 2005-12-02 [Lab Seminar] The emergence of a 'Language' in an evolving population of neural netowrks
• 2005-11-04 [Lab Seminar] Is there something out there? Inferring space from sensorimortor dependencies
• 2005-10-21 [Lab Seminar] Motion-based autonomous grounding: Inferring external world properties from internal sensory states alone
• 2005-10-14 [Lab Seminar] Half a Centry of Research on the Stroop Effect: An Integrative Review
• 2005-10-07 [Lab Seminar] Spatio-temporal predictive neural coding found in Orientation flash-lag effect
• 2005-09-30 [Lab Seminar] Clark (1997), The Dynamical Challenge
• 2005-09-16 [Lab Seminar] Muscularity of Mind: Towards an Explanation of the Transition from Unconscious to Conscious
• 2005-08-18 [Lab Seminar][Tool] Role of tool use in cognitive development
• 2005-07-21 [Lab Seminar] Learning of action through adaptive combination of motor primitives
• 2005-07-14 [Lab Seminar] Shared neural control of attentional shifts and eye movements
• 2005-07-07 [Lab Seminar] Spike-timing dependent plasticity and orientation flash-lag effect
• 2005-06-23 [Lab Seminar] Computational Role of Disinhibition in Brain Function
• 2005-06-16 [Lab Seminar] Comparison of motor-based versus visual representations in object recognition tasks
• 2005-04-21 [Lab Seminar] Cangelosi (2000): symbol grounding
• 2005-04-14 [Lab Seminar] John Weng: Autonomous Mental Development
• 2005-03-03 [Lab Seminar] Interactivist perception
• 2005-02-24 [Lab Seminar] Leyton: Symmetry/Asymmetry in Memory
• 2005-02-17 [Lab Seminar] Flash lag effect ; Dynamic synapses
• 2005-01-27 [Lab Seminar] Fully distributed representations
• 2004
• 2004-12-09 [Lab Seminar] Learning from uninterpreted experience in the SSH
• 2004-12-02 [Lab Seminar] Is there something out there? Inferring space from sensorimotor dependencies
• 2004-11-18 [Lab Seminar] Bergson and cognitive science
• 2004-11-11 [Lab Seminar] A bayesian model of imitation in infants and robots
• 2004-11-04 [Lab Seminar] Organization, development and function of complex brain networks
• 2004-09-23 [Lab Seminar] A biologically plausible model of associative memory which uses disinhibition rather than long-term potentiation
• 2004-09-09 [Lab Seminar] Optimal smoothing in visual motion perception
• 2004-04-22 [Lab Seminar] Conscious thought as simulation of behaviour and perception
• 2004-04-08 [Lab Seminar] Extending ESP with temporal properties
• 2004-03-04 [Lab Seminar] The Metaphorical Brain 2: Neural Networks and Beyond
• 2004-02-26 [Lab Seminar] Texture segmentation in 2D vs. 3D: Did 3D developmentally precede 2D?
• 2004-02-19 [Lab Seminar] The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
• 2003
• 2003-05-15 [Lab Seminar] Neural correlates of perceptual learning: a functional mri study of visual texture discrimination.
• 2003-05-08 [Lab Seminar] Bayesian modeling of human concept learning
• 2003-04-24 [Lab Seminar] The current relevance of merleau-ponty’s phenomenology of embodiment
• 2003-04-10 [Lab Seminar] Visual analogy in problem solving
• 2003-04-03 [Lab Seminar] Aspects and extensions of a theory of human image understanding
• 2003-03-27 [Lab Seminar] An introduction to the visual system
• 2003-03-20 [Lab Seminar] Representations in the brain.
• 2003-03-06 [Lab Seminar] When vision is not sight: dissociations between vision and action
• 2003-02-27 [Lab Seminar] Mirror neurons and imitation learning as the driving force behind ``the great leap forward'' in human evolution
• 2003-02-13 [Lab Seminar] The knife-edge scanning microscope
• 2003-01-23 [Lab Seminar] Introduction: A bayesian formulation of visual perception
• 2003-01-16 [Lab Seminar] Detecting salient contours using orientation energy distribution