Palina Bartashevich and David Bierbach (Science of Intelligence), “Collective Air Breathing In the Largest Freshwater Fish on Earth”
SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057More details to follow. Photo by David Clode on Unsplash.
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Hot Topics in Intelligence Research Martina Poletti (University of Rochester), “Active Foveal Vision” and Michele Rucci (University of Rochester), “Active Space-Time Encoding: The Inseparable Link Between Vision and Action”
SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057Martina Poletti's talk will focus on active foveal vision. Vision is an active process even at its finest scale in the 1-deg foveola, the visual system is primarily sensitive to changes in the visual input and it has been shown that fixational eye movements reformat the spatiotemporal flow to the retina in a way that
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Hot Topics in Intelligence Research Tony Prescott (University of Sheffield), “The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence”
SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057Artificial intelligence and robotics have been making great progress in recent years but how close are we to emulating human intelligence? This talk will explore the similarities and differences between humans and AIs and discuss the development of biomimetic cognitive systems that more directly think and behave like us. A key focus will be on
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Hot Topics in Intelligence Research Andrew J. King (Swansea University),”Understanding Animal Collective Behaviour Across Systems”
SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057Andrew King is a scientist driven by curiosity, exploring questions across species, contexts, and methods. His research group investigates how and why individuals engage in collective behaviour, using a wide range of systems, perspectives, and tools. In this seminar, he will present their fundamental work in behavioural biology, as well as its applied themes, including
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Hot Topics in Intelligence Research Jennifer Groh (Duke University) and Kristen Grauman (University of Texas), “What Eye Movements Have to Do with Hearing”
SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057Jennifer Groh (Duke University) Hearing works in concert with vision, such as when we watch someone’s lips move to help us understand what they are saying. But bridging between these two senses poses computational challenges for the brain. One such challenge involves movements of the eyes – every time the eyes move with respect to the head,
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Hot Topics in Intelligence Research Fumiya lida (University of Cambridge) “Info-Bodiment: Informatization of Robot Embodiment for the Next Generation AI Robots”
SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057There is growing interest in applying AI technologies to the control of intelligent robotic systems. While this research has led to promising developments, it still faces major challenges due to its heavy reliance on learning from limited datasets—often dominated by visual information. In this talk, I will introduce "Info-Embodiment" as a new research framework for
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Hot Topics in Intelligence Research Heiko Hamann (Science of Intelligence), “From Models to Machines: A Roboticist’s View on Collective Behavior”
SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057Swarm robotics investigates how large numbers of relatively simple, autonomous robots can coordinate to complete complex collective tasks. In this lecture, we explore how models of collective behavior can guide the design of such systems. We highlight how modeling collective behavior is not only a tool for understanding natural systems, but a powerful method to
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Symposium – Plants As Model Systems for Distributed Intelligence?
MAR 2.057The SCIoI Symposium - Plants as Model Systems for Distributed Intelligence investigates plant systems as potential model organisms for distributed intelligence. Plants respond adaptively and context-sensitively to environmental stimuli without a central nervous system—an exemplary case of non-neuronal, decentralized intelligence. Rainer Hedrich (University of Würzburg) will present current insights into molecular information processing in plants.
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Distinguished Speaker Series John Tsotsos (York University), “Attentional Mechanisms Bridge Seeing to Looking”
SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057David Marr wrote 'What does it mean, to see? The plain man's answer (and Aristotle's, too) would be, to know what is where by looking'. Modern vision science has moved beyond Aristotle's view as well as Marr's, although it certainly would not have advanced without the influence of both. Seeing and Looking are different and
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Thursday Morning Talk Max Ploner (Science of Intelligence), “Evaluating Sample Efficiency: How Language Models Learn to Recall Facts from Data”
SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057More details to follow. Image created with DALL-E by Maria Ott.
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Hot Topics in Intelligence Research Michael Brecht, “Active touch and Large-Brain Neuroscience in Elephants” and Yasemin Vardar, “Active Synthetic Touch: Generating Naturalistic Multisensory Tactile Stimuli for Active Exploration”
SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057Michael Brecht (BCCN Berlin) will present data on a systemic investigation of brains and of grasping behavior in elephants. The analysis of sensory nerves suggests that elephants are extremely tactile animals. In elephants, trunk whisker length is lateralized as a result of heavily lateralized trunk behaviors. The elephant trunk tip appears to be represented by
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Distinguished Speaker Series Dario Floreano (EPFL), “Avian-Inspired Drones”
SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057In less than 20 years drones transitioned from research labs to the real world and had a major impact on inspection, security, rescue, logistics, and entertainment. However, today's drones do not match the agility, endurance, adaptability, and intelligence of birds. Birds are not only the masters of the sky but are also at ease on
