Research Projects – Science of Intelligence

Research Projects

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Research Unit 1: Synthesizing the principles of intelligence

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Object-level scene descriptions and attention in visual search

©SCIoI/Felix Noak

Capabilities and consequences of recursive, hierarchical information processing in visual systems

Photo by Katharina Hohlbaum

Mouse Lock Box

Copyright Felix Noak

Intelligent kinematic problem solving

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From understanding learners’ adaptive motivation and emotion to designing social learning companions

Photo by Franziska Süß

Knowledge-augmented face perception

Copyright Olga Wudarczyk

Multimodal Interaction and Communication

Copyright Felix Noak

Anticipation, Prediction and Behavioral Reliability in Social Interactions

Courtesy of Fritz Francisco

Dynamical Collective Adaptation & Learning

A swarm of Golden Shiners. Photo: Sean Fogenburg

Learning of intelligent swarm behavior

Photo by David Bierbach

Developing exploration behavior

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The collective dynamics underlying personal and social information integration

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Ecologically rational strategy selection

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Control models of perceptual stability in active observers

© SCIoI

Understanding learning of mice in social interaction

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Speed-accuracy tradeoffs in distributed collective decision making

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Analyzing human physical reasoning and strategy exploration on physical puzzles

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Social responsiveness and its effects on learning in human-human and human-robot interaction

Photo by Rodrigo Friscione

Shepherding Behaviour in Predator-Prey Interactions

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Weighing personal and social information in cooperative problem solving

Big Mouse Data

Self-Organised Criticality in Animal Collectives

Behavioral contagion in human and artificial multi-agent systems

Mouse Lock Box 2

Parrobots II

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Adaptivity in Learner-Teacher Interaction

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Navigating the explore-exploit trade off in collective search

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Evolution of Collective Cognition Through Individual-Level Selection

Research Unit 2 -- The principles of intelligence

Copyright Felix Noak

Architectural design principles for intelligence: Modularity vs Integrity

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Differentiable Interconnected Recursive Estimation as a Principle of Intelligence

Research Unit 3 -- Advancing the synthetic components of intelligence

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Efficient multi-task deep learning

Copyright Felix Noak

Dexterous and Sensorized Robotic Hands

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Learning to manipulate from demonstration (to escape from a room)

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Hierarchical modularized vision system for perception-action loops

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Active tracking using bioinspired event-based vision – Towards improving interpretability of individual and collective behavior

Courtesy of Marc Toussaint

Physical manipulation planning with differentiable closed-loop manipulation primitives

Efficient Model Learning from Data with Partially Incorrect Labels

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Active tracking using bioinspired event-based vision – Towards improving interpretability of individual and collective behavior

Courtesy of Marc Toussaint

Physical manipulation planning with differentiable closed-loop manipulation primitives

Research Unit 4 -- Sociological and philosopical framing

© scioi

Etami

Copyright Felix Noak

Methodology of the synthetic approach

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Ethics of intelligence

Concept of intelligence