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IEEEICDL-EPIROB

2013

sponsored by:

The Third Joint IEEE International

Conference on Development and Learning

and on Epigenetic Robotics

Osaka City Central Public Hall,Osaka, JapanAugust 18-22, 2013

Conference Booklet


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Welcome Address 1

Organization 2

Sponsors 4

Invited Speakers 5

Program 9

Venue 17

Getting there 21

Internet 22

Author List 23

Table of Contents


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Welcome Address

Welcome to the third IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on

Epigenetic Robotics in Osaka. The conference brings a diverse group of researchers across the

globe spanning computational, developmental, and brain sciences. While some of us are

concerned primarily with using computational simulations and embodied robotics as models ofdevelopment and learning processes in humans as part of a larger science of development that

includes behavioral and neuroscientific studies of humans from infancy to adulthood, others

emphasize the important role development may have in artificial agents regardless of how well

such systems model anything that occurs in human beings. Such developmental processes may

still be the best way to achieve intelligent, embodied agents, biological or not.

ICDL-EpiRob is organized with a single presentation track, designed to encourage cross-

disciplinary interaction and discussion. It features four keynote addresses from prominent

experts, 41 full papers and 13 short papers of which 21 oral and 33 poster presentations were

selected. In the spirit of the interdisciplinary nature of both ICDL and EpiRob, we ensured thateach paper was assigned to program committee members (meta-reviewers) and reviewers from

both natural intelligence and computational intelligence backgrounds. The reviews were careful,

extensive, and helpful to the authors, whatever the outcome of the review process. Final

decisions were made by the Program Chairs, based on the reviews and suggestions of the meta-

reviewers. Papers accepted for oral presentation were selected from a larger subset of the highest

ranks papers after the review to ensure broad coverage of the diverse topics represented at this

conference.

In addition, for the organizing and review, ICDL-EpiRob relied on the effort of a large number of

people. Publicity Co-Chairs Testuya Ogata and Gedeon Deak helped publicize the conference.Publication Co-Chairs Joschka Boedecker, Matthias Rolf and Lars Schillingmann assembled the

Proceedings USB stick and worked with IEEE to publish and archive your excellent work. Hiroki

Mori and Hisashi Ishihara worked hard on various local arrangements including creation and

updates of the conference webpage. Bridge Co-Chairs Minoru Asada, Giulio Sandini, and Linda

Smith facilitated communication across multiple disciplines and across the continents. We would

also like to thank the many anonymous people who contributed to the success of this conference.

Jun Tani, Program Chair,

Giorgio Metta, Program Chair,

Yukie Nagai, General Chair,Angelo Cangelosi, General Chair,

Chen Yu, General Chair


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Organization

Organization committee

General chairs:

Bridge chairs:

Program chairs:

Publicity chairs:

Publication chairs:

Local and Finance chairs:

Program Committee

Christian Balkenius, Lund University

TonyBelpaeme, University of Plymouth

Alexandre Bernardino, Istituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon

Luc Berthouze, University of Sussex

AnnaBorghi, University of Bologna

Kerstin Dautenhahn, University of Hertfordshire

Philippe Gaussier, University of Cergy Pontoise

Frank Guerin, Aberdeen University Serena Ivaldi, ISIR - CNRS & University Pierre et Marie Curie

Bruno Lara, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos

Mark Lee, University of Aberystwyth

Manuel Lopes, INRIA Bordeaux

Giorgio Metta, Italian Institute of Technology

Clayton Morrison, University of Arizona

Yukie Nagai, Osaka University

Lorenzo Natale, Italian Institute of Technology

Stefano Nolfi, CNR

Francesco Nori, Italian Institute of Technology Tim Oates, University of Maryland Baltimore County

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest

Erhan Oztop, Ozyegin University

Yukie Nagai, Osaka University

Angelo Cangelosi, Plymouth University

Chen Yu, Indiana University

Minoru Asada, Osaka University

Giulio Sandini, IIT

Linda Smith, Indiana University

Jun Tani, KAIST

Giorgio Metta, IIT

Tetsuya Ogata, Waseda University

Gedeon Deak, UCSD

Joschka Boedecker, University of Freiburg

Matthias Rolf, Osaka University

Lars Schillingmann, Osaka University

Hiroki Mori, Osaka University

Hisashi Ishihara, Osaka University


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Katharina Rohlfing, Bielefeld University

Erol Sahin, Middle East Technical University

Albert A. Salah, Boazii University

Brian Scassellati, Yale University

Matthew Schlesinger, Southern Illinois University

Jochen Triesch, FIAS

Hanako Yoshida, University of Houston

Zhengyou Zhang, Communication and Collaboration Systems Group, Microsoft Research

List of Reviewers

Adams, S.

Alex, P.

Altun, K.

Andry, P.

Balkenius, C.

Baxter, P. Belpaeme, T.

Berenson, D.

Bernardino, A.

Berthouze, L.

Beuls, K.

Borghi, A.

Bryson, J.

Burling, J.M.

Caligiore, D.

Cangelosi, A. Caruana, F.

Cederborg, T.

Celikkanat, H.

Cheng, G.

Ciliberto, C.

Connolly, C.

Crick, C.

Da Rold, F.

Dani, S.

Dautenhahn, K. Dawson, C.R.

de Greeff, J.

Prete, A.

Demiris, Y.

Droniou, A.

Duran, B.

Fanello, S.

Fasel, I.

Feil-Seifer, D.

Foerster, F. Gardiner, B.

Gaspers, J.

Gaussier, P.

Gerbella, M.

Gogate, L.

Gordon, G.

Gori, I.

Grizou, J.

Grosjean, M. Grupen, R.

Guerin, F.

Hart, S.

Hart, J.

Hermosillo, J.

Hove, M.

Howard, I.

Ishihara, H.

Ivaldi, S.

Johansson, B. Kalkan, S.

Kirtay, M.

Klein, M.

Kober, J.

Kose, H.

Kkylmaz, A.

Kuniyoshi, Y.

Lara, B.

Lee, M.

Leyzberg, D. Lopes, M.

Lopez-Juarez, I.

Lyons, J.

Madden, C.

Mancas, M.

Martius, G.

Mathias, Q.

Metta, G.

Mori, H.

Morlino, G. Morrison, C.

Mostafaoui, G.

Moulin-Frier, C.

Movellan, J.

Nagai, Y.

Natale, L.

Nguyen, M.

Nolfi, S.

Nori, F. Noris, B.

O'Reagan, K.

Oates, T.

Ogata, T.

Oudeyer, P-Y.

Oztop, E.

Pastra, K.

Pauw, S.

Pezzulo, G.

Rea, F. Rebguns, A.

Rohlfing, K.

Rolf, M.

Rossano, F.

Rucinski, M.

Saez, J.

Sahin, E.

Salah, A.A.

Salvi, G.

Sandini, G. Santucci, V.

Saunders, J.

Scassellati, B.

Schilling, M.

Schillingmann, L.

Schlesinger, M.

Schmill, M.

Sen, S.

Sigaud, O.

Sirois, S. Solveig Lohan, K.

Stoytchev, A.

Stramandinoli, F.


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Thill, S.

Tikhanoff, V.

Toussaint, M.

Tran, A.X.

Triesch, J.

Ugur, E.

Sponsors & Supporters

Thanks to the following institutions and companies for their generous support of IEEE ICDL-

EpiRob 2013 in Osaka:

von Hofsten, C.

Walters, M.L.

Weng, J.

Westermann, G.

Wrede, B.

Wright, J.B.

Wykowska, A.

Yoshida, H.

Yu, C.

Ycel, Z.

Zamani, M.A.

Zhang, Z.

Our thanks also go to the following supporters of the conference:


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Invited Speakers

Anne Fernald, Stanford University, USA

"Cultural variability in adult speech to children: How does it matter?"

Abstract

Research on the early development of cognitive and language capacities has focused almost

exclusively on infants from middle-class families in affluent countries in the U.S., Europe, and

Asia. As a consequence, broad conclusions about what infants know and how parents behave

are typically based on small selective samples of the worlds children, ignoring millions of

children in less affluent countries who fail to achieve their developmental potential. These

studies also typically exclude children growing up in poverty within industrialized societies

whose language growth is also compromised, in part because they experience less cognitive

stimulation in the first years of life. In this presentation we focus on characteristics and

consequences of child-directed-speech (CDS) in different cultures, also exploring variability in

CDS related to differences in socio-economic status (SES) among families within the U.S. In our

longitudinal research on the early development of efficiency in language understanding, we find

robust relations between verbal processing speed in infancy and long-term language outcomes.

However, we also find that significant disparities in vocabulary and language processing

efficiency are already evident at 18 months between infants from higher- and lower-SES families,

and by 24 months there is a 6- month gap between SES groups in processing skills critical to

language development. What accounts for such striking differences among children in their early

language growth? Observational studies have shown that the sheer amount and quality of

caregivers verbal engagement with infants and toddlers are linked to later cognitive and non-

cognitive outcomes and school success. We present new experimental research exploring the

mechanisms that underlie these powerful effects of early experience on language learning, with

the goal of examining their origins, consequences, and social policy implications. By examining

variability in speech to children both between and within diverse cultural groups, we can gain

deeper insight into the potentially powerful contributions of environmental support to the

ontogeny of cognitive and language abilities.

Short biography

Anne Fernald, Ph.D. is the Josephine Knotts Knowles Professor of Human Biology at Stanford

University. As director of the Language Learning Lab in the Department of Psychology, she

conducts experimental studies of language processing by young children, as well as observational

studies of parent-infant interaction. Fernald has developed high-resolution measures of the time

course of infants understanding as they learn to interpret language from moment to moment. In

longitudinal studies with English- and Spanish-learning children from advantaged and

disadvantaged families, this research reveals the vital role of early language experience in

strengthening speech processing efficiency, which in turn faciliates language learning. Fernald is

also conducting research in West Africa, examining speech to children in relation to childrens

language learning in rural villages in Senegal. A central goal of this research program is to help

parents understand that they play a crucial role in providing their infant with early linguistic

nutrition and language exercise.


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Herbert Jaeger, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany

"Shaping concepts in the dynamics of recurrent neural networks"

Abstract

Humans can process concepts. They can learn, store and retrieve discrete memory items, connect

them by logical operations, classify sensor input in terms of categories, attach symbolic labels to

represented items, and carry out so many more fascinating "high-level" information processingoperations. Humans do this with their brains, and these brains are dynamical systems of

supreme complexity nonlinear, high-dimensional, stochastic, multiscale, adaptive all in one.

Since decades this has fuelled a scientific quest to understand how neurodynamical systems can

support conceptual information processing. This question has been approached from many

angles, using a wealth of methods and levels of description and analysis. In my talk I will outline

yet another approach to model how conceptual information processing can arise in the dynamics

of recurrent neural networks. The core of this approach is to employ certain linear operators,

called conceptors, which constrain the evolving dynamics of a recurrent neural network. These

operators can be identified with "concepts" represented in the ongoing neural dynamics.

Conceptors can be morphed and combined with Boolean operations. This endows recurrentneural networks with mechanisms to store and retrieve, generate, logically combine, morph,

abstract and focus dynamical patterns. I will give an intuitive introduction to the formal theory of

conceptor dynamics, and present a set of exemplary simulation studies.

Short biography

Herbert Jaeger studied mathematics and psychology at the University of Freiburg, and obtained

his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Bielefeld. After a 5-year postdoctoral fellowship

at the German National Research Center for Computer Science (Sankt Augustin, Germany) he

headed the "Intelligent Dynamical Systems" group at the Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous

Intelligent Systems AIS (Sankt Augustin, Germany; now Fraunhofer IAIS). Since 2003 he is

Associate Professor for Computational Science at Jacobs University Bremen. His research is

concerned with the modelling of complex, nonlinear, stochastic systems with applications in

machine learning, engineering, and robotics.


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Yasuo Kuniyoshi, The University of Tokyo, Japan

"Simulating Human Fetal Development"

Abstract

Development is a continuous bootstrap process of complex interaction between genes, body,

nervous system and environment. Therefore investigating the global structure of the process

from the beginning is crucial for understanding the fundamental principles of humandevelopment. With the advent of 4D ultrasound imaging and fetal MRI, a burst of data has

been accumulating about human fetal development. Also, increasing number of reports suggest

that perturbation of fetal development may be relevant to later developmental disorders.

Besides, compared to infants/toddlers in extremely complex environment, fetuses may allow

more principled way of modeling. We constructed a simulation model of a human fetus. It

consists of a musculo- skeletal body, uterus, and basic nervous system. It exhibits spontaneous

motor development and sensory-motor map organization comparable to human data. Also, by

changing the model parameters, we can simulate abnormal development. In 2012, we started a

project called Constructive Developmental Science, collaboration by roboticists, psychologists,

medical scientists, and Tojisha, the researchers investigating own developmental disorders asinternal observers. The fetal development simulation serves as a platform for integrating the

interdisciplinary data and experimenting on the effect of early genetic/environmental conditions

on the courses of development. The project aims at revealing the fundamental principles of

human development, in particular, how embodied sensory-motor processes relates to social

cognition, and new understanding of how developmental disorders emerge.

Short biography

Yasuo Kuniyoshi is a Professor at the Department of Mechano-Informatics, School of

Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Japan. He received B.E. in

applied physics, and M.Eng. and Ph.D. in information technology from the University of Tokyo

in 1985, 1988 and 1991, respectively. From 1991 to 2000, he was a Research Scientist and then a

Senior Research Scientist of Intelligent Systems Division, Electrotechnical Laboratory, AIST,

MITI, Japan. From 1996 to 1997 he was a Visiting Scholar at MIT AI Lab., being a member of

ZOO hosted by Prof. Rodney A. Brooks. In 2001, he joined the University of Tokyo as an

associate professor. Since 2005 he has been a Professor there. Since 2012 he has been serving as

Director of Social ICT Research Center, School of Information Science and Technology, The

University of Tokyo. Also since 2012, he has been jointly appointed as Director of RIKEN BSI-

Toyota Collaboration Center (BTCC). His research interests include constructive developmental

science, emergence and development of embodied cognition, and humanoid robotics. He is the

author of over 500 technical publications, editorials and books. He received Outstanding Paper

Award from International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Best Paper Awards from

Robotics Society of Japan, Sato Memorial Award for Intelligent Robotics Research, Okawa

Publication Prize, Gold Medal of Tokyo Techno Forum21, and other awards. He is a member of

IEEE, Science Council of Japan (affiliate member), Robotics Society of Japan (Fellow), Japan

Society for Artificial Intelligence, Japanese Society of Baby Science, and other societies.


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Ichiro Tsuda, Research Institute for Electronic Science Hokkaido University,Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

"Classes of Mathematical Modeling for Brain Dynamics"

Abstract

We report 10 classes of mathematical modeling from neurons to a society of brains. Various

mathematical models at hierarchical levels of function from a single neuron to a society of brains,namely, a level of communication have been proposed so far in the field of cognitive

neuroscience. However, no clear classification of such mathematical models has been made. To

clarify the functional significance of the mathematical models at each level, we present typical

models for each class. Although our present classification may not be sufficient, and the

examples provided may be limited, as they do not cover all important contributions, the

importance of mathematical modeling in complex brain dynamics and neural correlates of

functions will be shown clearly. In particular, the following type of mathematical modeling is

challenging, as it may elucidate the mechanism of functional differentiation in the mammalian

cortex. From the viewpoint of systems development, it is important to investigate the manner in

which components emerge in a network system consisting of interacting units. In this respect, wereport two mathematical models: one treats the emergence of neuron-like components from

interacting maps, and the other addresses the emergence of hierarchical module-like

components from interacting neuron-like units. In both models, maximum transmission of

information was used as a variational principle. All mathematical models described in the

present talk will probably be useful for future studies in the field of developmental robotics.

Short biography

Ichiro Tsuda holds the position of Professor in the Research Institute for Electronic Science

(RIES) and is the director of Research Center for Integrative Mathematics of Hokkaido

University, as well as an invited professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering of Osaka

University. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of Complex Systems Institute at

Kalamazoo College, USA. He was a visiting professor at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science

and Technology (JAIST), and was the group leader of the Basic Design Group, National

Bioholonics Project of Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO), Research

Development Corporation of Japan (currently named JST). He has published widely in the field

of chaotic dynamical systems and brain sciences. His research interest is mathematical modeling

of higher brain function, including memory dynamics, thoughts, and inference processes, and

also numerical studies of chaotic dynamical systems. He constructed a one-dimensional map to

explain chaos and bifurcation structure in the BZ reaction sufficiently and found noise-induced

order in this model. He also constructed neural network models for dynamic associative memory

and for episodic memory based on physiological data concerning class I neurons and different

types of synapses. In the former, he found a new dynamical state, termed chaotic itinerancy (the

recent contribution is available in [1]) and proposed its dynamical interpretation in terms of a

Milnor attractor, and for the latter, he proposed a new coding scheme, termed Cantor coding, for

episodic memory formation.

[1] http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Chaotic_itinerary


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Program

Sunday, August 18 2013 - Tutorials and Special Sessions

9:00 Registration opens (Large meeting room)

Large Meeting Room (B1F 84) Exhibition Room(B1F 63)

9:30 - 10:50 Special Session 1:

Constructive Developmental Science: Two

Endeavors toward Understanding Human

Development

Yukie Nagai (Osaka University), Yasuo

Kuniyoshi (University of Tokyo), Minoru Asada(Osaka University)

9:30 - 10:50 Tutorial 1:

Introduction to Computational brain-mind

Juyang Weng (Michigan State

University)

10:50 Coffee break



Constructive Developmental Science: TwoEndeavors toward Understanding Human

Development

Yukie Nagai (Osaka University), Yasuo

Kuniyoshi (University of Tokyo), Minoru Asada

(Osaka University)

11:10 - 12:30 Tutorial 1:

Introduction to Computational brain-mind

Juyang Weng (Michigan State

University)

12:30 - 13:50 Lunch (not provided)



Training in Robotics for Development of

Cognition (RobotDoC)

Anna-Lisa Vollmer, Marek Rucinski (Plymouth

University), Cristiano Alessandro (Zurich

University), Nicholas Wilkinson (IIT), NicolasNavarro-Guerrero (Hamburg University),

Andrea Handl (Uppsala University)


Constructing empathy: An Interdisciplinary

Investigation

Luisa Damiano (University of Bergamo), Paul

Dumouchel (Ritsumeikan University), Hagen

Lehmann (University of Hertfordshire)


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Monday, August 19 2013

9:00 Registration (Special room, 3F)

9:30 Opening

9:50 - 10:50 Keynote 1:Herbert Jaeger

10:50 Coffee break

11:10 Attentional Constraints and Statistics in Toddlers' Word Learning

Sumarga Suanda (Indiana University), Seth Foster (Indiana University), Linda Smith

(Indiana University), Chen Yu (Indiana University)

11:30 Understanding Embodied Visual Attention in Child-Parent Interaction

Sven Bambach (Indiana University), David Crandall (Indiana University), Chen Yu

(Indiana University)

11:50 Do beliefs about a robot's capabilities influence alignment to its actions?

Anna-Lisa Vollmer (Plymouth University), Britta Wrede (Bielefeld University),Katharina Rohlfing (Bielefeld University), Angelo Cangelosi (Plymouth University)

12:10 Robot Learning Simultaneously a Task and How to Interpret Human Instructions

Jonathan Grizou (INRIA), Manuel Lopes (INRIA Bordeaux), Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

(INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest)

12:30 - 13:50 Lunch (not provided)

13:50 Salience-based reinforcement of a spiking neural network leads to increased

syllable productionAnne Warlaumont (University of California, Merc)


16:10 - 18:10 Tutorial 2:

Language Acquisition and the Influence of

Action Learning

Katrin Solveig Lohan (IIT), Katharina Rohlfing

(Bielefeld University), Angelo Cangelosi

(Plymouth University), Lars Schillingmann

(Osaka University), Giorgio Metta (IIT)

16:10 - 18:10 Tutorial 3:

Action-Perception Cycles: Neuro-Dynamic

Modeling and Robotics Experiments

Jun Tani (KAIST)

15:50 Coffee break


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Tuesday, August 20 2013

14:10 Learning Versatile Sensorimotor Coordination with Goal Babbling and Neural

Associative Dynamics

Felix Rene Reinhart (CoR-Lab, Bielefeld University), Matthias Rolf (CoR-Lab, Bielefeld

University)

14:30 Goal Babbling with Unknown Ranges: A Direction-Sampling Approach

Matthias Rolf (CoR-Lab, Bielefeld University)

14:50 Developing Learnability the Case for Reduced Dimensionality

Naveen Kuppuswamy (A.I Lab, University of Zrich), Christopher Harris (Plymouth

University)

15:10 Coffee break

15:30 Do humans need learning to read humanoid lifting actions?

Alessandra Sciutti (IIT), Laura Patan (Italian Institute of Technology), Francesco Nori

(Italian Institute of Technology), Giulio Sandini (IIT)

15:50 Exploration strategies in developmental robotics: a unified probabilistic framework

Clment Moulin-Frier (INRIA), Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest)

16:10 Learning Stable Pushing Locations

Tucker Hermans (Georgia Institute of Technolog), Fuxin Li (Georgia Institute of

Technology), James Rehg (Georgia Institute of Technology), Aaron Bobick (Georgia

Institute of Technology)

16:30 Coffee break

16:50 - 18:20Poster session 1 (with spotlights)

18:50 - 20:20 Banquet at the "Heian", 4th floor, ANA Crowne Plaza, Osaka


9:30 -10:30 Keynote 2: Anne Fernald

10:30 Coffee break

10:50 Epigenetic adaptation through hormone modulation in autonomous robots

John Lones (University of Hertfordshire), Lola Caamero (University of Hertfordshire)

11:10 Impacts of environment, nervous system and movements of preterms on body map

development: Fetus simulation with spiking neural network

Yasunori Yamada (The Univ. of Tokyo), Keiko Fujii (The Univ. of Tokyo), Yasuo Kuniyoshi

(The Univ. of Tokyo)


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11:30 Structural bootstrapping at the sensorimotor level for the fast acquisition of action

knowledge for cognitive robots

Eren Aksoy (Goettingen University), Minija Tamosiunaite, Rok Vuga, Ales Ude,

Christopher Geib, Mark Steedman, Florentin Woergoetter

11:50 Coffee break

12:10 Temporal Emphasis for Goal Extraction in Task Demonstration to a HumanoidRobot by Naive Users

Konstantinos Theofilis (University of Hertfordshire), Katrin Solveig Lohan, Kerstin

Dautenhahn (University of Hertfordshire), Britta Wrede (University of Bielefeld),

Chrystopher Nehaniv (University of Hertfordshire)

12:30 Estimating Dynamic Properties of Objects from Appearance

Walter Talbott (UC San Diego), Tingfan Wu (UCSD), Javier Movellan (UCSD)

12:50 -14:00 Lunch (not provided)

14:00 - 15:00 Keynote 3:Yasuo Kuniyoshi

15:00 Coffee break

15:20 A generative probabilistic framework for learning spatial language

Colin Dawson (University of Arizona), Jeremy Wright (University of Arizona), Antons

Rebguns (University of Arizona), Marco Valenzuela Escrcega (University of Arizona),

Daniel Fried (University of Arizona), Paul Cohen (University of Arizona)

15:40 Co-learning nouns and adjectivesGuner Orhan, Sertac Olgunsoylu, Erol Sahin, Sinan Kalkan (METU)

16:00 Grounded Lexicon Acquisition - Case Studies in Spatial Language

Michael Spranger (Sony CSL Paris)

16:20 Talk by Aldebaran

16:40 Coffee break

17:00 - 18:30Poster session 2 (with spotlights)

Wednesday, August 21 2013


9:30 - 10:30 Keynote 4: Ichiro Tsuda

10:30 Coffee break

10:50 Reinforcement Learning with State-Dependent Discount Factor

Naoto Yoshida (NAIST), Eiji Uchibe (OIST), Kenji Doya (OIST)


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Thursday, August 22 2013

11:10 Transfer Learning for Direct Policy Search: a Reward Shaping Approach

Stephane Doncieux (ISIR/UPMC-CNRS)

11:30 - 12:00 Closing & award ceremony (Small Assembly Hall)

13:00 - 17:00 AMDTC-ICDL GB meeting(Meeting Room No. 4, B1F 24)

Poster Session 1 (Monday, August 19, 16:50 - 18:20)

Lab-Tour at Osaka University

The following labs will be included in the tour:

1. Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, directed by Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro

2. Human Interface Laboratory, directed by Prof. Koh Hosoda

3. Emergent Robotics Laboratory, directed by Prof. Minoru Asada.

Please check the schedule on the conference webpage for detailed information about the tour.

Full papers with spotlight presentation

Mon-1 Learning to Reproduce Fluctuating Behavioral Sequences Using a Dynamic

Neural Network Model with Time-Varying Variance Estimation Mechanism

Shingo Murata (Waseda University), Jun Namikawa (RIKEN), Hiroaki Arie (Waseda

University), Jun Tani (KAIST), Shigeki Sugano (Waseda University)

Mon-2 An Enactive Approach to Autonomous Agent and Robot Learning

Olivier Georgeon (Universit de Lyon), Christian Wolf (Universit de Lyon), Simon

Gay (Universit de Lyon)

Mon-3 Learning the rules of a game: neural conditioning in human-robot interaction

with delayed rewards

Andrea Soltoggio (Bielefeld University), Felix Rene Reinhart (CoR-Lab, Bielefeld

University), Andre Lemme (Bielefeld University), Jochen Steil (Bielefeld University)

Mon-4 Predictive coding and self-organization for unsupervised development ofobject recognition skills

Alexander Gepperth (ENSTA ParisTech)

Mon-5 Emergence of Flexible Prediction-Based Discrete Decision Making and

Continuous Motion Generation through Actor-Q-Learning

Katsunari Shibata (Oita University), Kenta Goto

Mon-6 Learning to recognize objects through curiosity-driven manipulation

Serena Ivaldi (ISIR - CNRS & University Pierre et Marie Curie), Alain Droniou

(ISIR-UMR7222CNRS&UPMC),OlivierSigaud(ISIR-UMR7222CNRS&UPMC), Vincent Padois (ISIR - UMR 7222 CNRS & UPMC), David Filliat (ENSTA -

ParisTech), Natalia Lyubova (ENSTA - ParisTech), Damien Gerardeaux,

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest), Mai Nguyen (INRIA)


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Mon-7 Towards a robotic model of the mirror neuron system

Kristna Rebrov (Comenius University SR), Matej Pech(Comenius University in

Bratislava), Igor Farka(Comenius University in Bratislava)

Mon-8 Autonomous learning of active multi-scale binocular vision

Luca Lonini (FIAS - Goethe University), Yu Zhao (Hong Kong University of Science

And Technology), Pramod Chandrashekhariah (FIAS - Goethe University), Bertram

Shi (Hong Kong University of Science And Technology), Jochen Triesch (FIAS)

Mon-9 Aquila 2.0 - Software Architecture for Cognitive Robotics

Martin Peniak (Plymouth University), Anthony Morse (University of Plymouth),

Angelo Cangelosi (Plymouth University)

Mon-10 Building Specific Contexts for On-line Learning of Dynamical Tasks through

Non-verbal Interaction

Antoine De Rengerve (ETIS), Souheil Hanoune (ETIS), Pierre Andry (ETIS), Quoy

Mathias (ETIS Lab), Philippe Gaussier (University of Cergy Pontoise)

Abstracts and short papers

Mon-11 Grounding Abstract Action Words through the Hierarchical Organization of

Motor Primitives

Francesca Stramandinoli (Plymouth University), Davide Marocco, Angelo

Cangelosi (Plymouth University)

Mon-12 The Significance of Social Input, Early Motion Experiences, and Attentional

Selection

Joseph Burling (University of Houston), Hanako Yoshida (University of Houston),Yukie Nagai (Osaka University)

Mon-13 Intrinsically Motivated Reinforcement Learning in Socio-Economic Systems:

the Dynamical Analysis

Arkady Zgonnikov (University of Aizu), Ihor Lubashevsky (University of Aizu)

Mon-14 Explaining Neonate Facial Imitation from the Sensory Alignment in the

Superior Colliculus

Alex Pitti (ETIS Lab, Univ. of Cergy), Yasuo Kuniyoshi (University of Tokyo), Quoy

Mathias (ETIS Lab), Philippe Gaussier (University of Cergy Pontoise)

Mon-15 Adaptive Reachability Assessment in the Humanoid Robot iCub

Salomon Ramirez-Contla (Plymouth University), Davide Marocco

Mon-16 Extracting image features in static images for depth estimation

Masaki Ogino (Kansai University), Junji Suzuki (Osaka University), Minoru Asada

(Osaka University)

Mon-17 Continuous Adaptive Reinforcement Learning with the Evolution of Self

Organizing Classifiers

Danilo Vargas (Kyushu University), Hirotaka Takano, Junichi Murata


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Poster Session 2 (Tuesday, August 20, 17:00 - 18:30)

Full papers with spotlight presentation

Tue-1 Action Understanding using an Adaptive Liquid State Machine based on

Environmental Ambiguity

Jimmy Baraglia, Yukie Nagai (Osaka University), Minoru Asada (Osaka University)

Tue-2 Tactile stimuli from amniotic fluid guides the development of somatosensory

cortex with hierarchical structure using human fetus simulation

Ryosuke Sasaki (University of Tokyo), Yasunori Yamada (University of Tokyo),

Yuki Tsukahara (University of Tokyo), Yasuo Kuniyoshi (University of Tokyo)

Tue-3 Autonomous Reuse of Motor Exploration Trajectories

Fabien Benureau (Inria), Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest)

Tue-4 Touch and Emotion: Modeling of developmental differentiation of emotionlead by tactile dominance

Takato Horii (Osaka University), Yukie Nagai (Osaka University), Minoru Asada

(Osaka University)

Tue-5 Improving Implicit Communication In Mixed Human-Robot Teams With Social

Force Detection

Bradley Hayes (Yale University), Brian Scassellati (Yale University)

Tue-6 Learning Semantic Components from Subsymbolic Multimodal Perception

Olivier Mangin (INRIA), Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest)

Tue-7 A Robot to Study the Development of Artwork Appreciation Through Social

Interactions.

Ali Karaouzene (ETIS), Philippe Gaussier (University of Cergy Pontoise), Denis

Vidal (IRD - URMIS - Paris Diderot)

Tue-8 Intuitive Human Robot Interaction based on unintentional synchrony: a

psycho-experimental study

Syed-Khursheed Hasnain, Ghiles Mostafaoui (ETIS), Robin Salesse, Ludovic

Marin, Philippe Gaussier (University of Cergy Pontoise)

Tue-9 Autonomous Learning of Domain Models using Two-Dimensional Probability

Distributions

Witold Sowiski (University of Aberdeen), Frank Guerin (Aberdeen University)

Tue-10 Frustration as a way toward autonomy and self-improvement in robotic

navigation.

Adrien Jauffret (ETIS Laboratory), Marwen Belkaid (ETIS), Nicolas Cuperlier

(ETIS), Philippe Gaussier (University of Cergy Pontoise), Philippe Tarroux (LIMSI)


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Abstracts and short papers

Tue-11 Development of self-monitoring essential for vocal interactions in marmoset

monkeys

Daniel Takahashi (Princeton University), Darshana Narayanan (Princeton

University), Asif Ghazanfar (Princeton University)

Tue-12 Towards understanding the origin of infant directed speech: A vocal robotwith infant-like articulation

Yuki Sasamoto (Osaka Univ.), Naoto Nishijima (Osaka University), Minoru Asada

(Osaka University)

Tue-13 Dynamic shift in isolating referents: From social to self-generated input

Hanako Yoshida (University of Houston), Joseph Burling (University of Houston)

Tue-14 Autonomous Learning Based on Depth Perception and Behavior Generation

Sungmoon Jeong (JAIST, Kyungpook National University), Yunjung Park

(Kyungpook National University), Minho Lee (Kyungpook National University)

Tue-15 Learning Spatial Relations between Objects From 3D Scenes

Severin Fichtl (Uni Aberdeen), Frank Guerin (Aberdeen University), Norbert

Krueger (SDU), John Alexander (Uni of Aberdeen), Mustafa Wail (Southern

Denmark University), Dirk Kraft (Southern Denmark University)

Tue-16 Combining Synchrony and shape detection to sustain the robot focus of

attention on a selected human partner

Caroline Grand, Ghiles Mostafaoui (ETIS), Syed-Khursheed Hasnain, Philippe

Gaussier (University of Cergy Pontoise)


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Venue

The conference will be held at Osaka City Central Public Hall, Osaka, Japan, which is well known

as elegant Neo-Renaissance architecture with red brick wall and dome-shaped bronze roof built

in 1918. The venue is located about one and a half hours from Kansai International Airport by

train.

Osaka City Central Public Hall

Address: 1-1-27 Nakanoshima,Kita-ku,Osaka

Phone: +81-6-6208-2002

http://osaka-chuokokaido.jp/english/index.html

Different views of the conference venue:


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Getting there

From JR Osaka station

Take the Subway Midosuji Line from Umeda station to Yodoyabashi station and leave the station

at exit #1 (Time: 2 min.; Cost: JPY200). Walk 5 min., see Walk Route.

Or take a taxi (Time: approx. 10 min.; Cost: JPY800)

From JR Shin-Osaka station

Take the Subway Midosuiji Line to Yodoyanbashi station (Time: 9min.; Cost: JPY230)

From Osaka (Itami) Airport

Take the Osaka Monorail to Senri-chuo station, there change to the Midosuji Line (Total time: 44

min.; Cost: JPY710)

Or take the Airport Limousine Bus to the Hotel New Hankyu, which is close to the JR Osaka

station (Time: 35min.; Cost: JPY620), see Timetable.

From Kansai International Airport

Take the Airport Limousine Bus to the Hotel New Hankyu, which is close to the JR Osaka station

(Time: 60min.; Cost: JPY1500), see Timetable.

Or take the JR Kansai Airport Rapid Service to JR Osaka station (Time: 70min.; Cost: JPY1160).

Or you can change the train to the Subway Midosuji Line at Tennoji.


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Internet

Please ask the local conference staff for a ticket with information on how to access the internet at

the conference venue.

Food


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Author List

Aksoy, E. 12

Alexander, J. 16

Andry, P. 14

Arie, H. 13

Asada, M. 14, 15, 16

Bambach, S. 10

Baraglia, J. 15

Belkaid, M. 15

Benureau, F. 15

Bobick, A. 11

Burling, J. 14, 16

Cangelosi, A. 10, 14

Caamero, L. 11

Chandrashekhariah, P. 14

Cohen, P. 12

Crandall, D. 10

Cuperlier, N. 15

Dautenhahn, K. 12

Dawson, C. 12

De Rengerve, A. 14

Doncieux, S. 13

Doya, K. 12

Droniou, A. 13

Escrcega, M. V. 12

Farka, I. 14

Fichtl, S. 16

Filliat, D. 13

Foster, S. 10

Fried, D. 12

Fujii, K. 11, 15

Gaussier, P. 14, 15, 16

Gay, S. 13

Geib, C. 12

Georgeon, O. 13

Gepperth, A. 13

Gerardeaux, D. 13

Ghazanfar, A. 16

Goto, K. 13

Grand, C. 16

Grizou, J. 10

Guerin, F. 15, 16

Hanoune, S. 14

Harris, C. 11

Hasnain, S.-K. 15, 16

Hayes, B. 15

Hermans, T. 11

Horii, T. 15

Ivaldi, S. 13

Jauffret, A. 15

Jeong, S. 16

Kalkan, S. 12

Karaouzene, A. 15

Kraft, D. 16

Krueger, N. 16

Kuniyoshi, Y. 11, 14, 15

Kuppuswamy, N. 11

Lee, M. 16

Lemme, A. 13

Li, F. 11

Lones, J. 11

Lonini, L. 14

Lopes, M. 10

Lubashevsky, I. 14

Lyubova, N. 13

Mangin, O. 15

Marin, L. 15

Marocco, D. 14

Mathias, Q. 14

Morse, A. 14

Mostafaoui, G. 15, 16

Moulin-Frier, C. 11

Movellan, J. 12

Murata, J. 14

Murata, S. 13

Nagai, Y. 14, 15

Namikawa, J. 13

Narayanan, D. 16

Nehaniv, C. 12

Nguyen, M. 13

Nishijima, N. 16

Nori, F. 11

Ogino, M. 14

Olgunsoylu, S. 12

Orhan, G. 12

Oudeyer, P.-Y. 10, 11, 13, 15

Padois, V. 13

Park, Y. 16

Patan, L. 11

Pech, M. 14

Peniak, M. 14

Pitti, A. 14

Ramirez-Contla, S. 14

Rebguns, A. 12

Rebrov, K. 14

Rehg, J. 11

Reinhart, F. R. 11, 13

Rohlfing, K. 10

Rolf, M. 11

Sahin, E. 12

Salesse, R. 15

Sandini, G. 11

Sasaki, R. 15

Sasamoto, Y. 16

Scassellati, B. 15

Sciutti, A. 11

Shi, B. 14

Shibata, K. 13

Sigaud, O. 13

Smith, L. 10

Soltoggio, A. 13

Solveig Lohan, K. 12

Spranger, M. 12

Steedman, M. 12

Steil, J. 13

Stramandinoli, F. 14

Suanda, S. 10

Sugano, S. 13

Suzuki, J. 14

Sowiski, W. 15

Takahashi, D. 16

Takano, H. 14

Talbott, W. 12

Tamosiunaite, M. 12

Tani, J. 13

Tarroux, P. 15

Theofilis, K. 12

Triesch, J. 14

Tsukahara, Y. 15

Uchibe, E. 12

Ude, A. 12

Vargas, D. 14

Vidal, D. 15

Vollmer, A.-L. 10

Vuga, R. 12

Wail, M. 16

Warlaumont, A. 10

Woergoetter, F. 12

Wolf, C. 13

Wrede, B. 10, 12

Wright, J. 12

Wu, T. 12

Yamada, Y. 11, 15

Yoshida, H. 14, 16

Yoshida, N. 12

Yu, C. 10

Zgonnikov, A. 14

Zhao, Y. 14


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Documents

ICDL-EpiRob-2013-Booklet.pdf