Journal Club

This page lists the talks of the joint CML journal club in Hamburg and Beijing.

Summer Semester 2021

Note: due to the prolonged Corona virus measures, meetings will again take place as online Zoom meetings until further notice:

• Wednesday, June 9, 2021 at 13:00 (Hamburg) CEST, 20:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  We will discuss a paper proposed by Phliipp Ruppel (A4 project):

  Arild Nøkland
  Direct Feedback Alignment Provides Learning in Deep Neural Networks
  preprint https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.01596.pdf

Winter Semester 2020/20201

Note: due to the prolonged Corona virus measures, all meetings will again take place as online Zoom meetings this semester.

• Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021 at 13:00 (Hamburg) CEST, 20:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  We will discuss a paper proposed by Ge Gao (A6 project):

  Zhibo Yang, Lihan Huang, Yupei Chen, Zijun Wei, Seoyoung Ahn, Gregory Zelinsky, Dimitris Samaras, Minh Hoai (2020).
  Predicting Goal-directed Human Attention Using Inverse Reinforcement Learning
  preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14310

• Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021 at 13:00 (Hamburg) CEST, 20:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  We will discuss a paper proposed by Carina Bauer (B3 project):

  Shen, G., Horikawa, T., Majima, K. and Kamitani, Y., (2019).
  Deep image reconstruction from human brain activity.
  PLoS computational biology, 15(1), p.e1006633.

• Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021 at 13:00 (Hamburg) CEST, 20:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  We will discuss a paper proposed by Judith Hartfill (C8 project):

  Fribourg, R., Argelaguet, F., Lécuyer, A., & Hoyet, L. (2020).
  Avatar and sense of embodiment: Studying the relative preference between appearance, control and point of view. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 26(5), 2062-2072.
  10.1109/TVCG.2020.2973077

• Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021 at 13:00 (Hamburg) CEST, 20:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  We will discuss a paper proposed by Sina Storm (A1 project):

  Meike Scheller, Sara Garcia, Joe Bathelt, Michelle de Haan, Karin Petrini (2019).
  Active touch facilitates object size perception in children but not adults: A multisensory event related potential study
  10.1016/j.brainres.2019.146381

• Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020 at 13:00 (Hamburg) CEST, 20:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  We will discuss a paper proposed by Fares Abawi (A5 project):

  Manuel Blum, Lenore Blum (2020).
  A Theoretical Computer Science Perspective on Consciousness
  https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.09850.pdf

• Wednesday, Dec. 02, 2020 at 13:00 (Hamburg) CEST, 20:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  We will discuss a paper proposed by Lin Cong (B5 project):

  Jemin Hwangbo, Joonho Lee, Alexey Dosovitskiy, Dario Bellicoso, Vassilios Tsounis, Vladlen Koltun, Marco Hutte (2020).
  Learning agile and dynamic motor skills for legged robots
  Science Robotics, Vol.4, Issue 26, eaau5872, DOI 10.1126/scirobotics.aau5872>

• Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020 at 13:00 (Hamburg) CEST, 20:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  We will discuss a paper proposed by Hongzhuo Liang (B5 project):

  Bohan Wu, Iretiayo Akinola, Jacob Varley, Peter K. Allen (2019).
  MAT: Multi-Fingered Adaptive Tactile Grasping via Deep Reinforcement Learning
  arXiv: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.04787.pdf

Summer Semester 2020

Note: due to the Corona virus measures, all meetings will take place as online Zoom meetings this semester.

• Wednesday, 16 September 2020, 13:00 (Hamburg), 19:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  We will discuss a paper proposed by Ziwei Chen (CAS):

  Henderson, J.M., Hayes, T.R. (2017).
  Meaning-based guidance of attention in scenes as revealed by meaning maps.
  Nat Hum Behav 1, 743–747 (2017). doi.org/10.1038/s41562-017-0208-0

• Wednesday, 26 August 2020, 13:00 (Hamburg), 20:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  We will discuss a preprint proposed by Shuang Li:

  Lin Shao, Toki Migimatsu, Qiang Zhang, Kaiyuan Yang, Jeannette Bohg (2020).
  Concept2Robot: Learning Manipulation Concepts from Instructions and Human Demonstrations
  Paper, Video.

• Wednesday, 5 August 2020, 13:00 (Hamburg), 20:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  Wednesday, 12 August 2020, 13:00 (Hamburg), 20:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  We will discuss a preprint proposed by Julius Richter:

  Vincent Sitzmann*, Julien N. P. Martel*, Alexander Bergman, David B. Lindell, Gordon Wetzstein (2020).
  Implicit Neural Representations with Periodic Activation Functions
  Preprint: Arxiv 2006.09661, Code/Demo: Siren github.
  

• Wednesday, 15 July 2020, 13:00 (Hamburg), 21:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  We will discuss a comprehensive review proposed by Özge Alacam:

  T. Baltrušaitis, C. Ahuja and L. Morency. (2019).
  Multimodal Machine Learning: A Survey and Taxonomy.
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 423-443, 1 Feb. 2019.
  doi: 10.1109/TPAMI.2018.2798607

• Wednesday, 1 July 2020, 13:00 (Hamburg), 21:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  This week's paper was proposed by Carina Bauer from Institute of Systems Neuroscience, UKE:

  Karla K Evans, Anne Treisman. (2010).
  Natural Cross-Modal Mappings Between Visual and Auditory Features.
  Journal of Vision, 2010, 10(1):6.1-12.

• Wednesday, 17 June 2020, 13:00 (Hamburg), 21:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  This week's paper was selected by Xintong Wang from Language Technology Group:

  Yusuf Aytar, Carl Vondrick, Antonio Torralba. (2017).
  See, Hear, and Read: Deep Aligned Representations.
  Arxiv 1706.00932

• Wednesday, 27 May 2020, 13:00 (Hamburg), 21:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  This week's paper was selected by Fares Abawi. The authors investigate the applicability of audio cues in conjunction with visual ones in predicting saliency maps using deep neural networks.

  Hamed R. Tavakoli, Ali Borji, Esa Rahtu, Juho Kannala. (2019).
  DAVE: Deep Audio-Visual Embedding for Dynamic Saliency Prediction.
  Arxiv 1905.10693

• Wednesday, 13 May 2020, 13:00 (Hamburg), 21:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  This week's paper about attention and EEG was selected by Cora Kubetschek:

  Toshihiro Kumagai and Hiroaki Mizuhara (2016).
  Top-down and bottom-up attention cause the ventriloquism effect with distinct electroencephalography modulations.
  NeuroReport 27:647-651 (2016).

• Wednesday, 29 April 2020, 13:00, Zoom meeting
  

  This week's paper about vision and touch, using deep networks and reinforcement learning, was proposed by Michael Görner:

  Michelle A. Lee, Yuke Zhu, Peter Zachares, Matthew Tan, Krishnan Srinivasan, Silvio Savarese, Li Fei-Fei, Animesh Garg, Jeannette Bohg (2019).
  Making Sense of Vision and Touch: Learning Multimodal Representations for Contact-Rich Tasks.
  Arxiv 1907.04975, 2019.

• Wednesday, 8 April 2020, 14:00 (Hamburg) 20:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting.

  This week's paper about audio-visual speech was proposed by Hongzhuo Liang:

  Triantafyllos Afouras, Joon Son Chung, Andrew Zisserman (2019).
  My lips are concealed: Audio-visual speech enhancement through obstructions.
  Arxiv 907.04975, 2019.

Previous Semesters (CML Phase 1)

Please see here for an archive of the Journal Club in Phase 1 of the project.