Publications - Invited talks page

Pastra K. and Aloimonos Y. (in press), "The Minimalist Grammar of Action", Proc. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.

Mishra A. and Aloimonos Y. (forthcoming), "Visual Segmentation of "Simple" Objects for Robots", submitted to Robotics and Systems Science, 2011.

Mishra A. and Aloimonos Y. (forthcoming), "Segmentation of Moving Objects using Cue Integration", submitted to ICCV 2011.

Yu X., Lik C. T., Yang Y., Fermuller C., Aloimonos Y. (forthcoming), "Active Scene Recognition with Vision and Language", submitted to ICCV 2011.

Clerget E., Poncet W., Fadiga L. and Olivier E. (2011), "Role of Broca’s area in implicit motor skill learning: evidence from continuous theta-burst magnetic stimulation", Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, under review.

Craighero L., Leo I., Umiltà C. and Simion F. (in press), "Newborns' preference for goal-directed actions", Cognition. In press

D’Ausilio A., Craighero L. and Fadiga L. (in press) "The contribution of the frontal lobe to the perception of speech and language", J Neurolinguistics. In press.

D’Ausilio A., Bufalari I., Salmas P., Busan P. and Fadiga L (in press)"Vocal pitch discrimination in the motor system", Brain & Lang. In Press

Senot P., D’Ausilio A., Franca M., Caselli L., Craighero L. and Fadiga L. (in press), "Effect of weight-related labels on corticospinal excitability during observation of grasping: a TMS study", Experimental Brain Research, in press.

Pastra K., Balta E., Dimitrakis P., Mpandavanou E. and Lada M.(2010), "Image-Language Dialectics in Greek Caricatures", Monograph, I. Latsis Foundation, Research Studies 2009 (in Greek).

Pastra K. (2010), "From Lexicon to PRAXICON: language-action-image semantic relations", in K. Potagas and I. Evdokimidis (eds), Conversations on Language and Action, Aiginiteion Series, pp. 143-172,Synapseis Publishers, ISBN:9789606723117 (in Greek).

Pastra K., Dimitrakis P., Balta E. and Karakatsiotis G. (2010), "PRAXICON and its language-related modules", in Proceedings of Companion Volume of the 6th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SETN), pp. 27-32, Athens, Greece.

Pastra K., Wallraven C., Schultze M., Vatakis A. and Kaulard K. (2010), "The POETICON corpus: Capturing language use and sensorimotor experience in everyday interaction", in Proceedings of the 7th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Valletta, Malta.

Pastra K. (2010), "PRAXICON: a grounded, compositional & generative concept world", in proceedings of the poster session of the 4th International Conference in Cognitive Systems (CogSys), ETH, Zurich, Switzerland.

Bitsakos K., Fermuller C. and Aloimonos Y (2010), "An Experimental Study of Color-Based Segmentation Algorithms Based on the Mean-Shift Concept", ECCV (2) 2010: 506-519.

Summerstay D. and Aloimonos Y. (2010), "Learning to recognize with anisotropic kernels", Proc. BICA (Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures) Workshop 2010, Arlington, VA, November 2010.

Li Y., Fermuller C., Aloimonos Y and Ji H. (2010), "Learning shift-invariant sparse representation of actions", CVPR 2010, 2630-2637.

Yu X. and Aloimonos Y (2010), "Attribute-Based Transfer Learning for Object Categorization with Zero/One Training Example", ECCV (5) 2010: 127-140.

Wallraven C., Schultze M., Mohler B., Volkova E., Alexandrova I., Vatakis A. and Pastra K. (2010), "Understanding Objects and Actions - A VR Experiment", Joint Virtual Reality Conference of EuroVR - EGVE - VEC (2010).

Alaerts K., Senot P., Swinnen P. S., Craighero L.,2, Wenderoth N. and Fadiga L. (2010), "Force requirements of observed object lifting are encoded by the observer’s motor system: a TMS study", European Journal of Neuroscience, pp. 1–10, 2010.

Bisio A., Stucchi N., Jacono M., Fadiga L. and Pozzo T. (2010), "Automatic versus voluntary motor imitation: effect of visual context and stimulus velocity", PLoS One. 5(10): e13506.

Fadiga L., Craighero L. and D’Ausilio A. (2010), "Broca’s Area in language, action and music", D. Riva and C. Njiokiktjien Eds. Brain lesions localization and developmental functions (Mariani Foundation Paediatric Neurology : 22). (pp. 187-200) John Libbey Eurotext: Montrouge, France.

Kotz S.A., D’Ausilio A., Begliomini C., Craighero L., Fabbri-Destro M., Raettig T., Zingales C., Haggard P. and Fadiga L. (2010), "Lexicality drives audio-motor transformations in Broca's area", Brain & Lang. 112, 3-11.

Marangolo P., Bonifazi S., Tomaiuolo F., Craighero L., Coccia M., Altoè G., Provinciali L. and Cantagallo A (2010), "Improving language without words: first evidence from aphasia", Neuropsychologia. 48(13):3824-33.

Pulvermüller F. and Fadiga L. (2010), "Active perception: sensorimotor circuits as a cortical basis for language", Nat Rev Neurosci. 11:351-60.

Metta G., Natale L., Nori F., Sandini G., Vernon D., Fadiga L., von Hofsten C., Rosander K., Lopes M., Santos-Victor J., Bernardino A. and Montesano L. (2010), "The iCub humanoid robot: an open-systems platform for research in cognitive development", Neural Netw. 23(8-9): 1125-34.

Fidler S., Boben M. and Leonardis A. (2010), "A coarse-to-fine Taxonomy of Constellations for Fast Multi-class Object Detection", ECCV 2010.

Csurka G. and Pastra K. (2009), "Special Issue on Metadata Mining for Image Understanding", Multimedia Tools and Applications Journal, vol.42, Springer Verlag.

Pastra K. and Balta E. (2009), "A Text-Based Search Interface for Multimedia Dialectics", in Proceedings of the Demonstrations Session at EACL 2009, Athens, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 53-56.

Pastra K. (2009), "Metonymy and Metaphor in Cross-Media Semantic Interplay: the COSMOROE framework and annotated corpus", RaAM 2009 International Workshop on "Metaphor, Metonymy and Multimodality", University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Holland.

Koutsombogera M. and Papageorgiou H. (2009), "Multimodality Issues in Conversation Analysis of Greek TV Interviews", in A. Esposito et al. (Eds.): Multimodal Signals: Cognitive and Algorithmic Issues. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 5398: 40-46, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg.

Mishra A and Aloimonos Y. (2009), "Active Segmentation", International Journal of Humanoid Robotics.

Mishra A., Aloimonos Y. and LoongFah C. (2009), "Active Segmentation with Fixation", ICCV.

Mishra A., Fermuller C. and Aloimonos Y. (2009), "Active Segmentation for Robotics", IROS.

Li Y. and Aloimonos Y. (2009), "Action Synergies", 1st Social Signal Processing Workshop,ACII (Affective Computing), Amsterdam.

Li Y., Bitsakos K., Fermuller C. and Aloimonos Y. (2009), "Real-Time Shape Retrieval for Robotics Using Skip Tri-Grams", In Proc. of Intl. Conf. on Intell. Robots and Sys. (IROS).

Li Y. and Aloimonos Y. (2009), "The Joint Synergies: Partitioning Human MoCap Data into Action Segments, Robot Learning Workshop, Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS).

Fidler S., Boben M., Leonardis A. (2009), "Learning Hierarchical Compositional Representations of Object Structure", Object Categorization: Computer and Human Vision Perspectives. Editors: S. Dickinson, A. Leonardis, B. Schiele and Michael J. Tarr, Cambridge University Press.

Fidler S., Boben M., Leonardis A. (2009), "Evaluating multi-class learning strategies in a generative hierarchical framework for object detection", NIPS 2009.

Fidler S., Boben M., Leonardis A. (2009), "Optimization framework for learning a hierarchical shape vocabulary for object class detection", BMVC 2009.

Leonardis A. and Fidler S. (2009), "A hierarchical computational model of statistical learning of two-dimensional visual shapes", 32nd European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP 2009).

Fidler S., Boben M., Leonardis A. (2009), "A bottom-up and top-down optimization framework for learning a compositional hierarchy of object classes. Extended abstract at the First Workshop on Stochastic Image Grammars (SIG), in conjunction with CVPR'09.

Cunningham D. W. and Wallraven C. (2009), "Dynamic information for the recognition of conversational expressions", Journal of Vision 9(13:7), pp.1-17.

Cunningham D. W. and Wallraven C. (2009), "The interaction between motion and form in expression recognition", Proceedings of the 6th Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization (APGV 2009), 41-44. (Eds.) Mania, K., B. E. Riecke, S. N. Spencer, B. Bodenheimer, C. O‘Sullivan, ACM Press, New York, NY, USA.

Clerget E., Winderickx A., Fadiga L. and Olivier E. (2009), "Role of Broca's area in encoding sequential human actions: a virtual lesion study", Neuroreport. 28;20(16):1496-9.

D'Ausilio A., Pulvermuller F., Salmas P., Bufalari I., Begliomini C. and Fadiga L. (2009), "The Motor Somatotopy of Speech Perception", Current Biology, 10;19(5):381-5.

Fadiga L., Craighero L. and D'Ausilio A. (2009), "Broca's area in language, action, and music", Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1169:448-58.

Fazio P., Cantagallo A., Craighero L, D’Ausilio A., Roy A. C., Pozzo T., Calzolari F., Granieri F. and Fadiga L. (2009), "Encoding of human action in Broca’s area", BRAIN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY, 123(pt7):1980-8, 14 May 2009.

Kotz SA., D'Ausilio A., Raettig T., Begliomini C., Craighero L., Fabbri-Destro M., Zingales C., Haggard P. and Fadiga L. (2010), "Lexicality drives audio-motor transformations in Broca's area", Brain Lang. 112(1):3-11.

Ricciardi E., Bonino D., Sani L., Vecchi T., Guazzelli M., Haxby JV., Fadiga L., Pietrini P. (2009), "Do we really need vision? How blind people "see" the actions of others", J Neurosci. 29(31):9719-24.

Pastra K. (2008), "COSMOROE: A Cross-Media Relations Framework for Modelling Multimedia Dialectics", Multimedia Systems, vol. 14 (5), pp. 299-323, Springer Verlag.

Pastra K. (2008), "PRAXICON: The Development of a Grounding Resource", in Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation, Bellagio, Italy.

Aloimonos Y. (2008), "HAL: Human Activity Language", Journal of Vision, Vol. 8, No 6, 2008.

Domke J. (2008), "Learning Convex Inference of Marginals", Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence.

Domke J., Karapurkar A. and Aloimonos Y. (2008), "Who Killed The Directed Model?", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).

Fidler S., Boden M. and Leonardis A. (2008), "Similarity-based cross-layered hierarchical representation for object categorization", in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

Fürst L., Fidler S., Leonardis A. (2008), "Selecting features for object detection using an AdaBoost-compatible evaluation function", Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 29, No. 11, pp. 1603-1612.

Gaissert N., Wallraven C., Bülthoff H. H. (2008), "Analyzing Perceptual Representations of Complex, Parametrically-Defined Shapes Using MDS", Haptics: Perception, Devices and Scenarios (Eurohaptics 2008), 265-274. (Eds.) Ferre, M. Springer, Berlin, Germany.

Gaissert N., Wallraven C., Bülthoff I. (2008), "Visual and haptic perceptual representations of complex 3-D objects", European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP 2008).

Nusseck M., Cunningham D. W. , Wallraven C. and Bülthoff H. H. (2008), "The contribution of different facial regions to the recognition of conversational expressions", Journal of Vision 8(8:1), 1-23.

Wallraven C., Breidt M., Cunningham D. W. , and Bülthoff H. H. (2008), "Evaluating the Perceptual Realism of Animated Facial Expressions", ACM Transactions on Applied Perception 4(4:4), 1-20.

Campanella F., Sandini G. (2008), "Visual object recognition by prehension movement", in 9thIMRF International Multisensory Research Forum, July 2008, Hamburg, Germany. Additionally published in European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Utrecht, The Netherlands. Additionally published in Perception 37, Special. Ed. 2008.

Dankers A., Barnes N., Bischof W. F. and Zelinsky A. (2008), "Humanoid Vision Resembles Primate Archetype", (conference paper and presentation) in International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, Athens.

Cannata G., Maggiali M., Metta G. and Sandini G.(2008), "An Embedded Artificial Skin for Humanoid Robots", in Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI).

Maggiali M., Cannata G., Maiolino P., Metta G., Randazzo M. and Sandini G.(2008), "Embedded Distributed Capacitive Tactile Sensor", in Proceedings of the Mechatronics 2008.

Schmitz A., Maggiali M., Randazzo M., Natale L. and Metta G. (2008), "A Prototype Fingertip with High Spatial Resolution Pressure Sensing for the Robot iCub", in Proceedings of the 8th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids08).

Pastra K. (18 June 2009), "Lithic tools and language references: exploring language-action associations for a...PRAXICON", University of Parma, FP6-NEST Hand2Mouth project Meeting, Parma, Italy.

Pastra K. (7 May 2009), "From Lexicon to...PRAXICON: language-image-action associations", Institute of Archaeology, University College of London, London, U.K.

Vataki A. (2 November 2009), "The concept of psychological time and the case of audiovisual temporal perception", ESF Exploratory Workshop on "Qualities in Perception", Rovereto, Italy.

Aloimonos Y. (August 2009), "Segmenting the world visually", European Conference in Visual Perception, ECVP, Regensburg, Germany.

Aloimonos Y. (July 2009), "Active Segmentation", Workshop on Trends in Computer Vision,Prague, Czech Republic.

Aloimonos Y. (October 2009), "Perceptual competences of humanoids", Workshop Humanoids@Home, Karlsruhe, Germany.

Aloimonos Y. (November 2009), "Human Activity Languages: Theory and Applications", Human Motion Conference, Aalborg Univ., Odense, Denmark.

Leonardis A. (2009), "Learning a Hierarchical Compositional Shape Vocabulary for Multiclass Object Representation", First Workshop on Stochastic Image Grammars, in conjunction with CVPR 09, Miami ( also ECVP’09 Regensgurg, WTCV 09 Technical University Prague Czech Republic, University of Birmingham United Kingdom, University of Surrey United Kingdom, University of British Columbia Canada, Simon Fraser University Canada).

Wallraven C. and Bülthoff H. H. (2009), "Beyond vision: multi-sensory processing in humans and machines", Workshop on Trends in Computer Vision 2009, Praha, Czech Republic (also SPHCV-ECVP09 Regensburg Germany).

Kaulard K. and Wallraven C. (01 2009), "Visual Perception of dynamic facial expressions", International Trade Fair for Trends in Optics (OPTI 2009), München, Germany.

Fadiga L. (2009), Invited Talk at the Aiginiteion Hospital, Athens, Greece (also University of Maryland Baltimore USA, INSERM Lyon France, University of Leiden Leiden, Stony Brook Conference on Action and Language New York, European Congress of Neurological Societies Firenze, Annual Congress of the Italian Society for Psychophysiology Siena, University of Cambridge UK, Italian Society for Neuroscience, Milan Italy, NLC2009 Chicago, Annual Congress of the Italian Society for Psychophysiology Siena.

D' Ausilio A. (23/09/09), Invited Talk at the National Congress of Psychology, Chiety.

Craighero L. (10/2009), Poster presentation at the Neurobiology of Language Conference (NLC2009), Chicago, USA.

D' Ausilio A. (10/2009), Poster presentation at the Neurobiology of Language Conference (NLC2009), Chicago, USA.

Pastra K. (19 December 2008), "PRAXICON: correlation of natural language, human body movements and images for artificial agents", Computer Vision Speech Communication and Signal Processing Group, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

Pastra K. (13 December 2008), "From Lexicons to PRAXICONs: language-motion and images for artificial agents", Language and Motion talk series, Neuropsychology Unit, Aiginiteion Hospital, Athens, Greece (in Greek).

Pastra K. (02 April 2008), "The poetics of everyday life: grounding resources and mechanisms for artificial agents", EU project presentations session, International Conference on Cognitive Systems, Karlsrόhe, Germany.

Pastra K. (15 February 2008), "The POETICON project", Athena Research Centre, Athens, Greece.

Aloimonos Y. (April 2008), "Hands, mouths and words", 1st Intl Conference on Cognitive Systems, Karlsruhe, Germany.

Aloimonos Y. (May 2008), "Sensorimotor linguistics", Univ. of Pensylvania, Cognitive Science Colloquium.

Aloimonos Y. (May 2008), "The POETICON: languages of sensorimotor experiences", Google Tech Talk, Mountain View, CA.

Aloimonos Y. (July 2008), "New approaches to segmentation", Int'l Workshop on Mathematics and Image Processing, Singapore.

Aloimonos Y. (September 2008), "A new segmentation constraint and the theory of swirling fields", AFOSR Workshop on Surface Representation in Mid-Level Vision, Smith Kettlewell Eye Institute, San Fransisco, CA.

Aloimonos Y. (September 2008), "Languages of motor synergies: a new approach to human action", Int'l Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras, Stanford, CA.

Leonardis A. (2008), "Learning Hierarchical Compositional Representations of Object Categories", Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany, (also ECCV 2008 Marseill France, UF Freiburg Germany, SWCV Stockholm Sweeden, GUT Gradec Austria, BVSM 2008 Ljubljana Slovenia, WCHV KAIST Daejeon Korea, SU SM Seoul Korea, SNU Seoul Korea, INRIA Grenoble France).

Caselli L. (February 2008), "Visual feedbask from the own acting hand modulates the activity of grasping neurons in monkey premotor area F5", Primate Neurobiology, 1st Annual Meeting, Tubingen, Germany

Craighero L. (July 2008), "Motor and cognitive functions of the ventral premotor cortex", XXIX International Congress of Psychology, Berlin, Germany.

Senot P., D'Ausilio A., Franca M., Caselli L., Craighero L. & Fadiga L. (Jul 2008), "Implicit Coding of Observed Kinematics: the Case of Lifting Object with Different Weights", FENS 2008, Geneva, Switzerland.

Fadiga L. (January 2008), "Music, Language and Brain", International Meeting, Dijon.

Fadiga L. (April 2008), "Des actions partagées au fait de communication: le rôle des neurones miroirs", Colloque international et interdisciplinaire sur le thème: Des Neurosciences à la Psychopathologie: Action, Langage, Imaginaire. Bron, France.

Fadiga L. (May 2008), "Mirror neurons, imitation and the language", 13th ECCN, Istanbul, Turkey.

Fadiga L. (June 2008), "The supramodal syntax: a missing link between action representation and human communication", Neuromusic III Conference: Disorders and plasticity, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

Fadiga L. (December 2008), "Perception-Action et Troubles des Apprentissages", Université de Bourgogne, France.