Summer School 2023
Robotics & AI

10-12 July 2023 - Online event

Place and registration

This event will be held 100% online. Access to all the talks and content is free.

Intended audience

Students, master students, PhD Researchers, Industry and Academia practitioners

Join us!

We are looking candidats to join our Institute. See our proposals at the Job offers section of this website

About us

The main objective of the Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Summer School 2023 is to disseminate robotic knowledge and experimentation to the technological community. Three days with an intensive agenda in current main robotic issues will be presented: Deep learning perception on Robotics, Human Robot Interaction and robot navigation and Assistive Robotics.

Important dates

Registration: June 16th

Notification of admission: June 23rd

Summer School: July 10-12

Summer School Schedule

Provisional (Updated: July 10th)

Presentation and welcome

Alberto Sanfeliu

08:45h - 09:00h

Introduction to generative models (GAN, auto-regressive, VAE and diffusion)

Xavier Giró

09:00h - 10:00h

Learning to localize in point clouds

Georgi Tinchev

10:00h - 11:00h

Break, 11:00h - 11:15h

Human Motion Prediction for Human-Robot Interaction

Javier Laplaza

11:15h - 12:15h

DL in Football Analytics

Antonio Rubio

12:15h - 13:15h

Intention, prediction and adaptation in human-robot interaction and collaboration

Alberto Sanfeliu

09:00h - 10:00h

Experimentation in Social HRI

Anaís Garrell

10:00h - 11:00h

Break, 11:00h - 11:15h

Event-based vision for Robotics

Juan Andrade-Cetto

11:15h - 12:15

Lie theory for the roboticist

Joan Solà

12:15h - 13:15h

Diffusion models for GenAI

Albert Pumarola

13:15h - 14:15h

Cloth manipulation and assistive robotics: overview of research projects at our group

Júlia Borràs

09:00h - 10:00h

Robotic Reinforcement Learning: Hunting the Thimble?

Freek Stulp

10:00h - 11:00h

Break, 11:00h - 11:15h

Unsupervised learning for human activity segmentation and recognition

Mariella Dimiccoli

11:15h - 12:15h

Cognitive Ergonomics and Neuroergonomics in Human-Robot Interaction

Giacinto Barresi

12:15h - 13:15h

Conference Speakers

Juan Andrade-Cetto

IRI, CSIC-UPC

Giacinto Barresi

IIT, Italy

Júlia Borràs

IRI, CSIC-UPC

Mariella Dimiccoli

IRI, CSIC-UPC

Anaís Garrell

IRI, CSIC-UPC

Xavier Giró

IRI, CSIC-UPC

Javier Laplaza

IRI, CSIC-UPC

Albert Pumarola

Meta, Switzerland

Antonio Rubio

Kognia Sport Intelligence

Alberto Sanfeliu

IRI, CSIC-UPC

Joan Solà

IRI, CSIC-UPC

Freek Stulp

DLR, Germany

Georgi Tinchev

Amazon, UK


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