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Neuromorphic computing aims to mimic the computational principles of the brain in silico and has motivated research into event-based vision and spiking neural networks (SNNs). Event cameras (ECs) capture local, independent changes in brightness, and offer superior power consumption, response latencies, and dynamic ranges compared to frame-based cameras. SNNs replicate neuronal dynamics observed in biological neurons and propagate information in sparse sequences of ”spikes”. Apart from biological fidelity, SNNs have demonstrated potential as an alternative to conventional artificial neural networks (ANNs), such as in reducing energy expenditure and inference time in visual classification. Although potentially beneficial for robotics, the novel event-driven and spike-based paradigms remain scarcely explored outside the domain of aerial robots.
To investigate the utility of brain-inspired sensing and data processing in a robotics application, we developed a neuromorphic approach to real-time, online obstacle avoidance on a manipulator with an onboard camera. Our approach adapts high-level trajectory plans with reactive maneuvers by processing emulated event data in a convolutional SNN, decoding neural activations into avoidance motions, and adjusting plans in a dynamic motion primitive formulation. We conducted simulated and real experiments with a Kinova Gen3 arm performing simple reaching tasks involving static and dynamic obstacles. Our implementation was systematically tuned, validated, and tested in sets of distinct task scenarios, and compared to a non-adaptive baseline through formalized quantitative metrics and qualitative criteria.
The neuromorphic implementation facilitated reliable avoidance of imminent collisions in most scenarios, with 84% and 92% median success rates in simulated and real experiments, where the baseline consistently failed. Adapted trajectories were qualitatively similar to baseline trajectories, indicating low impacts on safety, predictability and smoothness criteria. Among notable properties of the SNN were the correlation of processing time with the magnitude of perceived motions (captured in events) and robustness to different event emulation methods. Preliminary tests with a DAVIS346 EC showed similar performance, validating our experimental event emulation method. These results motivate future efforts to incorporate SNN learning, utilize neuromorphic processors, and target other robot tasks to further explore this approach.
Recent advances in Natural Language Processing have substantially improved contextualized representations of language. However, the inclusion of factual knowledge, particularly in the biomedical domain, remains challenging. Hence, many Language Models (LMs) are extended by Knowledge Graphs (KGs), but most approaches require entity linking (i.e., explicit alignment between text and KG entities). Inspired by single-stream multimodal Transformers operating on text, image and video data, this thesis proposes the Sophisticated Transformer trained on biomedical text and Knowledge Graphs (STonKGs). STonKGs incorporates a novel multimodal architecture based on a cross encoder that uses the attention mechanism on a concatenation of input sequences derived from text and KG triples, respectively. Over 13 million so-called text-triple pairs, coming from PubMed and assembled using the Integrated Network and Dynamical Reasoning Assembler (INDRA), were used in an unsupervised pre-training procedure to learn representations of biomedical knowledge in STonKGs. By comparing STonKGs to an NLP- and a KG-baseline (operating on either text or KG data) on a benchmark consisting of eight fine-tuning tasks, the proposed knowledge integration method applied in STonKGs was empirically validated. Specifically, on tasks with a comparatively small dataset size and a larger number of classes, STonKGs resulted in considerable performance gains, beating the F1-score of the best baseline by up to 0.083. Both the source code as well as the code used to implement STonKGs are made publicly available so that the proposed method of this thesis can be extended to many other biomedical applications.
Effective Neighborhood Feature Exploitation in Graph CNNs for Point Cloud Object-Part Segmentation
(2022)
Part segmentation is the task of semantic segmentation applied on objects and carries a wide range of applications from robotic manipulation to medical imaging. This work deals with the problem of part segmentation on raw, unordered point clouds of 3D objects. While pioneering works on deep learning for point clouds typically ignore taking advantage of local geometric structure around individual points, the subsequent methods proposed to extract features by exploiting local geometry have not yielded significant improvements either. In order to investigate further, a graph convolutional network (GCN) is used in this work in an attempt to increase the effectiveness of such neighborhood feature exploitation approaches. Most of the previous works also focus only on segmenting complete point cloud data. Considering the impracticality of such approaches, taking into consideration the real world scenarios where complete point clouds are scarcely available, this work proposes approaches to deal with partial point cloud segmentation.
In the attempt to better capture neighborhood features, this work proposes a novel method to learn regional part descriptors which guide and refine the segmentation predictions. The proposed approach helps the network achieve state-of-the-art performance of 86.4% mIoU on the ShapeNetPart dataset for methods which do not use any preprocessing techniques or voting strategies. In order to better deal with partial point clouds, this work also proposes new strategies to train and test on partial data. While achieving significant improvements compared to the baseline performance, the problem of partial point cloud segmentation is also viewed through an alternate lens of semantic shape completion.
Semantic shape completion networks not only help deal with partial point cloud segmentation but also enrich the information captured by the system by predicting complete point clouds with corresponding semantic labels for each point. To this end, a new network architecture for semantic shape completion is also proposed based on point completion network (PCN) which takes advantage of a graph convolution based hierarchical decoder for completion as well as segmentation. In addition to predicting complete point clouds, results indicate that the network is capable of reaching within a margin of 5% to the mIoU performance of dedicated segmentation networks for partial point cloud segmentation.
In the field of automatic music generation, one of the greatest challenges is the consistent generation of pieces continuously perceived positively by the majority of the audience since there is no objective method to determine the quality of a musical composition. However, composing principles, which have been refined for millennia, have shaped the core characteristics of today's music. A hybrid music generation system, mlmusic, that incorporates various static, music-theory-based methods, as well as data-driven, subsystems, is implemented to automatically generate pieces considered acceptable by the average listener. Initially, a MIDI dataset, consisting of over 100 hand-picked pieces of various styles and complexities, is analysed using basic music theory principles, and the abstracted information is fed into explicitly constrained LSTM networks. For chord progressions, each individual network is specifically trained on a given sequence length, while phrases are created by consecutively predicting the notes' offset, pitch and duration. Using these outputs as a composition's foundation, additional musical elements, along with constrained recurrent rhythmic and tonal patterns, are statically generated. Although no survey regarding the pieces' reception could be carried out, the successful generation of numerous compositions of varying complexities suggests that the integration of these fundamentally distinctive approaches might lead to success in other branches.
Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) ist aus der heutigen Gesellschaft kaum noch wegzudenken. Auch im Sport haben Methoden der KI in den letzten Jahren mehr und mehr Einzug gehalten. Ob und inwieweit dabei allerdings die derzeitigen Potenziale der KI tatsächlich ausgeschöpft werden, ist bislang nicht untersucht worden. Der Nutzen von Methoden der KI im Sport ist unbestritten, jedoch treten bei der Umsetzung in die Praxis gravierende Probleme auf, was den Zugang zu Ressourcen, die Verfügbarkeit von Experten und den Umgang mit den Methoden und Daten betrifft. Die Ursache für die, verglichen mit anderen Anwendungsgebieten, langsame An- bzw. Übernahme von Methoden der KI in den Spitzensport ist nach Hypothese des Autorenteams auf mehrere Mismatches zwischen dem Anwendungsfeld und den KI-Methoden zurückzuführen. Diese Mismatches sind methodischer, struktureller und auch kommunikativer Art. In der vorliegenden Expertise werden Vorschläge abgeleitet, die zur Auflösung der Mismatches führen können und zugleich neue Transfer- und Synergiemöglichkeiten aufzeigen. Außerdem wurden drei Use Cases zu Trainingssteuerung, Leistungsdiagnostik und Wettkampfdiagnostik exemplarisch umgesetzt. Dies erfolgte in Form entsprechender Projektbeschreibungen. Dabei zeigt die Ausarbeitung, auf welche Art und Weise Probleme, die heute noch bei der Verbindung zwischen KI und Sport bestehen, möglichst ausgeräumt werden können. Eine empirische Umsetzung des Use Case Trainingssteuerung erfolgte im Radsport, weshalb dieser ausführlicher dargestellt wird.
An essential measure of autonomy in service robots designed to assist humans is adaptivity to the various contexts of human-oriented tasks. These robots may have to frequently execute the same action, but subject to subtle variations in task parameters that determine optimal behaviour. Such actions are traditionally executed by robots using pre-determined, generic motions, but a better approach could utilize robot arm maneuverability to learn and execute different trajectories that work best in each context.
In this project, we explore a robot skill acquisition procedure that allows incorporating contextual knowledge, adjusting executions according to context, and improvement through experience, as a step towards more adaptive service robots. We propose an apprenticeship learning approach to achieving context-aware action generalisation on the task of robot-to-human object hand-over. The procedure combines learning from demonstration, with which a robot learns to imitate a demonstrator’s execution of the task, and a reinforcement learning strategy, which enables subsequent experiential learning of contextualized policies, guided by information about context that is integrated into the learning process. By extending the initial, static hand-over policy to a contextually adaptive one, the robot derives and executes variants of the demonstrated action that most appropriately suit the current context. We use dynamic movement primitives (DMPs) as compact motion representations, and a model-based Contextual Relative Entropy Policy Search (C-REPS) algorithm for learning policies that can specify hand-over position, trajectory shape, and execution speed, conditioned on context variables. Policies are learned using simulated task executions, before transferring them to the robot and evaluating emergent behaviours.
We demonstrate the algorithm’s ability to learn context-dependent hand-over positions, and new trajectories, guided by suitable reward functions, and show that the current DMP implementation limits learning context-dependent execution speeds. We additionally conduct a user study involving participants assuming different postures and receiving an object from the robot, which executes hand-overs by either exclusively imitating a demonstrated motion, or selecting hand-over positions based on learned contextual policies and adapting its motion accordingly. The results confirm the hypothesized improvements in the robot’s perceived behaviour when it is context-aware and adaptive, and provide useful insights that can inform future developments.
This work provides a short but technical introduction to the main building blocks of a blockchain. It argues that a blockchain is not a revolutionary technology but rather a clever combination of three fields: cryptography, decentralization and game theory. In addition, it summaries the differences between a public, private and federate blockchain model and the two prominent consensus mechanism Proof-of-Work (POW) and Proof-of-Stake (POS).