Activities

Publications

2025

• Beyond Behavior Cloning: Robustness through Interactive Imitation and Contrastive Learning.
  Zhaoting Li, Rodrigo Pérez-Dattari, Robert Babuska, Cosimo Della Santina, Jens Kober
  arXiv CoRR abs/2502.07645 (2025/02).
  
• Towards Resilient and Sustainable Global Industrial Systems: An Evolutionary-Based Approach.
  Václav Jirkovský, Jirí Kubalík, Petr Kadera, Arnd Schirrmann, Andreas Mitschke, Andreas Zindel
  arXiv CoRR abs/2503.11688 (2025/03).
  

2024

• Robotic Grasping of Harvested Tomato Trusses Using Vision and Online Learning.
  Luuk van den Bent, Tomás Coleman, Robert Babuska
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2024, Yokohama, Japan, May 13-17, 2024: 13947-13953 (2024).
  
• An Empirical Investigation on Variational Autoencoder-Based Dynamic Modeling of Deformable Objects from RGB Data.
  Tomás Coleman, Robert Babuska, Jens Kober, Cosimo Della Santina
  32nd Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2024, Chania - Crete, Greece, June 11-14, 2024: 921-928 (2024).
  
• Dynamic 3D Gaussian Fields for Urban Areas.
  Tobias Fischer, Jonas Kulhanek, Samuel Rota Bulò, Lorenzo Porzi, Marc Pollefeys, Peter Kontschieder
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2024, NeurIPS 2024, Vancouver, BC, Canada, December 10 - 15, 2024.: (2024).
  
• WildGaussians: 3D Gaussian Splatting In the Wild.
  Jonas Kulhanek, Songyou Peng, Zuzana Kukelova, Marc Pollefeys, Torsten Sattler
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2024, NeurIPS 2024, Vancouver, BC, Canada, December 10 - 15, 2024.: (2024).
  
• A Security Risk Taxonomy for Prompt-Based Interaction With Large Language Models.
  Erik Derner, Kristina Batistic, Jan Zahálka, Robert Babuska
  IEEE Access 12: 126176-126187 (2024).
  
• SymFormer: End-to-End Symbolic Regression Using Transformer-Based Architecture.
  Martin Vastl, Jonas Kulhanek, Jirí Kubalík, Erik Derner, Robert Babuska
  IEEE Access 12: 37840-37849 (2024).
  
• Dynamic 3D Gaussian Fields for Urban Areas.
  Tobias Fischer, Jonas Kulhanek, Samuel Rota Bulò, Lorenzo Porzi, Marc Pollefeys, Peter Kontschieder
  arXiv CoRR abs/2406.03175 (2024).
  
• Embedded Hierarchical MPC for Autonomous Navigation.
  Dennis Benders, Johannes Köhler, Thijs Niesten, Robert Babuska, Javier Alonso-Mora, Laura Ferranti
  arXiv CoRR abs/2406.11506 (2024).
  
• Leveraging Large Language Models to Measure Gender Bias in Gendered Languages.
  Erik Derner, Sara Sansalvador de la Fuente, Yoan Gutiérrez, Paloma Moreda, Nuria Oliver
  arXiv CoRR abs/2406.13677 (2024).
  
• NerfBaselines: Consistent and Reproducible Evaluation of Novel View Synthesis Methods.
  Jonas Kulhanek, Torsten Sattler
  arXiv CoRR abs/2406.17345 (2024).
  
• EAGERx: Graph-Based Framework for Sim2real Robot Learning.
  Bas van der Heijden, Jelle Luijkx, Laura Ferranti, Jens Kober, Robert Babuska
  arXiv CoRR abs/2407.04328 (2024).
  
• WildGaussians: 3D Gaussian Splatting in the Wild.
  Jonas Kulhanek, Songyou Peng, Zuzana Kukelova, Marc Pollefeys, Torsten Sattler
  arXiv CoRR abs/2407.08447 (2024).
  
• WaterSplatting: Fast Underwater 3D Scene Reconstruction Using Gaussian Splatting.
  Huapeng Li, Wenxuan Song, Tianao Xu, Alexandre Elsig, Jonas Kulhanek
  arXiv CoRR abs/2408.08206 (2024).
  
• Leveraging LLMs, Graphs and Object Hierarchies for Task Planning in Large-Scale Environments.
  Rodrigo Pérez-Dattari, Zhaoting Li, Robert Babuska, Jens Kober, Cosimo Della Santina
  arXiv CoRR abs/2409.04775 (2024).
  
• Adversarial Attacks on Hyperbolic Networks.
  Max van Spengler, Jan Zahálka, Pascal Mettes
  arXiv CoRR abs/2412.01495 (2024).
  
• Efficient Parallelized Simulation of Cyber-Physical Systems.
  Bas van der Heijden, Laura Ferranti, Jens Kober, Robert Babuska
  Trans. Mach. Learn. Res. 2024: (2024).
  

2023

• Tetra-NeRF: Representing Neural Radiance Fields Using Tetrahedra.
  Jonas Kulhanek, Torsten Sattler
  IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2023, Paris, France, October 1-6, 2023: 18412-18423 (2023).
  
• Toward Physically Plausible Data-Driven Models: A Novel Neural Network Approach to Symbolic Regression.
  Jirí Kubalík, Erik Derner, Robert Babuska
  IEEE Access 11: 61481-61501 (2023).
  
• Neural Networks for Symbolic Regression.
  Jirí Kubalík, Erik Derner, Robert Babuska
  arXiv CoRR abs/2302.00773 (2023).
  
• Tetra-NeRF: Representing Neural Radiance Fields Using Tetrahedra.
  Jonas Kulhanek, Torsten Sattler
  arXiv CoRR abs/2304.09987 (2023).
  
• Beyond the Safeguards: Exploring the Security Risks of ChatGPT.
  Erik Derner, Kristina Batistic
  arXiv CoRR abs/2305.08005 (2023).
  
• A Vision-Guided Robotic System for Grasping Harvested Tomato Trusses in Cluttered Environments.
  Luuk van den Bent, Tomás Coleman, Robert Babuska
  arXiv CoRR abs/2309.17170 (2023).
  
• A Security Risk Taxonomy for Large Language Models.
  Erik Derner, Kristina Batistic, Jan Zahálka, Robert Babuska
  arXiv CoRR abs/2311.11415 (2023).
  
• Trainwreck: A damaging adversarial attack on image classifiers.
  Jan Zahálka
  arXiv CoRR abs/2311.14772 (2023).
  
• Can ChatGPT Read Who You Are?
  Erik Derner, Dalibor Kucera, Nuria Oliver, Jan Zahálka
  arXiv CoRR abs/2312.16070 (2023).
  
• Imitrob: Imitation Learning Dataset for Training and Evaluating 6D Object Pose Estimators.
  Jirí Sedlár, Karla Stépánová, Radoslav Skoviera, Jan Kristof Behrens, Matús Tuna, Gabriela Sejnova, Josef Sivic, Robert Babuska
  IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 8: 2788-2795 (2023/05).
  

2022

• ViewFormer: NeRF-Free Neural Rendering from Few Images Using Transformers.
  Jonas Kulhanek, Erik Derner, Torsten Sattler, Robert Babuska
  Computer Vision - ECCV 2022 - 17th European Conference, Tel Aviv, Israel, October 23-27, 2022, Proceedings, Part XV: 198-216 (2022).
  
• Where to Look Next: Learning Viewpoint Recommendations for Informative Trajectory Planning.
  Max Lodel, Bruno Brito, Álvaro Serra-Gómez, Laura Ferranti, Robert Babuska, Javier Alonso-Mora
  2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2022, Philadelphia, PA, USA, May 23-27, 2022: 4466-4472 (2022).
  
• OpenDR: An Open Toolkit for Enabling High Performance, Low Footprint Deep Learning for Robotics.
  Nikolaos Passalis, S. Pedrazzi, Robert Babuska, Wolfram Burgard, D. Dias, F. Ferro, Moncef Gabbouj, O. Green, Alexandros Iosifidis, Erdal Kayacan, Jens Kober, O. Michel, Nikos Nikolaidis, Paraskevi Nousi, Roel Pieters, Maria Tzelepi, Abhinav Valada, Anastasios Tefas
  IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2022, Kyoto, Japan, October 23-27, 2022: 12479-12484 (2022).
  
• Exquisitor at the Video Browser Showdown 2022.
  Omar Shahbaz Khan, Ujjwal Sharma, Björn Þór Jónsson, Dennis C. Koelma, Stevan Rudinac, Marcel Worring, Jan Zahálka
  MultiMedia Modeling - 28th International Conference, MMM 2022, Phu Quoc, Vietnam, June 6-10, 2022, Proceedings, Part II: 511-517 (2022).
  
• XQM: Search-Oriented vs. Classifier-Oriented Relevance Feedback on Mobile Phones.
  Kim I. Schild, Alexandra M. Bagi, Magnus Holm Mamsen, Omar Shahbaz Khan, Jan Zahálka, Björn Þór Jónsson
  MultiMedia Modeling - 28th International Conference, MMM 2022, Phu Quoc, Vietnam, June 6-10, 2022, Proceedings, Part II: 458-464 (2022).
  
• Learning Assembly Tasks in a Few Minutes by Combining Impedance Control and Residual Recurrent Reinforcement Learning.
  Padmaja Kulkarni, Jens Kober, Robert Babuska, Cosimo Della Santina
  Adv. Intell. Syst. 4: (2022).
  
• OpenDR: An Open Toolkit for Enabling High Performance, Low Footprint Deep Learning for Robotics.
  Nikolaos Passalis, S. Pedrazzi, Robert Babuska, Wolfram Burgard, D. Dias, F. Ferro, Moncef Gabbouj, O. Green, Alexandros Iosifidis, Erdal Kayacan, Jens Kober, O. Michel, Nikolaos Nikolaidis, Paraskevi Nousi, Roel Pieters, Maria Tzelepi, Abhinav Valada, Anastasios Tefas
  arXiv CoRR abs/2203.00403 (2022).
  
• Where to Look Next: Learning Viewpoint Recommendations for Informative Trajectory Planning.
  Max Lodel, Bruno Brito, Álvaro Serra-Gómez, Laura Ferranti, Robert Babuska, Javier Alonso-Mora
  arXiv CoRR abs/2203.02381 (2022).
  
• ViewFormer: NeRF-free Neural Rendering from Few Images Using Transformers.
  Jonas Kulhanek, Erik Derner, Torsten Sattler, Robert Babuska
  arXiv CoRR abs/2203.10157 (2022).
  
• SymFormer: End-to-end symbolic regression using transformer-based architecture.
  Martin Vastl, Jonas Kulhanek, Jirí Kubalík, Erik Derner, Robert Babuska
  arXiv CoRR abs/2205.15764 (2022).
  
• Reproducibility Companion Paper: Describing Subjective Experiment Consistency by $p$-Value P-P Plot.
  Jakub Nawala, Lucjan Janowski, Bogdan Cmiel, Krzysztof Rusek, Marc A. Kastner, Jan Zahálka
  arXiv CoRR abs/2209.00526 (2022).
  
• Imitrob: Imitation Learning Dataset for Training and Evaluating 6D Object Pose Estimators.
  Jirí Sedlár, Karla Stépánová, Matús Tuna, Radoslav Skoviera, Jan Kristof Behrens, Gabriela Sejnova, Josef Sivic, Robert Babuska
  arXiv CoRR abs/2209.07976 (2022).
  
• IROS 2021 Online in Prague [Society News].
  Libor Preucil, Robert Babuska
  IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag. 29: 108-111 (2022).
  

2021

• Constrained Decoding for Technical Term Retention in English-Hindi MT.
  Niyati Bafna, Martin Vastl, Ondrej Bojar
  Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON 2021), National Institute of Technology Silchar, Silchar, India, December 16 - 19, 2021.: 1-6 (2021).
  
• Guiding Robot Model Construction with Prior Features.
  Erik Derner, Jirí Kubalík, Robert Babuska
  IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2021, Prague, Czech Republic, September 27 - Oct. 1, 2021: 7112-7118 (2021).
  
• DeepKoCo: Efficient latent planning with a task-relevant Koopman representation.
  Bas van der Heijden, Laura Ferranti, Jens Kober, Robert Babuska
  IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2021, Prague, Czech Republic, September 27 - Oct. 1, 2021: 183-189 (2021).
  
• Inclined Quadrotor Landing using Deep Reinforcement Learning.
  Jacob E. Kooi, Robert Babuska
  IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2021, Prague, Czech Republic, September 27 - Oct. 1, 2021: 2361-2368 (2021).
  
• Impact of Interaction Strategies on User Relevance Feedback.
  Omar Shahbaz Khan, Björn Þór Jónsson, Jan Zahálka, Stevan Rudinac, Marcel Worring
  ICMR '21: International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, Taipei, Taiwan, August 21-24, 2021: 590-598 (2021).
  
• Exquisitor at the Lifelog Search Challenge 2021: Relationships Between Semantic Classifiers.
  Omar Shahbaz Khan, Aaron Duane, Björn Þór Jónsson, Jan Zahálka, Stevan Rudinac, Marcel Worring
  Proceedings of the 4th Annual on Lifelog Search Challenge, LSC@ICMR 2021, Taipei, Taiwan, 21 August 2021: 3-6 (2021).
  
• Reproducibility Companion Paper: Kalman Filter-Based Head Motion Prediction for Cloud-Based Mixed Reality.
  Serhan Gül, Sebastian Bosse, Dimitri Podborski, Thomas Schierl, Cornelius Hellge, Marc A. Kastner, Jan Zahálka
  MM '21: ACM Multimedia Conference, Virtual Event, China, October 20 - 24, 2021: 3619-3621 (2021).
  
• Reproducibility Companion Paper: Describing Subjective Experiment Consistency by p-Value P-P Plot.
  Jakub Nawala, Lucjan Janowski, Bogdan Cmiel, Krzysztof Rusek, Marc A. Kastner, Jan Zahálka
  MM '21: ACM Multimedia Conference, Virtual Event, China, October 20 - 24, 2021: 3627-3629 (2021).
  
• XQM: Interactive Learning on Mobile Phones.
  Alexandra M. Bagi, Kim I. Schild, Omar Shahbaz Khan, Jan Zahálka, Björn Þór Jónsson
  MultiMedia Modeling - 27th International Conference, MMM 2021, Prague, Czech Republic, June 22-24, 2021, Proceedings, Part II: 281-293 (2021).
  
• Exquisitor at the Video Browser Showdown 2021: Relationships Between Semantic Classifiers.
  Omar Shahbaz Khan, Björn Þór Jónsson, Mathias Dybkjær Larsen, Liam Alex Sonto Poulsen, Dennis C. Koelma, Stevan Rudinac, Marcel Worring, Jan Zahálka
  MultiMedia Modeling - 27th International Conference, MMM 2021, Prague, Czech Republic, June 22-24, 2021, Proceedings, Part II: 410-416 (2021).
  
• Selecting Informative Data Samples for Model Learning Through Symbolic Regression.
  Erik Derner, Jirí Kubalík, Robert Babuska
  IEEE Access 9: 14148-14158 (2021).
  
• Symbolic Regression Methods for Reinforcement Learning.
  Jirí Kubalík, Erik Derner, Jan Zegklitz, Robert Babuska
  IEEE Access 9: 139697-139711 (2021).
  
• Control of Magnetic Manipulator Using Reinforcement Learning Based on Incrementally Adapted Local Linear Models.
  Martin Brablc, Jan Zegklitz, Robert Grepl, Robert Babuska
  Complex. 2021: 6617309:1-6617309:12 (2021).
  
• A polynomial-time scheduling approach to minimise idle energy consumption: An application to an industrial furnace.
  Ondrej Benedikt, Baran Alikoc, Premysl Sucha, Sergej Celikovský, Zdenek Hanzálek
  Comput. Oper. Res. 128: (2021).
  
• AuGPT: Dialogue with Pre-trained Language Models and Data Augmentation.
  Jonas Kulhanek, Vojtech Hudecek, Tomás Nekvinda, Ondrej Dusek
  arXiv CoRR abs/2102.05126 (2021).
  
• GEM: Glare or Gloom, I Can Still See You - End-to-End Multimodal Object Detector.
  Osama Mazhar, Jens Kober, Robert Babuska
  arXiv CoRR abs/2102.12319 (2021).
  
• Geometry-Based Grasping of Vine Tomatoes.
  Taeke de Haan, Padmaja Kulkarni, Robert Babuska
  arXiv CoRR abs/2103.01272 (2021).
  
• Inclined Quadrotor Landing using Deep Reinforcement Learning.
  Jacob E. Kooi, Robert Babuska
  arXiv CoRR abs/2103.09043 (2021).
  
• Multi-objective symbolic regression for physics-aware dynamic modeling.
  Jirí Kubalík, Erik Derner, Robert Babuska
  Expert Syst. Appl. 182: (2021).
  
• Visual Navigation in Real-World Indoor Environments Using End-to-End Deep Reinforcement Learning.
  Jonas Kulhanek, Erik Derner, Robert Babuska
  IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 6: 4345-4352 (2021).
  
• GEM: Glare or Gloom, I Can Still See You - End-to-End Multi-Modal Object Detection.
  Osama Mazhar, Robert Babuska, Jens Kober
  IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 6: 6321-6328 (2021).
  
• Change detection using weighted features for image-based localization.
  Erik Derner, Clara Gómez, Alejandra C. Hernández, Ramón Barber, Robert Babuska
  Robotics Auton. Syst. 135: (2021).
  
• II-20: Intelligent and pragmatic analytic categorization of image collections.
  Jan Zahálka, Marcel Worring, Jarke J. van Wijk
  IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 27: 422-431 (2021).
  

2020

• Interactive Learning for Multimedia at Large.
  Omar Shahbaz Khan, Björn Þór Jónsson, Stevan Rudinac, Jan Zahálka, Hanna Ragnarsdóttir, Þórhildur Þorleiksdóttir, Gylfi Þór Guðmundsson, Laurent Amsaleg, Marcel Worring
  Advances in Information Retrieval - 42nd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2020, Lisbon, Portugal, April 14-17, 2020, Proceedings, Part I: 495-510 (2020).
  
• Symbolic regression driven by training data and prior knowledge.
  Jirí Kubalík, Erik Derner, Robert Babuska
  GECCO '20: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Cancún Mexico, July 8-12, 2020: 958-966 (2020).
  
• Simultaneous task allocation and motion scheduling for complex tasks executed by multiple robots.
  Jan Kristof Behrens, Karla Stépánová, Robert Babuska
  2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2020, Paris, France, May 31 - August 31, 2020: 11443-11449 (2020).
  
• Efficient Object Search Through Probability-Based Viewpoint Selection.
  Alejandra C. Hernández, Erik Derner, Clara Gómez, Ramón Barber, Robert Babuska
  IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2020, Las Vegas, NV, USA, October 24, 2020 - January 24, 2021: 6172-6179 (2020).
  
• Tactile-Based Self-supervised Pose Estimation for Robust Grasping.
  Padmaja Kulkarni, Jens Kober, Robert Babuska
  Experimental Robotics - The 17th International Symposium, ISER 2020, La Valletta, Malta, November 9-12, 2020 (postponed to 2021).: 277-284 (2020).
  
• Exquisitor at the Lifelog Search Challenge 2020.
  Omar Shahbaz Khan, Mathias Dybkjær Larsen, Liam Alex Sonto Poulsen, Björn Þór Jónsson, Jan Zahálka, Stevan Rudinac, Dennis C. Koelma, Marcel Worring
  Proceedings of the Third ACM Workshop on Lifelog Search Challenge, LSC@ICMR 2020, Dublin, Ireland, June 8-11, 2020.: 19-22 (2020).
  
• Reproducibility Companion Paper: Selective Deep Convolutional Features for Image Retrieval.
  Tuan Hoang, Thanh-Toan Do, Ngai-Man Cheung, Michael Riegler, Jan Zahálka
  MM '20: The 28th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Virtual Event / Seattle, WA, USA, October 12-16, 2020: 4448-4452 (2020).
  
• Reproducibility Companion Paper: Outfit Compatibility Prediction and Diagnosis with Multi-Layered Comparison Network.
  Xin Wang, Bo Wu, Yueqi Zhong, Wei Hu, Jan Zahálka
  MM '20: The 28th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Virtual Event / Seattle, WA, USA, October 12-16, 2020: 4439-4443 (2020).
  
• Exquisitor at the Video Browser Showdown 2020.
  Björn Þór Jónsson, Omar Shahbaz Khan, Dennis C. Koelma, Stevan Rudinac, Marcel Worring, Jan Zahálka
  MultiMedia Modeling - 26th International Conference, MMM 2020, Daejeon, South Korea, January 5-8, 2020, Proceedings, Part II: 796-802 (2020).
  
• The Effects of Adaptive Control on Learning Directed Locomotion.
  Fuda van Diggelen, Robert Babuska, A. E. Eiben
  2020 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2020, Canberra, Australia, December 1-4, 2020: 2117-2124 (2020).
  
• Constructing parsimonious analytic models for dynamic systems via symbolic regression.
  Erik Derner, Jirí Kubalík, Nicola Ancona, Robert Babuska
  Appl. Soft Comput. 94: (2020).
  
• Symbolic Regression Driven by Training Data and Prior Knowledge.
  Jirí Kubalík, Erik Derner, Robert Babuska
  arXiv CoRR abs/2004.11947 (2020).
  
• II-20: Intelligent and pragmatic analytic categorization of image collections.
  Jan Zahálka, Marcel Worring, Jarke J. van Wijk
  arXiv CoRR abs/2005.02149 (2020).
  
• An Integrated Approach to Goal Selection in Mobile Robot Exploration.
  Miroslav Kulich, Jirí Kubalík, Libor Preucil
  arXiv CoRR abs/2007.10085 (2020).
  
• Predicting Typological Features in WALS using Language Embeddings and Conditional Probabilities: ÚFAL Submission to the SIGTYP 2020 Shared Task.
  Martin Vastl, Daniel Zeman, Rudolf Rosa
  arXiv CoRR abs/2010.03920 (2020).
  
• Visual Navigation in Real-World Indoor Environments Using End-to-End Deep Reinforcement Learning.
  Jonas Kulhanek, Erik Derner, Robert Babuska
  arXiv CoRR abs/2010.10903 (2020).
  
• DeepKoCo: Efficient latent planning with an invariant Koopman representation.
  Bas van der Heijden, Laura Ferranti, Jens Kober, Robert Babuska
  arXiv CoRR abs/2011.12690 (2020).
  
• Object-Based Pose Graph for Dynamic Indoor Environments.
  Clara Gómez, Alejandra C. Hernández, Erik Derner, Ramón Barber, Robert Babuska
  IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 5: 5401-5408 (2020).
  

2019

• Towards Life-Long Autonomy of Mobile Robots Through Feature-Based Change Detection.
  Erik Derner, Clara Gómez, Alejandra C. Hernández, Ramón Barber, Robert Babuska
  2019 European Conference on Mobile Robots, ECMR 2019, Prague, Czech Republic, September 4-6, 2019: 1-6 (2019).
  
• Semantic Localization through Propagation of Scene Information in a Hierarchical Model.
  Clara Gómez, Alejandra C. Hernández, Erik Derner, Ramón Barber
  2019 European Conference on Mobile Robots, ECMR 2019, Prague, Czech Republic, September 4-6, 2019: 1-6 (2019).
  
• Indoor Scene Recognition based on Weighted Voting Schemes.
  Alejandra C. Hernández, Clara Gómez, Erik Derner, Ramón Barber
  2019 European Conference on Mobile Robots, ECMR 2019, Prague, Czech Republic, September 4-6, 2019: 1-6 (2019).
  
• Vision-based Navigation Using Deep Reinforcement Learning.
  Jonas Kulhanek, Erik Derner, Tim de Bruin, Robert Babuska
  2019 European Conference on Mobile Robots, ECMR 2019, Prague, Czech Republic, September 4-6, 2019: 1-8 (2019).
  
• Genetic programming methods for reinforcement learning.
  Robert Babuska
  Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2019, Prague, Czech Republic, July 13-17, 2019: (2019).
  
• Plant Layout Optimization Using Evolutionary Algorithms.
  Jirí Kubalík, Petr Kadera, Václav Jirkovský, Lukás Kurilla, Simon Prokop
  Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems - 9th International Conference, HoloMAS 2019, Linz, Austria, August 26-29, 2019, Proceedings: 173-188 (2019).
  
• Exquisitor at the Lifelog Search Challenge 2019.
  Omar Shahbaz Khan, Björn Þór Jónsson, Jan Zahálka, Stevan Rudinac, Marcel Worring
  Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Lifelog Search Challenge, LSC@ICMR 2019, Ottawa, ON, Canada, 10 June 2019.: 7-11 (2019).
  
• Exquisitor: Breaking the Interaction Barrier for Exploration of 100 Million Images.
  Hanna Ragnarsdóttir, Þórhildur Þorleiksdóttir, Omar Shahbaz Khan, Björn Þór Jónsson, Gylfi Þór Guðmundsson, Jan Zahálka, Stevan Rudinac, Laurent Amsaleg, Marcel Worring
  Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM 2019, Nice, France, October 21-25, 2019: 1029-1031 (2019).
  
• Teaching robots to imitate a human with no on-teacher sensors. What are the key challenges?
  Radoslav Skoviera, Karla Stépánová, Michael Tesar, Gabriela Sejnova, Jirí Sedlár, Michal Vavrecka, Robert Babuska, Josef Sivic
  arXiv CoRR abs/1901.08335 (2019).
  
• Symbolic Regression Methods for Reinforcement Learning.
  Jirí Kubalík, Jan Zegklitz, Erik Derner, Robert Babuska
  arXiv CoRR abs/1903.09688 (2019).
  
• Symbolic Regression for Constructing Analytic Models in Reinforcement Learning.
  Erik Derner, Jirí Kubalík, Nicola Ancona, Robert Babuska
  arXiv CoRR abs/1903.11483 (2019).
  
• Exquisitor: Interactive Learning at Large.
  Björn Þór Jónsson, Omar Shahbaz Khan, Hanna Ragnarsdóttir, Þórhildur Þorleiksdóttir, Jan Zahálka, Stevan Rudinac, Gylfi Þór Guðmundsson, Laurent Amsaleg, Marcel Worring
  arXiv CoRR abs/1904.08689 (2019).
  
• Vision-based Navigation Using Deep Reinforcement Learning.
  Jonas Kulhanek, Erik Derner, Tim de Bruin, Robert Babuska
  arXiv CoRR abs/1908.03627 (2019).
  
• A scheduling and control approach for an industrial furnace to minimize idle energy consumption.
  Ondrej Benedikt, Baran Alikoc, Premysl Sucha, Sergej Celikovský, Zdenek Hanzálek
  arXiv CoRR abs/1910.07501 (2019).
  
• Robust cooperative synchronization of homogeneous agents with delays on directed communication graphs.
  Baran Alikoc, Kristian Hengster-Movric
  arXiv CoRR abs/1911.10359 (2019).
  
• Reinforcement learning based compensation methods for robot manipulators.
  Yudha P. Pane, Subramanya Nageshrao, Jens Kober, Robert Babuska
  Eng. Appl. Artif. Intell. 78: 236-247 (2019).
  
• An Integrated Approach to Goal Selection in Mobile Robot Exploration.
  Miroslav Kulich, Jirí Kubalík, Libor Preucil
  Sensors 19: (2019).
  

2018

• Data-driven Construction of Symbolic Process Models for Reinforcement Learning.
  Erik Derner, Jirí Kubalík, Robert Babuska
  2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2018, Brisbane, Australia, May 21-25, 2018: 1-8 (2018).
  
• Reinforcement Learning with Symbolic Input-Output Models.
  Erik Derner, Jirí Kubalík, Robert Babuska
  2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2018, Madrid, Spain, October 1-5, 2018: 3004-3009 (2018).
  
• Decentralized Reinforcement Learning of Robot Behaviors.
  David Leonardo Leottau, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Robert Babuska
  Artif. Intell. 256: 130-159 (2018).
  
• Policy derivation methods for critic-only reinforcement learning in continuous spaces.
  Eduard Alibekov, Jirí Kubalík, Robert Babuska
  Eng. Appl. Artif. Intell. 69: 178-187 (2018).
  
• Experience Selection in Deep Reinforcement Learning for Control.
  Tim de Bruin, Jens Kober, Karl Tuyls, Robert Babuska
  J. Mach. Learn. Res. 19: 9:1-9:56 (2018).
  
• Integrating State Representation Learning Into Deep Reinforcement Learning.
  Tim de Bruin, Jens Kober, Karl Tuyls, Robert Babuska
  IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 3: 1394-1401 (2018).
  
• Model-Plant Mismatch Compensation Using Reinforcement Learning.
  Ivan Koryakovskiy, Manuel Kudruss, Heike Vallery, Robert Babuska, Wouter Caarls
  IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 3: 2471-2477 (2018).
  
• Blackthorn: Large-Scale Interactive Multimodal Learning.
  Jan Zahálka, Stevan Rudinac, Björn Þór Jónsson, Dennis C. Koelma, Marcel Worring
  IEEE Trans. Multim. 20: 687-698 (2018).
  
• A Multiple-Model Reliability Prediction Approach for Condition-Based Maintenance.
  Kim Verbert, Bart De Schutter, Robert Babuska
  IEEE Trans. Reliab. 67: 1364-1376 (2018).
  
• Reinforcement Learning Applied to an Electric Water Heater: From Theory to Practice.
  Frederik Ruelens, Bert Claessens, Salman Quaiyum, Bart De Schutter, Robert Babuska, Ronnie Belmans
  IEEE Trans. Smart Grid 9: 3792-3800 (2018).
  

2017

• Model-based real-time control of a magnetic manipulator system.
  Jan-Willem Damsteeg, Subramanya Nageshrao, Robert Babuska
  56th IEEE Annual Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2017, Melbourne, Australia, December 12-15, 2017: 3277-3282 (2017).
  
• Automated tuning and configuration of path planning algorithms.
  Ruben Burger, Mukunda Bharatheesha, Marc van Bert, Robert Babuska
  2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2017, Singapore, Singapore, May 29 - June 3, 2017: 4371-4376 (2017).
  
• Enhanced Symbolic Regression Through Local Variable Transformations.
  Jirí Kubalík, Erik Derner, Robert Babuska
  Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence, IJCCI 2017, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, November 1-3, 2017.: 91-100 (2017).
  
• Discovering Geographic Regions in the City Using Social Multimedia and Open Data.
  Stevan Rudinac, Jan Zahálka, Marcel Worring
  MultiMedia Modeling - 23rd International Conference, MMM 2017, Reykjavik, Iceland, January 4-6, 2017, Proceedings, Part II: 148-159 (2017).
  
• Combining knowledge and historical data for system-level fault diagnosis of HVAC systems.
  Kim Verbert, Robert Babuska, Bart De Schutter
  Eng. Appl. Artif. Intell. 59: 260-273 (2017).
  
• Bayesian and Dempster-Shafer reasoning for knowledge-based fault diagnosis-A comparative study.
  Kim Verbert, Robert Babuska, Bart De Schutter
  Eng. Appl. Artif. Intell. 60: 136-150 (2017).
  
• Benchmarking model-free and model-based optimal control.
  Ivan Koryakovskiy, Manuel Kudruss, Robert Babuska, Wouter Caarls, Christian Kirches, Katja D. Mombaur, Johannes P. Schlöder, Heike Vallery
  Robotics Auton. Syst. 92: 81-90 (2017).
  
• Timely condition-based maintenance planning for multi-component systems.
  Kim Verbert, Bart De Schutter, Robert Babuska
  Reliab. Eng. Syst. Saf. 159: 310-321 (2017).
  
• A Polynomial Method for Stability Analysis of LTI Systems Independent of Delays.
  Baran Alikoc, Ali Fuat Ergenç
  SIAM J. Control. Optim. 55: 2661-2683 (2017).
  
• Railway Track Circuit Fault Diagnosis Using Recurrent Neural Networks.
  Tim de Bruin, Kim Verbert, Robert Babuska
  IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Learn. Syst. 28: 523-533 (2017).
  
• Residential Demand Response of Thermostatically Controlled Loads Using Batch Reinforcement Learning.
  Frederik Ruelens, Bert J. Claessens, Stijn Vandael, Bart De Schutter, Robert Babuska, Ronnie Belmans
  IEEE Trans. Smart Grid 8: 2149-2159 (2017).
  
• Stability analysis of multiple time-delay systems and design of time-delay filters (Çoklu zaman gecikmeli sistemlerin kararlılık analizi ve gecikme tabanlı filtre tasarımı)
  Baran Alikoc
  Thesis (2017).
  

2016

• Symbolic method for deriving policy in reinforcement learning.
  Eduard Alibekov, Jirí Kubalík, Robert Babuska
  55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2016, Las Vegas, NV, USA, December 12-14, 2016: 2789-2795 (2016).
  
• Learning state representation for deep actor-critic control.
  Jelle Munk, Jens Kober, Robert Babuska
  55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2016, Las Vegas, NV, USA, December 12-14, 2016: 4667-4673 (2016).
  
• Actor-critic reinforcement learning for tracking control in robotics.
  Yudha P. Pane, Subramanya Nageshrao, Robert Babuska
  55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2016, Las Vegas, NV, USA, December 12-14, 2016: 5819-5826 (2016).
  
• Integrated dynamic modelling and multivariable control of HVAC components.
  Harish Satyavada, Robert Babuska, Simone Baldi
  15th European Control Conference, ECC 2016, Aalborg, Denmark, June 29 - July 1, 2016: 1171-1176 (2016).
  
• Deep convolutional neural networks for detection of rail surface defects.
  Shahrzad Faghih-Roohi, Siamak Hajizadeh, Alfredo Núñez, Robert Babuska, Bart De Schutter
  2016 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2016, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 24-29, 2016: 2584-2589 (2016).
  
• Improved deep reinforcement learning for robotics through distribution-based experience retention.
  Tim de Bruin, Jens Kober, Karl Tuyls, Robert Babuska
  2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2016, Daejeon, South Korea, October 9-14, 2016: 3947-3952 (2016).
  
• Interactive Multimodal Learning on 100 Million Images.
  Jan Zahálka, Stevan Rudinac, Björn Þór Jónsson, Dennis C. Koelma, Marcel Worring
  Proceedings of the 2016 ACM on International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, ICMR 2016, New York, New York, USA, June 6-9, 2016: 333-337 (2016).
  
• Ten Research Questions for Scalable Multimedia Analytics.
  Björn Þór Jónsson, Marcel Worring, Jan Zahálka, Stevan Rudinac, Laurent Amsaleg
  MultiMedia Modeling - 22nd International Conference, MMM 2016, Miami, FL, USA, January 4-6, 2016, Proceedings, Part II: 290-302 (2016).
  
• Decentralized Reinforcement Learning Applied to Mobile Robots.
  David Leonardo Leottau, Aashish Vatsyayan, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Robert Babuska
  RoboCup 2016: Robot World Cup XX [Leipzig, Germany, June 30 - July 4, 2016]: 368-379 (2016).
  
• Nested compliant admittance control for robotic mechanical assembly of misaligned and tightly toleranced parts.
  Nicky Mol, Jan Smisek, Robert Babuska, Andre Schiele
  2016 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2016, Budapest, Hungary, October 9-12, 2016: 2717-2722 (2016).
  
• Optimal model-free output synchronization of heterogeneous systems using off-policy reinforcement learning.
  Hamidreza Modares, Subramanya Nageshrao, Gabriel Alexandre Delgado Lopes, Robert Babuska, Frank L. Lewis
  Autom. 71: 334-341 (2016).
  
• Synchronization of a class of cyclic discrete-event systems describing legged locomotion.
  Gabriel A. D. Lopes, Bart Kersbergen, Bart De Schutter, Ton J. J. van den Boom, Robert Babuska
  Discret. Event Dyn. Syst. 26: 225-261 (2016).
  
• Online learning for optimistic planning.
  Lucian Busoniu, Alexander Daniels, Robert Babuska
  Eng. Appl. Artif. Intell. 55: 70-82 (2016).
  
• Fault diagnosis using spatial and temporal information with application to railway track circuits.
  Kim Verbert, Bart De Schutter, Robert Babuska
  Eng. Appl. Artif. Intell. 56: 200-211 (2016).
  
• Port-Hamiltonian Systems in Adaptive and Learning Control: A Survey.
  Subramanya Nageshrao, Gabriel A. D. Lopes, Dimitri Jeltsema, Robert Babuska
  IEEE Trans. Autom. Control. 61: 1223-1238 (2016).
  
• Hybrid Single Node Genetic Programming for Symbolic Regression.
  Jirí Kubalík, Eduard Alibekov, Jan Zegklitz, Robert Babuska
  Trans. Comput. Collect. Intell. 24: 61-82 (2016).
  
• Learning Sequential Composition Control.
  Esmaeil Najafi, Robert Babuska, Gabriel A. D. Lopes
  IEEE Trans. Cybern. 46: 2559-2569 (2016).
  
• Multimedia Pivot Tables for Multimedia Analytics on Image Collections.
  Marcel Worring, Dennis C. Koelma, Jan Zahálka
  IEEE Trans. Multim. 18: 2217-2227 (2016).
  
• Unified Modeling and Control of Walking and Running on the Spring-Loaded Inverted Pendulum.
  Mohammad Shahbazi, Robert Babuska, Gabriel A. D. Lopes
  IEEE Trans. Robotics 32: 1178-1195 (2016).
  

2015

• Real-Time Optimistic Planning with Action Sequences.
  Thijs Wensveen, Lucian Busoniu, Robert Babuska
  20th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science, CSCS 2015, Bucharest, Romania, May 27-29, 2015: 923-930 (2015).
  
• Exploiting spatial and temporal dependencies to enhance fault diagnosis: Application to railway track circuits.
  Kim Verbert, Bart De Schutter, Robert Babuska
  14th European Control Conference, ECC 2015, Linz, Austria, July 15-17, 2015: 3047-3052 (2015).
  
• Selection Hyper-Heuristic Using a Portfolio of Derivative Heuristics.
  Frantisek Hruska, Jirí Kubalík
  Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2015, Madrid, Spain, July 11-15, 2015, Companion Material Proceedings: 1401-1402 (2015).
  
• Analytical approximation for the double-stance phase of a walking robot.
  Mohammad Shahbazi, Robert Babuska, Gabriel A. D. Lopes
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2015, Seattle, WA, USA, 26-30 May, 2015: 5754-5760 (2015).
  
• Attitude and altitude estimation and control on board a Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle.
  J. L. Verboom, Sjoerd Tijmons, Christophe De Wagter, B. D. W. Remes, Robert Babuska, Guido C. H. E. de Croon
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2015, Seattle, WA, USA, 26-30 May, 2015: 5846-5851 (2015).
  
• An Improved Single Node Genetic Programming for Symbolic Regression.
  Jirí Kubalík, Robert Babuska
  Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI 2015) - Volume 1: ECTA, Lisbon, Portugal, November 12-14, 2015.: 244-251 (2015).
  
• Level control of a coupled-tank system via eigenvalue assignment and LQG control.
  Deniz Engules, Murat Hot, Baran Alikoc
  23rd Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2015, Torremolinos, Malaga, Spain, June 16-19, 2015: 1198-1203 (2015).
  
• Analytic Quality: Evaluation of Performance and Insight in Multimedia Collection Analysis.
  Jan Zahálka, Stevan Rudinac, Marcel Worring
  Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Conference on Multimedia Conference, MM '15, Brisbane, Australia, October 26 - 30, 2015: 231-240 (2015).
  
• An application of sequential composition control to cooperative systems.
  Esmaeil Najafi, Robert Babuska, Gabriel A. D. Lopes
  10th International Workshop on Robot Motion and Control, RoMoCo 2015, Poznań, Poland, July 6-8, 2015: 15-20 (2015).
  
• Reinforcement Learning Applied to an Electric Water Heater: From Theory to Practice.
  Frederik Ruelens, Bert Claessens, Salman Quaiyum, Bart De Schutter, Robert Babuska, Ronnie Belmans
  arXiv CoRR abs/1512.00408 (2015).
  
• Residential Demand Response Applications Using Batch Reinforcement Learning.
  Frederik Ruelens, Bert Claessens, Stijn Vandael, Bart De Schutter, Robert Babuska, Ronnie Belmans
  arXiv CoRR abs/1504.02125 (2015).
  
• Learning robustly stable open-loop motions for robotic manipulation.
  Wouter Wolfslag, Michiel Plooij, Robert Babuska, Martijn Wisse
  Robotics Auton. Syst. 66: 27-34 (2015).
  
• Reinforcement Learning for Port-Hamiltonian Systems.
  Olivier Sprangers, Robert Babuska, Subramanya Nageshrao, Gabriel A. D. Lopes
  IEEE Trans. Cybern. 45: 1003-1013 (2015).
  
• Interactive Multimodal Learning for Venue Recommendation.
  Jan Zahálka, Stevan Rudinac, Marcel Worring
  IEEE Trans. Multim. 17: 2235-2244 (2015).