Sebastian Höfer

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Office hours: Wednesday 12-14h (please make an appointment)

Research Interests

Autonomous Learning
Developmental Robotics
Language Evolution

CV

03/2011-present
Junior researcher at the Robotics & Biology Lab, TU Berlin (Oliver Brock).
12/2010-02/2011
Research assistant at the AI Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) (Luc Steels).
01/2011
Diploma in computer sciences with minor subject philosophy at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU Berlin).
My diploma thesis Applications of Slow Feature Analysis in Humanoid Robotics received the Best Thesis Award 2011 (Institutspreis 2011) by the HU Berlin Department of Computer Science.
08/2010-10/2010
Internship at the Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Paris (Luc Steels).
02/2010-06/2010
Student assistant at the Labor für Neurorobotik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Manfred Hild).

Publications

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Luc Steels, Michael Spranger, Remi van Trijp, Sebastian Höfer, and Manfred Hild. Emergent Action Language on Real Robots. Language Grounding in Robots. Springer (US), chap. 13, pp. 255-276, 2012.

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Katrien Beuls, Luc Steels und Sebastian Höfer. The Emergence of Internal Agreement Systems. Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution, pp. 233-256, 2012.

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Sebastian Höfer, Michael Spranger, and Manfred Hild. Posture Recognition Based on Slow Feature Analysis. Language Grounding in Robots. Springer Verlag, chap. 06, pp. 111-130, 2012.

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Katrien Beuls, and Sebastian Höfer. Simulating the Emergence of Grammatical Agreement in Multi-agent Language Games. Twenty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 61-66, 2011.

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Sebastian Höfer. Anwendungen der Slow Feature Analysis in der humanoiden Robotik. Diploma Thesis, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, 2011. Download Bibtex entry

Sebastian Höfer, Manfred Hild, and Matthias Kubisch. Using Slow Feature Analysis to Extract Behavioural Manifolds Related to Humanoid Robot Postures. Tenth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics, pp. 43-50, 2010.

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Sebastian Höfer, and Manfred Hild. Using Slow Feature Analysis to Improve the Reactivity of a Humanoid Robot's Sensorimotor Gait Pattern. International Conference on Neural Computation, pp. 212-219, 2010.

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Michael Spranger, Sebastian Höfer, and Manfred Hild. Biologically Inspired Posture Recognition and Posture Change Detection for Humanoid Robots. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, pp. 562-567, 2009.

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