NC² New Challenges in Neural Computation (NC2)
Workshop of the GI-Fachgruppe Neuronale Netze and the German Neural Networks Society in connection to GCPR 2016, Hanover

Workshop program

The workshop will take place on 12.9.2016, 9.00 a.m. - 17.50 p.m. accompanying GCPR in Hanover. It will take place at the Hotel Dormero in Hanover.

This year, again, we received a large number of very good contributions. All regular contributions will be presented by a talk of 15 min plus 5 min questions, short contributions will be presented by a talk of 10 min plus 5 min questions.

Preliminary Schedule

9:00 Opening
9:05-10:00 Advances in learning vector quantization
  • T. Villmann, M. Kaden, A. Bohnsack: Classification Margin Dependent Exploration Horizons of Prototypes for Outlier Robust Classification in Learning Vector Quantization
  • B. Paassen, A. Schulz, B. Hammer: Linear Supervised Transfer Learning for Generalized Matrix LVQ
  • K. Bunte, E. S. Baranowski, W. Arlt, P. Tino: Relevance Learning Vector Quantization in Variable Dimensional Spaces
10:00-11:00 Processing time series data
  • F. Melchert, U. Seiffert, M. Biehl: Functional approximation for the classification of smooth time series
  • W. Aswolinskiy, J. Steil: Parameterized Pattern Generation via Regression in the Model Space of Echo State Networks
  • F. Raue, M. Liwicki, A. Dengel: Symbolic Association Learning inspired by the Symbol Grounding Problem
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 Keynote talk
Marc Toussaint (University of Stuttgart): Representation Learning - I've heard that one before
12:30-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-15:00 Keynote talk
Jörg Lücke (University of Oldenburg): Neural Simpletrons - Minimalistic Deep Neural Networks for Probabilistic Learning with Few Labels
15:00-16:00 Sampling, modelling, and optimization
  • O. Walter, R Häb-Umbach: Unsupervised Word Discovery from Speech using Bayesian Hierarchical Models
  • R. Rayyes, J. Steil: Goal Babbling with Direction Sampling for simultaneous exploration and learning of inverse kinematics of a humanoid robot
  • J. Brinkrolf, T. Mittag, R. Joppen, A. Dröge, K.-H. Pietsch, B. Hammer: Virtual optimisation for improved production planning
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:40 Computer vision and deep learning
  • H. Berntsen, W. Kuijper, T. Heskes: The Artificial Mind's Eye - Resisting Adversarials for Convolutional Neural Networks using Internal Projection
  • M. Garbade, J. Gall: Handcrafting vs Deep Learning: An Evaluation of NTraj+ Features for Pose Based Action Recognition
  • J. Kreger, L. Fischer, U. Bauer-Wersing, T. Weisswange: Quality Prediction for a Road Detection System
  • P. P. Fouopi, G. Srinivas, S. Knake-Langhorst, F. Köster: Object Detection Based on Deep Learning and Context Information
17:40-17:50 Nomination of the best presentation award, closing
17:50-18:30 Meeting of the GI Fachgruppe Neural Networks and of the German Neural Networks Society

ENNS The workshop is sponsored by the European Neural Networks Society and by the CITEC centre of excellence CITEC: Cognitive Interaction Technology - Center of Excellence

Barbara Hammer