Sunderland University : Intelligent Robotics

Home Venue Agenda

Time	Session	Supervisor
10:00	Registration and Tea / Coffee
10:50	Welcome Address by the Head of the Department	Alastair Irons (University of Sunderland)
10:50	Welcome and Introduction to the NCAF meeting: Hybrid Intelligent Systems for Cognitive Robotics	Stefan Wermter (University of Sunderland)
11:15	Multi-Modal Visual, Auditory and Motor Novelty and Familiarity Detection	Christo Panchev (University of Sunderland)
12:00	Modelling the Sensor Hierarchy: From Gaze Shifts to Emotions	Matthew Casey (University of Surrey)
12:45	Lunch
14:00	POPeye: Real-time Binaural Sound Source Localisation on an Audio-visual Robot Head	Heidi Christenson (University of Sheffield)
14:45	Mobile Robot Broadband Sound Localisation Using a Biologically-inspired Spiking Neural Network	Jindong Liu (University of Sunderland)
15:30	Tea / Coffee
16:15	Optimal Coverage of Moving Objects Using DCF	Mark Ebden (University of Oxford)
17:00	Solution to Puzzle Corner #40
19:00	Social Event - Meal and Glass Blowing Demonstration at the National Glass Centre

Time	Session	Supervisor
09:45	An Approach to Developing a Library of Voltage-gated Channels	Harry Erwin (University of Sunderland)
10:30	Recurrent Self-Organising Memory Model for Speech Signal and Semantic Feature Association for Emergent Speech Representation	Mark Elshaw (University of Sheffield)
11:15	Tea / Coffee
11:45	Towards Emotional Robots: Interaction Preference Between Robot and Human	John Murray (University of Hertfordshire)
12:30	Lunch
13:30	NCAF AGM
13:45	Reinforcement Learning and Perceptual Symbol Systems for Supporting Human Robot Interaction	Mike Knowles (University of Sunderland)
14:30	Simultaneous Tracking of Perceiver Movements and Speaker Changes Using Head-centred Binaural Data	Heidi Christenson (University of Sheffield)
15:15	Tea / Coffee and Close of Meeting