CML Colloquium: Brain-inspired intelligence and future applications in robotics

3 May 2016

CML Colloquium 03 May 2016, 15:00, Room F334, Informatikum

Professor Dr. Bo Xu, Director of Institute of Automation in Beijing, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA)

Learning from human brain to improve the machine intelligence is definitely one of the very interesting and potential research areas. Under the framework of CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology (CEBSIT), a list of brain-inspired computing mechanisms in multi-scales that are under exploring will be presented. Specifically two function models will be emphasized. The first one is a multi-region structured sensing/decision model that could let UAV learn autonomous flying through simply interacting; The second one is RAM (reasoning, attention and memory) model, that could capture the meaning of spoken dialogue through the attention and reasoning. Finally, deep fusion of these models and robotics will be discussed .

Prof. Xu Bo was born in Zhejiang province in China. He has been working in the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA) after he received the Bachelor's degree from Zhejiang University in 1988. From 1988 he joined the speech research and received the Master's and Doctor's degree of the field in 1992 and 1997 respectively. Now he is the president of CASIA and associate director of CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology (CEBSIT). His research interests include speech recognition, spoken dialogue system, speech translation, multimedia information processing and virtual reality. He successfully finished several technology transfers and spin off companies in this area. He is currently deeply involved in the brain-inspired intelligence research and future applications in service robotics. He won several prizes including the best paper of ISCSLP, outstanding young scientist of CAS and outstanding achievement in media technology development.