Journal Club

This page lists the talks of the joint CML journal club in Hamburg and Beijing.

Winter Semester 2022

• Wednesday, January 11, 2022 at 13:30 (Hamburg) CEST, 19:30 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  We will discuss a paper proposed by proposed by Dr. Peng Wang from UKE:

  Zhao et al. (2022),
  Transcranial photobiomodulation enhances visual working memory capacity in humans
  Science Advances 8, eabq3211 (2022).
  10.1126/sciadv.abq3211

• Tuesday, December 20, 2022 at 10:00 (Hamburg) CEST, 18:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  Internal Webinar: Introduction to Git
  Meeting-ID: 673 2153 0330 (password has been mailed to participants)
  

Summer Semester 2022

Note: this semester, meetings are planned in hybrid mode, face-to-face at Informatikum and in addition as online Zoom meetings.

• Wednesday, June 29, 2022 at 13:30 (Hamburg) CEST, 18:30 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  We will discuss a paper proposed by proposed by Dionysia Kaziki from UKE:

  Manuel Varlet, Sylvie Nozaradan, Laurel Trainor, Peter E Keller (2020).
  Dynamic Modulation of Beta Band Cortico-Muscular Coupling Induced by Audio–Visual Rhythms
  Cerebral Cortex Communications, Volume 1, Issue 1, 2020, tgaa043.
  https://doi.org/10.1093/texcom/tgaa043

• Wednesday, June 15, 2022 at 13:30 (Hamburg) CEST, 18:30 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  We will discuss a paper proposed by proposed by Honghui Xu, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences:

  Tianyu Gao, Shihui Han (2022).
  Distinct neurocognitive mechanisms underlying learning and representations of symbols of life and death
  Cerebral Cortex, 2022, 1-19
  https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhac139

• Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 13:30 (Hamburg) CEST, 18:30 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  We will discuss a paper proposed by proposed by Dr. Fatemeh Hadaeghi (UKE, project A2):

  Aran Nayebi, Javier Sagastuy-Brena, Daniel M Bear, Kohitij Kar, Jonas Kubilius, Surya Gangul, David Sussillo, James J DiCarlo, and Daniel LK Yamins (2021).
  Goal-driven recurrent neural network models of the ventral visual stream
  BioRxiv, 10.1101/2021.02.17.431717v3

• Wednesday, May 04, 2022 at 13:30 (Hamburg) CEST, 18:30 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  We will discuss a paper proposed by Honghui Xu from Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences:

  Tianyu Gao, Shihui Han (2022).
  Distinct neurocognitive mechanisms underlying learning and representations of symbols of life and death
  Cereb Cortex., 2022 Apr, bhac139.
  Download link: https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhac139

• Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 13:30 (Hamburg) CEST, 18:30 (Beijing), hybrid face-to-face and Zoom meeting
  

  We will discuss two papers selected by Hongzhuo Liang, one from robotics:

  Nicholas Pestell, Thom Griffith, Nathan F. Lepora (2022).
  Artificial SA-I and RA-I afferents for tactile sensing of ridges and gratings
  Download link: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2021.0822

  and one from psychology:

  Hannes P. Saal, Benoit P. Delhaye, Brandon C. Rayhaun, and Sliman J. Bensmaia (2017).
  Simulating tactile signals from the whole hand with millisecond precision
  Download link: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1704856114

• Wednesday, April 05, 2022 at 13:30 (Hamburg) CEST, 18:30 (Beijing), hybrid face-to-face and Zoom meeting
  

  We will discuss a ToM paper proposed Tatia Buidze (UKE, C9):

  Qingtian Mi, Cong Wang, Colin F. Camerer, Lusha Zhu,
  Reading between the lines: Listener’s vmPFC simulates speaker cooperative choices in communication games
  Download link: 10.1126/sciadv.abe6276

Winter Semester 2021/2022

• Wednesday, March 23, 2021 at 13:00 (Hamburg) CEST, 20:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  We will discuss the Master thesis of Johannes Günther (B1+B5):

  Johannes Günther,
  Neuronal model of adaptive frequency oscillator ensembles for temporal prediction,
  based on
  L. Righetti et al., Adaptive Frequency Oscillators and Applications, 2009.
  DOI: 10.2174/1874110X00903020064
  L. Righetti et al., Dynamic Hebbian learning in adaptive frequency oscillators, 2006.
  DOI: 10.1016/j.physd.2006.02.009
  

• Wednesday, March 16, 2021 at 13:00 (Hamburg) CEST, 20:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  We will discuss a manipulation paper proposed by Hongzhuo Liang:

  Tao Chen, Jie Xu, Pulkit Agrawal
  A System for General In-Hand Object Re-Orientation,
  Download link: arxiv.org/abs/2111.03043

Summer Semester 2021

Note: due to the prolonged Corona virus measures, meetings will again take place as online Zoom meetings until further notice:

• Wednesday, September 15, 2021 at 13:00 (Hamburg) CEST, 20:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  We will discuss a paper proposed by Shuang Li (TAMS):

  Luca Tonin, Felix Christian Bauer, José der R. Millán
  The Role of the Control Framework for Continuous Teleoperation of a Brain–Machine Interface-Driven Mobile Robot
  IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 36, No. 1, 78-91, 2020
  2020 pdf (ieeexplore)

• Wednesday, July 7, 2021 at 13:00 (Hamburg) CEST, 20:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  We will discuss a paper proposed by Lei Wang (UKE):

  Lei Wang, Elisabeth Noordanus, Adrianus Johannes van Opstal
  Towards real-time detection of auditory steady-state responses: a comparative study
  IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 108975-108991, 2021, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3100157
  article

• Wednesday, June 9, 2021 at 13:00 (Hamburg) CEST, 20:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  We will discuss a paper proposed by Phliipp Ruppel (A4 project):

  Arild Nøkland
  Direct Feedback Alignment Provides Learning in Deep Neural Networks
  preprint https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.01596.pdf

Winter Semester 2020/20201

Note: due to the prolonged Corona virus measures, all meetings will again take place as online Zoom meetings this semester.

• Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021 at 13:00 (Hamburg) CEST, 20:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  We will discuss a paper proposed by Ge Gao (A6 project):

  Zhibo Yang, Lihan Huang, Yupei Chen, Zijun Wei, Seoyoung Ahn, Gregory Zelinsky, Dimitris Samaras, Minh Hoai (2020).
  Predicting Goal-directed Human Attention Using Inverse Reinforcement Learning
  preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14310

• Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021 at 13:00 (Hamburg) CEST, 20:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  We will discuss a paper proposed by Carina Bauer (B3 project):

  Shen, G., Horikawa, T., Majima, K. and Kamitani, Y., (2019).
  Deep image reconstruction from human brain activity.
  PLoS computational biology, 15(1), p.e1006633.

• Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021 at 13:00 (Hamburg) CEST, 20:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  We will discuss a paper proposed by Judith Hartfill (C8 project):

  Fribourg, R., Argelaguet, F., Lécuyer, A., & Hoyet, L. (2020).
  Avatar and sense of embodiment: Studying the relative preference between appearance, control and point of view. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 26(5), 2062-2072.
  10.1109/TVCG.2020.2973077

• Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021 at 13:00 (Hamburg) CEST, 20:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  We will discuss a paper proposed by Sina Storm (A1 project):

  Meike Scheller, Sara Garcia, Joe Bathelt, Michelle de Haan, Karin Petrini (2019).
  Active touch facilitates object size perception in children but not adults: A multisensory event related potential study
  10.1016/j.brainres.2019.146381

• Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020 at 13:00 (Hamburg) CEST, 20:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  We will discuss a paper proposed by Fares Abawi (A5 project):

  Manuel Blum, Lenore Blum (2020).
  A Theoretical Computer Science Perspective on Consciousness
  https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.09850.pdf

• Wednesday, Dec. 02, 2020 at 13:00 (Hamburg) CEST, 20:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  We will discuss a paper proposed by Lin Cong (B5 project):

  Jemin Hwangbo, Joonho Lee, Alexey Dosovitskiy, Dario Bellicoso, Vassilios Tsounis, Vladlen Koltun, Marco Hutte (2020).
  Learning agile and dynamic motor skills for legged robots
  Science Robotics, Vol.4, Issue 26, eaau5872, DOI 10.1126/scirobotics.aau5872>

• Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020 at 13:00 (Hamburg) CEST, 20:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  We will discuss a paper proposed by Hongzhuo Liang (B5 project):

  Bohan Wu, Iretiayo Akinola, Jacob Varley, Peter K. Allen (2019).
  MAT: Multi-Fingered Adaptive Tactile Grasping via Deep Reinforcement Learning
  arXiv: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.04787.pdf

Summer Semester 2020

Note: due to the Corona virus measures, all meetings will take place as online Zoom meetings this semester.

• Wednesday, 16 September 2020, 13:00 (Hamburg), 19:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  We will discuss a paper proposed by Ziwei Chen (CAS):

  Henderson, J.M., Hayes, T.R. (2017).
  Meaning-based guidance of attention in scenes as revealed by meaning maps.
  Nat Hum Behav 1, 743–747 (2017). doi.org/10.1038/s41562-017-0208-0

• Wednesday, 26 August 2020, 13:00 (Hamburg), 20:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  We will discuss a preprint proposed by Shuang Li:

  Lin Shao, Toki Migimatsu, Qiang Zhang, Kaiyuan Yang, Jeannette Bohg (2020).
  Concept2Robot: Learning Manipulation Concepts from Instructions and Human Demonstrations
  Paper, Video.

• Wednesday, 12 August 2020, 13:00 (Hamburg), 20:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  We will discuss a preprint proposed by Julius Richter:

  Vincent Sitzmann*, Julien N. P. Martel*, Alexander Bergman, David B. Lindell, Gordon Wetzstein (2020).
  Implicit Neural Representations with Periodic Activation Functions
  Preprint: Arxiv 2006.09661, Code/Demo: Siren github.
  

• Wednesday, 15 July 2020, 13:00 (Hamburg), 21:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  We will discuss a comprehensive review proposed by Özge Alacam:

  T. Baltrušaitis, C. Ahuja and L. Morency. (2019).
  Multimodal Machine Learning: A Survey and Taxonomy.
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 423-443, 1 Feb. 2019.
  doi: 10.1109/TPAMI.2018.2798607

• Wednesday, 1 July 2020, 13:00 (Hamburg), 21:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  This week's paper was proposed by Carina Bauer from Institute of Systems Neuroscience, UKE:

  Karla K Evans, Anne Treisman. (2010).
  Natural Cross-Modal Mappings Between Visual and Auditory Features.
  Journal of Vision, 2010, 10(1):6.1-12.

• Wednesday, 17 June 2020, 13:00 (Hamburg), 21:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  This week's paper was selected by Xintong Wang from Language Technology Group:

  Yusuf Aytar, Carl Vondrick, Antonio Torralba. (2017).
  See, Hear, and Read: Deep Aligned Representations.
  Arxiv 1706.00932

• Wednesday, 27 May 2020, 13:00 (Hamburg), 21:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  This week's paper was selected by Fares Abawi. The authors investigate the applicability of audio cues in conjunction with visual ones in predicting saliency maps using deep neural networks.

  Hamed R. Tavakoli, Ali Borji, Esa Rahtu, Juho Kannala. (2019).
  DAVE: Deep Audio-Visual Embedding for Dynamic Saliency Prediction.
  Arxiv 1905.10693

• Wednesday, 13 May 2020, 13:00 (Hamburg), 21:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting
  

  This week's paper about attention and EEG was selected by Cora Kubetschek:

  Toshihiro Kumagai and Hiroaki Mizuhara (2016).
  Top-down and bottom-up attention cause the ventriloquism effect with distinct electroencephalography modulations.
  NeuroReport 27:647-651 (2016).

• Wednesday, 29 April 2020, 13:00, Zoom meeting
  

  This week's paper about vision and touch, using deep networks and reinforcement learning, was proposed by Michael Görner:

  Michelle A. Lee, Yuke Zhu, Peter Zachares, Matthew Tan, Krishnan Srinivasan, Silvio Savarese, Li Fei-Fei, Animesh Garg, Jeannette Bohg (2019).
  Making Sense of Vision and Touch: Learning Multimodal Representations for Contact-Rich Tasks.
  Arxiv 1907.04975, 2019.

• Wednesday, 8 April 2020, 14:00 (Hamburg) 20:00 (Beijing), Zoom meeting.

  This week's paper about audio-visual speech was proposed by Hongzhuo Liang:

  Triantafyllos Afouras, Joon Son Chung, Andrew Zisserman (2019).
  My lips are concealed: Audio-visual speech enhancement through obstructions.
  Arxiv 907.04975, 2019.

Previous Semesters (CML Phase 1)

Please see here for an archive of the Journal Club in Phase 1 of the project.