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Dr. Joschka Boedecker

Joschka Boedecker

Machine Learning Lab
University of Freiburg

Room 080/01005
Georges-Koehler-Allee 080
79110 Freiburg im Breisgau
Germany

Phone: +49 761 203 8014
Email: jboedeck@informatik.uni-freiburg.de

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Selected Publications

2016

SS Kumar, J Wülfing, S Okujeni, J Boedecker, M Riedmiller, U Egert (2016) Autonomous Optimization of Targeted Stimulation of Neuronal Networks. PLoS Comput Biol 12 (8) pp. e1005054. web Bibtex

@article{kumar2016plos,
  title={Autonomous Optimization of Targeted Stimulation of Neuronal Networks},
  author={Kumar, SS and Wülfing, J and Okujeni, S and Boedecker, J and Riedmiller, M and Egert, U},
  journal={PLoS Comput Biol},
  keywords = {EXC1086; BoedeckerSelect},
  volume={12},
  number={8},
  pages={e1005054},
  url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005054},
  year={2016}
}

2015

Wendelin Böhmer, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Joschka Boedecker, Martin Riedmiller, Klaus Obermayer (2015) Autonomous Learning of State Representations for Control: An Emerging Field Aims to Autonomously Learn State Representations for Reinforcement Learning Agents from Their Real-World Sensor Observations. KI - Künstliche Intelligenz pp. 1-10. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. doi web Bibtex

@article{BoeSprBoeRieObeKI2015,
  year={2015},
  issn={0933-1875},
  journal={KI - Künstliche Intelligenz},
  doi={10.1007/s13218-015-0356-1},
  title={Autonomous Learning of State Representations for Control: An Emerging Field Aims to Autonomously Learn State Representations for Reinforcement Learning Agents from Their Real-World Sensor Observations},
  url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13218-015-0356-1},
  publisher={Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
  keywords={End-to-end reinforcement learning; Representation learning; Deep auto-encoder networks; Slow feature analysis; Autonomous robotics; BoedeckerSelect},
  author={Böhmer, Wendelin and Springenberg, Jost Tobias and Boedecker, Joschka and Riedmiller, Martin and Obermayer, Klaus},
  pages={1-10}
}

Manuel Watter, Jost Springenberg, Joschka Boedecker, Martin Riedmiller (2015) Embed to Control: A Locally Linear Latent Dynamics Model for Control from Raw Images. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 28. pp. 2728–2736. PDF Bibtex

@incollection{watter2015e2c,
  title = {Embed to Control: A Locally Linear Latent Dynamics Model for Control from Raw Images},
  author = {Watter, Manuel and Springenberg, Jost and Boedecker, Joschka and Riedmiller, Martin},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 28},
  editor = {C. Cortes and N.D. Lawrence and D.D. Lee and M. Sugiyama and R. Garnett and R. Garnett},
  pages = {2728--2736},
  keywords = {EXC1086; SPP; BoedeckerSelect},
  year = {2015},
  file = {http://papers.nips.cc/paper/5964-embed-to-control-a-locally-linear-latent-dynamics-model-for-control-from-raw-images.pdf}
}

2014

Oliver Obst, Joschka Boedecker (2014) Guided Self-Organization of Input-Driven Recurrent Neural Networks. In Guided Self-Organization: Inception. pp. 319-340. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. doi web Bibtex

@incollection{ObstBoedeckerGSObook2014,
  author={Oliver Obst and Joschka Boedecker},
  title={Guided Self-Organization of Input-Driven Recurrent Neural Networks},
  booktitle={Guided Self-Organization: Inception}, 
  volume={9},
  series={Emergence, Complexity and Computation},
  editor={Prokopenko, Mikhail},
  pages={319-340},
  isbn={978-3-642-53733-2},   
  publisher={Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
  year={2014},
  doi={10.1007/978-3-642-53734-9_11},
  url={http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.1524},
  keywords={BoedeckerSelect}
}

Joschka Boedecker, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Jan Wülfing, Martin Riedmiller (2014) Approximate Real-Time Optimal Control Based on Sparse Gaussian Process Models. In Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL). PDF Bibtex

@INPROCEEDINGS{BoeSprWuel2014,
  author = {Joschka Boedecker and Jost Tobias Springenberg and Jan Wülfing and Martin Riedmiller},
  title = {Approximate Real-Time Optimal Control Based on Sparse Gaussian Process Models},
  booktitle = {Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL)},
  year = {2014},
  file = {adprl-2014.pdf},
  keywords= {EXC1086;BLBT;Neurobots;PR2;BoedeckerSelect}
}

2013

Joschka Boedecker, Thomas Lampe, Martin Riedmiller (2013) Modeling effects of intrinsic and extrinsic rewards on the competition between striatal learning systems. Frontiers in Psychology 4 (739) doi web Bibtex

@ARTICLE{BoedeckerLampeRiedmiller2013,
  AUTHOR = {Boedecker, Joschka  and  Lampe, Thomas  and  Riedmiller, Martin},
  TITLE = {Modeling effects of intrinsic and extrinsic rewards on the competition between striatal learning systems},
  JOURNAL = {Frontiers in Psychology},
  VOLUME = {4},
  YEAR = {2013},
  NUMBER = {739},
  URL = {http://www.frontiersin.org/cognitive_science/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00739/abstract},
  DOI = {10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00739},
  ISSN = {1664-1078},
  keywords = {Cognitive Modeling;Striatum;BoedeckerSelect}
}

2012

Christoph Hartmann AND Joschka Boedecker AND Oliver Obst AND Shuhei Ikemoto AND Minoru Asada (July 2012) Real-Time Inverse Dynamics Learning for Musculoskeletal Robots based on Echo State Gaussian Process Regression. In Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems. Sydney, Australia. Bibtex

@inproceedings{Hartmann2012,
	Address = {Sydney, Australia},
	Author = {Christoph Hartmann AND Joschka Boedecker AND Oliver Obst AND Shuhei Ikemoto AND Minoru Asada},
	Booktitle = {Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems},
	Date-Added = {2013-06-28 19:10:44 +0000},
	Date-Modified = {2013-06-28 19:10:44 +0000},
	Month = {July},
	Title = {Real-Time Inverse Dynamics Learning for Musculoskeletal Robots based on Echo State Gaussian Process Regression},
	Year = {2012},
	keywords = {BoedeckerSelect}
}

Joschka Boedecker, Oliver Obst, Joseph T Lizier, N Michael Mayer, Minoru Asada (2012) Information processing in echo state networks at the edge of chaos.. Theory in Biosciences 131 (3) pp. 205–213. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg. doi web Bibtex

@article{Boedecker2011,
	Author = {Boedecker, Joschka and Obst, Oliver and Lizier, Joseph T and Mayer, N Michael and Asada, Minoru},
	Date-Added = {2013-06-28 19:10:44 +0000},
	Date-Modified = {2013-06-28 19:21:11 +0000},
	Doi = {10.1007/s12064-011-0146-8},
	Issn = 16117530,
	Journal = {Theory in Biosciences},
	Keywords = {active information,computing,information transfer,phase transition,recurrent neural networks,reservoir,storage,BoedeckerSelect},
	Number = 3,
	Pages = {205--213},
	Pmid = 22147532,
	Publisher = {Springer Berlin / Heidelberg},
	Title = {{Information processing in echo state networks at the edge of chaos.}},
	Url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22147532},
	Volume = 131,
	Year = 2012,
	Bdsk-Url-1 = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22147532},
	Bdsk-Url-2 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12064-011-0146-8}}

2010

Oliver Obst, Joschka Boedecker, Minoru Asada (2010) Improving Recurrent Neural Network Performance Using Transfer Entropy. In Neural Information Processing Models and Applications. pp. 193–200. Springer. web Bibtex

@inproceedings{Obst2010,
	Author = {Obst, Oliver and Boedecker, Joschka and Asada, Minoru},
	Booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Models and Applications},
	Date-Added = {2013-06-28 19:10:44 +0000},
	Date-Modified = {2013-06-28 19:30:44 +0000},
	Editor = {Wong, Kok Wai and Mendis, B Sumudu U and Bouzerdoum, Abdesselam},
	Isbn = {9783642175336},
	Keywords = {guided self organisation,information,machine learning,recurrent neural network,reservoir computing,theory,BoedeckerSelect},
	Pages = {193--200},
	Publisher = {Springer},
	Series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
	Title = {{Improving Recurrent Neural Network Performance Using Transfer Entropy}},
	Url = {http://www.oliverobst.eu/publications/OBA10.html},
	Volume = {6444},
	Year = {2010},
	Bdsk-Url-1 = {http://www.oliverobst.eu/publications/OBA10.html}}

2009

Joschka Boedecker, Oliver Obst, Norbert Michael Mayer, Minoru Asada (Oct 2009) Initialization and Self-Organized Optimization of Recurrent Neural Network Connectivity. HFSP Journal 3 (5) pp. 340–349. doi web Bibtex

@article{BOMA09b,
	Author = {Joschka Boedecker and Oliver Obst and Norbert Michael Mayer and Minoru Asada},
	Date-Added = {2010-03-20 14:02:34 +0900},
	Date-Modified = {2010-03-20 14:02:34 +0900},
	Doi = {10.2976/1.3240502},
	Journal = {HFSP Journal},
	Keywords = {recurrent neural networks, intrinsic plasticity, reservoir computing, BoedeckerSelect},
	Month = Oct,
	Number = 5,
	Pages = {340--349},
	Title = {Initialization and Self-Organized Optimization of Recurrent Neural Network Connectivity},
	Url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2976/1.3240502},
	Volume = 3,
	Year = 2009,
	Bdsk-Url-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2976/1.3240502}}

Joschka Boedecker, Oliver Obst, Norbert Michael Mayer, Minoru Asada (apr 2009) Studies on Reservoir Initialization and Dynamics Shaping in Echo State Networks. In Proceedings of the 17th European Symposium On Artificial Neural Networks ({ESANN}'09). pp. 227–232. D-Side Publications. Evere, Belgium. web Bibtex

@inproceedings{BOMA09a,
	Address = {Evere, Belgium},
	Author = {Joschka Boedecker and Oliver Obst and Norbert Michael Mayer and Minoru Asada},
	Booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th European Symposium On Artificial Neural Networks ({ESANN}'09)},
	Date-Added = {2010-03-20 14:14:56 +0900},
	Date-Modified = {2010-03-20 16:30:56 +0900},
	Editor = {Michel Verleysen},
	Month = apr,
	Pages = {227--232},
	Publisher = {D-Side Publications},
	Title = {Studies on Reservoir Initialization and Dynamics Shaping in Echo State Networks},
	Url = {http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/Proceedings/esann/esannpdf/es2009-132.pdf},
	Year = 2009,
	Bdsk-Url-1 = {http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/Proceedings/esann/esannpdf/es2009-132.pdf},
	keywords = {BoedeckerSelect}
}

Norbert Michael Mayer, Joschka Boedecker, Minoru Asada (2009) Robot motion description and real-time management with the Harmonic Motion Description Protocol. Robotics and Autonomous Systems 57 (8) pp. 870-876. web Bibtex

@article{MBA09,
	Author = {Norbert Michael Mayer and Joschka Boedecker and Minoru Asada},
	Date-Added = {2010-03-20 14:01:04 +0900},
	Date-Modified = {2010-03-20 14:01:39 +0900},
	Journal = {Robotics and Autonomous Systems},
	Number = {8},
	Pages = {870-876},
	Title = {Robot motion description and real-time management with the Harmonic Motion Description Protocol},
	Url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2009.03.014},
	Volume = {57},
	Year = {2009},
	Bdsk-Url-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2009.03.014},
	keywords = {BoedeckerSelect}
}

For a full list of publications, please see here.

Professional Activities

Reviewer for Journals

Journal of Machine Learning Research
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
PLOS Computational Biology
Neurocomputing
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine
IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A
IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development
Biomedizinische Technik
Artificial Life
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Reviewer for Conferences

IROS, ICRA, HUMANOIDS, ICDL-EpiRob, ICMC, SIMPAR, Workshop on Collective Learning and Inference on Structured Data (CoLISD), Distributed machine learning and sparse representation with massive data sets (DMMD)

PC Member

AAAI 2014
GSO 2014, 2013, 2012
SIMPAR 2012, 2010, 2008
DMMD 2011
CoLISD Workshop 2012, 2011

Publication Chair

IEEE ICDL-EpiRob 2013

Workshop Organization

Seventh International Workshop on Guided Self-Organisation (GSO-2014)
The Universe of RoboCup Simulators at SIMPAR 2008

RoboCup

Technical committee Soccer Simulation League, 2005-2007
Organizing committee Soccer Simulation League, 2005, 2006 (chair)
Maintenance committee Soccer Simulation League, 2005-2007 (chair), 2008

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