Publications of Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

Selected publications on:

Developmental robotics, intrinsic motivation, and artificial curiosity:

Oudeyer P-Y, Kaplan , F. and Hafner, V. (2007) Intrinsic Motivation Systems for Autonomous Mental Development, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 11(2), pp. 265--286. DOI: 10.1109/TEVC.2006.890271. (html)

Self-organization, complex-systems and the origins of speech:

Oudeyer, P-Y. (2006) Self-Organization in the Evolution of Speech, Studies in the Evolution of Language, Oxford University Press. (Translation by James R. Hurford)

Oudeyer, P-Y. (2005) The Self-Organization of Speech Sounds, Journal of Theoretical Biology, 233(3), pp. 435--449. (html)

The origins of combinatoriality and phonotactics in speech:

Oudeyer, P-Y. (2005) The self-organization of combinatoriality and phonotactics in vocalization systems, Connection Science, 17(3-4), pp. 325--341

Language evolution conceptualized as a cultural Darwinian process:

Oudeyer, P-Y. and Kaplan, F. (2007) Language Evolution as a Darwinian Process: Computational Studies, Cognitive Processing, 8(1), pp. 21--35. DOI: 10.1007/s10339-006-0158-3

Language acquisition, cognitive development and learnability:

Oudeyer, P-Y (2005) How phonological structures can be culturally selected for learnability, Adaptive Behavior, 13(4), pp. 269--280.

Oudeyer P-Y., Kaplan F. (2006) Discovering Communication, Connection Science, 18(2), pp. 189--206.

Emotional speech synthesis and recognition:

Oudeyer P-Y. (2003) The production and recognition of emotions in speech: features and algorithms, International Journal in Human-Computer Studies, 59(1-2), pp. 157--183, special issue on Affective Computing.

Robot behavioral shaping:

Kaplan, F., Oudeyer, P-Y., Kubinyi, E. and Miklosi, A. (2002) Robotic clicker training. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 38(3-4), pp. 197--206.

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(as co-editor) Kaplan, F., Oudeyer P-Y., Revel, A., Gaussier, P., Nadel, J., Berthouze, L., Kozima, H., Prince, G.C., Balkenius, C. (2006) Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics, Lund University Cognitive Studies.

Thesis

Oudeyer P-Y. (2003) L'auto-organisation de la parole, PhD thesis, University Paris VI,
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International Journals

Koning J-L., Oudeyer P-Y. (2006) Modeling interaction strategies using POS: An application to soccer robots, Applied Intelligence, 25(1), pp. 7--21. bibtex reference

Kaplan, F. and Oudeyer, P-Y. (to appear) Intrinsically Motivated Machines, in M. Lungarella and Iida, F, Bongard, J,. and Pfeifer, R. (Eds.): 50 Years of AI, Festschrift, LNAI 4850, pp. 304–315, 2007.

Kaplan, F. and Oudeyer, P-Y. (2007) The progress-drive hypothesis: an interpretation of early imitation. In Dautenhahn, K. and Nehaniv, C., editor, Models and mechanisms of imitation and social learning: Behavioural, social and communication dimensions, pp. 361--377, Cambridge University Press.

Oudeyer, P-Y. (2007) From vocal replication to shared combinatorial speech codes: a small step for evolution, a big step for language, In Lyon, C., Nehaniv L. and A. Cangelosi, editor, Emergence of Communication and Language, pp. 207--222, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag. Berlin. bibtex reference

Oudeyer, P-Y. (2006) Des robots aux sources du langage, Sur les chemins de la découverte, coord. par Farouki, N., Presses Universitaires de France.

Oudeyer P-Y. (2005) From Holistic to Discrete Speech Sounds: The Blind Snow-Flake Maker Hypothesis, in Tallerman, M., editor, Language Origins: Perspectives on Evolution, Oxford University Press, pp. 68-99. bibtex reference abstract

Oudeyer P-Y. (in press) Pre-requisites related to the communication medium, Embodied Communicating Agents European Project white paper.

Kaplan, F. and Oudeyer, P-Y (2004) Maximizing learning progress: an internal reward system for development. In Iida, F. and Pfeifer, R. and Steels, L. and Kuniyoshi, Y., editor, Embodied Artificial Intelligence, pp. 259--270, LNAI 3139, Springer-Verlag.

Oudeyer, Pierre-yves, Origins and Learnability of Syllable Systems, a Cultural Evolutionary
Model, in Artificial Evolution, pp. 143-155, eds. P. Collet, C. Fonlupt, J.K. Hao, E. Lutton, M. Schonenauer, LNCS 2310, Springer Verlag.

Oudeyer, P-Y. and Koning, J-L. Modeling soccer-robots strategies through conversation policies. Agent systems, Mobile Agents and Applications, Lectures Notes in Computer Science, 1882, Springer., pages 249-261, 2000.

International Conferences with reviewers

Oudeyer, P-Y. and Kaplan, F. (2008) How can we define intrinsic motivation? Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems, Lund University Cognitive Studies, Lund:LUCS, Brighton.

Oudeyer, P-Y. (2007) Self-Organization in the Evolution of Shared Systems of Speech Sounds: a Computational Study, in the Proceedings of Interspeech 2007, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Kaplan, F. and Oudeyer, P-Y (2006) Curiosity-driven development, in the proceedings of the International Workshop on Synergistic Intelligence Dynamics, Genova, Italy.

Kaplan, F. and Oudeyer, P-Y. (2006) Trends in Epigenetic Robotics: Atlas 2006, in Kaplan, F. and Oudeyer, P-Y. and Revel, A. and Gaussier, P. and Nadel, J. and Berthouze, L. and Kozima, H. and Prince, C. and Balkenius, C., Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems, LUCS 128.

Oudeyer, P-Y. (2006) Boostrapping shared combinatorial speech codes from basic imitation: the role of self-organization, 6th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, Roma, Italy.

Oudeyer, P-Y. (2005) The self-organization of combinatorial vocalization systems, in the proceedings of the European Conference on Complex Systems, Paris.

Oudeyer, P-Y. (2005) The bootstrapping of combinatorial speech codes, First Scottish-Dutch workshop on Language Evolution: Formal Modelling Meets Empirical Data, Amsterdam.

Oudeyer P-Y. (2005) The self-organized origins of phonotactics, in the proceedings of the Second International Symposium on the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication, EELC'05, AISB 2005, Hatfield, UK.

Oudeyer P-Y., Kaplan F., Hafner, V., Whyte A. (2005) The Playground Experiment: Task-Independent Development of a Curious Robot, in the proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium Workshop on Developmental Robotics.

Kaplan, F. and Oudeyer, P-Y. (2004) Neuromodulation and open-ended development. Third International Conference on Development and Learning: Developing social brains, Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA.

Oudeyer, P-Y. and Kaplan F. (2004) Intelligent adaptive curiosity: a source of self-development. In Luc Berthouze and Hideki Kozima and Christopher G. Prince and Giulio Sandini and Georgi Stojanov and G. Metta and C. Balkenius, editor, Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics, vol. 117, pages 127-130, 2004. Lund University Cognitive Studies. bibtex reference abstract

Oudeyer, P-Y. (2004) The self-organization of phonological patterns, in the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, Leipzig.

Oudeyer P-Y. (2003) The Social Formation of Acoustic Codes with "Something Simpler", in the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Imitation in Animals and Artefacts, AISB'03, eds. Dautenham K., Nehaniv C., Aberystwyth, Wales

Kaplan, F., Oudeyer, P-Y (2003) Motivational principles for visual know-how development.
In Prince, C.G. and Berthouze, L. and Kozima, H. and Bullock, D. and Stojanov, G. and Balkenius, C., editor, Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Epigenetic Robotics : Modeling cognitive development in robotic systems, no. 101, pages 73-80, 2003. Lund University Cognitive Studies.

Oudeyer P-Y. (2002) Phonemic coding might be a result of sensory-motor
coupling dynamics, in the Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, pp. 406-416, eds. B. Hallam, D. Floreano, J. Hallam, G. Hayes, J-A. Meyer, MIT Press. bibtex reference abstract

Oudeyer P-Y. (2002) Novel Useful Features and Algorithms for the Recognition of Emotions in Speech, pp. 547-550, Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Prosody, Aix-en-Provence, France, eds. B. Bel, I. Marlien.

Oudeyer P-Y. (2002) The Synthesis of Cartoon Emotional Speech, pp. 551-554, Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Prosody, Aix-en-Provence, eds. B. Bel; I. Marlien.

Oudeyer P-Y. (2002) A Unified Model for the Origins of Phonemically Coded Syllables Systems, in in Gray W., Schunn C. (eds.), Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 738-743, Laurence Erlbaum Associates.

Oudeyer P-Y. (2001) Emotional Interactions with Humanoids Robots Using Speech, in Proceedings of the Humanoids Conference, Tokyo, Waseda University.

Oudeyer P-Y. (2001) The production and recognition of emotions in speech, Proceedings of Sony Research Forum.

Kaplan, F. and Oudeyer, P-Y. (2001) A method for teaching actions to an autonomous robot. Proceedings of Sony Research Forum.

Oudeyer, P-Y. (2001), Coupled Neural Maps for the Origins of Vowel Systems. in the Proceedings of ICANN 2001, International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, pp. 1171-1176, LNCS 2130, eds. G. Dorffner, H. Bischof, K. Hornik, Springer Verlag.

Kaplan, F. and Oudeyer, P-Y. and Kubinyi, E. and Miklosi, A. (2001) Taming robots with clicker training : a solution for teaching complex behaviors. In Quoy, M. and Gaussier, P. and Wyatt, J. L., editor, Proceedings of the 9th European workshop on learning robots, LNAI, 2001. Springer.

Oudeyer P-Y (2001) The Epigenesis of syllable Systems : a computational model. Proceedings of ORAGE 2001, Orality and Gestuality conference, Aix-en-Provence, France,, 2001.

Oudeyer P-Y (2001) The Origins Of Syllable Systems : an Operational Model. in the Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science society, COGSCI'2001, pp. 744-749, eds. J. Moore, K. Stenning, Laurence Erlbaum Associates.

Kaplan, F. and Oudeyer, P-Y. (2000) From Talking AIBO to Talking Head: Morphing sensory spaces between two robotic bodies. Proceedings of Sony Research Forum.

Steels, L. and Oudeyer, P-Y. (2000) The cultural evolution of syntactic constraints in phonology. Proceedings of the VIIth Artificial life conference (Alife 7), MIT Press, 2000.

Oudeyer, Pierre-Yves and Koning, J-l. (2000) Modeling conversation policies using POS. Proceedings of the Conference on Communications in Computing, (CIC'2000), Las Vegas, Nevada.

Oudeyer, P-Y. (1999) Self-organisation of a lexicon in a structured society of agents. In Floreano, D. and Nicoud, J-D and Mondada, F., editor, Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL'99, Advances in Artificial Life, pp. 726-729, . Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1674, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Miscelaneous

Oudeyer and Kaplan (2005) Adaptive internal value systems for developmental robots, Autonomous Mental Development Newsletter.

General public/Popular Science

Oudeyer, P-Y. (2006) Des robots aux sources du langage, Sur les chemins de la découverte, coord. par Farouki, N., Presses Universitaires de France.