Invited talks

Keynotes - Other invited academic lectures - Public lectures for the general public

Note: some of the talks below are available in video, see the video page

Keynote lectures at international conferences

(6th May 2011) Developmental constraints for open-ended robot learning, AAMAS 2011, Taipei, Taiwan.

(15th April 2011) Mechanisms and Constraints for Open-Ended Learning in Developmental Robotics, 2011 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, Paris, France.

(24th March 2011) Artificial intelligence: innate vs. acquired, Robolift 2011, Lyon, France.

(14th november 2009) Why Language Acquisition and Intrinsic Motivation Should Go Hand in Hand, Joint Epirob'09-IMCLever workshop on Intrinsic Motivation and Socio-Emotional Development, Venice, Italy.

(31 august 2007) Self-Organization in the Evolution of Shared Systems of Speech Sounds: a Computational Study, Keynote speech at Interspeech 2007 conference, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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Other invited academic lectures

(11th february 2012) Developmental mechanisms for life-long skill learning, Dagstuhl Seminar on Mechanisms of Ongoing Development in Cognitive Robotics, Dagstuhl, Germany.

(5th december 2012) Developmental mechanisms for life-long autonomous learning in robots and humans, FIAS Winter School on Intrinsic Motivation: From Brains to Robots, Frankfurt, Germany.

(18th october 2012) Le rôle du corps en robotique développementale, Conférence "Corps et Robots", ARCO/IPac, Inria Nancy, France.

(12th october 2012) A Robotic Platform for Scalable Life-Long Learning Experiments, IROS 2012 Workshop on Learning and Interaction in Haptic Robots, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal.

(5th october 2012) Developmental mechanisms for life-long autonomous learning, INNS Symposium on Autonomous Learning, 2012 International Neural Network Society Winter Conference (INNS-WC2012).

(6th september 2012) The challenges of active exploration and learning in high-dimensional continuous spaces, GdR CNRS Robotique et Neurosciences.

(31st august 2012) Developmental mechanisms for life-long autonomous learning in robots, Frontiers of AI track, 20th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2012).

(6th july 2012) Bootstrapping language development out of multimodal sub-symbolic sensorimotor learning in robots, Symposium on Origins of Communication and Language, Epigenetic Modeling and Ethodological Observation, Konrad Lorenz Institute, Altenberg, Austria.

(5th april 2012) Developmental autonomous learning, Séminaire du laboratoire L3i de l'Université de La Rochelle.

(30th january 2012) Les modèles robotiques: un nouveau langage pour comprendre le vivant, Colloque "Mathématiques pour tous?", organisé par l'UNESCO en partenariat avec l'IHES et la Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, UNESCO, Paris, France.

(26th january 2012) From the language Gavavai problem to the motor Gavagai problem: Modeling language acquisition as an instance of general multimodal context-dependant learning by imitation, Workshop on Socio-Cognitive Mechanisms of Symbolic Communication, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands.

(6th december 2011) Developmental approaches to sensorimotor and linguistic learning in robotics, INRIA Workshop on Statistical Learning, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France.

(1st december 2011) On Self-Organization and Developmental Mechanisms in the Origins of Speech and Action Systems, Symposium on Language Acquisition and Language Evolution, Stockholm University, Royal Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden.

(17th march 2011) Où vont les robots, quelques défis de la robotique personnelle, Séminaire national sur l'enseignement de l'informatique au lycée, Formation IA-PR, ENS Lyon.

(9th december 2010) The challenges of developmental robotics, INRIA Colloquium, Paris, France.

(23rd november 2010) with Olivier Ly: "Morphological computation in the acquisition of dynamic walking in biped humanoids", Séminaire de biologie mathématique de l'IHES, Bures-Sur-Yvette, France.

(28th october 2010) Panel session on "Fueling the creativity of young researchers", ICT 2010, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.

(27th june 2010) Developmental Constraints on Active Learning for the Acquisition of Motor Skills in High-Dimensional Robots, RSS 2010 Workshop "Towards Closing the Loop: Active Learning for Robotics", Zaragoza, Spain.

(15th june 2010) On Self-Organization and Developmental Mechanisms in the Origins of Novel Behavioral and Cognitive Structures: Computational Robotic Models and Experiments, IHES (Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques), Séminaire de Biologie

(13th april 2010) La robotique développementale et sociale, séminaire du LAAS, Toulouse, France.
 
(29th march 2010) Open-ended (re-)search in evolutionary and developmental systems, Workshop on evolutionary algorithms - Challenges in Theory and Practice, Bordeaux, France.
 
(15th november 2009) The challenges of active learning and intrinsic motivation for learning motor control in high-dimensional robots, IMCLever workshop on Intrinsic Motivation and Socio-Emotional Development, Venice, Italy.
 
 
(6 june 2009) La robotique développementale, Séminaire Le Modèle et l'Algorithme, INRIA Rocquencourt, Paris, France.
 
(15 may 2009) L'auto-organisation dans l'évolution de la parole, Séminaire du Laboratoire Parole et Langage, CNRS, Université de Provence, France.
 
(6 may 2009) Les défis de la robotique sociale, Atelier de prospective PIRSTEC, ANR/Risc/CNRS, Université Paris VI, Paris, France.
 
(22 october 2008) Les défis de la robotique développementale, Journée du groupe "Robotique et Apprentissage" du GdR Robotique, CNRS, France.
 
(16 october 2008) L'auto-organisation dans l'évolution de la parole, Aux Origines du Dialogue Humain: Parole et Musique, Colloque de rentrée du Collège de France, Paris. web page of the conference.
 
(22 septembre 2008) Intrinsically motivated exploration and active learning in developmental robotics, From motor to interaction learning in robots, IROS 2008 workshop, Nice, France.
 
(12 october 2007) Le rôle des motivations intrinsèques dans le développement sensorimoteur : modélisations et expériences avec des robots, Colloque francophone en Psychologie et Psychopathologie de l'Enfant, 30 ans de clinique, de recherches, de pratiques, Palais de la mutualité, Paris, France.
 
(27 august 2007) Curiosity and development in cognitive robots, Motivation and Curiosity Workshop of the A*STAR Singapore Research Council, Singapore.
 
(5 june 2007) Panel discussant on Industrial applications of affective computing, HUMAINE Network of Excellent Plenary, Paris.
 
(31 may 2007) Origines du langage et auto-organisation, Journée Paragraphe "Intelligence Artificielle et Complexité. Vers les univers distribués", University Paris 8, France.
 
(27 march 2007) Robotique développementale, Journée Intelligence Artificielle Embarquée, Université de Cergy-Pontoise.
 
(15 march 2007) Comment la construction de machine peut éclairer des questions de sciences humaines ? SIANA 2007, Semaine internationale des arts numériques et alternatifs, INT Evry.
 
(30 jan. 2007) L'auto-organisation de la parole, Séminaire du Laboratoire CNRS UMR 6552 Ethologie - Evolution - Ecologie, Université de Rennes 1.

(30 mars 2006) “Des robots pour penser les origines du langage”, Seminaire Mathématiques Appliquées à la Biologie, LIRMM, Montpellier.

(10 feb. 2006) Robotique et langage, Séminaire interdisciplinaire Informatique/ Linguistique/ Psychologie, Université de Caen.

(09 feb. 2006) Robots et origines du langage, e-Lab, Bouygues, Saint-Quentin en Yvelines.

(2 feb. 2006) Des robots pour penser les origines du langages, Institut de Cognitique, Bordeaux.

(1 dec. 2005) "Coupled Neural Maps, Coupled Brains: the Seeds of Speech", Colloque Language and Biology, Institut de France.

(25 oct. 2005) "L'auto-organisation de la parole", 2èmes rencontres des Sciences et Technologies de l'Information, ISIMA, Clermont-Ferrand.

(sept. 2005)  "The bootstrapping of combinatorial speech codes", First Scottich-Dutch workshop on Language Evolution: Formal Modelling Meets Empirical Data, Amsterdam.

(july 2005) "Intrinsic Motivation Systems for Open-Ended Development", Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale, Université Paris V, Paris.

(june 2005) "Mechanisms for open-ended development: the autonomous growth of  cognitive and behavioural complexity", Ikegami's physics laboratory seminar, Tokyo.

(june 2005) "Intrinsic Motivation Systems for Open-Ended Development", Sony Intelligent Dynamics Laboratory, Tokyo.

(apr. 2005) "Des robots pour penser les origines du langage", ENSEA, Cergy, France.

(apr. 2005) "Mécanismes pour le développement autonome ouvert", Animat Lab, LIP6, Paris.

(sept. 2004) "The self-organization of speech sounds", Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et de Psycho-linguistique in Ecole Normale Supérieurede Paris.

(june 2004) "Robotique développementale et curiosité artificielle", University of Cergy Pontoise, ETIS Laboratory.

(apr. 2000) "The synthesis of cartoon emotional speech", Digital Speech Processing group, Sony, Tokyo.

(apr. 2000) "Emotion expresion and recognition in speech", Digital Creature Lab, Sony, Tokyo.

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Public lectures for the general public

(14th december 2012) "Design et Auto-Design de Comportements et d'Interactions chez les Robots", Escales du Design, Bordeaux.

(4th august 2012) "Un robot peut-il apprendre comme un enfant?", Marathon des Sciences, Festival d'astronomie de Fleurance, Fleurance, France.

(30th january 2012) Les modèles robotiques: un nouveau langage pour comprendre le vivant, Colloque "Mathématiques pour tous?", organisé par l'UNESCO en partenariat avec l'IHES et la Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, UNESCO, Paris, France.


(2nd december 2010) Commentaires sur le film "Woody et les Robots", Festival Cinémasciences CNRS, Bordeaux.

(30th november 2010) Atelier "Les robots au cinéma", Festival Cinémasciences CNRS, Bordeaux.

(18th november 2010) Un robot peut-il apprendre comme un enfant? Conférences du Centre Ha 32, cycle "Jeu, enjeux, hors-jeux".

(6th november 2010) Où vont les robots? Quelques défis de la robotique personnelle, Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, journée "Des robots et des hommes", Paris, France. Video PodCast.

(17th february 2010) Un robot peut-il apprendre comme un enfant? Robot Wednesday - Apprendre comme un enfant pour un robot, Paris.

(7 june 2007) Fundamental research in a private company, Salon Européen de la recherche et de l'innovation, Paris.

(28 may 2007) Un robot peut-il être curieux, Chapiteau des sciences, fète de LO.

(13 march 2007) Robots et sciences du langage, Bar des Sciences de Dijon.

(2 dec. 2006) “Quand les machines se mettent à parler”, Théatre des Sciences, Musée Cap Sciences, Bordeaux.

(2 feb. 2006) Des robots pour penser les origines du langages, Institut de Cognitique, Bordeaux.

(7 dec. 2005) "L'origine des formes du langage: auto-organisation, métaphores et machines", Café des Arts et des Sciences, FNAC Digitale, Paris.

(16 oct. 2005) "Les robots à la conquète du langage", Espace Landowsky, Exhibition I live Tomorrow, Boulogne-Billancourt, France.

(sept. 2001) "Expression et reconnaissance des émotions dans la parole", Conférence Le Rève de Vaucanson, Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris.


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International Conference Talks

 
Schatz, T. and Oudeyer P-Y. (2009) Learning motor dependent Crutchfield’s information distance to anticipate changes in the topology of sensori body maps,Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Learning and Development, Shangaï, China. 
 
Oudeyer, P-Y. (2008) How can we define intrinsic motivation? 8th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems.
 
Oudeyer, P-Y. (2008) Developmental exploration in the cultural evolution of lexical conventions,  8th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems.
 
Oudeyer, P-Y. (2006) Bootstrapping combinatorial speech codes from basic imitation, 6th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, Rome, Italy.

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

Oudeyer P-Y. (2005) The self-organized origins of phonotactics, 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, AAAI Spring Symposium Workshop on Developmental Robotics, Stanford, USA.

Oudeyer, P-Y. and Kaplan F. (2004)  Intelligent adaptive curiosity: a source of self-development, 4th International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics, Genoa, Italy.

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

Oudeyer P-Y. (2002) Phonemic coding might be  a result of sensory-motor
coupling dynamics, 7th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Oudeyer P-Y. (2002) Novel Useful Features and Algorithms for the Recognition of Emotions in Speech, 1st International Conference on Prosody, Aix-en-Provence, France.

Oudeyer P-Y. (2002) The Synthesis of Cartoon Emotional Speech, 1st International Conference on Prosody, Aix-en-Provence.

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

Oudeyer, P-Y. (2001), Coupled Neural Maps for the Origins of Vowel Systems. International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Vienna, Austria.

Oudeyer P-Y (2001), The Epigenesis of syllable Systems : a computational model. Orality and Gestuality conference, Aix-en-Provence, France,, 2001.
                                  
Oudeyer P-Y (2001),  The Origins Of Syllable Systems : an Operational Model.  23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science society,  COGSCI'2001, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Oudeyer, P-Y. (2000) The cultural evolution of syntactic constraints in phonology. VIIth Artificial life conference (Alife 7), Portland, Oregon.

Oudeyer, P-Y. (1999) Self-organisation of a lexicon in a structured society of agents. European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL'99, Lausanne, Suisse.


























 
 

Project
highlights

Developmental Robotics
Active life-long learning, intrinsic motivation,
artificial curiosity
Social learning, human-robot interaction
Language acquisition in robots and humans
Modeling the evolution of language
Emotional Speech Synthesis and recognition