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constantin rothkopf Prof. Constantin A. Rothkopf, PhD
Director, Cognitive Science Center,  Technical University Darmstadt  &
Associate Professor, Institute of Psychology, Technical University Darmstadt
Room 246, Alexanderstrasse 10, 64283 Darmstadt,  Germany [map]
phone: +49.6151.16.23367
&
Adjunct Fellow, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Goethe-University
Ruth-Moufang-Str. 1, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany [map]
e-mail: rothkopf (at) fias (dot) uni-frankfurt (dot) de




After obtaining a joint PhD in Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Computer Science with Dana Ballard and Mary Hayhoe at the Center for Visual Science at the University of Rochester in 2008, I started a postdoc at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies working with Jochen Triesch in the theoretical neuroscience group. Since 2009 I am a lecturer at the Goethe University, Frankfurt and since 2010 the principal investigator of the 'beliefs, representations, and actions group'. After a year as a substitute professor in the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University Osnabrück I am now an associate professor for psychology of information processing in the department of psychology and the founding director of the Cognitive Science Center at the Technical University Darmstadt .

My research interests revolve around the distinction between 'looking' and 'seeing' and how this distinction relates to vision in goal directed behavior. The aim is to better understand the full perception and action cycle in humans, i.e. how we use our perceptual systems actively during natural extended behavior to guide decisions and actions with our bodies. This leads to the study of how we use sensory input, specifically vision, form beliefs about the world by carrying out computations on the basis of our cognitive representations, and then employ decision making processes to act in goal directed behavior. To this end, I am currently using mainly three methodologies: tracking of human eye and body movements during extended visuomotor tasks in natural and virtual environments, building models of these tasks and implementing algorithms that learn how to solve these tasks in virtual agents, developing learning algorithms with an emphasis on the learning of sensory representations for actions.

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News:
15 May 2020 - invited keynote at the virtual Symposium on Explainable Machine Learning for Biomedical Data Analysis and Care Robotics, University Oldenburg, Germany
10-14 February 2020 – teaching at the Minds and Machines Workshop in Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence and Education at the University of Luxembourg
05 December 2019
– panel discussion as part of the 'AI Science film on tour' shortfilm program, Schader Forum, Darmstadt
25-26 November 2019 – invited talk at the Tricolore Workshop on creativity,  cognition, computation, Bolzano/Bozen, Italy
20-21 November 2019 – panel discussion at the 8th BMBF workshop on 'Marvel of science or devil’s work? Artificial Intelligence for European security research', Brussels, Belgium
1 November 2019 – the book 'Wie Maschinen lernen- Künstliche Intelligenz verständlich erklärt' edited by Kristian Kersting, Christoph Lampert, and Constantin Rothkopf was just published
23 October 2019 – the TV channel ARTE released a miniseries on recent developments in AI. One episode features our joint work on the moral-choice-machine with Kristian Kersting, Patrick Schramowski, and Sophie Jentzsch
27 September 2019 – invited talk in the Computational Cognitive Science Group, MIT, Boston, USA
23 September 2019 – invited colloquium talk at the Center for Perceptual Systems, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA
20 September 2019 – invited talk at the department of psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
25 June 2019 – invited talk at the department of psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
June 2019 – two papers on a collaboration with Jan Peters accepted at IROS
28 February - 05 March 2019 – we are presenting a poster at COSYNE together with David Hoppe: 'Multi-step planning of eye movements in visual search' in Lisbon, Portugal
21 February 2019 – departmental colloquium in the Department of Cognition and Development, University of Barcelona, Spain
20 February 2019 – 'Lunchh & learn' talk at alpha, Barcelona, Spain
07 February 2019 – our collaborative publication at the AAAI/ACM conference on AI, ethics, and society with Kristian Kersting has been featured by the German federal ministry for science and education
15 January 2019 – new paper out in Scientific Reports: Multi-step planning of eye movements in visual search
08 January 2019 – the German Research Council DFG has approved our grant: Active vision: control of eye-movements and probabilistic planning
23 November 2018 – talk at the scientific symposium about the beginnings, the present and the future of AI-research on the occasion of Wolfgang Bibel's 80th birthday, TU Darmstadt
26 September 2018
departmental colloquium at the Cognitive Science Department at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
04
September 2018 - best paper award at the conference of the German Cognitive Science Society to David Hoppe for our 2016 PNAS paper 'Learning rational temporal eye movement strategies'.
03 - 06 September 2018 - general chair of K0GW1S, the 14th biannual conference of the German Cognitive Science Society at the Centre for Cognitive Science, TU Darmstadt
26 - 30 August 2018 - talk in the symposium 'visual control of action in complex sensorimotor situations' at the European Conference on Visual Perception, Trieste, Italy
13 - 15 June 2018 - invited talk at the 5th Biennial Meeting of the rhine-main-neuroscience-network rmn2
8 June
2018 - invited talk at the Department of Psychology, Technical Univeristy Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany
7 June 2018 - departmental colloquium at the Department of Psychology, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
18 - 23 May 2018 - we are presenting recent work with Huaiyong Zhao and Nils Neupaertl  at the Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA
10 April 2018 - invited talk in the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences at ETH Zürich, Switzerland
23 - 24 March 2018 - invited talk at the Probabilistic Brain workshop in Durham, UK
19 - 22 March 2018 - teaching in the artificial intelligence group at the Kolleg of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation Studienstiftung in Weimar
28 Februaray 2018 - talk at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen
15 November 2017 - departmental colloquium at the Cogintive Science Department at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
September - December 2017 - during the wintersemester I will be a visiting faculty in the Cogintive Science Department at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
27 - 31 August 2017 - we are presenting three posters on new work with Nils Neupärtl, Huaiyong Zhao and together with Melnik, Schüler & König at the European Conference on Visual Perception, Berlin, Germany
20 - 24 August 2017 - we are presenting two talks at the European Conference on Eye Movements, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
19 - 24 May 2017 - we are presenting recent work with Huaiyong Zhao and David Hoppe  at the Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA
26 - 29 March 2017 - we are presenting recent work with David Hoppe  at TEAP: 'Learning when to blink. Environmental statistics guide blinking behavior'
25 - 30 March 2017 - invitation to teach at the Spring School on Intelligence and Cognition, Cairo, Egypt
24 - 26 January 2017 - invitation to teach at the Berner Winterakademie, Belalp, Switzerland
28 - 30 September 2016 - talk at the 11th joint Conference on Motor Control & Learning, Biomechanics & Training, Darmstadt, Germany
07 - 08 September 2016 - invitation to participate in the workshop 'The state and future of probabilistic methods for modeling brain functions', Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
06 September 2016 – talk at the workshop on 'Inferring user action with mobile gaze tracking' at Mobile HCI 2016, Firenze, Italy
02 August 2016 – invited talk at the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
31 January - 05 Febuary 2016 – invited talk at the 41st Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, Breckenridge, Colorado, USA
26 January 2016 – invited talk at the Max-Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany
22 July 2015 – invited talk at the SFB-TRR 135 - Retreat, Castle Rauisch- holzhausen, Germany
21 July 2015 – invited talk at the Psychoinformatics Workshop, University of Siegen, Germany
02 July 2015 – together with Jan Peters we are organizing a workshop at TU Darmstadt on computational approaches in cognitive science
02 June 2015 – invited talk at the cognitive science center at the University of Tübingen, Germany
15 - 20 May 2015 – we are presenting recent work with David Hoppe on the modeling of optimal temporal allocation of visual attention at VSS, USA
30 April 2015 – invited talk in the Psychology Department at Warwick University, UK
01 December 2014 - invited keynote talk at 7th International Symposium on Attention in Cognitive Systems ISACS, Citec, Bielefeld, Germany
25-26 October 2014 - invited keynote talk at Neurotechnix, Rome, Italy
16-18 September 2014 - invited talk at the workshop on 'Statistical Generative Models in Perception', Schloss Rauischolzhausen, Germany
17-22 August 2014 - invited talk at Dagstuhl Seminar on 'Resource-bounded problem solving', Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany
12 June 2014 - invited colloquium in the Interactive Graphics Systems Group, TU Darmstadt, Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt, Germany
26 - 27 May 2014 - invited talk at the workshop 'Beyond the gabor: Computational approaches to studying cognition in rich gaming worlds', NSF, Arlington, VA, USA
12 - 16 May 2014 - invitation to participate in the workshop 'Perspectives on Human Probabilistic Inference', Lorentz Center, Leiden, NL
28 April 2014 - invited talk in the colloquium at the computer science department, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
11 - 13 April 2014 - invited talk at the 'Workshop on Natural Environments Tasks and Intelligence' (NETI), Center for Perceptual Systems, University of Texas at Austin,  TX, USA
03 - 04 March 2014 - together with Aldo Faisal we are organizing a Workshop at Cosyne: From the actome to the ethome: systems neuroscience of behavioral ecology
15 January 2014 - invited talk in the psychology department at the University of Giessen, Germany
24 - 27 September 2013 - we are presenting two posters on recent work at the Bernstein Conference 2013 in Tübingen, Germany
23 - 27 September 2013 - I am part of the program committee of the workshop on 'Reinforcement Learning with generalized feedback: beyond numeric rewards' organized by Johannes Fürnkranz and Eyke Hüllermeier at ECML 2013
30 June - 03 July 2013 - invited talk at the Ernst Strüngmann Institute retreat, Schloss Ringberg in Tegernsee, Bavaria, Germany
05-07 June 2013 - invitation to the guerrilla-symposium 'Advances in statistical inferences in the visual cortex', Budapest, Hungary
10-15 May 2013 - we will be presenting a talk on heuristics and optimality in visuomotor behavior together with Paul Schrater at the Vision Sciences Annual Meeting, Naples, FL, USA
15-22 March 2013 - invitation to participate as a faculty member in the Interdisciplinary College IK 2013, in Günne at Lake Möhne, Germany
05-07 March 2013 - invitation to participate in the workshop on 'Eyetracking Methods and Scanpath analysis', Center for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld
28 February - 2 March 2013 - we will be presenting recent work on inverse reinforcement learning in visuomotor tasks and local image statistics in natural vision at Cosyne
08 February 2013 - invited talk at the Living Environments Lab, Institute  for Discovery, University Wisconsin Madison, USA
10-14 December 2012 - invitation to participate in the Cognitive Neuroscience Workshop, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University, USA
03-08 December 2012 - invitation to be part of the faculty at the IM-CLeVeR/FIAS Winter School on 'Intrinsic motivations: from brains to robots', Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
13 November 2012 - invited talk in the 'Competition and priority control in mind & brain: new perspectives from task-driven vision' group at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld
11 October 2012 - talk in the department of Psychology at the University of Hong Kong
04-06 June  - invited talk at the OCCAM meeting hosted by the Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Germany
03 May - invited talk at the Computational and Biological Learning Lab, University of Cambridge, UK
01 February 2012 - invited colloquium talk in the Cognitive Science department at the University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
10-16 January
2012 - I'll be visiting Chirstos Dimitrakakis at EPFL, Lausanne
08 December 2011 - talk at the ICNF Young Investigators' Colloquium, Frankfurt, Germany
14 September 2011 -  talk at the Hong Kong University for Science and Technology: 'Visuomotor behavior in naturalistic task: from receptive fields to value functions'
05-09 September 2011 -  talk at the European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML)  on recent work on inverse reinforcement learning together with Christos Dimitrakakis
24-27 August 2011- talk on recent work on hierarchical reinforcement learning together with Hazem Toutounji and Jochen Triesch at the International Conference on Learning and Development (ICDL)
11-14 July 2011 -  Thanks to a travel fellowship for Bernstein students and postdocs from the Sloan-Swartz Foundation I will be participating in the Sloan-Swartz annual meeting at Janelia Farm
28-30 April 2011 -  talk on recent work on structural credit assignment in hierarchical reinforcement learning at the IMCLeVeR focused workshop in Capo Caccia
31 March - 2 April 2011 -  together with the infant development group at Goethe University we have put together a Symposium at SRCD: 'Infants in control'
28 February - 1 March 2011 - together with Paul Schrater I am organizing a workshop at Cosyne: 'Integrating perception, action and learning through natural goal directed behavior'. Thanks to the Gatsby-Foundation for a travel fellowship to Cosyne.
03 November 2010 - I am organizing the 'Fias-Bernstein-Workshop on sensing and deciding in time'
27 September - 1 October 2010 - I am part of the program committee for the Bernstein Conference on Computational Neuroscience 2010
25-30 July 2010 - Invited talk at the 'Gordon Conference on Sensory Coding & the Natural Environment', Bates College, Lewiston, ME
12-13 July 2010 - Participation in the workshop 'Advances in statistical inferences in the visual cortex', Budapest, Hungary
30 June 2010 - Invited talk in the Group of Jürgen Schmidhuber at IDSIA, Lugano, Switzerland
05-11 June 2010 - I am part of the faculty at the Fens/Ibro summer school 'Cognition and action: Systems neuroscience approaches to understanding complex behavior' in Dubrovnik, Croatia
19-22 May 2010 - Presentation of a poster on joint work with Paul Schrater at the workshop 'Computations, decisions, and movement' in Rauischholzhausen, Germany
19 April 2010 - Invited talk with the Vision Group, Psychology department at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
09-11 April 2010 - Presentation of two posters at the Neti workshop, Center for Perceptual Systems, University of Texas at Austin
20 January 2010 - Invited talk in the Colloquium series of the psychology department at the University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany
26 November 2009 - Invited talk at the Städelschule, Frankfurt following an invitation by Michaela Eichwald
17 November 2009 - Talk by Dana Ballard on our work at the IMCLeVeR workshop in Venice
30 September - 3 October 2009 - I am one of the program chairs for the Bernstein Conference on Computational Neuroscience 2009, organized by the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
15 July 2009 - Invited talk in the SFB Colloquium series at Institute for Neuroinformatics in the computer science department, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
10 June 2009 - Invited talk in the FoKo Colloquium series of the psychology department at the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
27 May 2009 - Short presentation at the Kick-off meeting of the IM-CLeVeR project, University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
27-28 Nov 2008 - Invited talk at the 'International Workshop: Machine Learning Approaches to Representational Learning and Recognition in Vision' at FIAS, Frankfurt, Germany




Publications:

pucks N. Neupaertl, F. Tatai, C. A. Rothkopf. Intuitive physical reasoning about objects' masses transfers to a visuomotor decision task consistent with Newtonian physics
[submitted]
bioRxiv. 2020

gaze, head, and steering angles Julia Frankenstein, Fabian Kessler, Constantin Rothkopf. Applying psychophysics to applied spatial cognition research. Spatial Cognition XII, 2020
[submitted]

gaze, head, and steering angles P. Schramowski, C. Turan, S. Jentzsch, C. A. Rothkopf, K. Kersting. The Moral Choice Machine, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 3, 2020
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gaze, head, and steering angles H. Zhao, D. Straub, C. A. Rothkopf. The visual control of interceptive steering: how do people steer a car to intercept a moving target?, Journal of Vision, 19(14):11, 1–20
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multimodal S. Trick, D. Koert, J. Peters, C. Rothkopf. Multimodal uncertainty reduction for intention recognition in human-robot interaction. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2019
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arXiv, 2019
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.02426

MP_adaptation D. Koert, J. Pajarinen, A. Schotschneider, S. Trick, C. Rothkopf, J. Peters. Learning intention aware online adaptation of movement primitives. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), with presentation at the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2019
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instance segmentation N. Araslanov, C. A. Rothkopf, S. Roth. Actor-critic instance segmentation. Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019
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arXiv, 2019
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05126

imaging S. F. Jentzsch, P. Schramowski, C. A. Rothkopf, K. Kersting. Semantics derived automatically from language corpora contain human-like moral choices. AAAI & ACM conference on artificial intelligence, ethics, and society (AIES-19), 2019
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P(x|dt,theta) D. Hoppe, C. A Rothkopf. Multi-step planning of eye movements in visual search. Scientific Reports, 9(1):144, 2019
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bioRxiv, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1101/240010

irl_gamma R. Zhang, S. Zhang, M. H. Tong, Y. Cui, C. A. Rothkopf, D. H. Ballard, M. M. Hayhoe. Modeling sensory-motor decisions in natural behavior, PLoS Computational Biology, 14(10), 2018
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gaze traces A. Melnik, F. Schuler, C. A. Rothkopf, P. König. The world as an external memory: the price of saccades in a sensorimotor task. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 12: 253, 2018
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P(x|dt,theta) S. Depeweg, C. A. Rothkopf, F. Jaekel. Solving Bongard Problems with a visual language and pragmatic reasoning.
arXiv. 2018
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04452

P(x|dt,theta) D. Hoppe, S. Helfmann, C. A. Rothkopf. Humans quickly learn to blink strategically in response to environmental task demands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 115(9), 2246-2251, 2018
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module activation Q. Wang*, C. A. Rothkopf*, J. Triesch. A model of human motor sequence learning explains facilitation and interference effects based on spike-timing dependent plasticity. PLoS Computational Biology, 13(8), 2017
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module activation V. S. R. Veeravasarapu, C. A. Rothkopf, V. Ramesh. Adversarially tuned scene generation. Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2017
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module activation V. S. R. Veeravasarapu, C. A. Rothkopf, V. Ramesh. Model-driven simulations for computer vision. IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2017
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module activation F. Schmitt, H.-J. Bieg, M. Herman, C. A. Rothkopf. I see what you see: inferring sensor and policy models of human real-world motor behavior. Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2017
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module activation B. Belousov, G. Neumann, C. A. Rothkopf, J. Peters. Catching heuristics are optimal control policies. Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2016
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module activation D. Hoppe, C. A. Rothkopf. Learning rational temporal eye movement strategies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 113(29), 8332-8337, 2016
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V. S. R. Veeravasarapu, R. N. Hota, C. A. Rothkopf, V. Ramesh. Simulations for Validation of Vision Systems. arXiv 1512.01030, 2015
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C. A. Rothkopf. Cognitive Neuroscience. In 'Handbook of Cognitive Science', edited by A. Stephan and S. Walter, J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart/Weimar, 2013
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C. A. Rothkopf. Motor control and the control of actions. In 'Handbook of Cognitive Science', edited by A. Stefan and S. Walter, J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart/Weimar, 2013
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module activation C. A. Rothkopf, D. H. Ballard. Learning to coordinate repertoirs of behaviors: credit assignment and module activation. In 'Computational and Robotic Models of the Hierarchical Organization of Behavior', edited by G. Baldassarre and M. Mirolli, Springer, 2013
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L. Lonini, C. Dimitrakakis, C. A. Rothkopf, J. Triesch. Generalization and interference in human motor control. In 'Computational and Robotic Models of the Hierarchical Organization of Behavior', edited by G. Baldassarre and M. Mirolli, Springer, 2013
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walking trajectories C. A. Rothkopf, D. H. Ballard. Modular inverse reinforcement learning for visuomotor behavior. Biological Cybernetics, 107(4), 477-490, 2013
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imaging D. H. Ballard, D. Kit, C. A. Rothkopf, B. Sullivan. A hierarchical modular architecture for embodied cognition. Multisensory Research,  26:(1-2), 177 – 204, 2013
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imaging D. Pamplona, J. Triesch, C. A. Rothkopf. Power spectra of the natural input to the visual system. Vision Research, 83:66-75, 2013
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VR balls G. J. Diaz, J. Cooper, C. A. Rothkopf, M. M. Hayhoe. Saccades to future ball location reveal memory-based prediction in a natural interception task. Journal of Vision, 13(1):1, 1-14, 2013
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car driving VR
B. T. Sullivan, L. Johnson, C. A. Rothkopf, D. H. Ballard, M. Hayhoe. The role of uncertainty and reward on eye movements in a virtual driving task. Journal of Vision, 12(13):19, 1-16, 2012
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disparity RFs Y. Zhao, C. A. Rothkopf, J. Triesch, B. Shi. A unified model of the joint development of disparity selectivity and vergence control. IEEE 8th International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), November 7-9, 2012 (Paper of Excellence award)
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infants Q. Wang, J. Bolhuis, C. A. Rothkopf, T. Kolling, M. Knopf, J. Triesch. Infants in control: rapid anticipation of action outcomes in a gaze-contingent paradigm. PLoS ONE, 2012
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IRL C. Dimitrakakis, C. A. Rothkopf. Bayesian multitask inverse reinforcement learning. European Workshop on Reinforcemnt Learning (EWRL), September 9–11, 2011
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IRL C. A. Rothkopf, C. Dimitrakakis. Preference elicitation and inverse reinforcement learning. 22nd European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML), September 5-9, 2011
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navigation state space H. Toutounji, C. A. Rothkopf, J. Triesch. Scalable reinforcement learning through hierarchical decompositions for weakly-coupled problems. IEEE 10th International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), August 24-27, 2011
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navigation state space C. Karaoguz, T. H. Weisswange, T. Rodemann, B. Wrede, C. A. Rothkopf. Reward-based learning of optimal cue integration in audio and visual depth estimation. 15th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR),  June 20-23, 2011
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RL cue integration T. H. Weisswange, C. A. Rothkopf, J. Triesch. Bayesian cue integration as a developmental outcome of reward mediated learning. PLoS ONE, 2011
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navigation state space C. A. Rothkopf, D. H. Ballard. Credit assignment in multiple goal embodied visuomotor behavior. Frontiers in Psychology, Special Topic: 'Embodied and grounded cognition', 2010
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J. Triesch, C. A. Rothkopf, T. H. Weisswange. Coordination in Sensory Integration. In 'Dynamic Coordination in the Brain: From Neurons to Mind', edited by C. von der Malsburg, W. A. Phillips, W. Singer, MIT Press 2010

pbj M. M. Hayhoe, C. A. Rothkopf. Vision in the natural world. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, Wiley, 2010
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. C. A. Rothkopf, T. H. Weisswange, J. Triesch. Computational modeling of multisensory object perception. In 'Multisensory Object Perception in the Primate Brain', editors: M. J. Naumer & J. Kaiser, New York: Springer, 2010
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wearable
                eye tracking T. H. Weisswange, C. A. Rothkopf, T. Rodemann, J. Triesch. Can reinforcement learning explain the development of causal inference in multisensory integration? IEEE 8th International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), June 5-7, 2009
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wearable
                eye tracking C. A. Rothkopf, T. H. Weisswange, J. Triesch. Learning independent causes in natural images explains the spacevariant oblique effect. IEEE 8th International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), June 5-7, 2009
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intermediate features C. A. Rothkopf, D. H. Ballard. Image statistics at the point of gaze during human navigation. Visual Neuroscience, special issue on 'Natural Systems Analysis', 26, 81–92, 2009
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C. A. Rothkopf. Modular models of task based visually guided behavior. Ph. D. thesis, University of Rochester. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Department of Computer Science, 2008

eye movements in complex tasks C. A. Rothkopf, D. H. Ballard, M.M. Hayhoe. Task and context determine where you look. Journal of Vision, 7(14):16, 1-20, 2007
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eye
                tracking in natural environments J. B. Pelz, C. Rothkopf. Oculomotor behavior while navigating natural and man-made environments. In 'Eye movements: A window on mind and brain', editors R. van Gompel, M. Fischer, W. Murray, R. Hill. Elsevier Press, 2007

V1 receptive fields J. F. M. Jehee, C. A. Rothkopf, J. M. Beck, D. H. Ballard. Learning receptive fields using predictive feedback. Journal of Physiology Paris, 100, 125-132, 2006
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speckle interferometry R. D. Meyer, E. P. Horch, Z. Ninkov, W.F. van Altena, C.A. Rothkopf. RYTSI: the Rit-Yale-Tip-Tilt-Speckle-Imager. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 118 , 162-171, 2006
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wearable eye tracking C. A. Rothkopf, J. B. Pelz. Head movement estimation for wearable eye tracker. Proceedings of the Eye Tracking Research & Application Symposium, ETRA 2004, San Antonio, Texas, USA, ACM, 2004
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C. A. Rothkopf. Imaging system for the recovery of body and head motion and gaze visualization for the RIT-wearable-eye-tracker. BSc thesis, Center for Imaging Science, Rochester Institute for Technology, 2003




Past students at FIAS:
Daniela Pamplona (PhD student)
Andrew Worzella (master student)
Omid Aladini (master student; now at Soundcloud, Berlin)
Ming Liu (master student)
Hazem Toutounji (master student; coadvising with J. Triesch, now PhD student at U. Osnabrück)
Thomas Weisswange (PhD student; coadvising with J. Triesch, now Honda Research Institute Europe)




Teaching:
'Latent variable models', 'Multivariate methods', 'Computational foundations of cognitive science I & II'

'From natural stimuli to natural tasks' seminar, winter semester 2012/2013, Cognitive Science Department, University of Osnabrück

'Psychology of virtual worlds and computer games' seminar, winter semester 2012/2013, Cognitive Science Department, University of Osnabrück

'Cognitive Neuro/Psychology' lecture, summer semester 2012, Cognitive Science Department, University of Osnabrück

'Normative approaches to human goal directed behavior' seminar, summer semester 2012, Cognitive Science Department, University of Osnabrück

FIAS: 'Systems Neuroscience Seminar', summer semester 2011 together with J. Triesch and G. Laurent

Faculty at Fens/Ibro summer school 'Cognition and action: Systems neuroscience approaches to understanding complex behavior' , 2010, in Dubrovnik, Croatia

FIAS: 'Recent Advances in Reinforcement Learning: Theory, Agent Modeling, Human Behavior' seminar, winter semester 2009/2010

FIAS: 'Reinforcement Learning' lecture, summer semester 2009 together with J. Triesch

Tutor of the 'reinforcement-learning-group' at 2008 Fias Neuro-Summerschool



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