Dr Juxi Leitner
This person does not currently hold a position at QUT.
Personal details
Keywords
Robotics and Automation, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Robotic Vision, Autonomous Robots, Machine Learning, Manipulation, Humanoid Robots, Developmental, Evolutionary and Cognitive Robotics, Grasping
Research field
Artificial intelligence, Aerospace engineering, Electrical engineering
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- PhD (Universita della Svizzera Italiana (USI))
Professional memberships and associations
Teaching
2018:
- Guest Lecture on (Deep) Reinforcement Learning, CAB420 Machine Learning (QUT, undergrad)
- Guest Lecture and Workshop on Space Robotics, SEB104 Grand Challenges in Science (QUT, undergrad)
2017:
- Guest Lecture on (Deep) Reinforcement Learning, CAB420 Machine Learning (QUT, undergrad)
- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence. Lecture (Brisbane.AI)
- QUT Workshop on (Deep) Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (international participation)
2016:
- 2 Day Hands-on Workshop: Robot Operating System (ROS) (academic and industry participation)
- Guest Lecture and Tutorial on Project Management and the Amazon Picking Challenge, ENB329 Mechatronics Project 2 (QUT, undergrad)
- Guest Lecture and Workshop on Space Robotics, SEB104 Grand Challenges in Science (QUT, undergrad)
- Guest Lecture and Baxter Presentation, IFB101 Impact of IT (QUT, undergrad)
previously:
- 2015 IEEE QLD CIS Invited Talk (Griffith University)
- 2015 Guest Lecture and Workshop on Space Robotics, SEB104 Grand Challenges in Science (QUT, undergrad)
- 2015 Baxter demonstrations, IFB101 Impact of IT (QUT, undergrad)
- 2011-2014 Systems Programming Lab (Università della Svizzera Italiana, undergrad/BSc)
- 2007 Usability Engineering (Vienna University of Technology, graduate students/MSc)
- 2006 User Interface Design Practical/Lab (Vienna University of Technology, undergrad/BSc)
Publications
- Leitner, J., (2016). A bottom-up integration of vision and actions to create cognitive humanoids. In H. Samani (Ed.), Cognitive robotics (pp. 191–214). CRC Press. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/92126
- Leitner, J., Harding, S., Forster, A. & Corke, P. (2016). A modular software framework for eye-hand coordination in humanoid robots. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 3, 1–16. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/104302
- Zhang, F., Leitner, J., Milford, M., Upcroft, B. & Corke, P. (2015). Towards vision-based deep reinforcement learning for robotic motion control. Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation 2015, 1–8. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/92332
- Frank, M., Leitner, J., Stollenga, M., Forster, A. & Schmidhuber, J. (2014). Curiosity driven reinforcement learning for motion planning on humanoids. Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 7, 1–15. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/82595
- Frank, M., Leitner, J., Stollenga, M., Kaufmann, G., Harding, S., Forster, A. & Schmidhuber, J. (2012). The modular behavioral environment for humanoids and other robots (MoBeE). Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), Volume 2, 304–313. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/105821
- Frank, M., Forster, A., Schmidhuber, J., Leitner, J. & Harding, S. (2013). Humanoid learns to detect its own hands. Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 1411–1418. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/105812
- Leitner, J., Chandrashekhariah, P., Harding, S., Frank, M., Spina, G., Forster, A., Triesch, J. & Schmidhuber, J. (2012). Autonomous learning of robust visual object detection and identification on a humanoid. Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL 2012), 186–191. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/105816
- Leitner, J., Frank, M., Forster, A. & Schmidhuber, J. (2014). Reactive reaching and grasping on a humanoid: Towards closing the action-perception loop on the iCub. Proceedings of the 2014 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), Volume 1, 102–109. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/82583
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