报告人简介

Prof. Matthias Rätsch is a professor at the Reutlingen University for Image Understanding, Artificial Intelligence, and Interactive Mobile Robotics. In 2008, he received his Ph.D. degree in the Graphics and Vision Research Group (GraVis) at the University of Basel, Switzerland in 3DMM Face Analysis. His research interests are in the fields of Image Understanding, Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Driving, Bionics, Service and Humanoid Robots, Human Robot Collaboration, Natural Language Processing, LLMs, Chatbots, and AI-Ethics. 

He is the head of the working group ‘Visual Systems for Intelligent Robots’ (ViSiR) and the RoboCup team‘RT-Lions’obtaining several awards: World Champion in Graz 2009, German Master ‘09, Iran Master ‘11, …, still acting Vice World Champion. Change to the RoboCup@Home League: 1st Prize Informatics Inside ‘14 + ‘15, 1st Prize at Portuguese Open ’16, 4th Prize German Open, 8th at World Championship in Nagoya, Japan ‘17, 1st Prize SICK Robot Day ‘18, 5th at World Championship in Sydney, Australia ’19 and recently 3rd Prize at World Championship Worldwide Virtual 2021.

Prof. Rätsch has been a member of the program committee and a session chair for several international conferences and was invited for several speeches including keynote, seminal and training in Face Analysis and Robot Vision for academic and industrial sectors. 

Prof. Rätsch has published more than 50 international academic research papers and journals, like at the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing journal or at the SIGGRAPH conference. His publications were recently honored with an award at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), at the International Conference on Systems, Control and Communications (ICSCC), 2016, the Informatics Inside Conference for Human-Centered Computing, 2014 and 2015 and at the IEEE Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems Journal, 2009. His working group could win the Otto-Johansen-Price. 

Prof. Rätsch led 1.1Mill € (>8Mill ¥) founded industrial project “KollRo 4.0” (with BMBF, BOSCH, Mercedes Benz), two ZIM projects (0.4Mill €), ProFö “BInGO” project (0.4Mill €). InvestBW “FAIR” project (0.2Mill €), ‘Major Talent Project’ (Category A) “ET” project with ‘Yangzhou Dongsheng Automotive Co., LTD’ (YDA) in Yangzhou (0.7Mill ¥, over all 3.5 Mill ¥), and further 2.4 Mill € are proposed. Several funded industrial projects, like RTMO (BMBF), GES 3D (BMBF), Face-HMI (SAB, COG), and I-Search (BMBF). 

报告摘要

Recent research in artificial intelligence and robotics, termed as the fourth industrial or robot revolution, shows that artificial intelligence and robots will play a major role in our future lives. On one hand, we have to ask, if they will take over power in the world or even will control humans? One the other hand, we humans have got terrible complex problems on our earth. The hope is that a superintelligence can help us to solve such problems.

In this talk, Prof. Rätsch will introduce the research of his working group ‘Visual Systems for Intelligent Robots’ (ViSiR), the collaboration of his group at the Reutlingen University in Germany with the DHU in Shanghai. In the meeting directly after the speech, we will discuss chances for joint research in the field of Artificial Intelligence and its use in many fields of joint interests. 

All is illustrated on robots of the RT-Lions team, taking part in the World Championship in RoboCup. Practical examples are shown from collaborations with strong industrial partners, like BMW, Mercedes Benz Daimler, BOSCH, FESTO or KUKA. 

The meeting will be in English. Everyone is invited interested in the topic, especially master students, young researchers, teachers, and professors interested in doing joint research in these fields, to obtain a joint Ph.D. or to do prof./teacher/student-exchange in Reutlingen University, Germany.