Course Information
Course Title: Advanced Topics in Embodied Intelligence
Course ID: 263-5908-00L
Lecturers: Dr. Xi Wang
Teaching Assistants: Yung-Hsu (Roy) Yang
Venue: Tues. 16:15-18:00h, CAB G 52
Course Description :
This seminar provides an overview of techniques in the field of embodied intelligence. It aims to provide an overview of techniques in embodied intelligence, including perception, sensing, language and planning, and how these disciplines are integrated to build embodied intelligence. This seminar opens with basics in embodied intelligence and briefly reviews the main disciplines related to the topic. Students will read, present and discuss the papers selected for the course and gain an understanding of research in this area. Introduction slides will be online at the course website. There are no prerequisites for this seminar, however, it will help if the student has taken classes in machine learning or computer vision.
Workload
- Attend all classes and participate in discussions.
- Read 1-2 papers per week before each seminar meeting.
- Present paper and lead discussion once.
- Write a follow-up project proposal as a long abstract.
- Attendance is mandatory: Max. 2 absences - virtual option available in justified cases, e.g. sickness, travel, ... etc.
Slides & Paper List:
We provide slides as well as the paper list excel in ETH Google Workspace. Please use your ETH account to access the files.
Slides:
Paper List:
Lecture Schedule :
| Date | Description | Speaker 1 | Speaker 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 18 | Introduction | ||
| February 25 | Example talks | Boyang | Alexey |
| March 4 | Talk 1 | Angelo Huang | |
| March 11 | Talk 2 & 3 | Felix Hegg | Yufei Liu |
| March 18 | No class | ||
| March 25 | No class | ||
| April 1 | Talk 4 & 5 | Mirlan Karimov | Sai Bommisetty |
| April 8 | Talk 6 & 7 | Tavis Siebert | Fabian Schrag |
| April 15 | No class | ||
| April 22 | Easter Holiday | ||
| April 29 | Talk 8 & 9 | Gustavo Aguiar Martins | Robin Gibson |
| May 6 | Talk 10 & 11 | Esteban Padilla | Jonas Egloff |
| May 13 | Talk 12 & 13 | Clara Kümpel | Liam Achenbach |
| May 20 | Talk 14 & 15 | Jonas Pai | Caterina Caccavella |
| May 27 | Talk 16 & 17 | Tao Zhang | Xiangge Huang |