I obtained my Master of Engineering in 2009 from Télécom ParisTech (ENST, France) and Telecom Barcelona (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain) after fulfilling a double degree programme. During that time, I specialized in image processing and became interested in artificial intelligence and medical robotics.
I carried out my Master's final project as an intern in the research department of the Airbus Group (formerly EADS) in France, which was my first contact with industrial applications of machine learning.
My Ph.D. thesis topic was in the area of computer vision, on the analysis and classification of unconstrained monocular videos, with a focus on human action recognition. It was jointly supervised by Gabriel Brostow (University College London, UK) and Frédéric Jurie (Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, France) and partially funded by EADS France. We explored video descriptor quantization using random forests, and local and global representations of video for supervised learning.
In 2013 I joined the Perceiving Systems department of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (Tübingen, Germany) as a postdoctoral researcher. I worked on optical flow estimation under the supervision of Michael J. Black.
Since June 2015 I am working on vision for robotics at the Autonomous Motion department. My current interest are recursive Bayesian estimation for fusing multiple asynchronous sensors, and enabling continuous interaction of robots with their environment.
Decision making requires knowledge of some variables of interest. In the vast majority of real-world problems, these variables are latent, i.e. they cannot be observed directly and must be inferred from available measurements. To maintain an up-to-date distribution over the latent variables, past beliefs have to ...
Manuel Wüthrich Sebastian Trimpe Cristina Garcia Cifuentes Jan Issac Daniel Kappler Franzi Meier Jeannette Bohg Stefan Schaal
Hand-eye coordination is crucial for capable manipulation of objects. It requires to know the manipulator's and the objects' locations. These locations have to be inferred from sensory data. In this project we work with range sensors, which are wide spread in robotics and provide dense depth images.
...Manuel Wüthrich Jan Issac Cristina Garcia Cifuentes Jeannette Bohg Claudia Pfreundt Peter Pastor Mrinal Kalakrishnan Daniel Kappler Sebastian Trimpe Franzi Meier Stefan Schaal
We address the challenging problem of robotic grasping and manipulation in the presence of uncertainty. This uncertainty is due to noisy sensing, inaccurate models and hard-to-predict environment dynamics. Our approach emphasizes the importance of continuous, real-time perception and its tight integration with reactive motion genera...
Jeannette Bohg Daniel Kappler Franzi Meier Jan Issac Jim Mainprice Cristina Garcia Cifuentes Manuel Wüthrich Vincent Berenz Stefan Schaal Nathan Ratliff
Kappler, D., Meier, F., Issac, J., Mainprice, J., Garcia Cifuentes, C., Wüthrich, M., Berenz, V., Schaal, S., Ratliff, N., Bohg, J.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.03512, ArXiv, 2017 (article)
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(Finalist of Best Robotic Vision Paper Award of ICRA 2017)
Garcia Cifuentes, C., Issac, J., Wüthrich, M., Schaal, S., Bohg, J.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2(2):577-584, April 2017 (article)
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Wüthrich, M., Trimpe, S., Garcia Cifuentes, C., Kappler, D., Schaal, S.
The International Journal of Robotics Research, 35(14):1731-1749, December 2016 (article)
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Bohg, J., Kappler, D., Meier, F., Ratliff, N., Mainprice, J., Issac, J., Wüthrich, M., Garcia Cifuentes, C., Berenz, V., Schaal, S.
In International Workshop on Robotics in the 21st century: Challenges and Promises, September 2016 (inproceedings)am
Issac, J., Wüthrich, M., Garcia Cifuentes, C., Bohg, J., Trimpe, S., Schaal, S.
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2016, IEEE, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2016 (inproceedings)
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Wüthrich, M., Garcia Cifuentes, C., Trimpe, S., Meier, F., Bohg, J., Issac, J., Schaal, S.
In Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Boston, MA, USA, July 2016 (inproceedings)
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Garcia Cifuentes, C., Sturzel, M., Jurie, F., Brostow, G.
In Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference, BMVC 2012, pages: 55.1-55.12, (Editors: Bowden, Richard and Collomosse, John and Mikolajczyk, Krystian), BMVA Press, Surrey, UK, September 2012 (inproceedings)
Garcia Cifuentes, C., Sturzel, M.
In ICAART 2010 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, 1, pages: 589-594, (Editors: Filipe, Joaquim and Fred, Ana L. N. and Sharp, Bernadette), INSTICC Press, Valencia, Spain, January 2010 (inproceedings)
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