The Symposium will be held at the Palais des congrès on Friday, June 22/ 2018. The Keynote, Workshops and Poster sessions will be located on the 5th Floor.
| 08:50-09:00 | Welcome and Greetings |
| 09:00-10:00 | Keynote 1 Jeannette Bohg |
| 10:00-10:30 | Oral Session 1 - 2 Papers (15 mins each) |
| Diego Rodriguez, André Brandenburger and Sven Behnke. Combining Simulations and Real-robot Experiments for Bayesian Optimization of Bipedal Gait Stabilization |
| Cristopher Gómez, Matías Mattamala, Tim Resink and Javier Ruiz-Del-Solar. Visual SLAM-based Localization and Navigation for Service Robots: The Pepper Case |
| 10:30-11:15 | Poster Teasers - 21 Papers(1/5mins each) |
| 11:15-12:00 | Poster Session and Coffee break |
| 12:00-13:00 | Oral Session 2 - 4 Papers (15 mins each) |
| Devin Schwab, Yifeng Zhu and Manuela Veloso. Learning Skills for Small Size League RoboCup |
| Thomas Gabel, Philipp Klöppner, Eicke Godehardt and Alaa Tharwat. Communication in Soccer Simulation: On the Use of Wiretapping Opponent Teams |
| Warren Watkinson and Tracy Camp. Training a RoboCup Striker Agent via Transferred Reinforcement Learning |
| Ricardo Dias, Bernardo Cunha, Jose Azevedo, Artur Pereira and Nuno Lau. Multi-Robot Fast-Paced Coordination With Leader Election |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch (Roof Top Terrasse, 7th Floor) |
| 14:00-15:00 | Keynote 2 Yoshua Bengio |
| 15:00-16:00 | Oral Session 3 - 4 Papers (15 mins each) |
| Márton Szemenyei and Vladimir Estivill-Castro. Real-time Scene Understanding using Deep Neural Networks for RoboCup SPL |
| Mihai Polceanu, Fabrice Harrouet and Cedric Buche. Fast Multi-Scale fHOG Feature Extraction Using Histogram Downsampling |
| Trent Houliston and Stephan Chalup. Visual Mesh: Real-time Object Detection Using Constant Sample Density |
| Francisco Leiva, Nicolás Cruz, Ignacio Bugueño and Javier Ruiz-Del-Solar. Playing Soccer without Colors in the SPL: A Convolutional Neural Network Approach |
| 16:00-16:45 | Poster Session 2 and Coffee break |
| 16:45-17:45 | Keynote 3 Torsten Kroeger |
| 17:45-18:00 | Closing Remarks and Best Paper Award |
| 18:00-20:00 | Farewell Party (Roof Top Terrasse, 7th Floor) |
| 1 | Okan Aşık, Binnur Görer and H. Levent Akin. End-to-End Deep Imitation Learning: Robot Soccer Case Study |
| 2 | Georg Christian Felbinger, Patrick Göttsch, Pascal Loth, Lasse Peters and Felix Wege. Designing Convolutional Neural Networks Using a Genetic Approach for Ball Detection |
| 3 | Niklas Fiedler, Marc Bestmann and Norman Hendrich. ImageTagger: An Open Source Online Platform for Collaborative Image Labeling |
| 4 | Takuya Fukushima, Tomoharu Nakashima and Hidehisa Akiyama. Mimicking an Expert Team through the Learning of Evaluation Functions from Action Sequences |
| 5 | Alexander Gabel, Tanja Heuer, Ina Schiering and Reinhard Gerndt. Jetson, where is the Ball? Using Neural Networks for Ball Detection at RoboCup 2017 |
| 6 | Reinhard Gerndt, Maike Paetzel, Jacky Baltes and Olivier Ly. Bridging the Gap - On a Humanoid Robotics Rookie League |
| 7 | Fabrice Jumel, Jacques Saraydaryan, Raphael Leber, Laetitia Matignon, Eric Lombardi, Christian Wolf and Olivier Simonin. Context Aware Robot Architecture, Application to the Robocup@Home Challenge |
| 8 | Mauricio Matamoros, Karin Harbusch and Dietrich Paulus. From Commands to Goal-based Dialogs: A Roadmap to Achieve Natural Language Interaction in RoboCup@Home |
| 9 | Olivia Michael, Oliver Obst, Falk Schmidsberger and Frieder Stolzenburg. RoboCupSimData: Software and Data for Machine Learning from RoboCup Simulation League |
| 10 | Federico Nardi, María T. Lázaro, Luca Iocchi and Giorgio Grisetti. Generation of laser-quality 2D navigation maps from RGB-D sensors |
| 11 | Matías Pavez, Javier Ruiz-Del-Solar, Victoria Amo and Felix Meyer Zu Driehausen. Towards Long-Term Memory for Social Robots: Proposing a New Challenge for the RoboCup@Home League |
| 12 | Pedro Pena, Christine Lisetti, Mihai Polceanu and Ubbo Visser. eEVA: Real-time Web-based Affective Agents for Human-Robot Interface |
| 13 | Tanguy Pomas and Tomoharu Nakashima. Evaluation of Situations in RoboCup 2D Simulations using Soccer Field Images |
| 14 | Esteban Reyes, Cristopher Gómez, Esteban Norambuena and Javier Ruiz-Del-Solar. Near Real-Time Object Recognition for Pepper based on Deep Neural Networks Running on a Backpack |
| 15 | Robin Matthias Schmucker, Chenghui Zhou and Manuela Veloso. Multimodal Movement Activity Recognition Using a Robot's Proprioceptive Sensors |
| 16 | Masaru Shimizu and Tomoichi Takahashi. Survey of rescue competitions and proposal of new standard task from ordinary tasks |
| 17 | David Simoes, Nuno Lau and Luis Paulo Reis. Adjusted Bounded Weighted Policy Learner |
| 18 | Daniel Speck, Marc Bestmann and Pablo Barros. Towards Real-Time Ball Localization using CNNs |
| 19 | Sander G. Van Dijk and Marcus M. Scheunemann. Deep Learning for Semantic Segmentation on Minimal Hardware |
| 20 | Aaron Wong, Ryan Jeffery, Peter Turner, Scott Sleap and Stephan Chalup. RoboCup Junior in the Hunter Region: Driving the Future of Robotic STEM Education |
| 21 | Weijia Yao, Sha Luo, Huimin Lu and Junhao Xiao. Distributed Circumnavigation Control with Dynamic Spacings for a Heterogeneous Multi-robot System |
| 22 | Behnam Yazdankhoo, Mohammad Navid Shahsavari, Soroush Sadeghnejad and Jacky Baltes. Prediction of a ball trajectory for the humanoid robots: A friction-based study |
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| 2 | Arnoud Visser and Luis Gustavo Nardin | The MATLAB Machine Learning Tutorial for Robot Rescue Simulation League | Rescue Simulation | Collaboration |
| 3 | Jacky Baltes, Reinhard Gerndt, Soroush Sadeghnejad and Olivier Ly | Projects for League Developments 2018, 7th International School for Humanoid Soccer Robots 2018 | Humanoid | Workshop |
| 4 | Isaac Jesus Da Silva, Olivier Ly and Reinaldo A. C. Bianchi | Development a vision system with Deep Neural Networks to object detection in RoboCup Humanoid League | Humanoid | Collaboration |
| 5 | Changhao Liang and Jiashi Zhang | Proposal: Combine Choregraphe with SPQRel navigation | @Home SSPL | Collaboration |
| 6 | Ziqi Hu | Extraction and Analysis of Embodied Collaborative Behavior from Cyber-Physical Human-Robot Interaction with Immersive User Interfaces for RoboCup @Home and simulation | @Home | Collaboration |
| 7 | Maziar Palhang, Seyed Navid Hoseini Izadi and Mohamad Roshanzamir | Nao Motion Editor for 3D Soccer Simulation League using Gazebo | 3D Simulation | Project |
| 8 | Heinrich Mellmann, Benjamin Schlotter and Philipp Strobel | Data Driven Research and Development in RoboCup | | Project |
| 9 | Ricardo Dias and Bernardo Cunha | WiFi Monitoring Tool for MSL (and RoboCup) | Middle-size | Project |
| 10 | Thomas Röfer and Tim Laue | Extending and Updating the RoboCup Standard Platform League's GameController Application | SPL | Project |
| 11 | Ricardo Dias and Bernardo Cunha | RoboCup MSL 8th International Workshop | Middle-size | Workshop |
| 12 | Roberto Pinillos, Eduardo Zalama and María Teresa Lázaro | RCF Support for Projects for League Developments 2018 | @Home SSPL | Workshop |
| 13 | Amy Eguchi and Gerard Elias | RoboCup Junior Strategic Meeting | Junior | Workshop |
| 14 | Jeffrey Too Chuan Tan | RoboCup@Home Education Outreach Initiative to Canada in Promotion of RoboCup 2018 | @Home | Workshop |
| 15 | Okan Aşık and Kevin Christian Rodríguez Siu | Integration of the RoboCup Rescue Agent Simulator to OpenAI Gym | Rescue Agent Simulation | Collaboration |
| 16 | Luis F Lupian, Hector Aviles, Enrique Sucar and Marco Morales | Mexican Winter School on Robotics | All | Workshop |
| 17 | Jiayao Shen and Changjiu Zhou | CoSpace RoboCamp and Challenge @RoboCup 2018 | CoSpace | Workshop |
| 18 | Rodrigo Guerra, Paulo Drews-Jr and Cleverton Bueno Dos Santos Júnior | RoboCup@Home Week | @Home | Collaboration |