Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

Cognitive Science, Robotics and Society

• Overview (Curiosity-driven Developmental Process and the Evolution of Language)
  • How Evolution may work through Curiosity-driven Developmental Process Oudeyer, P-Y. and Smith. L. (in press) Topics in Cognitive Science.

• Models of Curiosity and its Role in Self-Organization of Developmental Structures
  • Intrinsic Motivation Systems for Autonomous Mental Development Oudeyer P-Y, Kaplan , F. and Hafner, V. (2007) IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 11(2), pp. 265–286.
  • Information Seeking, Curiosity and Attention: Computational and Neural Mechanisms Gottlieb, J., Oudeyer, P-Y., Lopes, M., Baranes, A. (2013) Trends in Cognitive Science, , 17(11), pp. 585-596. Bibtex Pdf preprint
  • In search of the neural circuits of intrinsic motivation Kaplan F. and Oudeyer P-Y. (2007a) Frontiers in Neuroscience, 1(1), pp.225–236.
  • SOFTWARE: A number of these models are available in the open-source Explauto Python library, available on GitHub (code written by C. Moulin-Frier and P. Rouanet): Explauto: an open-source Python library to study autonomous exploration in developmental robotics Clément Moulin-Frier; Pierre Rouanet; Pierre-Yves Oudeyer  ICDL-Epirob – International Conference on Development and Learning, Epirob, Oct 2014, Genoa, Italy.
• Curiosity in humans: behavioral experiments and data mining
  • Eye Movements Reveal Epistemic Curiosity in Human Observers Adrien Baranes, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Jacqueline Gottlieb (2015) Vision Research, 117, pp. 81-90. [pdf]
  • The effects of task difficulty, novelty and the size of the search space on intrinsically motivated exploration Adrien Baranes, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Jacqueline Gottlieb (2014) Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2014, 8 (317), pp.1-9.  <10.3389/fnins.2014.00317> [pdf] [Bib]
• Curiosity in Language Acquisition and Speech Development
  • How Evolution may work through Curiosity-driven Developmental Process Oudeyer, P-Y. and Smith. L. (in press) Topics in Cognitive Science.
  • Open challenges in understanding development and evolution of speech forms: The roles of embodied self-organization, motivation and active exploration  Oudeyer, P-Y. (2015) Journal of Phonetics, in press, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2015.09.001.
  • Self-organization of early vocal development in infants and machines: the role of intrinsic motivation Moulin-Frier, C., Nguyen, S.M., Oudeyer, P-Y. (2014) Frontiers in Psychology (Cognitive Science), 4(1006), Bibtex
  • Computational Models in the Debate over Language Learnability Kaplan, F., Oudeyer, P-Y., Bergen B. (2008) Infant and Child Development, 17(1), pp. 55–80.
  • Discovering Communication Oudeyer P-Y., Kaplan F. (2006) Connection Science, 18(2), pp. 189–206.
• Language Acquisition, Sensorimotor Grounding and the Gavagai problem
  • MCA-NMF: Multimodal Concept Acquisition with Non-Negative Matrix Factorization Mangin O, Filliat D, ten Bosch L, Oudeyer P-Y (2015)  PLoS ONE 10(10): e0140732. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0140732
  • From Language to Motor Gavagai: Unified Imitation Learning of Multiple Linguistic and Non-linguistic Sensorimotor Skills Cederborg, T. and Oudeyer, P-Y. (2013) IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development. 5(3), pp. 222-239.
• Self-Organization in the Evolution of Speech
  • Self-Organization in the Evolution of Speech Oudeyer, P-Y. (2006) Oxford University Press.
  • The Self-Organization of Speech Sounds Oudeyer, P-Y. (2005) Journal of Theoretical Biology, 233(3), pp. 435–449.
• Darwinian Dynamics in Language Evolution
  • Language Evolution as a Darwinian Process: Computational Studies Oudeyer P-Y., Kaplan F. (2007) Cognitive Processing, , 8(1), pp. 21–35.
  • How phonological structures can be culturally selected for learnability Oudeyer, P-Y (2005) Adaptive Behavior, 13(4), pp. 269–280.
• Curiosity and an Evo-Devo Perspective on Language Evolution 
  • How Evolution may work through Curiosity-driven Developmental Process Oudeyer, P-Y. and Smith. L. (in press) Topics in Cognitive Science.

• Overview
  • Developmental Learning of Sensorimotor Models for Control in Robotics
    Oudeyer, P-Y. (2014)
    SIAM News, vol. 47, n. 7. (original link)
• Developmental Constraints for Lifelong Robot Learning in High-Dimensions
  • Intrinsically Motivated Learning of Real-World Sensorimotor Skills with Developmental Constraints Oudeyer P-Y., Baranes A., Kaplan F. (2013) in Intrinsically Motivated Learning in Natural and Artificial Systems, eds. Baldassarre G. and Mirolli M., Springer.
• Active Learning and Artificial Curiosity in Robot Development
  • Intrinsic Motivation Systems for Autonomous Mental Development Oudeyer P-Y, Kaplan , F. and Hafner, V. (2007) IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 11(2), pp. 265–286.
  • Active Learning of Inverse Models with Intrinsically Motivated Goal Exploration in Robots Baranes, A., Oudeyer, P-Y. (2013) Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 61(1), pp. 49-73.
  • Active Choice of Teachers, Learning Strategies and Goals for a Socially Guided Intrinsic Motivation Learner Nguyen, M., Oudeyer, P-Y. (2013)  Paladyn Journal of Behavioural Robotics, 3(3):136–146.
  • What is intrinsic motivation? A typology of computational approaches Oudeyer P-Y. and Kaplan F. (2007) Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 1:6
  • SOFTWARE: A number of these models are available in the open-source Explauto Python library, available on GitHub (code written by C. Moulin-Frier and P. Rouanet): Explauto: an open-source Python library to study autonomous exploration in developmental robotics Clément Moulin-Frier; Pierre Rouanet; Pierre-Yves Oudeyer  ICDL-Epirob – International Conference on Development and Learning, Epirob, Oct 2014, Genoa, Italy.
• Goal Babbling for Efficient Learning of Motor Skills in Robots
  • Active Learning of Inverse Models with Intrinsically Motivated Goal Exploration in Robots Baranes, A., Oudeyer, P-Y. (2013) Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 61(1), pp. 49-73.
• Multimodal Learning of Language in Robots
  • From Language to Motor Gavagai: Unified Imitation Learning of Multiple Linguistic and Non-linguistic Sensorimotor Skills Cederborg, T. and Oudeyer, P-Y. (2013) IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development. 5(3), pp. 222-239.
  • Learning semantic components from sub-symbolic multimodal perception Mangin, O. and Oudeyer, P-Y. (2013) Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics, IEEE ICDL-Epirob, Osaka, Japan. [bibtex] [poster][code] [details]
• Human-Robot Interaction: Adaptive Interfaces
  • Teaching a robot how to recognize new visual objects: a study of the impact of interfaces Pierre Rouanet, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Fabien Danieau and David Filliat IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol.29, no.2, pp.525,541, April 2013 Bibtex
  • Robot Learning Simultanously a Task and How to Interpret Human Instructions Grizou, J., Lopes, M. and Oudeyer, P-Y. (2013) Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics, IEEE ICDL-Epirob, Osaka, Japan.
  • Robotic clicker training Kaplan, F., Oudeyer, P-Y., Kubinyi, E. and Miklosi, A. (2002) Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 38(3-4), pp. 197–206.
• Human-Robot Interaction: Imitation Learning
  • Active Choice of Teachers, Learning Strategies and Goals for a Socially Guided Intrinsic Motivation Learner Nguyen, M., Oudeyer, P-Y. (2013)  Paladyn Journal of Behavioural Robotics,  3(3):136–146.  
  • From Language to Motor Gavagai: Unified Imitation Learning of Multiple Linguistic and Non-linguistic Sensorimotor Skills Cederborg, T. and Oudeyer, P-Y. (2013) IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development. 5(3), pp. 222-239.
• Emotional Speech Synthesis and Recognition
  • The production and recognition of emotions in speech: features and algorithms Oudeyer P-Y. (2003) International Journal in Human-Computer Studies, 59(1-2), pp. 157–183.

• Calibration-Free Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI)
  • Exploiting task constraints for self-calibrated brain-machine interface control using error-related potentials I. Iturrate, J. Grizou, J. Omedes, P.-Y. Oudeyer, M. Lopes and L. Montesano PLOS One, 2015.
  • Calibration-Free BCI Based Control Jonathan Grizou; Iñaki Iturrate; Luis Montesano; Pierre-Yves Oudeyer; Manuel Lopes Proceedings of Twenty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Jul 2014, Quebec, Canada. Bibtex
• Adaptive Learning of how to Interpret Human Instruction/Social Signals
  • Robot Learning Simultanously a Task and How to Interpret Human Instructions Grizou, J., Lopes, M. and Oudeyer, P-Y. (2013) Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics, IEEE ICDL-Epirob, Osaka, Japan. [videos of talk] Bibtex
  • From Language to Motor Gavagai: Unified Imitation Learning of Multiple Linguistic and Non-linguistic Sensorimotor Skills Thomas Cederborg; Pierre-Yves Oudeyer IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development (TAMD), IEEE, 2013 Bibtex
• Emotional Speech Synthesis and Recognition
  • The production and recognition of emotions in speech: features and algorithms Oudeyer P-Y. (2003) International Journal in Human-Computer Studies, 59(1-2), pp. 157–183. Bibtex
• Intuitive Interfaces for Human-Robot Interaction
  • The Impact of Human-Robot Interfaces on the Learning of Visual Objects Pierre Rouanet; Pierre-Yves Oudeyer ; Fabien Danieau; David Filliat  IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, 2013, 29 (2), pp. 525-541 Bibtex
  • Robotic clicker training Kaplan, F., Oudeyer, P-Y., Kubinyi, E. and Miklosi, A. (2002) Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 38(3-4), pp. 197–206. Bibtex

• Developmental Active Learning for Personalization and Optimization in Online Educational Software
  • Multi-Armed Bandits for Intelligent Tutoring Systems Benjamin Clement, Didier Roy, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Manuel Lopes Journal of Educational Data Mining (JEDM), Vol 7, No 2, 2015.
• Educational robotics
  • IniRobot: a pedagogical kit to initiate children to concepts of robotics and computer science Didier Roy, Gordana Gerber, Stéphane Magnenat, Fanny Riedo, Morgane Chevalier, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Francesco Mondada 6th International Conference on Robotics in Education, 2015.

Link to information about the Poppy humanoid robot : Poppy Project web site. Poppy is an open-source 3D printed robot for science, education and art designed by the Flowers team. It was built to study the impact of the body on sensorimotor development and cognition: it makes it possible to really consider the body as an experimental variable. See article at Humanoids 2013 conference.

Poppy Overview from Poppy Project on Vimeo.

I collaborate regularly with artist within project that explore the frontiers between art and science. This has been the opportunity to create original connections between the general public and our scientific projects, in particular by bringing people to ask themselves and to ourselves stimulating questions about the position of such scientific projects within society at large.

Examples of such projects include:

• Artistic residency “Etres et Numériques” (2014), a study of movement and emotions through the interaction between the humanoid robot Poppy and a dancer. This happened at Lycée Saintonge, in Bordeaux, and also included workshop with young students allowing them to discover various aspects of robotics and its role in society.#01- artistique | robotique | médiation – Recherche chien noir à tête d’ours, résidence Lycée Saintonge. Bordeaux 2014. from comacina, capsule créative on Vimeo.
• Ergo-Robots Experiment at “Mathematics: A Beautiful Elsewhere” (2012) Exhbition at Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain (Paris, France), with a collaboration with movie maker David Lynch.
• C2M1 (2010): “associate scientist” with artists for an art live theatrical performance about the impact of technology upon language (with C2M1 group in Boulogne-Billancourt, lead by Magali Desbazeille and Siegfried Canto). Video complète du spectacle C2M ici.