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Semantic Prediction: Which One Should Come First, Recognition or Prediction?
Hafez Farazi, Jan Nogga, and Sven Behnke
The ultimate goal of video prediction is not forecasting future pixel-values given some previous frames. Rather, the end goal of video prediction is to discover valuable internal r…
Real-time Pose Estimation from Images for Multiple Humanoid Robots
Arash Amini, Hafez Farazi, Sven Behnke
Pose estimation commonly refers to computer vision methods that recognize people's body postures in images or videos. With recent advancements in deep learning, we now have compell…
Local Frequency Domain Transformer Networks for Video Prediction
Hafez Farazi, Jan Nogga, Sven Behnke
Video prediction is commonly referred to as forecasting future frames of a video sequence provided several past frames thereof. It remains a challenging domain as visual scenes evo…
NimbRo-OP2X: Affordable Adult-sized 3D-printed Open-Source Humanoid Robot for Research
Grzegorz Ficht, Hafez Farazi, Diego Rodriguez +4
For several years, high development and production costs of humanoid robots restricted researchers interested in working in the field. To overcome this problem, several research gr…
Motion Segmentation using Frequency Domain Transformer Networks
Hafez Farazi, Sven Behnke
Self-supervised prediction is a powerful mechanism to learn representations that capture the underlying structure of the data. Despite recent progress, the self-supervised video pr…
RoboCup 2019 AdultSize Winner NimbRo: Deep Learning Perception, In-Walk Kick, Push Recovery, and Team Play Capabilities
Diego Rodriguez, Hafez Farazi, Grzegorz Ficht +7
Individual and team capabilities are challenged every year by rule changes and the increasing performance of the soccer teams at RoboCup Humanoid League. For RoboCup 2019 in the Ad…
Utilizing Temporal Information in Deep Convolutional Network for Efficient Soccer Ball Detection and Tracking
Anna Kukleva, Mohammad Asif Khan, Hafez Farazi +1
Soccer ball detection is identified as one of the critical challenges in the RoboCup competition. It requires an efficient vision system capable of handling the task of detection w…
NimbRo Robots Winning RoboCup 2018 Humanoid AdultSize Soccer Competitions
Hafez Farazi, Grzegorz Ficht, Philipp Allgeuer +5
Over the past few years, the Humanoid League rules have changed towards more realistic and challenging game environments, which encourage teams to advance their robot soccer perfor…
Frequency Domain Transformer Networks for Video Prediction
Hafez Farazi, Sven Behnke
The task of video prediction is forecasting the next frames given some previous frames. Despite much recent progress, this task is still challenging mainly due to high nonlinearity…
NimbRo-OP2X: Adult-sized Open-source 3D Printed Humanoid Robot
Grzegorz Ficht, Hafez Farazi, André Brandenburger +5
Humanoid robotics research depends on capable robot platforms, but recently developed advanced platforms are often not available to other research groups, expensive, dangerous to o…
Real-Time Visual Tracking and Identification for a Team of Homogeneous Humanoid Robots
Hafez Farazi, Sven Behnke
The use of a team of humanoid robots to collaborate in completing a task is an increasingly important field of research. One of the challenges in achieving collaboration, is mutual…
Online Visual Robot Tracking and Identification using Deep LSTM Networks
Hafez Farazi, Sven Behnke
Collaborative robots working on a common task are necessary for many applications. One of the challenges for achieving collaboration in a team of robots is mutual tracking and iden…
Location Dependency in Video Prediction
Niloofar Azizi, Hafez Farazi, Sven Behnke
Deep convolutional neural networks are used to address many computer vision problems, including video prediction. The task of video prediction requires analyzing the video frames,…
First International HARTING Open Source Prize Winner: The igus Humanoid Open Platform
Philipp Allgeuer, Grzegorz Ficht, Hafez Farazi +2
The use of standard platforms in the field of humanoid robotics can lower the entry barrier for new research groups, and accelerate research by the facilitation of code sharing. Nu…
NimbRo-OP2: Grown-up 3D Printed Open Humanoid Platform for Research
Grzegorz Ficht, Philipp Allgeuer, Hafez Farazi +1
The versatility of humanoid robots in locomotion, full-body motion, interaction with unmodified human environments, and intuitive human-robot interaction led to increased research…
RoboCup 2016 Humanoid TeenSize Winner NimbRo: Robust Visual Perception and Soccer Behaviors
Hafez Farazi, Philipp Allgeuer, Grzegorz Ficht +4
The trend in the RoboCup Humanoid League rules over the past few years has been towards a more realistic and challenging game environment. Elementary skills such as visual percepti…
The igus Humanoid Open Platform: A Child-sized 3D Printed Open-Source Robot for Research
Philipp Allgeuer, Hafez Farazi, Grzegorz Ficht +2
The use of standard robotic platforms can accelerate research and lower the entry barrier for new research groups. There exist many affordable humanoid standard platforms in the lo…
A Monocular Vision System for Playing Soccer in Low Color Information Environments
Hafez Farazi, Philipp Allgeuer, Sven Behnke
Humanoid soccer robots perceive their environment exclusively through cameras. This paper presents a monocular vision system that was originally developed for use in the RoboCup Hu…
Child-sized 3D Printed igus Humanoid Open Platform
Philipp Allgeuer, Hafez Farazi, Michael Schreiber +1
The use of standard platforms in the field of humanoid robotics can accelerate research, and lower the entry barrier for new research groups. While many affordable humanoid standar…
Advanced Soccer Skills and Team Play of RoboCup 2017 TeenSize Winner NimbRo
Diego Rodriguez, Hafez Farazi, Philipp Allgeuer +5
In order to pursue the vision of the RoboCup Humanoid League of beating the soccer world champion by 2050, new rules and competitions are added or modified each year fostering nove…
Grown-up NimbRo Robots Winning RoboCup 2017 Humanoid AdultSize Soccer Competitions
Grzegorz Ficht, Dmytro Pavlichenko, Philipp Allgeuer +6
The ongoing evolution of the RoboCup Humanoid League led in 2017 to the introduction of one vs. one soccer games for the AdultSize robots, which motived our team NimbRo to enter th…