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SylvainCalinon
Professional address: H +41 76 368 16 64
Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory (LASA),
T +41 21 693 59 12
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL),
u +41 21 693 78 50
STI-I2S-LASA, Station 9, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
B sylvain.calinon@epfl.ch
Private address:
http://www.calinon.ch
Ch. du Vully 5, CH-1030 Bussigny, Switzerland.
http://lasa.epfl.ch
Born January 12, 1980, Yverdon, Switzerland.
Swiss and French citizen. Single.
Domains of expertise
· Robot programming by demonstration · Learning by imitation
· Machine learning · Artificial intelligence
· Human-robot interaction
Curriculum
March 2008 Visiting research fellow at the CNRS-AIST Joint Japanese-French Robotics Laboratory
(JRL). National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST),
Tsukuba, Japan (1 month).
2007now Postdoctoral fellow at the Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory (LASA). Ecole
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.
20032007 PhD in robot programming by demonstration obtained at the LASA Laboratory.
EPFL, Switzerland.
20012003 MSc in Microengineering, specialization in robotics. EPFL, Switzerland.
19982001 BSc in Microengineering. EPFL, Switzerland.
PhD thesis
Title Continuous Extraction of Task Constraints in a Robot Programming by Demonstration
Framework
Supervisor Prof. Aude Billard
Committee Prof. Hannes Bleuler, EPFL, president of the jury.
Prof. Hervé Bourlard, IDIAP Research Institute, examiner.
Dr Yiannis Demiris, Imperial College London (ICL), UK, examiner.
Prof. Stefan Schaal, University of Southern California (USC), USA, examiner.
Place and date LASA Laboratory, EPFL, Switzerland. Oral exam: May 1st , 2007. Public presenta-
tion: July 6th , 2007.
MSc thesis
Title PDA Interface for Humanoid Robots using Speech and Vision Processing
Supervisor Prof. Aude Billard
Committee Prof. Jean-Daniel Nicoud, DIDEL S.A., EPFL, examiner.
Places and date Autonomous Systems Lab (ASL), EPFL, Lausanne.
University of Southern California (USC), USA (1 month).
Advanced Telecommunication Research Institute (ATR), Kyoto, Japan (1 month).
Oral exam: March 1st , 2003.
List of publications
Book chapters Billard, A., Calinon, S., Dillmann, R. and Schaal, S. (2008), "Robot Programming
by Demonstration". Siciliano, B. and Khatib, O. (eds.). Handbook of Robotics.
Springer.
Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2007) "Learning of Gestures by Imitation in a Humanoid
Robot". Dautenhahn, K. and Nehaniv, C.L. (eds.). Imitation and Social Learning in
Robots, Humans and Animals: Behavioural, Social and Communicative Dimensions.
Cambridge University Press.
International Hersch, M., Guenter, F., Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2008) "Dynamical System Mod-
journals ulation for Robot Learning via Kinesthetic Demonstrations". IEEE Transactions on
Robotics (In press).
Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2007) "What is the Teacher's Role in Robot Program-
ming by Demonstration? - Toward Benchmarks for Improved Learning". Interaction
Studies, Special Issue on Psychological Benchmarks in Human-Robot Interaction, 8:3.
Calinon, S., Guenter, F. and Billard, A. (2007) "On Learning, Representing and Gen-
eralizing a Task in a Humanoid Robot". IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and
Cybernetics, Part B, Special issue on robot learning by observation, demonstration
and imitation, 37:2.
Guenter, F., Hersch, M., Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2007) "Reinforcement Learning
for Imitating Constrained Reaching Movements". Advanced Robotics, Special Issue
on Imitative Robots, 21:13.
Billard, A., Calinon, S. and Guenter, F. (2006) "Discriminative and Adaptive Imitation
in Uni-Manual and Bi-Manual Tasks". Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 54:5.
Billard, A., Epars, Y., Calinon, S., Cheng, G. and Schaal, S. (2004) "Discovering
Optimal Imitation Strategies". Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Special Issue:
Robot Learning from Demonstration, 47:2-3.
International Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2008) "A Probabilistic Programming by Demonstration
conference Framework Handling Skill Constraints in Joint Space and Task Space". In Proceedings
papers of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS),
Nice, France (In press).
Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2008) "A Framework Integrating Statistical and Social
Cues to Teach a Humanoid Robot New Skills". In Proceedings of the IEEE In-
ternational Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Workshop on Social
Interaction with Intelligent Indoor Robots, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2007) "Active Teaching in Robot Programming by Demon-
stration". In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human
Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Jeju, Korea.
Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2007) "Incremental Learning of Gestures by Imitation in
a Humanoid Robot". In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on
Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Arlington, Virginia, USA.
Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2006) "Teaching a Humanoid Robot to Recognize and
Reproduce Social Cues". In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on
Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Hertfordshire, UK.
Calinon, S., Guenter, F. and Billard, A. (2006) "On Learning the Statistical Repre-
sentation of a Task and Generalizing it to Various Contexts". In Proceedings of the
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Orlando, USA.
Calinon, S., Epiney, J. and Billard, A. (2005) "A Humanoid Robot Drawing Human
Portraits". In Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid
Robots (Humanoids), Tsukuba, Japan.
Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2005) "Recognition and Reproduction of Gestures using
a Probabilistic Framework combining PCA, ICA and HMM". In Proceedings of the
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Bonn, Germany.
Calinon, S., Guenter, F. and Billard, A. (2005) "Goal-Directed Imitation in a Hu-
manoid Robot". In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics
and Automation (ICRA), Barcelona, Spain.
Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2004) "Stochastic Gesture Production and Recognition
Model for a Humanoid Robot". In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Con-
ference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Sendai, Japan.
Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2003) "PDA Interface for Humanoid Robots". In Pro-
ceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids),
Karlsruhe, Germany.
Hersch, M., Guenter, F., Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2006) "Learning Dynamical
System Modulation for Constrained Reaching Tasks". In Proceedings of the IEEE-
RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Genova, Italy.
Conference Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2005) "Learning of Gestures by Imitation in a Humanoid
abstracts and Robot". International Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts (AISB),
posters Hatfield, UK.
Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2004) "Gesture Recognition and Reproduction for a Hu-
manoid Robot using Hidden Markov Models. AMI/PASCAL/IM2/M4 Workshop on
Multimodal Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms, Martigny, Switzer-
land.
Theses Calinon, S. (2007) "Continuous Extraction of Task Constraints in a Robot Program-
ming by Demonstration Framework". PhD thesis. Learning Algorithms and Systems
Laboratory (LASA), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).
Calinon, S. (2003) "PDA Interface for Humanoid Robots using Speech and Vision Pro-
cessing". MSc thesis. Autonomous Systems Laboratory (ASL), Ecole Polytechnique
Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).
Peer-reviewed videos
Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2007) "Incremental Learning of Gestures by Imitation in a
Humanoid Robot". ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
(HRI), Arlington, Virginia, USA.
Hersch, M., Guenter, F., Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2006) "Learning Dynamical
System Modulation for Constrained Reaching Tasks". IEEE-RAS International Con-
ference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Genova, Italy.
Calinon, S., Guenter, F. and Billard, A. (2005) "Goal-Directed Imitation in a Hu-
manoid Robot". IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA),
Barcelona, Spain.
Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2005) "A Humanoid Robot Drawing Human Portraits".
IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Tsukuba,
Japan.
Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2004) "Stochastic Gesture Production and Recognition
Model for a Humanoid Robot". IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent
Robots and Systems (IROS), Sendai, Japan.
Calinon, S. and Billard, A. (2003) "PDA Interface for Humanoid Robots". IEEE-RAS
International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Karlsruhe, Germany.
Invited talks and Workshops
2008 "A Robot Programming by Demonstration Framework Integrating Statistical and So-
cial Cues". Workshop on Interactive Robot Learning. Robotics: Science and Systems
Conference (RSS), Zurich, Switzerland.
2007 "Extraction of Task Constraints in a Robot Programming By Demonstration". Work-
shop on Concept Learning for Embodied Agents. International Conference on Robotics
and Automation (ICRA), Roma, Italia.
2006 "Learning and Probabilistic Representation of a Task in a Humanoid Robot". Work-
shop on Collaborative Human-Robot Teamwork. International Conference on Robotics
and Automation (ICRA), Orlando, Florida, USA.
Awards
2008 First Prize in the Grand Challenge on Human-Robot Interaction at the International
Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'2008).
Affiliations to European research projects
ROBOT@CWE European Integrated Project Robot@CWE (Advanced robotic systems in future col-
laborative working environments) funded by the European Commission under con-
tract FP6-2005-IST-5 (http://www.robot-at-cwe.eu). This 3-years project,
started in 2006, involves 7 universities and 2 industrial partners, for a budget of 1.75
million e. The main objective of this STREP is to research and demonstrate inte-
grative concepts of advanced robotic systems, to be seen as collaborative agents, in
various environments working together with humans. Robot@CWE will design suitable
architectures and technologies to achieve this goal.
FEELIX European Integrated Project Feelix Growing (Feel, interact, express: a global approach
GROWING to development with interdisciplinary grounding) funded by the European Commission
under contract FP6-IST-045169 (http://www.feelix-growing.org). This 4-
years project, started in 2006, involves 6 universities and 2 industrial partners, for
a budget of 2.5 million e. The overall goal of this project is the interdisciplinary
investigation of socially situated development from an integrated or global perspective,
as a key paradigm towards achieving robots that interact with humans in their everyday
environments in a rich, flexible, autonomous, and user-centered way.
COGNIRON European Integrated Project Cogniron ("The Cognitive Companion")
funded by the European Commission under contract FP6-IST-002020
(http://www.cogniron.org). This 4-years project, started in 2004, in-
volves 8 university partners, for a budget of 8 million e. The overall objectives
are to study the perceptual, representational, reasoning and learning capabilities of
embodied robots in human centered environments.
Refereeing
2008 Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part A (SMC-
A), and for the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
(IROS'2008).
2007 Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO), IEEE Transactions on Sys-
tems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part B (SMC-B), International Journal of Humanoid
Robotics (HR), International Journal of Robotics Research (RR), and Advanced
Robotic Systems (ARS), and for the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and
Automation (ICRA'2008).
2006 Reviewer for the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
(ICRA'2007).
2005 Reviewer for Neural Networks (NN) and for IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and
Cybernetics - Part C (SMC-C).
Languages
French (native) English (fluent) German (good knowledge)
Computer skills
Programming C/C++, Matlab, Java, Assem- Systems Unix/Linux, Windows
bler, PHP, OpenGL
Robot platforms HOAP-2, HOAP-3 (Fujitsu), Katana (Neuronics), DB (Sarcos), HRP-2 (Kawada Ind.,
General Robotix), Robota (Didel)
Supervision of graduate students projects
2007 Richard, M. "Implementation of a learning-by-imitation algorithm on the Katana
robot". MSc thesis, EPFL.
2005 Magnard, F. "Object tracking for a camera designed to be worn by children". MSc
thesis, EPFL.
2004 Brossard, A. "Control of the humanoid robot HOAP-2". MSc thesis, EPFL.
2004 Maurer, A. "Artificial Neural Network (ANN) - Hidden Markov Model (HMM) Com-
parison for a gesture recognition application". MSc thesis, EPFL.
2003 Kunze, M. "Person recognition for the humanoid robot Robota". MSc thesis, EPFL.
Supervision of undergraduate students projects
2008 Bodenmann, A. "Hierarchical learning of a movement through Hidden Markov Model".
Semester project, EPFL.
2008 D'halluin, F. "Incremental learning of gestures through the support of a human
teacher". Semester project, EPFL.
2007 Nadeau, C. "Vocal analysis to teach a humanoid robot manipulation skills". Semester
project, EPFL.
2007 Pulvin, M. "Imitation of legs motion by a humanoid robot through the use of motion
sensors". Semester project, EPFL.
2006 Hitz, A. "Locomotion control module for the HOAP3 robot". Semester project, EPFL.
2005 Epiney, J. "A Humanoid Robot that can paint". Semester project, EPFL.
2005 Schoeneich, P. "Gaze direction detection using inertial sensors". Semester project,
EPFL.
2004 Borter, J.-J. "Motion data representation using motion sensors". Semester project,
EPFL.
2004 Dubach, C. "Recognition of trajectories using a stereoscopic vision system". Semester
project, EPFL.
2004 Hentsch, V. "Gestures analysis using gyroscopic sensors". Semester project, EPFL.
2003 Noth, A. "Development of an auditory systems running on a Pocket-PC". Semester
project, EPFL.
2003 Linder, Y. "Robust visual arms and head tracking running on a Pocket-PC". Semester
project, EPFL.
2003 Grivaz, C. "Interactive game of a pair of mini-humanoid robot Robota". Semester
project, EPFL.
Practical and workshops
2008 Supervision of a half-day workshop on human-robot interfaces for humanoid robots
and industrial robots during the COGNIRON Winter School on Human Robot Inter-
action (CWSHRI), Lausanne, Switzerland, January 21-25.
2004 Supervision of a half-day workshop on human-robot interfaces and vision processing
for the RAS/IFRR Summer School on Human-Robot Interaction, Volterra, Italy, July
19-23.
2004 Supervision of a practical on human-robot interfaces and image processing during one
semester (robotics class for graduate students in Microengineering), EPFL, Switzer-
land.
Lausanne, June 6, 2008