Events

The E-pi consortium is organizing a workshop entitled with E-pi: Re-thinking Uncertainty and AI, which will take place on 22 September 2023, TU Delft, the Netherlands. This workshop aims to discuss the current state, limitations, and future perspectives on the foundations of uncertainty and AI. It will gather voices from artificial intelligence, decision making, and engineering to discuss handling uncertainty in a principled, but practical manner. For more information, kindly visit the workshop's website.

The E-pi UAI 2023 workshop, focusing on epistemic uncertainty in artificial intelligence, took place on August 4, Pittsburgh, USA. The workshop was co-organised by Fabio Cuzzolin (OBU), Matthijs Spaan (TUD), Keivan Shariatmadar (KUL), Maryam Sultana (OBU), Kaizheng Wang (KUL), and Shirren KUdukkil Manchingal (OBU). For this workshop, we accepted 16 non-archival papers covering a wide range of topics. Four speakers, Prof. Gert de Cooman from Ghent University, Prof. Yarin Gal from Oxford University, Dr. Marco Zaffalon from IDSIA, and Prof. Aaditya Ramdas from Carnegie Mellon University were also invited to provide insightful technical talks and foster meaningful discussions on uncertainty in artificial intelligence. For more information, kindly visit the workshop's website E-pi UAI.

The forth E-pi consortium meeting, held in person, was hosted by Oxford Brookes University on December 6 2022 in Headington, Oxford. During the meeting, PhD researcher Shireen Kudukkil Manchingal presented her recent research on Random-set CNN for image classification. All partners participated actively in the progress update on the Work Package(s) and the technical brainstorming sessions.

The third E-pi consortium meeting, held personally, was hosted by KU Leuven and organised by Dr Keivan Shariatmadar on May 18 2022 in KU Leuven, Campus Bruges, Belgium. A technical presentation on ''Safe Reinforcement Learning'' given by Dr. Matthijs Spaan (TU Delft), the project update report, the technical discussion, and a laboratory tour were among the activities.

The E-pi periodic technical and financial report with project officer and experts was conducted on May 11 2022, virtually.

The second E-pi consortium meeting, held virtually, was organised by Prof Neil Yorke-Smith and Pascal van der Vaart (TU Delft) on 8 December 2021. All partners had the opportunity to present their Work Package(s), including the associated Deliverables and Milestones. Meanwhile, a technical talk on "Imprecise Decision Theory" was given by Dr Keivan Shariatmadar (KU Leuven).

The goal of this workshop is to put to the forefront of the research in autonomous driving the topic of situation awareness, intended as the ability to create semantically useful representations of dynamic road scenes in terms of the notion of ‘road event’, itself inspired by the central computer vision notion of ‘action’. The workshop also aims to stimulate a change of paradigm in the field of action detection, by shifting the focus from the objects/actors themselves and their appearance to what they do and the meaning of their behaviour, as the concept of action is here extended to apply to human-operated machinery as an extension of the human mind.

The new Epistemic AI EU Future Emerging Technologies (FET) project has started on March 1 2021.

The kickoff meeting took place on Monday 15 March in a virtual fashion, and hosted as speakers Prof Fabio Cuzzolin and Dr Andrew Bradley (Oxford Brookes), Dr Keivan Shariatmadat (KU Leuven), Prof Neil Yorke-Smith (TU Delft), Prof Hans Hallez (KU Leuven), Prof David Moens (KU Leuven),  Dr Matthijs Spaan and Dr Julian Kooij (TU Delft).

The project is coordinated by Prof Fabio Cuzzolin and has a duration of 4 years.