On the 16th of October 2009, I defended my PhD thesis "A Groovy Virtual Drummer: Learning by Imitation Using A Self-Organizing Connectionist Architecture" [ PDF, 42.4 MB ]
I have been focusing on learning by imitation using machine learning techniques. I focus on imitation learning in dance and drumming.
Axel Tidemann, Pinar Öztürk and Yiannis Demiris. A Groovy Virtual Drumming Agent. In: Intelligent Virtual Agents, Volume 5773 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer (2009) 104-117 PDF BibTeX
Axel Tidemann and Pinar Öztürk. Learning Dance Movements by Imitation: A Multiple Model Approach. In: 31st Annual German Conference on AI, Volume 5243 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer (2008) 380-388 PDF BibTeX
Axel Tidemann and Yiannis Demiris. A Drum Machine that Learns to Groove. In: 31st Annual German Conference on AI, Volume 5243 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer (2008) 144-151 PDF BibTeX
Axel Tidemann and Yiannis Demiris. Groovy Neural Networks. In: 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 178, IOS Press (2008) 271-275 PDF BibTeX
Axel Tidemann. Using Multiple Models to Imitate the YMCA. In: Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications, volume 4953 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer (2008) 783-792 PDF BibTeX (Best Student Paper Award)
Axel Tidemann and Pinar Öztürk. Self-organizing multiple models for imitation: Teaching a robot to dance the YMCA. In: IEA/AIE 2007, volume 4570 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer (2007) 291-302 PDF BibTeX
Axel Tidemann and Yiannis Demiris. Imitating the groove: Making drum machines more human. In: AISB symposium on imitation in animals and artifacts, (2007) 232-240 PDF BibTeX