====== Finalist at ICAR'17 ======

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We are pleased to announce that our joint paper with the [[http://www.dlr.de/rmc/|Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics,DLR]]: 

 * **Storing and Retrieving Perceptual Episodic Memories for Long-term Manipulation Tasks**, [[team:ferenc_balint-benczedi|Ferenc Balint-Benczedi]], [[http://rmc.dlr.de/rm/en/staff/zoltan.marton/|Zoltan-Csaba Marton]], [[http://rmc.dlr.de/rm/en/staff/maximilian.durner/|Maximilian Durner]] and [[team:michael_beetz|Michael Beetz]]

has been selected as an ICAR 2017 best paper award finalist.

The paper presents a robotic perception system that generates perceptual episodic memories during the execution of a task. To allow easy retrieval of these memories we introduce an object and scene description language that serves as a layer of abstraction between the structure of the perception logs and the semantic interpretation of these. The description language can be used through a query interface to retrieve specific parts of the generated episodic memory. The purpose of the proposed system is two-fold: to enable on-line retrospection and specialized training of perception routines and to enable
researchers to interactively explore perception results.