Dr. -Ing. Ferenc Bálint-Benczédi

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Research Staff
Tel: –49 -421 218 64027
Fax: –49 -421 218 64047
Room: TAB 1.80
Mail: balintbe(at)cs[dot]uni-bremen[dot]de

As of June 2012 I am PhD candidate at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence, University of Bremen, under the supervision of Prof. Michael Beetz. Before joining the group, from September 2011 I was a research assistant at the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group of the Technical University of Munich, focusing on robotic systems and robotic perception in household environments.

Projects involved in

Teaching

Research Interests

Publications

Journal Articles and Book Chapters
[1]Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Florian Seidel, Ferenc Balint-Benczedi and Michael Beetz, "Ensembles of Strong Learners for Multi-cue Classification", In Pattern Recognition Letters (PRL), Special Issue on Scene Understandings and Behaviours Analysis, 2012. [bibtex] [url]
[2]Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Ferenc Balint-Benczedi, Oscar Martines Mozos, Nico Blodow, Asako Kanezaki, Lucian-Cosmin Goron, Dejan Pangercic and Michael Beetz, "Part-Based Geometric Categorization and Object Reconstruction in Cluttered Table-Top Scenes", In Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Springer Netherlands, pp. 1-22, 2014. [bibtex] [url] [doi]
[3]Beetz, Michael, Bálint-Benczédi, Ferenc, Blodow, Nico, Kerl, Christian, Márton, Zoltán-Csaba, Nyga, Daniel, Seidel, Florian, Wiedemeyer, Thiemo and Worch, Jan-Hendrik, "RoboSherlock: Unstructured Information Processing Framework for Robotic Perception", In Handling Uncertainty and Networked Structure in Robot Control, Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 181–208, 2015. [bibtex] [url] [doi]
[4]Hausman, Karol, Pangercic, Dejan, Márton, Zoltán-Csaba, Bálint-Benczédi, Ferenc, Bersch, Christian, Gupta, Megha, Sukhatme, Gaurav and Beetz, Michael, "Interactive Segmentation of Textured and Textureless Objects", In Handling Uncertainty and Networked Structure in Robot Control, Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 237–262, 2015. [bibtex] [url] [doi]
[5]Worch, Jan-Hendrik, Bálint-Benczédi, Ferenc and Beetz, Michael, "Perception for Everyday Human Robot Interaction", In KI - Künstliche Intelligenz, Springer Berlin-Heidelberg, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 21-27, 2015. [bibtex] [url] [doi]
Conference Papers
[6]Ferenc Balint-Benczedi, Zoltan-Csaba Marton and Michael Beetz, "Efficient Part-Graph Hashes for Object Categorization", In 5th International Conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys), 2012. [bibtex]
[7]Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Ferenc Balint-Benczedi, Florian Seidel, Lucian Cosmin Goron and Michael Beetz, "Object Categorization in Clutter using Additive Features and Hashing of Part-graph Descriptors", In Proceedings of Spatial Cognition (SC), Abbey Kloster Seeon, Germany, 2012. [bibtex] [url]
[8]Karol Hausman, Ferenc Bálint-Benczédi, Dejan Pangercic, Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Ryohei Ueda, Kei Okada and Michael Beetz, "Tracking-based Interactive Segmentation of Textureless Objects", In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Karlsruhe, Germany, pp. 1122–1129, 2013. Finalist for the Best Service Robotics Paper Award [bibtex] [doi]
[9]Moritz Tenorth, Stefan Profanter, Ferenc Balint-Benczedi and Michael Beetz, "Decomposing CAD Models of Objects of Daily Use and Reasoning about their Functional Parts", In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Tokyo Big Sight, Japan, pp. 5943–5949, 2013. [bibtex] [url]
[10]Daniel Nyga, Ferenc Balint-Benczedi and Michael Beetz, "PR2 Looking at Things: Ensemble Learning for Unstructured Information Processing with Markov Logic Networks", In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Hong Kong, China, 2014. [bibtex] [url]
[11]Thiemo Wiedemeyer, Ferenc Balint-Benczedi and Michael Beetz, "Pervasive 'Calm' Perception for Autonomous Robotic Agents", In Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagen Systems, ACM, Istanbul, Turkey, 2015. [bibtex] [pdf]
[12]Michael Beetz, Ferenc Balint-Benczedi, Nico Blodow, Daniel Nyga, Thiemo Wiedemeyer and Zoltan-Csaba Marton, "RoboSherlock: Unstructured Information Processing for Robot Perception", In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Seattle, Washington, USA, 2015. Best Service Robotics Paper Award [bibtex] [pdf]
[13]Michael Beetz, Georg Bartels, Alin Albu-Schäffer, Ferenc Bálint-Benczédi, Rico Belder, Daniel Beßler, Sami Haddadin, Alexis Maldonado, Nico Mansfeld, Thiemo Wiedemeyer, Roman Weitschat and Jan-Hendrik Worch, "Robotic Agents Capable of Natural and Safe Physical Interaction with Human Co-workers", In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Hamburg, Germany, 2015. [bibtex] [pdf]
[14]Gheorghe Lisca, Daniel Nyga, Ferenc Bálint-Benczédi, Hagen Langer and Michael Beetz, "Towards Robots Conducting Chemical Experiments", In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Hamburg, Germany, 2015. [bibtex] [url]
[15]Winkler, Jan, Balint-Benczedi, Ferenc, Wiedemeyer, Thiemo, Beetz, Michael, Vaskevicius, Narunas, Mueller, Christian A., Fromm, Tobias and Birk, Andreas, "Knowledge-Enabled Robotic Agents for Shelf Replenishment in Cluttered Retail Environments: (Extended Abstract)", In Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Autonomous Agents &\#38; Multiagent Systems, International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Richland, SC, pp. 1421–1422, 2016. [bibtex] [url]
[16]Ferenc Balint-Benczedi, Patrick Mania and Michael Beetz, "Scaling Perception Towards Autonomous Object Manipulation — In Knowledge Lies the Power", In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Stockholm, Sweden, 2016. [bibtex] [url]
[17]Michael Beetz, Daniel Beßler, Jan Winkler, Jan-H. Worch, Ferenc Balint-Benczedi, Georg Bartels, Aude Billard, Asil K. Bozcuoglu, Zhou Fang, Nadia Figueroa, Andrei Haidu, Hagen Langer, Alexis Maldonado, Ana-Lucia Pais, Moritz. Tenorth and Thiemo Wiedemeyer, "Open Robotics Research Using Web-based Knowledge Services", In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Stockholm, Sweden, 2016. [bibtex] [pdf]
[18]J. Winkler, F. Bálint-Benczédi, T. Fromm, C. A. Müller, N. Vaskevicius, A. Birk and M. Beetz, "Knowledge-Enabled Robotic Agents for Shelf Replenishment in Cluttered Retail Environments", In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Singapore, 2016. [bibtex]
[19]Balint-Benczedi, Ferenc, Marton, Zoltan-Csaba, Durner, Maximilian and Beetz, Michael, "Storing and Retrieving Perceptual Episodic Memories for Long-term Manipulation Tasks", In Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), Hong-Kong, China, 2017. Finalist for Best Paper Award [bibtex]
[20]Maximilian Durner, Simon Kriegel, Sebastian Riedel, Manuel Brucker, Zoltan Csaba Marton, Ferenc Balint-Benczedi and Rudolph Triebel, "Experience-based Optimization of Robotic Perception", In ICAR 2017 - 18th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, IEEE, 2017. Finalist for Best Paper Award [bibtex] [url]
[21]Balint-Benczedi, Ferenc and Beetz, Michael, "Variations on a Theme:'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards'", In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2018. [bibtex] [doi]
[22]Brucker, Manuel, Durner, Maximilian, Márton, Zoltan-Csaba, Balint-Benczedi, Ferenc, Sundermeyer, Martin and Triebel, Rudolph, "6DoF Pose Estimation for Industrial Manipulation based on Synthetic Data", In International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER), 2018. accepted for publication [bibtex]
[23]Yazdani, Fereshta, Kazhoyan, Gayane, Bozcuoglu, Asil Kaan, Haidu, Andrei, Balint-Benczedi, Ferenc, Beßler, Daniel, Pomarlan, Mihai and Beetz, Michael, "Cognition-enabled Framework for Mixed Human-Robot Rescue Team", In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Madrid, Spain, 2018. [bibtex]
[24]Franklin Kenghagho Kenfack, Feroz Ahmed Siddiky, Ferenc Balint-Benczedi and Michael Beetz, "RobotVQA — A Scene-Graph- and Deep-Learning-based Visual Question Answering System for Robot Manipulation", In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Las Vegas, USA, 2020. [bibtex] [url]
Workshop Papers
[25]Lucian Cosmin Goron, Ferenc Balint-Benczedi, Zoltan-Csaba Marton and Michael Beetz, "Incremental Modeling and Object Classification based on the Segmentation from Cluttered Settings", In Workshop on Low Cost 3D Sensors, Algorithms and Application, Berlin,Germany, 2012. [bibtex]
[26]Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Ferenc Balint-Benczedi, Oscar Martinez Mozos, Dejan Pangercic and Michael Beetz, "Incremental Object Categorization in Clutter", In 2nd Workshop on Robots in Clutter, in conjunction with RSS2013, Berlin,Germany, 2013. [bibtex]
[27]Ferenc Balint-Benczedi, Thiemo Wiedemeyer, Moritz Tenorth, Daniel Beßler and Michael Beetz, "A Knowledge-Based Approach to Robotic Perception using Unstructured Information Management", In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Istanbul, Turkey, 2015. [bibtex]
Other Publications
[28]Ferenc Balint-Benczedi, "Task adaptabled, Pervasive Perpception for Robots Performing Everyday Manipulation", PhD thesis, University of Bremen, 2020. [bibtex] [pdf]