Jonas Degrave

Journal: PLXtrum - realtime machine learning for predicting note onset

We built a system which is able to predict in realtime if there is a note coming within 50ms. (Patent pending)

Posted by 317070 on January 28, 2017

Competition: 489th on Facebook hackercup

Stranded in the second round of the facebook hackercup for competitive programming. Got a T-shirt.

Posted by 317070 on January 21, 2017

Research: Backpropagation through camera

We optimized a computer vision neural network by backpropagating through a camera.

Posted by 317070 on January 16, 2017

Research: poster on Deep Reinforcement Learning Workshop at NIPS

I presented a poster on the differentiably physics engine, and got some useful advice.

Posted by 317070 on December 9, 2016

Speaker: Critical Utopias - Cultural Discourse in the Digital Age

I was invited as technology expert to talk with designers and journalists at the design museum in Helsinki, Finland.

Posted by 317070 on December 3, 2016

Paper: A Differentiable Physics Engine for Deep Learning in Robotics

We wrote a framework to differentiate through physics and show that this makes training deep learned controllers for robotics remarkably fast and straightforward.

Posted by 317070 on November 3, 2016

Award: Best poster award at Benelearn conference

Prof. Jeffrey Ullman awarded me a best poster award at the Belgian-Dutch conference on Machine learning.

Posted by 317070 on September 13, 2016

Activism: Pirate Party polls at 1.8%

Pirate Party Belgium is on the rise again!

Posted by 317070 on September 9, 2016

Speaker: the 3rd Data Science Ghent Meetup - Jonas Degrave

Deep learning. What? How? Why? -- How to use deep learning to win Kaggle competitions (+Video).

Posted by 317070 on June 16, 2016

Activism: Camping on roof of an arms factory

Protesting against weapons export from Belgium, requesting to embargo Saudi Arabia for bombarding Yemen.

Posted by 317070 on May 20, 2016

Speaker: Does Artificial Intelligence understand Culture made by Real Intelligence?

I gave a talk on the relationship between AI and Art at iMal in Brussels (+Video).

Posted by 317070 on May 4, 2016

Competition: Diagnosing Heart Diseases with Deep Neural Networks

We won $50.000 for a second place on Kaggle's Data Science Bowl.

Posted by 317070 on March 14, 2016

Tutorial: Python-twitch-stream Tutorial

A tutorial to interact with Twitch using python

Posted by 317070 on October 31, 2015

Art: LSD-net presented at Art Festival

@Speculum Artium, Trbovlje, Slovenia

Posted by 317070 on October 15, 2015

Research: LSD-net was featured in the New Scientist

and other media, like the Guardian, der Spiegel and Atlas Obscura

Posted by 317070 on July 11, 2015

Research: Interactive Deep Neural Net Hallucinations (+source code)

Large Scale Deep Neural Net visualizing top level features

Posted by 317070 on July 2, 2015

Art: LSD neural net

Large Scale Deep Neural Net visualizing top level features

Posted by 317070 on June 24, 2015

Research: Embodied gait on a quadrupedal robot

Real time transfer learning from an open loop robot controller to a closed loop neural network.

Posted by 317070 on April 11, 2015

Competition: Wins a kaggle competition

With our lab, we won the 100.000$ prize for classifying plankton using deep learning.

Posted by 317070 on March 17, 2015

Journal: transfer learning in robotics

My research on using transfer learning for legged robots got published.

Posted by 317070 on March 16, 2015

Research: Successfully defended his research to the European Commission

In Bielefeld, we successfully presented our research on the Oncilla robot for AMARSi to the European commission.

Posted by 317070 on April 14, 2014

Research: The Oncilla robot, walking autonomously

Setup of the Oncilla walking on the treadmill filled with pebbles

Posted by 317070 on March 1, 2014

Paper: (Robio) techniques for trotting and turning

My paper on comparing different techniques for trotting and turning got accepted for the Robio conference.

Posted by 317070 on December 12, 2013

Paper: (ICMLA) Terrain Classification

My paper on classifying terrain using the sensors on a quadrupedal robot, got accepted to the ICMLA conference.

Posted by 317070 on December 4, 2013

Research: Gets an IWT grant for four more years

I found funding to continue my Phd after the end of the Amarsi project.

Posted by 317070 on November 29, 2013

Research: Phd on the AMARSi project

I start my Phd working on the Amarsi Project, more specifically on the quadruped robot 'Oncilla'

Posted by 317070 on October 1, 2012