Prof. Dr. Sven Behnke
- Head of Computer Science
Department VI - Intelligent Systems and Robotics
- Head of Autonomous Intelligent
Systems Group
- PI and Area Chair Embodied AI of Lamarr Institute for Machine
Learning and Artificial Intelligence
- Founding Member of Center for
Robotics
Address:
Prof. Dr. Sven Behnke
University of Bonn
Computer
Science Institute VI
Friedrich-Hirzebruch-Allee
8
53115 Bonn
Tel:
+49 (0) 228 73-4116
Fax:
+49 (0) 228 73-4425
Email:
behnke _at_ cs.uni-bonn.de
Office:
0.046
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Scholar Profile
Short CV
Prof. Dr. Sven Behnke holds since 2008 the chair for Autonomous
Intelligent Systems at the University of Bonn and heads the Computer
Science Institute VI – Intelligent Systems and Robotics. He graduated
in 1997 from Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (Dipl.-Inform.)
and received his doctorate in computer science (Dr. rer. nat.) from
Freie Universität Berlin in 2002. In his dissertation "Hierarchical Neural Networks for Image
Interpretation"
he extended forward deep learning models to recurrent models for visual
perception. In 2003 he did postdoctoral research on robust speech
recognition at the International Computer Science Institute in
Berkeley, CA. In 2004-2008 Professor Behnke led the Emmy Noether Junior
Research Group "Humanoid Robots" at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität
Freiburg. His research interests include cognitive robotics, computer
vision, and machine learning. Prof. Behnke received several Best Paper
Awards, three Amazon Research Awards (2018-20), a Google Faculty
Research Award (2019), and the Ralf-Dahrendorf- Prize of BMBF for the
European Research Area (2019). His team NimbRo
has won numerous robot competitions (RoboCup Humanoid Soccer,
RoboCup@Home, MBZIRC, ANA Avatar XPRIZE).
A list of his program committee memberships, meeting
organizations, and invited talks can be found here.
Selected Projects
- 2024-2026: BMBF project "UMDenken: Supportive monitoring of
turntable ladder operations for firefighting using IR images",
sub-project "Autonomous flying robot for firefighting support"
- 2023-2026: KAIST project "Immersive Televisualization"
- 2022-2025: BMBF project "WestAI –
Service Center for
Artificial Intelligence"
- 2022-2026: BMBF project "Autonomous flying
robot swarms for real-time situational awareness"
- 2022-2028: The Lamarr
Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence,
principal investigator
- 2021-2025: BMBF project "BNTrAinee:
Bonn Transdisciplinary Education in Artificial Intelligence"
- 2021-2025: BMBF project "RimA: Roboter im Alltag
(Robots in Everyday Environments)"
- 2021-2025: BMBF/ANR project "Learn2Grasp:
Learning Human-like Interactive Grasping based on Visual and Haptic
Feedback"
- 2021-2022: European H2020 FSTP project "EUROBENCH – EUropean ROBotic
framework for bipedal locomotion bENCHmarking"
- 2021-2023 DFG Research Unit 2535 “Anticipating Human
Behaviour”,
projects “Semantic
Video Prediction" and "Anticipative Human-Robot Collaboration"
- 2019-2025: DFG Cluster of Excellence “PhenoRob–Robotics and Phenotyping for
Sustainable Crop Production”, principal investigator, co-lead of
Core Project 1: “In-field 4D Crop Reconstruction”
- 2020-2022: BMBF Competence Center “Machine Learning Rhine-Ruhr (ML2R)”,
project "Self-Supervised Learning of Structured Visual Representations"
- 2018-2022: BMBF Competence Center “German
Center for Rescue Robots”, project „Autonomous
Assistance Functions for Flying Robots”
- 2020-2021: Fraunhofer project "Collaborative Perception and
Prediction with Smart Edge Sensors"
- 2020-2021: Amazon Research Award project “Learning
Structured Scene Modeling and Physics-based Prediction”
- 2019-2020: Google Faculty Research Award project “Collaborative
Perception using Smart Edge Sensors”
- 2019-2020: Amazon Research Award project “Generalizing
Scene Parsing for Cluttered Bin Picking”
- 2018-2020: Khalifa University project “Mohamed
Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC)”
- 2017-2020: DFG Research Unit 2535 “Anticipating Human
Behaviour”,
projects “Learning Hierarchical Representations for Anticipative
Human-Robot Collaboration” and “Activity Prediction at Varying
Timescales”
- 2016-2020: DFG project “Automatic Reconstruction of Plant Root
Systems from MRI”
- 2017-2019: Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
(KRISS) project “Development of the Artificial Electronic Skin that
Mimics Human Skin Structure and Functions for Tactile and Kinesthetic
Feedback in Robotic Surgery or Prosthetic Arms”
- 2018-2019: Amazon Research Award project “Learning Scene Parsing
for Cluttered Bin Picking”
- 2016-2017: Khalifa University project “Mohamed
Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC)”
- 2015-2018: European H2020 project “CENTAURO – Robust
Mobility and Dexterous Manipulation in Disaster Response“,
coordinator
- 2012-2018: DFG Research Unit 1505 “Mapping on
Demand”,
projects “Local Perception for the Autonomous Navigation of
Multicopters” and “Autonomous Navigation for Object Capture with
Multicopters”
- 2012-2018: DFG Priority Programme SPP 1527 “Autonomous
Learning”,
projects “ALROMA - Autonomous Active Object Learning Through Robot
Manipulation” and “Autonomous Learning of Bipedal Walking
Stabilization”
- 2014-2017: BMWi project “InventAIRy - Identification with
autonomous flying robots”
- 2015-2017: European FP7 project “European Robotics Challenges
(EuRoC)”,
projects “robolink® feeder – Flexible Energy Chain Assembly Automation
with a Lightweight Cable-driven Robot”, “KittingBot – Mobile
Manipulation for Part Sequencing and Kitting in Automotive Logistics”,
and “ChimneySpector – Inside/outside chimney and smoke pipe inspection
by aerial robots”
- 2013-2016: European FP7 project “STAMINA –
Sustainable and reliable robotics for part handling in manufacturing
automation“
- 2012-2016: DFG project „Open-source
Humanoid Soccer Robot for the RoboCup TeenSize Class”
- 2012-2013: DFG Graduate School GRK 1572 “Bionics – Interactions
across Boundaries to the Environment”, project “Learning of Invariant
Representations in a Hierarchy for Action Recognition”
- 2010-2013 NRW Graduate School “Bonn-Aachen International Research
School of Applied Information Technology”, two projects in area “Data
Mining, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning”
- 2004-2011 DFG Emmy Noether Excellency Grant "Learning Humanoid Robots”
- 2006-2009 DFG project "Humanoid Soccer Robots for the RoboCup
KidSize League"
