[J.7] Trust in robot-robot scaffolding, Murat Kirtay, Verena V. Hafner, Minoru Asada, Erhan Oztop, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, (2022). DOI, PDF.
[J.6] Who to Observe and Imitate in Humans and Robots: The Importance of Motivational Factors, Johann Chevalère*, Murat Kirtay*, Verena V. Hafner, Rebecca Lazarides, International Journal of Social Robotics, 1-11, (2022), (* equal contribution). DOI, PDF.
[J.5] Robots facilitate human language production, Olga Wudarczyk, Murat Kirtay, Doris Pischedda, Verena V. Hafner, John-Dylan Haynes, Anna K. Kuhlen, Rasha Abdel Rahman, Nature Scientific Reports, 11(1), 1-11, (2021). DOI, PDF.
[J.4] Bringing Together Robotics, Neuroscience, and Psychology: Lessons Learned From an Interdisciplinary Project, Olga Wudarczyk*, Murat Kirtay*, Anna K. Kuhlen, Rasha Abdel Rahman, John-Dylan Haynes, Verena V. Hafner, Doris Pischedda, Frontiers in human neuroscience, 15, 160, (2021), (* equal contribution). DOI, PDF.
[J.3] Emotion as an emergent phenomenon of the neurocomputational energy regulation mechanism of a cognitive agent in a decision-making task, Murat Kirtay, Lorenzo Vannucci, Ugo Albanese, Cecilia Laschi, Erhan Oztop, Egidio Falotico, Adaptive Behavior, 29(1), 55-71, (2021). DOI, PDF.
[J.2] Connecting artificial brains to robots in a comprehensive simulation framework: the neurorobotics platform, Egidio Falotico, Lorenzo Vannucci, Alessandro Ambrosano, Ugo Albanese, Stefan Ulbrich, Juan Camilo Vasquez Tieck, Georg Hinkel, Jacques Kaiser, Igor Peric, Oliver Denninger, Nino Cauli, Murat Kirtay, et al., Frontiers in neurorobotics, 11, 2, (2017). DOI, PDF.
[J.1] Experimental studies on chemical concentration map building by a multi-robot system using bio-inspired algorithms, Mirbek Turduev, Goncalo Cabrita, Murat Kirtay, Veysel Gazi, Lino Marques, Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, 28(1), 72-100, (2014). DOI, PDF.
[C.32] Interplay between neural computational energy and multimodal processing in robot-robot interaction. Murat Kirtay, Verena V. Hafner, Minoru Asada, Erhan Oztop, IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), (2023), (The best paper award nomination), DOI.
[C.31] Advancing Humanoid Robots for Social Integration: Evaluating Trustworthiness through a Social Cognitive Framework. Volha Taliaronak, Anna L. Lange, Murat Kirtay, Erhan Oztop, Verena V. Hafner, IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), (2023). DOI.
[C.30] Multimodal reinforcement learning for partner specific adaptation in robot-multi-robot interaction. Murat Kirtay, Verena V. Hafner, Minoru Asada, Anna K. Kuhlen, Erhan Oztop, IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), (2022). DOI.
[W.29] ``iCub! Do you recognize what I am doing?”: multimodal human action recognition on multisensory-enabled iCub Robot. Kas Kniesmeijer and Murat Kirtay, Workshop on Adaptive Social Interaction based on user's Mental Models and behavior in HRI in 14th International Conference on Social Robotics. DOI, PDF.
[C.28] Forming robot trust in heterogeneous agents during a multimodal interactive game, Murat Kirtay, Erhan Oztop, Anna K. Kuhlen, Minoru Asada, Verena V. Hafner, IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), pp. 307-313, (2022). DOI.
[C.27] Trustworthiness assessment in multimodal human-robot interaction based on cognitive load, Murat Kirtay, Erhan Oztop, Anna K. Kuhlen, Minoru Asada, Verena V. Hafner, IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), pp. 469-476, (2022). DOI.
[C.26] AI-based Open-Source Gesture Retargeting to a Humanoid Teaching Robot. Hae Seon Yun, Heiko Hübert, Volha Taliaronak, Ralf Mayet, Murat Kirtay, Verena V. Hafner, Niels Pinkwart, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), (2022). DOI.
[W.25] Challenges in Designing Teacher Robots with Motivation Based Gestures. Hae Seon Yun, Volha Taliaronak, Murat Kirtay, Johann Chevalère, Heiko Hubert, Verena V. Hafner, Niels Pinkwart, Rebecca Lazarides, Workshop on Robot Curiosity in Human Robot Interaction (RCHRI) in ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), (2022).
[C.24] Learning in Social Interaction: Perspectives from Psychology and Robotics. Murat Kirtay*, Johann Chevalère*, Verena V. Hafner, Rebecca Lazarides, IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), pp. 1-9, (2021), (* equal contribution). DOI.
[C.23] Trust me! I am a robot: an affective computational account of scaffolding in robot-robot interaction, Murat Kirtay, Erhan Oztop, Minoru Asada, Verena V. Hafner, IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), pp. 189-196, (2021). DOI.
[C.22] Modeling robot trust based on emergent emotion in an interactive task. Murat Kirtay, Erhan Oztop, Minoru Asada, Verena V. Hafner, IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), pp. 1-8, (2021). DOI.
[C.21] Who is my interlocutor? Partner-specific neural representations during communicative interactions with human or artificial task partners, Doris Pischedda, Anna L. Lange, Murat Kirtay, Olga Wudarczyk, Rasha Abdel Rahman, Verena V. Hafner, Anna K. Kuhlen, John-Dylan Haynes, Social Interactions (VSI) Conference, -, (2021).
[C.20] Am I speaking to a human, a robot, or a computer? Neural representations of task partners in communicative interactions with humans or artificial agents, Doris Pischedda, Anna L. Lange, Murat Kirtay, Olga Wudarczyk, Rasha Abdel Rahman, Verena V. Hafner, Anna K. Kuhlen, John-Dylan Haynes, Society for Neuroscience, -, (2021).
[C.19] Modeling robot co-representation: state-of-the-art, open issues, and predictive learning as a possible framework, Murat Kirtay, Olga Wudarczyk, Doris Pischedda, Anna K. Kuhlen, Rasha Abdel Rahman, John-Dylan Haynes, Verena V. Hafner, International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob), pp. 1-8, (2020). (The best paper award nomination). DOI.
[C.18] The effects of having a robot as a task partner on lexical retrieval, Olga Wudarczyk, Anna K. Kuhlen, Murat Kirtay, Doris Pischedda, Verena V. Hafner, John-Dylan Haynes, Rasha Abdel Rahman, Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference (AMLaP),-, (2020).
[C.17] A Multisensory Learning Architecture for Rotation-invariant Object Recognition, Murat Kirtay, Guido Schillaci, Verena V. Hafner, arXiv 2009.06292, (2020). ArXiv.
[C.16] The iCub multisensor datasets for robot and computer vision applications, Murat Kirtay, Ugo Albanese, Lorenzo Vannucci, Guido Schillaci, Cecilia Laschi, Egidio Falotico, International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, pp. 685-688, (2020). DOI.
[C.15] Spatial navigation via deep reinforcement learning in the Neurorobotics Platform, Matteo Priorelli, Murat Kirtay, Ugo Albanese, Lorenzo Vannucci, Cecilia Laschi, Ivilin Stoianov, Giovanni Pezzulo, Egidio Falotico, Italian Conference on Robotics and Intelligent Machines (I-RIM), -, (2019). Link.
[C.14] The Neurorobotics Platform: virtual bodies for biologically realistic brain models and vice versa, Lorenzo Vannucci, Ugo Albanese, Murat Kirtay, Elisa Massi, Stefano Nardo, Matteo Priorelli, Alessio Fasano, Cecilia Laschi, Egidio Falotico, Italian Conference on Robotics and Intelligent Machines (I-RIM), -, (2019). DOI.
[C.13] The Neurorobotics Platform as a virtual environment for learning agents in the context of spatial navigation experiments, Murat Kirtay, Matteo Priorelli, Ugo Albanese, Lorenzo Vannucci, Cecilia Laschi, Egidio Falotico, International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science (LOD),-, (2019). DOI.
[C.12] Multimodal Sensory Representation for Object Classification via Neocortically-inspired Algorithm, Murat Kirtay, Lorenzo Vannucci, Ugo Albanese, Egidio Falotico, Cecilia Laschi, International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob), pp. 245-250, (2018). DOI.
[C.11] Spatial Pooling as Feature Selection Method for Object Recognition, Murat Kirtay, Lorenzo Vannucci, Ugo Albanese, Alessandro Ambrosano, Egidio Falotico, Cecilia Laschi, European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning, -, (2018). DOI.
[W.10] Emergent emotion as a regulatory mechanism for a cognitive task implemented on the iCub robot, Murat Kirtay, Lorenzo Vannucci, Egidio Falotico, Cecilia Laschi, Erhan Oztop, Workshop on Continual Unsupervised Sensorimotor Learning in IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob),-, (2018).
[C.9] Visual Target Sequence Prediction via Hierarchical Temporal Memory Implemented on the iCub Robot, Murat Kirtay, Egidio Falotico, Alessandro Ambrosano, Ugo Albanese, Lorenzo Vannucci, Cecilia Laschi, Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, pp. 119-130, (2016). DOI.
[C.8] Emotion as a Cognitive Component for Energy Regulation of Robotic Agent’s Cognitive Architecture, Murat Kirtay, Lorenzo Vannucci, Egidio Falotico, Cecilia Laschi, European Society for Cognitive Systems (EUCOG),-, (2016). Link.
[C.7] Retina color-opponency based pursuit implemented through spiking neural networks in the neurorobotics platform, Alessandro Ambrosano, Lorenzo Vannucci, Ugo Albanese, Murat Kirtay, Egidio Falotico, Georg Hinkel, Jacques Kaiser, Stefan Ulbrich, Paul Levi, Christian Morillas, Alois Knoll, Marc-Oliver Gewaltig, Cecilia Laschi, Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, pp. 16-27, (2016). DOI.
[C.6] Sequential decision making based on emergent emotion for a humanoid robot, Murat Kirtay, Lorenzo Vannucci, Egidio Falotico, Erhan Oztop, Cecilia Laschi, IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), pp. 1101-1106, (2016). DOI.
[C.5] Visual tracking based on colour-opponency implemented through spiking neural networks on a humanoid robot, Lorenzo Vannucci, Alessandro Ambrosano, Ugo Albanese, Murat Kirtay, Egidio Falotico, Cecilia Laschi, Congresso Gruppo Nazionale di Bioingegneria,-, (2016).
[C.4] Neural representation in F5: cross-decoding from observation to execution, Murat Kirtay, Vassilis Papadourakis, Vassilis Raos, Erhan Oztop, BMC Neuroscience, 1-2, (2015). DOI
[C.3] Detecting mirror neuron candidates in F5 area via object-level decoding, Murat Kirtay, Vassilis Papadourakis, Vassilis Raos, Erhan Oztop, National Neuroscience Congress,-, (2015). Link.
[C.2] Emergent emotion via neural computational energy conservation on a humanoid robot, Murat Kirtay, Erhan Oztop, IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), pp. 450-455, (2013). DOI.
[C.1] Chemical concentration map building through bacterial foraging optimization based search algorithm by mobile robots, Mirbek Turduev, Murat Kirtay, Pedro Sousa, Veysel Gazi, Lino Marques, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, pp. 3242-3249, (2010). DOI
[R.4] A graspable object dataset constructed with the iCub humanoid robot’s camera, Murat Kirtay, Ugo Albanese, Lorenzo Vannucci, Egidio Falotico, Cecilia Laschi, Technical report,-, (2018).
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[R.3] Murat Kirtay, Specularity detection and removal for endoscopic images. Github.
[R.2] Murat Kirtay, Event-wise cross decoding in ventral pre-motor cortex. Github.
[R.1] Murat Kirtay, Experimental studies on link quality extraction and wireless connectivity maintenance problem. Technical report and preliminary results of Control of networked cooperative teams of mobile robots project.
[T.2] Murat Kirtay, Brain-inspired algorithmic approaches to sensory representation and decision making, Ph.D. thesis in BioRobotics.
[T.1] Murat Kirtay, Computational Approaches to Modeling Brain Mechanisms of Action Recognition and Emotions, M.Sc. thesis in Computer Science.