publications | Max Argus

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2024

CrossQ: Batch Normalization in Deep Reinforcement Learning for Greater Sample Efficiency and Simplicity

Aditya Bhatt, Daniel Palenicek, Boris Belousov, and 4 more authors

In The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2024

@inproceedings{bhatt2024crossq,
  title = {CrossQ: Batch Normalization in Deep Reinforcement Learning for Greater Sample Efficiency and Simplicity},
  author = {Bhatt, Aditya and Palenicek, Daniel and Belousov, Boris and Argus, Max and Amiranashvili, Artemij and Brox, Thomas and Peters, Jan},
  booktitle = {The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=PczQtTsTIX},
}

DITTO: Demonstration Imitation by Trajectory Transformation

In 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024

Bib

@inproceedings{heppert2024ditto,
  title = {DITTO: Demonstration Imitation by Trajectory Transformation},
  author = {},
  booktitle = {2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  year = {2024},
  organization = {IEEE},
}

Two Effects, One Trigger: On the Modality Gap, Object Bias, and Information Imbalance in Contrastive Vision-Language Representation Learning

Simon Schrodi, David T. Hoffmann, Max Argus, and 2 more authors

ArXiv, 2024

Bib

@article{Schrodi2024TwoEO,
  title = {Two Effects, One Trigger: On the Modality Gap, Object Bias, and Information Imbalance in Contrastive Vision-Language Representation Learning},
  author = {Schrodi, Simon and Hoffmann, David T. and Argus, Max and Fischer, Volker and Brox, Thomas},
  journal = {ArXiv},
  year = {2024},
  volume = {abs/2404.07983},
  url = {https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:269043146},
}

Concept Bottleneck Models Without Predefined Concepts

Simon Schrodi, Julian Schur, Max Argus, and 1 more author

ArXiv, 2024

Bib

@article{Schrodi2024ConceptBM,
  title = {Concept Bottleneck Models Without Predefined Concepts},
  author = {Schrodi, Simon and Schur, Julian and Argus, Max and Brox, Thomas},
  journal = {ArXiv},
  year = {2024},
  volume = {abs/2407.03921},
  url = {https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:271039855},
}

Latent Diffusion Counterfactual Explanations

Simon Schrodi, Karim Farid, Max Argus, and 1 more author

In DAGM German Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2024

Bib

@inproceedings{schrodi2024latent,
  title = {Latent Diffusion Counterfactual Explanations},
  author = {Schrodi, Simon and Farid, Karim and Argus, Max and Brox, Thomas},
  booktitle = {DAGM German Conference on Pattern Recognition},
  year = {2024},
  organization = {Springer},
  volume = {abs/2310.06668},
  url = {https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:263829918},
}

2023

Climate-sensitive Urban Planning through Optimization of Tree Placements

S. Schrodi, F. Briegel, M. Argus, and 2 more authors

In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Workshop, 2023

Bib

@inproceedings{Schrodi2023ClimatesensitiveU,
  author = {Schrodi, S. and Briegel, F. and Argus, M. and Christen, A. and Brox, T.},
  title = {Climate-sensitive Urban Planning through Optimization of Tree Placements},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Workshop},
  month = { },
  year = {2023},
  url = {http://lmb.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/Publications/2023/SAB23},
}

Compositional Servoing by Recombining Demonstrations

Max Argus, Abhijeet Nayak, Martin Buchner, and 3 more authors

2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023

Bib

@article{Argus2023CompositionalSB,
  title = {Compositional Servoing by Recombining Demonstrations},
  author = {Argus, Max and Nayak, Abhijeet and Buchner, Martin and Galesso, Silvio and Valada, Abhinav and Brox, Thomas},
  journal = {2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  year = {2023},
  pages = {7339-7346},
  url = {https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:263831371},
}

2022

Far Away in the Deep Space: Dense Nearest-Neighbor-Based Out-of-Distribution Detection

Silvio Galesso, Max Argus, and Thomas Brox

2023 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCVW), 2022

Bib

@article{Galesso2022FarAI,
  title = {Far Away in the Deep Space: Dense Nearest-Neighbor-Based Out-of-Distribution Detection},
  author = {Galesso, Silvio and Argus, Max and Brox, Thomas},
  journal = {2023 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCVW)},
  year = {2022},
  pages = {4479-4489},
  url = {https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:261750029},
}

RobotIO: A Python Library for Robot Manipulation Experiments

Lukás Hermann, Max Argus, Adrian Roefer, and 3 more authors

ArXiv, 2022

Bib

@article{Hermann2022RobotIOAP,
  title = {RobotIO: A Python Library for Robot Manipulation Experiments},
  author = {Hermann, Luk{\'a}s and Argus, Max and Roefer, Adrian and Valada, Abhinav and Brox, Thomas and Burgard, Wolfram},
  journal = {ArXiv},
  year = {2022},
  volume = {abs/2207.13591},
  url = {https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:251105156},
}

2021

Contrastive Representation Learning for Hand Shape Estimation

Christiane Zimmermann, Max Argus, and Thomas Brox

ArXiv, 2021

Bib

@article{Zimmermann2021ContrastiveRL,
  title = {Contrastive Representation Learning for Hand Shape Estimation},
  author = {Zimmermann, Christiane and Argus, Max and Brox, Thomas},
  journal = {ArXiv},
  year = {2021},
  volume = {abs/2106.04324},
  url = {https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:235367809},
}

Pre-training of Deep RL Agents for Improved Learning under Domain Randomization

Artemij Amiranashvili, Max Argus, Lukás Hermann, and 2 more authors

ArXiv, 2021

Bib

@article{Amiranashvili2021PretrainingOD,
  title = {Pre-training of Deep RL Agents for Improved Learning under Domain Randomization},
  author = {Amiranashvili, Artemij and Argus, Max and Hermann, Luk{\'a}s and Burgard, Wolfram and Brox, Thomas},
  journal = {ArXiv},
  year = {2021},
  volume = {abs/2104.14386},
  url = {https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:233444233},
}

2020

Temporal Shift GAN for Large Scale Video Generation

Andres Munoz, Mohammadreza Zolfaghari, Max Argus, and 1 more author

2021 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2020

Bib

@article{Munoz2020TemporalSG,
  title = {Temporal Shift GAN for Large Scale Video Generation},
  author = {Munoz, Andres and Zolfaghari, Mohammadreza and Argus, Max and Brox, Thomas},
  journal = {2021 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)},
  year = {2020},
  pages = {3178-3187},
  url = {https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:226299526},
}

FlowControl: Optical Flow Based Visual Servoing

Max Argus, Lukás Hermann, Jon Long, and 1 more author

2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020

Bib

@article{Argus2020FlowControlOF,
  title = {FlowControl: Optical Flow Based Visual Servoing},
  author = {Argus, Max and Hermann, Luk{\'a}s and Long, Jon and Brox, Thomas},
  journal = {2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  year = {2020},
  pages = {7534-7541},
  url = {https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:220280145},
}

2019

FreiHAND: A Dataset for Markerless Capture of Hand Pose and Shape From Single RGB Images

Christiane Zimmermann, Duygu Ceylan, Jimei Yang, and 3 more authors

2019 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019

Bib

@article{Zimmermann2019FreiHANDAD,
  title = {FreiHAND: A Dataset for Markerless Capture of Hand Pose and Shape From Single RGB Images},
  author = {Zimmermann, Christiane and Ceylan, Duygu and Yang, Jimei and Russell, Bryan C. and Argus, Max and Brox, Thomas},
  journal = {2019 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
  year = {2019},
  pages = {813-822},
  url = {https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:202542436},
}

Adaptive Curriculum Generation from Demonstrations for Sim-to-Real Visuomotor Control

Lukás Hermann, Max Argus, Andreas Eitel, and 3 more authors

2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2019

Bib

@article{Hermann2019AdaptiveCG,
  title = {Adaptive Curriculum Generation from Demonstrations for Sim-to-Real Visuomotor Control},
  author = {Hermann, Luk{\'a}s and Argus, Max and Eitel, Andreas and Amiranashvili, Artemij and Burgard, Wolfram and Brox, Thomas},
  journal = {2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  year = {2019},
  pages = {6498-6505},
  url = {https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:204744061},
}

Function Follows Form: Regression from Complete Thoracic Computed Tomography Scans

Max Argus, Cornelia Schaefer-Prokop, David A. Lynch, and 1 more author

ArXiv, 2019

Bib

@article{Argus2019FunctionFF,
  title = {Function Follows Form: Regression from Complete Thoracic Computed Tomography Scans},
  author = {Argus, Max and Schaefer-Prokop, Cornelia and Lynch, David A. and van Ginneken, Bram},
  journal = {ArXiv},
  year = {2019},
  volume = {abs/1909.12047},
  url = {https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:203591537},
}

2016

Loss is its own Reward: Self-Supervision for Reinforcement Learning

Evan Shelhamer, Parsa Mahmoudieh, Max Argus, and 1 more author

ArXiv, 2016

Bib

@article{Shelhamer2016LossII,
  title = {Loss is its own Reward: Self-Supervision for Reinforcement Learning},
  author = {Shelhamer, Evan and Mahmoudieh, Parsa and Argus, Max and Darrell, Trevor},
  journal = {ArXiv},
  year = {2016},
  volume = {abs/1612.07307},
  url = {https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:16561904},
}