Luís Seabra Lopes

Position	Associate professor
Affiliation	DETI / University of Aveiro
Group	Intelligent Robotics and Systems
Status	Researcher with PhD
Country	Portugal
Students
Former PhD students	Aneesh Chauhan, Hamidreza Kasaei, Vahid Mokhtari, Marcelo Quinderé, Frederico Santos
Former masters students	Show list
Courses	Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Programação em Java
Projects
Past projects	ACORD, CAMBADA, CAMBADA-FCT, CARL, Cloud Thinking, EUROC, LANGG, ProdutechPSI, ProdutechPTI, RACE, SAICT
Events	LangRo-2007, Robotica2008sm, SRVC2009, epia-2009
Proposals
ORCID	0000-0002-5719-5019
Personal page	http://www.ieeta.pt/~lsl

My research interests are in the broad area of intelligent systems, particularly in which concerns applications of artificial intelligence in robotics. My Ph.D. thesis (1997) focused on robot learning at the task level and it's application in the robotized assembly domain. In more recent projects, I have addressed other topics in human-robot interaction, computer vision and multi-robot systems. I was coordinator of the Transverse Activity on Intelligent Robotics between 1999 and 2009, and local scientific coordinator of the project FP7 RACE - Robustness by Autonomous Competence Enhancement between 2011 and 2014.

Publications

Books

• Luís Seabra Lopes, Nuno Lau, Pedro Mariano, L. M. Rocha. New Trends in Artificial Intelligence, 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2009. Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, October 2009
• Luís Seabra Lopes, Nuno Lau, Pedro Mariano, L. M. Rocha. Progress in Artificial Intelligence: 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2009. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, October 2009
• Luís Seabra Lopes, Filipe Silva, Vítor Santos. Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions: Proceedings of the Eigth Conference. Universidade de Aveiro, April 2008
• Luís Seabra Lopes, Tony Belpaeme, Stephen J. Cowley. Language and Robots: Proceedings of the Symposium. 10-12 December 2007, Aveiro, Portugal. Universidade de Aveiro, December 2007

Articles in international journals listed in the ISI

• Hamidreza Kasaei, Miguel Riem Oliveira, Gi Hyun Lim, Luís Seabra Lopes, Ana Maria Tomé. Towards Lifelong Assistive Robotics: A Tight Coupling Between Object Perception and Manipulation. Neurocomputing, vol. 291, p. 151-166, May 2018 [IF 2017: 3.241 (Q1, 27/132)]
• Vahid Mokhtari, Luís Seabra Lopes, Armando J. Pinho. Learning Robot Tasks with Loops from Experiences to Enhance Robot Adaptability. Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 99, p. 57-66, November 2017 [IF 2017: 1.952 (Q2, 56/132)]
• Hamidreza Kasaei, Ana Maria Tomé, Luís Seabra Lopes, Miguel Riem Oliveira. GOOD: A Global Orthographic Object Descriptor for 3D Object Recognition and Manipulation. Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 83, Part 3, p. 312–320, November 2016 [IF 2016: 1.995 (Q2, 58/133)] [IF 2017: 1.952 (Q2, 56/132)]
• Vahid Mokhtari, Luís Seabra Lopes, Armando J. Pinho. Experience-Based Planning Domains: an Integrated Learning and Deliberation Approach for Intelligent Robots. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, vol. 83, no. 3, p. 463-483, September 2016 [IF 2016: 1.512 (Q3, 17/26)] [IF 2017: 1.583 (Q3, 17/26)]
• Miguel Riem Oliveira, Luís Seabra Lopes, Gi Hyun Lim, Hamidreza Kasaei, Ana Maria Tomé, Aneesh Chauhan. 3D object perception and perceptual learning in the RACE project. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 75, p. 614–626, January 2016 [IF 2016: 1.950 (Q2, 60/133)]
• João Cunha, Rui Serra, Nuno Lau, Luís Seabra Lopes, António J. R. Neves. Batch Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Soccer Using the Q-Batch Update-Rule. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, vol. 80, no. 3, p. 385-399, December 2015 [IF 2015: 0.932 (Q3, 16/25)] [IF 2017: 1.583 (Q3, 17/26)]
• Hamidreza Kasaei, Miguel Riem Oliveira, Gi Hyun Lim, Luís Seabra Lopes, Ana Maria Tomé. Interactive Open-Ended Learning for 3D Object Recognition: An Approach and Experiments. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, vol. 80, no. 3, p. 537-553, December 2015 [IF 2015: 0.932 (Q3, 16/25)] [IF 2017: 1.583 (Q3, 17/26)]
• Aneesh Chauhan, Luís Seabra Lopes. Using spoken words to guide open-ended category formation. Cognitive Processing, vol. 12, no. 4, p. 341-354, November 2011 [IF 2011: 1.567]
• Nuno Lau, Luís Seabra Lopes, Gustavo Corrente, Nelson Filipe, Ricardo Sequeira. Robot team coordination using dynamic role and positioning assignment and role based setplays. Mechatronics, vol. 21, no. 2, p. 445-454, March 2011 [IF 2011: 1.255 (Q1, 28/122)]
• Luís Seabra Lopes, Tony Belpaeme. Beyond the individual: new insights on language, cognition and robots. Connection Science, vol. 20, no. 4, p. 231–237, 2008 [IF 2008: 0.884]
• Luís Seabra Lopes, Aneesh Chauhan. Open-ended category learning for language acquisition. Connection Science, vol. 20, no. 4, p. 277–297, 2008 [IF 2008: 0.884]
• Luís Seabra Lopes, Aneesh Chauhan. How many words can my robot learn? An approach and experiments with one-class learning. Interaction Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, p. 53–81, 2007
• Luís Seabra Lopes, Jonathan H. Connell. Semisentient Robots: Routes to Integrated Intelligence, Semisentient Robots. IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 16, no. 5, p. 10-14, October 2001
• Luís Seabra Lopes, Jonathan H. Connell. Sentience in Robots: Applications and Challenges. IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 16, no. 5, p. 66-69, October 2001

Other articles in journals

• Joachim Hertzberg, Jianwei Zhang, Liwei Zhang, Sebastian Rockel, Bernd Neumann, Jos Lehmann, Krishna S. R. Dubba, Anthony G. Cohn, Alessandro Saffiotti, Federico Pecora, Masoumeh Mansouri, Štefan Konečný, Martin Günther, Sebastian Stock, Luís Seabra Lopes, Miguel Riem Oliveira, Gi Hyun Lim, Hamidreza Kasaei, Vahid Mokhtari, Lothar Hotz, Wilfried Bohlken. The RACE Project: Robustness by Autonomous Competence Enhancement. Künstliche Intelligenz, vol. 28, no. 4, p. 297-304, November 2014
• Luís Seabra Lopes, António J. S. Teixeira, Marcelo Quinderé, Mário Rodrigues. Integrated Capabilities for Knowledge Acquisition Through Spoken Language Interaction in a Mobile Robot. Robótica, vol. 3, no. 74, 2009
• Nuno Lau, Luís Seabra Lopes, Gustavo A. Corrente. CAMBADA: Information Sharing and Team Coordination. Robótica - Automação Controlo Instrumentação, no. 74, p. 10-14, March 2009

Chapters in books

• Hamidreza Kasaei, Nima Shafii, Luís Seabra Lopes, Ana Maria Tomé. Object Learning and Grasping Capabilities for Robotic Home Assistants. RoboCup-2016: Robot Soccer World Cup, Lecture Notes in Computer Science,, Springer, vol. 9776, July 2016
• Gi Hyun Lim, Miguel Riem Oliveira, Hamidreza Kasaei, Luís Seabra Lopes. Hierarchical Nearest Neighbor Graphs for Building Perceptual Hierarchies. Neural Information Processing: 22nd International Conference, ICONIP 2015, S. Arik, T. Huang, W.K. Lai, Q. Liu (Ed.), Springer, p. 646-655, 2015
• António J. R. Neves, José Luís Azevedo, Bernardo Cunha, Nuno Lau, João Silva, Frederico Santos, Gustavo Corrente, Daniel A. Martins, Nuno Figueiredo, Artur Pereira, Luís Almeida, Luís Seabra Lopes, Armando J. Pinho, João M. O. S. Rodrigues, Paulo Pedreiras. CAMBADA soccer team: from robot architecture to multiagent coordination. Robot Soccer, Vladan Papic (Ed.), INTECH, p. 19-45, January 2010
• Luís Seabra Lopes, Aneesh Chauhan. How many Words can my Robot learn? An Approach and Experiments with One-Class Learning. Symbol Grounding, T. Belpaeme, S.J. Cowley and K. MacDorman (Ed.), John Benjamins, p. 55-82, January 2009

Articles in conference proceedings

• Hamidreza Kasaei, Luís Seabra Lopes, Ana Maria Tomé. Coping with Context Change in Open-Ended Object Recognition without Explicit Context Information. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2018), October 2018
• Hamidreza Kasaei, Juil Sock, Luís Seabra Lopes, Ana Maria Tomé, Tae-Kyun Kim. Perceiving, Learning, and Recognizing 3D Objects: An Approach to Cognitive Service Robots. Thirty-Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, February 2018
• Vahid Mokhtari, Luís Seabra Lopes, Armando J. Pinho. An Approach to Robot Task Learning and Planning with Loops. Proc. 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'2017), p. 6033-6038, 2017
• Vahid Mokhtari, Luís Seabra Lopes, Armando J. Pinho. Learning and Planning of Robot Tasks with Loops. Proc. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC’2017), p. 296-301, 2017
• Vahid Mokhtari, Luís Seabra Lopes, Armando J. Pinho. Gathering and Conceptualizing Plan-Based Robot Activity Experiences. Intelligent Autonomous Systems 13: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference IAS-13, vol. AISC 302, p. 993-1005, 2016
• Hamidreza Kasaei, Ana Maria Tomé, Luís Seabra Lopes. Hierarchical Object Representation for Open-Ended Object Category Learning and Recognition. Proc. Thirtieth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS’2016), 2016
• Hamidreza Kasaei, Ana Maria Tomé, Luís Seabra Lopes, Miguel Riem Oliveira. An Orthographic Descriptor for 3D Object Learning and Recognition. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Seoul, Korea, October 2016
• Nima Shafii, Hamidreza Kasaei, Luís Seabra Lopes. Learning to Grasp Familiar Objects using Object View Recognition and Template Matching. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Seoul, Korea, October 2016
• Nima Shafii, Hamidreza Kasaei, Luís Seabra Lopes. A Learning Approach for Robotic Grasp Selection in Open-ended Domains. Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC 2016), Bragança, Portugal, May 2016
• Hamidreza Kasaei, Luís Seabra Lopes, Ana Maria Tomé. Concurrent 3D Object Category Learning and Recognition based on Topic Modelling and Human Feedback. Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC 2016), Bragança, Portugal, April 2016, May 2016
• Vahid Mokhtari, Luís Seabra Lopes, Armando J. Pinho. Experience-Based Robot Task Learning and Planning with Goal Inference. Twenty-Sixth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-2016), London, England, p. 509--517, March 2016
• Miguel Riem Oliveira, Luís Seabra Lopes, Gi Hyun Lim, Hamidreza Kasaei, Angel D. Sappa, Ana Maria Tomé. Concurrent Learning of Visual Codebooks and Object Categories in Open-ended Domains. 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Hamburg, Germany, September 2015
• Hamidreza Kasaei, Miguel Riem Oliveira, Gi Hyun Lim, Luís Seabra Lopes, Ana Maria Tomé. An Adaptive Object Perception System Based on Environment Exploration and Bayesian Learning. Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC 2015), Vila Real, Portugal, April 2015
• Vahid Mokhtari, Luís Seabra Lopes, Armando J. Pinho, Gi Hyun Lim. Planning with Activity Schemata: Closing the Loop in Experience-Based Planning Domains. Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC 2015), Vila Real, Portugal, p. 9-14, April 2015
• Hamidreza Kasaei, Miguel Riem Oliveira, Gi Hyun Lim, Luís Seabra Lopes, Ana Maria Tomé. An Interactive Open-Ended Learning Approach for 3D Object Recognition. Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC), 2014
• Krishna S.R. Dubba, Miguel Riem Oliveira, Gi Hyun Lim, Hamidreza Kasaei, Luís Seabra Lopes, Ana Maria Tomé, Anthony G. Cohn. Grounding Language in Perception for Scene Conceptualization in Autonomous Robots. Proceedings of the 2014 AAAI Spring Symposium on Qualitative Representations for Robots, 2014
• Gi Hyun Lim, Miguel Riem Oliveira, Vahid Mokhtari, Hamidreza Kasaei, Luís Seabra Lopes, Ana Maria Tomé. Interactive Teaching and Experience Extraction for Learning about Objects and Robot Activities. Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN'2014), p. 153-160, 2014
• Miguel Riem Oliveira, Gi Hyun Lim, Luís Seabra Lopes, Hamidreza Kasaei, Ana Maria Tomé, Aneesh Chauhan. A Perceptual Memory System for Grounding Semantic Representations in Intelligent Service Robots. Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014), September 2014
• João Cunha, Rui Serra, Nuno Lau, Luís Seabra Lopes, António J. R. Neves. Learning robotic soccer controllers with the Q-Batch update-rule. 2014 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC), Espinho, Portugal, p. 134-139, May 2014
• Mário Antunes, Luís Seabra Lopes. Contour-Based Object Extraction and Clutter Removal for Semantic Vision. Image Analysis and Recognition: 10th International Conference, ICIAR2013. Proceedings, vol. LNCS 7950, 2013
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