Invited talks at institutions:

2008:

• "Cognitive Robot Localization and Mapping", at the University of Southern California (USC), (iLab, Prof. Laurent Itti), Los Angeles, USA, 30th May 2008

• "What Visual Attention can do for Robotics", at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech), (klab, Prof. Christof Koch), Los Angeles, USA, 28th May 2008

• "Attentional Landmarks for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping", at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), (VisionLab, Prof. Stefano Soatto), Los Angeles, USA, 27th May 2008

• "Where is my key? Visual Search with a Computational Attention System", at the Honda Research Institute Europe in Offenbach, Germany, 7th Feb. 2008

2007:

• "Attentional Landmarks for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping", at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH, Prof. Joachim Buhmann) in Zürich, Switzerland, 5th December 2007

• "Visual Attention for Cognitive Systems", at the Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg (Prof. Erwin Prassler) in Sankt Augustin, Germany, 18th July 2007

• "Visual Attention for Cognitive Systems", at the INRIA research center (Prof. James Crowley) in Grenoble, France, June 2007

• "Attentional Visual SLAM", at the Fraunhofer institute IAIS in St. Augustin, Germany, June 2007

2006:

• "Attentional Visual SLAM", at the institute of Automatic Control Engineering (Prof. Martin Buss), Technical University Munich, Germany, 12th July 2006

• "Attentional Visual SLAM", at the Knowledge Processing Laboratory (KLAB, Prof. Patrick Doherty), Linköping University, Sweden, 3rd July 2006

• "Attentional Robot Localization and Mapping", at the Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (Prof. Heinrich Bülthoff), Tübingen, Germany, June 2006

• "Computational Attention Systems and their Applications", at the Dagstuhl Seminar "Towards Affordance-Based Robot Control", Dagstuhl, Germany, June 2006

2005:

• "VOCUS: A Visual Attention System for Object Detection and Goal-directed Search" at the Center for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems (Prof. Tom Duckett) at Örebro university, Sweden, Oct. 2005

• "VOCUS: A Visual Attention System for Object Detection and Goal-directed Search" at the lab for Autonomous Intelligent Systems (Prof. Wolfram Burgard) at Freiburg University, Germany, 3rd June 2005

2004:

• "Goal-directed Search with a Top-down Modulated Attention System" at the Center for Autonomous Systems (CAS, Prof. Henrik Christensen) at KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Stockholm, Sweden, December 2004

• "Ein Computermodell für Visuelle Aufmerksamkeit" at the psychological institute of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU), Germany, Nov. 2004

• "Visuelle Aufmerksamkeit und Objekterkennung in 3D Laser Bildern" at the university of Bielefeld, Germany, Feb. 2004

2003:

• "Aufmerksamkeit zur Objekterkennung in 3D Laser Bildern" at the university of Paderborn, Germany, Oct. 2003

• "Aufmerksamkeit für Roboter" talk at the "Ringvorlesung" at the summer school "informatica feminale" at the university of Bremen, Germany, Sept. 2004

• "Visuelle Aufmerksamkeitsmechanismen auf bimodalen Laserdaten" at the university of Hamburg, Germany, Jan. 2003