Speakers
 Maren Bennewitz https://www.hrl.uni-bonn.de/people/bennewitz |
Title: Challenges in Robotic Manipulation for Fresco AssemblyBiography:Maren Bennewitz is Professor for humanoid robots and vice rector for digitalization at the University of Bonn. She is additionally with the Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence and has been PI in several national and European projects. She is a member of the executive board and steering committee of the Cluster of Excellence PhenoRob - Robotics and Phenotyping for Sustainable Crop Production and founding member as well as steering committee member of the Center for Robotics, University of Bonn. In the course of her research career, she has contributed several innovative solutions for robotic systems co-existing and interacting with humans. Among them are navigation, manipulation, and active perception techniques for legged and wheeled robots as well as methods for detecting humans, analyzing their motions and preferences, and generating foresighted, personalized robot behavior. She is partner leader in the running EU Horizon Europe project RePAIR (Reconstructing the Past: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Meet Cultural Heritage) about bi-manual arm motions and planning algorithms to place fresco pieces at desired poses, topics on which she published numerous articles in IEEE/RSJ IROS and IEEE-RAS Humanoids in the recent years. |
 Takeshi OISHI https://www.cvl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/ |
Title: Cyber-Archaeology through 3D Vision TechnologiesBiography:Takeshi Oishi is Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo. His research focuses on reality-based modeling, digital archiving, and mixed reality. His Ph.D. thesis (2005) concentrated on the digital preservation and restoration of cultural heritage as- sets. He has managed the Great Buddha Project, which aims to digitize Japan’s most renowned Great Buddha statues, and the Bayon Digital Archival Project, dedicated to digitizing the Bayon Temple within the Angkor ruins in Cambodia. Additionally, he contributed to the Grand Egyptian Museum relocation project sponsored by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and was honored with the Yomiuri International Cooperation Award as a mem- ber of GEM-JC. His various works on combining various sensing modalities (LiDAR, panoramic vision, Far-infrared, X-Ray, etc) on ground and flying mobile robot systems is regularly published in IEEE ICRA, IEEE/RSJ IROS, ECCV, and IEEE RA-L. |
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2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation |