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Lars Kunze

Dr

Lars Kunze BSc MSc PhD

Departmental Lecturer in Robotics

Stipendiary Lecturer in Computer Science at Keble College

COLLEGE: Keble

Biography

Lars Kunze is a Departmental Lecturer in Robotics in the Oxford Robotics Institute (ORI) and the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, and a Stipendiary Lecturer in Computer Science at Keble College. He is a Programme Fellow of the Assuring Autonomy International Programme (AAIP) and a Co-Editor of the German Journal of Artificial Intelligence (KI Journal, Springer). At ORI, Lars leads the Cognitive Robotics Group (CRG).

Lars studied Cognitive Science (BSc, 2006) and Computer Science (MSc, 2008) at the University of Osnabrück, Germany, and partly at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

He received his PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, in 2014.

In May 2013, Lars was appointed as a Research Fellow in the Intelligent Robotics Lab at the School of Computer Science at Birmingham University.

In March 2017, he joined the Oxford Robotics Institute at Oxford University.

Research Interests

Lars' areas of expertise lie in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI). His goal is to enable robots to understand their surroundings, to act autonomously, and to explain their own behaviour in meaningful human terms. To this end, his research concerns the design and development of fundamental AI techniques for autonomous robot systems. He focusses on the combination of knowledge representation, reasoning, machine learning, and robot perception; motivated by applications in complex, real-world environments.

Research Projects

  • Assuring Autonomy International Programme (AAIP), Sense-Assess-eXplain (SAX) Building trust in autonomous vehicles in challenging real-world driving scenarios. (https://ori.ox.ac.uk/projects/sense-assess-explain-sax/
  • EU H2020, Autonomous Decision Making in Very Long Traverses (ADE) Realising planetary rover systems with autonomous decision making capabilities in the context of opportunistic science missions. (https://www.h2020-ade.eu)

Research Group

Research Activity

  • Programme Fellow of the Assuring Autonomy International Programme (AAIP)
  • Editor of the German Journal of Artificial Intelligence (KI Journal, Springer)

DPhil Supervision Interests

I am looking for DPhil students to join the Cognitive Robotics Group (CRG) at the Oxford Robotics Institute. I am open to supervising DPhil students with an interest in perception, inference, learning, and interaction.

Recent Publications

CC-SGG: Corner Case Scenario Generation using Learned Scene Graphs

Drayson G, Panagiotaki E, Omeiza D & Kunze L (2023)

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@misc{ccsggcornercase-2023/9,
  title={CC-SGG: Corner Case Scenario Generation using Learned Scene Graphs},
  author={Drayson G, Panagiotaki E, Omeiza D & Kunze L},
  year = "2023"
}

Semantic Interpretation and Validation of Graph Attention-based Explanations for GNN Models

Panagiotaki E, Martini DD & Kunze L (2023)

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@misc{semanticinterpr-2023/8,
  title={Semantic Interpretation and Validation of Graph Attention-based
  Explanations for GNN Models},
  author={Panagiotaki E, Martini DD & Kunze L},
  year = "2023"
}

Textual explanations for automated commentary driving

Kühn MA, Omeiza D & Kunze L (2023), 2023 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)

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@inproceedings{textualexplanat-2023/7,
  title={Textual explanations for automated commentary driving},
  author={Kühn MA, Omeiza D & Kunze L},
  booktitle={IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Vehicle},
  year = "2023"
}

Simulation-Based Counterfactual Causal Discovery on Real World Driver Behaviour

Howard R & Kunze L (2023), IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Proceedings, 2023-June

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@inproceedings{simulationbased-2023/1,
  title={Simulation-Based Counterfactual Causal Discovery on Real World Driver Behaviour},
  author={Howard R & Kunze L},
  year = "2023"
}

Textual Explanations for Automated Commentary Driving

Kuehn MA, Omeiza D & Kunze L (2023), 2023 IEEE INTELLIGENT VEHICLES SYMPOSIUM, IV

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@inproceedings{textualexplanat-2023/,
  title={Textual Explanations for Automated Commentary Driving},
  author={Kuehn MA, Omeiza D & Kunze L},
  year = "2023"
}

Simulation-Based Counterfactual Causal Discovery on Real World Driver Behaviour

Howard R & Kunze L (2023), 2023 IEEE INTELLIGENT VEHICLES SYMPOSIUM, IV

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@inproceedings{simulationbased-2023/,
  title={Simulation-Based Counterfactual Causal Discovery on Real World Driver Behaviour},
  author={Howard R & Kunze L},
  year = "2023"
}

Prediction of Social Dynamic Agents and Long-Tailed Learning Challenges: A Survey

Thuremella D & Kunze L (2023), JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH, 77, 1697-1772

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@article{predictionofsoc-2023/,
  title={Prediction of Social Dynamic Agents and Long-Tailed Learning Challenges: A Survey},
  author={Thuremella D & Kunze L},
  journal={JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH},
  volume={77},
  pages={1697-1772},
  year = "2023"
}

Responsible innovation; responsible data. A case study in autonomous driving

Ten Holter C, Kunze L, Pattinson JA, Salvini P & Jirotka M (2022), Journal of Responsible Technology, 11

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@article{responsibleinno-2022/10,
  title={Responsible innovation; responsible data. A case study in autonomous driving},
  author={Ten Holter C, Kunze L, Pattinson JA, Salvini P & Jirotka M},
  journal={Journal of Responsible Technology},
  volume={11},
  year = "2022"
}

From spoken thoughts to automated driving commentary: Predicting and explaining intelligent vehicles' actions

Omeiza D, Anjomshoae S, Webb H, Jirotka M & Kunze L (2022), 2022 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), 1040-1047

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@inproceedings{fromspokenthoug-2022/7,
  title={From spoken thoughts to automated driving commentary: Predicting and explaining intelligent vehicles' actions},
  author={Omeiza D, Anjomshoae S, Webb H, Jirotka M & Kunze L},
  booktitle={33rd IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium},
  pages={1040-1047},
  year = "2022"
}

Responsible Innovation; responsible data. A case study in autonomous driving

Ten Holter C, Kunze L, Pattinson J-A, Salvini P & Jirotka M (2022), Journal of Responsible Technology, 11

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@article{responsibleinno-2022/7,
  title={Responsible Innovation; responsible data. A case study in autonomous driving},
  author={Ten Holter C, Kunze L, Pattinson J-A, Salvini P & Jirotka M},
  journal={Journal of Responsible Technology},
  volume={11},
  number={100038},
  publisher={Elsevier},
  year = "2022"
}
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