Research Associate
| ed.mut.ni@sevarg | |
| Room | MI 00.09.064 |
| Phone | +49.89.289.17850 |
| Fax | +49.89.289.18107 |
| Address | Institut für Informatik VI Technische Universität München Boltzmannstraße 3 85748 Garching bei München Germany |
Research Interests
- Recurrent neural networks (especially LSTM)
- Speech and handwriting recognition
- Image and video processing
- Unsupervised sequence learning
Curriculum Vitæ
- Born St. Andrews, Scotland, 1976
- BSc Mathematical Physics, University of Edinburgh, 1998
- Computer programmer for Codemasters and blueberry.net, 1999-2000
- Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics, University of Cambridge, 2001
- PhD student at IDSIA, Switzerland, 2002-2007
- Postdoctoral researcher working with Jürgen Schmidhuber, Technische Universität München, 2007-present
Teaching
- Hauptseminar Sequence Learning SS 2009
Publications
| [1] |
Frank Sehnke, Christian Osendorfer, Thomas Rückstieß, Alex Graves, Jan
Peters, and Jürgen Schmidhuber.
Parameter-exploring policy gradients.
Neural Networks, 23(2), March 2010. |
| [2] |
Martin Wöllmer, Florian Eyben, Joseph Keshet, Alex Graves, Björn
Schuller, and Gerhard Rigoll.
Robust discriminative keyword spotting for emotionally colored
spontaneous speech using bidirectional LSTM networks.
In Proc. of ICASSP, pages 3949-3952, Taipei, Taiwan, April
2009. |
| [3] |
Alex Graves and Jürgen Schmidhuber.
Offline handwriting recognition with multidimensional recurrent
neural networks.
In D. Koller, D. Schuurmans, Y. Bengio, and L. Bottou, editors,
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 21, pages 545-552. 2009. |
| [4] |
Alex Graves, Christoph Mayer, Matthias Wimmer, Jürgen Schmidhuber, and Bernd
Radig.
Facial expression recognition with recurrent neural networks.
In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Cognition for
Technical Systems, Munich, Germany, October 2008. |
| [5] |
Alexander Graves.
Supervised Sequence Labelling with Recurrent Neural Networks.
Dissertation, Technische Universität München, München, July
2008. |
| [6] |
Santiago Fernández, Alex Graves, and Jürgen Schmidhuber.
Phoneme recognition in TIMIT with BLSTM-CTC.
Technical Report IDSIA-04-08, IDSIA, April 2008.
Also published as arXiv:0804.3269v1 [cs.CL]. |
| [7] |
Alex Graves, Santiago Fernández, Marcus Liwicki, Horst Bunke, and Jürgen
Schmidhuber.
Unconstrained online handwriting recognition with recurrent neural
networks.
In J.C. Platt, D. Koller, Y. Singer, and S. Roweis, editors,
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 20, NIPS 2008,
Cambridge, MA, January 2008. MIT Press. |
| [8] |
Alex Graves, Marcus Liwicki, Santiago Fernández, Roman Bertolami, Horst
Bunke, and Jürgen Schmidhuber.
A novel connectionist system for unconstrained handwriting
recognition.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine
Intelligence, 2008.
To appear. |
| [9] |
Frank Sehnke, Christian Osendorfer, Thomas Rückstieß, Alex Graves, Jan
Peters, and Jürgen Schmidhuber.
Policy gradients with parameter-based exploration for control.
In J. Koutnik V. Kurkova, R. Neruda, editor, Proceedings of the
International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2008, Part I,
LNCS 5163, pages 387-396. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2008. |
| [10] |
Santiago Fernández, Alex Graves, and Jürgen Schmidhuber.
An application of recurrent neural networks to discriminative keyword
spotting.
In Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on
Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2007, Porto, Portugal, September 2007. |
| [11] |
Alex Graves, Santiago Fernández, and Jürgen Schmidhuber.
Multidimensional recurrent neural networks.
In Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on
Artificial Neural Networks, Porto, Portugal, September 2007. |
| [12] |
Alexander Förster, Alex Graves, and Jürgen Schmidhuber.
RNN-based learning of compact maps for efficient robot
localization.
In 15th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks,
ESANN, pages 537-542, Bruges, Belgium, April 2007. |
| [13] |
Santiago Fernández, Alex Graves, and Jürgen Schmidhuber.
Sequence labelling in structured domains with hierarchical recurrent
neural networks.
In Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2007, Hyderabad, India, January 2007. |
| [14] |
Marcus Liwicki, Alex Graves, Santiago Fernández, Horst Bunke, and Jürgen
Schmidhuber.
A novel approach to on-line handwriting recognition based on
bidirectional long short-term memory networks.
In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Document
Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2007, Curitiba, Brazil, sep 2007. |
| [15] |
Alex Graves, Santiago Fernández, Faustino Gomez, and Jürgen Schmidhuber.
Connectionist temporal classification: Labelling unsegmented sequence
data with recurrent neural networks.
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine
Learning, ICML 2006, Pittsburgh, USA, June 2006. |
| [16] |
Nicole Beringer, Alex Graves, Florien Schiel, , and Jürgen Schmidhuber.
Classifying unprompted speech by retraining lstm nets.
In Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on
Artificial Neural Networks, Warsaw, Poland, September 2005. |
| [17] |
Alex Graves, Santiago Fernández, and Jürgen Schmidhuber.
Bidirectional LSTM networks for improved phoneme classification and
recognition.
In Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on
Artificial Neural Networks, Warsaw, Poland, September 2005. |
| [18] |
Alex Graves and Jürgen Schmidhuber.
Framewise phoneme classification with bidirectional LSTM networks.
In Proceedings of the 2005 International Joint Conference on
Neural Networks, Montreal, Canada, July 2005. |
| [19] |
Alex Graves and Jürgen Schmidhuber.
Framewise phoneme classification with bidirectional lstm and other
neural network architectures.
Neural Networks, 18(5-6):602-610, June 2005. |
| [20] |
Alex Graves, Nicole Beringer, and Jürgen Schmidhuber.
A comparison between spiking and differentiable recurrent neural
networks on spoken digit recognition.
In The 23rd IASTED International Conference on modelling,
identification, and control, Grindelwald, Switzerland, February 2004. |
| [21] |
Alex Graves, Douglas Eck, Nicole Beringer, and Jürgen Schmidhuber.
Biologically plausible speech recognition with lstm neural nets.
In First International Workshop on Biologically Inspired
Approaches to Advanced Information Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland,
January 2004. |