Please note that all papers which are available for download here are preprints.

Edited Books and Proceedings

[8] C. Di Chio, S. Cagnoni, C. Cotta, M. Ebner, A. Ekart, A. I. Esparcia-Alcazar, J. J. Merelo, F. Neri M. Preuß, H. Richter, J. Togelius and G. N. Yannakakis (editors).
Applications of Evolutionary Computation. Proceedings, Part I,
EvoComplex, EvoGames, EvoIASP, EvoIntelligence, EvoNum, EvoSTOC, Torino, Italy, © Springer, Berlin, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6624, 2011.
[7] C. Di Chio, S. Cagnoni, C. Cotta, M. Ebner, A. Ekart, A. I. Esparcia-Alcazar, C.-K. Goh, J. J. Merelo, F. Neri M. Preuß, J. Togelius and G. N. Yannakakis (editors).
Applications of Evolutionary Computation. Proceedings Part I,
EvoComplex, EvoGames, EvoIASP, EvoIntelligence, EvoNum, EvoSTOC, Istanbul, Turkey, © Springer, Berlin, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6024, 2010.
[6] C. Di Chio, A. Brabazon, G. Di Caro, M. Ebner, M. Farooq, A. Fink, J. Grahl, G. Greenfield, P. Machado and M. O'Neill (editors).
Applications of Evolutionary Computation. Proceedings Part II,
EvoComnet, EvoEnvironment, EvoFin, EvoMusart, EvoTranslog, Istanbul, Turkey, © Springer, Berlin, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6025, 2010.
[5] G. R. Raidl, E. Alba, J. Bacardit, H.-G. Beyer, M. Birattari, C. Blum, P. A. N. Bosman, C. Bates Congdon, D. Corne, C. Cotta, M. Di Penta, B. Doerr, R. Drechsler, M. Ebner, J. Grahl, T. Jansen, J. D. Knowles, T. Lenaerts, M. Middendorf, J. F. Miller, M. O'Neill, R. Poli, G. Squillero, K. O. Stanley, T. Stützle and J. van Hemert (editors).
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2009) Proceedings,
Montreal, Canada, ACM Press, 2009.
[4] L. Vanneschi, S. Gustafson, A. Moraglio, I. De Falco and M. Ebner (editors).
Genetic Programming: Proceedings of the 12th European Conference,
EuroGP 2009, Tübingen, Germany, © Springer, Berlin, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5481, 2009.
[3] M. Ebner et al. (editors).
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Workshop Proceedings,
Atlanta. Georgia, ACM Press, 2008.
[2] Marc Ebner, Michael O'Neill, Aniko Ekart, Leonardo Vanneschi, and Anna I. Esparcia-Alcazar (editors).
Genetic Programming: Proceedings of the 10th European Conference,
EuroGP 2007, Valencia, Spanien, © Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4445, 2007.
[1] Pierre Collet, Marco Tomassini, Marc Ebner, Steven Gustafson, and Aniko Ekart (editors).
Genetic Programming: Proceedings of the 9th European Conference,
EuroGP 2006, Budapest, Hungary, © Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3905, 2006.

Books (Monographs)

[1] Marc Ebner.
Color Constancy
John Wiley & Sons, England, 2007.

Patents and Patent Applications

[5] Marc Ebner
Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum maschinellen Verarbeiten von Texten.
Deutsches Patent, DE102016125162, 21. Dezember 2016.
[4] Jürgen Albert, Marc Ebner and German Tischler.
System zur Anpassung von Farbton und Helligkeit digitaler Bilder mittels Kompressionstransformationen.
Deutsches Patent, DE102006061972, 22. Dezember 2006.
[3] Marc Ebner.
Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur lokalen Farbbestimmung der Beleuchtung und Farbkorrektur von Bildern.
Deutsche Patentanmeldung, DE102006003222A1, 24. Januar 2006.
[2] Marc Ebner.
Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Farbkorrektur von Bildern mit nicht-linearen Beleuchtungsänderungen.
Deutsches Patent DE102004027471, 5. Juni 2004.
[1] Marc Ebner.
Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Farbkorrektur von Bildern.
Deutsches Patent, DE10346348, 7. Oktober 2003.

Lectures

[2] Marc Ebner. A Mathematical Model of the Quale Color, Models of Consciousness 4, Oxford, UK, 2023
[1] Marc Ebner. A Communication-Based Model of Consciousness, Models of Consciousness, Oxford, UK, 2019

Journal Articles

[24] Oguzhan Ulucan and Diclehan Ulucan and Marc Ebner
Multi-Scale Color Constancy based on Salient Varying Local Spatial Statistics.
The Visual Computer, Springer, Berlin, 2023.
(Paper)
[23] Marc Ebner
A Communication-based Model of Consciousness.
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 193-226, 2022.
(Paper)
[22] Marc Ebner
Distributed Storage and Recall of Sentences.
Bio-Algorithms and Med-Systems, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 89-101, De Gruyter, Berlin, 2017.
(Paper)
[21] Johannes Hansen and Marc Ebner
Is depth information and optical flow helpful for visual control?.
Bio-Algorithms and Med-Systems, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 9-18, De Gruyter, Berlin, 2016.
(Paper)
[20] Xingsheng Yuan and Marc Ebner and Zhengzhi Wang
Single-Image shadow detection and removal using local colour constancy computation.
IET Image Processing, Vol.9, No. 2, pp. 117-126, 2015.
[19] Marc Ebner and Johannes Hansen
Depth Map Color Constancy.
Bio-Algorithms and Med-Systems, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 167-177, De Gruyter, Berlin, 2013.
(Paper)
[18] Marc Ebner.
A Computational Model for Color Perception.
Bio-Algorithms and Med-Systems, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 387-415, De Gruyter, Berlin, 2012.
(Paper)
[17] Marc Ebner.
On the effect of scene motion on color constancy.
Biological Cybernetics, Vol. 105, No. 5, pp. 319-330, Springer, Berlin, 2011.
(Paper)
[16] Marc Ebner and Stuart Hameroff.
Lateral information processing by spiking neurons -- A theoretical model of the neural correlate of consciousness.
Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, 2011.
(Paper Movie)
[15] Marc Ebner, Patrick Stalph, Martin Michel and Roland Benz.
Evolutionary parameter optimization of a fuzzy controller which is used to control a sewage treatment plant.
Water Science and Technology, Vol. 61, No. 1, pp. 53-66, 2010.
(Paper)
[14] Marc Ebner.
Color Constancy Based on Local Space Average Color.
Machine Vision and Applications Journal, Vol. 11, No. 5, pp. 283-301, July, 2009.
(Paper)
[13] Martin Michel, Marc Ebner, Patrick Stalph, and Roland Benz.
Optimierung von Fuzzy-Logic-Reglereinstellungen..
Wasserwirtschaft Wassertechnik, No. 6, pp. 51-54, June, 2009.
[12] Marc Ebner.
Algorithmen für die Farbbildverarbeitung.
Technik in Bayern, Verlag Neuer Markur, München, pp. 36-37, Vol. 13, Jan/Feb, 2009.
(Paper)
[11] Marc Ebner.
GPU Color Constancy.
Journal of Graphics Tools, A K Peters, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 35--51, 2008.
(Paper)
[10] Marc Ebner.
Evolutionäre Bildverarbeitung.
Informatik Spektrum, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 146-150, 2008.
(Paper)
[9] Marc Ebner.
Lokale Beleuchtungsschätzung und Farbkorrektur bei ungleichmäßiger Beleuchtung.
Künstliche Intelligenz, Jan., Vol. 1, pp. 46-52, 2008.
(Paper)
[8] Marc Ebner, German Tischler, and Jürgen Albert.
Integrating Color Constancy into JPEG2000.
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 16, No. 11, pp. 2697-2706, 2007.
(Paper)
[7] Marc Ebner.
Evolving Color Constancy.
Special Issue on Evolutionary Computer Vision and Image Understanding of Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 27, No. 11, pp. 1220-1229, 2006.
(Paper)
[6] Marc Ebner.
Coevolution and the Red Queen effect shape virtual plants.
Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, Kluwer Academic Publishers, March, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 103-123, 2006.
(Paper)
[5] Marc Ebner.
Aktuelles Schlagwort: Evolvable Hardware.
Künstliche Intelligenz, May, Vol. 2, pp. 53-54, 2004.
(Paper)
[4] Marc Ebner.
A Parallel Algorithm for Color Constancy.
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 64(1):79-88, Elsevier Science, 2004.
(Paper)
[3] Marc Ebner.
Book Review: Illustrating Evolutionary Computation with Mathematica by Christian Jacob.
Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 4:291-294, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.
(Paper)
[2] Marc Ebner, Mark Shackleton and Rob Shipman.
How Neutral Networks Influence Evolvability.
Complexity, 7(2), pp. 19-33, Wiley Periodicals, 2001.
(Paper)
[1] Marc Ebner and Andreas Zell.
Centering Behavior with a Mobile Robot Using Monocular foveated vision.
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 32(4), pp. 207-218, Elsevier Science, 2000.
(Paper, Movie)

Book Chapters

[6] M. Ebner.
Color Constancy.
In Katsushi Ikeuchi (ed.), Encyclopedia of Computer Vision, 2nd ed. Springer, 2021.
(Paper)
[5] Marc Ebner and Stuart Hameroff
Modeling Figure/Ground Separation with Spiking Neurons.
In Irena Roterman-Konieczna (ed.) Simulation in Medicine -- Preclinical and Clinical Applications, de Gruyter, Berlin, 77—96, 2015.
(Paper)
[4] M. Ebner.
Color Constancy.
In Katsushi Ikeuchi (ed.), Encyclopedia of Computer Vision. Springer, 2013.
(Paper)
[3] Richard A. Watson and Marc Ebner.
Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics on Deformable Fitness Landscapes.
In Hendrik Richter and Andries Engelbrecht (eds.), Recent Advances in the Theory and Application of Fitness Landscapes. Springer, Berlin, pp. 339-368, 2013.
(Paper)
[2] J. Levine, C.B. Congdon, M. Ebner, G. Kendall, S.M. Lucas, R. Miikkulainen, T. Schaul, and T. Thompson.
General Video Game Playing.
In Simon M. Lucas, Michael Mateas, Mike Preuss, Pieter Spronck, and Julian Togelius (eds.), Artificial and Computational Intelligence in Games. Dagstuhl Follow-Ups. Volume 6, 77--83, 2013.
(Paper)
[1] M. Ebner, J. Levine, S.M. Lucas, T. Schaul, T. Thompson, and J. Togelius.
Towards a Video Game Description Language.
In Simon M. Lucas, Michael Mateas, Mike Preuss, Pieter Spronck, and Julian Togelius (eds.), Artificial and Computational Intelligence in Games. Dagstuhl Follow-Ups. Volume 6, pp. 85--100, 2013.
(Paper)

Refereed Papers at Conferences and Workshops

[64] Daniel Lehmann and Marc Ebner
Reliable Classification of Images by Calculating Their Credibility Using a Layer-Wise Activation Cluster Analysis of CNNs.
In A. Fred, C. Sansone, O. Gusikhin and K. Madani (eds.), Deep Learning Theory and Applications DeLTA 2022. Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, pp. 33-55, 2023.
(Paper)
[63] Oguzhan Ulucan, Diclehan Ulucan and Marc Ebner
Multi-Scale Block-based Color Constancy.
In Proceedings of the 31st European Signal Processing Conference, Sep. 4-8, Helsinki, Finland, 2023.
(Paper)
[62] Diclehan Ulucan, Oguzhan Ulucan and Marc Ebner
CC-NORD: A Camera-Invariant Global Color Constancy Dataset.
In Proceedings of the 31st European Signal Processing Conference, Sep. 4-8, Helsinki, Finland, 2023.
(Paper)
[61] Diclehan Ulucan, Oguzhan Ulucan and Marc Ebner
Multi-Scale Surface Normal Estimation from Depth Maps.
In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Image Processing and Vision Engineering, 21-23 April, Prague, Czech Republic, Science and Technology Publications, pp. 47-56, 2023.
(Paper)
[60] Diclehan Ulucan, Oguzhan Ulucan and Marc Ebner
Intrinsic Image Decomposition: Challenges and New Perspectives.
In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Image Processing and Vision Engineering, 21-23 April, Prague, Czech Republic, Science and Technology Publications, pp. 57-64, 2023.
(Paper)
[59] Oguzhan Ulucan, Diclehan Ulucan and Marc Ebner
Block-Based Color Constancy: The Deviation of Salient Pixels.
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 4-10 June, Rhodes Island, Greece, © IEEE, 2023.
(Paper)
[58] Richard Krieg and Marc Ebner
Time Series Classification of IMU Data for Point of Impact Localization.
In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Conference on Robotic Computing, 5-7 December, Naples, Italy, © IEEE, pp. 93--94, 2022.
(Paper)
[57] Oguzhan Ulucan, Diclehan Ulucan and Marc Ebner
BIO-CC: Biologically inspired color constancy.
In Proceedings of the 33rd British Machine Vision Conference, 21-24 November, London, UK, 2022.
(Paper)
[56] Diclehan Ulucan, Oguzhan Ulucan and Marc Ebner
IID-NORD: A Comprehensive Intrinsic Image Decomposition Dataset.
In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Image Processing, 16-19 October 2022, Bordeaux, France, IEEE, pp. 2831--2835, 2022.
(Paper)
[55] Oguzhan Ulucan, Diclehan Ulucan and Marc Ebner
Color Constancy Beyond Standard Illuminants.
In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Image Processing, 16-19 October 2022, Bordeaux, France, IEEE, pp. 2826-2830, 2022.
(Paper)
[54] Daniel Lehmann and Marc Ebner
Calculating the Credibility of Test Samples at Inference by a Layer-wise Activation Cluster Analysis of Convolutional Neural Networks.
In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Deep Learning Theory and Applications, 12-14 July 2022, Lisbon, Portugal, Science and Technology Publications, 2022. (Best Paper Award)
(Paper)
[53] Daniel Lehmann and Marc Ebner
Subclass-based Undersampling for Class-imbalanced Image Classification.
In Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 5 VISAPP, Science and Technology Publications, pp. 493--500, 2022.
(Paper)
[52] Johanna Lange, Mario Stanke and Marc Ebner
Co-evolution of Spies and Resistance Fighters.
In Juan Luis Jimenez Laredo, J. Ignacio Hidalgo and Kehinde Oluwatoyin Babaagba (editors), Proceedings of the 25th European Conference on Applications of Evolutionary Computation, Madrid, Spain, April 20-22, EvoApps 2022, pp. 487-502, Springer, Berlin, 2022.
(Paper)
[51] Daniel Lehmann and Marc Ebner
Layer-Wise Activation Cluster Analysis of CNNs to Detect Out-of-Distribution Samples.
In Igor Farkas, Paolo Masulli, Sebastian Otte and Stefan Wermter (editors), Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks ICANN 2021, pp. 214-226, Springer, Berlin, 2021.
(Paper)
[50] Daniel Lehmann and Marc Ebner
Are Image Patches Beneficial for Initializing Convolutional Neural Network Models?.
In Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 5 VISAPP, pp. 346-353, Science and Technology Publications, 2021.
(Paper)
[49] Felix Becker and Marc Ebner
Collision Detection for a Mobile Robot using Logistic Regression.
In 16th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics Volume 2, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 167-173, Science and Technology Publications, 2019.
(Paper)
[48] Patrick Speleers and Marc Ebner
Acceleration based Collision Detection with a Mobile Robot.
In Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing, Naples, Italy, pp. 437-438, IEEE, Los Alamitos, CA, 2019.
(Paper)
[47] Baozhu Jia and Marc Ebner
Evolving Game State Features from Raw Pixels.
In James McDermott, Mauro Castelli, Lukas Sekanina, Evert Haasdijk and Pablo Garcia-Sanchez (editors), Proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Genetic Programming, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 52-63, Springer, Berlin, 2017.
(Paper)
[46] Baozhu Jia and Marc Ebner
A Strongly Typed GP-based Video Game Player.
In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, Tainan, Taiwan, IEEE, 2015.
(Paper)
[45] Baozhu Jia, Marc Ebner and Christian Schack
A GP-based Video Game Player.
In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2015), Madrid, Spain, pp. 1047-1053, ACM, 2015.
(Paper)
[44] M. Ebner and J. Hansen
Improving Color Constancy in the Presence of Multiple Illuminants using Depth Information.
In H. Loose, G. Plantier, T. Schultz, A. Fred, H. Gamboa, editors, Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-Inspired Systems and Signal Processing, ESEO, Angers, Loire Valley, France, pp. 133-140, Science and Technology Publications, Portugal, 2014.
(Paper)
[43] M. Ebner.
Evolving Concepts Using Gene Duplication.
In P. Di Giamberardino, D. Iacoviello, R.M. Natal Jorge, J. M. R. S. Tavares (eds.), Proceedings of the International Symposium CompIMAGE 2012, Computational Modeling of Objects Presented in Images: Fundamentals, Methods, and Applications III, Rome, Italy, pp. 69--74, Taylor & Francis Group, London, September, 2012.
(Paper)
[42] M. Ebner.
Why Color Constancy Improves for Moving Objects.
In C. Correia, A. Fred, H. Gamboa, editors, Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-Inspired Systems and Signal Processing, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, pp. 193-198, Science and Technology Publications, Portugal, 2012.
(Paper)
[41] M. Ebner and S. Hameroff.
A Computational Model of Robust Figure/Ground Separation.
In P.-Y. Qian and S. V. Nghiem, editors, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Bioinformatics, Biocomputational Systems and Biotechnologies, Venice/Mestre, Italy, pp. 67-72, 2011.
(Paper)
[40] M. Ebner and S. Hameroff.
A Computational Model for Conscious Visual Perception and Figure/Ground Separation.
In F. Babiloni, A. Fred, J. Filipe and H. Gamboa, editors, Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-Inspired Systems and Signal Processing, Rome, Italy, pp. 112-118, Science and Technology Publications, Portugal, 2011.
(Paper)
[39] M. Ebner.
Evolving Object Detectors with a GPU Accelerated Vision System.
In G. Tempesti, A. M. Tyrrell, and J. F. Miller, editors, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware, ICES 2010, York, UK, September, pp. 109-120, © Springer, Berlin, 2010.
(Paper)
[38] M. Ebner.
Towards Automated Learning of Object Detectors.
In C. Di Chio et al., editors, Proceedings of the European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApps 2010, Part I, Turkey, Istanbul, April, pp. 231-240, © Springer, Berlin, 2010.
(Paper)
[37] M. Ebner, R. Watson and J. Alexander.
Coevolutionary Dynamics of Interacting Species.
In C. Di Chio et al., editors, Proceedings of the European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApps 2010, Part I, Turkey, Istanbul, April, pp. 1-10, © Springer, Berlin, 2010.
(Paper)
[36] M. Ebner.
Engineering of Computer Vision Algorithms Using Evolutionary Algorithms.
In J. Blanc-Talon, W. Philips, D. Popescu, P. Scheunders, editors, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, Bordeaux, France, September/October, pp. 367-378, Springer, Berlin, 2009.
(Paper)
[35] M. Ebner and T. Tiede.
Evolving Driving Controllers Using Genetic Programming.
In IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, Milano, Italy, September, pp. 279-286, IEEE, 2009.
(Paper)
[34] M. Ebner.
A Real-Time Evolutionary Object Recognition System.
In Genetic Programmimg: Proceedings of the 12th European Conference, EuroGP 2009, Tübingen, Germany, April, pp. 268-279, © Springer, Berlin, 2009.
(Paper, Movie)
[33] M. Ebner.
An Adaptive On-Line Evolutionary Visual System.
In E. Hart, B. Paechter and J. Willies, Workshop on Pervasive Adaptation, Venice, Italy, pp. 84-89, IEEE, 2008.
(Paper)
[32] P. Stalph, M. Ebner, M. Michel, B. Pfaff and R. Benz.
Multiobjective Evolution of a Fuzzy Controller in a Sewage Treatment Plant.
In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2008, Atlanta, GA, ACM, NY, (accepted), 2008.
(Paper)
[31] M. Ebner.
A Genetic Programming Approach to Deriving the Spectral Sensitivity of an Optical System.
In Genetic Programming: Proceedings of the 11th European Conference, EuroGP 2008, Naples, Italy, March, pp. 61-72, Springer, Berlin, 2008.
(Paper)
[30] G. Tischler, M. Ebner, J. Albert.
Color Constancy from Image Transformations in JPEG and JPEG2000.
In Proceedings of the Data Compression Conference 2008, Cliff Lodge, Snowbird, Utah, IEEE, p. 549, 2008.
(Paper)
[29] M. Ebner.
How Does the Brain Arrive at a Color Constant Descriptor?
In F. Mele, G. Ramella, S. Santillo, and F. Ventriglia, Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Brain, Vision and Artificial Intelligence, 10-12 October, 2007, Naples, Italy, Springer, Berlin, pp. 84-93, 2007.
(Paper)
[28] M. Ebner.
Estimating the Color of the Illuminant using Anisotopic Diffusion .
In W. G. Kropatsch, M. Kampel, and A. Hanbury, editors, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, 27-29 August, 2007, Vienna, Austria, Springer, Berlin, pp. 441-449, 2007.
(Paper)
[27] M. Ebner.
Estimating the Spectral Sensitivity of a Digital Sensor using Calibration Targets.
In D. Thierens et al. (editors): Proceedings 2007 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, London, UK, July 7-11, ACM, New York, pp. 642-649, 2007.
(Paper)
[26] J. Wolff von Gudenberg, A. Niederle, M. Ebner and H. Eichelberger.
Evolutionary Layout of UML Class Diagrams.
In M. Burnett, S. Diehl, and E. Kraemer (editors): Proceedings SOFTVIS 06. ACM Symposium on Software Visualization, Brighton, UK, Sept 04-05, ACM, New York, pp. 163-164, 2006.
(Paper)
[25] Marc Ebner and Christian Herrmann.
On Determining the Color of the Illuminant using the Dichromatic Reflection Model.
In W. Kropatsch, R. Sablatnig and A. Hanbury (editors): Pattern Recognition. Proceedings of the 27th DAGM Symposium, Vienna, Austria, pp. 1-8, © Springer-Verlag, 2005.
(Paper)
[24] Marc Ebner, Markus Reinhardt and Jürgen Albert.
Evolution of Vertex and Pixel Shaders.
In M. Keijzer, A. Tettamanzi, P. Collet, J. van Hemert and M. Tomassini (editors): Proceedings of the Eighth European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP 2005), Lausanne, Switzerland, pp. 261-270, © Springer-Verlag, 2005.
(Paper)
[23] Marc Ebner.
Color Constancy Using Local Color Shifts.
In T. Pajdla and J. Matas (editors): Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Part III, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 276-287, © Springer-Verlag, 2004.
(Paper)
[22] Marc Ebner.
Evolution and Growth of Virtual Plants.
In W. Banzhaf and T. Christaller and P. Dittrich and J. T. Kim and J. Ziegler (editors): Advances in Artificial Life -- Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL), Dortmund, Germany, pp. 228-237, © Springer-Verlag, 2003.
(Paper, Movie)
[21] Marc Ebner.
Combining White-Patch Retinex and the Gray World Assumption to Achieve Color Constancy for Multiple Illuminants.
In Bernd Michaelis and Gerald Krell (editors): Pattern Recognition, Proceedings of the 25th DAGM Symposium, Magdeburg, Germany © Springer-Verlag, 2003.
(Paper)
[20] Marc Ebner.
Evolutionary Design of Objects Using Scene Graphs.
In C. Ryan, T. Soule, M. Keijzer, E. Tsang, R. Poli and E. Costa (editors): Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP 2003), Essex, UK, pp. 47-58, © Springer-Verlag, 2003.
(Paper, Movie)
[19] Marc Ebner and Hans-Georg Breunig and Jürgen Albert.
On The Use Of Negative Selection In An Artificial Immune System.
In W. B. Langdon, E. Cantu-Paz, K. Mathias, R. Roy, D. Davis, R. Poli, K. Balakrishnan, V. Honavar, G. Rudolph, J. Wegener, L. Bull, M. A. Potter, A. C. Schultz, J. F. Miller, E. Burke and N. Jonoska (editors): Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2002), New York, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, CA, pp. 957-964, 2002.
(Paper)
[18] Marc Ebner, Adrian Grigore, Alexander Heffner, and Jürgen Albert.
Coevolution Produces an Arms Race Among Virtual Plants.
In James A. Foster, Evelyne Lutton, Julian Miller, Conor Ryan, and Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi (editors): Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP 2002), Kinsale, Ireland, pp. 316-325, © Springer-Verlag, 2002.
(Paper, Movie)
[17] Marc Ebner.
A Three-Dimensional Environment for Self-Reproducing Programs.
In Jozef Kelemen, Petr Sosik (editors): Advances in Artificial Life: Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2001), Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 306-315, © Springer-Verlag, 2001.
(Paper)
[16] Marc Ebner, Patrick Langguth, Jürgen Albert, Mark Shackleton and Rob Shipman.
On Neutral Networks and Evolvability.
In Proceedings of the 2001 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, COEX, Seoul, Korea, pp. 1-8, IEEE Press, 2001.
(Paper)
[15] Marc Ebner.
Evolving color constancy for an artificial retina.
In Julian Miller, Marco Tomassini, Pier Luca Lanzi, Conor Ryan, Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi, and William B. Langdon (editors), Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP 2001), Lake Como, Italy, pp. 11-22, © Springer-Verlag, 2001.
(Paper)
[14] Marc Ebner, Richard A. Watson and Jason Alexander.
Co-evolutionary dynamics on a deformable landscape.
In Proceedings of the 2000 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, San Diego Marriott Hotel, La Jolla, CA, Volume 2, pp. 1284-1291, IEEE Press, 2000.
(Paper, 1D-Program, 2D-Program, 1D-Movie, 2D-Movie)
[13] Mark Shackleton, Rob Shipman and Marc Ebner.
An investigation of redundant genotype-phenotype mappings and their role in evolutionary search.
In Proceedings of the 2000 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, San Diego Marriott Hotel, La Jolla, CA, Volume 1, pp. 493-500, IEEE Press, 2000.
(Paper)
[12] Rob Shipman, Mark Shackleton, Marc Ebner and Richard Watson.
Neutral Search Spaces for Artificial Evolution: A Lesson from Life.
In Mark A. Bedau, Steen Rasmussen, John S. McCaskill and Norman H. Packard (editors), Artificial Life: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Artificial Life, pp. 162-169, MIT Press, 2000.
(Paper)
[11] Marc Ebner.
On the search space of genetic programming and its relation to nature's search space.
In Proceedings of the 1999 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C., Volume 2, pp. 1357-1361, IEEE Press, 1999.
(Paper)
[10] Marc Ebner and Andreas Zell.
Evolving a behavior-based control architecture - From simulations to the real world.
In Wolfgang Banzhaf, Jason Daida, Agoston E. Eiben, Max H. Garzon, Vasant Honavar and Mark Jakiela (editors), Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-99), Volume 2, Orlando, Florida, pp. 1009-1014, Morgan Kaufman Publishers, 1999.
(Paper, Movie)
[09] Marc Ebner and Andreas Zell.
Evolving a task specific image operator.
In Riccardo Poli, Hans-Michael Voigt, Stefano Cagnoni, David Corne, George D. Smith and Terence C. Fogarty (editors), Joint Proceedings of the First European Workshops on Evolutionary Image Analysis, Signal Processing and Telecommunications (EvoIASP'99 and EuroEcTel'99), Göteborg, Sweden, © Springer-Verlag, pp. 74-89, 1999.
(Paper)
[08] Marc Ebner.
Evolving an environment model for robot localization.
In Riccardo Poli, Peter Nordin, William B. Langdon and Terence C. Fogarty (editors), Proceedings of the Second European Workshop on Genetic Programming (EuroGP'99), Göteborg, Sweden, © Springer-Verlag, pp. 184-192, 1999.
(Paper)
[07] Marc Ebner.
Evolution of a control architecture for a mobile robot.
In Moshe Sipper, Daniel Mange and Andrés Pérez-Uribe (editors), Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware (ICES 98), Lausanne, Switzerland, © Springer-Verlag, pp. 303-310, 1998.
(Paper, Movie)
[06] Marc Ebner and Andreas Zell.
Visual navigation using ego-motion information.
In Stefan Posch and Helge Ritter (editors), Workshop Dynamische Perzeption, Bielefeld, Juni 1998, Infix, pp. 55-62, 1998.
(Paper, Movie)
[05] Marc Ebner.
Extraction of Moving Objects with a Moving Mobile Robot.
In Miguel Angel Salichs and Aarne Halme (editors), 3rd IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, Volume II, Madrid, Spain Madrid, Spain, Elsevier Science, pp. 749-754, 1998.
(Paper)
[04] Marc Ebner.
On the Evolution of Edge Detectors for Robot Vision using Genetic Programming.
In Horst-Michael Groß (Hrsg.), Workshop SOAVE 97 - Selbstorganisation von Adaptivem Verhalten 1997, VDI Verlag, pp. 127-134, 1997.
(Paper)
[03] Andreas Zell, Stefan Feyrer, Marc Ebner and Alexander Mojaev.
Systemarchitektur der autonomen mobilen Roboter Robin und Colin der Universität Tübingen.
In In H.-M. Groß, editor, Workshop SOAVE '97 - Selbstorganisation von Adaptivem Verhalten, VDI Reihe 8 Nr. 663, pp. 151-155. VDI Verlag, Düsseldorf, 1997.
[02] Marc Ebner.
Evolution of Hierarchical Translation-Invariant Feature Detectors with an Application to Character Recognition.
In Erwin Paulus and Friedrich M. Wahl (Hrsg.), Mustererkennung 1997, 19. DAGM-Symposium Braunschweig, Springer-Verlag, pp. 456-463, 1997.
(Paper)
[01] Marc Ebner and Richard S. Wallace.
A Direct-Drive Hand: Design, Modeling and Control. In Proceedings of 1995 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Nagoya, Japan, IEEE, pp. 1668-1673, 1995.
(Paper)

Technical Reports

[6] J. Wolff von Gudenberg, A. Niederle, M. Ebner and H. Eichelberger.
An Evolutionary Algorithm for the Layout of UML Class Diagrams.
Technical Report No. 391, Universität Würzburg, Lehrstuhl für Informatik II, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany, 2006.
[5] Marc Ebner.
A Parallel Algorithm for Color Constancy.
Technical Report No. 296, Universität Würzburg, Lehrstuhl für Informatik II, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany, April, 2002.
(Report)
[4] Adrian Grigore, Alexander Heffner, Marc Ebner und Jürgen Albert.
Evolution virtueller Pflanzen.
Technical Report 280, Universität Würzburg, Lehrstuhl für Informatik II, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany, August, 2001.
(Report, Movie)
[3] Rob Shipman, Mark Shackleton, Marc Ebner and Richard Watson.
Neutral Search Spaces for Artificial Evolution: A Lesson from Life.
In Chrystopher L. Nehaniv (editor), Proceedings of the Evolvability Workshop at the Seventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (Artificial Life 7), 1-2 August 2000, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, USA, University of Hertfordshire Computer Science Department Technical Report 351, Hatfield, Herts AL10 9AB, UK, pp. 52-59, 2000.
(Paper)
[2] Marc Ebner.
On the Evolution of Interest Operators using Genetic Programming.
In Riccardo Poli, W. B. Langdon, Marc Schoenauer, Terry Fogarty and Wolfgang Banzhaf (editors), Late Breaking Papers at EuroGP'98: the First European Workshop on Genetic Programming, Paris 14-15 April 1998, CSRP-98-10, School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, UK, pp. 6-10, 1998.
(Paper)
[1] Marc Ebner and Richard S. Wallace.
A Direct-Drive Hand: Design, Modeling and Control.
Technical Report No. 668, Department of Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, June, 1994.
(Report)

Theses

[5] Marc Ebner.
Color Constancy.
Habilitationsschrift, Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, 2007.
[4] Marc Ebner.
Steuerung eines mobilen Roboters mit evolvierten Merkmalsdetektoren.
Dissertation, Fakultät für Informatik, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, 1999.
(Dissertation)
[3] Marc Ebner.
Robuste Extraktion sich bewegender Objekte aus einer mit dynamischer Kamera aufgenommenen Videosequenz.
Diplomarbeit Nr. 1355, Fakultät Informatik, Universität Stuttgart, Mai, 1996.
(Diplomarbeit)
[2] Marc Ebner.
Parallele Genetische Algorithmen auf einem Neurocomputer.
Studienarbeit Nr. 1478, Fakultät Informatik, Universität Stuttgart, 1995.
(Studienarbeit)
[1] Marc Ebner.
A Direct-Drive Hand: Design, Modeling and Control.
Master's thesis, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, June 1994.

Abstracts

[3] J. Levine, C. Bates Congdon, M. Bida, M. Ebner, G. Kendall, S. Lucas, R. Miikkulainen, T. Schaul and T. Thompson.
Generalized Video Game Playing.
In S. M. Lucas, M. Mateas, M. Preuss, P. Spronck, and J. Togelius (eds.), Report from Dagstuhl Seminar 12191. Artificial and Computational Intelligence in Games Schloß Dagstuhl - Leibniz Zentrum für Informatik, Dagstuhl Publishing, Germany, pp. 52-53, 2012.
(Abstract)
[2] T. Thompson, S. Lucas, T. Schaul, J. Levine, M. Ebner and J. Togelius.
Video Game Description Language.
In S. M. Lucas, M. Mateas, M. Preuss, P. Spronck, and J. Togelius (eds.), Report from Dagstuhl Seminar 12191. Artificial and Computational Intelligence in Games Schloß Dagstuhl - Leibniz Zentrum für Informatik, Dagstuhl Publishing, Germany, pp. 62-63, 2012.
(Abstract)
[1] M. Ebner
Using Computer Games to Close the Loop in Artificial Visual Information Processing.
In S. M. Lucas, M. Mateas, M. Preuss, P. Spronck, and J. Togelius (eds.), Report from Dagstuhl Seminar 12191. Artificial and Computational Intelligence in Games Schloß Dagstuhl - Leibniz Zentrum für Informatik, Dagstuhl Publishing, Germany, pp. 65, 2012.
(Abstract)