David Tim Weikersdorfer
Doktorand / Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Address:
CCRL II, Raum 3004
Karlstr. 45, 80333 München, Germany
Phone: +49-89-289-26909
Email: weikersd@in.tum.de
Research Projects
- Depth-Adaptive Superpixels (DASP) for image and point-cloud segmentation.
Student Projects
I can offer interesting student projects and Bachelor/Master/Diploma thesis topics for motivated students in the area of human motion and object tracking.
Open student projects
- Topic: Teaching robots as a computer game
- Topic: Biomechanics in human motion tracking (with a possible application in sports)
- Topic: Tracking of soft bodies and liquids (possible using graphic card acceleration)
Former student projects
- Particle Filters for Event-Based Localization on mobile Robots (Research practice)
- A Particle Filtering Method for event-based Robot Localization (Bachelor thesis)
- Modeling physical interactions between hand and objects (Diploma thesis)
- Observational Learning in Rock Climbing - The Impact of Observing a 3D MOdel of an Experienced Climber of Novices' Rock Climbing Performance (Research project report)
- Realtime hand tracking in Blender using the Kinect device (Bachelor thesis)
- Template based mesh adaption of high dimensional articulated models using a dual Kinect setup (Bachelor thesis)
- Implementation of GPU accelerated algorithms for object segmentation in cooking scenarios (Bachelor thesis)
- Realtime 3D pose estimation of the human hand to control a media player (Master thesis)
- Using the Graphic Card to improve Particle Filter based Human Motion Tracking (Master thesis)
- Hand and Object Tracking for Interpreting Simple Cooking Activities (Bachelor thesis)
- Visualizing character and object animations (SEP project)
- Automatic initialization of body dimensions for a human model used in particle filter based tracking (Bachelor thesis)
- Enhancing a particle filter based tracker by accurate head tracking (Bachelor thesis)
Publications
Conference Papers
Depth-Adaptive Superpixels , In 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2012.(Accepted for publication.) [bib] |
Distinctive Texture Features from Perspective-Invariant Keypoints , In 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2012.(Accepted for publication.) [bib] |
Imitating human reaching motions using physically inspired optimization principles , In 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2011. [bib] [pdf] |
Former Research Projects
Automatische Bildanalyse in der zerstörungsfreien Werkstoffprüfung
Werkstudent 2005-2006 - Corporate Technology: Power & Sensor Systems, Siemens AG - www.siemens.com
Projekt "ViGWaM" (Vision Guided Virtual Walking Machine)
Werkstudent 2002-2004 - Lehrstuhl für Steuerungs und Regelungstechnik, Technische Universität München - www.lsr.ei.tum.de/team/vigwam
Towards practical Quantum Cryptography
Hilfswissenschaftler 2000/2001 - Experimental Quantum Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München - www.dpg-tagungen.de, xqp.physik.uni-muenchen.de