Doktorand / Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

Address: CCRL II, Raum 3004
Karlstr. 45, 80333 München, Germany
Phone: +49-89-289-26909
Email: weikersd@in.tum.de

• Depth-Adaptive Superpixels (DASP) for image and point-cloud segmentation.
• Romeo: Body, hand and object tracking in everyday activities
• Motion analysis in sports: Physics based full body motion tracking and analysis in sports
• MeMoMan: Markerless Tracking of Human Motions

I can offer interesting student projects and Bachelor/Master/Diploma thesis topics for motivated students in the area of human motion and object tracking.

• 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)

• 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)

Werkstudent 2005-2006 - Corporate Technology: Power & Sensor Systems, Siemens AG - www.siemens.com

Werkstudent 2002-2004 - Lehrstuhl für Steuerungs und Regelungstechnik, Technische Universität München - www.lsr.ei.tum.de/team/vigwam

Hilfswissenschaftler 2000/2001 - Experimental Quantum Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München - www.dpg-tagungen.de, xqp.physik.uni-muenchen.de