
Dejan Pangercic
Dipl.-Ing.
Technische Universität MünchenDepartment of Computer Science
Informatik 9
Karlstrasse 45 (3rd Floor)
80333 Munich
Germany
Tel: +49-89-289-26907
Fax: +49-89-289-26913
Office: CCRL II, 3002
Mail: dejan.pangercic_(at)_gmail_._com
We are looking for the students to work on the following topics as within their B.Sc., M.Sc, Guided Research projects:
- In-hand object of daily use modelling (together with Slobodan Ilic)
- Robust and accurate object of daily use tracking for mobile manipulation (decription, together with Sorin Grigorescu)
- Knowledge modeling for robot indoor mapping (description, supervised by Ziyuan Liu)
Partners
Since January 2012 I have been working with Barcoo, a company from Berlin that is applying web mining for barcode applications (e.g. linking products in stores with the independent consumer information). I have a preliminary implementation of the barcode scanning and querying available here, please drop me an email for the details.
Intro
I have started my PhD at the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group in 2009 under the supervisory of prof. Michael Beetz, PhD. My main research interest lies in semantic mapping, perception of everyday objects and scenes, mobile manipulation and system integration. I am one of the driving forces behind TUM's PR2 Beta Program proposal called CRAM and I spent summer of 2011 researching at Bosch RTC in Palo Alto, CA.
I am an active member of IEEE and RAS societies and regularly submit and publish to following conferences: IROS, ICRA, ICAR, Humanoids, RSS. I actively develop and contribute code to Robot Operating System (ROS), open-source, meta-operating system for personal robots. Please find my packages on code.cs.tum.edu server.
I obtained my B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees at the Faculty for Electrical Engineering, UL and Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, TUM respectively. Any additional information about me, including a complete CV, is available upon request.
News
15.07.2012
Slides available from my talk in the Clutter 12 workshop at RSS 2012.
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Projects
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Semantic Mapping | Scene Classification | Object Recognition |
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Mobile Manipulation | Cognitive Factory | Robotic Demonstrations |
* Courtesy: Moritz Tenorth
+ Courtesy: Zoltan-Csaba Marton
Code
I use ROS in my research and thus integrate and release all of my code in form of ROS packages. Following list also includes packages I worked on together with my collaborators.
- SIFT + Vocabulary Tree-based Object Recognition:www.ros.org/wiki/objects_of_daily_use_finder
- Voxelized Shape and Color Histograms for Object Recognition: www.ros.org/wiki/vosch
- Set of Tools and Methods for Pointcloud Processing in mapping stack.
- CCD Algorithm for Segmentation of Objects: www.ros.org/wiki/contracting_curve_density_algorithm
- Interactive Segmentation of Objects with PR2 Robot: www.ros.org/wiki/pr2_interactive_segmentation
- Generalized Doors Opening in Household Environments with PR2 Robot: www.ros.org/wiki/pr2_cabinet_opening
I am occasionally also contributing to Point Cloud Library.
Events
In the past I have co-organized the following events:
- Workshop on Semantic Perception and Mapping for Knowledge-enabled Service Robotics at ICRA 2012.
- RGB-D Workshop at European Robotics Forum 2011.
- CoTesys-ROS Fall School on Cognition-enabled Mobile Manipulation: Talks, Slides, Tutorials.
Teaching
- Sensor-enabled Intelligent Environments (Practical Course, WS2011)
- Intelligent Systems (Seminar, WS2010)
- Sensor-enabled Intelligent Environments (Practical Course, SS2010)
- Einführung in die Informatik 1 - Practical Course (WS2008)
Students
There was a myriad of excellent undergrad colleagues that I got the chance to work together with. Below list is the list with their assignments and final reports.
- Object categorization from models from WWW using Hough Voting by Vladyslav Usenko (together with Zoltan-Csaba Marton and Oscar Martinez Mozos) (still WIP)
- RGB + D + High Level Feature based point cloud registration by Ross Kidson [ paper ] (still WIP)
- Detecting Unknown High-level Concepts in Semantic Mapping with Mobile Robots by Nikolaus Demmel (Co-supervised with Andrzej Pronobis) [ Final Presentation ]
- Eye-in-Hand Modeling by Ronny Bismark [ Final Presentation ]
- Barcode-based Object Recognition by Nacer Khalil [ Final Presentation] [ code ]
- Android-based image processing by Rim Zahir [ Final Presentation]
- Object detection and segmentation in cluttered scenes through perception and manipulation by Julius Adorf [ Final Presentation ]
- Learning Where Objects Are - Organizational Principles in Human Environments by Martin Schuster (Co-supervised) [ Final Presentation ]
- In-hand Object Modeling Center for Robotic Perception by Monica-Simona Opris [ Final Presentation ]
- Implementation of Contracting Curve Density Algorithm for ROS by Shulei Zhu [ Final Presentation ] [ paper ]
- Detection of Household Objects Using Projected Light Patterns by Florian Zacherl [ Final Presentation ] [ tutorial ]
- Knowledge representation and learning algorithms utilising Robot Learning Language in the Cognitive Factory by Andreas Leha [ paper ]
- Connecting High-Level Planning, Reasoning and Model-driven Vision into a Robotic System that Enables Everyday Manipulation Tasks by Rok Tavcar (Co-supervised) [ paper ]
Publications
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Part-Based Geometric Categorization and Object Reconstruction in Cluttered Table-Top Scenes , In Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, Springer Netherlands, 2014. [bib] |
Cognition-Enabled Autonomous Robot Control for the Realization of Home Chore Task Intelligence , In Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Quality of Life Technology, volume 100, 2012. [bib] |
Web-enabled Robots -- Robots that Use the Web as an Information Resource , In Robotics & Automation Magazine, IEEE, volume 18, 2011. [bib] [pdf] |
Combined 2D-3D Categorization and Classification for Multimodal Perception Systems , In The International Journal of Robotics Research, Sage Publications, volume 30, 2011. [bib] [pdf] |
Conference Papers
Tracking-based Interactive Segmentation of Textureless Objects , In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2013.(Best Service Robotics Paper Award Finalist) [bib] [pdf] |
Context Aware Shared Autonomy for Robotic Manipulation Tasks , In In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Tokyo Big Sight, Japan, 2013. [bib] |
The SHERPA project: smart collaboration between humans and ground-aerial robots for improving rescuing activities in alpine environments , In IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), 2012. [bib] [pdf] |
Semantic Object Maps for Robotic Housework - Representation, Acquisition and Use , In 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012. [bib] [pdf] |
A Generalized Framework for Opening Doors and Drawers in Kitchen Environments , In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2012. [bib] [pdf] |
Semantic Object Maps for Household Tasks , In 5th International Conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys 2012), 2012. [bib] [pdf] |
Robotic Roommates Making Pancakes , In 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2011. [bib] [pdf] |
Autonomous Semantic Mapping for Robots Performing Everyday Manipulation Tasks in Kitchen Environments , In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2011. [bib] [pdf] |
Contracting Curve Density Algorithm for Applications in Personal Robotics , In 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2011. [bib] [pdf] |
Combining Perception and Knowledge Processing for Everyday Manipulation , In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2010. [bib] [pdf] |
General 3D Modelling of Novel Objects from a Single View , In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2010. [bib] [pdf] |
Hierarchical Object Geometric Categorization and Appearance Classification for Mobile Manipulation , In Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2010. [bib] [pdf] |
Real-time CAD Model Matching for Mobile Manipulation and Grasping , In 9th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2009. [bib] [pdf] |
Mutually Augmented Cognition , In Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR)., 2009. [bib] |
Visual Scene Detection and Interpretation using Encyclopedic Knowledge and Formal Description Logic , In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR)., 2009. [bib] [pdf] |
Optimization of Simulated Production Process Performance using Machine Learning , In Proceedings of Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA)., 2009. [bib] [pdf] |
Integration of Perception, Global Planning and Local Planning in the Manufacturing Domain , In Proceedings of Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA)., 2009. [bib] |
Structured Reactive Controllers and Transformational Planning for Manufacturing , In Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), Hamburg, Germany, September 15-18, 2008. [bib] [pdf] |
3D-Based Monocular SLAM for Mobile Agents Navigating in Indoor Environments , In Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), Hamburg, Germany, September 15-18, 2008. [bib] [pdf] |
Workshop Papers
Furniture Classification using WWW CAD Models , In IROS’12 Workshop on Active Semantic Perception (ASP’12), 2012. [bib] [pdf] |
Elaborative Evaluation of RGB-D based Point Cloud Registration for Personal Robots , In ICRA 2012 Workshop on Semantic Perception and Mapping for Knowledge-enabled Service Robotics, 2012. [bib] [pdf] |
Segmentation of Cluttered Scenes through Interactive Perception , In ICRA 2012 Workshop on Semantic Perception and Mapping for Knowledge-enabled Service Robotics, 2012. [bib] [pdf] |
Segmentation of Textured and Textureless Objects through Interactive Perception , In RSS Workshop on Robots in Clutter: Manipulation, Perception and Navigation in Human Environments, 2012. [bib] [pdf] |
Efficient Surface and Feature Estimation in RGBD , In RGB-D Workshop on 3D Perception in Robotics at the European Robotics (euRobotics) Forum, 2011. [bib] [pdf] |
Voxelized Shape and Color Histograms for RGB-D , In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Workshop on Active Semantic Perception and Object Search in the Real World, 2011. [bib] [pdf] |
Fast and Robust Object Detection in Household Environments Using Vocabulary Trees with SIFT Descriptors , In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Workshop on Active Semantic Perception and Object Search in the Real World, 2011. [bib] [pdf] |
Inferring Generalized Pick-and-Place Tasks from Pointing Gestures , In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Workshop on Semantic Perception, Mapping and Exploration, 2011. [bib] [pdf] |
Robotic Roommates Making Pancakes - Look Into Perception-Manipulation Loop , In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Workshop on Mobile Manipulation: Integrating Perception and Manipulation, 2011. [bib] [pdf] |
Making Sense of 3D Data , In Robotics: Science and Systems Conference (RSS), Workshop on Strategies and Evaluation for Mobile Manipulation in Household Environments, 2010. [bib] [pdf] |
CoP-Man -- Perception for Mobile Pick-and-Place in Human Living Environments , In Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Workshop on Semantic Perception for Mobile Manipulation, 2009.(Invited paper.) [bib] [pdf] |
An Integrated Approach to Realize the Cognitive Machine Shop , In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Cognition for Technical Systems, München, Germany, 6-8 October, 2008. [bib] |
Other Publications
A Robot that Shops for and Stores Groceries , AAAI Video Competition (AIVC 2011), 2011. [bib] |