Ph.D. in Computer Science
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Research
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My academic background is in Computer Vision, machine learning, and robotics.
I currently work for scanbuy.com, a startup company in New York City.
In my thesis
"Object Detection using Scale-specific Boosted Parts and a Bayesian
Combiner" I developed a parts-based object detection scheme that works
robustly over a wide range of image resolutions. A particular focus is
low-resolution detection supported by contextual cues. Applications
include face, pedestrian and car detection in still images. My
detectors have been adopted by INTEL's C++ Library OpenCV, you can also download them here.
In this demo movie
body part detectors are applied to each individual frame
in real-time. Low resolution (on the face, first frames) and partial
occlusion (lower body, last frames) make this scene challenging.
See our publications page for my computer vision papers, or check
out my robotics papers here.
- Selected Talks
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MIT AI and Media Lab Object Detection using scale-specific boosted
part detectors, 2006
IBM Research Watson, ECVG Group Context-supported Detection in low
resolution images, 2006
ICCV workshop VS-PETS Fast and
Robust Face Finding via Local Context, 2003
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Teaching
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I regularly TA'ed the Machine
Learning class. At ETH Zurich I was one of the few brave men helping to get more girls into computer science -- with national and international impact
(CHF 20'000 national prize, CMU's Women@SCS includes men into their activities since
my talk there).
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Advisors: Bernt
Schiele, Luc Van Gool
Education
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PhD in Computer Science, ETH Zurich 2004
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M.Sc. ("Dipl. Informatik-Ing") Computer Science, ETH Zurich, 1999
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B.Sc. ("Vordiplom") Computer Science and Medicine, Univ. Tuebingen, 1996
Research Experience
- Center for Automatic Learning and Discovery, Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU),
Pittsburgh, USA
Visiting Scientist (May - Sept 2002)
Advisor: Sebastian Thrun
Project: Context supported object detection
Robot Learning Lab, Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU),
Pittsburgh, USA
Visiting Scientist (August '98 - May '99)
Advisor: Sebastian Thrun
Project: Relative Multi-Robot Localization Using Multiple Sensors
Distributed Network Management Group, IBM Zurich Research
Lab, Rueschlikon Switzerland
Summer Intern (July '98 - September '98)
Advisor: Metin Feridun
Project: Developed a C/Java-Framework for Network Management Agents
Short Bio
I obtained a M.S. degree in Computer Science from ETH Zurich
in 1999. I am an alumnus of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung).
My master thesis was in robotics, and was carried out in Sebastian
Thrun's group at CMU, sponsored by a Rotary scholarship.
In the same year I received the DAGM outstanding paper award together with
Sebastian Thrun, Dieter Fox and Wolfram Burgard for the paper on "Collaborative Multi-Robot Localization".
In my PhD thesis
"Object Detection using Scale-specific Boosted Parts and a Bayesian
Combiner" I developed a parts-based object detection scheme that works
robustly over a wide range of image resolutions. The detectors have been adopted by INTEL's C++ software library OpenCV.
In
my spare time I enjoy playing the piano, ensembles are my favorite.
For a detailed CV please send me email.
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