Multimodal Interactive Systems
Department of Computer Science
Darmstadt University of Technology

 S2|02 room B104
Tel: +49 6151 16 41 97
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Email: lastname at mis dot tu-darmstadt dot de [PGP Key]
http://www.mis.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/People/cwojek

Christian Wojek

Research Interests

• Object Recognition
  
• Scene Understanding
• Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
  
• Activity Recognition and Person Tracking

Education

• Dipl.-Inform. (M.Sc. in Computer Science) University of Karlsruhe, Germany, 2000-2006
• Visiting Student at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 2004-2005

Teaching

• Teaching assistant for Computer Science II, University of Karlsruhe, 2002
• Teaching assistant for Introduction to Computer Science I, Lab course, WS 2006/2007
• Teaching assistant for Introduction to Computer Science I, Lab course, WS 2007/2008

Previous affiliations

• Interactive Systems Lab @ UKA: Student and Diploma thesis under supervision of Kai Nickel and Rainer Stiefelhagen (2004, 2005-2006)
• Shape Analysis Group @ CIM: Student research project on a generalized object model based on skeletons under supervision of Kaleem Siddiqi (2005)
• TeCO @ UKA: Student assistant under supervision of Christian Decker and Michael Beigl (2002-2003)

Publications

• C. Wojek, S. Walk, B. Schiele. Multi-Cue Onboard Pedestrian Detection. To appear in: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2009). June 20-25, 2009, Miami, Florida, USA (pdf), [Project page]
  
• P. Dollar, C. Wojek, B. Schiele, P. Perona. Pedestrian Detection: A Benchmark. To appear in: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2009). June 20-25, 2009, Miami, Florida, USA (pdf), [Project page]
  
• A. Zinnen, C. Wojek, B. Schiele. Multi Activity Recognition based on Bodymodel-Derived Primitives To appear in: 4th International Symposium on Location and Context Awareness (LoCA 2009). May 7-8, 2009, Tokyo, Japan (pdf)
• C. Wojek, B. Schiele. A Dynamic Conditional Random Field Model for Joint Labeling of Object and Scene Classes. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2008), Part IV, pp. 733-747, Oct. 13-16 2008, Marseille, France (pdf), [Project page]
  
• A. Hohm, C. Wojek, B. Schiele, H. Winner. Multi-Level Sensorfusion and Computer-Vision Algorithms within a Driver Assistance System for Avoiding Overtaking-Accidents. FISITA 2008 World Automotive Congress, Munich, Germany (pdf)
  

• C. Wojek, B. Schiele. A Performance Evaluation of Single and Multi-Feature People Detection. 30th DAGM Symposium (DAGM 2008), pp. 82-91, Munich, Germany (pdf)
  
• C. Wojek, G. Dorko, A. Schulz, B. Schiele. Sliding-Windows for Rapid Object Class Localization: a Parallel Technique. 30th DAGM Symposium (DAGM 2008), pp. 71-81, Munich, Germany (pdf)
  
• R. Perko, C. Wojek, B. Schiele, A. Leonardis. Probabilistic combination of visual context based attention and object detection. International Workshop on Attention in Cognitive Systems (WAPCV 2008), Santorini, Greece (pdf)
  

• C. Wojek, K. Nickel, R. Stiefelhagen. Activity Recognition and Room-Level Tracking in an Office Environment. IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems, pp. 25-30, Sep. 2006, Heidelberg, Germany (pdf)

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