News
We
are looking for prospective students (internship, Master's
thesis, PhD) to join our team "Image Understanding" at
Daimler R&D in Böblingen, Germany.
Contact me
for further details.
12/2012
Mercedes-Benz
E-Class including PRE-SAFE® Brake with pedestrian detection
© Daimler AG
Our stereo-vision-based pedestrian detection system will
hit the market in the upcoming Mercedes-Benz
E-Class
and S-Class. Read about it at daimler.com:
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Watch the corresponding YouTube video
11/2012
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6D-Vision - developed in our team - has been awarded the "Karl Heinz Beckurts-Prize 2012". Read about it at http://www.6d-vision.de.
- A news release entitled Preise für die Doktorarbeit (German) of the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences about the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society Best PhD Dissertation Award and the Uni-DAS Wissenschaftspreis 2012 for my PhD thesis on pedestrian detection.
09/2012
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I was awarded the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society Best PhD Dissertation Award and the Uni-DAS Wissenschaftspreis for my PhD thesis on vision-based pedestrian recognition.
03/2012
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Our group at Daimler R&D is participating in the German "UR:BAN" research initiative. I am leading the project "Schutz von schwächeren Verkehrsteilnehmern".
09/2011
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6D-Vision - developed in our team - has been nominated for the "Deutscher Zukunftspreis 2011" - the most significant national award for technical innovations in Germany. Read about it at http://www.6d-vision.de.
08/2011
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A picture created using StarStaX version 0.41 is the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day on August 5.
05/2011
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I did it! On May 10, I have successfully defended my PhD Thesis at the University of Heidelberg in Germany!
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StarStaX version 0.4 released for Mac OS X and Windows.
04/2011
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Two new journal papers and one conference paper. See Publications.
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We have an open PhD position in our group at Daimler R&D (Ulm, Germany) in the field of "Active Pedestrian Safety". See here for details.
02/2010
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Two papers accepted at CVPR 2010 in San Francisco. See Publications.
09/2009
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Media coverage has been updated: An intelligent vehicles that automatically brakes, steers and evades pedestrians.
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Oral presentation of our work on "High-Level Fusion of Depth and Intensity for Pedestrian Classification" at the DAGM Symposium 2009 in Jena, Germany.
07/2009
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Media coverage has been updated.
05/2009
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Daimler Pedestrian Detection Benchmark dataset is available for download. This is the dataset used in the PAMI paper "Monocular Pedestrian Detection: Survey and Experiments". It is made available for non-commercial purposes.
10/2008
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Journal paper "Monocular Pedestrian Detection: Survey and Experiments" has been accepted as a full paper for publication in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
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Interview & demonstration of our on-board pedestrian protection system in "Das Journal" on RegioTV Ulm (in German)
06/2008
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Poster presentation of our work on Mixed Generative-Discriminative Models for Pedestrian Classification at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition in Anchorage, Alaska, USA (June 23 - June 28)
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Oral presentation of our work on Monocular Pedestrian Recognition Using Motion Parallax at the Intelligent Vehicles Symposium in Eindhoven, The Netherlands (June 4 - June 6)
05/2008
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This website is finally up and running!