Darius Burschka

	Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Darius Burschka Technische Universität München Lab for Robotics and Embedded Systems (I6) Boltzmannstr. 3 D-85748 Garching bei München Phone: (+49 89) 289-18133 Fax: (+49 89) 289-18107 e-mail: burschka@cs.tum.edu My public PGP-key	Vision-Based Navigation Group
Joint appointments: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute for Robotics and Mechatronics,		News: Doktorandenstellen verfügbar im Bereich vision-based navigation dynamic scene segmentation image classification Diplomarbeiten auf Anfrage im Bereich Medizinische 3D Rekonstruktion Shape-from-Shading Image Retrieval VSLAM
Research interests: My principle areas of research are sensors for mobile systems and Human Computer Interfaces. The focus of my research is on vision-based navigation and three-dimensional reconstruction from sensor data.

Teaching:

Wintersemmester 2006/2007	Vorlesung	Robotics	Principles of Computer Vision
Sommersemester 2007	Vorlesung	Robot Motion Planning
	Hauptseminar	Sensorbasierte Generierung von 3D-Umgebungsmodellen

Curriculum Vitae

my publications

3D Exploration of Indoor Environments (32MB- MPEG)

Human Computer Interfaces (8MB MPEG)

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Research projects:

	Human Computer Interaction based on XVision (left) interactive "pong" game, where the user plays with his hands (right) gesture recognition (see example MPEG movie for the gesture recognition- it starts with a teaching step, where the system requests specific gestures followed by the recognition step showing the currently grabbed image in the upper small window and the matched template in the lower one) System presentation: see ZDTV report
	*Examples (Applications) of Human Computer Interaction* Manipulation of Artifical Objects (MPEG) (grasping of objects on the screen) - after an initial teaching phase the system allows manipulations of artifical objects Vision-Based Interfaces(MPEG)(calculator application)
	Color based feature selection + tracking (MPEG from ICRA99 in Detroit) (MPEG of color tracking based on XVision)
	Laser-Based Navigation based on XVision and HTML-slides about Laser-Based Map Generation
	(see example(MPEG) of Visual Servoing method for mobile navigation) *Vision-based control* work together with UIUC group
	Positive (objects) and negative (gaps) obstacle detection* from stereo vision.* One of the original images (left), calculated disparity image (right) and detected obstacle (bottom). In the MPEG movie the box is recognized as an obstacle, but not the newspaper presented later.
	Vision-based obstacle avoidance* used for safe navigation of the mobile robot (* MPEG movie )
	Omnidirectional navigation for mobile systems. - Vision Based Navigation - Virtual Joystick ( MPEG movie )
	*Vision-Based Control for Robocup* A few Robocup impressions from Seattle 2001

PhD Thesis: "Videobasierte Exploration von Innenräumen am Beispiel eines binokularen Stereo-Kamerasystems",
Reihe 10, Nr. 573, VDI Verlag, 1999
(engl. "Vision-Based Exploration of Indoor Environments at an Example of a Binocular Stereo System")

HTML-slides about my Thesis (engl.)