Reinhard Klette: Research Interests

  • environment perception and driver assistance
  • multimedia imaging, in particular geometric subjects
  • applications of multimedia imaging (e.g., in arts, biology, or medicine)

    • Current PhD Students

  • Hsiang-Jen (Johnny) Chien: Multi-run Depth Data Integration for 3D Reconstruction of Street Scenes
  • Rajib Hasan: Car Make and Model Recognition in Low-quality Monocular Video
  • Noor H Saleem: NN
  • Junli Tao (UoA): Multi-target Tracking - From Drosophila Melanogaster to Pedestrians
  • Ngoc Tu: NN

    • Co-Supervisor of PhD Students

  • Nimal Jayalath Amarasinghe (UoA, co-supervisor: Dr. Xinfeng Ye): Adaptive Background Estimation System
  • Haokun Geng (UoA, co-supervisor: Dr. Radu Nicolescu): Visual Odometry and 3D Roadsides
  • Dongwei Liu (UoA, co-supervisor: Dr. Radu Nicolescu): Computational Photography

    • Current MSc Students

  • NN: Detect Anxiety in Body Motion of Smokers
  • NN: Detect Anxiety in Facial Expressions
  • Ali Al-Sarraf (February 2015, co-supervised by Dr. Bok-Suk Shin): A Lane-border Detection Benchmark
  • Kang Song (UoA): Visual Odometry for a Raspberry Pi

    • Current Project Students

  • Bradley Moorfield (UoA): Refinement of 3D Roadside Shape Reconstructions

    • Former PhD Students (since 1996)

  • Dr. Simon Hermann (Humboldt, July 2014, external, co-supervisor: Prof. Ralf Reulke, Humboldt University): Dense Correspondence Analysis for Computer Vision and Medical Imaging
  • Dr. Mahdi Rezaei (UoA, May 2014): Computer Vision for Road Safety: A System for Simultaneous Monitoring of Driver Behaviour and Road Hazards
  • Dr. Konstantin Schauwecker (Tuebingen, April 2014, external, co-supervisor: Prof Andreas Zell): Stereo Vision for Autonomous Micro Aerial Vehicles
  • Dr. Waqar Khan (UoA, December 2013, co-supervisor till 2012: AP John Morris): Accuracy of Stereo-Based Object Tracking in a Driver Assistance Context
  • Dr. Ralf Haeusler (UoA, December 2013): Stereo Vision for Challenging Image Data
  • Dr. Sandino Morales (UoA, November 2012): Performance Evaluation Tools for Stereo Vision Analysis in Uncontrolled Environments
  • Dr. Ruyi Jiang (Shanghai Jiao Tong, May 2012, co-supervisor: Prof Shigang Wang): Multi-Dimensional Road Modelling and its Application in Drift Suppression of Vehicle Localization in Vision-based Driver Assistance Systems
  • Dr. Tobi Vaudrey (UoA, May 2011): Robust Dynamic Environment Perception from a Moving Platform
  • Dr. John Rugis (UoA, August 2008): Digital Surface Curvature
  • Dr. Xiang Lin (UoA, June 2008, main supervisor: A.-Prof. Alistair A Young): Image Analysis in Cardiac MRI
  • Dr. Fajie Li (UoA, February 2007, CITR): Exact and Approximate Algorithms for the Calculation of Shortest Paths
  • Dr. Karsten Scheibe (Goettingen, December 2006): Integration of Range Data and Panoramic Images for 3D Visualization
  • Dr. Qi (Vicky) Zang (UoA, January 2006, CITR): Video Surveillance
  • Prof. Dr. Chia-Yen Chen (UoA, May 2004, CITR): Shape from Photometric Stereo and Contours
  • Dr. Tian Gong Wei (UoA, May 2004, CITR): Numerical Methods for linear Shape from Shading and Height from Gradients
  • Dr. Shou-Kang Wei (UoA, August 2002, CITR): Analysis, Design, and Control of Stereoscopic Panoramic Cameras
  • Prof. Dr. Fay Huang (UoA, August 2002, CITR): Epipolar Geometry and Camera Calibration for Cylindrical Panoramas
  • Dr. Tilmann Walter (TUB, March 1998, Max-Delbrück-Zentrum für molekulare Medizin Berlin-Buch): Bewegungsanalyse von Gliazellen
  • Dr. Gabriele Ulich (TUB, 1997, FB Mathematik der TU Berlin): Numerische Methoden für Shape from Shading
  • Prof. Dr. Martin Böhm (TUB, 1997, Institut für Mathematik der Universität Potsdam): Formulartyperkennung und Schriftaufbereitung in der optischen automatischen Archivierung
  • Dr. Karsten Schlüns (TUB, 1996, FB Informatik der TU Berlin): Methoden zur schattierungsbasierten Analyse von Oberflächen mit Irradianztripeln
  • Dr. Gunter Bellaire (TUB, 1996, FB Informatik der TU Berlin): 3D-Objektidentifizierung - Betrachterabhängige Modelle für Repräsentation und Erkennung
  • Dr. Ashutosh Malaviya (TUB, 1996, GMD SET Sankt Augustin): On-line handwriting recognition with a fuzzy feature description language
  • Dr. Robert Skerjanc (TUB, 1996, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut für Nachrichtentechnik Berlin): Über die Zwischenbildsynthese aus multiokularen Bildfolgen

    • Former MSc Students (since 1996)

  • Zhengping Wang (June 2014, co-supervisor: Dr. Radu Nicolescu): Extracting Human Silhouettes from Video Sequences
  • Umesh Kumar (February 2014): Vehicle Detection in Monocular Night-Time Grey-Level Videos
  • Tim Chen (July 2013): Artistic Emulation - Filter Blending for Animated Rendering
  • Juan Lin (July 2013): Hough or not Hough? - Forests for Pedestrian Detection and Tracking
  • Yihui (Jerry) Zheng (February 2013, co-supervisor: Dr. S. Manoharan): A footprint database using image features as descriptors
  • Kun Ju (June 2012): Monocular Head Pose Estimation for Driver Assistance Systems
  • Gabriel Hartmann (June 2012): Unscented Kalman Filter Sensor Fusion for Monocular Camera Localization
  • Shuang (Anne) An (July 2011): Presentation of stereo and motion analysis on EISATS data
  • Kai-Kristoph Fehrs (July 2011, Diplomarbeit TU Hamburg-Harburg): Fish-eye cameras for stereo or motion analysis
  • Haokun Geng (February 2011, co-supervisor: Dr. Radu Nicolescu): On-line system for reading tracks of small animals
  • Di (Terry) Sun (February 2011, co-supervisor: Dr. S. Manoharan): GPS and lane detection for accurate trajectories
  • Konstantin Schauwecker (December 2010): Ego-motion and approximate road surface calculation
  • Jinsheng (Jason) Huang (October 2010): Design of an AirTouch System
  • Je Ahn (May 2010, AUT, co-supervisor: Dr. Russel Pears): Calibration of Various Configurations of Multiple Cameras for Driver Assistance Systems
  • Fei Xiang Ren (March 2010, co-supervisor: Dr. S. Manoharan): Lane and traffic sign detection
  • YongQiang (David) Dong (March 2010): 3D Visualization and Reconstruction - a 3DTV case study
  • Zhong Xia (Cooper) Ma (February 2010): Segmentation of depth maps of stereo image sequences
  • Xi (Todd) Yang (February 2010): TV L1 for DAS - Implementation and comparative tests
  • Xuan (Sean) Guo (July 2009, co-supervisor: Dr. Uwe Franke, Daimler AG, Germany): Iterative Evaluation of Stixels by Applying a Quadratic Classifier
  • Zhifeng (Carlos) Liu (July 2008): Performance evaluation of stereo and motion analysis on rectified image sequences
  • Shushi (Jason) Guan (July 2008): Belief propagation for stereo and motion analysis on image sequences
  • Ralf Haeusler (August 2007, Jena University): Monocular Reconstruction of Objects Based on Cylindrical Panoramas
  • Heiko Voigt (May 2007, Bosch, Germany): Smoke detection
  • Ahmed Gaffar (December 2006, Goettingen Univ., co-supervised with Prof. Schaback): Structure from motion
  • Gang Liu (January 2006, co-supervised with Dr. Bodo Rosenhahn): Structure from motion: a case study on reconstruction quality
  • Xiang Wang (January 2006, co-supervised with Dr. Bodo Rosenhahn): Geometric and photometric correction of projected rectangular pictures
  • Guannan Yuan (January 2006, co-supervised with Dr. Bodo Rosenhahn): Track understanding of different species of rats using image analysis
  • Yilan Zhao (January 2006, co-supervised with Dr. Robert Valkenburg, IRL): Calibration and application of a multi-camera head
  • Simon Hermann (December 2005): Partitioning of digital curves and higher-order curve approximations
  • Mian Pan (July 2005, co-supervised by Gisela Klette): Analysis of astrocytes by branching point analysis of 3D skeletons
  • Lei He (April 2005, co-supervised by Dr. Bodo Rosenhahn): Pose recognition (human motion)
  • Ana Stilinovich (March 2005, co-supervised by Gisela Klette and Prof. Colin Green): Analysis of scar tissue
  • Harvey Ho (January 2005, co-supervised by Dr. Bodo Rosenhahn): 2D-3D Block-matching of human models
  • Ji Sun (December 2004): The Zorb video system - a combination of wired and and wireless cameras
  • ChaoLi Ou (September 2004): Curvature estimation for voxel sets
  • Yuman Huang (July 2004): Length, area, surface area, and volume estimation in picture analysis
  • Xiang Lin (February 2004, co-supervised by Dr. Robert Valkenburg): Calibration of systems of cameras
  • Johnson Chen (February 2004, co-supervised by Dr. Shoukang Wei, Japan): Independent objects in panoramic images
  • Gareth Barton (October 2003, co-supervision by Dr. Patrice Delmas): Hand gesture analysis based on 2D and 3D data
  • Fajie Li (March 2003): Analysis of 3D movement using multi-view vision
  • Eric (Chung-Ta) Tsai (January 2002): Multi-user approach to multimedia presentations
  • Linjiang Yu (January 2002): Surface area measurement based on polyhedrization
  • Liming Wu (July 2001): Shape from Boundaries
  • Vicky Zang (June 2001, co-supervised with Dr. Alan McIvor): Counting People
  • Yongbao Zhang (May 2001): Binocular Stereo and Calibration in the Context of Sports Sciences
  • Yuan-sheng Tsai (March 2001): Performance evaluation for Shape from PSM and Boundaries
  • Hao Jie Sun (February 2001): Surface Area Measurement based on Polygonalization
  • Ben Yip (February 2000): Border Measurement Analysis for Planar Objects
  • JianQuan Zhang (February 2000, co-supervised with Prof Georgy Gimel'farb): Image matching for uncalibrated multiple-view scene reconstruction
  • Fu Cheong Frankie Fong (April 1999, co-supervised with Dr. Tony Poole): Calculation of features of chondron cells
  • Man Hon Wong (April 1999, co-supervised with Dr. Tony Poole): Evaluation of algorithms for 3D volume analysis
  • Feng Wu (January 1999): Evaluation of 3D feature calculations for digital objects
  • Nan Yang (January 1999): Shortest Polygonal Jordan Curve Calculations
  • Yanlan Peter Pan (January 1999, co-supervised with Dr. Georgy Gimel'farb): Stereo image analysis
  • Jin Luo (January 1999, co-supervised with Dr. Karsten Schlüns): Photometric stereo techniques
  • Chia-Yen Chen (October 1998): Comparison of image stitching techniques
  • Shou-Kang Wei (November 1998): Virtual navigation in 3D space
  • Shao-zheng Zhou (November 1998): Incremental surface visualisation
  • Sanjoy Kumar Banik (September 1998, co-supervised with Dr. Karsten Schlüns): An interactive computer vision course
  • Kar Man Angela Ng (May 1998, co-supervised with Dr. Karsten Schlüns): Towards 3D-model reconstruction from photometric stereo

    • Former Project Students (since 1996)

  • Purui (Jack) He (October 2014, co-supervisor: Prof. Mark Taylor): Visual monitoring of extrusion processes
  • Xu He (October 2014, industry mentor: TN Chan): Motion detection for video surveillance
  • Saad Malik (October 2014, industry mentor: Terry Sun, co-supervisor: Dr. S. Manoharan): Vehicle identification
  • Chimin Oh (March 2014, visiting PhD student; co-supervised by Dr. Bok-Suk Shin): 2D human pose estimation using adaptive exemplar-based particle filter
  • Jaeryeon Ko (March 2014, co-supervised by Dr. Bok-Suk Shin): Head pose estimation for pedestrians
  • Joanna Wisniewska (March 2014): Eye gaze detection or estimation
  • Michal Daniluk (March 2014, advisor only; supervised by Dr. Radu Nicolescu): Extracting human silhouettes from indoor video
  • Pan Hu (February 2014): Recovery of a brightness-normalized rectangular image from a set of perspectively distorted images
  • Kang (Eric) Song (November 2013): Background Modelling using Spatio-Temporal Bricks for Video Surveillance
  • Yi Zeng (July 2013): Incremental 3D Reconstruction from a Mobile Platform
  • Zijiang Song (July 2013): Temporal Consistency of Feature Detectors on Traffic Videos
  • Kaihua Chen (July 2013): Standard and Statistical Hough Transform for Lane Detection
  • Xianrui Meng (July 2013): Eliminating Shadows from Traffic Scenes Based on Color Video
  • Veronica Suaste Morales (February 2013): Third-Eye Evaluation of two Sterero Matchers
  • Diego Caudillo (February 2013): Comparison of Video Measures with Results of Stereo Analysis Evaluations
  • HaoYu Gan (November 2012, co-supervised with TN Chan): CUDA and SGM
  • Dheeraj Mundhra (July 2012): Pedestrian Detection in a Sequence of a Recorded Video
  • Juan Lin (June 2012): Artistic rendering of human portraits
  • Pablo Garonne (March 2012): Content-based Retrieval of Scenes in Traffic-related Video Data
  • Sebastian Prenna (March 2012): Detection, Categorization and Recognition of Road Signs
  • Archana Pratthi (March 2011): Non-photorealistic rendering of portrait photographies
  • Kun Ju (February 2011): Prediction error analysis for optic flow algorithms
  • Gabriel Hartmann (February 2011): Fisheye to birdseye.
  • Crystal Valente (June 2010): Artistic Emulation - Filter Blending for Painterly Rendering
  • Juergen Wiest (November 2009, Ulm University and Daimler AG): Detection and tracking of pedestrians
  • Bin Wang (November 2009, main supervisor: Dr. S. Manoharan): Online video and image manipulations
  • Ali Al-Sarraf (July 2009): A tracker for multiple vehicles
  • Joachim Penc (February 2009, Frankfurt University): Graph-cut stereo analysis for driver assistance
  • Jinsheng Huang (February 2009): Lane detection for road modeling
  • FeiXiang Xen (February 2009): Visualization of 3D data as generated by vision-based DAS
  • Xi Yang (February 2009): Evaluation of motion analysis for synthetic traffic scenes with ground truth
  • Thian (Ian) How Ho (October 2008): Image viewing interface for assisting animal track identification
  • James Milburn (October 2008): Dense optic flow for real world sequences
  • Ali Al-Sarraf (June 2008): Ground-truth for stereo video sequences (Trajectories)
  • Hao Xue (October 2007): Visualizing Stereo Panoramas
  • Stephen McIntyre (November 2007): Preparing a flying stereo camera project
  • Talla Vamsi (July 2007): Panoramic Imaging - Testing Exercises
  • Hao Xue (June 2007): Video quality meter
  • Felix Manke (June 2007): Video quality meter
  • Xin (Jessie) Zhang (November 2005, co-supervised with A/Prof. John Morris): Earth wall measurements based on laser range data
  • Nick Fung (November 2005): Comparative Evaluation of Software Systems for Image Processing (Histogram Transforms in Color Images)
  • Peter Ho (November 2005): Comparative Evaluation of Software Systems for Image Processing (Filters)
  • Jing Yu (November 2005): Calculation of FOE - a comparative study of techniques
  • Michael (November 2005, co-supervised with Drs Kvistedal and Bigdeli): A Pre/Post-Processing System for the DLP-based Microscopy
  • Jeremy (November 2005, co-supervised with Drs Kvistedal and Bigdeli): A Pre/Post-Processing System for the DLP-based Microscopy
  • Ying Jiang (March 2005, co-supervised with Gisela Klette): Implementation and analysis of algorithms for shape simplification
  • Gang Liu (March 2005, co-supervised with Bodo Rosenhahn): Structure from motion - an experimental analysis of different algorithms for estimating the fundamental matrices
  • Jun Ni (March 2005, co-supervised with Gisela Klette): 3D distance transforms
  • Steven Stones-Havas (March 2005): Understanding the tracks of rodents by geometric properties
  • Sophia Wang (March 2005) : A study of surface tracking algorithms for the cellular grid
  • Wang Yang (March 2005): Small mammal tracking database system project
  • Guannan Yuan (March 2005, co-supervised with Dr. Bodo Rosenhahn): Basic properties of tracks of insects
  • Xin (Jessie) Zhang (March 2005): Curvature estimation based on B-spline approximation
  • Yilan Zhao (co-supervised with Dr. Bodo Rosenhahn): Structure from motion - Theoretic foundations and experiments
  • XinLu (Louie) Fu (January 2005, co-supervised with Dr Dipika Patel): In vivo confocal microscopy of the human cornea
  • Vincent Tariel (July 2004): Knot or unknot
  • Lea Chii Deng (July 2004): Identification of tracks of insects
  • Nils Hasler (July 2004): Identification of tracks of mice and rats
  • Lu (Lucy) Xia (July 2004): Time segmentation of Zorb videos
  • Xia Ni Qiu (February 2004): Evaluation of an algorithm for the recognition of digital planes
  • Mian Pan (February 2004, co-supervised by Gisela Klette): 3D skeletonization of astrocytes
  • Steven Stones-Havas (February 2004): A comparision of three corner detectors
  • Runfeng Lin (February 2004): Experiments with chamfer distances
  • Lei He (February 2004, co-supervised by Dr. Bodo Rosenhahn): Human motion visualization in a virtual environment
  • Ji Sun (November 2003): Demonstration system `Mathematical Morphology'
  • Simon Hermann (Goettingen Univ., June 2003): Multigrid analysis of surface curvature estimators
  • Yuman Huang (June 2003): Pupil measurement - Calibration, system test and re-implementation in clinical context
  • Ana Stilinovich (June 2003, co-supervised by Gisela Klette): A comparative study on directional analysis of scar tissue
  • ChaoLi Ou (February 2003, co-supervised with Gisela Klette): Measuring speed and direction of bacteria colonies in low-cost microscopy
  • Xiang Lin (February 2003, co-supervised with Gisela Klette): Accurately measuring the size of pupils
  • De Jin Zhao (February 2003, co-supervised with Gisela Klette): 3D skeletonization of astrocytes in confocal volume data of brain tissue
  • Sylvia Zhou (February 2003): Directional analysis of scar tissue based on mathematical morphology
  • Li (Lea) Deng (February 2003): Calculations of Hausdorff metrics for different categories of input data
  • Shuping Cao (February 2003, co-supervised with Gisela Klette): Study of marching cubes isosurfaces of astrocytes in brain tissue
  • Haibo Wang (November 2002): Testbed for digital geometry algorithms
  • Ming-Ju Lee (November 2002): Visualization of super-high resolution panoramic images
  • Kennant Tom (November 2002, co-supervised with Gisela Klette): Performance evaluation of shape modification algorithms
  • Gareth I. Barton (February 2002): Web Site for Digital Geometry and Topology
  • Jacky Kwok (November 2001): Time complexity of polygonalization algorithms
  • Ho Yee Yip (February 2001, co-supervised with James Harper): Multiple-camera system for computer vision
  • Ka Wang Ho (November 2000): Calculations of radiometric features
  • Dahai Sun (November 2000): Interactive modification of 3D shapes
  • Charles Lee, Eric (Chung-Ta) Tsai (November 2000): Multimedia presentation of Whittaker's Musical Experience
  • Rayson (Mang Tak) Chan (November 2000): Storage and visualization of multimedia data
  • Ho Yee Yip (June 2000): Digital Approximation of Moments
  • Arihant Jain (November 1999): Shape from Boundaries - Manual and Evaluation of Results
  • Jayadeep Kudumula (November 1999): Structured Lighting - Manual and Evaluation of Results
  • Anthony Lee (November 1999): 3S PSM - Manual and Evaluation of Results
  • Nicholas Leon Hildreth (July 1998, co-supervised with Holger Thiele): Shape from boundaries
  • Li Huang (July 1998): Object animations
  • Yu-Fei Huang (November 1998): An object viewer - fundamentals and implementation
  • Nisha R. Hussain (November 1998, co-supervised with Maureen Lander): Multimedia presentation of art on the web
  • Shou-Kang Wei (July 1998): Color anaglyphs for panorama visualisations
  • Changcheng Chen and Yuping Li (November 1997, co-supervised with Dr. Georgy Gimel'farb): Evaluation of gray-level edge detection under a textured noise
  • Stephen Hoek (November 1997): Generation of cellular complexes with known ground truth
  • Xiangbai Kong (November 1997, co-supervised with Axel Stegner): Evaluation of motion compensation algorithms in MPEG
  • Yan Ting Selina Li (November 1997, co-supervised with Dr. Karsten Schlüns): On-line processing of video images
  • Yuping Li (November 1997, co-supervised with Maureen Lander): Mulimedia presentation of performing Maori string figures
  • Chunru Lu (November 1997, co-supervised with Maureen Lander): Multimedia presentation of the UoA Department of Maori Studies
  • Steve Salmond (November 1997, co-supervised with Dr. Karsten Schlüns): Building an interactive guide
  • Chia-Yen Chen (June 1997): The image stitcher and its application in panoramic movie making
  • Shun Loi Stanley Cheng (June 1997): Estimation of volume and surface area from isosurface
  • Bernard Mak (June 1997, co-supervised with Dr. Carol Diebel and Dr. Terry Gruijters): 3D visualisation and analysis of slices of the nose of a trout
  • Ben Yip (June 1997): To visualize a magnetic resonance imaging series of a human head

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