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Prof. Dr. Reinhard Koch, Academic staff

Academic staff | Institute of Computer Sciences

Prof. Dr. Reinhard Koch (Germany, 1958)

PhD University of Hanover
Research area Multimedia Information Processing
Scientific Education

1977-1985
Study at the University of Hannover/ Fort Hayes: Electrical Engineering and Physical Science

1996
PhD, University of Hannover

Scientific experience

Since 1999
Full Professor (C 3) for Multimedia Information Processing, CAU Kiel

1996-1999
Scientific Assistant/ Assistant Professor and Supervisor of the Working Group “Reconstruction and Recognition”, Catholic University Leuven

1988-1996
Research Assistant at the Institute of Theoretical Communications Engineering and Information Processing, University of Hannover

1985-1988
Designing Engineer, Fa. VDO Measurement and Control Technoloy

Selected publications

2010
I. Schiller, B. Bartczak, F. Kellner and R. Koch: Increasing realism and supporting content planning for dynamic scenes in a mixed reality system incorporating a time-of-flight camera. Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting (7) no. 4, August 2010.

2010
Lindner, M., Schiller, I., Kolb, A., Koch, R.: Time-of-Flight Sensor Calibration for Accurate Range Sensing. Journal of Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU).

2010
Wulff, R., Sedlazeck, A., Koch, R.: Measuring in Automatically Reconstructed 3D Models. Proceedings of Geoinformatik 2010, Kiel, Germany.

2010
Kolb, A., Barth, E., Koch, R., Larsen, R.: Time-of-Flight Cameras. Computer Graphics Forum 29 (1): 141-159.

2009
Wulff, R., Sedlazeck, A., Koch, R.: 3D Reconstruction of Archaeological Trenches from Photographs. Proceedings of Scientific Computing and Cultural Heritage (SCCH), Heidelberg, Germany, November 2009.

2009
Bartczak, B., Kellner, F., Koch, R.: Dense Depth Maps from Low Resolution Time-of-Flight Depth and High Resolution Color Views (MERL Best Paper award). Proceeding of ISVC '09, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2009.

2008
Koeser, K., Koch, R.: Differential Spatial Resection - Pose Estimation Using a Single Local Image Feature. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2008) Marseille, France.

2008
Koeser, K., Beder, C., Koch, R.: Conjugate Rotation: Parameterization and Estimation from an Affine Feature Correspondence. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition CVPR 2008. Anchorage, June 2008.

2007
Koeser, K., Bartczak, B., Koch, R.: Robust GPU-Assisted Camera Tracking using Free-form Surface Models. Journal of Real-time Image Processing 2007/2:133-147.

2007
Bartczak, B. , Koeser, K. , Woelk, F., Koch, R.: Extraction of 3D Freeform Surfaces as Visual Landmarks for Real-Time Tracking. Journal of Real-time Image Processing 2007/2:81-101.

2007
Koeser, K., Bartczak, B., Koch, R.: An Analysis-by-Synthesis Camera Tracking Approach based on Free-form Surfaces. (DAGM Best Paper Award). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4713 (DAGM 2007), Heidelberg, 122-131.

2004
M. Pollefeys, L. van Gool, M. Vergauwen, F. Verbiest, K. Cornelis, J. Tops, R. Koch: Visual Modelling with a handheld Camera, International Journal of Computer Vision 59(3), 207-232, 2004.

Theses 
(co-)supervised

In progress
Robert Wulff: Image-Based 3D Documentation in Archaeology.

2011
Clemens Rabe: Detection of Moving Objects by Spatio-temporal Motion Analysis (magna cum laude).

2009
Kevin Köser: Geometric Estimation with Local Affine Frames and Free-form Surfaces (Summe cum laude).

2008
Dr.-Ing. Jan-Friso Evers-Senne: Plenoptic Modelling and Rendering of Complex Rigid Scenes (Magna cum laude).

2008
Dr.-Ing Felix Woelk: Visual Detection of Independently Moving Objects by a Moving Observer (Magna cum laude).

2007
Dr.-Ing. Daniel Grest: Marker-Free Human Motion Capture in Dynamic Cluttered Environments from a Single View-Point (Magna cum laude).

2005
Dr.-Ing. Jan-Michael Frahm: Camera Self-Calibration with Known Camera Orientation (Summa cum laude).

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