Former Research Assistant

E-Mail	muelleth@cs.tum.edu
Room	0255
Phone	+49.89.289.25761
Fax	+49.89.289.18107
Address	Institut für Informatik VI Technische Universität München Boltzmannstraße 3 85748 Garching bei München Germany
Homepage	http://www6.in.tum.de/~muelleth/ http://flexiblerobotics.com http://m-development-consulting.com

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Curriculum Vitæ

*Personal Information*
Birth Date	04-15-1980
Resident of	Munich, Germany
*Professional Experiences*
2013	Ph.D. degree, thesis title: "Architecture and Methodology for Sensor-Based Robotics on Lie Algebras"
2007 - 2011	Research Assistant at TUM (Ph.D. student) for JAST SFB 453 (SFB 453 - T4)
2006 - 2007	Student trainee at JAST research project at TUM
2005 - 2007	Student trainee at beck et al. projects GmbH
2006	Founder of m development + consulting
2005 - 2006	Student trainee at BMW M GmbH
*Research Interests*
Computer Vision	Attention-Based Early Processing Probabilistic Approaches Adaptive Segmentation Color Constancy Object and Gesture Recognition and Tracking Automotive 3D Environment Perception
Robotics	Handling of Limp Objects Lie Algebras and Screw Theory for Robot Control Image- and Position-Based Visual Servoing
System Design	Bio-inspired Design Cognitive Architectures Parallelization of Vision Systems Distributed Visual Processing Virtualization for Cross-Platform Development

Teaching

WS2010: Praktikum Grundlagen der Programmierung
SS2010: Lab-Course Human Robot Interaction

Student Projects

[1]	Binh An Tran. Detektion, Tracking und Robotergestützte Handhabung linearer deformierbarer Objekte, 2010. Master's Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering, Technische Universität München. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[2]	Alexander Plopski. Entwicklung einer markerbasierten visuellen kontrollschnittstelle für insdustrielle roboter, 2010. Bachelor's Thesis, Department of Informatics, Technische Universität München. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[3]	Xuan Tuong Nguyen. Real-time pedestrian detection and tracking on moving vehicle, 2010. Thesis, Department of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (TUM exchange program), Singapore. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[4]	Matthias Hellerer. Potential field based position control for mitsubishi RV-6S industrial robots, 2009. Bachelor's Thesis, Department of Informatics, Technische Universität München. [ .bib \| .pdf ]

Publications

[1]	Thomas Müller, Binh An Tran, and Alois Knoll. Automatic distribution of vision-tasks on computing clusters. In Proceedings of IS&T / SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2011. [ DOI \| .bib \| .pdf ]
[2]	Thomas Müller and Alois Knoll. Evolution of attention mechanisms for early visual processing. In Proceedings of IS&T / SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2011. [ DOI \| .bib \| .pdf ]
[3]	Nguyen Xuan Tuong, Thomas Müller, and Alois Knoll. Robust pedestrian detection and tracking from a moving vehicle. In Proceedings of IS&T / SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2011. [ DOI \| .bib \| .pdf ]
[4]	Giorgio Panin, Thorsten Roder, Erwin Roth, Claus Lenz, Suraj Nair, Sebastian Klose, Thomas Muller, Thomas Friedlhuber, Martin Wojtczyk, and Alois Knoll. The opentl library for model-based visual tracking (demo session). In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), San Francisco (CA), June 2010. [ .bib ]
[5]	Manuel Giuliani, Claus Lenz, Thomas Müller, Markus Rickert, and Alois Knoll. Design principles for safety in human-robot interaction. International Journal of Social Robotics, 2(3):253-274, 2010. [ DOI \| .bib \| .pdf ]
[6]	Thomas Müller and Alois Knoll. A generic approach to realtime robot control and parallel processing for industrial scenarios. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, 2010. [ DOI \| .bib \| .pdf ]
[7]	Thomas Müller, Binh An Tran, and Alois Knoll. A flexible robotics and automation system: Parallel visual processing, realtime actuator control, and task automation for limp object handling. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, 2010. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[8]	Marwan Radi, Andrea Reiter, Michael F. Zäh, Thomas Müller, and Alois Knoll. Telepresence technology for production: From manual to automated assembly. In Proceedings of EuroHaptics 2010, 2010. [ DOI \| .bib \| .pdf ]
[9]	Thomas Müller and Alois Knoll. Attention driven visual processing for an interactive dialog robot. In Proceedings of the 24th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 2009. [ DOI \| .bib \| .pdf ]
[10]	Thomas Müller and Alois Knoll. Virtualization techniques for cross platform automated software builds, tests and deployment. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Software Engineering Advances, Porto, Portugal, 2009. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[11]	Mary Ellen Foster, Manuel Giuliani, Thomas Müller, Markus Rickert, Alois Knoll, Wolfram Erlhagen, Estela Bicho, Nzoji Hipólito, and Luis Louro. Combining goal inference and natural-language dialogue for human-robot joint action. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Combinations of Intelligent Methods and Applications, European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Patras, Greece, 2008. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[12]	Thomas Müller, Claus Lenz, Simon Barner, and Alois Knoll. Accelerating integral histograms using an adaptive approach. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Image and Signal Processing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), pages 209-217, Cherbourg-Octeville, France, 2008. Springer. [ DOI \| .bib \| .pdf ]
[13]	Thomas Müller, Pujan Ziaie, and Alois Knoll. A wait-free realtime system for optimal distribution of vision tasks on multicore architectures. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, Funchal, Portugal, 2008. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[14]	Thomas Müller and Alois Knoll. Bioinspired early visual processing: The attention condensation mechanism. In Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, Canberra, Australia, 2008. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[15]	Thomas Müller and Alois Knoll. Humanoid early visual processing using attention mechanisms. In Proceedings of Cognitive Humanoid Vision WS at IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Daejeon, Korea, 2008. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[16]	Pujan Ziaie, Thomas Müller, Mary Ellen Foster, and Alois Knoll. A naïve Bayes classifier with distance weighting for hand-gesture recognition. In Proceedings of the 13th International CSI Computer Conference (CSICC 2008), Kish Island, Iran, 2008. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[17]	Pujan Ziaie, Thomas Müller, and Alois Knoll. A novel approach to hand-gesture recognition in a human-robot dialog system. In Proceedings of the First Intl. Workshop on Image Processing Theory, Tools & Applications, Sousse, Tunesia, 2008. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[18]	Pujan Ziaie, Thomas Müller, Mary Ellen Foster, and Alois Knoll. Using a naïve Bayes classifier based on k-nearest neighbors with distance weighting for static hand-gesture recognition in a human-robot dialog system. In Proceedings of the 13th International CSI Computer Conference (CSICC 2008), Kish Island, Iran, 2008. [ .bib ]

Miscellaneous

Intl. Symposium on Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS) 2010 Member of the International Advisory Committee
Hosting Open-Source project JavaPub (javapub.sourceforge.net), an out-of-the-box Java publication listing engine with drag-and-drop upload, dynamic document linking, etc.
Hosting Open-Source project fexiblerobotics (frf.sourceforge.net or flexiblerobotics.com), a tool-box for distributed robot control