Research Assistant

E-Mail	roeder@in.tum.de
Room	Roboterhalle 0240
Phone	+49.89.32354552
Address	Institut für Informatik VI Technische Universität München Boltzmannstraße 3 85748 Garching bei München Germany
Homepage	http://www6.in.tum.de/~roeder/

Curriculum Vitæ

2002-2006: Bachelor in Informatics, Technische Universität München
2003-2010: Co-founder and CEO, VisionAlive GmbH
2006-2007: Research Assistant, Technische Universität München
2007-2008: Master in Informatics, Technische Universität München
2011-present: Co-founder and CEO, Cognition Factory GmbH
2008-present: Research Assistant, Technische Universität München

Projects

AMIS - Microscope Smart Sensors
ITrackU - Image-Based Tracking and Understanding
OpenTL - OpenTL

Teaching

Hauptseminar Real-time Visual Tracking Techniques SS 2009
Hauptseminar Real-time Visual Tracking Techniques SS 2010

Open Diploma-/Master-/Bachelor Theses

Publications

[1]	Claus Lenz, Markus Grimm, Thorsten Röder, and Alois Knoll. Fusing multiple kinects to survey shared human-robot-workspaces. Technical Report TUM-I1214, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, 2012. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[2]	Claus Lenz, Thorsten Röder, Markus Rickert, and Alois Knoll. Distance-weighted Kalman fusion for precise docking problems. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile Robots and Competitions, Lisbon, Portugal, 2011. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[3]	Claus Lenz, Alice Sotzek, Thorsten Röder, Helmuth Radrich, Alois Knoll, Markus Huber, and Stefan Glasauer. Human workflow analysis using 3d occupancy grid hand tracking in a human-robot collaboration scenario. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, San Francisco, USA, 2011. [ DOI \| .bib \| .pdf ]
[4]	D. Brščić, M. Eggers, F. Rohrmüller, O. Kourakos, S. Sosnowski, D. Althoff, M. Lawitzky, A. Mörtl, M. Rambow, V. Koropouli, J.R. Medina Hernández, X. Zang, W. Wang, D. Wollherr, K. Kühnlenz, C. Mayer, T. Kruse, A. Kirsch, J. Blume, A. Bannat, T. Rehrl, F. Wallhoff, T. Lorenz, P. Basili, C. Lenz, T. Röder, G. Panin, W. Maier, S. Hirche, M. Buss, M. Beetz, B. Radig, A. Schubö, S. Glasauer, A. Knoll, and E. Steinbach. Multi Joint Action in CoTeSys - setup and challenges. Technical Report CoTeSys-TR-10-01, CoTeSys Cluster of Excelence: Technische Universität München & Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany, June 2010. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[5]	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 ]
[6]	Matthias Geisbauer, Thorsten Röder, Yang Chen, Alois Knoll, and Rainer Uhl. Adaptive platform for fluorescence microscopy-based high content screening. In Proceedings of SPIE on Medical Imaging, San Diego, CA, 2010. [ DOI \| .bib \| .pdf ]
[7]	Claus Lenz, Thorsten Röder, Martin Eggers, Sikandar Amin, Thomas Kisler, Bernd Radig, Giorgio Panin, and Alois Knoll. A distributed many-camera system for multi-person tracking. In Proceedings of the 1st International Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence, Malaga, Spain, 2010. [ DOI \| .bib \| .pdf ]
[8]	Thorsten Röder, Matthias Geisbauer, Yang Chen, Alois Knoll, and Rainer Uhl. A system architecture for online data interpretation and reduction in fluorescence microscopy. In IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, San Jose, CA, 2010. [ DOI \| .bib \| .pdf ]
[9]	Martin Wojtczyk, Giorgio Panin, Thorsten Röder, Claus Lenz, Suraj Nair, Rüdiger Heidemann, Chetan Goudar, and Alois Knoll. Teaching and implementing autonomous robotic lab walkthroughs in a biotech laboratory through model-based visual tracking. In IS&T / SPIE Electronic Imaging, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XXVII: Algorithms and Techniques: Autonomous Robotic Systems and Applications, San Jose, CA, USA, 2010. [ DOI \| .bib \| .pdf ]
[10]	Suraj Nair, Thorsten Röder, Giorgio Panin, and Alois Knoll. Visual servoing of presenters in augmented virtual reality tv studios. In 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October 18-22, 2010, Taipei, Taiwan, 2010. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[11]	Claus Lenz, Giorgio Panin, Thorsten Röder, Martin Wojtczyk, and Alois Knoll. Hardware-assisted multiple object tracking for human-robot-interaction. In Francois Michaud, Matthias Scheutz, Pamela Hinds, and Brian Scassellati, editors, HRI '09: Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human robot interaction, pages 283-284, La Jolla, CA, USA, 2009. ACM. [ DOI \| .bib \| .pdf ]
[12]	Suraj Nair, Giorgio Panin, Thorsten Röder, Thomas Friedelhuber, and Alois Knoll. A distributed and scalable person tracking system for robotic visual servoing with 8 dof in virtual reality tv studio automation. In Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Mechatronics and its Applications (ISMA09). IEEE, 2009. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[13]	Martin Wojtczyk, Giorgio Panin, Claus Lenz, Thorsten Röder, Suraj Nair, Erwin Roth, Rüdiger Heidemann, Klaus Joeris, Chun Zhang, Mark Burnett, Tom Monica, and Alois Knoll. A vision based human robot interface for robotic walkthroughs in a biotech laboratory. In François Michaud, Matthias Scheutz, Pamela Hinds, and Brian Scassellati, editors, HRI '09: Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human Robot Interaction, pages 309-310, La Jolla, CA, USA, 2009. ACM. [ DOI \| .bib \| .pdf ]
[14]	Giorgio Panin, Thorsten Röder, and Alois Knoll. Integrating robust likelihoods with monte-carlo filters for multi-target tracking. In International Workshop on Vision, Modeling and Visualization (VMV), Konstanz, Germany, 2008. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[15]	Giorgio Panin, Erwin Roth, Thorsten Röder, Suraj Nair, Claus Lenz, Martin Wojtczyk, Thomas Friedlhuber, and Alois Knoll. ITrackU: An integrated framework for image-based tracking and understanding. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Cognition for Technical Systems, Munich, Germany, 2008. [ .bib \| .pdf ]