In this talk, we give an overview of computer vision projects at the Computer Science Department, University of Hamburg. Two working groups are introduced: The Cognitive Systems Laboratory (KOGS) we are members of, and the Technical Aspects of Multimodal Systems (TAMS) group.
From KOGS (http://kogs-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/), we introduce:>
- The VIGRA Library (Vision with Generic Algorithms), originally developed by Ullrich Kothe and now maintained at our lab: http://kogs-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~koethe/vigra/
- Segmenting Skin Cells from LSM Images, the PhD thesis of Christian-Dennis Rahn, supervised by Prof. H.-S. Stiehl
- Segmenting Wood Fibres from ?CT Volumes, a small project working in collaboration with the departments of Wood Technologies and Physics of our University
- CogVis Scene Interpretation (http://cogvis.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/), a large EU project dealing with scene interpretation.
From TAMS (http://tams-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/), we show
- The TAMS Service Robot (TASER), a mobile real-time system integrating the extraction and processing of information from multiple sensors and modalities.
- The project "Automatic Manipulation of Atomic Structures in Hamburg (AMASH)" which integrates the "nanoManipulator", an advanced visualization interface using force feedback from the University of North Carolina with the ultra-high vacuum low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopes (UHV LT-STM) of the physics department in Hamburg. The long-term goal of this project is to automate the tedious manipulation processes.
Finally, we give a short overview of our own thesis projects:
- Hans Meine developed the GeoMap as a unified representation for both topological and geometrical aspects of a segmentation result. In his running PhD thesis, he extends this approach to sub-pixel accuracy and uses the framework to realize several automatic and interactive segmentation methods starting from an initial oversegmentation.
- In her Diploma thesis, Verena Kaynig works on the evaluation and technical realization of several measures of geometric saliency within the GeoMap framework.