Research Assistant

E-Mail	lenz@in.tum.de
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
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Dipl.-Ing. Claus Lenz

Curriculum Vitæ

1982: born in Burghausen, Germany.
2005: Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering at TUM
2007: Diploma in Electrical Engineering at TUM
Since Mai 2007: Research Assistant at the Robotics and Embedded Systems Lab, TUM

Current CoTeSys Projects

JAHIR: Joint Action for Humans and Industrial Robots
ITrackU: Image-based Tracking and Understanding

Affiliations

Member of the Tracking Group
Member of the Task Force: Cognitive Architectures

Research Interests

Computer Vision
Visual Tracking
Image Processing
Cognitive Robotics

Publications

[1]	Claus Lenz, Markus Rickert, Giorgio Panin, and Alois Knoll. Constraint task-based control in industrial settings. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. IEEE, October 2009.
[2]	Claus Lenz, Giorgio Panin, Thorsten Röder, Martin Wojtczyk, and Alois Knoll. Hardware-assisted multiple object tracking for human-robot-interaction. 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 283-284, La Jolla, CA, USA, March 2009. ACM. (http )
[3]	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, March 2009. ACM.
[4]	Markus Huber, Claus Lenz, Markus Rickert, Alois Knoll, Thomas Brandt, and Stefan Glasauer. Human preferences in industrial human-robot interactions. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Cognition for Technical Systems, Munich, Germany, October 2008. (.pdf )
[5]	Claus Lenz, Giorgio Panin, and Alois Knoll. A GPU-accelerated particle filter with pixel-level likelihood. In International Workshop on Vision, Modeling and Visualization (VMV), Konstanz, Germany, October 2008. (.pdf )
[6]	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, October 2008.
[7]	Suraj Nair, Giorgio Panin, Martin Wojtczyk, Claus Lenz, Thomas Friedelhuber, and Alois Knoll. A multi-camera person tracking system for robotic applications in virtual reality tv studio. In Proceedings of the 17th IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2008. IEEE, September 2008.
[8]	Claus Lenz, Suraj Nair, Markus Rickert, Alois Knoll, Wolfgang Rösel, Jürgen Gast, and Frank Wallhoff. Joint-action for humans and industrial robots for assembly tasks. In Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, pages 130-135. IEEE, August 2008. (http )
[9]	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, July 2008. Springer. (.pdf )
[10]	Giorgio Panin, Claus Lenz, Suraj Nair, Erwin Roth, Martin Wojtczyk, Thomas Friedlhuber, and Alois Knoll. A unifying software architecture for model-based visual tracking. In IS&T/SPIE 20th Annual Symposium of Electronic Imaging, San Jose, CA, January 2008.
[11]	Marc Al-Hames, Claus Lenz, Stefan Reiter, Joachim Schenk, Frank Wallhoff, and Gerhard Rigoll. Robust multi-modal group action recognition in meetings from disturbed videos with the asynchronous hidden markov model. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, volume 2, pages 213-216. IEEE, October 2007. (.pdf )
[12]	Gunther Reinhart, Wolfgang Vogel, Wolfgang Rösel, Frank Wallhoff, and Claus Lenz. Jahir - joint action for humans and industrial robots. In Fachforum: Intelligente Sensorik - Robotik und Automation. Bayern Innovativ - Gesellschaft für Innovation und Wissenstransfer mbH, June 2007.