Research Assistant
| elmar.mair@mytum.de | |
| Room | HB 2.02.16 |
| Phone@DLR | +49.8153.28.1048 |
| Mailing Address | Institut für Informatik VI Technische Universität München Boltzmannstraße 3 85748 Garching bei München Germany |
| Homepage | http://www6.in.tum.de/~maire/ |
Curriculum Vitæ
- since April 2012: researcher at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics (Department of Perception und Cognition)
- December 2007 - March 2012: research assistant at the group for Machine Vision and Perception (at the chair of Robotics and Embedded Systems), Technische Universität München
- Dissertation (submitted 01.12.2011): Efficient and Robust Pose Estimation Based on Inertial and Visual Sensing
- 2007: Master of Science in Informatics
- 2005: Bachelor of Science in Informatics
Current Research Interests
- low ressource visual localization
- feature tracking
- visual homing
- speed, accuracy, reliabilty and robustness
- visual localization on embedded systems
- digital signal processing
- sensor fusion
- hierarchical, efficient maps
Projects
- zInf, Visual navigation for low-ressource platforms
- VEM, Visual Environment Modeling
- Vision-based Egomotion Estimation for the DLR 3D Modeler
- Visual localization/navigation for the DLR quadrocopters
- AGAST, Highly efficient feature detection
Some more details about current projects are also available at the MVP homepage.
Teaching
- Digital Signal Processing lab course (2007-2011)
Awards
- Best Paper Finalist at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO) 2011
- 1st place at the International Micro Air Vehicle (IMAV) outdoor competition 2011 with team "DLR"
- Best Paper Finalist at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2009
- Best Paper Finalist at the International Workshop on Robot Vision (RobVis) 2008
- Siemens Award 2007 for the best Master's Thesis in Informatics at the Technische Universität München (TUM)
Publications
| [1] | Elmar Mair, Michael Fleps, Michael Suppa, and Darius Burschka. Spatio-temporal initialization for imu to camera registration. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO'11), December 2011. |
| [2] | Elmar Mair, Michael Fleps, Oliver Ruepp, Michael Suppa, and Darius Burschka. Optimization based imu camera calibration. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'11), September 2011. |
| [3] | Klaus H. Strobl, Elmar Mair, and Gerd Hirzinger. Image-based pose estimation for 3-d modeling in rapid, hand-held motion. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'11), May 2011. |
| [4] | Elmar Mair, Gregory D. Hager, Darius Burschka, Michael Suppa, and Gerhard Hirzinger. Adaptive and generic corner detection based on the accelerated segment test. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV'10), September 2010. |
| [5] | Werner Maier, Fengqing Bao, Elmar Mair, Eckehard Steinbach, and Darius Burschka. Illumination-invariant image-based novelty detection in a cognitive mobile robot's environment. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2010 (ICRA'10), May 2010. |
| [6] | Elmar Mair, Klaus H. Strobl, Tim Bodenmüller, Michael Suppa, and Darius Burschka. Real-time image-based localization for hand-held 3d-modeling. Künstliche Intelligenz, 24, May 2010. [ DOI ] |
| [7] | Elmar Mair and Darius Burschka. Mobile Robots Navigation, chapter Zinf - Monocular Localization Algorithm with Uncertainty Analysis for Outdoor Applications, pages 107 - 130. In-Tech, March 2010. |
| [8] | Elmar Mair, Klaus H. Strobl, Michael Suppa, and Darius Burschka. Efficient camera-based pose estimation for real-time applications. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2009 (IROS'09), October 2009. |
| [9] | Klaus H. Strobl, Elmar Mair, Tim Bodenmüller, Simon Kielhöfer, Wolfgang Sepp, Michael Suppa, Darius Burschka, and Gerd Hirzinger. The self-referenced dlr 3d-modeler. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2009 (IROS'09), October 2009. |
| [10] | Werner Maier, Elmar Mair, Darius Burschka, and Eckehard Steinbach. Visual homing and surprise detection for cognitive mobile robots using image-based environment representations. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2009 (ICRA'09), May 2009. |
| [11] | Werner Maier, Elmar Mair, Darius Burschka, and Eckehard Steinbach. Surprise detection and visual homing in cognitive technical systems. In 1st International Workshop on Cognition for Technical Systems, October 2008. |
| [12] | Elmar Mair, Werner Maier, Darius Burschka, and Eckehard Steinbach. Image-based environment perception for cognitive technical systems. In 1st International Workshop on Cognition for Technical Systems, October 2008. |
| [13] | Darius Burschka and Elmar Mair. Direct pose estimation with a monocular camera. In RobVis, pages 440-453, 2008. [ .pdf ] |
| [14] | Darius Burschka and Elmar Mair. Biologically motivated optical flow-based navigation. In Workshop Biological Models in Spatial Cognition 2008, 2008. |