Research Assistant

E-Mail	maire@in.tum.de
Room	MI 03.07.041
Phone	+49.89.289.18132
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/~maire/

Elmar Mair, M.Sc.

Curriculum Vitæ

1983: born in Bruneck, Italy.
2005: Bachelor of Science in Informatics
2007: Master of Science in Informatics
Since December 2007: research assistant at the group for Machine Vision and Perception (at the chair of Robotics and Embedded Systems), Technische Universität München
- Dissertation (working title): Cooperative Exploration with Self-Configurable Sensor Systems

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

Some details about current projects are available at the MVP homepage.

Awards

Best Paper Finalist at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2009
Siemens Award 2007 for the best Master's Thesis in Informatics at the Technische Universität München (TUM)

Publications

[1]	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, October 2009.
[2]	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, October 2009.
[3]	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, May 2009.
[4]	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.
[5]	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.
[6]	Darius Burschka and Elmar Mair. Direct pose estimation with a monocular camera. In RobVis, pages 440-453, 2008.
[7]	Darius Burschka and Elmar Mair. Biologically motivated optical flow-based navigation. In Workshop Biological Models in Spatial Cognition 2008, 2008.