Research Assistant

E-Mail	muelleth@cs.tum.edu
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
Homepage	http://www6.in.tum.de/~muelleth/

Office Location

Curriculum Vitæ

*Personal Information*
Birth Date	04-15-1980
Resident of	Munich, Germany
*Professional Experiences*
2007 - present	Research Assistant at TUM (Ph.D. student) for JAST SFB 453 - T4
2006 - 2007	Student trainee at JAST research project at TUM
2005 - 2007	Student trainee at beck et al. projects GmbH
2006	Founder of m development + consulting
2005 - 2006	Student trainee at BMW M GmbH
*Research Interests*
Computer Vision	Attention-Based Early Processing Probabilistic Approaches Adaptive Segmentation Color Constancy Object and Gesture Recognition and Tracking Automotive 3D Environment Perception
Robotics	Handling of Limp Objects Lie Algebras and Screw Theory for Robot Control Image- and Position-Based Visual Servoing
System Design	Bio-inspired Design Cognitive Architectures Parallelization of Vision Systems Distributed Visual Processing Virtualization for Cross-Platform Development

Publications

[1]	Thomas Müller and Alois Knoll. Virtualization techniques for cross platform automated software builds, tests and deployment. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Software Engineering Advances, Porto, Portugal, September 2009. to appear.
[2]	Thomas Müller and Alois Knoll. Attention driven visual processing for an interactive dialog robot. In Proceedings of the 24th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, March 2009. to appear.
[3]	Thomas Müller and Alois Knoll. Bioinspired early visual processing: The attention condensation mechanism. In Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, Canberra, Australia, December 2008. to appear.
[4]	Thomas Müller and Alois Knoll. Humanoid early visual processing using attention mechanisms. In Proceedings of Cognitive Humanoid Vision WS at IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Daejeon, Korea, December 2008. to appear. (.pdf )
[5]	Pujan Ziaie, Thomas Müller, and Alois Knoll. A novel approach to hand-gesture recognition in a human-robot dialog system. In Proceedings of the First Intl. Workshop on Image Processing Theory, Tools & Applications, Sousse, Tunesia, November 2008. to appear. (.pdf )
[6]	Mary Ellen Foster, Manuel Giuliani, Thomas Müller, Markus Rickert, Alois Knoll, Wolfram Erlhagen, Estela Bicho, Nzoji Hipólito, and Luis Louro. Combining goal inference and natural-language dialogue for human-robot joint action. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Combinations of Intelligent Methods and Applications, 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Patras, Greece, July 2008. (.pdf )
[7]	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 )
[8]	Thomas Müller, Pujan Ziaie, and Alois Knoll. A wait-free realtime system for optimal distribution of vision tasks on multicore architectures. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, Funchal, Portugal, May 2008. (.pdf )
[9]	Pujan Ziaie, Thomas Müller, Mary Ellen Foster, and Alois Knoll. A naïve bayes classifier with distance weighting for hand-gesture recognition. In Proceedings of the 13th International CSI Computer Conference (CSICC 2008), Kish Island, Iran, March 2008. (.pdf )