Research Assistant

E-Mail	nair@in.tum.de
Room	MI 03.07.057
Phone	+49.89.289.18130
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/~nair/

Suraj Nair, M.Sc.

Curriculum Vitæ

Ph.D. at Technische Universität München since May 2007
Masters in Embedded Systems from Jönkoping Tekniska Högskolan, Sweden and Philips Research Laboratories, The Netherlands, April 2007
Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunications from University of Pune, India, June 2004

Current Research Interests

Visual Tracking
Robotics

Projects

Tracking (OpenTL)
Cosrobe
JAHIR (Joint Action for Humans and Industrial Robots)

Publications

[1]	Suraj Nair, Giorgio Panin, Thorsten Röder, Thomas Friedelhuber, and Alois Knoll. A distributed and scalable person tracking system for robotic visual servoing with 8 dof in virtual reality tv studio automation. In Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Mechatronics and its Applications (ISMA09). IEEE, March 2009. (.pdf )
[2]	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.
[3]	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.
[4]	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.
[5]	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 )
[6]	Martin Wojtczyk, Kushal Abhyankar, Suraj Nair, and Alois Knoll. A computer vision based approach for cell tracking to increase throughput in visual drug discovery. In Natural Product Discovery and Production II, Whistler B.C., Canada, June 2008.
[7]	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.