Research Assistant

E-Mail	erwin.roth@in.tum.de
Room	MI 03.07.054
Phone	+49.89.289.18105
Mobile	+49.15158402054
Fax	+49.89.289.18107
Address	Institut für Informatik VI Technische Universität München Boltzmannstraße 3 85748 Garching bei München Germany

Dipl.-Ing. Erwin Roth

Curriculum Vitæ

2009 - present	Ingolstadt Institute of Technische Universität München (INI.TUM) Research Assistant (Phd. candidate) at the chair of Robotics and Embedded Systems under Prof. Knoll Project "Development of realistic sensor models for testing predictive safety functions in virtual reality environments" in cooperation with AUDI AG
2008	Diploma in Mechanical Engineering (Mechatronics and Information Systems), Technical University of Munich
2000 - 2008	IT-Consulting and project management for international telecommunication enterprises in China and Brazil as freelancer
1993 - 1997	Apprenticeship at Siemens Nixdorf AG as Information Systems Engineer

Research Interests

Computer vision
Sensor models and fusion
Virtual reality simulation tools
Model based tracking
GPU programming
Robotics and real-time control

Presentations

Scientific Knowledge and Reference Management with Zotero (pdf)

Project

Simulation based testing of predictive safety functions with realistic sensor models

Publications

[1]	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.
[2]	Giorgio Panin, Erwin Roth, and Alois Knoll. Robust contour-based object tracking integrating color and edge likelihoods. In International Workshop on Vision, Modeling and Visualization (VMV), Konstanz, Germany, October 2008. (.pdf )
[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]	Erwin Roth, Giorgio Panin, and Alois Knoll. Sampling feature points for contour tracking with graphics hardware. In International Workshop on Vision, Modeling and Visualization (VMV), Konstanz, Germany, October 2008.
[5]	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.