Here you find a list of theses I have supervised. My goal is to
bring students in their thesis close to state of the art research,
such that we can write a publication based on the thesis. This page
contains a backlist of my supervised theses, including the
publications with results produced in these theses. Instructions for
writing a thesis under my supervision, you can find on
my Frequently Asked Questions page on
this topic. If you want to write a thesis under my supervision,
contact me by email
.
I have always topics for a thesis.
Currently Supervised
Keidra Dibra, Iurie Tap, Remus Dumitru, Daniel Mihai, Mihai Cotizo Sima (all B.Sc.)
Mohammad Faisal (M.Sc.)
2011
Hassan Afzal.
Coloring 3D scans with thermal information
M.Sc., Computer Science, Jacobs
University Bremen, submitted August
2011. Hassan did ??? afterwards.
HamidReza Houshair.
Panoramic Image Projection for SIFT based
3D scan Registration M.Sc., Computer
Science, Jacobs University Bremen, submitted
August 2011. HamidReza stayed in my lab and
started PhD studies.
Flavia Grosan and Alexandru Tandrau.
Object Identification using 3D Google
SketchUp Models in Environment Scans
B.Sc., Computer Science, Jacobs University
Bremen, submitted May 2011. Flavia Grosan
and Alexandru started their Master's studies
at EPFL.
Corresponding publication:
Flavia Grosan, Alexandru Tandrau, and
Andreas Nüchter. Localizing Google SketchUp Models in
Outdoor 3D Scans, In Proceedings of the XXIII
International Symposium on Information, Communication and
Automation Technologies, Sarajevo, Bosnia, October 2010,
[Get
Paper]
[Get Video 1 (youtube)]
[Get Video 2 (youtube)].
Ulugbek Makhmudov. Nearest Neighbor Search
for ICP and SLAM B.Sc., Computer Science, Jacobs
University Bremen, submitted May 2011. Ulugbek did ??? afterwards.
Diana Babiac. Accuracy of "Building
Bremen in a Day" B.Sc., Computer Science, Jacobs
University Bremen, submitted May 2011. Diana continued studying
at TU Munich.
Prashant K.C. 3D
Mapping of the Jacobs University Bremen
B.Sc., Computer Science, Jacobs
University Bremen, submitted May 2011. Prashant
went to clever
soft afterwards.
Oliver Dunkley and Billy
Okal. A Cheap Chess Robot : Planning and
Perception B.Sc., Computer Science, Jacobs
University Bremen, submitted May 2011. Oliver
moved to Berlin after finishing his thesis and
Billy stayed in my lab for doing his M.Sc.
Corresponding publication:
Oliver Dunkley and Billy Okal.
Development of a Cheap Chess Robot: Planning and
Perception. In Informatiktage 2012, Fachwissenschaftlicher
Informatik-Kongress Lecture Notes in Informatics, Bonn,
Germany, March 2012
[Get
Paper (PDF)].
2010
Elena Digor, Autonomous
exploration of an unknown environment with a
continuously rotating scanner
M.Sc. Jacobs University Bremen, submitted
August 2010, Elena went
to google
Zürich as an intern while finishing her
thesis and continued to work there.
Corresponding publication:
Elena Digor, Andreas Birk, and Andreas Nüchter
Exploration Strategies for a Robot with a Continously Rotating 3D
Scanner, In Proceedings of the Second International Conference
on Simulation, Modeling and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR
'10), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 6472/2010, ISBN-13
978-3-642-17318-9, pages 374-386, Darmstadt, Germany, November 2010,
[Get
Paper]
[Get
Video 1 (MPEG)]
[Get
Video 1 (MPEG)].
Seyedshams
Feyzabadi, GPU-accelerated SLAM6D Master
thesis, M.Sc. Jacobs University Bremen,
submitted September 2010, Shams accepted an
offer
from DFKI
Bremen - Robotics Innovation Center
Corresponding publication:
Andreas Nüchter, Seyedshams Feyzabadi,
Deyuan Qiu, and Stefan May. SLAM à la carte GPGPU for
Globally Consistent Scan Matching. In Proceedings of the 4th
European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR '11), Örebro, Sweden,
September 2011
[Get
Paper (PDF)].
Darko
Mareshanski, Automatic marker-free
registration of terrestrial laser scans
based on SIFT features from reflectance
images,
[PDF],
B.Sc., Computer Science, Jacobs University
Bremen, submitted May 2010, Darko continued
studying computer
science at ETH Zürich.
Stanislav Gutev, Merging
3D laser scans on the basis of skyline
curvature extractionsD, B.Sc. Computer
Science, Jacobs University Bremen, submitted
May 2010, Stanislav continued his studies of
informatics
in Edinburgh.
Corresponding publication:
Andreas Nüchter, Stanislav Gutev, Dorit Borrmann, and Jan Elseberg.
Skyline-based Registration of 3D Laser Scans.
Proceedings of the Joint ISPRS workshop on 3D city modelling &
applications and the 6th 3D GeoInfo (3DCMA '11), Wuhan, China,
2011,
[Get
Paper (PDF)].
Stefan Lucian Rosu, OpenMP
in SLAM6D, B.Sc. Computer Science, Jacobs
University Bremen, submitted May 2010, Stefan
did ???
Shaan Rauniyar, Life-long
3D Mapping, B.Sc., Computer Science,
Jacobs University Bremen, submitted May 2010,
Shaan went
to clever
soft afterwards.
Corresponding publication:
Dorit Borrmann, Jan Elseberg, Shaan S. Rauniyar,
and Andreas Nüchter. Lifelong 3D Mapping – Monitoring
with a 3D Scanner, In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ IROS Workshop
on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring, Taipei, Taiwan, October
2010. [Get
Paper]. [Note: This workshop was canceled, but the
organizers decided to publish all reviewed and accepted papers
online. Please
use this link to visit
the workshop webpage.
Hozefa Indorweala, Volume
calculation for 3D Mine Mapping
B.Sc., Computer Science, Jacobs University
Bremen, submitted May 2010, Hozefa started to
work
for Robotics
Equipment Corporation (REC) afterwards.
2009
Sven Albrecht, An Analysis of Visual
Mono-SLAM,
[PDF],
M.Sc. Computer Science, University of Osnabrück,
submitted October 2009, Sven became a PhD student in Osnabrück.
Dorit Borrmann and Jan Elseberg, Deforming Scans
for Improving the Map Quality using Plane Extraction and Thin Plate
Splines
[PDF],
M.Sc., Computer Science, University of Osnabrück,
submitted August 2009, Dorit and Jan
became my first two PhD students at Jacobs University.
Corresponding publication:
Jan Elseberg, Dorit Borrmann, Andreas
Nüchter, and Kai Lingemann. Non-Rigid Registration and
Rectification of 3D Laser Scans, In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS
'10), ISBN 978-1-4244-6676-4, pages 1546-1552, Taipei, Taiwan,
October 2010,
[Get
Paper].
Jochen Sprickerhof, Effizientes Schleifenschließen
mit sechs Freiheitsgraden in Laserscans von mobilen Robotern - Die ELCH
(Explicit Loop Closing) Heuristik [PDF],
Dipl.-Systemwiss., University of Osnabrück. Jochen became a doctoral student at
University of Osnabrück and is supervised by Prof. Dr. Joachim Hertzberg and me.
Corresponding publication:
Jochen Sprickerhof, Andreas Nüchter, Kai
Lingemann, Joachim Hertzberg. An Explicit Loop Closing Technique
for 6D SLAM, In Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on
Mobile Robots (ECMR '09), Mlini/Dubrovnic, Croatia, September
2009. [Get
Paper (PDF)] [Get Videos].
Vlad Ion Iancu, Environment for Laser Scanner
Simulation, Guided Research for B.Sc. Jacobs University Bremen,
submitted May 2009, Vlad continued studying EE at Jacobs University Bremen.
2008
Peter Schneider, 3D-Scan-Registrierung auf
Basis der Helixtranslation [PDF],
Dipl.-Inform. (Computervisualistik), University of Koblenz-Landau,
submitted September 2008, Peter started to work for NOBAB GmbH afterwards.
Corresponding publication:
Andreas Nüchter, Jan Elseberg, Peter
Schneider, and Dietrich Paulus. Linearization of Rotations for
Globally Consistent n-Scan Matching, in Proceedings of
the IEEE International Conference Robotics and Automation (ICRA
'10), ISBN 978-1-4244-5040-4, pages 1373-1379, Anchorage, Alaska,
May 2010,
[Get
Paper (PDF)].
Andreas Nüchter, Jan Elseberg, Peter
Schneider, and Dietrich Paulus. Study of Parameterizations for the
Rigid Body Transformations of The Scan Registration Problem,
Journal Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU),
Elsevier Science, Volume 114, Issue 8, pp. 963-980, ISSN 1077-3142,
August
2010. [Get
Paper (PDF)]
[Elsevier
Link with supplementary content].
2007
Thomas Wiemann, Automatische Rekonstruktion
Planarer 3D-Umgebungen [PDF],
M.Sc. Physics / Computer Sciene, University of Osnabrück,
submitted September 2007. Thomas continued his research here in
Osnabrück in our lab in Osnabrück and at the technical University of
Braunschweig in the RoboRithmics
project. He received a young researcher's award (Karmann
Innovations-Förderpreis) of University of Osnabrück, donated
by Karmann,
for his contribution to a method for automatic reconstruction of
planar 3D surfaces. (Press
Release young researcher's awards ceremony)
2006
Nils Rosemann, Formvergleich auf
2D-Laserscandaten als Trackingverfahren [PDF],
M.Sc. Physics / Computer Sciene, University of Osnabrück,
submitted December 2006. Nils continued his research at PhD-level at
University of Osnabrück with Prof. Brockmann.
David Engelhardt, Webinterface zur Steuerung
eines Rettungsroboters, [PDF],
B.Sc. Mathematics / Computer Science,
University of Osnabrück, submitted October 2006. After finishing
his thesis, David started studying Computer Science at master level at
University of Osnabrück.
Lars Kunze, Visual Features to Help Close the
Loop in 6D-SLAM [PDF],
B.Sc. Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, submitted
October 2006. After finishing his thesis, Lars started studying
Computer Science at master level at University of
Osnabrück and at the Technische Universität München.
Corresponding publication:
Lars Kunze, Kai Lingemann, Andreas Nüchter, and
Joachim Hertzberg. Salient Visual Features to Help Close the Loop
in 6D SLAM, in Proceedings of the ICVS Workshop on
Computational Attention & Applications (WCAA '07), Bielefeld,
Germany, ISBN 978-3-00-020933-8, March 2007, [Get
Paper (PDF)].
Dorit Borrmann and Jan Elseberg, Global
konsistente 3D Kartierung am Beispiel des Botanischen Gartens in
Osnabrück [PDF],
B.Sc. Mathematics / Computer Science, University of Osnabrück,
submitted October 2006. After finishing their thesis, Dorit and Jan
continued their studies at master level at University of
Osnabrück.
Corresponding publications:
Dorit Borrmann, Jan Elseberg, Kai Lingemann, Andreas
Nüchter, and Joachim Hertzberg. The Efficient Extension of
Globally Consistent Scan Matching to 6 DoF. In
Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on 3D Data
Processing, Visualization and Transmission (3DPVT '08), Available
electronically as Tech Report GT-IC-08-05
from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, pages
29-36, June 2008 [Get
Paper] [Get
Video].
Dorit Borrmann, Jan Elseberg, Kai Lingemann, Andreas
Nüchter and Joachim Hertzberg.
Globally consistent 3D mapping with scan matching.Journal
of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 56, Issue 2, pages 130 -
142, February 2008, [ScienceDirect
Link] [Get Paper] [Get
Videos].
Nadja Müller, HRI für
Rettungsroboter: Empirische Evaluation, Re-Design und Spezifikation
der Operatorschnittstelle eines Robocup Rescue Roboters [PDF],
M.Sc. Cognitive Sciene, University of Osnabrück, submitted May
2006. After finishing her thesis, Nadia joint Microsoft
Ireland, doing software localization.
Robert Märtin, Towards Ground Truth
Disparity Maps of Natural Scenes: Combining Laser Range Scans and
Stereo Images [PDF],
B.Sc. Cognitive Sciene, University of Osnabrück, submitted March
2006. After finishing his thesis, Robert continued his research with
Prof. Peter König in Osnabrück.
Johannes S. Steger, Fusion of 3D Laser Scans and Stereo
Images for Disparity Maps of Natural Scenes [PDF],
B.Sc. Cognitive Sciene, University of Osnabrück, submitted March
2006. After finishing his thesis, Johannes continued his research with
Prof. Peter König in Osnabrück.
Corresponding publications:
Johannes Steger, Robert Märtin, Kai Lingemann,
Andreas Nüchter, Joachim Hertzberg, and Peter
König. Laser range scans of natural scenes for the evaluation
of stereo- matching algorithms. Poster at ICVS Workshop From
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to Computer Vision (CCNCV
'07) Bielefeld, Germany, March 2007.
Johannes Steger, Robert Märtin, Kai Lingemann,
Andreas Nüchter, Joachim Hertzberg, and Peter
König. Assessing stereo matching algorithms using ground-truth
disparity maps of natural scenes, (Poster), in Proceedings of
the 7th Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society / 31th
Göttingen Neurobiology Conference, Neuroforum 2007,
Göttingen, Germany, 2007.
Stefan Stiene, Konturbasierte Objekterkennung
aus Tiefenbildern eines 3D-Laserscanner, [PDF],
M.Sc. Physics / Computer Sciene, University of Osnabrück,
submitted January 2006. Stefan continued his research at PhD-level at
University of Osnabrück and is responsible for the LISA
project.
Corresponding publication:
Stefan Stiene, Kai Lingemann, Andreas Nüchter, and Joachim
Hertzberg.
Contour-based Object Detection in Range Images, in
Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Symposium on 3D Data
Processing, Visualization and Transmission (3DPVT '05), CDROM Proceedings, June
2006. [Get
Paper (PDF)]
2005
Kai Pervölz, Object Classification and
Object Identification as a Combinded Approach, M.Sc. in Autonomous
Systems, University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, submitted
October 2005. Kai continued his research at PhD-level at the
Fraunhofer Institute IAIS.
Corresponding publications:
Sara Mitri, Simone Frintrop, Kai Pervölz,
Hartmut Surmann, and Andreas Nüchter. Robust Object Detection at
Regions of Interest with an Application in Ball Recognition, in
Proceedings IEEE 2005 International Conference Robotics and Automation (ICRA '05),
ISBN 0-7803-8915-8, pages 126 - 131,
Barcelona, Spain, April 2005, [Get
Paper (PDF)] [Get
Paper (HTML)].
Sara Mitri, Kai Pervölz, Hartmut Surmann, and
Andreas Nüchter. Fast Color-Independent Ball Detection for
Mobile Robots, in Proceedings of the IEEE International
Conference Mechatronics and Robotics 2004 (MechRob '04), ISBN
3-938153-50-X, pages 900 - 905, Aachen, Germany, September 2004. [Get
Paper (PDF)] [Get
Paper (HTML)]
2004
Kai Lingemann, Schnelles Pose-Tracking auf Laserscan-Daten für
autonome mobile Roboter, Dipl-Inform., University of Bonn,
submitted January 2004. Kai became my office mate and we are doing
joint research.
Corresponding publication:
Kai Lingemann, Andreas Nüchter, Joachim Hertzberg,
and Hartmut Surmann. High-Speed Laser Localization for Mobile Robots,
Journal Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 51(4):275-296, 2005
[ScienceDirect
link] [Get
Paper (PDF)].
Kai Lingemann, Hartmut Surmann, Andreas
Nüchter, and Joachim Hertzberg. Indoor and Outdoor
Localization for Fast Mobile Robots, in Proceedings of the
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
(IROS '04), ISBN 0-7803-8464-4, pages 2185 - 2190, Sendai, Japan,
September 2004. [Get
Paper (PDF)]
2003
Kai Pervölz, Ein Kamerasystem zur Fusion
von 3D-Abstandsinformationen mit digitalen Farbbildern,
[PDF],
Dipl-Ing. (FH), University of Applied Sciences Aachen, submitted
August 2003. Kai went to University of applied Sciences
Bonn-Rhein-Sieg and continued his research at Master level.
Corresponding publication:
Kai Pervölz, Andreas Nüchter, Hartmut
Surmann, and Joachim Hertzberg. Automatic Reconstruction of
Colored 3D Models in Proceedings of Robotik 2004,
VDI-Berichte 1841, pages 215 - 222, Munich, Germany, ISBN 3-18-091841-1, June
2004, [Get
Paper (PDF)] [HTML
version].
