Research Assistant

E-Mail	jensen@cs.tum.edu
Room	HB 2.02.21
Phone	+49.89.289.17626
Fax	+49.89.289.18107
Mailing Address	Institut für Informatik VI Technische Universität München Boltzmannstraße 3 85748 Garching bei München Germany
Office	Parkring 13 85748 Garching-Hochbrück

Dipl. Informatiker Brian Jensen

Curriculum Vitæ

2002	High School Diploma from Pinckney Community High School, Michigan, U.S.A.
2004	Allgemeine Hochschulreife at the Studienkolleg München, Germany
2010	Diplom in Computer Science at the Technische Universität München
2010 - 2011	Software Specialist at BMW Car IT GmbH
Since 2012	Research Assistant / PhD. Candidate at the Technische Universität München

Research Interests

Computer Vision
- 3D reconstruction and Stereo Vision
- Image Segmentation and Denoising
- Object Detection and Classification
Convex Optimization Techniques
Machine Learning
GPGPU and High Performance Computing

Research Project

Single Port Technology for Gastroenterological Minimally Invasive Procedures

Robotic Perception Talks

Current coordinator of the Robotic Perception Talks.

Teaching

Summer Term 2014	Lab Course: Computer Vision for Robotics
Winter Term 2013 / 2014	Lab Course: Computer Vision for Robotics
Summer Term 2013	Lab Course: Computer Vision for Robotics
Winter Term 2012 / 2013	Seminar: Vision, Control and Human Machine Interation in Robotic Surgery Lab Course: Computer Vision for Robotics
Summer Term 2012	TA for Algorithms and Data Structures (Grundlagen Algorithmen und Datenstrukturen)

Running and completed student projects

	Master Thesis	Human Pose Detection and Clothing Recognition in Fashion Images Student: Sebastian Lerch, Advisor: Dipl. Inf. Brian Jensen, Dipl. Inf. Philipp Heise, Supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alois Knoll
	Bachelor Thesis	3D Ground Truth Data Generation with Blender Framework Student: Kevin Sawischa, Advisor: Dipl. Inf. Philipp Heise, Dipl. Inf. Brian Jensen, Supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alois Knoll
	Bachelor Thesis	Implementation of Deep Belief Networks für Object Recognition Student: Robert Brünig, Advisor: Dipl. Inf. Brian Jensen, Dipl. Inf. Philipp Heise, Supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alois Knoll
	Bachelor Thesis	Face Alignment using Shape Regression Student: Benedikt Brandner, Advisor: Dipl. Inf. Philipp Heise, Dipl. Inf. Brian Jensen, Supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alois Knoll
	Master Thesis	Random Decision Forrests for Object Detection Student: Michael Reitmeier, Advisor: Dipl. Inf. Philipp Heise, Dipl. Inf. Brian Jensen, Supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alois Knoll
	Master Thesis	Direct Visual Odometry for a Mobile Platform Student: Julian Tatsch, Adisor: Dipl. Inf. Brian Jensen, Dipl. Inf. Philipp Heise, Supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alois Knoll
	Bachelor Thesis	Development of a software tool for the annotation of automotive sensor-data Student: Simon Rummert, Advisor: Dipl. Inf. Philipp Heise, Dipl. Inf. Brian Jensen, Dipl. Inf. Andreas Hildisch, Supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alois Knoll
	Master Thesis	Visual SLAM with a Robotino Student: Benedikt Heck, Advisor: Dipl. Inf. Brian Jensen, Dipl. Inf. Philipp Heise, Supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alois Knoll
	Master Thesis	Monocular Visual SLAM for Robotic Surgery Student: Hanafy Eisa, Advisor: Dipl. Inf. Brian Jensen, Dipl. Inf. Philipp Heise, Supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alois Knoll
	Master Thesis	Visual Odometry Estimation Based on Mutual Information Student: Burcu Karadeniz, Advisor: Dipl. Inf. Philipp Heise, Dipl. Inf. Brian Jensen, Supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alois Knoll
	Bachelor Thesis	Camera Pose Estimation from Non Sequential Images Student: Fabian Manhardt, Advisor: Dipl. Inf. Philipp Heise, Dipl. Inf. Brian Jensen, Supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alois Knoll
	Master Thesis	Random decision forests for detection and classification Student: Matthias Wisniowski, Advisor: Dipl. Inf. Philipp Heise, Dipl. Inf. Brian Jensen, Supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alois Knoll
	Master Thesis	Sensor Data Fusion Framework for Vehicle State Estimation Student: Julian Löchner, Advisor: Dr. rer. nat. Oliver Scheickl, Dipl. Inf. Brian Jensen, Dipl. Inf. Sebastian Klose, Supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alois Knoll
	Interdisciplinary Project In Medicine	Surgical Gesture Classification from Video Data Student: Daniele Casaburo Advisor: Dipl. Inf. Brian Jensen, Dr. med. Michael Kranzfelder Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hubertus Feußner
	Master Thesis	3D reconstruction of dynamic and static objects in automotive environments Student: Donato Sciarra, Advisor: Dipl. Inf. Brian Jensen, Dipl. Inf. Philipp Heise, Dipl. Inf. Sebastian Klose, , Dipl. Inf. Andreas Hildisch, Supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alois Knoll
	Interdisciplinary Project In Medicine	3D Visualization for Robotic Surgery Student: Stefan Bartels Advisor: Dipl. Inf. Brian Jensen, Dr. Christoph Staub, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Robert Bauernschmitt
	Interdisciplinary Project In Medicine	3D Visualization for Robotic Surgery Student: Johannes Mikulasch Advisor: Dipl. Inf. Brian Jensen, Dr. Christoph Staub, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Robert Bauernschmitt
	Bachelor Thesis	3D Stereo Reconstruction using Structured Light Student: Daniel Malovetz, Advisor: Dr. Christoph Staub, Dipl. Inf. Brian Jensen, Supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alois Knoll

Publications

[1]	Hubertus Feussner, Sebastian Koller, Brian Jensen, and Morteza Hashemi Farzaneh. Kombinierte viszeralmedizinische und transvaskulaere eingriffe. Technical Report TUM-I1635, TUM, Robotics and Embedded Systems, 2016. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[2]	Philipp Heise, Brian Jensen, Sebastian Klose, and Alois Knoll. Variational PatchMatch MultiView Reconstruction and Refinement. In International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), December 2015. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[3]	Philipp Heise, Brian Jensen, Sebastian Klose, and Alois Knoll. Fast Dense Stereo Correspondences by Binary Locality Sensitive Hashing. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2015. [ .bib ]
[4]	Mattias Träger, Daniel Roppenecker, Brian Jensen, Salman Can, Alois Knoll, and Tim Lueth. Interdisciplinary concept of design, actuation, control and vision computing of a laser-sintered single-port robot. In Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), 2014 4th IEEE RAS EMBS International Conference on, 2014. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[5]	Philipp Heise, Sebastian Klose, Brian Jensen, and Alois Knoll. PM-Huber: PatchMatch with Huber Regularization for Stereo Matching. In International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), December 2013. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[6]	Oliver Weede, Frank Dittrich, Brian Jensen, Alois Knoll, Dirk Wilhelm, Michael Kranzfelder, Hubertus Feussner, Armin Schneider, and Heinz Wörn. Workflow analysis and surgical phase recognition in minimally invasive surgery. In Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2012 IEEE International Conference on. IEEE, December 2012. [ DOI \| .bib \| .pdf ]
[7]	S. Can, B. Jensen, E. Dean-Leon, C. Staub, A. Knoll, A. Fiolka, A. Schneider, A. Meining, and H. Feussner. Kinematics, control and workspace analysis of a bowden wire actuated manipulator for minimally invasive single-port surgery. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO). IEEE, 2012. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[8]	C. Staub, S. Can, B. Jensen, A. Knoll, and S. Kohlbecher. Human-computer interfaces for interaction with surgical tools in robotic surgery. In Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), 2012 4th IEEE RAS EMBS International Conference on, pages 81-86, june 2012. [ DOI \| .bib \| .pdf ]
[9]	C. Staub, C. Lenz, B. Jensen, S. Can, A. Knoll, and R. Bauernschmitt. Micro camera augmented endoscopic instruments: Towards superhuman performance in remote surgical cutting. In Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, pages 2000-2006, oct. 2012. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[10]	Martina Marinelli, Axel Martinez-Möller, Brian Jensen, Vincenzo Positano, Susanne Weismüller, , Luigi Navab, Nassir Landini, Markus Schwaiger, and Stephan Nekolla. Registration of myocardial PET and SPECT for viability assessment using mutual information. Medical Physics, 37(6):2414-2424, June 2010. [ DOI \| .bib \| .pdf ]
[11]	Axel Martinez-Möller, Brian Jensen, Nassir Navab, Markus Schwaiger, and Stephan Nekolla. Automatic cardiac PET-SPECT and SPECT-SPECT registration. Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 49(1):31, June 2008. [ .bib ]