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

Open Student Projects

	DA, MA, BA	Simulation of MICROSOFT KINECT Sensor Characteristics using Ray Tracing Advisor: Dipl.-Ing. Erwin Roth, Supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alois Knoll
	BA, DA, MA	Realitätsnahes CCD-Kamera Sensormodell auf Basis von GPU Echtzeit Ray Tracing Advisor: Dipl.-Ing. Erwin Roth, Supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alois Knoll
	DA, MA	Photonic Mixer Device (PMD) Sensormodell auf Basis von GPU Echtzeit Ray Tracing Advisor: Dipl.-Ing. Erwin Roth, Supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alois Knoll
	DA, MA	RADAR Sensormodell auf Basis von GPU Echtzeit Ray Tracing Advisor: Dipl.-Ing. Erwin Roth, Supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alois Knoll

Curriculum Vitæ

2009 - present	Ingolstadt Institute of Technische Universität München (INI.TUM) Research Assistant (Ph.D. 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), Technische Universität München
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
Perception Sensor models and Data Fusion
Object Tracking
Machine Learning
Robotics and real-time control
3D Environment Simulation Tools
Real-time Ray Tracing / GPU programming
Physics Simulation Tools

Presentations

Scientific Knowledge and Reference Management with Zotero (pdf)

Project

Simulation based testing of predictive safety functions with realistic sensor models

Publications

[1]	Erwin Roth, Tobias Dirndorfer, Kilian v. Neumann-Cosel, Marc-Oliver Fischer, Thomas Ganslmeier, Andreas Kern, and Alois Knoll. Analysis and validation of perception sensor models in an integrated vehicle and environment simulation. In Proceedings of the 22nd Enhanced Safety of Vehicles Conference, 2011. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[2]	Giorgio Panin, Thorsten Roder, Erwin Roth, Claus Lenz, Suraj Nair, Sebastian Klose, Thomas Muller, Thomas Friedlhuber, Martin Wojtczyk, and Alois Knoll. The opentl library for model-based visual tracking (demo session). In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), San Francisco (CA), June 2010. [ .bib ]
[3]	Tobias Dirndorfer, Erwin Roth, Kilian von Neumann-Cosel, Christian Weiss, and Alois Knoll. Simulation environment for the development of predictive safety systems. In Proceedings of the FISITA 2010 - World Automotive Congress, 2010. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[4]	Thomas Ganslmeier, Mirko Nentwig, Erwin Roth, and Kilian von Neumann-Cosel. Vehicle environment simulation using realistic road networks for predictive driver assistance systems. In Proceedings of the FISITA 2010 - World Automotive Congress, 2010. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[5]	Erwin Roth, Tobias Dirndorfer, Kilian von Neumann-Cosel, Alois Knoll, Thomas Ganslmeier, Andreas Kern, and Christian Weiss. Analyse und Validierung vorausschauender Sensormodelle in einer integrierten Fahrzeug- und Umfeldsimulation. In VDI Berichte 2104, 2010. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[6]	Thomas Ganslmeier, Krystian Zawicki, Andreas Kern, Erwin Roth, and Kilian von Neumann-Cosel. Simulationsgestütztes Entwickeln und Testen vorausschauender Assistenzfunktionen. In VDI Berichte 2106, 2010. [ .bib ]
[7]	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, 2009. ACM. [ DOI \| .bib \| .pdf ]
[8]	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, 2008. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[9]	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, 2008. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[10]	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, 2008. [ .bib \| .pdf ]
[11]	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, 2008. [ .bib \| .pdf ]