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Present: I work as a researcher for the Intelligent Autonomous Systems group, part of the Computer Science department IX, Technische Universität München. My PhD supervisor is Prof. Michael Beetz, PhD. I'm involved in the CoTeSys cluster of excellence. I'm also affiliated with Prof. Odest Chadwicke Jenkins and the Robotics group at Brown University, Providence, RI, where I've been a visiting researcher from March 2009 until June 2009.
Past: I obtained my Diploma (equivalent to M.Sc.) in Computer Science from the Technische Universität München (Munich, Germany) in 2005. During my studies I have been focusing mainly on Mobile Robotics, Computer Vision and Efficient Algorithms. The title of my thesis has been "Stereo Vision for Collision Avoidance and Plane Estimation in Mobile Robots".

My current field of interest is Computer Vision and Robotics, where I work on markerless methods for Human Motion Capture in typical (living) environments. My research aims at fast, accurate and reliable recognition and tracking of arbitrary human motions. I'm also interested in low-dimensional representations of human motion for advanced motion priors and activity recognition. Intended areas of application are Activity and Intention Recognition in Smart Environments, Motion Analysis and Industrial Ergonomic Studies.

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Recent talks: The slides for my invited talks at Carnegie Mellon University (March 30, 2009) and Brown University (May 6, 2009) are available from here.

Current Research Projects

  • MeMoMan : Methods for Real-time Accurate Model-based Measurement of Human Motion: Tracking of human full-body motions.
  • COP : Cognitive Perception for CoTeSys: Part of the CoTeSys cluster of excellence.

Former Research Projects

  • ASPOGAMO : Automated Sport Game Analysis Model: Robust visual detection and tracking of football players from broadcasted video.

Teaching

Please go to my teaching page for an overview on my teaching assignments, as well as for a list of available or assigned student projects (SEPs, BAs, DAs, MAs).

Selected Publications

  • Jan Bandouch , Florian Engstler, Michael Beetz , Evaluation of Hierarchical Sampling Strategies in 3D Human Pose Estimation, 2008, Proceedings of the 19th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC),
    (BibTeX) (PDF)
  • Jan Bandouch , Florian Engstler, Michael Beetz , Accurate Human Motion Capture Using an Ergonomics-Based Anthropometric Human Model, 2008, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects (AMDO),
    (BibTeX) (PDF)

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