David Droeschel

Master of Science
Member of research staff in the Autonomous Intelligent Systems Group

Address: 

   David Droeschel
   Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
   Institut für Informatik VI
   Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 144
   53113 Bonn 

Tel:  +49 (0) 228 73-4434
Fax: +49 (0) 228 73-4425 

Email: droeschel _at_ ais.uni-bonn.de

Office: I.08a

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Publications

Papers are ordered chronologically.

In Press / To appear:

• T. Kohoutek, D. Droeschel, R. Mautz, and S. Behnke: Indoor Positioning and Navigation using Time-of-Flight Cameras Accepted for Fabio Remondino and David Stoppa (Eds.): TOF Range Imaging Cameras, Springer, to appear April 2012.

2011

• D. Droeschel and S. Behnke (December, 2011).
  3D Body Pose Estimation using an Adaptive Person Model for Articulated ICP
  In Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA), Aachen, Germany.
  
  
• D. Droeschel, S. May, D. Holz, and S. Behnke (2011).
  Fusing Time-of-Flight Cameras and Inertial Measurement Units for Ego-Motion Estimation
  AUTOMATIKA - Journal for Control, Measurement, Electronics, Computing and Communications, Special Issue on ECMR'09.
  
  
• D. Droeschel, J. Stückler, D. Holz, and S. Behnke (May, 2011).
  Towards Joint Attention for a Domestic Service Robot - Person Awareness and Gesture Recognition using Time-of-Flight Cameras
  In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Shanghai, China.
  Finalist for KUKA Service Robotics Best Paper Award.
  
  
• D. Droeschel, J. Stückler, and S. Behnke (March, 2011).
  Learning to Interpret Pointing Gestures with a Time-of-Flight Camera
  In Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Lausanne, Switzerland.
  
  

2010

• D. Droeschel, D. Holz, and S. Behnke (2010, October).
  Multifrequency Phase Unwrapping for Time-of-Flight Cameras .
  In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Taipei, Taiwan.
  
  
• D. Holz, R. Schnabel, D. Droeschel, J. Stückler, and S. Behnke (2010, June).
  Towards Semantic Scene Analysis with Time-of-Flight Cameras.
  In Proceedings of the 14th RoboCup International Symposium, Singapore.
  
  
• D. Droeschel, D. Holz, and S. Behnke (2010, June).
  Probabilistic Phase Unwrapping for Time-of-Flight Cameras.
  In Proceedings of the joint conference of the 41st International Symposium on Robotics (ISR 2010) and the 6th German Conference on Robotics (ROBOTIK 2010), Munich, Germany, pages 318-324.
  
  
• D. Droeschel, D. Holz, J. Stückler, and S. Behnke (2010, May).
  Using Time-of-Flight Cameras with Active Gaze Control for 3D Collision Avoidance,
  in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, pages 4035-4040.
  
  
• D. Holz, D. Droeschel, S. Behnke, S. May and H. Surmann (2010, March).
  Fast 3D Perception for Collision Avoidance and SLAM in Domestic Environments,
  Mobile Robots Navigation, Alejandra Barrera (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-307-076-6, pages 53-84, IN-TECH Education and Publishing, Vienna, Austria.
  
  

2009

• S. May, D. Droeschel, D. Holz, S. Fuchs, E. Malis, A. Nüchter and J. Hertzberg (2009, November/December) .
  Three-Dimensional Mapping with Time-of-Flight Cameras.
  Journal of Field Robotics (JFR), Special Issue on Three-dimensional Mapping, Part 2. Volume 26, issues 11-12, pages 934-965.
  
  
• S. May, S. Fuchs, D. Droeschel, D. Holz and A. Nüchter (2009, October).
  Robust 3D-Mapping with Time-of-Flight Cameras.
  In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), St. Louis, Missouri, USA, pages 1673-1678.
  
  
• D. Droeschel, S. May, D. Holz, P. Ploeger and S. Behnke (2009, September).
  Robust Ego-Motion Estimation with ToF Cameras.
  In Proceedings of the European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR), Mlini, Croatia, pages 187-192.
  
  
• F. Maurelli, D. Droeschel, T. Wisspeintner, S. May and H. Surmann (2009, June).
  A 3D Laser Scanner System for Autonomous Vehicle Navigation
  In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), Munich, Germany.
  
  

2008

• S. Blumenthal, D. Droeschel, D. Holz, T. Linder, P. Molitor and H. Surmann (2008, November).
  Omnidirectional sensors for mobile robots.
  In Workshop-Proceedings of the International Conference on Simulation, Modeling and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR), Venice, Italy, pages 415-425.
  
  
• S. May, D. Droeschel, D. Holz, C. Wiesen and S. Fuchs (2008, October).
  3D Pose Estimation and Mapping with Time-of-Flight Cameras.
  In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Workshop on 3D Mapping, Nice, France.
  
  
• T. Wisspeintner, F. Maurelli, D. Droeschel, S. May, H. Surmann and K. Pervölz (2008, October).
  A 3D Laser Scanner System for Intersection Analysis and Autonomous Driving
  In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Workshop on 3D Mapping, Nice, France.
  
  

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Projects I have been involved in

	NimbRo@home RoboCup @home League (since May 2009) domestic service robots with anthropomorphic body scheme
	3D Mapping with Time-of-Flight Cameras Master Thesis at Fraunhofer IAIS, Sankt Augustin (October 2008 - March 2009) ego-motion estimation and mapping with Time-of-Flight cameras
	Fraunhofer 3D-Laser-Scanner Fraunhofer IAIS, Sankt Augustin ( March 2007 - February 2009) driver and application development for 3D scanner
	Team Berlin DARPA Urban Challenge (March 2007 - November 2007) autonomously driving car in an urban scenario