Simon Bultmann

Member of research staff in the Autonomous Intelligent Systems Group
M. Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
B. Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Address: 

   Simon Bultmann
   Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
   Institut für Informatik VI
   Friedrich-Hirzebruch-Allee 8
   53115 Bonn

Tel:  +49 (0) 228 73-60789

Email: bultmann _at_ ais.uni-bonn.de

Office: 0.048

Reseach Interests

I am interested in collaborative perception, multi-sensor fusion as well as machine learning and - vision models for embedded devices ("Smart Edge Sensors").

Publications

2023

Simon Bultmann, Raphael Memmesheimer, and Sven Behnke:
External Camera-based Mobile Robot Pose Estimation for Collaborative Perception with Smart Edge Sensors
Accepted for IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, UK, June 2023.
[Video]

Simon Bultmann, Jan Quenzel, and Sven Behnke:
Real-Time Multi-Modal Semantic Fusion on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with Label Propagation for Cross-Domain Adaptation
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 159(4):104286, Elsevier, January 2023.

2022

Julian Hau, Simon Bultmann, and Sven Behnke:
Object-level 3D Semantic Mapping using a Network of Smart Edge Sensors
In Proceedings of 6th IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC), Naples, Italy, December 2022.

Bastian Pätzold, Simon Bultmann, and Sven Behnke:
Online Marker-free Extrinsic Camera Calibration using Person Keypoint Detections
In Proceedings of 44th DAGM German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), pp. 300-316, Konstanz, LNCS 13485, Springer, September 2022.
[Video] [Source]

Simon Bultmann and Sven Behnke:
3D Semantic Scene Perception using Distributed Smart Edge Sensors
In Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS), Zagreb, Croatia, June 2022.
[Video]

Marius Beul, Max Schwarz, Jan Quenzel, Malte Splietker, Simon Bultmann, Daniel Schleich, Andre Rochow, Dmytro Pavlichenko, Radu Alexandru Rosu, Patrick Lowin, Bruno Scheider, Michael Schreiber, Finn Süberkrüb, and Sven Behnke:
Target Chase, Wall Building, and Fire Fighting: Autonomous UAVs of Team NimbRo at MBZIRC 2020
Field Robotics, vol. 2, pp. 807-842, May 2022.

2021

Simon Bultmann, Jan Quenzel, and Sven Behnke:
Real-Time Multi-Modal Semantic Fusion on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
In Proceedings of 10th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR), Bonn, Germany, September 2021.
[Video]

Simon Bultmann and Sven Behnke:
Real-Time Multi-View 3D Human Pose Estimation using Semantic Feedback to Smart Edge Sensors
In Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), July 2021.
[Video] [Source]

Moritz Zappel, Simon Bultmann, and Sven Behnke:
6D Object Pose Estimation using Keypoints and Part Affinity Fields
In Proceedings of 24th RoboCup International Symposium, June 2021.
Finalist for Best Paper Award
[Video]

2020

Marius Beul, Simon Bultmann, Andre Rochow, Radu Alexandru Rosu, Daniel Schleich, Malte Splietker, and Sven Behnke:
Visually Guided Balloon Popping with an Autonomous MAV at MBZIRC 2020
In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), Abu Dhabi, UAE, November 2020.
Best Paper Award.
[Videos]

2019

Simon Bultmann, Kailai Li, Uwe D. Hanebeck:
Stereo Visual SLAM Based on Unscented Dual Quaternion Filtering
In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Information Fusion (Fusion 2019), Ottawa, Canada, July 2019.

2017

Simon Bultmann, Laëtitia Matignon, Olivier Simonin:
Multi-Robot Navigation and Cooperative Mapping in a Circular Topology
Technical Report, INSA Lyon, 2017.