Christian Weiss

Background

• 10/1999 - 04/2005: Study of Computer Science at the University of Tübingen
• 10/2004 - 04/2005: Diploma Thesis "Automatischer Aufbau von VR-Modellen von Gebäudeinnenräumen durch einen mobilen Roboter mit Laserscanner und Farbkamera"
• since 05/2005: research assistant at the Department of Computer Architecture, Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen

Research Interests

• Outdoor Mobile Robots
• Terrain Classification
• Vision-based Self-Localization

Publications

A Dynamic Swarm for Visual Location Tracking

Marcel Kronfeld, Christian Weiss and Andreas Zell

in Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2008), Brussels, Belgium, September 22-24, 2008

A Combination of Vision- and Vibration-based Terrain Classification

Christian Weiss, Hashem Tamimi and Andreas Zell

in Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2008), Nice, France, September 22-26, 2008, pp. 2204-2209

Novelty Detection and Online Learning for Vibration-based Terrain Classification

Christian Weiss and Andreas Zell

in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS 2008), Baden-Baden, Germany, July 23-25, 2008, pp. 16-25

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Integrated Scenario for Machine-Aided Inventory Using Ambient Sensors

Timo Schairer, Christian Weiss, Philipp Vorst, Jürgen Sommer, Christian Hoene, Wolfgang Rosenstiel, Wolfgang Straßer, Andreas Zell, Patrick Schneider, Annette Weisbecker and Georg Carle

in Proceedings of the 4th European Workshop on RFID Systems and Technologies (RFID SysTech 2008), Freiburg, Germany, June 10-11, 2008

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Indoor Positioning via Three Different RF Technologies

Philipp Vorst, Jürgen Sommer, Christian Hoene, Patrick Schneider, Christian Weiss, Timo Schairer, Wolfgang Rosenstiel, Andreas Zell and Georg Carle

in Proceedings of the 4th European Workshop on RFID Systems and Technologies (RFID SysTech 2008), Freiburg, Germany, June 10-11, 2008

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A Hybrid Approach for Vision-based Outdoor Robot Localization Using Global and Local Image Features

Christian Weiss, Hashem Tamimi, Andreas Masselli and Andreas Zell

in Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2007), San Diego, CA, USA, October 29 - November 2, 2007, pp. 1047-1052

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SVMs for Vibration-based Terrain Classification

Christian Weiss, Matthias Stark and Andreas Zell

in Autonome Mobile Systeme (AMS 2007), Kaiserslautern, Germany, October 18-19, 2007, pp. 1-7

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Appearance-based Robot Localization using Wavelets-PCA

Hashem Tamimi, Christian Weiss and Andreas Zell

in Autonome Mobile Systeme (AMS 2007), Kaiserslautern, Germany, October 18-19, 2007, pp. 36-42

Comparison of Different Approaches to Vibration-based Terrain Classification

Christian Weiss, Nikolas Fechner, Matthias Stark and Andreas Zell

in Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR 2007), Freiburg, Germany, September 19-21, 2007, pp. 7-12

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Swarm-supported Outdoor Localization with Sparse Visual Data

Marcel Kronfeld, Christian Weiss and Andreas Zell

in Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR 2007), Freiburg, Germany, September 19-21, 2007, pp. 259-264

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Fast Vision-based Localization for Outdoor Robots Using a Combination of Global Image Features

Christian Weiss, Andreas Masselli and Andreas Zell

in Proceedings of the 6th Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles (IAV 2007), Toulouse, France, September 3-5, 2007

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Fast Outdoor Robot Localization Using Integral Invariants

Christian Weiss, Andreas Masselli, Hashem Tamimi and Andreas Zell

in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS 2007), Bielefeld, Germany, March 21-24, 2007

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Vibration-based Terrain Classification Using Support Vector Machines

Christian Weiss, Holger Fröhlich and Andreas Zell

in Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2006), Beijing, China, October 9-15, 2006, pp. 4429 - 4434

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Automatic Generation of Indoor VR-Models by a Mobile Robot with a Laser Range Finder and a Color Camera

Christian Weiss and Andreas Zell

in Autonome Mobile Systeme (AMS 2005), Stuttgart, Germany, December 8-9, 2005, pp.107-113,

Springer, 2006

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Diploma Thesis

Address, Phone, Fax

Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen

Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut für Informatik

Lehrstuhl Rechnerarchitektur

Sand 1

D - 72076 Tübingen

Germany

Tel: (+49/0) 7071 / 29 77176

Fax: (+49/0) 7071 / 29 5091

Email: c.weiss at uni-tuebingen.de