Roman Pflugfelder

Short Bio

I was born in 1974 in Vienna, Austria. I received 2002 a Dipl.-Ing. degree (comparable to a M.Sc. degree) in Computer Science at the University of Technology Vienna (Walter Kropatsch's group). My awarded master's thesis dealt with unsupervised learning methods and their use in traffic behavior recognition. During my studies, I undertook 2001 a research internship at the IRIS group (Brian Lovell), University of Queensland, Australia. I finished 2008 my Ph.D. study on surveillance camera self-calibration with distinction at the ICG group under Horst Bischof's supervision. My second referee was James Ferryman.
Currently, I am working at the Austrian Institute of Technology in Vienna where I continue my work on camera self-calibration and object tracking in the video surveillance field together with people such as Branislav Micusik, Csaba Beleznai and David Schreiber.

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Research interest

My research is focused on various geometrical, statistical and computational tools and optimization techniques that enable automated video surveillance applications. I have contributed in areas such as camera calibration, object detection, object tracking and event recognition. I am currently interested in questions such as how calibration can help tracking especially in camera networks with camera views that are non-overlapping.

Project work

• Juli 2004 - December 2004: Vitus 1 - A feasability study of automatic video surveillance in road tunnels.
• October 2003 - September 2007: Plug and Detect: Self-calibrating and self-configuring video surveillance.
• April 2009 - May 2012: Simultaneous Calibration and Tracking: A joint optimization approach for arbitrarily placed cameras

Publications

A list of my publications can be found here.

Awards and fellowships

• Career award April 2009 - May 2012 of the Wiener Wissenschafts-, Forschungs-, und Technologiefonds.
• Research fellowship October 2003 - October 2007 (FFF-Nachwuchsförderung) of the Austrian Government (Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft).
• PRIP award 2001 .
• Internship October 2000 - April 2001 (Kurt-Gödel-Stipendium) of the Austrian Government (Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung).

Downloads

Highway images (7.1 MB).

Car park images (16.5 MB).

Links

• My Xing profile.
• PRIP group@University of Technology Vienna .
• IRIS group@University of Queensland .
• Austrian Institute of Technology .

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