Here are the topics I have mainly been working on:

Robust estimation

• Ulrich Hillenbrand. Pose clustering from stereo data. Proceedings VISAPP International Workshop on Robotic Perception -- RoboPerc 2008, pp. 23-32.

• Ulrich Hillenbrand. Consistent parameter clustering: definition and analysis. Pattern Recognition Letters 28 (2007), pp. 1112-1122.

• Ulrich Hillenbrand and Roberto Lampariello. Motion and parameter estimation of a free-floating space object from range data for motion prediction. Proceedings International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space -- iSAIRAS 2005, CD.

Object recognition

• Ulrich Hillenbrand. Towards shape understanding through non-parametric shape warping. IROS 2009 Workshop: Semantic Perception for Mobile Manipulation.

• Ulrich Hillenbrand. On the relation between probabilistic inference and fuzzy sets in visual scene analysis. Pattern Recognition Letters 25 (2004), pp. 1691-1699.

• Eric Wahl, Ulrich Hillenbrand, and Gerd Hirzinger. Surflet-pair-relation histograms: a statistical 3D-shape representation for rapid classification. Proceedings International Conference on 3-D Digital Imaging and Modeling -- 3DIM 2003, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 474-481.

• Ulrich Hillenbrand and Gerd Hirzinger. Probabilistic search for object segmentation and recognition. Proceedings European Conference on Computer Vision -- ECCV 2002, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 2352, Springer, pp. 791-806.

• Ulrich Hillenbrand and Gerd Hirzinger. Object recognition and pose estimation from 3D geometric relations. Proceedings International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems & Allied Technologies -- KES 2000, IEEE, pp. 113-116.

Computational neuroscience

• Ulrich Hillenbrand. Subthreshold dynamics of the neural membrane potential driven by stochastic synaptic input. Physical Review E 66 (2002), article 021909.

• Ulrich Hillenbrand and J. Leo van Hemmen. Adaptation in the corticothalamic loop: computational prospects of tuning the senses. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences 357 (2002), pp. 1859-1867.

• Ulrich Hillenbrand. Spatiotemporal adaptation in the corticogeniculate loop. Doctoral thesis, Technical University of Munich, 2001, http://tumb1.biblio.tu-muenchen.de/publ/diss/ph/2001/hillenbrand.pdf.

• Ulrich Hillenbrand and J. Leo van Hemmen. Does corticothalamic feedback control cortical velocity tuning? Neural Computation 13 (2001), pp. 327-355.

• Ulrich Hillenbrand and J. Leo van Hemmen. Spatiotemporal adaptation through corticothalamic loops: a hypothesis. Visual Neuroscience 17 (2000), pp. 107-118.

• Ulrich Hillenbrand and J. Leo van Hemmen. On the use of thalamocortical adaptation for visual motion processing. Göttingen Neurobiology Report 1997, Thieme, p. 556.

• Ulrich Hillenbrand and J. Leo van Hemmen. Collective dynamics of a system of adaptive velocity channels. Proceedings International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks -- ICANN 1996, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 1112, Springer, pp. 107-114.

Robot systems

• Christoph Borst, Christian Ott, Thomas Wimböck, Bernhard Brunner, Franziska Zacharias, Berthold Bäuml, Ulrich Hillenbrand, Sami Haddadin, Alin Albu-Schäffer, and Gerd Hirzinger. A humanoid upper-body system for two-handed manipulation. Video Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation -- ICRA 2007, DVD. (Best Video Award)

• Christian Ott, Oliver Eiberger, Werner Friedl, Berthold Bäuml, Ulrich Hillenbrand, Christoph Borst, Alin Albu-Schäffer, Bernhard Brunner, Heiko Hirschmüller, Simon Kielhöfer, Rainer Konietschke, Michael Suppa, Thomas Wimböck, Franziska Zacharias, and Gerd Hirzinger. A humanoid two-arm system for dexterous manipulation. Proceedings IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots -- Humanoids 2006, pp. 276-283.

• Christian Ott, Christoph Borst, Ulrich Hillenbrand, Bernhard Brunner, Berthold Bäuml, and Gerd Hirzinger. The Robutler: towards service robots for the human environment. Video Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation -- ICRA 2005, DVD. (Finalist for the Video Award)

• Ulrich Hillenbrand, Christian Ott, Bernhard Brunner, Christoph Borst, and Gerd Hirzinger. Towards service robots for the human environment: the Robutler. Proceedings Mechatronics & Robotics -- MechRob 2004, pp. 1497-1502.

• Ulrich Hillenbrand, Bernhard Brunner, Christoph Borst, and Gerd Hirzinger. The Robutler: a vision-controlled hand-arm system for manipulating bottles and glasses. Proceedings International Symposium on Robotics -- ISR 2004, CD.