Here are the topics I have mainly been working on:

Robust estimation

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

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

• U. Hillenbrand and R. 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

• U. Hillenbrand. Non-parametric 3D shape warping. Proceedings International Conference on Pattern Recognition -- ICPR 2010.

• H. Dutagaci, A. Godil, C. P. Cheung, T. Furuya, U. Hillenbrand, R. Ohbuchi. SHREC 2010 - Shape retrieval contest of range scans. Proceedings Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval 2010.

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

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

• E. Wahl, U. Hillenbrand, and G. 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.

• U. Hillenbrand and G. 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.

• U. Hillenbrand and G. 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

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

• U. Hillenbrand and J. L. 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.

• U. 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.

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

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

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

• U. Hillenbrand and J. L. 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

• Ch. Borst, Ch. Ott, T. Wimböck, B. Brunner, F. Zacharias, B. Bäuml, U. Hillenbrand, S. Haddadin, A. Albu-Schäffer, and G. 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)

• Ch. Ott, O. Eiberger, W. Friedl, B. Bäuml, U. Hillenbrand, Ch. Borst, A. Albu-Schäffer, B. Brunner, H. Hirschmüller, S. Kielhöfer, R. Konietschke, M. Suppa, T. Wimböck, F. Zacharias, and G. Hirzinger. A humanoid two-arm system for dexterous manipulation. Proceedings IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots -- Humanoids 2006, pp. 276-283.

• Ch. Ott, Ch. Borst, U. Hillenbrand, B. Brunner, B. Bäuml, and G. 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)

• U. Hillenbrand, Ch. Ott, B. Brunner, Ch. Borst, and G. Hirzinger. Towards service robots for the human environment: the Robutler. Proceedings Mechatronics & Robotics -- MechRob 2004, pp. 1497-1502.

• U. Hillenbrand, B. Brunner, Ch. Borst, and G. Hirzinger. The Robutler: a vision-controlled hand-arm system for manipulating bottles and glasses. Proceedings International Symposium on Robotics -- ISR 2004, CD.