Dr. rer. nat. Wolfgang Sepp

Fields of Interest

• Computer vision
• Human-Robot Interaction
• Artificial neural networks

Research

• Markerless human motion capture (at University of Tokyo)
• Shape-texture tracking of free-form surfaces in 3-D (sample video_1, sample_video_2,sample_video_3)
• 6-DoF visual servoing (sample_video_1, sample_video_2, sample video 3)
• Neural mechanisms for brightness reconstruction (at University of Ulm)
• Neural mechanisms for contour grouping (at University of Ulm)

Software

• Camera calibration suite DLR CalDe/CalLab for (intrinsic, extrinsic) calibration of monocular or binocular camera systems
  

Student Projects

Please contact me for details about currently available internships, diploma or master thesis.

Publications

• Franziska Zacharias, Wolfgang Sepp, Christoph Borst, and Gerd Hirzinger. »Using a Model of Reachable Workspace to Position Mobile Manipulators for 3-d Trajectories« In Proceedings of the 9th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids) 2009, Paris, France, December 7-10 2009
• Wolfgang Sepp, Tim Bodenmüller, Michael Suppa, and Gerd Hirzinger. »Mixed Reality for Intiuitive Photo-Realistic 3D-Model Generation.« In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop Virtuelle und Erweiterte Realität 2009 of the GI-Working Group VR/AR, ISBN 978-3-8322-8662-0, page 139-150, Braunschweig, Germany, Nov 18-19 2009
• Klaus H. Strobl, Wolfgang Sepp, and Gerd Hirzinger. »On the Issue of Camera Calibration with Narrow Angular Field of View.« In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2009, St. Louis (MO), USA, Oct 11-15 2009,
• Klaus H. Strobl, Elmar Mair, Tim Bodenmüller, Simon Kielhöfer, Wolfgang Sepp, Michael Suppa, Darius Burschka, and Gerd Hirzinger. »The Self-Referenced 3D-Modeler.« In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2009, St. Louis (MO), USA, Oct 11-15 2009
• Christoph Borst, Thomas Wimböck, Florian Schmidt, Matthias Fuchs, Bernhard Brunner, Franziska Zacharias, Paolo Robuffo Giordano, Rainer Konietschke, Wolfgang Sepp, Stefan Fuchs, Christian Rink, Alin Abu-Schäffer, and Gerd Hirzinger, »Rollin' Justin - Mobile Platform with Variable Base.« In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2009. (Best Video Award)
• Wolfgang Sepp. » Visual Servoing of Textured Free-Form Objects in 6 Degrees of Freedom.« Dissertation, Technische Universität München (Germany), Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, 2008 (compressed PDF )
• Tim Bodenmüller, Wolfgang Sepp, Michael Suppa, and Gerd Hirzinger. »Tackling multi-sensory 3d data acquisition and fusion.« In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2007, page 2180–2185, San Diego (CA), USA, Oct 29–Nov 2 2007
• Wolfgang Sepp, Stefan Fuchs and Gerd Hirzinger. »Hierarchical Featureless Tracking for Position-Based 6-DoF Visual Servoing« In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2006, Beijing (China), October 2006
• Wolfgang Sepp. »Efficient Tracking in 6-DoF based on the Image-Constancy Assumption in 3-D« In the Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2006,International Association for Pattern Recognition, Hong Kong, August 2006
• Martin Gröger, Wolfgang Sepp and Gerd Hirzinger. »Structure Driven Substitution of Specular Reflections for Realtime Heart Surface Tracking« In Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2005, IEEE, volume II, pages 1066-1069, Genova (Italy), September 11-14 2005
• Wolfgang Sepp. »A Direct Method for Real-Time Tracking in 3-D Under Variable Illumination« In Proceedings of the 27th DAGM Symposium Pattern Recognition 2005, page 246-253, Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Mustererkennung e.V., Wien (Österreich), August 31-September 2, 2005; Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3663, Springer Verlag 2005, ISBN-10 3-540-28703-5 PDF
• G. Hirzinger, T. Bodenmüller, H. Hirschmüller, R. Liu, W. Sepp, M. Suppa, T. Abmayr, B. Strackenbrock. »Photo-realistic 3D modelling – From robotics perception towards cultural heritage« In International Workshop on Recording, Modeling and Visualization of Cultural Heritage 2005, organized by the ETH Zürich, Ascona, Switzerland, May 22-27, 2005 PDF
• Klaus H. Strobl, Wolfgang Sepp, Eric Wahl, Tim Bodenmüller, Javier F. Seara und Gerd Hirzinger. »The DLR Multisensory Hand-Guided Device: The Laser Stripe Profiler« In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2004, page 1927-1932, New Orleans (LA), USA, April 2004 PDF
• Wolfgang Sepp and Gerd Hirzinger. »Real-Time Texture-Based 3-D Tracking« In Proceedings of the 25th DAGM Symposium on Pattern Recognition (DAGM 2003), page 330-337, Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Mustererkennung e.V., Magdeburg (Germany), September 10-12, 2003; Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2781, Springer 2003, ISBN 3-540-40861-4 PDF
• Wolfgang Sepp and Gerd Hirzinger. »Featureless 6DoF Pose Refinement from Stereo Images« In 16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2002), Volume 4, page 17-20, International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), Quebec City (Canada) August 11-15, 2002 PDF
• Martin Gröger, Tobias Ortmaier, Wolfgang Sepp und Gerd Hirzinger. »Tracking local motion on the beating heart« In Medical Imaging 2002, Volume 4681 of Proceedings of The International Society for Optical Engenieering (SPIE), page 233-241, San Diego, USA, Februar 2002
• Martin Gröger, Wolfgang Sepp, Tobias Ortmaier and Gerd Hirzinger. »Reconstruction of Image Structure in Presence of Specular Reflections« In Proceedings of the 23rd DAGM Symposium on Pattern Recognition (DAGM 2001), page 53-60, Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Mustererkennung, Munich (Germany), September 11-14, 2001; Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2191 Springer 2001, ISBN 3-540-42596-9
• Thorsten Hansen, Wolfgang Sepp und Heiko Neumann. »Recurrent Long-Range Interactions in Early Vision« In S. Wermter, J. Austin and D. Willshaw (Eds.), Emergent Neural Computational Architectures Based on Neuroscience, page 139-153, LNCS/LNAI 2036, Springer Verlag 2001, Heidelberg New York
• Heiko Neumann und Wolfgang Sepp. »Perceptual strength and time course of illusory contour generation explained by a neural model of recurrent cortico-cortical interaction« In Perception (Supp., 23rd ECVP), Volume 29, Seite 71, 2000
• Heiko Neumann and Wolfgang Sepp. »Recurrent V1-V2 interaction for early visual information processing« In Proceedings of the 7th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN '99), page 165-170, Brussels, Belgium, 1999
• Wolfgang Sepp and Heiko Neumann. »A multi-resolution filling-in model for brightness perception« In ICANN 99: Ninth International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN), Volume 1, page 461-466, IEE Institution of Electrical Engineers, London (UK), 1999 PDF
• Heiko Neumann and Wolfgang Sepp. »Recurrent V1-V2 interaction in early visual boundary processing« In Biological Cybernetics, Volume 81, page 425-444, 1999
• Thorsten Hansen, Wolfgang Sepp, Heiko Neumann. »Recurrent Long-range Interactions in Early Vision« In EmerNet: International Workshop on Emergent Neural Computational Architectures Based on Neuroscience, Edinburgh, UK, September 11, 1999