Kai Berger

Office Address:

Computer Graphics Lab, TU Braunschweig
Mühlenpfordtstr. 23
38106 Braunschweig
Germany
 

room:	G24
phone:	+49 531 391-2106
fax:	+49 531 391-2103
email:	bergercg.tu-bs.de
office hours:	Thursday 14h - 17h

Research Interests:

3D reconstruction, Computer vision, Physics-based methods

Publications:

2010
	Target Space Interactivity - The end of 3D widgets K. Berger, C. Linz, C. Lipski, T. Vaudrey, R. Klette and M. Magnor, Proc. of WSCG 2010, Plzen , February 2010. [paper] [bibtex]
	Sparse Bundle Adjustment Speedup Strategies C. Lipski, D. Bose, M. Eisemann, K. Berger and M. Magnor, Proc. of WSCG 2010, Plzen , February 2010. [paper] [bibtex]
	Real-Time Gaze Tracking with a Consumer-Grade Video Camera A. Keil, G. Albuquerque, K. Berger and M. Magnor, Proc. of WSCG 2010, Plzen , February 2010. [paper] [bibtex]
	C. Basarke, C. Berger, K. Berger, K. Cornelsen, M. Doering J. Effertz, T. Form, T. Gülke, F. Graefe, P. Hecker, K. Homeier F. Klose, C. Lipski, M. Magnor, J. Morgenroth, T. Nothdurft, S. Ohl, F. Rauskolb, B. Rumpe, W. Schumacher, J. Wille, L. Wolf Caroline: An Autonomoulsy Driving Vehicle for Urban Environments. The DARPA Urban Challenge - Autonomous Vehicles in City Traffic (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics) [springer.com] [bibtex]
2009
	K. Berger, B. Atcheson, I. Ihrke, W. Heidrich and M. Magnor "Tomographic 4D Reconstruction of Gas Flows in the Presence of Occluders" Proc. Vision, Modeling, and Visualization (VMV 2009), Braunschweig, Germany, November 2009. [paper] [bibtex]
	K. Berger, C. Lipski, C. Linz, A. Sellent, M. Magnor "A ghosting artifact detector for interpolated image quality assessment" Proceedings of ACM Applied Perception in Computer Graphics and Visualization [paper] [bibtex]
	K. Berger, C. Lipski, C. Linz, A. Sellent, M. Magnor "A ghosting artifact detector for interpolated image quality assessment" Technical Report/ Computer Graphics Lab, TU Braunschweig; 2009-7-10 [paper] [bibtex]
	I. Ihrke, K. Berger, B. Atcheson, M. Magnor, W. Heidrich "Tomographic Reconstruction and Efficient Rendering of Refractive Gas Flows" Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design [pdf] [bibtex] [Amazon.de]
	C. Lipski, K. Berger, M. Magnor "vIsage - A visualization and debugging framework for distributed system applications" Proc. of WSCG 2009, February 2009 [pdf] [bibtex]
2008
	K. Berger, C. Linz, C. Lipski, T. Stich, M. Magnor "Echtzeiterkennung von befahrbaren Bereichen in urbanen Szenarien" GI-Fachausschuß (FA) Echtzeitsysteme real-time, November 2008 [pdf] [bibtex]
	F.W. Rauskolb, K. Berger, C. Lipski, M. Magnor, K. Cornelsen, J. Effertz, T. Form, F. Graefe, S. Ohl, W. Schumacher and others "Caroline: An autonomously driving vehicle for urban environments" Journal of Field Robotics, Volume 25, Issue 9 [acm-portal entry] [bibtex]
	C. Basarke, C. Berger, K. Berger, K. Cornelsen, M. Doering J. Effertz, T. Form, T. Gülke, F. Graefe, P. Hecker, K. Homeier F. Klose, C. Lipski, M. Magnor, J. Morgenroth, T. Nothdurft, S. Ohl, F. Rauskolb, B. Rumpe, W. Schumacher, J. Wille, L. Wolf "Team CarOLO - Technical Paper" Informatik-Bericht 2008-07 , Technische Universität Braunschweig, Carl-Friedrich-Gauss-Fakultät, Oktober 2008 [pdf]
	C. Lipski, B. Scholz, K. Berger, C. Linz, T. Stich, M. Magnor "A Fast and Robust Approach to Lane Marking Detection and Lane Tracking" Proc. IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation (SSIAI-2008), March 2008 [pdf] [bibtex]
	K. Berger, C. Lipski, C. Linz, T. Stich, M. Magnor "The area processing unit of Caroline - Finding the way through DARPA's Urban Challenge" 2nd Workshop Robot Vision (RobVis 2008), pages 260-274, February 2008 [pdf] [bibtex]

Curriculum Vitae:

November 2009		Organisation of VMV 2009
Since Oct, 2008		Researching as PhD student at TU Braunschweig, Germany
Sept, 2008		Graduated in computer science (Informatik) at TU Braunschweig, Germany
Aug, 2006 - Nov, 2007		Computer Vision developer at Team CarOLO
Oct, 2004 - Sept, 2008		Student at TU Braunschweig, Germany

Research Visits:

Nov, 2009 - Jan, 2010		Research Visit at MPII, Saarland University, Germany
Oct - Nov, 2008		Research Visit at Imager lab, University of British Columbia, Canada
Feb - Mar, 2008		Research Visit at CITR lab, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Teaching:

WS 2009/2010	Diplomanden- und Doktorandenseminar (Visual Computing Colloquium, Vst.Nr.: INF-CG-005)
	Teamprojekt: Virtual Video Camera (Modul: INF-STD-10, Vst.Nr.: INF-CG-019)
	Teamprojekt: 3D-Spielentwicklung (Modul: INF-STD-10, Vst.Nr.: INF-CG-019)
SS 2009	Diplomanden- und Doktorandenseminar (Visual Computing Colloquium, Vst.Nr.: INF-CG-005)
WS 2008/2009	Diplomanden- und Doktorandenseminar (Visual Computing Colloquium, Vst.Nr.: INF-CG-005)

Miscellaneous :

	C. Lipski, C. Linz,K. Berger, M. Magnor "Virtual Video Camera: Image-Based Viewpoint Navigation Through Space and Time" Poster at Siggraph 2009 [pdf]
	K. Berger, C. Linz, M. Magnor "Integration of methods for interactive model refinement and improved projective texturing into a system for multi view motion capture" Diplomarbeit
	K. Berger, C. Lipski, M. Magnor "Recognizing driveable terrain - an analysis of clustering methods" Studienarbeit [pdf]