Esther

Current Projects

project	Human Expressive Representations of Motion and their Evaluation in Sequences
duration	2006-2009
partners	Aalborg University, Denmark Answare Technologies, Spain Computer Vision Center, Spain Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany University of Oxford, United Kingdom
objective	development of a cognitive artificial system based in a framework model which allows both recognition and description of a particular set of human behaviors arising from real-world events

project	Detection and Identification of Rare Audio-visual Cues
duration	2006-2010
partners	Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg, Germany Czech Technical University, Czech Republic IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Germany Oregon Health and Science University OGI School of Science and Engineerring, USA The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
objective	development of an environment-adaptive autonomous artificial cognitive system that will detect, identify and classify possibly threatening rare events from the information derived by multiple active information-seeking audio-visual sensors

project	Cyber Walk
duration	2005-2008
partners	AFWO GmbH Agency for Research Funding, Germany Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
objective	a holistic approach spanning science, technology and applications to enable unconstrained omni-directional walking in virtual worlds

project	Interactive Multimodal Information Management
duration	2002-2010
partners	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland University of Bern, Switzerland University of Fribourg, Switzerland University of Geneva, Switzerland
objective	advancement of research, and the development of prototypes, in the field of multimodal information management and man-machine interaction

Former Projects

project	Blue Cave II
duration	2003-2007
partners	different departments of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Autonomous Systems Lab Computer Aided Architectural Design Computer Graphics Laboratory Institut of Machine Tools and Manufacturing
objective	development of fundamental methods for collaboration environments and multimodal acquisition and interaction with large and complex physical environments

project	CogViSys Cognitive Vision Systems
duration	2005-2008
partners	Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Universitaet Freiburg, Germany Oxford University, Great Britain
objective	development of a virtual commentator which is able to translate visual information into a textural description

project	Services and Training through Augmented Reality
duration	2001-2003
partners	Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Realviz SA, France Siemens CT, Germany Siemens Corporate Research , USA Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland University of Geneva, Switzerland
objective	development of mixed reality techniques for service and training applications

project	Wearable Computing miniaturized wearable computing: technology and applications
duration	2001-2003
partners	different departments of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory Electronics Laboratory Institute of History Institute of Scientific Computing
objective	development of new wearable computing technologies and applications

project	The Blue Cave
duration	1999-2003
partners	different departments of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and the University of Zurich (UNIZH) Architecture & CAAD Center of Product Development Computer Graphics Lab Multimedia Laboratory
objective	development of a new generation of immersive virtual environments for communication between humans and interaction between humans and virtual models

project	CATS Classification And Tracking in advanced Video Surveillance Systems
duration	2000-2001
partner	ASCOM Systec AG, Switzerland
objective	detection of unusual motion events for surveillance applications in video sequences

project	MINiaturized Optical RAnge camera for safety, surveillance and automotive applications
duration	1996-1999
partners	CEDES AG, Switzerland Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA (CSEM), Switzerland Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland Leica AG, Switzerland Microswiss, Switzerland Uni Bern, Switzerland
objective	development of new hardware and software for a miniaturized range camera for safety, surveillance and automotive applications

Interests

tracking, recognition of gestures and movements, augmented reality, progressive curves