Christian Waechter

Contact

Dipl.-Inf. Christian Alexander Leopold Waechter Externer Doktorant bei Coniclabs GmbH (CEO | Technical Director) Externer Doktorant bei Semcon München GmbH Email: Skype: "breznfresser"

Research Interests

• Sensor Fusion
• People-/Animal-/Object- Tracking

Federal AR Projects

• Avilus
• Arvida

Teaching

Available Student Projects

Running and Finished Student Projects

• A Web based Photogrammetric Camera Calibration Toolbox
• User supporting Visualisationmethods for Hand-Eye Calibration
• Distance Visualization for 3D User Interfaces
• Point- and Linefeature based Bundle Adjustment for a Realtime-Trackingsystem
• Dynamic Occlusion for Mobile Augmented Reality Applications
• Fast and Robust Background Subtraction
• Fusion of depth data from a ToF Camera with Color Camera based Feature Detection
• Bestimmung der Pose einer mobilen Kamera relativ zu Objekten aus einem georeferenzierten Umgebungsmodell
• Endless Marker Tracking
• Billiard Ball Tracking

Seminars and Lab Courses

• Programmierprojekt: Tanz und Schauspiel im Virtuellen Studio (SS 14)
• Tutorials : Einführung in Informatik Für Games Engineering (WS 13/14)
• Proseminar : Anwendungen der Augmented Reality (SS 13)
• Tutorials : Einführung in Informatik Für Games Engineering (WS 12/13)
• Seminar : Advanced Methods for Human Computer Interaction (HCI) (SS 12)
• Proseminar : Anwendungen der Augmented Reality (SS 12)
• Tutorials : Einführung in Informatik Für Games Engineering (WS 11/12)
• Lab Course : Augmented Reality Applications (SS 11)
• Proseminar : Anwendungen der Augmented Reality (SS 11)
• Lab Course : Augmented Reality Applications^? (SS 10)
• Lab Course : Augmented Reality Applications^? (WS 09/10)
• Proseminar : Anwendungen der Augmented Reality (SS 09) (no link anymore)

Publications

2013
	Y. Itoh, F. Pankratz, C. Waechter, G. Klinker [Demo] Calibration of Head-Mounted Finger Tracking to Optical See-Through Head Mounted Display Demonstration at the 12th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2013), Adelaide, Australia, October 1-4, 2013. (bib)
	C. Waechter, D. Pustka, G. Klinker Real-Time Monocular People Tracking by Sequential Monte-Carlo Filtering 6th International ACM Conference on Computer Vision / Computer Graphics Collaboration Techniques and Applications (MIRAGE), Berlin, Germany, i4, June 2013 (bib)
2012
	J.-M. Normand, M. Sanchez-Vives, C. Waechter, E. Giannopoulos, B. Grosswindhager, B. Spanlang, C. Guger, G. Klinker, M. Srinivasan, M. Slater Beaming into the Rat World: Enabling Real-Time Interaction between Rat and Human Each at Their Own Scale PLoS ONE, Public Library of Science, Oct. 2012, Volume 7, Issue 10, e48331 (bib)
	P. Maier, A. Dey, C. Waechter, C. Sandor, M. Tönnis, G. Klinker An Empiric Evaluation of Confirmation Methods for Optical See-Through Head-Mounted Display Calibration Joint Virtual Reality Conference of ICAT - EGVE - EuroVR (2012), Madrid, Spain, October 2012, pp. 73-80. (bib)
2011
	P. Maier, A. Dey, C. Waechter, C. Sandor, M. Tönnis, G. Klinker An Empiric Evaluation of Confirmation Methods for Optical See-Through Head-Mounted Display Calibration (Poster) 10th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), Basel, Switzerland, Oct. 26-29, 2011, pp. 267-268. (bib)
	D. Pustka, M. Huber, C. Waechter, F. Echtler, P. Keitler, J. Newman, D. Schmalstieg, G. Klinker Automatic Configuration of Pervasive Sensor Networks for Augmented Reality IEEE Pervasive Computing, Volume 10, Number 3, July-Sept. 2011, pp. 68-79. (bib)
2010
	C. Waechter, E. Artinger, M. Duschl, G. Klinker Creating Passion for Augmented Reality Applications - a Teaching Concept for a Lab Course 6th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, Nov. 29th - Dec. 01st, 2010, pp. 429-438. (bib)
	C. Waechter, M. Huber, P. Keitler, M. Schlegel, D. Pustka, G. Klinker A Multi-Sensor Platform for Wide-area Tracking 9th IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), Seoul, Korea, Oct. 13-16, 2010, pp. 275-276. (bib)
2009
	C. Waechter, D. Pustka, G. Klinker Vision based People Tracking for Ubiquitous Augmented Reality Applications 8th IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), Orlando, FL, USA, Oct. 19-22, 2009, pp. 221-222. (bib)