Dipl.-Inf. Daniel Pustka pustka@in.tum.de Technische Universität München Institut für Informatik I16 Fachgebiet Augmented Reality Raum MI 03.13.037 Telefon: +49 (89) 289-17085 Fax: +49 (89) 289-17059

Research Interests

• Ubiquitous Tracking
• Sensor Fusion
• Calibration
• Error Modeling
• HMD Calibration

I was actively involved in the PRESENCCIA and trackframe projects.

I also organized the ISMAR Tracking Competition in 2008 and 2009!

Awards

• The paper on Spatial Relationship Patterns written with Manuel Huber and Martin Bauer won the "Honorable Mention" (2nd best) Student Paper Award at ISMAR 2006!

Teaching

• SS 2005
  Praktikum Augmented Reality^?
• WS 2005/06
  Tutor for Info I
  Tutor for 3D Computer Vision^?
• SS 2006
  Seminar Sensor Nets and Sensor Fusion^?
  Praktikum Augmented Reality on Mobile Devices^?
• WS 2007/08
  Tutor for 3D User Interfaces^?

Publications

2013
	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
	D. Pustka, J. Hülß, J. Willneff, F. Pankratz, M. Huber, G. Klinker Optical Outside-In Tracking using Unmodified Mobile Phones The Eleventh IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, Atlanta, Georgia, Nov. 5 - 8, 2012, pp. 81-89. (bib)
2011
	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
	P. Keitler, D. Pustka, M. Huber, F. Echtler, G. Klinker Management of Tracking for Mixed and Augmented Reality Systems The Engineering of Mixed Reality Systems, E. Dubois, P. Gray, L. Nigay (eds.), Human-Computer Interaction Series, Springer Verlag, 2010. (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)
	D. Pustka, J. Willneff, O. Wenisch, P. Lükewille, K. Achatz, P. Keitler, G. Klinker Determining the Point of Minimum Error for 3DOF Pose Uncertainty Representation The Ninth IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, Seoul, Korea, Oct. 13 - 16, 2010, pp. 37-45. (bib)
2009
	P. Keitler, F. Pankratz, B. Schwerdtfeger, D. Pustka, , G. Klinker, C. Rauch, A. Chathoth, J. Collomosse , Y. Song Mobile Augmented Reality based 3D Snapshots Sechster Workshop Virtuelle und Erweiterte Realität der GI-Fachgruppe VR/AR, Braunschweig, 18./19. November 2009 (bib)
	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)
	P. Keitler, F. Pankratz, B. Schwerdtfeger, D. Pustka, , G. Klinker, C. Rauch, A. Chathoth, J. Collomosse , Y. Song Mobile Augmented Reality based 3D Snapshots The 8th IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, Orlando, Florida, Oct. 19-22, 2009, pp. 199-200. (bib)
2008
	B. Schwerdtfeger, D. Pustka, A. Hofhauser, G. Klinker Using Laser Projectors for Augmented Reality 15th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST), Bordeaux, France, October 27-29, 2008, pp. 134-137. (bib)
	D. Pustka, G. Klinker Dynamic Gyroscope Fusion in Ubiquitous Tracking Environments The Seventh IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, Cambridge, UK, Sep. 15 - 18, 2008, pp. 13-20. (bib)
	D. Pustka, M. Huber, G. Klinker Integrating Gyroscopes into Ubiquitous Tracking Environments IEEE Virtual Reality, Reno, Nevada, Mar. 8-12, 2008, pp. 283-284. (bib)
	F. Echtler, M. Huber, D. Pustka, P. Keitler, G. Klinker Splitting the Scene Graph - Using Spatial Relationship Graphs Instead of Scene Graphs in Augmented Reality 3rd International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP '08), Funchal, Portugal, Jan. 22 - 25, 2008, pp.456-459. (bib)
2007
	M. Huber, D. Pustka, P. Keitler, F. Echtler, G. Klinker A System Architecture for Ubiquitous Tracking Environments The Sixth IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, Nara, Japan, Nov. 13 - 16, 2007, pp. 211-214. (bib)
	D. Pustka, P. Keitler, M. Huber, F. Echtler, G. Klinker Ubiquitous Tracking for Quickly Solving Multi-Sensor Calibration and Tracking Problems Demonstration at the Fourth IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, Nara, Japan, Nov. 14 - 16, 2007 (bib)
	D. Pustka, M. Huber, F. Echtler, P. Keitler UTQL: The Ubiquitous Tracking Query Language v1.0 Technical Report TUM-I0718, Oct. 11, 2007. (bib)
	J. Newman, A. Bornik, D. Pustka, F. Echtler, M. Huber, D. Schmalstieg, G. Klinker Tracking for Distributed Mixed Reality Environments IEEE VR 2007 Workshop on 'Trends and Issues in Tracking for Virtual Environments', Charlotte, NC, USA, Mar 11, 2007 (bib)
2006
	B. Schwerdtfeger, T. Frimor, D. Pustka, G. Klinker Mobile Information Presentation Schemes for Logistics Applications 16th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence (ICAT 2006), Hangzhou, P.R.China, Nov. 29 - Dec. 1, 2006, pp. 998-1007. (bib)
	D. Pustka, M. Huber, M. Bauer, G. Klinker Spatial Relationship Patterns: Elements of Reusable Tracking and Calibration Systems The Fifth IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, Oct. 22 - 25, 2006, pp. 88-97. (bib)
	M. Bauer, M. Schlegel, D. Pustka, N. Navab, G. Klinker Interactive Visualization of the Predicted Accuracy of Marker-Based Optical Tracking Systems Demonstration at the Fifth IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, Oct. 22 - 25, 2006. (bib)
	M. Bauer, M. Schlegel, D. Pustka, N. Navab, G. Klinker Predicting and Estimating the Accuracy of n-occular Optical Tracking Systems The Fifth IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, Oct. 22 - 25, 2006, pp. 43-51. (bib)
	D. Pustka Construction of Data Flow Networks for Tracking in Augmented Reality Applications Dritter Workshop Virtuelle und Erweiterte Realität der GI-Fachgruppe VR/AR, Koblenz, 25.-26. September 2006 (bib)
2004
	J. Newman, M. Wagner, M. Bauer, A. MacWilliams, T. Pintaric, D. Beyer, D. Pustka, F. Strasser, D. Schmalstieg, G. Klinker Ubiquitous Tracking for Augmented Reality International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2004, Arlington, VA, USA, Nov 2-4, 2004, pp. 192-201. (bib)
	D. Pustka Handling Error in Ubiquitous Tracking Setups Master Thesis - Technische Universitaet Muenchen (bib)

Supervised Students

Topic	Student	Type	Status
Tracking in Interactive Spaces (in Barcelona, Spain)	Christian Waechter	DA/MA/BA	finished
Authoring of Augmented Reality based Maintenance Manuals	Dimitri Khanin	Diploma Thesis	finished
Infrastructure Independent Self-Positioning Using Projected Patterns in the Environment	Moritz Koehler	DA/MA/BA	finished
Display Technologies for Augmented Reality Support in Logistics	Troels Frimor	Master Thesis	finished
A Framework for Visual Tracking of Articulated Objects	Daniel Muhra	DA/MA/BA	finished
Visualization of activity parameters with an avatar suitable for the elderly people	Tayfur Coskun	DA/MA/BA	finished
Active Vision in Interactive Spaces	Henning Herbers	DA/MA/BA	finished
Tracking und Kalibration mit einem Infrarot-Optischen Mehrkamerasystem	Daniel Muhra	Project	finished

Nice stuff

• PoseTool, a software for offline processing of pose sequences -- includes intuitive Kalman filtering