Dr. Martin A. Bauer Technische Universität München, Institut für Informatik I16 Fachgebiet Augmented Reality Left the chair in 2007, now working as Product Manager Knee, Brainlab

Research

• My Ph.D. Advisor was Prof. Gudrun Klinker

• I started my Ph.D. in summer 2002 with the programming of a herd of sheep. About at the same time, we started a project with the german heart center on medical topics. Therefore sometimes the sheep had to face an unfamiliar environment. Soon after the end of this project, Nassir Navab joined the faculty as professor and some of the students in this project became his first research assistants. In the meantime, our group continued the work on software infrastructures for augmented reality together with our friends in Graz and Cambridge and formulated the concept of Ubiquitous Tracking. This is a formal way of describing complex tracking setups and the basis for advanced error estimation, calibration and error propagation. At the moment I am writing my thesis on the topic of accuracy analysis in optical tracking systems and error propagation for augmented reality.

• Thanks to my teaching duties i know now how to program in OCaml, Prolog, Forth, Postscript, Lambda-Calculus and Smalltalk. If I got the choice, I prefer Mathematica to MATLAB to Maple or any other programming language like C++, C or Java. I can handle OpenGL, XML, UML, SQL end even the UNIX Shell.

• Have a look at my hand-eye calibration page. It presents a lot of relevant literature for the hand-eye calibration problem with links to the online publications.

Fun

• Download a double-clickable Augmented Reality application based on the ARToolkit for your Mac: "This is the most stupid demo i've ever seen." (says Joe)

Publications

2007
	T. Sielhorst, M. Bauer, O. Wenisch, G. Klinker, N. Navab Online Estimation of the Target Registration Error for n-ocular Optical Tracking Systems to appear Proceedings of Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2007), Brisbane, Australia, October 2007, pp. 652-659. (bib)
	M. Bauer Tracking Errors in Augmented Reality Dissertation (PhD thesis), Fakultät für Informatik, Technische Universität München, September 2007 (online version) (bib)
2006
	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)
	G. Hillebrand, M. Bauer, K. Achatz, G. Klinker Inverse Kinematic Infrared Optical Finger Tracking 9th International Conference on Humans and Computers (HC 2006), Aizu, Japan (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)
	M. Bauer, M. Wagner, M. Tönnis, G. Klinker, V. Broy Lehrkonzept für ein Augmented Reality Praktikum 1. GI Workshop "Virtuelle und Erweiterte Realität", Chemnitz, 27. - 28. September 2004 (bib)
	J. Traub, M. Feuerstein, M. Bauer, E.U. Schirmbeck, H. Najafi, R. Bauernschmitt, G. Klinker Augmented Reality for Port Placement and Navigation in Robotically Assisted Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery Proceedings of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS 2004), pp. 735 - 740, Chicago, USA, June 2004 (bib)
	M. Wagner, A. MacWilliams, M. Bauer, G. Klinker, J. Newman, T. Pintaric, D. Schmalstieg Fundamentals of Ubiquitous Tracking Second International Conference on Pervasive Computing, Hot Spots section, Vienna, Austria, Apr. 18--23 2004 (bib)
	R. Bauernschmitt, E.U. Schirmbeck, M. Groher, P. Keitler, M. Bauer, H. Najafi, G. Klinker, R. Lange Navigierte Platzierung endovaskulärer Aortenstents Z Kardiologie 2004 93 S3: 116 (bib)
2003
	J. Newman, M. Wagner, T. Pintaric, A. MacWilliams, M. Bauer, G. Klinker, D. Schmalstieg Fundamentals of Ubiquitous Tracking for Augmented Reality Technical Report TUM-I0323, Technische Universität München; Technical Report TR-188-2-2003-34, Vienna University of Technology (bib)
	A. MacWilliams, C. Sandor, M. Wagner, M. Bauer, G. Klinker, B. Bruegge Herding Sheep: Live System Development for Distributed Augmented Reality Proceedings of The Second International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2003), pp. 123-132. (bib)
	M. Bauer, O. Hilliges, A. MacWilliams, C. Sandor, M. Wagner, G. Klinker, J. Newman, G. Reitmayr, T. Pintaric, T. Fahmy, D. Schmalstieg Integrating Studierstube and DWARF International Workshop on Software Technology for Augmented Reality Systems. Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 7, 2003 (bib)
2002
	G. Klinker, A.H. Dutoit, M. Bauer, J. Bayer, V. Novak, D. Matzke Fata Morgana -- A Presentation System for Product Design International Symposium on Augmented and Mixed Reality (ISMAR 2002), Darmstadt 2002, pp. 76-85. (bib)
	C. Sandor, A. MacWilliams, M. Wagner, M. Bauer, G. Klinker SHEEP: The Shared Environment Entertainment Pasture Demo at IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality ISMAR 2002, Darmstadt, Germany, Sept. 30 - Oct. 1, 2002. (bib)
	H. Kruppa, M. Bauer, B. Schiele Skin Patch Detection in Real-World Images Annual Symposium for Pattern Recognition of the DAGM 2002, Springer LNCS 2449, p. 109f (bib)
	M. Bauer, B. Bruegge, G. Klinker, A. MacWilliams, T. Reicher, C. Sandor, M. Wagner An Architecture Concept for Ubiquitous Computing Aware Wearable Computers International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing. Vienna, Austria, July 2, 2002 (bib)
2001
	M. Bauer, B. Bruegge, G. Klinker, A. MacWilliams, T. Reicher, S. Riß, C. Sandor, M. Wagner Design of a Component-Based Augmented Reality Framework Proceedings of The Second IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Augmented Reality (ISAR 2001), pp. 45-54. (bib)

You can also get a [http://campar.in.tum.de/cgi-bin/pub/bib.pl?bauerma][list of all my publications]] in BibTeX format.

Finished and Currently active Diploma Theses, SEPs I (co-)supervised

Available:

Diplomarbeiten:

• Predicting the Accuracy of Optical Tracking Systems, by Michael Schlegel (2006/07/15)
• Ressourcenmanagement im Katastrophenfall, by Simon Nestler (2006/06/06)
• Optical and Magnetic Tracking, by Sintje Göritz (2005/08/15)
• Entwicklung eines inverskinematischen infrarot-optischen Datenhandschuhs, by Gerrit Hillebrand (2005/08/15)
• Optical See-Through HMD Calibration, by Sven Hennauer (2005/07/15)
• Tracking Scissors using reflective Lines, by Katharina Pentenrieder (2005/01/15)
• Handling Error in Ubiquitous Tracking Setups, by Daniel Pustka (2004/08/15)
• Entwurf und Integration eines kamerabasierten Trackingsystems für ein Flugzeugcockpit, by Franz Mader (2004/07/15)
• Bootstrapping of Sensor Networks in Ubiquitous Tracking Environments, by Franz Strasser (2004/07/15)
• Construction of Decentralized Data Flow Graphs in Ubiquitous Tracking Environments, by Dagmer Beyer (2004/07/15)
• Computer Supported Implantation of a Stent Graft, by Martin Groher (2003/12/23)
• Design of a Planning Tool for Port Placement in Robotically Assisted Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery, by Marco Feuerstein (2003/12/23)
• Implementation and Validation of Intensity Based 3D-2D Registration Algorithms for Radiation Therapy, by Wolfgang Wein (2003/12/15)
• Benutzerorientierter Datenfilter für Umgebungsinformationen als Erweiterung eines Navigationssystems für sehbehinderte und blinde Mitmenschen, by Florian Reitmeir (2003/12/15)
• Design eines für Blinde und Sehbehinderte geeigneten Navigationssystems mit taktiler Ausgabe, by Günther Harrasser (2003/12/15)
• Design of an Intra-Operative Augmented Reality Navigation Tool for Robotically Assisted Minimally Invasive Cardiovascular Surgery, by Jörg Traub (2003/11/15)
• Calibration of Virtual Cameras for Augmented Reality, by Bernhard Zaun (2003/07/15)
• Data Management for Augmented Reality Applications, by Marcus Tönnis (2003/07/15)
• Automated Registration in Endoscopic Treatment of Aortic Aneurisms, by Peter Keitler ( 2003/12/23)

Systementwicklungsprojekte:

• Combining different Trackers in AMIRE, by Benjamin Becker (2004/10/13)
• Application Programming Interface for Fire-wire Cameras, by Johannes Schäffner (2004/08/15)
• Serial Driver for the Aurora Magnetic Tracker, by Zhen Zhang (2004/06/15)
• Visualisierung der Bodenreaktionskräfte im Alpinen Skisport, by Christian Wachinger, Jonas v. Beck, Ingo Kresse (2004/06/15)
• Break Out - Augmented Reality for Computer Games, by Steven Pessall (2004/03/29)

Teaching

Wintersemester 2006/2007

• Proseminar: Anwendungen für Augmented Reality^?, Prof. Klinker

Sommersemester 2006

• Hauptseminar: Sensor Networks and Sensor Fusion^?, Prof. Klinker
• Proseminar: Anwendungen für Augmented Reality^?, Prof. Klinker

Wintersemester 2005/2006

• Proseminar: Anwendungen für Augmented Reality^?, Prof. Klinker

Sommersemester 2005

• Hauptseminar: Computer Vision & Image Registration^?, Prof. Navab, Prof. Klinker

Wintersemester 2004/2005

• 3rd Joint Advanced Student School, St. Petersburg, spring 2005 (Jass 05), Prof. Klinker
• Hauptseminar: Algorithms for Augmented and Virtual Reality^?, Prof. Klinker, Prof. Navab, Prof. Tuceryan

Sommersemester 2004

• Praktikumsleitung: Augmented Reality, Prof. Klinker

Wintersemester 2003/2004

• Hauptseminar: MachineLearningWiSe2003, Prof. Klinker, Prof. Kramer
• Übungsleitung: Einführung in die Informatik I, Prof. Brügge

Sommersemester 2003

• Hauptseminar: MachineLearningSoSe2003, Prof. Klinker
• Übungsleitung: Einführung in die Informatik II, Prof. Knoll

Wintersemester 2002/2003

• Übungsleitung Einführung in die Informatik I, Prof. Knoll
• Tutorübung zu Einführung in die Informatik I, Prof, Knoll
• Programmierpraktikum: OpenGL-Programmierung in C, Prof. Klinker