Research
| Human activity is considered to be one of the most important ingredients of context awareness and ubiquitous computing. During my PhD I focused mainly on the recognition complex activities based on wearable sensors. By spotting isolated gesture-alike events in a
continuous data stream, probabilistic temporal models are used to compose such events into higher level activities such as daily routines, or multi-step construction tasks. |
"We are what we repeatly do."
(Aristotle, 384-322 BC) |
Dissertation |
Recognizing Complex Human Activity
Based on Activity Spotting
Ulf Blanke
Prof. Stefan Roth, Ph. D (examiner)
Prof. Dr.-Ing Hans Gellersen (co-examiner)
Prof. Dr. Bernt Schiele (co-examiner)
Dissertation (defended 12/2010) |
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Peer reviewed publications |
2011 |
I spy with my little eye: Learning Optimal Filters for Cross-Modal Stereo under Projected Patterns
Walon Chiu, Ulf Blanke, Mario Fritz
Max Planck Institute for Informatics
1st IEEE Workshop on Consumer Depth Cameras for Computer Vision in conjuction with ICCV, 11/2011, Barcelona, Spain, (2011) |
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Improving the Kinect by Cross-Modal Stereo
Walon Chiu, Ulf Blanke, Mario Fritz
Max Planck Institute for Informatics
The 22nd British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC'11). 2010, Dundee, UK. Springer. |
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South by South-East Or Sitting at the Desk. Can Orientation be a place?
Ulf Blanke*, Robert Rehner**, Bernt Schiel*
* Max Planck Institute for Informatics
** DVS TU Darmstadt
15th International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'11), June. 2010, San Francisco, USA. IEEE. |
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Remember and Transfer what you have Learned - Recognizing Composite Activities based on Activity Spotting.
Ulf Blanke, Bernt Schiele TU Darmstadt
14th International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'10), Oct. 2010, Seoul, Korea. IEEE. |
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Characterizing Sleep Trends from Postures
Marko Borazio**, Ulf Blanke*, Kristof Van Laerhoven**
* Max Planck Institute for Informatics
** ESS TU Darmstadt
14th International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'10), Oct. 2010, Seoul, Korea. IEEE. |
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Towards Human Motion Capturing using Gyroscopeless Orientation Estimation.
Ulf Blanke, Bernt Schiele TU Darmstadt
14th International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'10), Oct. 2010, Seoul, Korea. IEEE. |
Minute Madness Video
Supplemental Video |
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Standing on the Shoulders of Other Researchers - A Position Statement.
Ulf Blanke*, MIS, TU Darmstadt
Diane Larlus, MIS, TU Darmstadt
Kristof Van Laerhoven, ESS, TU Darmstadt
Bernt Schiele, MIS, TU Darmstadt
Pervasive Workshop "How to do good activity recognition research? Experimental methodologies, evaluation metrics, and reproducibility issues" 2010, Helsinki, Finland, |
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All for one or one for all? - Combining Heterogeneous Features for Activity Spotting.
Ulf Blanke, Bernt Schiele TU Darmstadt
Matthias Kreil, Paul Lukowicz ESL Uni Passau
Thiemo Gruber, Bernard Sick CSL Uni Passau
7th IEEE PerCom Workshop on Context Modeling and Reasoning (CoMoRea '10). |
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| 2009 |
An Analysis of Sensor-Oriented vs. Model-Based Activity Recognition
Andreas Zinnen SAP Research
Ulf Blanke*, TU Darmstadt
Bernt Schiele, TU Darmstadt
13th Intl. Symposium on Wearable Computing (ISWC) @ ars electronica 2009, Sept. 4-7, Linz, Austria. IEEE. |
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Daily Routine Recognition through Activity Spotting
Ulf Blanke*, TU Darmstadt
Bernt Schiele, TU Darmstadt
4th Intl. Symposium on Location- and Context-Awareness (LoCA) 2009, May. 7-8, Tokyo, Japan. Springer. |
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| 2008 |
Sensing Location in the Pocket
Ulf Blanke*, TU Darmstadt
Bernt Schiele, TU Darmstadt
10th Intl. Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) 2008 (in adjunct proceedings), September 21-24, Seoul, South Korea |
Minute Madness Video |
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| 2007 |
Scalable Recognition of Daily Activities with Wearable Sensors
Tam Huynh*, TU Darmstadt
Ulf Blanke, TU Darmstadt
Bernt Schiele, TU Darmstadt
3rd Int. Symposium on Location- and Context-Awareness (LoCA) September 2007, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. Springer. |
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* Presenter. For further information (,e.g., datasets etc.): http://www.mis.tu-darmstadt.de
Other publications & talks |
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Visualization as Tool for Data Understanding
Ulf Blanke
Summer School “Visualizations of Space: Concepts-Methods-Media”
2010, Ebernburg, Germany
Within interdisciplinary research project “Visualization – Information – Learning/Perception” – together with Anna Lisa Martin (TU Darmstadt) and Markus Stross (TU Darmstadt) |
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Understanding the process of technology research and its impact on the real world
Ulf Blanke, MIS, TU Darmstadt
Suzana Alpsancar, TU Darmstadt
Young Philosophy Second (under)-graduate conference,
2010,
Darmstadt, Germany |
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Unsupervised Activity Recognition
using Wearable Sensors
Diploma thesis
Implementation of HMM-based EM clustering algorithm to recognize daily activities, e.g., ironing, eating and scenes, such as at work, housekeeping.
B. Clarkson & A. Pentland. Unsupervised clustering of ambulatory
audio and video. In icassp, 1999.
Brian Clarkson, Kenji Mase & Alex Pentland. Recognizing User Context
via Wearable Sensors. In ISWC, 2000. |
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