Dr. Elmar Mair
email: elmar.mair@dlr.de
phone: +49 8153 28 1048
fax:     +49 8153 28 1134
mail:    P.O. Box 1116
        D-82230 Wessling
      Germany

Curriculum Vitæ

since April 2012: researcher at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics (Department of Perception und Cognition)
2012: Dr. rer. nat. in Informatics ("Efficient and Robust Pose Estimation Based on Inertial and Visual Sensing", ISBN: 978-3843906043, available at Amazon)
December 2007 - March 2012: research assistant at the group for Machine Vision and Perception (at the chair of Robotics and Embedded Systems), Technische Universität München
2007: Master of Science in Informatics
2005: Bachelor of Science in Informatics

Current Research Interests

low ressource visual localization
- speed, accuracy, reliabilty and robustness
sensor registration and fusion
hierarchical, efficient maps
insect-inspired visual navigation

Ongoing Projects

Fully autonomous multicopters
Insect inspired navigation @ http://www.insectvision.org

Past Projects

Teaching

Digital Signal Processing lab course at the TUM (2007-2011)
Single lectures (at TUM) in
- Digital Signal Processing (2007-2011)
- Computer Vision (2007-2011)
- Motion Planning (2012)

Awards

Best Paper Finalist at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO) 2012
Best Paper Finalist at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO) 2011
1st place at the International Micro Air Vehicle (IMAV) outdoor competition 2011 with team "DLR"
Best Paper Finalist at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2009
Best Paper Finalist at the International Workshop on Robot Vision (RobVis) 2008
Siemens Award 2007 for the best Master's Thesis in Informatics at the Technische Universität München (TUM)

Publications

	Elmar Mair, Wolfgang Stürzl, and Jochen Zeil. Benchmark 3D Models of Natural Navigation Environments @ www.InsectVision.org, Proceedings of the International Conference on Invertebrate Vision (ICIV'13), August 2013.
	Wolfgang Stürzl, Elmar Mair, Heiko Hirschmüller, and Jochen Zeil. Mapping the Navigational Information Content of Insect Habitats, Proceedings of the International Conference on Invertebrate Vision (ICIV'13), August 2013.
	Elmar Mair, Marcus Augustine, Annett Stelzer, Frank Ortmeier, Darius Burschka, and Michael Suppa. Landmark-Tree Map: a Biologically Inspired Topological Map for Long-Distance Robot Navigation, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO'12), December 2012.
	Teodor Tomic, Korbinian Schmid, Philipp Lutz, Andreas Dömel, Michael Kassecker, Elmar Mair, Iris L. Grixa, Felix Ruess, Michael Suppa, and Darius Burschka. Toward a Fully Autonomous UAV: Research Platform for Indoor and Outdoor Urban Search and Rescue, Robotics & Automation Magazine, IEEE , vol.19, no.3, pp.46-56, September 201.
	Elmar Mair, (2012). Efficient and Robust Pose Estimation Based on Inertial and Visual Sensing, Doctoral dissertation, August 2012, ISBN 978-3843906043, available at Amazon.
	Elmar Mair, Michael Fleps, Michael Suppa, and Darius Burschka. Spatio-temporal initialization for IMU to camera registration. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO'11), December 2011, nominated for the Best Paper Award.
	Elmar Mair, Michael Fleps, Oliver Ruepp, Michael Suppa, and Darius Burschka. Optimization based IMU camera calibration. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'11), September 2011.
	Klaus H. Strobl, Elmar Mair, and Gerd Hirzinger. Image-based pose estimation for 3-d modeling in rapid, hand-held motion. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'11), May 2011.
	Elmar Mair, Gregory D. Hager, Darius Burschka, Michael Suppa, and Gerhard Hirzinger. Adaptive and generic corner detection based on the accelerated segment test. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV'10), September 2010.
	Werner Maier, Fengqing Bao, Elmar Mair, Eckehard Steinbach, and Darius Burschka. Illumination-invariant image-based novelty detection in a cognitive mobile robot's environment. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2010 (ICRA'10), May 2010.
	Elmar Mair, Klaus H. Strobl, Tim Bodenmüller, Michael Suppa, and Darius Burschka. Real-time image-based localization for hand-held 3d-modeling. Künstliche Intelligenz, 24, May 2010.
	Elmar Mair and Darius Burschka. Mobile Robots Navigation, chapter Zinf - Monocular Localization Algorithm with Uncertainty Analysis for Outdoor Applications, pages 107 - 130. In-Tech, March 2010.
	Elmar Mair, Klaus H. Strobl, Michael Suppa, and Darius Burschka. Efficient camera-based pose estimation for real-time applications. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2009 (IROS'09), October 2009.
	Klaus H. Strobl, Elmar Mair, Tim Bodenmüller, Simon Kielhöfer, Wolfgang Sepp, Michael Suppa, Darius Burschka, and Gerd Hirzinger. The self-referenced dlr 3d-modeler. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2009 (IROS'09), October 2009, nominated for the Best Paper Award.
	Werner Maier, Elmar Mair, Darius Burschka, and Eckehard Steinbach. Visual homing and surprise detection for cognitive mobile robots using image-based environment representations. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2009 (ICRA'09), May 2009.
	Werner Maier, Elmar Mair, Darius Burschka, and Eckehard Steinbach. Surprise detection and visual homing in cognitive technical systems. In 1st International Workshop on Cognition for Technical Systems, October 2008.
	Elmar Mair, Werner Maier, Darius Burschka, and Eckehard Steinbach. Image-based environment perception for cognitive technical systems. In 1st International Workshop on Cognition for Technical Systems, October 2008.
	Darius Burschka and Elmar Mair. Direct pose estimation with a monocular camera. In RobVis, pages 440-453, 2008.
	Darius Burschka and Elmar Mair. Biologically motivated optical flow-based navigation. In Workshop Biological Models in Spatial Cognition 2008, 2008.