List of Publications of Rolf Lakaemper

                                                                   (updated August 09)

 

Journals:

  1. Rolf Lakaemper, Nagesh Adluru. Using Virtual Scans for Improved Mapping and Evaluation. Autonomous Robots Journal, Special Issue 'Characterizing Mobile Robot Localization and Mapping', Editors: Raj Madhavan, Alex Kleiner, Chris Scrapper. Springer, (accepted 8/2009, to appear)
  2. Rolf Lakaemper, Ali Malkawi. Integrating Robot Mapping and Augmented Building Simulation. ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering - Special Issue on Visualization in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction, (accepted, to appear in 2009)
  3. Longin Jan Latecki, Marc Sobel, Rolf Lakaemper. Piecewise Linear Models with Guaranteed Closeness to the Data. IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), to appear in 2009
  4. pdf file R.Lakaemper, N.Adluru, L.J.Latecki, R. Madhavan: Multi Robot Mapping using Force Field Simulation. Journal of Field Robotics, Special Issue on Quantitative Performance Evaluation of Robotic and Intelligent Systems, 2007

5.pdf file L. J. Latecki, R. Lakaemper and D. Wolter: Optimal Partial Shape Similarity. Image and Vision Computing Journal (IVC) 23, pp. 227-236, 2005.

6.pdf file L. J. Latecki and R. Lakämper: Application of Planar Shape Comparison to Object Retrieval in Image Databases. Pattern Recognition (PR), pp. 15-29, 35 (1), 2002.

7.pdf file L. J. Latecki and R. Lakämper: Shape Similarity Measure Based on Correspondence of Visual Parts. IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) 22 (10), pp. 1185-1190, October 2000.

8.L. J. Latecki, R.-R. Ghadially, R. Lakämper, and U. Eckhardt: Continuity of the discrete curve evolution. Journal of Electronic Imaging 9 (3), pp. 317-326, July 2000.

9.pdf file L.J. Latecki and R. Lakämper: Convexity Rule for Shape Decomposition Based on Discrete Contour Evolution. Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU) 73, 441-454, 1999.

 

Book Chapters

  1. C. Scrapper, R. Madhavan, R. Lakaemper, A. Censi, A. Godil, A. Wagan, and A. Jacoff, "Chapter 10: Quantitative Assessment of Robot-generated Maps", R. Madhavan, E. Tunstel and E. Messina (eds.), Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking of Intelligent Systems, Springer, September 2009 (to appear).
  2. Rolf Lakaemper, Nagesh Adluru: Force Field Simulation Based Laser Scan Alignment. In Aleksandar Lazinica (editor): Recent Advances in Multi-Robot Systems, I-Tech Education and Publishing, Vienna, Austria, May 2008, ISBN 978-3-902613-24-0, ONLINE VERSION

12.  L. J. Latecki and R. Lakaemper: Shape Description and Search for Similar Objects in Image Databases. In R. Veltkamp, H. Burkhardt, and H.-P. Kriegel (eds.): State-of-the-Art in Content-Based Image and Video Retrieval, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, pp. 69-95, 2001.

 

Fully Refereed Conference Papers

 

13.  Rolf Lakaemper. Simultaneous Multi-Line-Segment Merging for Robot Mapping using Mean Shift Clustering. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS09). St Louis, MO, USA, September 2009. (Accepted, to appear)

14.  Raj Madhavan, Rolf Lakaemper, Tamas Kalmar-Nagy. Benchmarking and Standardization of Intelligent Robotic Systems. 14th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR 2009). Munich, Germany, June 2009.

15.  R. Lakaemper, Shusha Li, M.Sobel. Correspondences of Point Sets using Particle Filters. IAPR International conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Tampa, Florida, December 2008

16.  N. Adluru, L. J. Latecki, M. Sobel, and R. Lakaemper. Merging Maps of Multiple Robots. Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Tampa, Florida, December 2008.  

  1. JingTing Zeng, Rolf Lakaemper, XingWei Yang, and Xin Li. 2D Shape Decomposition Based on Combined Skeleton-Boundary Features. Lecture Notes In Computer Science; Vol. 5359,
    Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Advances in Visual Computing, Part II, Las Vegas, NV, Page 682-691. Springer 2008.
  2. Rolf Lakaemper, JingTing Zeng. A Context Dependent Distance Measure for Shape Clustering. Lecture Notes In Computer Science; Vol. 5359,
    Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Advances in Visual Computing, Part II, Las Vegas, NV, Page 145-156. Springer 2008.

19.  Lakaemper, R., Adluru, N. Improving Sparse Laser Scan Alignment with Virtual Scans. IEEE/RJS 2008 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Nice, France, September 2008

20.  Lakaemper, R., Adluru, N. Using Virtual Scans to Improve Alignment in Robot Mapping. Proceedings of  Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS 2008), NIST, Gaithersburg, August 2008

21.  pdf file R.Lakaemper, Marc Sobel. Correspondences between Parts of Shapes with Particle Filters. Proceedings of  IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Anchorage, Alaska, June 2008.

22.  R.Lakaemper, Marc Sobel. A Particle Filter Approach to Learning Partial Shape Correspondences. Proceedings of International IASTED Conference on Signal and Image Processing (SIP), Hawaii, August 2008

23.  R. Lakaemper, N.Adluru, L.J.Latecki: Force Field Based n-Scan Alignment.
European Conference on Mobile Robots, ECMR 2007, Freiburg, Germany, Sept. 2007

24.  Rolf Lakaemper, Andreas Nuechter, Nagesh Adluru, Longin Jan Latecki. Performance of  6D LuM and FFS Slam – An Example for Comparison of Grid and Pose Based Evaluation Methods. Proceedings of  Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS 2007), NIST, Gaithersburg, August 2007.

25.  N. Adluru, L. J. Latecki, R. Lakaemper, T. Young, X. Bai, and A. Gross. Contour Grouping Based on Local Symmetry. 11th IEEE Int. Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 2007. (AR=23%)

26.  N. Adluru, L. J. Latecki, R. Lakaemper, and R. Madhavan. Robot Mapping for Rescue Robots. IEEE Int. Workshop on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics, NIST, Gaithersburg, August 2006.

27.  pdf file L. J. Latecki, M. Sobel, and R. Lakaemper: New EM Derived from Kullback-Leibler Divergence. The 12th ACM SIGKDD Int. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Philadelphia, August 2006. (AR=11% for full papers)

28.  R. Lakaemper, A. Malkawi, R. Srinivasan, and L. J. Latecki. Mobile Robot Mapping and Immersive Building Simulation. 16th Int. Conf. on Computer Graphics (GRAPHICON), Novosibirsk, Russia, July 2006.

29.  pdf file L. J. Latecki and R. Lakaemper: Polygonal Approximation of Point Sets. 11th IAPR Int. Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis (IWCIA), Berlin, Germany, June 2006.

30.  R. Lakaemper and L. J. Latecki: Using Extended EM to Segment Planar Structures in 3D. 18th Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Hong Kong, August 2006. (AR=42%)

31.  pdf file L. J. Latecki and R. Lakaemper: Polygonal Approximation of Laser Range Data Based on Perceptual Grouping and EM. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Orlando, Florida, May 2006. (AR=39%)

32.  pdf file R. Lakaemper and L. J. Latecki: Extended EM for Planar Approximation of 3D Data. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Orlando, Florida, May 2006. (AR=39%)

33.  pdf file L. J. Latecki, V. Megalooikonomou, Q. Wang , R. Lakaemper, C. A. Ratanamahatana, and E. Keogh: Partial Elastic Matching of Time Series. IEEE Int. Conf. on Data Mining (ICDM), pp. 701-704, Houston, TX, USA, November 2005. (AR=22.4%)

34.  pdf file L. J. Latecki, V. Megalooikonomou, Q. Wang , R. Lakaemper, C. A. Ratanamahatana, and E. Keogh. Elastic Partial Matching of Time Series. 9th European Conf. on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD), pp. 577-584, Porto, Portugal, October 2005. (AR=28%)

35.  pdf file R. Lakaemper, L. J. Latecki, and D. Wolter: Incremental Multi-Robot Mapping. IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Edmonton, Canada, August 2005. (AR=54%)

36.  pdf file R. Lakämper, L. J. Latecki, X. Sun, and D. Wolter: Geometric Robot Mapping. Int. Conf. on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI), April 2005.

37.  pdf file D. Wolter, L. J. Latecki, R. Lakämper, X. Sun: Shape-Based Robot Mapping. 27th German Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, Ulm, Germany, September 2004. (AR=31%)

38.  pdf file L. J. Latecki, R. Lakämper, X. Sun, D. Wolter: Building Polygonal Maps from Laser Range Data. Int. Cognitive Robotics Workshop, Valencia, Spain, August 2004.

39.  L. J. Latecki, R. Lakämper, X. Sun, D. Wolter: Construction of Global Maps with Polygonal Objects from Laser Range Data. IASTED Int. Conf. on Robotics and Applications, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 2004.

40.  R. Lakämper, L. J. Latecki, V. Megalooikonomou, Q. Wang, X. Wang: Learning Descriptive and Distinctive Parts of Objects with a Part-Based Shape Similarity Measure. IASTED Int. Conf. on Signal and Image Processing (SIP), Honolulu, Hawaii, August 2004.

41.  L. J. Latecki and R. Lakämper. Cognitively Motivated Shape Similarity. IASTED Computers Graphics and Imaging (CGIM), Kauai, Hawaii, August 2004.

42.  R. Lakämper and L. J. Latecki. Database Query by Interactive Shape Selection. IASTED Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications (IMSA), Kauai, Hawaii, August 2004.

43.  pdf file L. J. Latecki, R. Lakämper, and D. Wolter: Shape Similarity and Visual Parts. 11th Int. Conf. on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI), pp. 34-51, November 2003. (invited lecture)

44.  pdf file L. J. Latecki, R. Lakämper, and U. Eckhardt: Shape Descriptors for Non-rigid Shapes with a Single Closed Contour. Proc. of IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, pp. 424-429, June 2000.

45.  pdf file L. J. Latecki and R. Lakämper: Polygon Evolution by Vertex Deletion. Proc. of Int. Conf. on Scale-Space Theories in Computer Vision, Corfu, Greece, Springer-Verlag, pp. 398-409, September 1999.

46.  L. J. Latecki and R. Lakämper: Contour-based Shape Similarity. Proc. of Int. Conf. on Visual Information Systems, Amsterdam, Springer-Verlag, pp. 617-624, June 1999.

47.  L. J. Latecki and R. Lakämper: Discrete Approach to Curve Evolution. Proc. of 20. DAGM-Symposium Mustererkennung (Pattern Recognition), Stuttgart, Germany, pp. 85-92, September/October 1998.

48.  Best Paper Reward from the German Society for Pattern Recognition (DAGM) in 1998: L. J. Latecki and R. Lakämper: Shape Decomposition and Shape Similarity Measure. Proc. of 20. DAGM-Symposium Mustererkennung (Pattern Recognition), Stuttgart, Germany, pp.367-376, September/October 1998.

 

Other Conference Papers

49.  L. J. Latecki, R. Lakaemper, and Z. Pizlo. Partial shape similarity of contours is needed for object recognition. Proc. of the IS&T/SPIE Conf. Computational Imaging, San Jose, pp. 16-1-16-12, January 2006.

50.  L. J. Latecki, R.-R. Ghadially, R. Lakämper, and U. Eckhardt: Continuity of the Discrete Curve Evolution. Proc. of the SPIE and SIAM Conf. on Vision Geometry, Vol. 3811, Denver, Colorado, pp. 212-223, July 1999.

51.  L. J. Latecki and R. Lakämper: Shape Similarity Measure for Image Database of Occluding Contours. Proc. of the 4th IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, October 1998.

52.  R. Lakämper, L. J. Latecki, and U. Eckhardt: Contour-Based Shape Similarity. Proc. of the SPIE´s Conf. on Vision Geometry, Vol. 3454, San Diego, Ca., pp. 202-213, July 1998.