Dr. Rolf Lakaemper, Associate Professor

Department of Computer and Information Sciences
OFFICE : Room 313, Wachman Hall
ADDRESS: CIS Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122
PHONE : (215)204-7996
FAX : (215)204-5082
E-ADDRESS:lakamper@temple.edu
(ATTENTION: the address is really 'lakamper', not 'lakaemper'!).

Research Interests

ROBOTICS:
- Robot Mapping, SLAM
- Evaluation: I was recently (Jan. 2010) awarded the NIST ARRA Grant 10D012. Click here for an overview.
COMPUTER VISION:
- Shape Similarity (click HERE for project webpage)
- Image and Video Databases, content-based analysis and retrieval (click HERE for interactive image database) ,
- video processing, voice and video over IP
- digital geometry and topology, non-linear filtering
COMPUTER GRAPHICS
GAME PROGRAMMING
Microsoft Kinect TCP server. Please visit the kinectTCP page!

Publications

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Research related movies

Education
My CV

Teaching
Spring 2003: CIS068: Data Structures and Algorithms in JAVA
Fall 2003: CIS350: Principles and Applications of Computer Vision
Spring 2004: CIS595: Content Based Image and Video Retrieval (Graduate Seminar)
Fall 2004: CIS350: Introduction to Game Programming (Undergrad Seminar)
Spring 2005: CIS083: Introduction to JAVA Programming
Spring 2005: Game of Life / Game Programming (slides, 60MB)
Fall 2005: (Autonomous Toy Robots): Here you find the framework code for THE BRAIN
Spring 2006: CIS068: Data Structures and Algorithms in JAVA
Fall 2006: CIS068: Data Structures and Algorithms in JAVA
Spring 2007: CIS601: Computer Graphics and Image Processing
Fall 2007: CIS2168 (aka CIS68): Data Structures and Algorithms in JAVA
Spring 2008: CIS601: Computer Graphics and Image Processing
Fall 2008: CIS2168 / 2: Data Structures and Algorithms in JAVA
Spring 2009: CIS9601: Computer Graphics and Image Processing
Fall 2009: (sabbatical)
Spring 2010: CIS9601: Computer Graphics and Image Processing - Modern Approaches to Make Robots Recognize the World
Spring 2010: CIS2168: Data Structures and Algorithms in JAVA
Fall 2010: CIS2168: Data Structures and Algorithms in JAVA
Spring 2011: CIS9601: Computer Graphics and Image Processing
Fall 2011: CIS2168: Data Structures and Algorithms in JAVA
Spring 2012: CIS2168: Data Structures and Algorithms in JAVA

Some interesting YouTube movies
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