Communications and Marketing

Award-winning scientists teach robots how to see better

Thursday 7 July 2016

Scientists Alexander Hagg, Frederik Hegger and Professor Paul Plöger from the Department of Computer Science at H-BRS won the Best Scientific Paper Award at the RoboCup Symposium 2016 in Leipzig last weekend.

hagg_alexander_best_paper_award_leipzig_201607_teasercut.jpg (DE)

Their work suggests various ways in which robots can use built-in 2D or 3D cameras to correctly recognise and pinpoint transparent or shiny objects. While transparent objects are common in our everyday surroundings, their visual perception by autonomous systems is one of the most difficult unresolved problems there is. The team from H-BRS in Sankt Augustin has developed methods for evaluating measurement points with unknown depth information.

paul_ploeger_alexander_hagg_frederik_hegger_sta_inf_20160706_foto_e._tritschler_1791.jpg (DE)

Sie haben noch Fragen?

tritschler-eva_12142.jpg (DE)

[Archive] Eva Tritschler

Press and Public Relations, Spokeswoman/Editor-in-Chief of the university magazine doppelpunkt:

presse@h-brs.de

Location

Sankt Augustin

Address

Grantham-Allee 20

53757 Sankt Augustin

[Archive] Eva Tritschler
Alexander Hagg (DE)

Alexander Hagg

PhD student, Artificial intelligence (surrogate modelling), Artificial Intelligence (Optimisation)

alexander.hagg@h-brs.de

Research fields

Location

Sankt Augustin

Address

Grantham-Allee 20

53757 Sankt Augustin

Dr Alexander Hagg