Supervised theses and student projects

I (co-)supervised the following student projects:

Detecting User Attention during Human-Robot Interaction
Master thesis, KIT, 2025

Open-World Dynamic 3D Scene Understanding
PhD thesis co-mentoring, RWTH Aachen, 2024–2025

Interactive Class-Agnostic 3D Segmentation with User-in-the-Loop
PhD thesis co-mentoring, RWTH Aachen, 2024–2025

Fisheye-Based 3D Human Pose Estimation and Activity Recognition
PhD thesis co-mentoring, RWTH Aachen, 2023–2025

Data-Efficient 3D Representation Learning for Robotics Downstream Tasks
PhD thesis co-mentoring, RWTH Aachen, 2022–2025

Dynamic Gesture Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction in Intralogistics
Master thesis co-mentoring, RWTH Aachen, 2024

LiDAR-based 3D Human Pose Estimation
Master thesis, RWTH Aachen, 2024

Unified Human Pose and Trajectory Prediction
Master thesis, Uni Freiburg, 2023

9DoF 3D Object Detection in Intralogistics Applications
Master thesis, Uni Freiburg, 2022

RGB-D Fusion for 3D Human Detection
Internship, RWTH Aachen, 2019

Synthetic Data Generation for Deep Learning
Master thesis at Uni Stuttgart, 2018–2019

Real-Time RGB-D Person Detection using Deep Transfer Learning Methods
Master thesis at HTWG Konstanz, 2018

Conditional Random Fields for Bottom-Up Human Attribute Detection in RGB-D
Master thesis at Uni Freiburg, 2015

Improving People Tracking Using IMM, Occlusion Models and Group-Level Feedback
Master thesis at Uni Freiburg, 2015

Evaluation and Learning of Features for Human Attribute Classification in RGB-D
Master thesis at Uni Freiburg, 2014

Evaluation of Different Point-Cloud Features for Human Attribute Recognition
Master lab project at Uni Freiburg, 2014

Extending a Nearest-Neighbor Person Tracker with a Track Initialization Logic
Master lab project at Uni Freiburg, 2014

Taught courses

Summer term 2015
Seminar Social Robotics (together with Billy Okal, Luigi Palmieri, Kai O. Arras): Tracking of people and other dynamic objects

Winter terms 2013 & 2014
Human-Oriented Robotics Exercise (together with Billy Okal and Luigi Palmieri)

Winter term 2007
Discrete Mathematics I (University of Duisburg-Essen), teaching assistant