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I finished my Ph.D. thesis and moved as postdoctoral researcher to the Computer Vision and Multimodal Computing group at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbruecken.

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Recognition Composite Activities Based on Activity Spotting

• Activity Recognition
• Machine Learning
• Embedded Sensor Systems
• Ubiquitous Computing
• Human Computer Interaction

• U. Blanke and B. Schiele.   Remember and Transfer what you have Learned - Recognizing Composite Activities based on Activity Spotting.   Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'10), Oct. 2010, Seoul, Korea. IEEE. (acceptance rate: 21%) 

• U. Blanke and B. Schiele.   Towards Human Motion Capturing using Gyroscopeless Orientation Estimation.   Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'10), Oct. 2010, Seoul, Korea. IEEE. (accepted) 
  
  
• M. Borazio, K. Van Laerhoven and U. Blanke.   Visualizing Sleeping Trends from Postures.   Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'10), Oct. 2010, Seoul, Korea, IEEE. (accepted)

• U. Blanke*, D. Larlus, K. Van Laerhoven, B. Schiele.   Standing on the Shoulders of other Researchers - A Position Statement.   Pervasive Workshop: How to do good activity recognition research? Experimental methodologies, evaluation metrics, and reproducibility issues, May 17 - May 20, Helsinki, Finland. 

• U. Blanke*, B. Schiele, M. Kreil, P. Lukowicz, B. Sick, T. Gruber.   All for one or one for all? Combining Heterogeneous Features for Activity Spotting.    7th IEEE Workshop on Context Modeling and Reasoning, March 29 - April 2, Mannheim, Germany. IEEE.
  (acceptance rate 42%)

• A. Zinnen, U. Blanke* and B. Schiele.   An Analysis of Sensor-Oriented vs. Model-Based Activity Recognition.   13th Int. Symposium on Wearable Computing (ISWC) @ ars electronica 2009, Sept. 4-7, Linz, Austria. IEEE.
  (acceptance rate 28%)**

• U. Blanke* and B. Schiele.   Daily Routine Recognition through Activity Spotting.    4th Int. Symposium on Location- and Context-Awareness (LoCA) 2009, May. 7-8, Tokyo, Japan. Springer.
  (acceptance rate 33%)

• U. Blanke* and B. Schiele.   Sensing Location in the Pocket.   10th Int. Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp, adjunct proceedings) 2008, September 21-24, Seoul, South Korea. 
  (acceptance rate 61%)

• T. Huynh*, U. Blanke and B. Schiele.   Scalable Recognition of Daily Activities from Wearable Sensors.   3rd Int. Symposium on Location- and Context-Awareness (LoCA), September 2007, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. Springer.
  (acceptance rate 31%)

* Presenter
** Accepted papers for conference divided by all submitted papers for review
slides and further material is available at www.ulfblanke.de/research

• Ulf Blanke und Suzana Alpsancar.   Understanding the process of Technology Research and its Impact on the Real World.   Young Philosophy - Re-enchanment of the world? Technology between Enlightenment, progress, myth and magic. Aug. 19-22, 2010, Darmstadt, Germany.
  
  
• Suzana Alpsancar, Ulf Blanke und Frauke Nowak.   Welt der Technik - Technisierte Welt? Bericht von internationalen Tagung "Technologies of Globalization".   Technikfolgenabschätzung – Theorie und Praxis, Zeitschrift Nr. 1, 18. Jg., Mai 2009, S.122-126

Lehrveranstaltungen

• Human Computer Systems, TU Darmstadt, 2010 (500+ Teilnehmer)
• Human Computer Systems, TU Darmstadt, 2009 (400+ Teilnehmer)
• Human Computer Systems, TU Darmstadt, 2008 (200+ Teilnehmer)
• Computer Science I, TU Darmstadt, 2003-2004 

Master-  und Bachelorarbeiten

• Matthias Plociennik: Longterm Motion Capturing - Bachelorarbeit  (beendet)
• Robert Rehner - Masterarbeit  (laufend)
• Patrick Frankenberger - Diplomarbeit (laufend)

• Sprecher des Graduiertenkolleg SS2009
• International Conference Technologies of Globalization 08 (TOG08), Okt. 2008, Darmstadt.
     - Organizing Committee, Web, Correspondence
• Session  Aging as a global issue - a challenge for technology and society, TOG08
     - Organization
• TUbicomp, Juni 2008, Darmstadt.
     - Session Chair, Mitorganisation - Klausurtagung
• Interdisziplinärer Workshop "Technisierte Körperräume und Raumwahrnehmung", Mai 2008, Darmstadt.
     - Mit-Organisator

• DFG-Projekt ”Methods for Activity Spotting With On-Body Sensors.”
     - In Kooperation mit Uni Passau
• Intl. conferences: IOT10, AMI10, ISWC10, AmI10, UbiComp10, Pervasive09, ISWC09, LoCA09, ISWC08 Pervasive08, EuroSSC08 
     - External Reviewer 
• European Conference on Ambient Intelligence, AmI 2007, Darmstadt.
     - Student Volunteer

Multimodal Interactive Systems
www.ulfblanke.de