Hello. I’m Marcel Kaufmann.

Master of Science in Photonics and Computer Vision.

What I do

Currently I am a PhD student in Computer Engineering at the „Making Innovative Space Technologies“ Laboratory at Polytechnique Montréal in Canada.

My key competences include:

Programming

Analysing, developing and implementing algorithms for various problems and tasks.

Computer Vision

Acquiring data from different sensors, processing and extracting information computationally.

Optics

Designing and evaluating optics and sensors for image processing and vision applications.

Robotics

Combining programming, computer vision and machine vision for automating the industrial and/or private sector.

My coding skills

I’m a photonics and computer vision engineer. To solve different challenges I use my professional skills which include following programming languages, libraries and tools:

C/C++
Matlab
Interactive Data Language (IDL)
Java
OpenCV
PCL
Qt
CMake

My Work and Projects

I work determined to ensure that business objectives are met, success is achieved and people are happy.

Characterization of time of flight camera prototypes

The characterization of time of flight camera prototypes by Basler AG was part of my bachelor thesis. Using a DENSO robot and a robot mountable customized climate chamber systematic effects on depth data (e.g. noise, amplitude and temperature dependencies) have been determined. The results lead to an improvement in following prototypes.

NASA International Space Apps Challenge

Solved the Spacebots Stereo Vision Challenge with our team by developing a prototype application for generating stereo data to locate and track space debris and other moving objects during a 48 hour hackathon.

InMoov Project

As a mentor for a team of undergraduate students I supported them in terms of project management and 3D printing. For more info visit the linked project page by clicking on this image.

Autonomous Flying Drone

During a university project in 2014 my team and I worked on an autonomous flying drone. The manufacturers SDK and the OpenCV was used under Ubuntu to develop a software package which combined camera calibration, steering and feature detection for autonomous flying manoeuvres.

Glass Control

As part of the KONVOTIK project I set up a fair demo using computer vision technology and an industrial robot by DENSO in order to show the capabilities of a developed process control system for lens preforms.

Invent a Chip 2008

Third Place in the nationwide competition Invent a Chip for developing and implementing a Driving Assistance Chip using a Xilinx FPGA board, Verilog and Java.

Recent Projects

My recent projects include the reduction of false alarms in synthetic aperture radar coherent change detection (SAR-CCD) systems, and research on time-of-flight camera prototypes for which the results have been published and presented at the „Oldenburger 3D-Tage 2016“ (Oldenburg 3D-Days 2016) in Germany.

Synthetic Aperture Radar
Reduction of False Alarms
Time of Flight Camera
Temperature dependencies
Amplitude dependencies
Noise
Point Clouds

Let’s work together

I’m always happy and excited to discuss new projects and technologies. Especially in the fields of image processing, computer vision and/or robotics. If you are interested let me know.

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