Prof. Dr. Simone Frintrop

• Since March 2016: Professor of Computer Vision at the department of computer science at the Universität Hamburg.
• 2015 - 2016: Privatdozentin (lecturer) at the university of Bonn
• 2014: Habilitation at the university of Bonn
• 2006 - 2016: Senior researcher at the university of Bonn.
• 2005 - 2006: Postdoc at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. Member of the EU project Neurobotics
• 2005: Defense of my PhD thesis with the topic: "VOCUS: A Visual Attention System for Object Detection and Goal-directed Search", supervisor: Joachim Hertzberg
• 2002 - 2005: PhD student at the Fraunhofer Institute of Autonomous Intelligent Systems (AIS, later renamed to IAIS). Member of the EU project MACS.
• 2001: Diploma in computer science at the university of Bonn. Topic of diploma thesis: "Robuste Roboterlokalisierung mit omnidirektionaler Bildsensorik". Supervisor: Joachim Hertzberg

See the research pages of our group.

See the publication list of our group or look at my Google Scholar profile.

2021

• "Cross-Modal Sensor Data Acquisition and Processing", TU Harburg, 1. Juni 2021, [Webseite]
• „Salienz und Aufmerksamkeit: Biologisch-inspirierte Ansätze zur Priorisierung in der Bildverarbeitung“, Veranstaltung der Reihe „Wirtschaft trifft Wissenschaft - Mehrwert durch Austausch“, Handelskammer Hamburg, 25 March 2021, [Webseite]

2017

• "Saliency and Object Discovery for Mobile Robots", ENSTA, Paris, 03 April 2017

2016:

• "Cognitive Computer Vision for Mobile Systems", Antrittsvorlesung, Universität Hamburg, 14. Nov 2016
• "Bildverarbeitung: Wie Computer Sehen Lernen", Festvortrag, "Ada Lovelace Memorial Celebration", Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informatik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, 9. Juni 2016
• "Cognitive Approaches for Mobile Vision Systems", First Cross-Modal Learning Theory Workhop, Universität Hamburg, 2. June 2016

2015:

• "Automatische Bildanalyse", Seminar "Voll im Bild - Bilddokumentation und Bildermarkt", organisiert vom Verein für Medieninformation und Mediendokumentation im Haus der Geschichte, Bonn, 30. April 2015
• "Computational Visual Attention and Saliency Detection", at the University of Siegen, Germany, 25th March, 2015

2014:

• "Cognitive Approaches for Mobile Vision Systems", at the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems, Sankt Augustin, Germany, Nov. 7th, 2014
• "Spiele mit unvollständiger Information am Beispiel Poker", Habilitationskolloquium, Bonn, Germany, Nov. 5th, 2014
• "Saliency-based Object Discovery", invited talk at the International Symposium on Attention in Cognitive Systems, Bielefeld, Germany, Dec. 1st, 2014
• "Cognitive Approaches for Mobile Vision Systems", at the Bonn-Aachen Computer Vision Summit at RWTH Aachen, Invitation of Prof. Dr. Kobbelt, Aug 22th, 2014
• "Cognitive Approaches for Mobile Vision Systems", at the University of Vienna, Invitation of Prof. Dr. Vincze, June 11th, 2014
• "Cognitive Approaches for Mobile Vision Systems", at the University of Bielefeld, Invitation of Prof. Dr. Sagerer, May 28th, 2014

2013:

• "Cognitive Computer Vision", at the Bonn Vision Workshop, Bonn, Germany, 2013 [Slides (pdf)]
• "Towards attentive robots", at the Tutorial "A Crash Course on Visual Saliency Modeling: Behavioral Findings and Computational Models" at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Oregon, USA, 2013 [Slides (pdf)]
• "Attention for 3D object discovery", at the Tutorial "A Crash Course on Visual Saliency Modeling: Behavioral Findings and Computational Models" at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Oregon, USA, 2013

2012:

• "Visual Attention for Mobile Systems", at the Dagstuhl Seminar "Interpreting Observed Action, December 4th, 2012
• "Attentive Robots", Themenabend Robotik, organisiert von der GI-Regionalgruppe Köln, November 7th, 2012

2011:

• "Research @ Intelligent Vision Systems Group", at the Knowledge-Based Systems Research Group (KBS) (Prof. Joachim Hertzberg), in Osnabrück, Germany, April 2011
• "Computational Attention Systems", an overview of our survey paper in the ACM Transactions on Applied Perception that was invited as talk to the Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization (APGV) in Toulouse, France, August 27th, 2011 [Slides (pdf)]

2010:

• "Visual Attention for Cognitive Systems", at the IDIAP research institute, (Dr. Barbara Caputo), in Martigny, Switzerland, November 2010
• "Visual Attention for Cognitive Systems", at the RWTH Aachen, (Prof. Bastian Leibe), in Aachen, Germany, November 2010
• "General Object Tracking with a Component-based Target Descriptor", at the IEEE 2010 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '10), Anchorage, Alaska, May 2010
• "Visual Landmark Generation and Redetection with a Single Feature per Frame", at the IEEE 2010 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '10), Anchorage, Alaska, May 2010

2009:

• "Visual Attention for Cognitive Systems", at the CITEC (Center of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology), Prof. Gerhard Sagerer, in Bielefeld, Germany, July 2009
• "Most Salient Region Tracking", IEEE 2009 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '09), Kobe, Japan, May 2009
• "Visual Person Tracking Using a Cognitive Observation Model", Workshop on People Detection and Tracking at the IEEE 2009 International Conference Robotics and Automation (ICRA '09), Kobe, Japan, May 2009

2008:

• "Cognitive Robot Localization and Mapping", at the University of Southern California (USC), (iLab, Prof. Laurent Itti), Los Angeles, USA, May 30th, 2008
• "What Visual Attention can do for Robotics", at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech), (klab, Prof. Christof Koch), Los Angeles, USA, May 28th, 2008
• "Attentional Landmarks for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping", at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), (VisionLab, Prof. Stefano Soatto), Los Angeles, USA, May 27th, 2008
• "Where is my key? Visual Search with a Computational Attention System", at the Honda Research Institute Europe in Offenbach, Germany, February 7th, 2008

2007:

• "Attentional Landmarks for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping", at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH, Prof. Joachim Buhmann) in Zürich, Switzerland, December 5th, 2007
• "Visual Attention for Cognitive Systems", at the Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg (Prof. Erwin Prassler) in Sankt Augustin, Germany, July 18th, 2007
• "Visual Attention for Cognitive Systems", at the INRIA research center (Prof. James Crowley) in Grenoble, France, June 2007
• "Attentional Visual SLAM", at the Fraunhofer institute IAIS in St. Augustin, Germany, June 2007

2006:

• "Attentional Visual SLAM", at the institute of Automatic Control Engineering (Prof. Martin Buss), Technical University Munich, Germany, July 12th, 2006
• "Attentional Visual SLAM", at the Knowledge Processing Laboratory (KLAB, Prof. Patrick Doherty), Linköping University, Sweden, July 3rd, 2006
• "Attentional Robot Localization and Mapping", at the Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (Prof. Heinrich Bülthoff), Tübingen, Germany, June 2006
• "Computational Attention Systems and their Applications", at the Dagstuhl Seminar "Towards Affordance-Based Robot Control", Dagstuhl, Germany, June 2006

2005:

• "VOCUS: A Visual Attention System for Object Detection and Goal-directed Search" at the Center for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems (Prof. Tom Duckett) at Örebro university, Sweden, October 2005
• "VOCUS: A Visual Attention System for Object Detection and Goal-directed Search" at the lab for Autonomous Intelligent Systems (Prof. Wolfram Burgard) at Freiburg University, Germany, June 3rd, 2005

2004:

• "Goal-directed Search with a Top-down Modulated Attention System" at the Center for Autonomous Systems (CAS, Prof. Henrik Christensen) at KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Stockholm, Sweden, December 2004
• "Ein Computermodell für Visuelle Aufmerksamkeit" at the psychological institute of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU), Germany, November 2004
• "Visuelle Aufmerksamkeit und Objekterkennung in 3D Laser Bildern" at the university of Bielefeld, Germany, February 2004

2003:

• "Aufmerksamkeit zur Objekterkennung in 3D Laser Bildern" at the university of Paderborn, Germany, October 2003
• "Aufmerksamkeit für Roboter" talk at the "Ringvorlesung" at the summer school "informatica feminale" at the university of Bremen, Germany, September 2004
• "Visuelle Aufmerksamkeitsmechanismen auf bimodalen Laserdaten" at the university of Hamburg, Germany, January 2003

• 2014 Co-organizer of workshop "Attention Models in Robotics:
  Visual Systems for Better HRI" at HRI 2014 (ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction)
• 2014 Co-organizer of workshop "Robots in Homes and Industry: Where to Look First?" at ICRA 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
• 2013 Co-organizer of tutorial "A Crash Course on Visual Saliency
           Modeling: Behavioral Findings and Computational Models" at the International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2013), Portland, USA (together with Dr. Ali Borji and Prof. Dr. Laurent Itti, USC, CA, USA)
• 2010 - 2014 Editor for the journal "KI - Künstliche Intelligenz" (German journal on Artificial Intelligence)
• 2010 - 2014 Mentor for foreign students at the university of Bonn
• 2013 Main organizer of the Bonn Vision Workshop 2013 (BVW)
• 2009 Main organizer of the Bonn Vision Workshop 2019 (BVW)