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Innerhalb JOANNEUM RESEARCH arbeitet Gerhard Paar als Projektmanager für industrielle, nationale, ESA und EU geförderte Projekte. Seine wichtigsten Themenbereiche sind dabei:

• digitale Photogrammetrie.
• Stereo Vision
• bildbasierte Navigation
• optische Messtechnik
• Projektmanagement.

Werdegang

Gerhard Paar absolvierte 1987 das Diplomstudium für technische Mathematik an der TU Graz.

Seit 1988 ist er wissenschaftlicher Angestellter am Institut für Digitale Bildverarbeitung der JOANNEUM RESEARCH in Graz, seit 1995 Leiter der Gruppe Digitale Nahbereichsphotogrammetrie.
Gerhard Paar leitet das Entwicklungsteam für das photogrammetrische Tunnelvermessungssystem Dibit, eines der ersten vollautomatischen Photogrammetriesysteme weltweit.
Er koordiniert das 3D Vision Team für die Panorama - Kamera der Europäischen Marsrover Mission ExoMars 2016, das Projekt "PRoVisG - Planetary Robotic Vision Ground Processing" im 7. EU Rahmenprogramm, sowie das österreichische FIT-IT Projekt "VILMA" (High Resolution Mapping and Visualization of Linear Structures) und er ist Key - Researcher für Features, Recognition & Matching im Österreichischen KProjekt Zentrum Embedded Computer Vision (ECV).

Lehrtätigkeit

Seit 1994 Betreuung von etwa 10 Diplomarbeiten, Dissertationen bzw. national und international geförderten Studienaufenthalten bei JOANNEUM RESEARCH.

Auszeichnungen

• 1993: Best Paper Award bei der jährlichen Konferenz der Österreichischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Mustererkennung;
• 2007: Best Paper Award bei der Optical3d Konferenz in Zürich.

• BEAGLE 2 DEM
• DE-MONTES - Deformation Monitoring by High Resolution Terrestrial Long Range Sensing
• ESA Moon
• EUROBOT
• ExoMars
• Geoscanner
• Gletschermonitoring
• PRoViScout - Planetary Robotic Vision Scout
• PRoVisG
• Planetary Aerobots

• 3D Vision Ground Processing Workflow for the Panoramic Camera on ESA´s EXOMARS Mission 2016
• A 3D Optical Deformation Measurement System supported by Knowledge-based and Learning Techniques
• Algorithmic Solution and Simulation Results for Vision-Based Autonomous Mode of a Planetary Rover
• Appearance Based Positioning in Urban Environments Using Kalman Filtering Advances in Mobile Mapping Technology: ISPRS Series, Volume 4
• Autonomous Image Based Localisation For A Martian Aerobot
• Beagle2 Simulation and Calibration for Ground Segment Operations
• Deformation Monitoring using a new kind of Optical 3D Measurement System: Components and Perspectives
• Description of matching library and executable.
• Ein bildgestütztes 3D Deformationsmesssystem (An Image-Based 3D Deformation Measurement System)
• Enhancing the effectiveness of the ExoMars PanCam instrument for astrobiology
• ESA ExoMars Rover PanCam Pre-launch Modeling and Accuracy Assessment for Localization and Topographic Mapping
• Executive summary of ESTEC Contract 9195/90/NL/SF.
• ExoMars Panoramic Camera 3D Vision: Expected Quality of Rover Surroundings Description
• Field Test of the ExoMars Panoramic Camera in the High Arctic - First Results and Lessons Learned
• FINAL REPORT ExoMars PanCam-A Preparation of the Panoramic Camera System for the ESA ExoMars Mission – Austrian Contribution
• FP7-SPACE PROVISCOUT – PLANETARY ROBOTICS VISION SCOUT
• FUTURE PLANETARY SURFACE IMAGER DEVELOPMENT BY THE BEAGLE 2 STEREO CAMERA SYSTEM TEAM
• Geophysical Research Abstracts - European Geoscience Union
• HIGH-LEVEL AUTONOMY AND IMAGE PRIORITISATION FOR LONG DISTANCE MARS ROVERS
• Imaging and localisation software demonstrator for planetary aerobots
• Learning to Detect Windows in Urban Environments
• Mass Movement Monitoring Using Terrestrial Laser Scanner for Rock Fall Management
• Optical crack following on tunnel surfaces
• Paper for O3D conference in Zurich 2003 about skin mapping.
• Photogrammetric Fingerprint Unwrapping 2007
• Photogrammetric Fingerprint Unwrapping Presentation 2008
• Quality Assessment of ExoMars PanCam 3D Reconstruction
• Rehearsing ExoMars Geological Assessment of Image Data using Representative Samples and 3D Vision Techniques
• Report of Vision - based navigation for moon landing.
• Requirements and Solutions for ExoMars Rover Panoramic Camera 3D Vision Processing
• Requirements and Solutions for ExoMars Rover Panoramic Camera 3D Vision Processing - POSTER
• Robust Window Detection from 3D Laser Scanner Data
• Science Requirements for a Planetary Robotic On-Board Vision Processing System
• Semantic Indexing for Visual Recognition of Buildings
• Skisprung - Präzise Flugbahn und Geschwindigkeitsbestimmung im Skisprung (Präsentation)
• Stereo imaging for landing site reconstruction of the Beagle2 Lander.
• Taking a closer Look on Mars
• Terrestrial Laser Scanning for Glacier Monitoring: A Comparison to Standard Geodetic and Photogrammetric Methods, and Documentation of the Glacier Retreat of Goessnitzkees (Schober Group, Austria)between 2000 and 2005
• The Beagle 2 Camera Heritage for Pasteur
• The Beagle 2 stereo camera system
• The EUROBOT Ground Prototype Vision System
• The PanCam instrument on the 2018 Exomars rover: Science Implementation Strategy and Integrated Surface Operations Concept
• The PanCam instrument on the 2018 Exomars rover: Scientific objectives
• The Panoramic Camera (PanCam) instrument for the ESA ExoMars Rover,prepared for EGU 2007
• Three-Dimensional Tunnel Reconstruction Using Photogrammetry and Laser Scanning
• Unification and Enhancement of Planetary Robotic Vision Ground Processing: The EC FP7 Project PRoVisG
• Vision - Based navigation for a planetary rover.
• Wide Angle Camera testing during the 2009 AMASE expedition for the ExoMars PanCam instrument
• Window Detection in Facades