Main Responsibilities

Within JR Gerhard Paar acts as project manager for industrial, nationally funded, ESA and EU – funded projects. His major fields of expertise are:

• Digital Photogrammetry
• Stereo vision
• Vision-Based Navigation
• Optical Metrology
• Project Management.

Career

Gerhard Paar graduated in mathematics from TU Graz (Austria) in 1987.

Since 1988 he is with the Institute of Digital Image Processing at JOANNEUM RESEARCH in Graz, Austria. As head of the close range photogrammetry group he leads the development team for the photogrammetric tunnel metrology system Dibit, one of the first fully automatic industrial close-range photogrammetry systems for non-expert users world-wide. Gerhard Paar coordinates the PanCam 3D Vision Team for the 2016 European Mars Rover Mission ExoMars and the EC FP7-Space Project “PRoVisG – Planetary Robotic Vision Ground Processing”, as well as the Austrian FIT-IT Project VILMA (High Resolution Mapping and Visualization of Linear Structures). He is key-researcher for Features, Recognition & Matching within the Austrian KProjekt Centre of Competence Embedded Computer Vision (ECV).

Relevant teaching

Since 1994 technical supervision of about 10 diploma, PhD, and international grant students

Awards:

• 1993:Best paper award at the annual Conference of the Austrian Association for Pattern Recognition.
• 2007:Best paper award at the Optical 3d Conference, Zurich.

• BEAGLE 2 DEM
• DE-MONTES - Deformation Monitoring by High Resolution Terrestrial Long Ra
• ESA Moon
• EUROBOT
• ExoMars
• Geoscanner
• Glacier Monitoring
• 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 for autonomous vision-based off-road navigation
• 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