Main Responsibilities

• Responsible for the Research Initiative "Advanced Image Analyses" at the Institute
• project leader within Kplus ACV and the EU project DETECT
• responsible within the ECVision Research Network on Cognitive Vision Systems
  
  

Career

Lucas Paletta received the Diploma degree in 1996 and the Doctoral degree in Computer Science in 2000 from Graz University of Technology, Austria, respectively. In 1996 - 1998, the worked within the collaborative Austrian Research Program on the task of ?Information Fusion and Physical Models for Image Understanding?. In 1998-2000, he stayed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems (formerly GMD) in Germany, within the EU-TMR research network 'Vision-Based Robot Navigation' (VIRGO).

From 2000 he is working at the Institute of Digital Image Processing, Joanneum Research, at Graz. He has been principal investigator in several national and international projects, e.g. within the EC ?Cognitive Vision Systems? initiative and within the Austrian Centre of Competence "ACV - Advanced Computer Vision" in the Area "Pattern Recognition". He has published more than 30 scientific articles.

His research interests include cognitive vision, mobile computing, robot vision, machine learning, and multi-sensor information fusion.

 
Awards

Best demonstration award BMVC 1998

Mobility Price 2001 from Austrian Ministry of Innovation and Technology (Area: Visionary concepts)

• A Computational Model for Visual Learning of Affordance-like Cues
• A Mobile Mapping Data Warehouse for Emerging Mobile Vision Services
• A Mobile System for Vision Based Road Sign Inventory
• A Mobile Vision System for Multimedia Trouist Applications in Urban Environment
• A Mobile Vision System for Urban Object Detection with Informative Local Descriptors
• Advances in Mobile Mapping Technology
• An Attentive Machine Interface Using Geo-Contextual Awareness for Mobile Vision Tasks
• Appearance Based Positioning in Urban Environments Using Kalman Filtering Advances in Mobile Mapping Technology: ISPRS Series, Volume 4
• Attention in Cognitive Systems
• Attention in Cognitive Systems. Theories and Systems from an Interdisciplinary Viewpoint 4th International Workshop on Attention in Cognitive Systems, WAPCV 2007 Hyderabad, India, January 8, 2007 Revised Selected Papers
• Attentive Object Detection Using an Information Theoretic Saliency Measure
• BaMoS - A Mobile Medical Information System that Provides Assistance to Elderly People as well as
• Geo-Contextual Priors for Attentive Urban Object Recognition
• Geo-Indexed Object Recognition for Mobile Vision Tasks
• Geo-Indexed Object Recognition in Urban Scenarios
• Intelligent Maps for Vision Enhanced Mobile Interfaces in Urban Scenarios
• Learning Informative SIFT Descriptors for Attentive Object Detection
• Learning Informative SIFT Descriptors for Attentive Object Recognition
• Learning Predictive Features in Affordance based Robotic Perception Systems
• Learning Predictive Features in Object Affordances from Information Maximization
• Learning to Detect Windows in Urban Environments
• Local Descriptor Groupings in Reinforcement Learning of Sensory-Motor Attention
• MARIA – Mobile Assistance for Barrier-Free Mobility in Public Transportation
• Mobile Object Recognition Using Multi-Sensor Information Fusion in Urban Environments
• Mobile Vision for Tourist Information Systems in Urban Environments
• Perception and Developmental Learning of Affordances in Autonomous Robots KI 2007: Advances in Artificial Intelligence
• Reinforcement Learning for the Selection of Predictive Cues in Affordance-based Perception (Poster)
• Reinforcement Learning of Predictive Features
• Reinforcement Learning of Predictive Features in Affordance Perception
• Robust Building Detection from Mobile Phone Imagery Using Informative SIFT Descriptors
• SAM – Steering Angle Measurement Feasibility & Accuracy Pilotstudie zur berührungslosen kinematischen Messung und Berechnung von Fahrzeugparametern aus Stereobildern Final Report
• Selection and Outline of Mobile Devices and Infrastructure 2005 - MOBVIS Deliverable Report
• Semantic Indexing for Visual Recognition of Buildings
• Semi-Automated Video Analysis in Mobile Eye Tracking for the Analysis of Urban Advertising (Abstract)
• The MACS project: An Approach to Affordance-inspired Robot Control
• The Perception of Information and Advertisement Screens Mounted in Public Transportation Vehicles - Results from a Mobile Eye-tracking Study
• Towards Automated Mapping of Semantic Content from Mobile Eye Tracking in Urban Environments (Abstract)
• Traffic Sign Recognition using a Generative Model of Scale Invariant Feature Descriptors
• Urban Object Recognition from Informative Local Features
• Visual Learning of Affordance based Cues
• Visual Object Detection for Mobile Road Sign Inventory
• Visual Object Recognition in the context of mobile vision services
• Window Detection in Facades