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General Information
| Full Name | Jason Rambach |
| Languages | English, German, Greek |
Education
- 2020
Dr.-Ing Computer Science
University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
- PhD Thesis "Learning Priors for Augmented Reality Tracking and Scene Understanding"
- 2015
M.Sc. Information and Communication Engineering
Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
- 2012
Diploma Computer Engineering and Informatics
University of Patras, Patras, Greece
Experience
- 2020-2024
Senior Researcher, Team Leader Spatial Sensing and Machine Perception
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Kaiserslautern, Germany
- 2015-2020
Researcher, Augmented Vision Department
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Honors and Awards
- 2024
- Best industrial paper award @ICPRAM 2024 for "CaRaCTO Robust Camera-Radar Extrinsic Calibration with Triple Constraint Optimization"
- 2023
- BOP Challenge @ICCV 2023, 1st place in categories Overall Best RGB Method, Overall Best Segmentation method, Best BlenderProc-trained Segmentation method
- 3rd place in Scan2BIM Challenge @CVPR 2023 CV4AEC workshop ( https://cv4aec.github.io/#challenge )
- 2022
- BOP Challenge @ECCV 2022, 1st place in categories Overall Best Segmentation Method, Best BlenderProc-trained method ( https://bop.felk.cvut.cz/challenges/ )
- 2017
- ISMAR 2017 Best Poster Award for "Augmented Things Enhancing AR Applications leveraging the Internet of Things and Universal 3D Object Tracking"
- 2015
- 1st place in AGT Data Analysis Hackathon
Editor
- Frontiers in VR Associate Editor
- MDPI Sensors Special Issue - 3D Sensing, Semantic Reconstruction and Modelling
- MDPI Imaging Special Issue - Advanced Scene Perception for Augmented Reality
- Frontiers in VR Special Issue - Object Pose, Shape and State Estimation for Augmented Reality
Reviewer
- CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICRA, WACV, BMVC, ISMAR, VR (conferences)
- IEEE TVCG, IEEE TNNLS, MDPI Sensors, MDPI Imaging (journals)
Workshops
- Organizer, AI and Robotics in Construction, European Robotics Forum, ERF 2023, ERF 2024
- Organizer, Human Factors in Construction Robotics session, IEEE ARSO 2023
Other Roles
- Consortium Coordinator of EU Horizon Project HumanTech
- Member of executive board, Excellence center simulation and software based innovation Kaiserslautern - R&D Lab Digital Twins ( https://www.leistungszentrum-simulation-software.de/ )
Invited Talks
- 2023
- Meaningful AR/XR through AI Perception @ IGIC 2023 Conference (Invited talk)
- 2022
- AI for mobile industrial machines @ ELIV MarketPlace conference (Invited talk)
- Spatial Sensing and Machine Perception team @ Franco-German Research and Innovation Network on AI (Keynote)
- 2021
- Machine Learning and Computer Vision @ GIZ workshop on Machine Learning and Computer Vision for Earth Observation (Invited talk)
Academic Interests
-
Object Understanding
- Model-based Object Pose Estimation
- Category-level Object Pose Estimation
- Pose Tracking
- Assembly and Multi-state Object Pose
- Synthetic to Real Domain Adaptation
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Scene Understanding
- Detection and Segmentation
- 3D Semantic Reconstruction
- Anomaly detection
- Sensor Fusion (RGB,depth,lidar,radar)
Languages
- English (full professional proficiency)
- German (native speaker)
- Greek (native speaker)