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Dipl.-Ing. Martin Haller
- © M. Haller
Doctoral candidate
Technische Universität Berlin
Institut Telekommunikationssysteme
Fachgebiet Nachrichtenübertragung
Sekr. E-N 1
Einsteinufer 17
10587 Berlin
Room: E-N 307
Phone: +30 - 314 - 28502
Fax: +30 - 314 - 22514
Email: haller@nue.tu-berlin.de
Research
Research Interests
- Multimedia signal processing
- Video summarization/Video abstracting
- Motion analysis
- Visual Attention
- Multimodal video analysis
- Automatic video indexing and annotation
- Temporal segmentation of multimedia data
- Pattern recognition
Teaching
- Winter term 2010/2011
- Exercises in Communication Systems
- Laboratory: Communication Systems
- Summer term 2010
- Exercises in Communication Systems
- Laboratory: Communication Systems
- Winter term 2009/2010
- Project on Digital Processing and Transmission of Audio, Speech, and Video Signals
- Laboratory: Communication Systems (Hardware)
- Summer term 2009
- Exercises in Communication Systems II
- Laboratory: Communication Systems (Software)
- Winter term 2008/2009
- Project on Digital Processing and Transmission of Audio, Speech, and Video Signals
- Exercises in Communication Systems I
- Laboratory: Communication Systems (Hardware)
- Summer term 2008
- Exercises in Communication Systems II
- Laboratory: Communication Systems (Software)
- Winter term 2007/2008
- Project on Digital Processing and Transmission of Audio, Speech, and Video Signals
- Exercises in Communication Systems I
- Laboratory: Communication Systems (Hardware)
- Summer term 2007
- Laboratory: Communication Systems (Software)
- Winter term 2006/2007
- Laboratory: Communication Systems (Hardware)
- Summer term 2006
- Laboratory: Communication Systems (Software)
- Winter term 2005/2006
- Laboratory: Communication Systems (Hardware)
Theses Topics
Completed Theses
- Shiwang Singh: Performance evaluation of visual features for structuring of video sequences and content-based image retrieval, diploma thesis, 2011
- Shiwang Singh: Evaluation of visual features for automatic summarization of video sequences, student research project, 2010
- Kai Zhang: Visual attention for automatic summarization of video sequences, master thesis, 2010
- Olaf Freyer: Acceleration of algorithms for image processing via parallelization, diploma thesis in German, 2010
- Ashfaq Mohammed: Clustering methods for automatic summarization of video sequences, bachelor thesis, 2010
- Sebastian Schlüter: Automatic determination of visual attention in video sequences, bachelor thesis in German, 2009
- Tobias Unger: Development of a set of rules for ontology-based query refinement for the domain of movie search, external diploma thesis with T-Systems in German, 2009
- Tino Brast: Analysis and implementation of watermarks in brand logos as a robust safety technology for protection against brand and product piracy, external master thesis with Fraunhofer IPK in German, 2008
- Ulf Schwurack: Examination and implementation of algorithms for camera motion analysis in 2D video sequences, student research project in German, 2008
- Sebastian Wegener: Comparison of different features for robust music instrument classification, diploma thesis in German, 2007
- Tino Brast: Analysis and numerical simulation of DQPSK as robust modulation format in optical transmission systems up to 40 GBit/s, external bachelor thesis with T-Systems in German, 2007
- Leonhard Lischka: Analysis and simulation of non-linear equalization in optical channels up to 40 GBit/s, external bachelor thesis with T-Systems in German, 2007
- Van Phan Quang: Feature Extraction from the Compressed Domain for Audio Classification, diploma thesis, 2006
Publications
2010
- Martin Haller, Andreas Krutz, Thomas Sikora
Robust Global Motion Estimation using Motion Vectors of Variable Size Blocks and Automatic Motion Model Selection
Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2010), Hong Kong, 26.09.2010 - 29.09.2010
ISBN: 978-1-4244-7993-1 ISSN: 1522-4880
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2009
- Alexander Glantz, Andreas Krutz, Martin Haller, Thomas Sikora
Video Coding using Global Motion Temporal Filtering
Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2009), volume November 2009, Cairo, Egypt, 07.11.2009 - 11.11.2009, pp. 1053-1056
ISBN: 978-1-4244-5655-0 ISSN: 1522-4880
Details BibTeX - Martin Haller, Andreas Krutz, Thomas Sikora
Evaluation of pixel- and motion vector-based Global Motion Estimation for camera motion characterization
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS 2009), London, UK, 06.05.2009 - 08.05.2009, pp. 49-52
ISBN 978-1-4244-3610-1
Details BibTeX - Maxime Lardeur, Slim Essid, Gael Richard, Martin Haller, Thomas Sikora
Incorporating prior knowledge on the digital media creation process into audio classifiers
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2009), Taipei, Taiwan, 19.04.2009 - 24.04.2009, pp. 1653-1656
ISBN 978-1-4244-2354-5
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2008
- Emilie Dumont, Bernard Merialdo, Slim Essid, Werner Bailer, Daragh Byrne, Hervé Bredin, Noel E. O'Connor, Gareth Jones, Martin Haller, Andreas Krutz, Thomas Sikora, Tomas Piatrik
A Collaborative Approach to Video Summarization
3rd International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (SAMT 2008), Koblenz, Germany, 03.12.2008 - 05.12.2008
Poster
Details BibTeX - P. Wilkins, D. Byrne, Gareth J.F.Jones, H. Lee, G. Keenan, K. McGuinness, N. E. O'Connor, N. O'Hare, A. F. Smeaton, T. Adamek, R. Troncy, A. Amin, R. Benmokhtar, E. Dumont, B. Huet, B. Merialdo, G. Tolias, E. Spyrou, Y. Avrithis, G. Th. Papadopoulous, V. Mezaris, I. Kompatsiaris, R. Mörzinger, P. Schallauer, W. Bailer, K. Chandramouli, E. Izquierdo, Lutz Goldmann, Martin Haller, Amjad Samour, Andreas Cobet, Thomas Sikora, P. Praks, D. Hannah, M. Halvey, F. Hopfgartner, R. Villa, P. Punitha, A. Goyal, J. M. Jose
K-Space at TRECVid 2008
Proceedings of the TRECVID Workshop 2008, Gaithersburg, Maryland USA, 17.11.2008 - 18.11.2008
Oral Presentation
Details BibTeX - Emilie Dumont, Bernard Merialdo, Slim Essid, Werner Bailer, Herwig Rehatschek, Daragh Byrne, Hervé Bredin, Noel E. O'Connor, Gareth J.F. Jones, Alan F. Smeaton, Martin Haller, Andreas Krutz, Thomas Sikora, Tomas Piatrik
Rushes Video Summarization using a Collaborative Approach
TRECVID BBC Rushes Summarization Workshop (TVS 2008) at ACM Multimedia 2008, Vancouver, Canada, volume October 2008, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 27.10.2008 - 01.11.2008, pp. 90-94
ISBN 978-1-60558-303-7
Details BibTeX - Dirk Farin, Martin Haller, Andreas Krutz, Thomas Sikora
Recent Developments in Panoramic Image Generation and Sprite Coding (invited)
Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP 2008), volume October 2008, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, 08.10.2008 - 10.10.2008, pp. 64-69
Special Session on Global Motion Estimation and Mosaicing for Applications in Video Analysis and Coding ; ISBN 978-1-4244-2294-4
Details BibTeX - Sebastian Wegener, Martin Haller, Juan José Burred, Thomas Sikora, Slim Essid, Gaël Richard
On the Robustness of Audio Features for Musical Instrument Classification
16th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2008, Proceedings, Lausanne, Switzerland, volume August 2008, Lausanne, Switzerland, 25.08.2008 - 29.08.2008
Oral presentation
Details BibTeX - Andreas Krutz, Alexander Glantz, Martin Haller, Michael Droese, Thomas Sikora
Multiple Background Sprite Generation using Camera Motion Characterization for Object-based Video Coding
3DTV Conference 2008, The True Vision Capture, Transmission and Display of 3D Video, May 2008, Istanbul, Turkey, volume Mai 2008, Ankara, Turkey, 28.05.2008 - 30.05.2008, pp. 313 - 316
ISBN 978-1-4244-1760-5, CD ISBN 978-1-4244-1755-1
Details BibTeX - Juan José Burred, Martin Haller, Shan Jin, Amjad Samour, Thomas Sikora
Audio Content Analysis
in Semantic Multimedia and Ontologies: Theory and Applications, Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Paola Hobson (ed(s).), Springer Verl., London, UK, January 2008, pp. 123-161
ISBN 978-1-84800-075-9
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2007
- P. Wilkins, T. Adamek, D. Byrne, G. J.F.Jones, H. Lee, G. Keenan, K. McGuinness, N. E. OConnor, A. F. Smeaton, A. Amin, Z. Obrenovic, R. Benmokhtar, E. Galmar, B. Huet, S. Essid, R. Landais, F. Vallet, G. Th. Papadopoulos, S. Vrochidis, V. Mezaris, I. Kompatsiaris, E. Spyrou, Y. Avrithis, R. Mörzinger, P. Schallauer, W. Bailer, T. Piatrik, K. Chandramouli, E. Izquierdo, Martin Haller, Lutz Goldmann, Amjad Samour, Andreas Cobet, Thomas Sikora, P. Praks
K-Space at TRECVid 2007
Proceedings of the TRECVid Workshop, 05.11.2007 - 06.11.2007, pp. 205-216
Details BibTeX - Martin Haller, Andreas Krutz, Thomas Sikora
A Generic Approach for Motion-based Video Parsing (invited)
Proceedings of the 15th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2007), Poznań, Poland, 03.09.2007 - 07.09.2007, pp. 713-717
ISBN 978-83-921340-2-2
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2006
- P. Wilkins, T. Adamek, P. Ferguson, M. Hughes, G. J. F. Jones, G. Keenan, K. McGuinness, J. Malobabic, N. E. OConnor, D. Sadlier, A. F. Smeaton, R. Benmokhtar, E. Dumont, B. Huet, B. Merialdo, E. Spyrou, G. Koumoulos, Y. Avrithis, R. Moerzinger, P. Schallauer, W. Bailer, Q. Zhang, T. Piatrik, K. Chandramouli, E. Izquierdo, Lutz Goldmann, Martin Haller, Thomas. Sikora, P. Praks, J. Urban, X. Hilaire, J. M. Jose
K-Space at TRECVid 2006
Proceedings of the TRECVid Workshop, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, 13.11.2006 - 14.11.2006
Details BibTeX - Martin Haller, Hyoung-Gook Kim, Thomas Sikora
Audiovisual Anchorperson Detection for Topic-oriented Navigation in Broadcast News
IEEE 7th International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2006), Toronto, ON, Canada, 09.07.2006 - 12.07.2006, pp. 1817-1820
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2005
- E. Benetos, M. Kotti, C. Kotropoulos, Juan José Burred, Gunnar Eisenberg, Martin Haller, Thomas Sikora
Comparison of Subspace Analysis-Based and Statistical Model-Based Algorithms for Musical Instrument Classification
2nd Workshop on Immersive Communication and Broadcast Systems (ICOB '05), Berlin, Germany, 27.10.2005 - 28.10.2005
E. Benetos, M. Kotti, C. Kotropoulos: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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2004
- Hyoung-Gook Kim, Martin Haller, Thomas Sikora
Comparison of MPEG-7 Basis Projection Features and MFCC applied to Robust Speaker Recognition
ISCA - A Speaker Odyssey 2004, Toledo, Spain, 31.05.2004 - 04.06.2004
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Curriculum Vitae
| 2005 | Diploma degree (Dipl.-Ing.) in Electrical Engineering with distinction |
| 1999-2005 | Studies in Electrical Engineering at Technische Universität Berlin with the main subjects communication systems and networks, electronics and high-frequency techniques |
| Since 2005 | Research and teaching assistant (NUE - Communication Systems Group, Technische Universität Berlin) |
| 2003-2005 | Student research assistant in the research project MPEG-7-based audio annotation for the archival of digital video |
| 2002-2003 | Student teaching assistant in courses on electromagnetic theory |
| Since 2004 | IEEE - The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE Signal Processing Society VDE Verband der Elektrotechnik Elektronik Informationstechnik e.V. (German Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies) ITG - Informationstechnische Gesellschaft im VDE (Information Technology Society) |
Professional Activities
| 2006-2008 | K-Space - Knowledge Space of Semantic Inference for Automatic Annotation and Retrieval of Multimedia Content (European Network of Excellence) |
| 2006-2009 | VISNET II - Networked Audiovisual Media Technologies (European Network of Excellence) |
| 2005 | VISNET - Networked Audiovisual Media Technologies (European Network of Excellence) |
| 2003-2005 | MPEG-7-based Audio Annotation for the Archival of Digital Video |
| 2007 | Multimedia Metadata Applications (M3A) Workshop at I-MEDIA'07 |
| 2007 | Multimedia Tools and Applications - Special Issue on "Semantic Multimedia" |
| 2008 | ACM Computing Surveys |
| 2011 | IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT) Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU) IET Image Processing |
