Category Archives: Projects

At the media computing group I was asked if it would be possible to detect 3D objects in the video stream of the Kinect camera. There is previous work by Chavdar Papazov and Darius Burschk on detecting 3D objects in noisy and occulded scenes, which uses a RANSAC based algorithm to detect objects in depth [...]

Back in 2009 I have attended the first Devmania conference. The Devmania is the successor of the famous Dusmania conference of hobby and indie game developers, and there were a lot of interesting people and cool talks. I decided to get over myself and give a talk on my passion: User Experience Design. So I [...]

A few weeks ago I had to give a talk at the seminar of the computer graphics and multimedia institute of Prof. Leif Kobbelt. He chose the topic Progressive Photon Mapping for me and it turned out to be a really interesting technique for global illumination. I used my usual presentation template as I really [...]

  This was one of my first big projects during my work at the Virtual Reality Group RWTH-Aachen. The DeBakey ventricular assist device (VAD) is basically a blood pump which is implanted on a human heart and the big challenge for engineers is to provide a pump layout that does as little damage to the [...]

I love dropbox! And I found it to be extremely useful to quickly share a file with someone I am chatting with. But still the process could be even easier. So I created a small, but useful tool. Drop a file to InstantLink and you will have a URL to that file in your clipboard. [...]

Typesafety in python? Not very pythonic.. I know. But I write better code with strong type restrictions and without duck typing. I realized that while I was refactoring some old code I have written a year ago. The error messages are far away from the source of the error because I did not checked the [...]

Hey there, I needed some kind of build tool for building c/c++ projects on windows and linux. My requirements are: Easy to maintain KISS (Keep it simple, stupid!) Dependency Managment Multiple Projects Dependencies between Projects Works with Visual Studio on Windows Works with make on Linux Nearly all of the requirements are met by CMake. [...]