Technische Universität München

Kolja Kühnlenz is currently a Senior Research Scientist and Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Automatic Control Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, TUM, and Director of the Dynamic Vision Research Laboratory. He is also the leader of an Independent Junior Research Group within the Munich Cluster of Excellence “Cognition for Technical Systems – CoTeSys” and Principal Investigator within the Bernstein Center of Computational Neuroscience Munich. He received the engineering degree in Electrical Engineering in 2002 from Technical University of Berlin and the Doctor of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering in 2007 from TUM. From 2003 to 2006 he has been a research and teaching assistant at the Institute of Automatic Control Engineering, TUM. He has been holding positions in executive boards, e.g. BCCN, and organizing committees, e.g. Program Chair of IEEE RO-MAN 2008.

Leader of Independent Junior Research Group Award, Cluster of Excellence CoTeSys

Student Research Award, Project ”Effects of Dia- and Paramagnetic Materials in MRI-Systems”, Humboldt Universität Berlin

More publications are available here.

K. Kühnlenz, Aspects of Multi-Focal Vision. VDI Fortschritt-Berichte, Reihe 8, no. 1129, 2007.

A. Bauer, K. Klasing, G. Lidoris, Q. Mühlbauer, F. Rohrmüller, S. Sosnowski, T. Xu, K. Kühnlenz, D. Wollherr, and M. Buss, “The autonomous city explorer: Towards natural human-robot interaction in urban environments,” International Journal of Social Robotics, 2009, in press.

K. Kühnlenz and M. Buss, “On sensor switching visual servoing,” International Journal of Optomechatronics, vol. 2, no. 3, 2008.

K. Kühnlenz and M. Buss, “Multi-focal vision improves navigation performance,” Journal of Humanoids, vol. 1, 2008.

K. Kühnlenz and M. Buss, “Stability issues in sensor switching visual servoing,” in Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 6719, Optomechatronic Systems Control III, S. Fatikow, F.
Janabi-Sharifi, T. Fukuda, H. Cho, H. N. Koivoto, eds., 2007.

K. Kühnlenz, H. Wu, A. Borst, M. Buss, and T. Zhang, “FPGA design and implementation of insect-inspired reichardt motion detector and receptive field,” Journal of Image and Graphics. in press.

C. Wendt, M. Popp, M. Karg, and K. Kühnlenz, “Physiology and HRI: Recognition of
over- and underchallenge,” in Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2008.

M. Karg,W. Seiberl, K. Kühnlenz, F. Tusker, M. Schmeelk, M. Buss, and A. Schwirtz, “Expression and automatic recognition of exhaustion in natural walking,” in Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction (IHCI), 2008.

A. Bittermann, K. Kühnlenz, and M. Buss, “On the evaluation of emotion expressing robots,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2007.

S. Sosnowski, K. Kühnlenz, and M. Buss, “EDDIE – an emotion display with dynamic intuitive expressions,” in Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), pp. 569–574, 2006.

Kühnlenz’s areas of interest include: Computer vision; design and control of mechatronic systems, robotics, intelligent automation systems, human-robot interaction and communication.