~~NOCACHE~~ ====== Christian Kofler ====== {{:members:ck_bw.jpg?128&nolink | Christian Kofler}} Christian Kofler is a Software Engineer at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence ([[http://www.dfki.de|DFKI]]) GmbH since 2005 and is working in the Competence Center Multimedia Analysis and Data Mining ([[http://madm.dfki.de|MADM]]) in Kaiserslautern. With over 10 years of experience in Software Engineering, he coordinates the development of the central software components for the Competence Center. Besides planning and implementing software for development projects, he is working on the integration of scientific results into demonstrators and prototypes. His main research interests are agile software engineering, scalable software architecture, content-based image and video search, and data mining. Mr. Kofler holds a diploma in Computer Science from the University of Applied Sciences in Worms. During his studies from 2001 to 2005 he worked as research assistant at the associated Center for Technology Transfer and Telecommunications ([[http://www.ztt.fh-worms.de|ZTT]]). In his diploma thesis, he developed a distributed software system for configuring and controlling sensor hardware for a large-scale experiment ([[http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/Public/Welcome.html|ALICE]]) at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research ([[http://www.cern.ch|CERN]]) in Geneva, Switzerland. The system has been further developed at ZTT and is now used in the field. \\ \\ \\ ===== Contact Information ===== **Christian Kofler**\\ DFKI GmbH\\ Trippstadter Str. 122\\ 67663 Kaiserslautern\\ Germany\\ \\ Telephone:~~SP~~++49 (631) 20575-5634\\ Fax:~~SP~~~~SP~~~~SP~~~~SP~~~~SP~~~~SP~~~~SP~~~~SP~~~~SP~~~~SP~~++49 (631) 20575-4020\\ E-mail:~~SP~~~~SP~~~~SP~~~~SP~~~~SP~~~~SP~~~~SP~~christian.koflerdfki.de \\ \\ \\ ===== Publications ===== require_once("/home/www/madm.dfki.de/code/pub_functions.php"); showPubs(array("chko02"), array(), false); **[[http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2006.874726|The control system for the front-end electronics of the ALICE time projection chamber]]** \\ Richter, M.; Alme, J.; Alt, T.; Bablok, S.; Campagnolo, R.; Frankenfeld, U.; Gutierrez, C.G.; Keidel, R.; Kofler, Ch.; Krawutschke, T.; Larsen, D.; Lindenstruth, V.; Mota, B.; Musa, L.; Roed, K.; Rohrich, D.; Stockmeier, M.R.; Tilsner, H.\\ //IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Volume 53, Issue 3, pages 980 – 985, 26 June 2006.// **[[http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2005.11.208|Front-End-Electronics Communication software for multiple detectors in the ALICE experiment]]** \\ S. Bablok, E.S. Conner, G. Hartung, R. Keidel, C. Kofler, T. Krawutschke, V. Lindenstruth, and D. Röhrich \\ //Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Volume 557, Issue 2, Pages 631-638, 15 February 2006. // **Design and realisation of a communication software to configure and control distributed embedded devices in a large scale research project at CERN** \\ Christian Kofler \\ //Diploma Thesis, University of Applied Sciences Worms, 2005.// \\ \\ \\ ===== Teaching / Student Projects ===== Internship: **Entwicklung eines Web-Frameworks zur Durchführung von Experimenten und Benutzerstudien im Bereich der Bildsuche** \\ Aram Sebastian Wiencke \\ //Hochschule RheinMain Wiesbaden, 2011.// Bachelor Project: **Highly parallel Distance-Calculation in (py)OpenCL** \\ Christopher Heinz, Dominik Henter \\ //University of Kaiserslautern, 2011.// Bachelor Thesis: **Foveal Fixation Clustering for Attention Based Image Retrieval** \\ Robby Frister \\ //Leipzig University of Applied Science, 2011.// Diploma Thesis: **[[http://madm.dfki.de/_media/theses/alex-dispare-thesis.pdf|A Distributed System for Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning]]** \\ Alexander Arimond \\ //University of Kaiserslautern, 2010.// Bachelor Thesis: **[[http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/%7Eshafait/theses/Sarah-Thesis-2010.pdf|Classifiers' Accuracy Prediction based on Data Characterization]]** \\ Sarah Daniel Abdelmessih \\ //German University in Cairo, Egypt, 2010.// Diploma Thesis: **[[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.157.3369&rep=rep1&type=pdf|Supporting Knowledge Work by Observing Paper-Based Activities on the Physical Desktop]]** \\ Stefan Dellmuth \\ //University of Kaiserslautern, 2009.// Project Thesis: **[[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.153.9040&rep=rep1&type=pdf|Tagr: Automatic Image Tagging for Random Imagery]]** \\ Marius Renn \\ //University of Kaiserslautern, 2008.// Project Thesis: **Online Handwriting Recognition for the OLPC Project** \\ Andre Schmeisser \\ //University of Kaiserslautern, 2007.// Master Thesis: **Dewarping Documents using a Stereo Vision System** \\ Soner Ozgun Pelvan \\ //University of Kaiserslautern, 2007.// Master Thesis: **Stereo Reconstruction for Document Image Dewarping** \\ Khawar Parvez \\ //University of Kaiserslautern, 2007.// Internship: **Camera-based HCI** \\ Andres Koetsier and Jasper Laagland \\ //University of Twente Enschede, The Netherlands, 2007.// \\ \\ \\ ===== Reviews ===== * CBDAR 2011 * CAIP 2011 * IJCAI 2011 * DAGM 2010 * CVPR 2008 * ICPR 2008 * CVPR 2007 * CBDAR 2007 * ICCV 2007