Research
theses
Graphical Methods for Online Surface Fitting on 3D Range Sensor Point Clouds (back online soon) ▪ Daniel Cernea (Master Thesis, 2009)

Basic AI School - Abstract Concepts in Machine Learning (back online soon) ▪ Daniel Cernea (Bachelor Thesis, 2007)

publications
3C Checkers Expert System - A Comparative Study of Search Depth and Expert Knowledge Influence on Neural Network Performance
▪ Adriana Elena Chis, Vanea Chiprianov, Daniel Cernea (Article, 2007)

teaching
July 2009 - Lecturer at the IURS International Summer School, Delhi, India
Winter Semester 2009 - Teaching Assistant for the Human-Computer Interaction Course at TU Kaiserslautern
Summer Semester 2010 - Teaching Assistant for the Computer Graphics Course at TU Kaiserslautern

projects
R3 Trackball Project ▪ New input device based on a trackball and allowing 3D interactivity

SIFT for Point Could Registration ▪ Real-Time Scale Invariant 3D Range Point Cloud Registration based on the SIFT feature extraction

Underwater Acoustic Communications Simulator (UW-WSS) ▪ A plugin for the powerful USARSim robotics simulator engine

Point Cloud Matcher ▪ An OGRE and Qt based GUI for interactive correction of automatically generated 3D sensor point cloud matches

Open-Frame AUV Design (Codename Theseus) ▪ Designing an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) with extended diver-AUV interaction capabilities

H.M.M.M. for Image Matching ▪ A database and Web search engine that breaks the rules

3D Wii-rtual Room ▪ A physical room where a person interacts with a 120° display by the means of hand and arm gestures

Extension of the Range Growing Plane Fitting Algorithm ▪ A new algorithm and implementation for surface detection in a 3D range image

Hyperbolic Cone Browser with Relation Bundles ▪ An innovative interactive representation method for pseudo-hierarchical data

TV Project - Blocks World ▪ The goal of this project is to foster the development of learning algorithms for AI tasks involving images, sound and text

GoMokus Game ▪ C# .NET implementation of this popular game, also known as Connect Five

3C Checkers Project ▪ An application and a comparative study of the performance of ANNs when applying greater depth vision and/or expert knowledge

UNIX Download Accelerator ▪ Open Source team project that implements a UNIX shell based download accelerator

tutorials
Installing USARSim on Windows XP or Mac OS ▪ A step-by-step tutorial on installing the USARSim simulator environment on MacOS and Windows