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Dr. Nils T Siebel


 
Contact:
  • Phone: +49 431 880-7549

  • Fax: +49 431 880-7550

  • Postal Address:
    Cognitive Systems Group,
    Institute of Computer Science,
    Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel,
    Olshausenstr. 40,
    24098 Kiel, Germany
  • Room: 1310 in CAP4
    Sprechzeit: Do. 13:00-15:00
  • nts at ks.informatik ETC

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Research:
My principal areas of research are Evolutionary Learning of Neural Networks for Autonomous Robots, Computer Vision (esp. People Tracking for Visual Surveillance), Software Maintenance and Re-Engineering as well as Software Processes.
More information about my research can be found on my research home page. However, the most recent list of publications is usually the one on this page.

Projects:
COSPAL - Cognitive Systems using Perception-Action Learningmore...
EANT / EANT2: Evolutionary Acquisition of Neural Topologiesmore...
ERLARS - International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systemsmore...
HECTOR (Hand Eye Calibration Toolkit for One-arm Robotsystems)more...
HYCAS - International Workshop on Hybrid Control of Autonomous Systemsmore...
PACLib - The Perception-Action Components Librarymore...
The Reading People Trackermore...
 
Student Projects:
Diplomarbeit: Image Processing with Artificial Neural Networksmore...
Diplomarbeit: Zusammenspiel von Modellen und Reglern bei visuellen Roboterregelungenmore...
Awards:
2009Best Poster Award of 2009 IJCNN (International Joint Conference on Neural Networks), International Neural Network Society and IEEE Computational Intelligence SocietySiebel, N., Boetel, J., Sommer, G.
 
Publications:
2009Automatic high-precision self-calibration of camera-robot systems
Jordt, A., Siebel, N., Sommer, G.
In Proceedings of 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2009), Kobe, Japan, pages 1244--1249, ISBN 987-1-4244-2789-5, May 2009.
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2009Efficient Neural Network Pruning during Neuro-Evolution
Siebel, N., Boetel, J., Sommer, G.
In Proceedings of the 2009 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2009), Atlanta, USA, pages 2920--2927, ISBN 987-1-4244-3553-1, June 2009.
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2009Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Hybrid Control of Autonomous Systems (HYCAS 2009)
Ferrein, A., Pauli, J., Siebel, N., Steinbauer, G.
(eds.), Pasadena, USA, July 13 2009.
 BibTeX 
2009Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems
Siebel, N., Pauli, J.
(eds.), St. Louis, USA, October 2009. To appear.
  
2009Compiling Neural Networks for Fast Neuro-Evolution
Siebel, N., Jordt, A., Sommer, G.
In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems, St. Louis, USA, October 2009, pp. 23--29. To appear.
 , Abstract
2008Evolutionary learning of neural structures for visuo-motor control
Siebel, N., Sommer, G., Kassahun, Y.
In Arpad Kelemen, Ajith Abraham and Yulan Liang (eds.), Computational Intelligence in Medical Informatics, pp. 93-115, ISBN 3-540-75766-5, Springer-Verlag Berlin, 2008
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2008Learning defect classifiers for visual inspection images by neuro-evolution using weakly labelled training data
Siebel, N., Sommer, G.
In Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2008), Hong Kong, China, pp. 3926--3932, ISBN 978-1-4244-1823-7, June 2008.
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2008Creating edge detectors by evolutionary reinforcement learning
Siebel, N., Grünewald, S., Sommer, G.
In Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2008), Hong Kong, China, pp. 3552--3559, ISBN 978-1-4244-1823-7, June 2008.
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2008Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems (ERLARS 2008)
Siebel, N., Pauli, J.
(eds.), Patras, Greece, July 22 2008, ISBN 978-960-6843-15-0.
 BibTeX 
2007Efficient learning of neural networks with evolutionary algorithms
Siebel, N., Krause, J., Sommer, G.
In Pattern Recognition, F. Hamprecht, B. Jähne, C. Schnörr (Eds.), Heidelberg, LNCS, Vol. 4713, pp. 466-475, Springer-Verlag, Berlin. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74936-3_47
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2007Self-organisation of neural topologies by evolutionary reinforcement learning
Siebel, N., Krause, J., Sommer, G.
In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Self-Organising Maps (WSOM 2007), Bielefeld, Germany, 7 pages (no page numbers), September 2007. DOI: 10.2390/biecoll-wsom2007-118.
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2007Evolutionary reinforcement learning of artificial neural networks
Siebel, N., Sommer, G.
In International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems (IJHIS), IOS Press, 4(3), pp. 171-183, October 2007.
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2006Learning neural networks for visual servoing using evolutionary methods
Siebel, N., Kassahun, Y.
In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS'06), Auckland, New Zealand, p. 6 (4 pages), December 2006, ISBN 0-7695-2662-4, DOI: 10.1109/HIS.2006.41.
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2004The ADVISOR visual surveillance system
Siebel, N., Maybank, S.
In Markus Clabian, Vladimir Smutny and Gerd Stanke, editors, Proceedings of the ECCV 2004 workshop "Applications of Computer Vision" (ACV'04), Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 103-111, May 2004, ISBN 80-01-02977-8.
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2004Assertions in object oriented software maintenance: analysis and case study
Satpathy, M., Siebel, N., Rodríguez, D.
In Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2004), Chicago, USA, pp. 124-135, September 2004. ISBN 0-7695-2213-0.
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2003Latitudinal and Longitudinal Process Diversity
Siebel, N., Cook, S., Satpathy, M., Rodríguez, D.
Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution, 15(1):9-25, January-February 2003, ISSN 1532-060X, DOI: 10.1002/smr.264.
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2003Design and Implementation of People Tracking Algorithms for Visual Surveillance Applications
Siebel, N.
PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science, The University of Reading, Reading, UK, March 2003.
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2002The Reading People Tracker Version 1.12: Reference Manual
Le Bouffant, T., Siebel, N., Cook, S., Maybank, S.
Technical Report RUCS/2002/TR/11/001/A, Computational Vision Group, Department of Computer Science, The University of Reading, November 2002
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2002Fusion of Multiple Tracking Algorithms for Robust People Tracking
Siebel, N., Maybank, S.
In Anders Heyden, Gunnar Sparr, Mads Nielsen and Peter Johansen, editors, Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2002), København, Denmark, Vol. IV, pp. 373-387. Springer-Verlag 2002, ISBN 3-540-43748-7
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2002Maintenance of Object Oriented Systems through Re-engineering: A Case Study
Satpathy, M., Siebel, N., Rodríguez, D.
In Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2002), Montréal, Canada, pp. 540-549, October 2002. ISBN 0-7695-1819-2.
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2001Real-Time Tracking of Pedestrians and Vehicles
Siebel, N., Maybank, S.
In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance (PETS 2001), Kauai, USA, 8 pages (no page numbers), 2001.
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2001The Application of Colour Filtering to Real-Time Person Tracking
Siebel, N., Maybank, S.
In Proceedings of the 2nd European Workshop on Advanced Video-Based Surveillance Systems (AVBSŽ2001), Kingston upon Thames, UK, pp. 227-234. 2001
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2001On the Use of Colour Filtering in an Integrated Real-Time People Tracking System
Siebel, N., Maybank, S.
In Paolo Remagnino, Graeme A Jones, Nikos Paragios and Carlo Regazzoni, editors, Video Based Surveillance Systems: Computer Vision and Distributed Processing, pp. 167-175. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001
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1999Vergleich verschiedener bildbasierter Regler zur Realisierung teilautonomer Greifvorgänge
Lang, O., Vogel, R., Siebel, N., Gräser, A.
In 15. Fachgespräch Autonome Mobile Systeme (AMSŽ99), Technische Universität München, Springer-Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-540-66732-6
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1999Robuste Positionierung eines Roboters mittels Visual Servoing unter Verwendung einer Trust-Region-Methode
Siebel, N., Lang, O., Wirth, F., Gräser, A.
In Forschungsbericht Nr. 99-1 der Deutschen Forschungsvereinigung für Meß-, Regelungs- und Systemtechnik (DFMRS) e.V., pp. 23-39. 1999. In German.
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1999Bildbasierte Roboterregelung in sechs Freiheitsgraden unter Verwendung einer Trust-Region-Methode
Siebel, N.
Diplomarbeit, Zentrum für Technomathematik und Institut für Automatisierungstechnik, Universität Bremen, August 1999. In German.
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