Dr. Simone Frintrop

Akademische Rätin (senior scientific assistant)

Postal address:	Institut für Informatik III (Institute of Computer Science III), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Römerstr. 164 D-53117 Bonn, Germany
Office:	Room A 208
Phone:	+49 (0) 228 73 4357
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2010:

Simone Frintrop, Erich Rome and Henrik I. Christensen: Computational Visual Attention Systems and their Cognitive Foundation: A Survey, accepted for the ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP), Vol. 7, Issue 1, 2010

2009:

Dominik Klein, Dirk Schulz, and Simone Frintrop: Boosting with a Joint Feature Pool from Different Sensors, 7th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS 2009), Oct. 2009

Simone Frintrop, Andreas Nüchter, Kai Pervölz, Hartmut Surmann, Sara Mitri, Joachim Hertzberg: Attentive Classification, International Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Systems, Vol. 1, Number 1, June 2009

Simone Frintrop, Achim Königs, Frank Hoeller and Dirk Schulz: Visual Person Tracking Using a Cognitive Observation Model, Workshop on People Detection and Tracking at the IEEE 2009 International Conference Robotics and Automation (ICRA '09), Kobe, Japan, May 2009 PDF
Simone Frintrop and Markus Kessel: Most Salient Region Tracking, IEEE 2009 International Conference Robotics and Automation (ICRA '09), Kobe, Japan, May 2009 PDF

2008:

Simone Frintrop and Patric Jensfelt: Attentional Landmarks and Active Gaze Control for Visual SLAM, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Special Issue on Visual SLAM, vol. 24, no. 5, Oct. 2008. Download the article here. If you don't have access, you can download a preprint here.
Simone Frintrop: The High Repeatability of Salient Regions, accepted for the ECCV Workshop "Vision in Action: Efficient Strategies for Cognitive Agents in Complex Environments", 18th Oct. 2008, Marseille, France
Simone Frintrop and Patric Jensfelt: Active Gaze Control for Attentional Visual SLAM, Proceedings of the IEEE 2008 International Conference Robotics and Automation (ICRA '08), Pasadena, California, May 2008 PDF
Simone Frintrop and Markus Kessel: Cognitive Data Association for Visual Person Tracking, Proc. of the 1st IEEE Workshop on Human Detection from Mobile Platforms (HDMP '08) , Pasadena, California, May 2008 PDF

2007:

Simone Frintrop, Patric Jensfelt and Henrik Christensen: Simultaneous Robot Localization and Mapping Based on a Visual Attention System, in Attention in Cognitive Systems, Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), 4840, Springer-Verlag, 2007 PDF
Simone Frintrop and Armin B. Cremers: Top-down Attention Supports Visual Loop Closing, Proc. of European Conference on Mobile Robotics (ECMR 2007), Freiburg, Germany, Sept. 2007. PDF
Simone Frintrop: Visual Robot Localization and Mapping based on Attentional Landmarks, German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI), Osnabrück, Germany, Sept. 2007 PDF
Simone Frintrop, Patric Jensfelt and Henrik Christensen: Attentional Robot Localization and Mapping, at the ICVS Workshop on Computational Attention & Applications (WCAA), Bielefeld, Germany, March 2007 PDF
Simone Frintrop, Maria Klodt, Erich Rome:
A Real-time Visual Attention System Using Integral Images, in Proc. of the 5th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS 2007), Bielefeld, Germany, March 2007. PDF

2006:

Simone Frintrop, Patric Jensfelt, Henrik Christensen: Attentional Landmark Selection for Visual SLAM, Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'06), October 2006. PDF
Simone Frintrop, Patric Jensfelt, Henrik Christensen: Detecting Useful Landmarks for Visual SLAM , Workshop Robotic 3D Environment Cognition, at the International Conference Spatial Cognition, Bremen (Germany), Sept. 2006
Simone Frintrop, Patric Jensfelt, Henrik Christensen: Pay Attention When Selecting Features , Proc. of the 18th Int'l Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2006), Hong Kong, Aug. 2006. PDF

2005:

Simone Frintrop: VOCUS: A Visual Attention System for Object Detection and Goal-directed Search, Phd thesis, accepted at the University of Bonn in July 2005, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), Vol. 3899 / 2006, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg. ISBN: 3-540-32759-2
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Simone Frintrop, Gerriet Backer, Erich Rome. Goal-directed Search with a Top-down Modulated Computational Attention System, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM '05), Wien, Austria, Aug/Sept. 2005, PDF
Simone Frintrop, Gerriet Backer, Erich Rome. Selecting what is Important: Training Visual Attention, Proceedings of the 28th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI '05), Koblenz, Germany, Sept. 2005, PDF
Sara Mitri, Simone Frintrop, Kai Pervölz, Hartmut Surmann, Andreas Nüchter. Robust Object Detection at Regions of Interest with an Application in Ball Recognition, in Proceedings IEEE 2005 International Conference Robotics and Automation (ICRA '05), Barcelona, Spain, April 2005, PDF
Simone Frintrop, Erich Rome, Andreas Nüchter, and Hartmut Surmann: A Bimodal Laser-Based Attention System, Journal of Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), vol. 100, no. 1-2, Oct-Nov 2005, Special Issue on Attention and Performance. PDF
Simone Frintrop, Erich Rome, and Gerriet Backer: A Goal-directed Visual Attention System. Poster Session of 8th Tübingen Perception Conference (Tübinger Wahrnehmungskonferenz) (TWK 2005). Conference: Tübingen, Germany, Feb 27-28, 2005
2004:
Simone Frintrop, Andreas Nüchter, Hartmut Surmann, and Joachim Hertzberg: Saliency-based Object Recognition in 3D Data, In: Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'04), September 2004. PDF
Simone Frintrop and Erich Rome: Simulating Visual Attention for Object Recognition, Proceedings of the Workshop on Early Cognitive Vision, Isle of Skye, Scotland, May 2004. PDF
S. Frintrop; A. Nüchter; H. Surmann: Visual Attention for Object Recognition in Spatial 3D Data. In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Attention and Performance in Computational Vision (WAPCV 2004), revised post-conference proceedings: Springer LNCS Vol. 3368, Berlin ISBN 3-540-24421-2 L. Paletta, J. Tsotsos, E. Rome, G.W. Humphreys (eds), pp. 168-182, Conference: Prague, Czech Republic, May 15, 2004 PDF
S. Frintrop, E. Rome, A. Nüchter, H. Surmann: Focussing Object Recognition on Regions of Interest In: Proceedings of the 7. Tübingen Perception Conference (TWK 2004), H. Bülthoff, H.A. Mallot, R. Ulrich, F.A. Wichmann (eds), pp. 67, Conference: Tübingen, Germany, 30th Jan - 1st Feb., 2004 Abstract

2003:

S. Frintrop; E. Rome; A. Nüchter; H. Surmann Applying Attentional Mechanisms to Bi-modal 3D Laser Data. In: International Workshop on Attention and Performance in Computer Vision (WAPCV 2003), L. Paletta, G.W. Humphreys, and R.B. Fisher (eds), pp. 25-30, Conference: Graz, Austria, April 3, 2003 BibTeX reference | PDF
S. Frintrop; E. Rome; A. Nüchter; H. Surmann An Attentive, Multi-modal Laser "Eye". In: Proc. of 3rd International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS 2003), J. Crowley, J.H. Piater, M. Vincze, and L. Paletta (eds), pp. 202-211, Springer, Berlin, LNCS 2626, 2003. Conference: Graz, Austria, April 1-2, 2003 BibTeX reference | Abstract | PDF © Springer Verlag

S. Frintrop, E. Rome, A. Nüchter, H. Surmann: Visuelle Aufmerksamkeitsmechanismen auf bimodalen Laserdaten In: Beiträge zur 6. Tübinger Wahrnehmungskonferenz (TWK 2003), H. Bülthoff, K.R. Gegenfurtner, H.A. Mallot, R. Ulrich, F.A. Wichmann (eds), pp. 100, Conference: Tübingen, Germany, February 21-23, 2003 Abstract (in German)

2001:

Simone Frintrop: Robuste Roboterlokalisierung mit omnidirektionaler Bildsensorik, Diploma thesis, Abstract in english and german | Full Thesis in PDF (German) (3,5 MB)

L. Paletta, S. Frintrop, J. Hertzberg: Robust localization using context in omnidirectional imaging. In: 2001 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2001) (May 21-26, 2001, Seoul, Korea), pp. 2072-2077 PDF (567 KB)

L. Paletta, S. Frintrop, J. Hertzberg: Localization by spatial context analysis In: Proceedings of the 25th Workshop of the AAPR (ÖAGM 2001), (June 2001, Berchtesgaden, Germany), pp. 55-65 PDF (881 KB)

L. Paletta, S. Frintrop, J. Hertzberg: Visual localization using Bayesian decision fusion on omnidirectional sensing In: Proceedings of the SPIE Sensor Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms and Applications V, Aerosense 2001 (April 2001, Orlando, Florida, USA), volume 4385, pages 58-66 PDF (868 KB)