Rudolf Mester
About
Rudolf Mester has been head of the Visual Sensorics and Information Processing Lab at Goethe University, Frankfurt, since 2004, after having had positions in the Physics department of U Frankfurt, and in Bosch Corporate Research.
Since October 2018, he is with the Computer Science Dept. (IDI) at NTNU Trondheim, Full Professor (DNV GL endowment), and member of the Norwegian Open AI Lab.
In the recent decade, he lead research initiatives and projects for intelligent visual vehicle sensorics, for applications of AI in mobile systems, visual surround sensing for autonomous driving, and machine learning for ‘trainable vehicles’ and vehicle control.
In the recent decade, he lead research initiatives and projects for intelligent visual vehicle sensorics, for applications of AI in mobile systems, visual surround sensing for autonomous driving, and machine learning for ‘trainable vehicles’ and vehicle control.
Besides these application-oriented topics, he performs fundamental research in the performance analysis of AI methods, assurance of machine learning algorithms, and in the foundations of robust and reliable perception and planning algorithms building on estimation theory, control theory, and machine learning.
At NTNU, Rudolf Mester focuses on performance, confidence quantification, and assurance of AI / machine learning methods, on classical and ML-based perception approaches for intelligent machines, and on autonomous systems, on the road, on and under water, and in the air.
The support from DNV GL reflected in this endowment professorship and in good cooperation is acknowledged and appreciated.
Publications
2024
-
Teigen, Andreas Langeland;
Partk, A.;
Mester, Rudolf;
Stahl, Annette.
(2024)
RGB-D Mapping and Tracking in a Plenoxel
Radiance Field.
IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Academic article
2023
-
Lindseth, Frank;
Mester, Rudolf;
Hukkelås, Håkon.
(2023)
Deep Generative Models for Realistic Image Anonymization.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral theses at NTNU
Doctoral dissertation
-
Lopez, Michael Ernesto;
Brekke, Edmund Førland;
Mester, Rudolf;
Stahl, Annette.
(2023)
Multiscan Shape Estimation for Extended Object Tracking.
IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Academic article
-
Martens, Emil Ludvig;
Stahl, Annette;
Brekke, Edmund Førland;
Mester, Rudolf.
(2023)
Paving the Way for Enhanced Situational Awareness in the Maritime Domain: Designing and Assembling a Sensor Rig for Multi-Sensor Data Set Acquisition.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Masters thesis
-
Flemmen, Henrik Dobbe;
Mester, Rudolf;
Stahl, Annette;
Bryne, Torleiv Håland;
Brekke, Edmund Førland.
(2023)
Maritime radar odometry inspired by visual odometry.
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Hukkelås, Håkon;
Smebye, Morten;
Mester, Rudolf;
Lindseth, Frank.
(2023)
Realistic Full-Body Anonymization with Surface-Guided GANs.
IEEE conference proceedings
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2022
-
Schmidt, Magnus Stray;
Stahl, Annette;
Mester, Rudolf;
Yip, Mauhing.
(2022)
Underwater Incremental Surface Reconstruction from Dynamic 3D Point Clouds.
Fakultet for informasjonsteknologi og elektroteknikk, Institutt for teknisk kybernetikk
Masters thesis
-
Kolsgaard, Amalie;
Stahl, Annette;
Brekke, Edmund Førland;
Mester, Rudolf.
(2022)
Improved Maritime Vessel Detection in Camera Images using Bag-of-Visual-Words.
Fakultet for informasjonsteknologi og elektroteknikk, Institutt for teknisk kybernetikk
Masters thesis
-
Fagerli, Anders Thallaug;
Stahl, Annette;
Mester, Rudolf;
Yip, Mauhing.
(2022)
Deep Monocular Depth Estimation for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles.
Fakultet for informasjonsteknologi og elektroteknikk, Institutt for teknisk kybernetikk
Masters thesis
-
Namazi, Elnaz;
Mester, Rudolf;
Lu, Chaoru;
Log, Markus Metallinos;
Li, Jingyue.
(2022)
Improving Vehicle Localization with Two Low-Cost GPS Receivers.
Springer
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Hodne, Lars Martin;
Leikvoll, Eirik;
Yip, Mauhing;
Teigen, Andreas Langeland;
Stahl, Annette;
Mester, Rudolf.
(2022)
Detecting and Suppressing Marine Snow for Underwater Visual SLAM.
IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)
Academic article
-
Namazi, Elnaz;
Mester, Rudolf;
Lu, Chaoru;
Li, Jingyue.
(2022)
Geolocation estimation of target vehicles using image processing and geometric computation.
Neurocomputing
Academic article
-
Namazi, Elnaz;
Mester, Rudolf;
Li, Jingyue;
Lu, Chaoru;
Tang, Meng;
Xiong, Ying.
(2022)
Traffic Awareness Through Multiple Mobile Sensor Fusion.
IEEE Sensors Journal
Academic article
2021
-
Hukkelås, Håkon;
Mester, Rudolf;
Lindseth, Frank.
(2021)
Image Inpainting with Learnable Feature Imputation.
Springer Nature
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Teigen, Andreas Langeland;
Saad, Aya;
Stahl, Annette;
Mester, Rudolf.
(2021)
Few-Shot Open World Learner.
IFAC-PapersOnLine
Academic article
-
Zwilgmeyer, Peder Georg Olofsson;
Yip, Mauhing;
Teigen, Andreas Langeland;
Mester, Rudolf;
Stahl, Annette.
(2021)
The VAROS Synthetic Underwater Data Set: Towards realistic multi-sensor underwater data with ground truth.
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
Academic article
2020
-
Namazi, Elnaz;
Li, Jingyue;
Mester, Rudolf;
Lu, Chaoru.
(2020)
Identifying and Counting Vehicles in Multiple Lanes by Using a Low-Cost Vehicle-Mounted Sensor for Intelligent Traffic Management Systems.
Springer
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Schmid, Jan Fabian;
Mester, Rudolf.
(2020)
Ground texture based localization: Do we need to detect keypoints?.
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Article in business/trade/industry journal
-
Kretz, Adrian;
Mester, Rudolf.
(2020)
A Shared Representation for Object Tracking and Classification using Siamese Networks.
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Vasstein, Kjetil;
Brekke, Edmund Førland;
Mester, Rudolf;
Eide, Egil.
(2020)
Autoferry Gemini: a real-time simulation platform for electromagnetic radiation sensors on autonomous ships.
IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
Academic article
2019
-
Kreuzig, Robin;
Ochs, Matthias;
Mester, Rudolf.
(2019)
DistanceNet: Estimating Traveled Distance from Monocular Images using a Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network.
IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)
Academic article
-
Brickwedde, Fabian;
Abraham, Steffen;
Mester, Rudolf.
(2019)
Mono-SF: Multi-View Geometry meets Single-View Depth for Monocular Scene Flow Estimation of Dynamic Traffic Scenes.
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
Academic article
-
Hukkelås, Håkon;
Lindseth, Frank;
Mester, Rudolf.
(2019)
DeepPrivacy: A Generative Adversarial Network for Face Anonymization.
Springer Nature
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Klose, Patrick;
Mester, Rudolf.
(2019)
Simulated autonomous driving in a realistic driving environment using deep reinforcement learning and a deterministic finite state machine.
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Sanchez, Ricardo M;
Mester, Rudolf;
Kudryashev, Mikhail.
(2019)
Fast Cross Correlation for Limited Angle Tomographic Data.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
Academic article
-
Sanchez, Ricardo M;
Mester, Rudolf;
Kudryashev, Mikhail.
(2019)
Fast alignment of limited angle tomograms by projected cross correlation.
European Signal Processing Conference
Academic article
-
Ochs, Matthias;
Kretz, Adrian;
Mester, Rudolf.
(2019)
SDNet: Semantically Guided Depth Estimation Network.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
Academic article
2018
-
Ochs, Matthias;
Bradler, Henry;
Mester, Rudolf.
(2018)
Spatio-Temporal Depth Interpolation (STDI).
IEEE conference proceedings
IEEE conference proceedings
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
-
Fanani, Nolang;
Ochs, Matthias;
Stürck, Alina;
Mester, Rudolf.
(2018)
CNN-based multi-frame IMO detection from a monocular camera.
IEEE conference proceedings
IEEE conference proceedings
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
Journal publications
-
Teigen, Andreas Langeland;
Partk, A.;
Mester, Rudolf;
Stahl, Annette.
(2024)
RGB-D Mapping and Tracking in a Plenoxel
Radiance Field.
IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Academic article
-
Lopez, Michael Ernesto;
Brekke, Edmund Førland;
Mester, Rudolf;
Stahl, Annette.
(2023)
Multiscan Shape Estimation for Extended Object Tracking.
IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Academic article
-
Hodne, Lars Martin;
Leikvoll, Eirik;
Yip, Mauhing;
Teigen, Andreas Langeland;
Stahl, Annette;
Mester, Rudolf.
(2022)
Detecting and Suppressing Marine Snow for Underwater Visual SLAM.
IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)
Academic article
-
Namazi, Elnaz;
Mester, Rudolf;
Lu, Chaoru;
Li, Jingyue.
(2022)
Geolocation estimation of target vehicles using image processing and geometric computation.
Neurocomputing
Academic article
-
Namazi, Elnaz;
Mester, Rudolf;
Li, Jingyue;
Lu, Chaoru;
Tang, Meng;
Xiong, Ying.
(2022)
Traffic Awareness Through Multiple Mobile Sensor Fusion.
IEEE Sensors Journal
Academic article
-
Teigen, Andreas Langeland;
Saad, Aya;
Stahl, Annette;
Mester, Rudolf.
(2021)
Few-Shot Open World Learner.
IFAC-PapersOnLine
Academic article
-
Zwilgmeyer, Peder Georg Olofsson;
Yip, Mauhing;
Teigen, Andreas Langeland;
Mester, Rudolf;
Stahl, Annette.
(2021)
The VAROS Synthetic Underwater Data Set: Towards realistic multi-sensor underwater data with ground truth.
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
Academic article
-
Schmid, Jan Fabian;
Mester, Rudolf.
(2020)
Ground texture based localization: Do we need to detect keypoints?.
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Article in business/trade/industry journal
-
Vasstein, Kjetil;
Brekke, Edmund Førland;
Mester, Rudolf;
Eide, Egil.
(2020)
Autoferry Gemini: a real-time simulation platform for electromagnetic radiation sensors on autonomous ships.
IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
Academic article
-
Kreuzig, Robin;
Ochs, Matthias;
Mester, Rudolf.
(2019)
DistanceNet: Estimating Traveled Distance from Monocular Images using a Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network.
IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)
Academic article
-
Brickwedde, Fabian;
Abraham, Steffen;
Mester, Rudolf.
(2019)
Mono-SF: Multi-View Geometry meets Single-View Depth for Monocular Scene Flow Estimation of Dynamic Traffic Scenes.
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
Academic article
-
Sanchez, Ricardo M;
Mester, Rudolf;
Kudryashev, Mikhail.
(2019)
Fast Cross Correlation for Limited Angle Tomographic Data.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
Academic article
-
Sanchez, Ricardo M;
Mester, Rudolf;
Kudryashev, Mikhail.
(2019)
Fast alignment of limited angle tomograms by projected cross correlation.
European Signal Processing Conference
Academic article
-
Ochs, Matthias;
Kretz, Adrian;
Mester, Rudolf.
(2019)
SDNet: Semantically Guided Depth Estimation Network.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
Academic article
Books
-
Ochs, Matthias;
Bradler, Henry;
Mester, Rudolf.
(2018)
Spatio-Temporal Depth Interpolation (STDI).
IEEE conference proceedings
IEEE conference proceedings
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
-
Fanani, Nolang;
Ochs, Matthias;
Stürck, Alina;
Mester, Rudolf.
(2018)
CNN-based multi-frame IMO detection from a monocular camera.
IEEE conference proceedings
IEEE conference proceedings
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
Part of book/report
-
Flemmen, Henrik Dobbe;
Mester, Rudolf;
Stahl, Annette;
Bryne, Torleiv Håland;
Brekke, Edmund Førland.
(2023)
Maritime radar odometry inspired by visual odometry.
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Hukkelås, Håkon;
Smebye, Morten;
Mester, Rudolf;
Lindseth, Frank.
(2023)
Realistic Full-Body Anonymization with Surface-Guided GANs.
IEEE conference proceedings
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Namazi, Elnaz;
Mester, Rudolf;
Lu, Chaoru;
Log, Markus Metallinos;
Li, Jingyue.
(2022)
Improving Vehicle Localization with Two Low-Cost GPS Receivers.
Springer
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Hukkelås, Håkon;
Mester, Rudolf;
Lindseth, Frank.
(2021)
Image Inpainting with Learnable Feature Imputation.
Springer Nature
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Namazi, Elnaz;
Li, Jingyue;
Mester, Rudolf;
Lu, Chaoru.
(2020)
Identifying and Counting Vehicles in Multiple Lanes by Using a Low-Cost Vehicle-Mounted Sensor for Intelligent Traffic Management Systems.
Springer
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Kretz, Adrian;
Mester, Rudolf.
(2020)
A Shared Representation for Object Tracking and Classification using Siamese Networks.
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Hukkelås, Håkon;
Lindseth, Frank;
Mester, Rudolf.
(2019)
DeepPrivacy: A Generative Adversarial Network for Face Anonymization.
Springer Nature
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Klose, Patrick;
Mester, Rudolf.
(2019)
Simulated autonomous driving in a realistic driving environment using deep reinforcement learning and a deterministic finite state machine.
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Report
-
Lindseth, Frank;
Mester, Rudolf;
Hukkelås, Håkon.
(2023)
Deep Generative Models for Realistic Image Anonymization.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral theses at NTNU
Doctoral dissertation
-
Martens, Emil Ludvig;
Stahl, Annette;
Brekke, Edmund Førland;
Mester, Rudolf.
(2023)
Paving the Way for Enhanced Situational Awareness in the Maritime Domain: Designing and Assembling a Sensor Rig for Multi-Sensor Data Set Acquisition.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Masters thesis
-
Schmidt, Magnus Stray;
Stahl, Annette;
Mester, Rudolf;
Yip, Mauhing.
(2022)
Underwater Incremental Surface Reconstruction from Dynamic 3D Point Clouds.
Fakultet for informasjonsteknologi og elektroteknikk, Institutt for teknisk kybernetikk
Masters thesis
-
Kolsgaard, Amalie;
Stahl, Annette;
Brekke, Edmund Førland;
Mester, Rudolf.
(2022)
Improved Maritime Vessel Detection in Camera Images using Bag-of-Visual-Words.
Fakultet for informasjonsteknologi og elektroteknikk, Institutt for teknisk kybernetikk
Masters thesis
-
Fagerli, Anders Thallaug;
Stahl, Annette;
Mester, Rudolf;
Yip, Mauhing.
(2022)
Deep Monocular Depth Estimation for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles.
Fakultet for informasjonsteknologi og elektroteknikk, Institutt for teknisk kybernetikk
Masters thesis
Teaching
Courses
Media
2023
-
Academic lectureLopez, Michael Ernesto; Brekke, Edmund Førland; Mester, Rudolf; Stahl, Annette. (2023) Multiscan Shape Estimation for Extended Object Tracking. Fusion 2023 2023-06-27 - 2023-06-30
2022
-
Academic lectureHodne, Lars Martin; Leikvoll, Eirik; Yip, Mauhing; Teigen, Andreas Langeland; Stahl, Annette; Mester, Rudolf. (2022) Detecting and Suppressing Marine Snow for Underwater Visual SLAM. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recogniti Fourth Workshop on Image Matching: Local Features and Beyond , New Orleans, Louisiana 2022-06-19 - 2022-06-23
2021
-
Academic lectureZwilgmeyer, Peder Georg Olofsson; Yip, Mauhing; Teigen, Andreas Langeland; Mester, Rudolf; Stahl, Annette. (2021) The VAROS Synthetic Underwater Data Set: Towards realistic multi-sensor underwater data with ground truth. ICCV Workshop Computer Vision in the Ocean 2021-10-17 - 2021-10-17
-
Academic lectureTeigen, Andreas Langeland; Saad, Aya; Stahl, Annette; Mester, Rudolf. (2021) Few-Shot Open World Learner. International Federation of Automatic Control 13th IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems, Robotics, and Vehicles IFAC CAMS , Online Conference - University Oldenburg, Germany 2021-09-22 - 2021-09-24