Dr.-Ing. Patrick Westfeld
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Former research associate
NameMr Dr.-Ing. Patrick Westfeld
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Vita
- since 2017 · Head of section Geodetic-hydrographic Techniques and Systems at Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH)
- since 2016 · Programme Committee Member (SPIE) Videometrics
- 2016-2020 · Key Personnel of ISPRS Technical Commission II, Working Group 9 Underwater Data Acquisition and Processing
- 2005-2017 · Postdoctoral research scientist at TU Dresden, Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Geodetic Institute
- 2012 · Doctoral thesis on Geometric and stochastic models for the processing of 3D camera data within the context of human motion analyses
- 2010 · Research associate at German Sport University Cologne, Institute for Movement Therapy and Movement oriented Prevention and Rehabilitation
- 2005-2012 · Research associate and Ph.D. student at TU Dresden, Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
- 2005 · Diploma thesis on Development of approaches for spatio-temporal resolved 2D motion analysis in glaciology
- 2002-2005 · Student research assistant at TU Dresden, Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Geodetic Institute
- 1999-2005 · Diploma course Geodesy at TU Dresden
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Awards
- First prize in ideas competition awarded by Dresden Exists
Research
- Coordination of the photogrammetric activities in the research alliance "Automatable, adaptive drone platform as a versatile, robotic experimental vehicle (sensor technology, manipulation actuator technology)" within the framework of the TUD's Institutional Strategy
- stadtPARTHEland – Cultural landscape management as a bridge between metropolis and rural areas; sub-project: UAV-based photogrammetric data acquisition and evaluation
- Opportunities and risks of Ambient Intelligence (AmI) and Industry 4.0 from a safety perspective; Subproject 2: Safe person recognition in human-machine interaction
- ADFEX - Adaptive federative 3D exploration with multi-robot systems (Junior Research Group Leader)
- Conception and realisation of a multi-sensor UAV platform
- Derivation of turbidity parameters and performance improvements of the evaluation algorithms of laser bathymetry in the Elbe/Klöden area
- Calibration of stereo 3D systems
- Integration of a compact laser scanner on a flying robot
- Structured 3D motion analysis based on depth camera image sequences
- Development, implementation and verification of methods for processing 3D camera data
- Photogrammetric approaches for automated gesture recognition and classification
- Development and validation of algorithms and software modules for Tomographic Particle Image Velocimetry
- 3D Particle Tracking Velocimetry
- RGI-150 3D Plaatsbepaling
- Photogrammetric determination of water level profiles
- Reference bar calibration and image sequence analysis from stereoscopic images of a mobile mapping vehicle
- Study on the applicability of range cameras for the spatial imaging of wastewater structures
- Geometric and stochastic modeling
- Multi-sensor integraton
- UAV photogrammetry
- Multi-media photogrammetry
- Image processing, image analysis
- Human motion analysis
Teaching
Support of lectures with a special focus on 3D sensor systems, UAV photogrammetry, image matching and statistics
Supervision of projectworks and practical courses in the field of image analysis, statistics, 3D point cloud processing:
Publications
Extended research options (such as search for keywords) offers TU Dresden's Current Research Information System (CRIS).