Kolja Kühnlenz

Short CV

Kolja Kühnlenz was a Senior Research Scientist and Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Automatic Control Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, TUM, and Director of the Dynamic Vision Research Laboratory until 2012. He was also the leader of an Independent Junior Research Group within the Munich Cluster of Excellence “Cognition for Technical Systems – CoTeSys” and Principal Investigator within the Bernstein Center of Computational Neuroscience Munich. He received the engineering degree in Electrical Engineering in 2002 from Technical University of Berlin and the Doctor of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering in 2007 from TUM. From 2003 to 2006 he was a research and teaching assistant at the Institute of Automatic Control Engineering, TUM. He has held positions in executive boards, e.g. BCCN, and organizing committees, e.g. Program Chair of IEEE RO-MAN 2008.
Since 2014, Kolja Kühnlenz has been a professor at the Coburg University of Applied Science and Arts.

Selected Awards

• Leader of Independent Junior Research Group Award, Cluster of Excellence CoTeSys
• Student Research Award, Project ”Effects of Dia- and Paramagnetic Materials in MRI-Systems”, Humboldt Universität Berlin

Research Interests

Kühnlenz’s areas of interest include: Computer vision; design and control of mechatronic systems, robotics, intelligent automation systems, human-robot interaction and communication.

Selected Publications

• Kuhnlenz, Kolja; Buss, Martin: On Sensor Switching Visual Servoing. International Journal of Optomechatronics 2 (3), 2008, 233-256.

• Wendt, C.; Popp, M.; Karg, M.; Kühnlenz, K.: Physiology and HIR: Recognition of over- and underchallenge. Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2008.

• Karg, M.; Seibler, W.; Kühnlenz, K.; Tusker, F.; Schmeelk, M.; Buss, M.; Schwirtz, A.: Expression and automatic recognition of exhaustion in natural walking. Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction (IHCI), 2008.

• Kühnlenz, K.;: Aspects of Multi-Focal Vision. VDI Fortschritt-Berichte, 2007.

• Kühnlenz, K.; Buss, M.: Stability issues in sensor swiching visual servoing. Proceedings od SPIE 6719, 2007.

• Bittermann, A.; Kühnlenz, K.; Buss, M.: On the evaluation of emotion expressing robots. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2007.

• Sosnovski, S.; Kühnlenz, K.; Buss, M.: EDDIE - an emotion display with dynamic intuitive expressions. Proceedings of the15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2006, 569-574.