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.

Publications as TUM-IAS-Fellow

2014

  • Lou, Lei; Kuhnlenz, Kolja: Hardware-in-the-loop development and real-time testing for precision motion control under RTAI. 2014 13th International Conference on Control Automation Robotics & Vision (ICARCV), IEEE, 2014 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Lou, Lei; Kuhnlenz, Kolja: Robust scale-invariant feature extraction. 2014 13th International Conference on Control Automation Robotics & Vision (ICARCV), IEEE, 2014 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )

2013

  • Kühnlenz, Barbara; Sosnowski, Stefan; Buß, Malte; Wollherr, Dirk; Kühnlenz, Kolja; Buss, Martin: Increasing Helpfulness towards a Robot by Emotional Adaption to the User. International Journal of Social Robotics 5 (4), 2013, 457-476 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )

2012

  • Impacts of Multimodal Feedback on Efficiency of Proactive Information Retrieval from Task-Related HRI. JACIII 16 (2), 2012, 313-326 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Bonsior, B.; Landsiedel, C.; Mirnig, N.; Sosnowski, S.; Strasser, E.; Zlotowski, J.; Buss, M.; Kühnlenz, K.; Tscheligi, M.; Weiss, A.; Wollherr, D.: Impacts of Multimodal Feedback on Efficiency of Proactive Information Retrieval from Task-Related HRI. Journal of Advanced Computional Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, 2012 mehr… BibTeX
  • Kuhnlenz, Kolja; Buss, Martin: Multi-focal Vision and Gaze Control Improve Navigation Performance. Int J Adv Robotic Sy, 2012, 1 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )

2011

  • Gonsior, B.; Sosnowski, S.; Mayer, C.; Blume, J.; Radig, B.; Wollherr, D.; Kühnlenz, K.: “Improving Aspects of Empathy and Subjective Performance for HRI through Mirroring Facial Expressions. 20th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2011 mehr… BibTeX

2009

  • Bauer, Andrea; Klasing, Klaas; Lidoris, Georgios; Mühlbauer, Quirin; Rohrmüller, Florian; Sosnowski, Stefan; Xu, Tingting; Kühnlenz, Kolja; Wollherr, Dirk; Buss, Martin: The Autonomous City Explorer: Towards Natural Human-Robot Interaction in Urban Environments. Int J of Soc Robotics 1 (2), 2009, 127-140 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Kühnlenz, K.; Wu, H.; Borst, A.; Buss, M.; Zhang, T.: FPGA design and implementation of insect-inspired reichardt motion detector and receptive field. Journal of Image and Graphics, 2009 mehr… BibTeX