latest news

2008/08/04

The pictures from my Portland trip are online now.

Portland pictures ...

2008/07/23

HornetsEye is being presented at OSCON 2008.

PDF foils ...

2008/07/12

I put the pictures of my trip to China online.

Zhangjiajie pictures ...

Hong Kong pictures ...

2008/03/17

The proposal for a talk about real-time computer vision with Ruby at OSCON2008 was accepted.

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2008/01/18

After reading the paper "Lucas-Kanade 20 Years On: A Unifying Framework" I have implemented a Lucas-Kanade tracker in Ruby.

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2008/01/12

I finally put the pictures of my Dubai trip online.

Dubai pictures ...

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Jan Wedekind

Sheffield, S6 2UE

United Kingdom

j.nosp@m.an@wedes.nosp@m.oft.de

curriculum vitae

Education

1996-2002 Computer science degree at Universität Fridericiana, Karlsruhe
1996-1998 Vordiplom (part 1)
computer science, abstract mathematics, linear algebra, numerics, statistics
Grade 1 ("very good")
1998-2002 Hauptstudium (part 2)
Grade 2.0 ("good")
1998-1999 basics:
algorithms, software engineering, formal systems, cognitive systems, real time systems
1999-2002 special subjects:
software engineering, compiler construction, software verification, higher programming languages, computer integrated manufacturing, robotics
additional subjects:
measurement engineering, correlation, analog and digital closed loop controllers, image processing
practical courses:
industrial robots (ROBCAD), XML compiler construction, image processing (Java with JNI, C++ )
10/1997-3/1999 job at the Forschungszentrum Informatik Karlsruhe:
implemented graphical user interface for a hardware-design-tool
4/1999-7/2000 tutor for math and physics for foreign students
1/2000-4/2002 European MINIMAN project:
implemented closed loop controller, part of software architecture, and early vision algorithm for microrobot with 5 degrees of freedom
10/2001-12/2001 stay abroad at Sheffield Hallam University

Job

7/2002-3/2004 full time job at CZ SMT AG as software developer:
implemented bandpass filter for limited 2D signals, gave lecture on wavelets, designed and implemented software for computing approximated polygon data with asserted accuracy for CGH (computer generated hologram) plots, parametrisation software using XML

Job

4/2004-? Research assistant and part-time PhD student at Sheffield Hallam University
4/2004-12/2005 EU MiCRoN project:
implemented system architecture and object recognition algorithm for real-time microscope vision software
1/2006-? EPSRC Nanorobotics project:
Implementing machine vision software, telemanipulation user interface, and generic Ruby real-time computer vision extension HornetsEye

Publications