Dr.-Ing. Fabian Timm

Photo of Dr.-Ing. Fabian  Timm

 

 

 

Research & Development Engineer
Robert Bosch GmbH
Robert-Bosch-Platz 1
70839 Gerlingen-Schillerhöhe

Email:
Phone: +49 711 811-0

Research Interests 

Machine Learning 

  • One-class learning
  • Support vector classification
  • Kernel density estimation
  • Feature extraction
  • Model selection

Computer Vision

  • Image analysis
  • Object detection
  • Feature extraction
  • Image segmentation
  • Real-time applications

Demos and Experiments

  • Video on accurate eye centre localization, find paper presented at VISAPP 201 1 below
  • Analysis of human eye movements for the inspection of "Waldo" images: preliminary results

Bachelor's / Master's / Diploma-Thesis 

  • 3D-Skeletonisation (finished by Kristian Ehlers)
  • Where is Waldo? (finished by Nadine Traulsen)
  • Can y ou find the defect? (finished by Nadine Traulsen)

Source Code and Datasets

  • OneClassMaxMinOv er (OMMO) for training a one-class support v ector machine [matlab code]
  • Artificial images for the detection of round objects

 

Curriculum vitae

January 2012 - 

Research & Development Engineer at Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany .

November 2011 - December 2011

Post-Doc at the Institute for Neuro- and Bioinformatics, University of Lübeck, Germany.

December 2006 - November 2011

PhD student at the Institute for Neuro- and Bioinformatics, Univ ersity of Lübeck, Germany .

PhD thesis "Machine Vision for Inspection and Novelty Detection", submitted Jun 2011

December 2005 - October 2006

Diploma thesis "Methods for the Optical Inspection of Xenon-Lamps"

At Philips Global Technology Dev elopment Aachen (Lighting)

October 2001 - November 2006

Student of Computer Science, Bioinformatics, and Biomathematics at the Univ ersity of Lübeck. Graduated

with the degree of Dipl.-Inf.

Publikationen

2012

Fabian Timm, and Erhardt Barth,
Novelty {D}etection for the {I}nspection of {L}ight-emitting {D}iodes, Expert Systems with Applications , vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 3413--3422, 2012.
Datei: j.eswa.2011.09.029
Bibtex: BibTeX
@article{TiBa12,
author = {Fabian Timm and Erhardt Barth},
title = {Novelty {D}etection for the {I}nspection of {L}ight-emitting {D}iodes},
journal = {Expert Systems with Applications},
volume = {39},
number = {3},
pages = {3413--3422},
year = {2012},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2011.09.029}
}

2011

Fabian Timm, and Erhardt Barth,
Accurate eye centre localisation by means of gradients, in Proceedings of the Int. Conference on Computer Theory and Applications {(VISAPP)} , Algarve, Portugal: INSTICC, 2011. pp. 125--130.
Bibtex: BibTeX
@inproceedings{TiBa11b,
author = {Fabian Timm and Erhardt Barth},
title = {Accurate eye centre localisation by means of gradients},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Int. Conference on Computer Theory and Applications {(VISAPP)}},
publisher = {INSTICC},
address = {Algarve, Portugal},
volume = {1},
pages = {125--130},
year = {2011}
}

Fabian Timm, and Erhardt Barth,
Accurate, fast, and robust centre localisation for images of semiconductor components, in Image Processing: Machine Vision Applications IV , San Francisco, USA: IS\&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2011.
Datei: TiBa11a.pdf
Bibtex: BibTeX
@inproceedings{TiBa11a,
author = {Fabian Timm and Erhardt Barth},
title = {Accurate, fast, and robust centre localisation for images of semiconductor components},
booktitle = {Image Processing: Machine Vision Applications IV},
publisher = {IS\&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging},
year = {2011},
address = {San Francisco, USA},
url = {https://www.inb.uni-luebeck.de/fileadmin/files/publications/inb-publications/pdfs/TiBa11a.pdf}
}

Sascha Klement, Fabian Timm, and Erhardt Barth,
Illumination correction for image stitching, in Proceedings of the Int. Conference on Imaging Theory and Applications {(IMAGAPP)} , Algarve, Portugal: INSTICC, 2011. pp. 81--86.
Datei: KlTiBa11.pdf
Bibtex: BibTeX
@inproceedings{KlTiBa11,
author = {Sascha Klement and Fabian Timm and Erhardt Barth},
title = {Illumination correction for image stitching},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Int. Conference on Imaging Theory and Applications {(IMAGAPP)}},
publisher = {INSTICC},
address = {Algarve, Portugal},
year = {2011},
pages = {81--86},
volume = {1},
url = {https://www.inb.uni-luebeck.de/fileadmin/files/publications/inb-publications/pdfs/KlTiBa11.pdf}
}

Fabian Timm, and Erhardt Barth,
Non-parametric texture defect detection using {W}eibull features, in Image Processing: Machine Vision Applications IV , San Francisco, USA: IS\&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2011.
Datei: TiBa11.pdf
Bibtex: BibTeX
@inproceedings{TiBa11,
author = {Fabian Timm and Erhardt Barth},
title = {Non-parametric texture defect detection using {W}eibull features},
booktitle = {Image Processing: Machine Vision Applications IV},
publisher = {IS\&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging},
year = {2011},
address = {San Francisco, USA},
url = {https://www.inb.uni-luebeck.de/fileadmin/files/publications/inb-publications/pdfs/TiBa11.pdf}
}

2010

Fabian Timm, Thomas Martinetz, and Erhardt Barth,
Optical {I}nspection of {W}elding {S}eams, in Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics: Theory and Applications, Revised Selected Papers , Springer Series Communications in Computer Science and Information Science, 2010. pp. 269--282.
Datei: TiMaBa10.pdf
Bibtex: BibTeX
@inproceedings{TiMaBa10,
author = {Fabian Timm and Thomas Martinetz and Erhardt Barth},
title = {Optical {I}nspection of {W}elding {S}eams},
booktitle = {Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics: Theory and Applications, Revised Selected Papers},
publisher = {Springer Series Communications in Computer Science and Information Science},
year = {2010},
volume = {68},
pages = {269--282},
url = {https://www.inb.uni-luebeck.de/fileadmin/files/publications/inb-publications/pdfs/TiMaBa10.pdf}
}

Fabian Timm, and Thomas Martinetz,
Statistical {F}ourier {D}escriptors for {D}efect {I}mage {C}lassification, in Proceedings of the 20th Int. Conference on Pattern Recognition {(ICPR)} , Istanbul, Turkey: IEEE Computer Society Press, 2010. pp. 4190--4193.
Datei: TiMa10.pdf
Bibtex: BibTeX
@inproceedings{TiMa10,
author = {Fabian Timm and Thomas Martinetz},
title = {Statistical {F}ourier {D}escriptors for {D}efect {I}mage {C}lassification},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 20th Int. Conference on Pattern Recognition {(ICPR)} },
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
pages = {4190--4193},
year = {2010},
address = {Istanbul, Turkey},
url = {https://www.inb.uni-luebeck.de/fileadmin/files/publications/inb-publications/pdfs/TiMa10.pdf}
}

2009

Fabian Timm, Sascha Klement, Thomas Martinetz, and Erhardt Barth,
Welding {I}nspection {U}sing {N}ovel {S}pecularity {F}eatures and {A} {O}ne-{C}lass {SVM}, in Proceedings of the Int. Conference on Computer Theory and Applications {(VISAPP)} , Lisboa, Portugal: INSTICC, 2009. pp. 146--153.
Datei: TiKlMaBa09.pdf
Bibtex: BibTeX
@inproceedings{TiKlMaBa09,
author = {Fabian Timm and Sascha Klement and Thomas Martinetz and Erhardt Barth},
title = {Welding {I}nspection {U}sing {N}ovel {S}pecularity {F}eatures and {A} {O}ne-{C}lass {SVM}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Int. Conference on Computer Theory and Applications {(VISAPP)}},
publisher = {INSTICC},
address = {Lisboa, Portugal},
year = {2009},
pages = {146--153},
volume = {1},
url = {https://www.inb.uni-luebeck.de/fileadmin/files/publications/inb-publications/pdfs/TiKlMaBa09.pdf}
}

2008

Fabian Timm, Sascha Klement, and Thomas Martinetz,
Fast {M}odel {S}election for {M}ax{M}in{O}ver-based {T}raining of {S}upport {V}ector {M}achines, in Proceedings of the 19th Int. Conference on Pattern Recognition {(ICPR)} , Tampa, Florida, USA: IEEE Computer Society Press, 2008.
Datei: TiKlMa08.pdf
Bibtex: BibTeX
@inproceedings{TiKlMa08,
author = {Fabian Timm and Sascha Klement and Thomas Martinetz},
title = {Fast {M}odel {S}election for {M}ax{M}in{O}ver-based {T}raining of {S}upport {V}ector {M}achines},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th Int. Conference on Pattern Recognition {(ICPR)}},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
year = {2008},
address = {Tampa, Florida, USA},
url = {https://www.inb.uni-luebeck.de/fileadmin/files/publications/inb-publications/pdfs/TiKlMa08.pdf}
}

Kai Labusch, Fabian Timm, and Thomas Martinetz,
Simple Incremental One-Class {S}upport {V}ector Classification, in Pattern Recognition - Proceedings of the DAGM , Gerhard Rigoll, Eds. 2008. pp. 21--30.
Datei: LaTiMa08.pdf
Bibtex: BibTeX
@inproceedings{LaTiMa08,
author = {Kai Labusch and Fabian Timm and Thomas Martinetz},
title = {Simple Incremental One-Class {S}upport {V}ector Classification},
booktitle = {Pattern Recognition - Proceedings of the DAGM},
editor = {Gerhard Rigoll},
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
pages = {21--30},
year = {2008},
url = {https://www.inb.uni-luebeck.de/fileadmin/files/publications/inb-publications/pdfs/LaTiMa08.pdf}
}

2006

Fabian Timm,
Methoden zur optischen {Q}ualitätskontrolle. {A}nwendung in der {P}roduktion von {X}enon-{L}ampen, Diploma Thesis, Universität zu Lübeck, 2006.
Datei: Timm06.pdf
Bibtex: BibTeX
@mastersthesis{Timm06,
author = {Fabian Timm},
title = {Methoden zur optischen {Q}ualit{\"a}tskontrolle. {A}nwendung in der {P}roduktion von {X}enon-{L}ampen},
year = {2006},
school = {Universit{\"a}t zu L{\"u}beck},
type = {Diploma Thesis},
note = {Full version: Please contact the author via email},
url = {https://www.inb.uni-luebeck.de/fileadmin/files/publications/inb-publications/pdfs/Timm06.pdf}
}