Rainer Stiefelhagen's Publication Page

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Books

• Alex Waibel and Rainer Stiefelhagen (Eds.)
  Computers in the Human Interaction Loop
  Human-Computer Interaction Series, Springer Verlag, London, 2009.
  See the book description at Springer, get it via the Springer online access or buy it at Amazon.com

• Andrei Popescu-Belis and Rainer Stiefelhagen (Eds.)
  Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction
  Proceedings of MLMI 2008, Utrecht, 8-10 September 2008), LNCS 5237, Springer-Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg, September 2008.
  Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 4625., June 2008. (Book overview) (Direct access to online version)
  

• Rainer Stiefelhagen, Rachel Bowers, Jonathan Fiscus (Eds).
  Multimodal Technologies for Perception of Humans
  Proceedings of the International Evaluation Workshops CLEAR 2007 and RT 2007, Baltimore, MD, USA, May 8-11, 2007, Revised Selected Papers Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 4625., June 2008. (Book overview) (Direct access to online version)
  

• Rainer Stiefelhagen, John Garofolo (Eds).
  Multimodal Technologies for Perception of Humans
  Proceedings of the First International evaluation workshop on Classification of Events, Activities and Relationships, CLEAR 2006, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 4122., January 2007.

• Rainer Stiefelhagen,
  Tracking and Modeling Focus of Attention in Meetings
  Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Fakultät für Informatik. Dissertation, July 2002. (more)

Journal Publications

• K. Bernardin, R. Stiefelhagen
  Evaluating Multiple Object Tracking Performance: The CLEAR MOT Metrics EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, Special Issue on Video Tracking in Complex Scenes for Surveillance Applications, Volume 2008, Article ID 246309, May 2008. (Abstract),(pdf)
  

• Jean-Claude Martin, Patrizia Paggio, Peter Kuehnlein, Rainer Stiefelhagen and Fabio Pianesi
  Introduction to the special issue on multimodal corpora for modeling human multimodal behavior Journal on Language Resources and Evaluation, Vol. 41, No. 3-4, December 2007, Springer. (pdf)

• D. Mostefa, N. Moreau, K. Choukri, G. Potamianos, S. M. Chu, J. R. Casas, J. Turmo, L. Cristoferetti, F. Tobia, A. Pnevmatikakis, V. Mylonakis, F. Talantzis, S. Burger, R. Stiefelhagen, K. Bernardin and C. Rochet,
  The CHIL Audiovisual Corpus for Lecture and Meeting Analysis inside Smart Rooms,
  Journal on Language Resources and Evaluation, Vol. 41, No. 3-4, December 2007, pp. 389-407, Springer. (pdf)

• R. Stiefelhagen, H. Ekenel, C. Fügen, P. Gieselmann, H. Holzapfel, F. Kraft, K. Nickel, M. Voit, A. Waibel, Enabling Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction fort the Karlsruhe Humanoid Robot ,
  IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Special Issue on Human-Robot Interaction, Vol. 23, No.5, October 2007. (pdf)

• H. K. Ekenel, H. Gao, R. Stiefelhagen,
  3-D Face Recognition using Local Appearance-Based Models,
  IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Vol.2, No. 3, pp. 630-635, September 2007. (pdf)

• R. Stiefelhagen, K. Bernardin, H.K. Ekenel, J. McDonough, K. Nickel, M. Voit, M. Woelfel,
  Audio-Visual Perception of a Lecturer in a Smart Seminar Room ,
  Signal Processing - Special Issue on Multimodal Interfaces, Vol. 86 (12), Dec. 2006, Elsevier. (pdf)

• Kai Nickel, Rainer Stiefelhagen,
  Visual recognition of pointing gestures for human-robot interaction,
  Image and Vision Computing, Elsevier, in press. (pdf)

• R. Stiefelhagen, X. Chen, J. Yang,
  Capturing Interactions in Meetings using Omnidirectional Cameras,
  International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, Vol. 3, No. 3, July-September 2005, pp. 34-47

• Rainer Stiefelhagen, Jie Yang and Alex Waibel
  Modeling Focus of Attention for Meeting Indexing based on Multiple Cues
  IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, July 2002, Vol. 13, Number 4, pp. 928-938. (pdf)

• Towards Unrestricted Lipreading
  Uwe Meier, Rainer Stiefelhagen, Jie Yang, Alex Waibel
  International Journal of pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 571-785, 2000. (postscript) (pdf)
  

• A Model-Based Gaze-Tracking System
  Rainer Stiefelhagen, Jie Yang and Alex Waibel
  Int. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools, Vol. 6, No. 2 (1997), pp. 193-209. (postscript) (pdf)

Conference and Workshop Publications

2009

• A. Schick, F. van de Camp, F., J. IJsselmuiden, R. Stiefelhagen
  Extending Touch: Towards Interaction with Large-Scale Surfaces
  Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces 2009, Banff, Canada, November 2009.

• Michael Voit, R. Stiefelhagen
  A System for Probabilistic Joint 3D Head Tracking and Pose Estimation in Low-resolution, Multi-view Environments
  7th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems, October 2009, Liege, Belgium

• Hazim K. Ekenel, Lorant Toth and Rainer Stiefelhagen
  Open-Set Face Recognition-based Visitor Interface System
  7th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems, October 2009, Liege, Belgium

• Alexander Schick, Rainer Stiefelhagen
  Real-Time GPU-Based Voxel Carving with Systematic Occlusion Handling
  DAGM-Symposium 2009, pp. 372-381, Jena, Germany, September 2009.

• Florian van de Camp, Keni Bernardin and Rainer Stiefelhagen
  Person Tracking in Camera Networks using Graph-Based Bayesian Inference
  Third ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC 2009) 30 August - 2 September, 2009, Como (Italy)

• H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen,
  Why is Facial Occlusion a Challenging Problem?,
  Intl. Conf. on Biometrics (ICB 2009), Alghero, Italy, June 2009. (pdf)

• H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen,
  Generic versus Salient Region-based Partitioning for Local Appearance Face Recognition,
  Intl. Conf. on Biometrics (ICB 2009), Alghero, Italy, June 2009. (pdf)

• Hua Gao, Hazim Kemal Ekenel, and Rainer Stiefelhagen.
  Pose Normalization for Local Appearance-Based Face Recognition.
  3rd Int.l Conference on Biometrics (ICB 2009), LNCS 5558, pp. 32-41, 2009. (pdf)

2008

• H.K. Ekenel, H. Gao, R. Stiefelhagen
  Universität Karlsruhe (TH) at TRECVID 2008.
  TRECVID Evaluation Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, November 2008.
• K. Bernardin, R. Stiefelhagen, A. Waibel
  Probabilistic Integration of Sparse Audio-Visual Cues for Identity Tracking
  ACM Multimedia 2008, October 27-31, 2008, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

• M. Danninger and R. Stiefelhagen
  A Context-Aware Virtual Secretary in a Smart Office Environment
  ACM Multimedia 2008, October 27-31, 2008, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

• M. Voit and R. Stiefelhagen
  Deducing the Visual Focus of Attention from Head Pose Estimation in Dynamic Multi-view Meeting Scenarios
  ACM & IEEE International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, ICMI 2008, October 20-22, Chania, Crete, Greece.

• K. Nickel and R. Stiefelhagen
  Dynamic Integration of Generalized Cues for Person Tracking
  10th European Conference on Computer Vision - ECCV'08, October 12-18, Marseille, France.

• K. Bernardin, C. Aslan, R. Stiefelhagen,
  Automatic Calibration of Camera Networks based on Local Motion Features
  Workshop on Multi-camera and Multi-modal Sensor Fusion Algorithms and Applications, in conjunction with ECCV'08, October 18, Marseille, France, to appear.

• R. Stiefelhagen, K. Bernardin, H. Ekenel, M. Voit
  Tracking Identities and Attention in Smart Environments - Contributions and Progress in the CHIL Project
  8th IEEE Int. Conference on Face and Gesture Recognition (invited paper), Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 2008. (pdf)

• M. Voit and R. Stiefelhagen
  Visual Focus of Attention in Dynamic Meeting Scenarios
  Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Machine Learning and Multimodal Interaction, September 8-12, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Springer LNCS 5237. (pdf)

• Rainer Stiefelhagen, Keni Bernardin, Rachel Bowers, R. Travis Rose, Martial Michel and John Garofolo
  The CLEAR 2007 Evaluation Proceedings of the International Evaluation Workshops CLEAR 2007 and RT 2007, Baltimore, MD, USA, May 8-11, 2007 Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, No. 4625., pp 3-34. (pdf)

• Keni Bernardin, Tobias Gehrig and Rainer Stiefelhagen
  Multi-level Particle Filter Fusion of Features and Cues for Audio-Visual Person Tracking Proceedings of the International Evaluation Workshops CLEAR 2007 and RT 2007, Baltimore, MD, USA, May 8-11, 2007 Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, No. 4625., pp 70-81. (pdf)

• Hazim Kemal Ekenel, Qin Jin, Mika Fischer and Rainer Stiefelhagen
  ISL Person Identification Systems in the CLEAR 2007 Evaluations Proceedings of the International Evaluation Workshops CLEAR 2007 and RT 2007, Baltimore, MD, USA, May 8-11, 2007 Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, No. 4625., pp 256-265. (pdf)

• Michael Voit, Kai Nickel and Rainer Stiefelhagen
  Head Pose Estimation in Single- and Multi-view Environments - Results on the CLEAR'07 Benchmarks Proceedings of the International Evaluation Workshops CLEAR 2007 and RT 2007, Baltimore, MD, USA, May 8-11, 2007 Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, No. 4625., pp 307-316. (pdf)

2007

• Kai Nickel, Rainer Stiefelhagen
  Fast Audio-Visual Multi-Person Tracking for a Humanoid Stereo Camera Head
  IEEE-RAS 7th International Conference on Humanoid Robots - Humanoids'07, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2007. (pdf)

• J. Stallkamp, H. K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen
  Video-based Face Recognition on Real-World Data
  Int. Conference on Computer Vision - ICCV'07, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, October 2007. (pdf)

• Keni Bernardin, Rainer Stiefelhagen,
  Audio-Visual Multi-Person Tracking and Identification for Smart Environments
  ACM Multimedia 2007, Augsburg, Germany, September 2007. (pdf)

• H.K. Ekenel, J. Stallkamp, H. Gao, M. Fischer, R. Stiefelhagen,
  "Face Recognition for Smart Interactions",
  International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2007), Beijing, China, July 2007. (pdf)

• K. Bernardin, F. van den Camp, R. Stiefelhagen,
  Automatic Person Detection and Tracking using Fuzzy Controlled Active Cameras,
  The Seventh IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance (VS2007), IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Minneapolis, USA, June 2007. (pdf)

• H. K. Ekenel, M. Fischer, Q. Jin, R. Stiefelhagen,
  Multimodal Person Identification in a Smart Environment,
  CVPR Biometrics Workshop 2007, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Minneapolis, USA, June 2007. (pdf)

• H.K. Ekenel, M. Fischer, R. Stiefelhagen,
  "Face Recognition in Smart Rooms",
  4th Joint Workshop on Multimodal Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms (MLMI'07), Brno, Czech Republic, June 2007.

• J. Stallkamp, H.K. Ekenel, H. Erdogan, R. Stiefelhagen, A. Ercil,
  "Video-Based Driver Identification Using Local Appearance Face Recognition",
  Workshop on DSP in Mobile and Vehicular Systems, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2007. (pdf)

• H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen,
  "Local Wavelet Analysis for Face Recognition",
  IEEE 15th Signal Processing and Communication Applications Conference, Eskisehir, Turkey, June 2007. (pdf)

• H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen,
  "Two-class Linear Discriminant Analysis for Face Recognition",
  IEEE 15th Signal Processing and Communication Applications Conference, Eskisehir, Turkey, June 2007. (pdf)

• H. K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen,
  "An un-awarely collected real world face database: The ISL-Door Face Database",
  International Conference on Computer Vision Systems, ICVS 2007, Bielefeld, Germany, March 2007. (pdf)

• K. Kumatani, R. Stiefelhagen,
  State Synchronous Modeling of Phone Boundaries for Audio-Visual Speech Recognition and Application to Multi-View Face Images,
  International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2007, Honolulu, Hawai, April 2007. (pdf)

2006

• R. Stiefelhagen, K. Bernardin, R. Bowers, J. Garofolo, D. Mostefa, P. Soundararajan,
  The CLEAR 2006 Evaluation ,
  Proceedings of the first International CLEAR evaluation workshop, CLEAR 2006, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, No. 4122., pp 1-45. (pdf)

• M. Voit, R. Stiefelhagen,
  Tracking Head Pose and Focus of Attention with Multiple Far-field Cameras,
  International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, ICMI2006, November 2006, Banff, Canada. (pdf)

• M. Danninger, T. Kluge, R. Stiefelhagen,
  MyConnector - Analysis of Context Cues to Predict Human Availability for Communication ,
  International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, ICMI2006, November 2006, Banff, Canada. (pdf)

• Kai Nickel, Hazim K. Ekenel, Michael Voit, Rainer Stiefelhagen,
  Audio-Visual Perception of Humans for a Humanoid Robot,
  Second Int. Workshop on Human-Centered Robotics Systems 2006, Munich, October 2006. (pdf)

• C. Wojek, K. Nickel, R. Stiefelhagen,
  Activity Recognition and Room Level Tracking in an Office Environment ,
  IEEE Int. Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems - MFI06, September 2006, Heidelberg, Germany. (pdf)

• M. Voit, R. Stiefelhagen,
  A Bayesian Approach for Multi-view Head Pose Estimation,
  IEEE Int. Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems - MFI06, September 2006, Heidelberg, Germany. (pdf)

• K. Bernardin, A. Elbs, R. Stiefelhagen,
  Detection-Assisted Initialization, Adaptation and Fusion of Body Region Trackers for Robust Multiperson Tracking,
  International Conference on Pattern Recognition - ICPR 2006, August 2006, Hong Kong. (pdf)

• K. Kumatani, R. Stiefelhagen
  Mouth Region Localization Method Based on Gaussian Mixture Model
  International Workshop on Intelligent Computing in Pattern Analysis/Synthesis, IWICPAS 2006 Xi'an, China, August 26-27, 2006, Springer LNCS #4153. (pdf)

• J. Ziegler, K. Nickel, R. Stiefelhagen,
  Tracking of the Articulated Upper Body on Multi-View Stereo Image Sequences,
  IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition - CVPR 2006, New York, NY, USA, June 2006. (pdf)

• H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen,
  Block Selection in the Local Appearance-based Face Recognition Scheme,
  CVPR Biometrics Workshop, New York, USA, June 2006. ( pdf)

• H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen,
  Analysis of Local Appearance-based Face Recognition: Effects of Feature Selection and Feature Normalization,
  CVPR Biometrics Workshop, New York, USA, June 2006. (pdf)

• K. Bernardin, H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen,
  Multimodal Identity Tracking in a Smartroom,
  3rd IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications & Innovations (AIAI), Athens, Greece, June 2006. (pdf)

• Keni Bernardin, Alexander Elbs, Rainer Stiefelhagen,
  Multiple Object Tracking Performance Metrics and Evaluation in a Smart Room Environment,
  The Sixth IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance (in conjunction with ECCV), Graz, Austria, May 2006. (pdf)

• M. Danninger, T. Kluge, E. Robles, L. Takayama, Q. Wang, R. Stiefelhagen, C. Nass, and A. Waibel,
  The Connector Service - Predicting Availability in Mobile Contexts,
  3rd Joint Workshop on Multimodal Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms - MLMI06, Washington, DC, USA, May 2006. (pdf)

• D. Kern, H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen,
  Illumination Subspaces based Robust Face Recognition,
  IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference, Antalya, Turkey, April 2006. (pdf)

• K. Nickel, T. Gehrig, H.K. Ekenel, J. McDonough, R. Stiefelhagen.
  An Audio-visual Particle Filter for Speaker Tracking on the CLEAR06 Evaluation Dataset,
  CLEAR Evaluation Workshop, Southampton, UK, April 2006. (Draft paper (pdf))

• K. Bernardin, T. Gehrig, R. Stiefelhagen.
  Multi- and Single View Multiperson Tracking for Smart Room Environments,
  CLEAR Evaluation Workshop, Southampton, UK, April 2006. (Draft paper (pdf))

• M. Voit, K. Nickel, R. Stiefelhagen.
  Neural Network-based Head Pose Estimation and Multi-view Fusion,
  CLEAR Evaluation Workshop, Southampton, UK, April 2006. (Draft paper (pdf))

• H.K. Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen,
  Analysis of Local Appearance-based Face Recognition on FRGC 2.0 Database,
  Face Recognition Grand Challenge Workshop (FRGC), Arlington, VA, USA, March 2006. (pdf)

2005

• C. Burghart, R. Mikut, R. Stiefelhagen, T. Asfour, H. Holzapfel, P. Steinhaus, R. Dillmann,
  A Cognitive Architecture for a Humanoid Robot: A First Approach.
  IEEE-RAS Int. Conference on Humanoid Robots - Humanoid 2005, Tsukuba, Japan, Dec. 2005 ((pdf)

• Kai Nickel, Tobias Gehrig, Rainer Stiefelhagen, John McDonough,
  A Joint Particle Filter for Audio-visual Speaker Tracking ,
  International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces ICMI 05, Trento, Italy, October 2005. (pdf)

• Maria Danninger, Gopi Flaherty, Robert Malkin, Keni Bernardin, Hazim Ekenel, Tobias Kluge, Rainer Stiefelhagen, Alex Waibel,
  The Connector - Facilitating Context-aware Communication ,
  International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces ICMI 05, Trento, Italy, October 2005. (pdf)

• H.K.Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen,
  Local Appearance based Face Recognition Using Discrete Cosine Transform ,
  13th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Antalya Turkey, September 2005.(pdf)

• Michael Voit, Kai Nickel, Rainer Stiefelhagen,
  Estimating the Lecturer's Head Pose in Seminar Scenarios - A Multi-view Approach ,
  2nd Joint Workshop on Multimodal Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms - MLMI 2005, July 2005, Edingburgh, UK. (pdf)

• H.K.Ekenel, R. Stiefelhagen,
  A Generic Face Representation Approach for Local Appearance based Face Verification ,
  CVPR IEEE Workshop on Face Recognition Grand Challenge Experiments, San Diego, CA, USA, June 2005. (pdf)

• M. Voit, K. Nickel, R. Stiefelhagen,
  Multi-view Head Pose Estimation using Neural Networks,
  Second Workshop on Face Processing in Video (FPiV'05), in association with IEEE Second Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV 2005), 9-11 May 2005, Victoria, BC, Canada. (pdf). (Video (30Mb, Mpeg)).

• H.K. Ekenel, K. Nickel, R. Stiefelhagen,
  Locating and Identifiying the Lecturer in a Smart Room,
  Second Workshop on Face Processing in Video (FPiV'05), Canada, May 2005. (pdf)

2004

• M. Katzenmaier, R. Stiefelhagen, T. Schultz, I. Rogina, A. Waibel, Identifying the Addressee in Human-Human-Robot Interactions based on Head Pose and Speech, International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces ICMI 2004, State College, PA, USA, Oktober 2004. (pdf)

• H. Holzapfel, K. Nickel, R. Stiefelhagen, Implementation and Evaluation of a Constraint Based Multimodal Fusion System for Speech and 3D Pointing Gestures, International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces ICMI 2004, State College, PA, USA, Oktober 2004.(pdf)

• R. Stiefelhagen, C. Fuegen, P. Gieselmann, H. Holzapfel, K. Nickel, A. Waibel, Natural Human-Robot Interaction using Speech, Gaze and Gestures, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Sept. 2004, Sendai, Japan. (pdf)

• R. Stiefelhagen, Estimating Head Pose with Neural Networks - Results on the Pointing04 ICPR Workshop Evaluation Data, Pointing '04 ICPR workshop (satellite workshop to International Conference on Pattern Recognition), Cambridge, UK, August 2004. (pdf)

• J. Kratt, F. Metze, R. Stiefelhagen, A. Waibel, Large Vocabulary Audio-Visual Speech Recognition Using the Janus Speech Recognition Toolkit, DAGM 2004 - 26th Pattern Recognition Symposium, 30th August - 1st Sept. 2004, Tuebingen, Germany. (pdf)

• Natuerliche Mensch-Roboter Interaktion mittels Sprache, Blickrichtung und Gestik
  R. Stiefelhagen, C. Fuegen, P. Gieselmann, H. Holzapfel, K. Nickel, A. Waibel
  Robotik 2004, June 17-18, Munich, Germany.

• CHIL - Computers in the Human Interaction Loop
  A. Waibel, H. Steusloff, R. Stiefelhagen and the CHIL Project Consortium
  5th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services, April 21-23, 2004, Lisboa, Portugal. Also presented at the NIST ICASSP Meeting Recognition Workshop, May 17, 2004, Montreal, Canada. (pdf)

• Head Pose Estimation Using Stereo Vision for Human-Robot Interaction
  Edgar Seemann, Kai Nickel, Rainer Stiefelhagen
  Sixth International Conference on Face and Gesture Recognition - FG 2004, May, Seoul, Korea. (pdf)

• 3D-Tracking of Heads and Hands for Pointing Gesture Recognition in a Human-Robot Interaction Scenario
  Kai Nickel, Edgar Seemann, Rainer Stiefelhagen
  Sixth International Conference on Face and Gesture Recognition - FG 2004, May, Seoul, Korea. (pdf)

• Real-time Person Tracking and Pointing Gesture Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction
  Kai Nickel, Rainer Stiefelhagen
  International Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction HCI 2004, May 2004, Prague (in conjunction with ECCV 2004). (pdf)

2003

• Capturing Interactions in Meetings with Omnidirectional Cameras
  Rainer Stiefelhagen, Xilin Chen, Jie Yang
  2003 International Workshop on Multimedia Technologies in E-Learning and Collaboration (Womtec), October 17, 2003, Nice, Franc (In association with ICCV 2003) (pdf)

• Real-time Recognition of 3D-Pointing Gestures for Human-Machine-Interaction
  Kai Nickel and Rainer Stiefelhagen
  25th Pattern Recognition Symposium - DAGM'03, Magdeburg, Germany, September 10-12, 2003. (pdf)

• Detection and Tracking of 3D-Pointing Gestures for Human-Robot-Interaction
  Kai Nickel and Rainer Stiefelhagen
  Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots - Humanoids 2003, Karlsruhe, Germany, October 1-3, 2003. (pdf)

• Pointing Gesture Recognition based on 3Dtracking of Face, Hands and Head Orientation
  Kai Nickel and Rainer Stiefelhagen
  Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, Vancouver, Canada, Nov. 5-7, 2003. (pdf)

• Smart: The Smart Meeting Room Task at ISL
  A. Waibel, T. Schultz, M. Bett, M. M. Denecke, R. Malkin, I. Rogina, R. Stiefelhagen, J. Yang
  Proceedings of ICASSP 2003, Vol. 4, pp. 752-755, 2003. (pdf)

2002

• Tracking Focus of Attention in Meetings
  Rainer Stiefelhagen
  IEEE International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, October 14-16, 2002, pp. 273-280. (pdf)

• Towards Vision-based 3-D People Tracking in a Smart Room
  Dirk Focken, Rainer Stiefelhagen
  IEEE International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, October 14-16, 2002, pp. 400-405. (pdf)

• Head Orientation and Gaze Direction in Meetings
  Rainer Stiefelhagen and Jie Zhu
  Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI2002), Minneapolis, April, 2002. (pdf)

• Sensor fusion using Dempster-Shafer theory
  H. Wu, M. Siegel, R. Stiefelhagen, J. Yang
  Proceedings of the 19th IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (IMTC/2002), Vol 1, pp. 7-12, Anchorage, AK, USA, May, 2002.

• Eyes and Ears of a Humanoid Robot
  D. Bechler, M. Schlosser, K. Kroschel, R. Stiefelhagen, K. Nickel, A. Waibel.
  Human Centereed Robotic Systems (HCRS), Karlsruhe, Germany, Dec. 2002.

2001

• Tracking Focus of Attention for Human-Robot Communication
  Rainer Stiefelhagen, Jie Yang, Alex Waibel
  IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots - Humanoids 2001, November 22-24, 2001, Tokyo, Japan
  (postscript) (pdf)

• Estimating Focus of Attention based on Gaze and Sound
  Rainer Stiefelhagen, Jie Yang, Alex Waibel
  Workshop on Perceptive User Interfaces (PUI'01), Orlando, Florida, USA, November 2001
  (postscript) (pdf)

2000

• Simultaneous Tracking of Head Poses in a Panoramic View
  Rainer Stiefelhagen, Jie Yang, Alex Waibel
  International Conference on Pattern Recognition - ICPR 2000, Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 2000.
  (postscript) (pdf) (BibTeX)..

1999

• Modeling Focus of Attention for Meeting Indexing
  Rainer Stiefelhagen, Jie Yang, Alex Waibel
  ACM Multimedia '99, Orlando, Florida, Oct. '99.
  (postscript) (pdf). (HTML) (BibTeX).

• Modeling People's Focus of Attention
  Rainer Stiefelhagen, Jie Yang, Alex Waibel
  IEEE Int. Workshop on Modeling People (MPeople). Corfu, Greece, September '99.
  (postscript) (pdf).

• From Gaze To Focus Of Attention
  Rainer Stiefelhagen, Michael Finke, Jie Yang, Alex Waibel
  Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1614, pp. 761-768, June 1999
  (Proc. of Third International Conference on Visual Information Systems, VISUAL99)
  (postscript) (pdf) (BibTeX).

• Towards Unrestricted Lipreading
  Uwe Meier, Rainer Stiefelhagen, Jie Yang, Alex Waibel
  International Journal of pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 571-785, 2000. (postscript) (pdf)
  (also presented at the Second International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI99), Hong Kong. (postscript) (pdf)
  

1998

• From Gaze To Focus Of Attention
  Rainer Stiefelhagen, Michael Finke, Jie Yang, Alex Waibel
  Proceedings of the Workshop on Perceptual User Interfaces (PUI98),pp. 25-30, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 4-6, 1998.
  (postscript) (pdf) (BibTeX).

• Real-Time Face And Facial Feature Tracking And Applications
  Jie Yang, Rainer Stiefelhagen, Uwe Meier, Alex Waibel
  Proceedings of Workshop on Audio-Visual Speech Processing, pp. 79-84, Terrigal, South Wales, Australia, 1998.
  (postscript) (pdf) (BibTeX)

• Visual Tracking for Multimodal Human Computer Interaction
  Jie Yang, Rainer Stiefelhagen, Uwe Meier, and Alex Waibel
  Human Factors in Computing Systems: CHI 98, pp. 140-147, Los Angeles, CA, April 1998.
  (postscript) (pdf) (BibTeX).

• Towards Tracking Interaction Between People
  Rainer Stiefelhagen, Jie Yang, Alex Waibel
  AAAI Spring Symposium on Intelligent Environments ,Stanford University, California, March 23-25, 1998.
  AAAI Technical Report SS-98-02, pp. 123-127.
  (postscript) (pdf) (BibTeX)

• Meeting Browser: Tracking and Summarising Meetings
  Alex Waibel, Michael Bett, Michael Finke, Rainer Stiefelhagen
  Proceedings of the DARPA Broadcast News Workshop 1998.
  (postscript) (pdf) (BibTeX)

1997

• Tracking Eyes and Monitoring Eye Gaze
  Rainer Stiefelhagen, Jie Yang, Alex Waibel
  Proc. of the Workshop on Perceptual User Interfaces, pp. 98-100, Banff, Canada, October 1997.
  (postscript) (pdf) (BibTeX)

• Real-Time Lip-Tracking for Lipreading
  Rainer Stiefelhagen, Uwe Meier, Jie Yang
  Proc. of Eurospeech 97, Rhodes, Greece, September 1997
  (postscript) (pdf) (BibTeX)

• Preprocessing of Visual Speech under Real World Conditions
  U. Meier, R. Stiefelhagen, J. Yang
  European Tutorial & Research Workshop on Audio-Visual Speech Processing: Computational & Cognitive Science Approaches (AVSP 97), pp. 113-116, Rhodes, Greece, September 1997
  (postscript) (pdf) (BibTeX)

• Gaze Tracking for Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction
  Rainer Stiefelhagen and Jie Yang
  Proc. of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing: ICASSP'97, Munich, Germany, April 1997.
  (postscript) (pdf) (BibTeX)

1996

• A Modelbased Gaze Tracking System
  Rainer Stiefelhagen, Jie Yang, Alex Waibel
  Proc. of IEEE International Joint Symposia on Intelligence and Systems, pp. 304-310, Rockville Maryland, November 1996
  (postscript) (pdf) (BibTeX)

• Gaze Tracking for Multimodal Human-Computer-Interaction
  Rainer Stiefelhagen
  Diplomarbeit, Institut für Logik, Komplexität und Deduktionssysteme Universität Karlsruhe, 1996
  (abstract) (postscript) (pdf)

1995

• Automatische Bestimmung von Visemen für das maschinelle Lippenlesen
  R. Stiefelhagen;
  Studienarbeit, Institut für Logik, Komplexität und Deduktionssysteme, Universität Karlsruhe, 1995