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Christian Kehl, M.Eng. |
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Overview
I am a PhD candidate at the TU Delft, working on Large-Scale, Interactive Simulation and Visualization of Flooding Scenarios. I started this position in March 2012 under the supervision of Gerwin de Haan.
Before that, I did my Master Thesis project at the TU Delft, working on conformal, multi-material meshing schemes. I was studying Multimedia Engineering at the University of Applied Science Wismar from 2006 to 2011. From March to August 2011 I was studying Vision, Graphics and Interactive Systems at the Aalborg University. From September 2011 to March 2012 I was finishing my Master degree with a project at the TU Delft in the Medical Visualization group (see "Related Project").
Related Project
Interactive Simulation and Visualization of Flooding Scenarios
Multi-Material mesh generation for noisy labeled volumes - DeVIDE FE-Mesher
Project Description
Installation of required libraries
Pipeline Setup in DeVIDE
Demo Video
Former Projects
3D Scanning and Reconstruction of Large Scale Environments
One task in the field of virtual and augmented reality is the acquisition of 3D environmental scenes which can be used to integrate artificial three-dimensional objects. This is commonly done by using stereo camera systems for scanning the environment. The major drawback on these solutions is a high purchase cost for such systems. New technological solutions for three-dimensional scanning have emerged over recent years, such as Microsoft’s Kinect.
Therefore the aim in connection with the VR Laboratory of Aalborg University is to create 3D environmental scenes using low-cost depth scanning equipment. Connected with that task is the research on usability of low-cost equipment in terms of accuracy and noise susceptibility.
A variety of approaches has been analyzed and tested to solve each partial task ranging from calibration issues and pose tracking to 3D reconstruction, which are presented in this report. The final system uses a point based tracking approach realized with SURF feature extraction, a minimum-correlation feature matching and Gauss-Newton iteration-based transformation parameter extraction. The memorylimiting task of large scale point cloud storage is solved with a dynamically growing hybrid hash map. A per-frame image-based reconstruction algorithm is used for in-place augmented reality. Full scan reconstruction is done using a parallelized version of Marching Cubes.
As a result the current implementation does not meet needed real-time requirements, leaving certain space for SIMD and MIMD parallelization optimizations.
The system is limited by high noise susceptibility and the need for highly accurate feature points, in particular in point feature-poor environments. These limitations are tolerable regarding the low cost of the system.
3D Scanning and Reconstruction of Large Scale Environments (Aalborg University - VGIS Semester Project) - Report
MPEG-1 Part 2 GPU-based Encoder
The focus of this MPEG-1 Part 2 Implementation is the usage of the graphics adapter as high performance computing unit running all needed calculations.
During the recent year, a lot of the standard, high definition video encoding algorithms have been ported to the GPU for reasonable performance increase. There is currently no known GPU implementation of MPEG-1 Part 2, because of which this way of implementation was chosen.
The existing graphics processing units are capable of computing general purpose algorithms due to new chip architectures like CUDA (NVIDIA) and AMD Stream (AMD). On these architectures, former shader processors act as parallel SIMD processing units. By taking into account the amount of units resident on one GPU chips, this leads to a high amount of computing power. It is useful for video processing because the majority of applicable algorithms are highly parallizable. Images and computer graphics share a similar approach which ease up algorithm mapping processing each uncorrelated element in the n-dimensional space with linear algebra methods.
MPEG/-1 FRAMEWORK Full Report
Development of a GPGPU Video Encoding Server Application in a Multi-GPU environment
Since the release of the rst OpenCL-version, an emerging interest porting highly parallel, highly complex tasks to the GPU exist in many computing branches. One of the most pro table branches within GPGPU computing is image- and video processing. While being used for development of new desktop software based on OpenCL, present online video services are not using this technology so far. In times of low-performance, small-format computers like netbooks, display workstations and handhelds, the integration of GPGPU computing in multimedia server applications can be a signi cant push for web startups, gathering new users and markets. Therefore, the department of multimedia engineering at the University of Wismar has formed a small group to create a GPU-based video processing service on prototype level.
It has been created a C-written console server application based on OpenCL and OpenCV for fast video encoding and manipulation. The server application is controlled by a Silverlight RIA with modern layout as well as client-side video player and key frame extractor. Measurements have shown the signi cant performance advantages that prove this application to be a pointer to the right direction of server-side video processing.
Development of a GPGPU Video Encoding Server Application in a Multi-GPU environment (University of Applied Science Wismar - Master study project) - Tech Report
Research on Optimization of graphical Data Processing Systems in Multi-GPU Environments
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Research on Optimization of graphical Data Processing Systems in Multi-GPU Environments (University of Applied Science Wismar - Bachelor-Thesis - german) - Thesis - Poster
Design and Implementation of a Web Interface for mobile IT-Applications
Currently mobile devices are steadily becoming more and more advanced. At the same time penetration (in western countries) of these advanced devices is reaching more than one device per person, creating a big market for mobile applications and services. Although 20 mobile phone manufacturers recently are seeing a decline in sales of basic phones, the market for smart phones, like Blackberries for Business people or the iPhone produced by Apple is steadily increasing.
One of the companies trying to profit from this shift in the mobile landscape is M2Mobi. The company was founded in September 2006, led by Michiel Munneke and Michiel Baneke. M2Mobi is specialized in software development for all kinds of mobile phones. One department in the company is dedicated specifically to developing web interfaces for mobile phones. The biggest challenge this department faces is dealing with all the different devices that are currently used.
The core product of M2Mobi is Nulaz, which is a platform for finding out what is happening around you. The main pillars of the platform were a J2ME mobile client and a web page aimed at regular PCs. There was also a mobile site, but it was very basic. Together with the rest of the mobile web team, it was decided not to continue with that old mobile site, but start from scratch. That way it was possible to properly outline requirements and specifications, and produce well documented and manageable code. After thorough testing, the new site was put live and supporting a wide variety of handsets.
Nulaz is a location-based social network. People are using Nulaz to see where friends and favorite locations are. Additionally, Nulaz is a content distributor. Several location-based RSS feeds are stored in the backend to provide users with information about restaurants, cinemas, sights, general information and much more in the area the user is. Consequently, it 40 gives an optimal overview of what is happening around the user. All this content is visualized in a map, which is the main aspect of the application.
Design and Implementation of a Web Interface for mobile IT-Applications (Intership at M2Mobi / Amsterdam / Netherlands) - Exam Paper