Ferdinand Packi

	Dipl.-Inform. Research Assistant
	Address:	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics Building 50.20 Room 124 Adenauerring 2 D-76131 Karlsruhe
	Walk-in hours:	on arrangement
	Phone:	+49-721-608-45291
	E-mail:	Ferdinand.Packi@kit.edu

Academic Career

since 01/2013	Research Scientist at Locating and Communication Systems Department, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS), Erlangen (Germany).
!!! NEW !!!	Phone +49 911 58061-3226 ferdinand.packi@iis.fraunhofer.de
10/2009 - 04/2012	Research Assistant at the Intelligent Sensor-Actuator-Systems Lab, Department of Computer Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
02/2009 - 07/2009	Graduation as Dipl.-Inform., University of Karlsruhe (TH), diploma thesis at the Intelligent Sensor-Actuator-Systems Lab: "Design and Implementation of an Embedded, Wireless, Acoustic Tracking System".

Research Interests

• Signal Processing
• Localization and Tracking
• Embedded Systems Design
• Robotics

Teaching

• Supervising tutor of the laboratory Science Project: Pedestrian Tracking Using Multisensor-Supported Dead Reckoning im summer term 2012

• Supervising tutor of the laboratory Science Project: Acoustic Tracking in Non-convex Indoor Environments im winter term 2011/12

• Supervising tutor of the laboratory Science Project: Acoustic Tracking with Variable Landmarks im summer term 2011

• Supervisor of the laboratory Natural Interaction in Telepresent Environments as part of the Software Development Laboratory in summer term 2011]

• Supervisor of the laboratory Development of a Telepresent Computer Game as part of the Software Development Laboratory in winter term 2010/11]

• Supervisor of the laboratory Development of an Editor for Handwritten Text as part of the Software Development Laboratory in summer term 2010] and winter term 2009/10]

If your are interested in seminar theses, laboratory or bachelor/master theses, feel free to contact me or just drop into my office any time!

Activities

• International Conference on Information Fusion 2012, Singapore
  • Co-organizer of the Special Session "Data Fusion Methods for Indoor Localization of People and Objects "

Bachelor/MasterTheses

• Indoor Navigation and Tracking

Publications

Ferdinand Packi, Uwe D. Hanebeck, Robust NLOS Discrimination for Range-Based Acoustic Pose Tracking Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Information Fusion (Fusion 2012), Singapore, July 2012. Author : Ferdinand Packi, Uwe D. Hanebeck Editor : Title : Robust NLOS Discrimination for Range-Based Acoustic Pose Tracking In : Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Information Fusion (Fusion 2012) Address : Singapore Date : July 2012 Abstract

Ferdinand Packi, Antonia Pérez Arias, Frederik Beutler, Uwe D. Hanebeck, A Wearable System for the Wireless Experience of Extended Range Telepresence Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2010), Taipei, Taiwan, October 2010. Author : Ferdinand Packi, Antonia Pérez Arias, Frederik Beutler, Uwe D. Hanebeck Editor : Title : A Wearable System for the Wireless Experience of Extended Range Telepresence In : Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2010) Address : Taipei, Taiwan Date : October 2010 Abstract

Ferdinand Packi, Frederik Beutler, Uwe D. Hanebeck, Wireless Acoustic Tracking for Extended Range Telepresence Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN 2010), Zürich, Switzerland, September 2010. Author : Ferdinand Packi, Frederik Beutler, Uwe D. Hanebeck Editor : Title : Wireless Acoustic Tracking for Extended Range Telepresence In : Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN 2010) Address : Zürich, Switzerland Date : September 2010 Abstract

Patrick Dunau, Ferdinand Packi, Frederik Beutler, Uwe D. Hanebeck, Efficient Multilateration Tracking with Concurrent Offset Estimation using Stochastic Filtering Techniques Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Fusion (Fusion 2010), Edinburgh, United Kingdom, July 2010. Author : Patrick Dunau, Ferdinand Packi, Frederik Beutler, Uwe D. Hanebeck Editor : Title : Efficient Multilateration Tracking with Concurrent Offset Estimation using Stochastic Filtering Techniques In : Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Fusion (Fusion 2010) Address : Edinburgh, United Kingdom Date : July 2010 Abstract

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