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Dr. Cristóbal Curio

Address:	Spemannstr. 38 72076 Tübingen
Room number:	103
Phone:	+49 7071 601 605
Fax:	+49 7071 601 616
E-Mail:	cristobal.curio

Cristóbal Curio

Position: Project Leader Unit: Bülthoff

Overview
Projects
Curriculum Vitae
Publications

I am heading the applied Cognitive Engineering group at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. We develop and employ applications based on Computer-Vision, Computer-Graphics and Machine-Learning in combination with methods from applied human perception in order to optimize interfaces between emerging technologies and end-users.

Main areas of work:

Research overview

Applied Computer-Vision

Adaptive Human-Machine-Interfaces

Automatic Movement Reconstruction Technology

Signal Processing of Social Interactions

Highly controllable and realistic settings, for example animated faces, offer the opportunity for advanced experiments, and at the same time a framework to design and optimize novel Human-Machine Interfaces, ultimately opening a new window to industries such as entertainment computing (games), communication research (information transfer & multimedia), medical systems (rehabilitation, imaging), and personal assistance devices (assisted living, automotive).

Our group consists mainly of engineers and computer scientists working closely together with psychologists.

Group members

Current external activity

In the media

News of the group

Recent teaching

SS 2012 Teaching Machine Learning II at the Graduate School of Neural Information Processing, Tübingen

WS 2010/11 Teaching Statistical Methods in Artificial Intelligence at the Computer Science Department, Tübingen University

WS 2009/10 Teaching Advanced Topics in Machine Learning at the Computer Science Department, Tübingen University

Current projects of the applied Cognitive Engineering group encompass:

Applied Computer-Vision

Adaptive Human-Machine-Interfaces

Automatic Movement Reconstruction Technology

Signal Processing of Social interactions

I have acquired for the most part my own research money (EU and DFG since 2004 and various automotive industry and BMBF projects, since 1998).

Major recent fundings since 2006 have been:

EU-FET-Open Project TANGO (2010-2013), Emotional Interaction grounded in Realistic Context (PI and project leader, grant application, and local coordinator)

DFG Project Perceptual Graphics (2006-2010) (PI and project leader, grant application for a senior post-doc position)

EU-IP-Project BACS (Bayesian Approach to Cognitive Systems) (2006-2010) (grant application, PI, Project Leader and local Coordinator)

since 2004 Senior Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Dept. Prof. Bülthoff

Research

Head of the "Cognitive Engineering" group

Leader of third party projects, International Project Management

Teaching

Machine Learning II, International Graduate School for Neural Information Processing, Tuebingen (SS 2012)

Probabilistic Methods in Artificial Intelligence at Graphical Interactive Systems Institute, Computer Science Department, University of Tübingen (WS 2010/2011)

Advanced Methods in Machine Learning at Graphical Interactive Systems Institute, Computer Science Department, University of Tübingen (WS 2009/2010)

2004 Dr.-Ing., Title: "A learning-based computer vision approach for the inference of articulated motion"

1998-2003 Institute for Neuroinformatics, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Dept. Prof. W. von Seelen

Group member of the Real-Time Computer-Vision Group

Automotive Industries Consulting (BMW Group, Audi AG, Opel AG, Daimler AG)

BMBF Project VESUV "Videobasiertes Assistenzsystem zur Erhöhung der Sicherheit ungeschützter Verkehrsteilnehmer"/"Video-based driver assistance system for increased safety of passice traffic pariticipants". Coordinator BMW Group.

2001 MIT, USA, CBCL-AI Object Recognition, visiting researcher since

1992-1998 Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Sciences, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Graduated Dipl.-Ing. (1998)

1996-1997 Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, Indiana, USA

1997 and 1998 Prucka Engineering Inc, Houston/USA, Industry: Medical Devices

Privately held company (now General Electric Healthcare), 200 employees, Hardware Development, Market Research Medical Imaging Devices, Supplier Market Monitoring, Development of Image Processing/3D Catheter Reconstruction, Software Testing.

Recent Grants and Awards:

2010 EU-Future & Emerging Technologies Grant Award TANGO

2009 DFG Perceptual Graphics Grant Award II

2009 Best Paper Award DAGM

2006 EU-Integrated Project Grant Award BACS, Integrated Project

2006 DFG Perceptual Graphics Grant Award I

Books (2):
•	Curio C , Bülthoff HH and Giese MA : Dynamic Faces: Insights from Experiments and Computation, 288, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, (October-2010). ISBN: 978-0-262-01453-3
•	Curio C : A learning-based computer vision approach for the inference of articulated motion, 187, Ibidem, Stuttgart, (December-2005). ISBN: 3-89821-602-0
Articles (3):
•	Bücher T , Curio C , Edelbrunner J , Igel C , Kastrup D , Leefken I , Lorenz G , Steinhage A and von Seelen W (February-2003) Image Processing and Behaviour Planning for Intelligent Vehicles IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics 90(1) 62-75.
•	Curio C , Edelbrunner J , Kalinke T , Tzomakas C and von Seelen W (September-2000) Walking Pedestrian Recognition IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 1(3) 155-163.
•	Vogt M , Curio C , Ermert H , el Gammal S , Kaspar K , Hoffmann K , Stücker M and Altmeyer P (March-1999) Kombinierte Erfassung von axialem und transversalem Blutfluß mit einem 50MHz-Ultraschall-B-Bild System für die Dermatologie Zeitschrift für Medizinische Physik 9(1) 30-36.
Conference papers (19):
•	Engel D and Curio C (June-2012) Detectability Prediction in Dynamic Scenes for Enhanced Environment Perception IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV 2012), 1-6. accepted
•	Herdtweck C and Curio C (June-2012) Experts of Probabilistic Flow Subspaces for Robust Monocular Odometry in Urban Areas IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV 2012), 1-7. accepted
•	Layher G , Neumann H , Scherer S , Tschechne S , Brosch T and Curio C (October-2011) Social Signal Processing in Companion Systems: Challenges Ahead In: Informatik 2011: Informatik schafft Communities, Workshop on "Companion-Systeme und Mensch-Companion-Interaktion", Gesellschaft für Informatik, Bonn, Germany, 239-239.
•	Engel D , Herdtweck C , Browatzki B and Curio C (September-2011) Image Retrieval with Semantic Sketches In: Human-Computer Interaction: INTERACT 2011, 13th IFIP TC13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Springer, Berlin, Germany, 412-425.
•	Engel D and Curio C (June-2011) Pedestrian Detectability: Predicting Human Perception Performance with Machine Vision IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV 2011), IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 429-435.
•	Breidt M , Bülthoff HH and Curio C (March-2011) Robust Semantic Analysis by Synthesis of 3D Facial Motion Ninth IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition and Workshops (FG 2011), IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 713-719.
•	Breidt M , Bülthoff HH and Curio C (December-2010) Face Models from Noisy 3D Cameras 3rd ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Asia (SIGGRAPH Asia 2010), ACM Press, New York, NY, USA, 1-2.
•	Engel D and Curio C (June-2010) Shape Centered Interest Points for Feature Grouping CVPR 2010 Workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision (POCV 2010), IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 9-16.
•	Walder C , Breidt M , Bülthoff HH , Schölkopf B and Curio C (September-2009) Markerless 3D Face Tracking (DAGM 2009) In: Pattern Recognition, 31. Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM 2009), Springer, Berlin, Germany, 41-50.
•	Engel D , Spinello L , Triebel R , Siegwart R , Bülthoff HH and Curio C (May-2009) Medial Features for Superpixel Segmentation Eleventh IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA 2009), MVA Organizing Committee, Tokyo, Japan, 248-252.
•	Engel D and Curio C (December-2008) Scale-invariant medial features based on gradient vector flow fields 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2008), IEEE Service Center, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 1-4.
•	Engel D , Curio C , Tcheang L , Mohler B and Bülthoff HH (October-2008) A psychophysically calibrated controller for navigating through large environments in a limited free-walking space 15th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST 2008), ACM Press, New York, NY, USA, 157-164.
•	Curio C , Giese MA , Breidt M , Kleiner M and Bülthoff HH (August-2008) Probing Dynamic Human Facial Action Recognition From The Other Side Of The Mean 5th Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization (APGV 2008), ACM Press, New York, NY, USA, 59-66.
•	Curio C , Giese MA , Breidt M , Kleiner M and Bülthoff HH (April-2008) Exploring Human Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition with Animation International Conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys 2008), Karlsruhe, Germany, 1-6.
•	Curio C , Breidt M , Kleiner M , Vuong QC , Giese MA and Bülthoff HH (July-2006) Semantic 3D motion retargeting for facial animation 3rd Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization (APGV 2006), ACM Press, New York, NY, USA, 77-84.
•	Curio C and Giese M (January-2005) Combining View-based and Model-based Tracking of Articulated Human Movements IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Motion and Vision Computing (MOTION 2005), IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, 261-268.
•	von Seelen W , Curio C , Gayko J , Handmann U and Kalinke T (September-2000) Scene analysis and organization of behavior in driver assistance systems IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2000), IEEE Operations Center, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 524-527.
•	Curio C , Edelbrunner J , Kalinke T , Tzomakas C and von Seelen W (October-1999) Walking Pedestrian Recognition In: Intelligent Transportation Systems, 1999 IEEE/IEEJ/JSAI International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Service Center, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 292-297.
•	Curio C , Edelbrunner J , Kalinke T , Tzomakas C , Bruckhoff C , Bergener T and von Seelen W (September-1999) Walking Pedestrian Detection and Classification In: Mustererkennung 1999, 21. DAGM-Symposium 1999, Springer, London, UK, 78-85.
Contributions to books (2):
•	Walder C , Breidt M , Bülthoff HH , Schölkopf B and Curio C : Markerless tracking of dynamic 3D scans of faces, 255-276. In: Dynamic Faces: Insights from Experiments and Computation, (Ed) C. Curio, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, (December-2010).
•	Curio C , Giese MA , Breidt M , Kleiner M and Bülthoff HH : Recognition of Dynamic Facial Action Probed by Visual Adaptation, 47-65. In: Dynamic Faces: Insights from Experiments and Computation, (Ed) C. Curio, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, (December-2010).
Posters (18):
•	Dobs K , Bülthoff I , Curio C and Schultz J (May-2012): Investigating factors influencing the perception of identity from facial motion, 12th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS 2012), Naples, FL, USA.
•	Dobs K , Kleiner M , Bülthoff I , Schultz J and Curio C (September-2011): Investigating idiosyncratic facial dynamics with motion retargeting, 34th European Conference on Visual Perception, Toulouse, France, Perception, 40(ECVP Abstract Supplement) 115.
•	de la Rosa S , Giese MA and Curio C (September-2011): The influence of dynamic and static adaptors on the magnitude of high-level aftereffects for dynamic facial expression, 34th European Conference on Visual Perception, Toulouse, France, Perception, 40(ECVP Abstract Supplement) 154.
•	Breidt M , Bülthoff HH and Curio C (October-2010): Towards Building a 4D Morphable Face Model, ACM/SSPNET 2nd International Symposium on Facial Analysis and Animation (FAA 2010), Edinburgh, UK.
•	Engel D , Kottler VA , Malisi CU , Röttig M , Schultheiss SJ , Willing EM , Curio C and Bülthoff HH (August-2010): Optimizing minimal sketches of visual object categories, 33rd European Conference on Visual Perception, Lausanne, Switzerland, Perception, 39(ECVP Abstract Supplement) 11.
•	Curio C and Engel D (May-2010): A Computational Mid-Level Vision Approach For Shape-Specific Saliency Detection, 10th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS 2010), Naples, FL, USA, Journal of Vision, 10(7) 1160.
•	Engel D and Curio C (May-2010): Factors Influencing The Detectability Of Pedestrians In Urban Environments, 10th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS 2010), Naples, FL, USA, Journal of Vision, 10(7) 1247.
•	Garrod O , Yu H , Breidt M , Curio C and Schyns P (May-2010): Reverse Correlation In Temporal Facs Space Reveals Diagnostic Information During Dynamic Emotional Expression Classification, 10th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS 2010), Naples, FL, USA, Journal of Vision, 10(7) 700.
•	Curio C , Kleiner M , Breidt M and Bülthoff HH (January-2010): The Virtual Face Mirror Project: Revealing Dynamic Self-Perception in Humans, 4th International Conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys 2010), Zürich, Switzerland.
•	Engel D and Curio C (January-2010): Towards robust scene analysis: A versatile mid-level feature framework, 4th International Conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys 2010), Zürich, Switzerland.
•	Engel D , Curio C , Mohler B and Bülthoff HH (April-2008): Exploring a large maze in a limited size free-walking space, Cyberwalk Workshop 2008, Tübingen, Germany.
•	Curio C , Giese MA , Breidt M , Kleiner M and Bülthoff HH (August-2007): Aftereffects in the recognition of dynamic facial expressions, 30th European Conference on Visual Perception, Arezzo, Italy, Perception, 36(ECVP Abstract Supplement) 146.
•	Engel D and Curio C (July-2007): A Biologically Motivated Approach to Human Body Pose Tracking in Clutter, 10th Tübinger Wahrnehmungskonferenz (TWK 2007), 10 59.
•	Curio C , Giese MA , Breidt M , Kleiner M and Bülthoff HH (July-2007): Perception of Dynamic Facial Expressions Probed by a New High-Level After-Effect, 10th Tübinger Wahrnehmungskonferenz (TWK 2007), 10 1.
•	Wellein DI , Curio C and Bülthoff HH (July-2007): Redundancy reduction in 3D facial motion capture data for animation, 4th Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization (APGV 2007), Tübingen, Germany, 4th Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization (APGV 2007), 4 136.
•	Curio C , Giese MA , Breidt M , Kleiner M and Bülthoff HH (June-2007): High-level after-effects in the recognition of dynamic facial expressions, 7th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS 2007), Sarasota, FL, USA, Journal of Vision, 7(9) 994.
•	Curio C (February-2005): Analysis by Synthesis for Human Pose Tracking: Merging View-Based and Model-Based Approaches, 8th Tübingen Perception Conference (TWK 2005), Tübingen, Germany.
•	Curio C and Giese M (March-2003): Combining View-based and Model-based Tracking: Learning-based Monocular Computer Vision System for the Recognition of Articulated Human Movements.
Theses (2):
•	Curio C : A learning-based computer vision approach for the inference of articulated motion, Institut für Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, (2004). PhD thesis
•	Curio C : Implementierung und Vergleich von Verfahren zur hochauflösenden Blutfußmessung mit hochfrequentem Ultraschall, Lehrstul fuer Hochfrequenztechnik. Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informationstheorie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, (1998). Diplom thesis
Talks (16):
•	Curio C (March-2011) Invited Lecture: Perceptual Graphics: Revealing the Algorithms of Perception, University of Southern California, Institute of Creative Technologies (ICT), Los Angeles, CA, USA.
•	Curio C (March-13-2010): Interactive Perceptual Graphics for Brain Engineering, HiGraphics, Hirschegg, Austria.
•	Curio C (February-21-2010): Realtime Facial Animation for Studying Interactive Perception and Rehabilitation, Neural Encoding of Perception and Action, Max Planck Guest House, Tübingen, Germany.
•	Curio C (January-15-2010): Realtime facial expression simulation towards a cognitive model of interaction, Self and Others in Mind: Interdisciplinary Viewpoints on Self-Construals, Berlin, Germany.