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Marina Kolesnik

Marina Kolesnik, Dr., is a research scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for
Applied Information Technology FIT,
group of
Life Science Informatics  


Research interests:
(past & current)

- Computer Vision & Image Analysis

- Vision-Based Robot Navigation

- Visually-Driven Interfaces

- Visual Perception


CV:

Marina Kolesnik (born 1961 in Kiev, USSR, now Ukraine) obtained her Master degree from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (dipl. Physicist-Engineer).
She received her PhD in Computer Science from Russian Academy of Sciences: "Automatic terrain reconstruction using stereo images".
She continued her work on image processing algorithms for computer vision applications.

1990-1995: research fellow at the Institute for Space Research, Planetary Exploration group (Moscow, Russia).
Work for the Russian Space Exploration Program, member of the Mars Rover team. Development of the 3D stereo reconstruction and path planning algorithms for autonomous Mars rover operations. On-board implementation of these algorithms was used for vision-based navigation of the Mars rover prototype.

1995/1996: Lise Meitner fellowship from the Austrian Science Foundation, work at the Institute for Digital Image Processing, JOANNEUM RESEARCH, Graz, Austria.

1996/1997: fellowship from the Max-Planck Society, work at the Max-Planck Institute fuer Aeronomie, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany.

Since 1997: research scientist at the German National Center for Information Technology (GMD), now Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Sankt-Augustin, Germany.
Work on vision-based orientation of an autonomous robot for sewer inspection - MAKRO. Orientation of MAKRO in the sewer relies on a hybrid vision system composed of an optical camera and a laser crosshair projector.
Work on visually-driven interaction of a human with virtual objects.
Experiments on visual perception using immersive Virtual Environments.

Research topics:
- Modelling the functionality of visual pathways for computer vision applications.
- Active visual learning, detection and attention.
- Medical Image Analysis.

Coordinator of the projects:
MCCOOP: Multi-Channel Cooperativity in Visual Processing
supported by the European Commission, Duration: 01/09/2005 -31/08/2008 .
SEARISE: Smart-Eyes: Attending and Recognizing Instances of Salient Events
supported by the European Comission, FP7-ICT, Cognitive Systems, Interaction, Robotics.
Duration: 01/03/2008 -28/02/2011
Click to see demonstration on Saliency detection
IMPPACT: Image-based Multi-scale Physiological Planning for Ablation Cancer Treatment
supported by the European Comission, FP7-ICT, Virtual Physilogical Human.
Duration: 01/09/2008 -31/12/2011
 

Dr. Marina Kolesnik
Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology
Schloss Birlinghoven
D-53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany

Tel.:+49 2241 14 3421
Fax: +49 2241 14 1506

E-Mail: marina.kolesnik '@' fit.fraunhofer.de
 

Click to see the dancing hall of the Cove House


 


Last update:
03 May 2012