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Walter Zimmer

Technical University of Munich

Postal address

Postal:
Boltzmannstr. 3
85748 Garching b. München

  • Phone: +49 (89) 289 - 18105
  • Room: 8111.EG.001
  • walter.zimmer(at)tum.de

Curriculum Vitae

  • (04/2019 - Now)       Ph.D. candidate at the lab for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (TUM-AIR), Technical University of Munich, Germany
  • (04/2019 - 03/2020) Autonomous Systems Engineer, STTech GmbH, Munich, Germany
  • (09/2018 - 04/2019) Visiting scholar at the Lab for Safe and Intelligent Automobiles (LISA), University of California in San Diego (UCSD), USA
  • (03/2018 - 09/2018) Research Intern, Audi AG, Ingolstadt, Germany
  • (09/2013 - 09/2018) Software Engineer, Schaefer Systems International (SSI), Giebelstadt, Germany
  • (09/2016 - 09/2018) Master of Science in Computer Science, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
  • (09/2017 - 03/2018) Stay abroad at the Intelligent Vehicles Lab of Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands
  • (09/2013 - 09/2016) Bachelor of Science in Applied Computer Science, Cooperative State University (DHBW), Mosbach in cooporation with Schaefer Systems International (SSI)

Open Thesis Topics (Bachelor, Master, Guided Research, IDP)

If you are interested in autonomous driving, perception (e.g. object detection, tracking, segmentation) or simulation, then please send me an e-mail with the topic you are interested in and attach your CV and transcript of records.

Completed Thesis or Projects

# Type Author Title Period Went on to
1) Master Thesis Xingcheng Zhou LiDAR-based 3D Object Detection on the Highway A9 10/2020 - 09/2021 Siemens AG
2) Master Thesis Armin Baur Vehicle position estimation on surveillance dynamic vision Sensor 11/2020 - 09/2021  
3) Master Thesis Xavier Diaz Real-Time and Multi-Modal 3D Object Detection for Autonomous Driving 11/2020 - 10/2021 SETLabs Research GmbH
4) Master Thesis Jialong Wu Real-time LiDAR-based 3D Object Detection on the Providentia++ Test Stretch Using a Single-Stage Architecture 04/2021 - 12/2021 FILICS GmbH
5) Master Thesis Maximilian Fortkord Real-Time and Multi-Modal 3D Object Detection on the Providentia++ Test Stretch 05/2021 - 12/2021 BMW AG
6) Master Thesis Aaron Kaefer Deep Traffic Scenario Mining, Detection, Classification and Generation on the Autonomous Driving Test Stretch using the CARLA Simulator 04/2021 - 02/2022 Amazon Inc.
7) Guided Research Jurek Olden Traffic Trajectory Prediction Framework within Providentia++ 12/2020 - 07/2021 Freelance Software Developer
8) Bachelor Thesis Leon Blumenthal Real-Time Monocular 3D Object Detection to Support Autonomous Driving 10/2021 - 02/2022 Technical University of Munich
9) Bachelor Thesis Mohammad Nannaa Accident Prevention Frontend Framework to Support Autonomous Driving 11/2021 - 03/2022 Amazon Inc.
10) Master Thesis Jurek Olden Traffic Trajectory Prediction Framework within Providentia++ Using HD Maps 11/2021 - 05/2021 Freelance Software Developer
11) Master Thesis Marcus Grabler Real-Time and Robust 3D Object Detection within Multi LiDAR Systems on the Autonomous Driving Test Stretch Using Cross-Sensor Domain Adaptation 11/2021 - 05/2021 Autonomous Reply GmbH
12) Master Thesis Noir Nigmatov Accident Prevention Backend Framework to Support Autonomous Driving 11/2021 - 05/2021  
13) Master Thesis Philipp Friedrich Multi-Task Active Learning for Autonomous Driving 11/2021 - 05/2021 BMW AG
14) Master Thesis Ugurcan Polat A Neural Network-based Scenario Detection Framework for Road Perception 11/2021 - 05/2021 BMW AG
15) Master Thesis Marcel Brucker Unsupervised LiDAR-based 3D Object Detection Using Infrastructure Sensors 03/2022 - 11/2022 Vector Informatik GmbH
16) Bachelor Thesis Georgiy Nefedov proAnno - An Automatic and Intelligent 3D Sensor Data Annotation Framework for Autonomous Driving 03/2022 - 07/2022 Columbia University
17) Guided Research Anna Fedorova Monocular 3D Object Detection on Infrastructure Cameras using Transform-
ers		 03/2022 - 08/2022 Holidu
18) Master Thesis Bohan Wang Automatic Calibration of Infrastructure LiDAR and Camera Sensors 05/2022 - 01/2023 Hesai Group
19) Master Thesis Stefan Petrovski Real-Time and Multi-Modal 3D Object Detection on the Autonomous Driving Test Stretch Using Camera and LiDAR Sensors 06/2022 - 02/2023 Aigrar startup
20) Master Thesis Joseph Birkner Monocular 3D Object Detection Using HD Maps 06/2022 - 05/2023 Klebert Engineering
21) Bachelor Thesis Robin Brase Improving the Realism of a Real-Time Digital Twin of Road Traffic Using the CARLA Simulator

10/2022 -

02/2023

 Technical University of Munich
22) Master Thesis Omar Zayed Deep Multimodal Sensor Fusion for 3D Perception in Autonomous Vehicles Using Occupancy Networks 11/2022 - 05/2023 Autonomous Reply GmbH
23) Master Thesis Somesh Khandelia Multi-Vehicle Detection and Tracking in Aerial Image Sequences based on Deep Learning 10/2022 - 04/2023 Scandio GmbH
24) IDP Tung Nguyen Real-Time 3D Object Detection on Infrastructure LiDARs using Transformers 05/2022 - 08/2023 BMW AG
           

 

On-Going Thesis or Projects

# Type Author Title Period In cooperation with
1) Master Thesis Omar Elsobky

Point Clouds Localization Using Vehicle and Infrastructure LiDARs

 01/2023 - 12/2023  
2) Master Thesis Egemen Kopuz Multi-Modal 3D Object Detection in Long Range and Low-Resolution Conditions of Sensors 03/2023 - 09/2023 SETLabs GmbH
3) Master Thesis Ahmed Ghita Generation of Synthetic Datasets of 3D Objects Using Semi-Supervised Learning 03/2023 - 09/2023 SETLabs GmbH
4) Master Thesis Gerhard Wardana Camera-LiDAR Fusion Using On-board Vehicle and Infrastructure Sensors 04/2023 - 10/2023  
5) IDP Suren Sritharan Vehicle-Infrastructure Cooperative 3D Object Detection to Support Autonomous Driving Functions 01/2023 - 09/2023  

Research Interests

Sensor Calibration

 

Image Segmentation

Monocular 3D Object Detection

LiDAR 3D Object Detection

Multi-Modal 3D Object Detection Using Camera and LiDAR

Previous semesters

  • Visual Feature Learning in Autonomous Driving (SS 2021)
  • 3D Perception for Autonomous Driving (WS21/22)
  • 3D Perception for Autonomous Driving (SS22)

Publications

2023

  • Zimmer, Walter; Birkner, Joseph; Brucker, Marcel; Nguyen, Huu Tung; Petrovski, Stefan; Wang, Bohan; Knoll, Alois C.: InfraDet3D: Multi-Modal 3D Object Detection based on Roadside Infrastructure Camera and LiDAR Sensors. 2023 IEEE Proceedings of Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), 2023, 8 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI ) Full text (mediaTUM)
  • Hekimoglu, Aral; Friedrich, Philipp; Zimmer, Walter; Schmidt, Michael; Marcos-Ramiro, Alvaro; Knoll, Alois C.: Multi-Task Consistency for Active Learning, 2023 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)
  • Zimmer, Walter; Creß, Christian; Nguyen, Huu Tung; Knoll, Alois C.: A9 Intersection Dataset: All You Need for Urban 3D Camera-LiDAR Roadside Perception. arXiv, 2023 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)
  • Zimmer, Walter; Grabler, Marcus; Knoll, Alois: Real-Time and Robust 3D Object Detection Within Road-Side LiDARs Using Domain Adaptation. arxiv, 2023 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI ) Full text (mediaTUM)

2022

  • Creß, Christian; Zimmer, Walter; Strand, Leah; Fortkord, Maximilian; Dai, Siyi; Lakshminarasimhan, Venkatnarayanan; Knoll, Alois: A9-Dataset: Multi-Sensor Infrastructure-Based Dataset for Mobility Research. 33rd IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), 2022 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)
  • Zimmer, Walter; Erçelik, Emeç; Zhou, Xingcheng; Diaz Ortiz, Xavier Jair; Knoll, Alois C.: A Survey of Robust LiDAR-based 3D Object Detection Methods for Autonomous Driving, 2022 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)

2019

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