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Technische Universität München
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Walter Zimmer

Technical University of Munich

Postal address

Boltzmannstr. 3
85748 Garching b. München

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
25) Master Thesis Omar Elsobky

Point Clouds Localization Using Vehicle and Infrastructure LiDARs

 01/2023 - 12/2023 Infinion Technologies AG
26) Master Thesis Egemen Kopuz Multi-Modal 3D Object Detection in Long Range and Low-Resolution Conditions of Sensors 03/2023 - 11/2023  
27) Master Thesis Ahmed Ghita Active Learning for 3D Object Detection and Labeling 04/2023 - 12/2023 SETLabs Research GmbH
28) Master Thesis Gerhard Wardana Camera-LiDAR Fusion Using On-board Vehicle and Infrastructure Sensors 04/2023 - 10/2023 Yunex Traffic (Mundys)
29) IDP Suren Sritharan

Vehicle-Infrastructure Cooperative 3D Object Detection to Support Autonomous Driving Functions

 01/2023 - 12/2023 AstraZeneca
30) Bachelor Thesis Bach Ngoc Doan Monocular Roadside 3D Perception based on Ammodal Instance Segmentation 10/2023 - 02/2024 Technical University of Munich (TUM), Tsinghua University
31) Bachelor Thesis Vitus Becker 3D Tracking on Roadside LiDARs 10/2023 - 02/2024 Technical University of Munich (TUM)
32) IDP Daniel Lehmberg Accident Detection on the A9 Test Stretch Using Roadside Sensors 10/2023 - 03/2024 Technical University of Munich (TUM)
33) IDP Marc Pavel Accident Detection on the A9 Test Stretch Using Roadside Sensors 10/2023 - 03/2024 Technical University of Munich (TUM)
34) Guided Research Ramandika Pranamulia Real-Time Point Cloud Compression on Roadside LiDARs 10/2023 - 03/2024 Technical University of Munich (TUM)
35) Master Thesis Chaima Ghaddab Supervised 3D Perception on Roadside LiDARs Under Different Weather Situations 01/2024 - 07/2024  
36) Master Thesis Deyu Fu Domain Adaptation for Road-Side Vision-Based 3D Object Detection 01/2024 - 07/2024  
37) Master Thesis Samyak Jain Real-time Multi-view Road-side 3D Object Detection 01/2024 - 07/2024  

 

On-Going Thesis or Projects

# Type Author Title Period In cooperation with
           

Research Interests

Sensor Calibration

 

Image Segmentation

Monocular 3D Object Detection

LiDAR 3D Object Detection

Multi-Modal 3D Object Detection Using Camera and LiDAR

Teaching

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

Publications

2024

  • Carta, Salvatore; Castrillón-Santana, Modesto; Marras, Mirko; Mohamed, Sondos; Podda, Alessandro Sebastian; Saia, Roberto; Sau, Marco; Zimmer, Walter: RoadSense3D: A Framework for Roadside Monocular 3D Object Detection. Adjunct Proceedings of the 32nd International ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, ACM, 2024, 8 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Creß, Christian; Zimmer, Walter; Purschke, Nils; Doan, Bach Ngoc; Kirchner, Sven; Lakshminarasimhan, Venkatnarayanan; Strand, Leah; Knoll, Alois C.: TUMTraf Event: Calibration and Fusion Resulting in a Dataset for Roadside Event-Based and RGB Cameras. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles 9 (7), 2024, 5186 - 5203 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Ghita, Ahmed; Antoniussen, Bjørk; Zimmer, Walter; Greer, Ross; Creß, Christian; Møgelmose, Andreas; Trivedi, Mohan M.; Knoll, Alois C.: ActiveAnno3D - An Active Learning Framework for Multi-Modal 3D Object Detection. IEEE Proceedings of Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2024, 2024, 8 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Li, Xinyi; Ma, Zijian; Liu, Yinlong; Zimmer, Walter; Cao, Hu; Zhang, Feihu; Knoll, Alois: Transformation Decoupling Strategy based on Screw Theory for Deterministic Point Cloud Registration with Gravity Prior. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2024, 1-18 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Liu, Mingyu; Yurtsever, Ekim; Brede, Marc; Meng, Jun; Zimmer, Walter; Zhou, Xingcheng; Zagar, Bare Luka; Cui, Yuning; Knoll, C. Alois: GraphRelate3D: Context-Dependent 3D Object Detection with Inter-Object Relationship Graphs. 2024 IEEE International Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), 2024 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Liu, Mingyu; Yurtsever, Ekim; Fossaert, Jonathan; Zhou, Xingcheng; Zimmer, Walter; Cui, Yuning; Zagar, Bare Luka; Knoll, Alois C.: A Survey on Autonomous Driving Datasets: Statistics, Annotation Quality, and a Future Outlook. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 2024, 1-29 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Mohamed, Sondos; Zimmer, Walter; Greer, Ross; Alaaeldin Ghita, Ahmed; Castrillón-Santana, Modesto; Trivedi, Mohan M.; Knoll, Alois C.; Carta, Salvatore Mario; Marras, Mirko: Transfer Learning from Simulated to Real Scenes for Monocular 3D Object Detection. Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Computer Vision ECCV 2024, Springer-Verlag, 2024, 18 mehr… BibTeX Volltext (mediaTUM)
  • Song, Rui; Liang, Chenwei; Cao, Hu; Yan, Zhiran; Zimmer, Walter; Gross, Markus; Festag, Andreas; Knoll, Alois: Collaborative Semantic Occupancy Prediction with Hybrid Feature Fusion in Connected Automated Vehicles. 2024 IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2024 mehr… BibTeX
  • Zhou, Xingcheng; Fu, Deyu; Zimmer, Walter; Liu, Mingyu; Lakshminarasimhan, Venkatnarayanan; Strand, Leah; Knoll, Alois: WARM-3D: A Weakly-Supervised Sim2Real Domain Adaptation Framework for Roadside Monocular 3D Object Detection. 2024 IEEE International Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), 2024 mehr… BibTeX
  • Zhou, Xingcheng; Liu, Mingyu; Yurtsever, Ekim; Zagar, Bare Luka; Zimmer, Walter; Cao, Hu; Knoll, Alois C.: Vision Language Models in Autonomous Driving: A Survey and Outlook. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 2024, 1-20 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Zimmer, Walter; Creß, Christian; Nguyen, Huu Tung; Knoll, Alois C.: TUMTraf Intersection Dataset: All You Need for Urban 3D Camera-LiDAR Roadside Perception [Best Student Paper Award]. 2023 IEEE 26th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), IEEE, 2024, 1030-1037 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI ) Volltext (mediaTUM)
  • Zimmer, Walter; Wardana, Gerhard Arya; Sritharan, Suren; Zhou, Xingcheng; Song, Rui; Knoll, Alois C.: TUMTraf V2X Cooperative Perception Dataset. 2024 Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2024), IEEE/CVF, 2024, 21 mehr… BibTeX Volltext (mediaTUM)
  • Zimmer, Walter; Wardana, Gerhard Arya; Sritharan, Suren; Zhou, Xingcheng; Song, Rui; Knoll, Alois C.: TUMTraf V2X Cooperative Perception Dataset - Supplementary Material. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, IEEE/CVF, 2024, 13 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI ) Volltext (mediaTUM)
  • Zimmer, Walter; Pranamulia, Ramandika; Zhou, Xingcheng; Liu, Mingyu; Knoll, Alois C.: PointCompress3D -- A Point Cloud Compression Framework for Roadside LiDARs in Intelligent Transportation Systems. , 2024 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )

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 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI ) Volltext (mediaTUM)
  • Hekimoglu, Aral; Friedrich, Philipp; Zimmer, Walter; Schmidt, Michael; Marcos-Ramiro, Alvaro; Knoll, Alois: Multi-Task Consistency for Active Learning. 2023 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCVW), IEEE, 2023 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI ) Volltext (mediaTUM)
  • Zimmer, Walter; Creß, Christian; Nguyen, Huu Tung; Knoll, Alois C.: A9 Intersection Dataset: All You Need for Urban 3D Camera-LiDAR Roadside Perception. , 2023 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Zimmer, Walter; Creß, Christian; Nguyen, Huu Tung; Knoll, Alois C.: TUMTraf Intersection Dataset: All You Need for Urban 3D Camera-LiDAR Roadside Perception. 2023 IEEE 26th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), IEEE, 2023, 1030-1037 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Zimmer, Walter; Grabler, Marcus; Knoll, Alois: Real-Time and Robust 3D Object Detection Within Road-Side LiDARs Using Domain Adaptation. arxiv, 2023 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI ) Volltext (mediaTUM)
  • Zimmer, Walter; Wu, Jialong; Zhou, Xingcheng; Knoll, Alois C.: Real-Time And Robust 3D Object Detection with Roadside LiDARs. In: Lecture Notes in Mobility. Springer Nature Singapore, 2023 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • van Kempen, Raphael; Lampe, Bastian; Leuffen, Marc; Wirtz, Lena; Thomsen, Fabian; Bilkei-Gorzo, Gergely; Busch, Jean-Pierre; Feger, Ida; Geller, Christian; Kehl, Christian; Uszynski, Olaf; Wagner-Douglas, Lotte; Zanger, Lukas; Eckstein, Lutz; Klüner, David; Beerwerth, Julius; Alrifaee, Bassam; Kowalewski, Stefan; Konersmann, Marco; Steinfurth, Felix; Rumpe, Bernhard; Hartmann, Max; Siepenkötter, Norbert; Moormann, Dieter; Böhlen, Boris; Hannig, Claudia; Hekele, Esther; Gotzig, Heinrich; Rostocki, Paul-David; Gautam, Deepak-Kumar; Schubert, Richard; Braun, Niklas; Maurer, Markus; Gemlau, Kai-Björn; Abel, Sebastian; Ernst, Rolf; Lutwitzi, Melina; Bayerlein, Lorenz; Berghöfer, Moritz; Blödel, Alexander; Klamann, Björn; Kuznietsov, Anton; Peters, Steven; Leinen, Stefan; Bahle, Jakob; Ullrich, Lars; Graichen, Knut; Woopen, Timo; Spychalski, Dominik; Krauß, Christoph et al.: AUTOtech.agil: Architecture and Technologies for Orchestrating Automotive Agility. In: 32nd Aachen Colloquium Sustainable Mobility. RWTH Aachen University, 2023, 49 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI ) Volltext (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 mehr… BibTeX Volltext (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 mehr… BibTeX Volltext (mediaTUM)
  • Zimmer, Walter; Ercelik, Emec; Zhou, Xingcheng; Ortiz, Xavier Jair Diaz; Knoll, Alois: A Survey of Robust 3D Object Detection Methods in Point Clouds. , 2022 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Zimmer, Walter; Grabler, Marcus; Knoll, Alois: Real-Time and Robust 3D Object Detection Within Road-Side LiDARs Using Domain Adaptation. , 2022 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )

2021

  • Jurek Olden, Walter Zimmer, Christian Creß: Traffic Trajectory Prediction Framework within Providentia++ – Guided Research. Technical University of Munich, 2021, mehr… BibTeX Volltext (mediaTUM)

2019

  • Zimmer, Walter; Rangesh, Akshay; Trivedi, Mohan: 3D BAT: A Semi-Automatic, Web-based 3D Annotation Toolbox for Full-Surround, Multi-Modal Data Streams. 2019 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), IEEE, 2019 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI ) Volltext (mediaTUM)
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