Profile – Coding Zone

Work History:

TU Dortmund University, Softwire in London and Lero, The Irish Software Research Centre
Current Job:

Research in Computer Vision and Machine Learning
Employer:

PhD Student in Lero, The Irish Software Research Centre

My Work: I teach robots and other machines how to perceive their environment
Read more

Perceiving their environment is easy for humans. However, it turns out to be a difficult task for machines and robots. They perceive visual data as photos using digital cameras but the data encodes only colours. In order to enable a machine or a robot to understand that an image shows a tree or a person, a lot of work has to be done. We teach the machine or robot to learn by themselves from many example images. In this way the machine understands images better and better over time.
Our current project aims to recognize people from Kinect data. We generate face models and find characteristics for every person:
My Typical Day: I get up at 8, do research in Lero, teach students in the University of Limerick and meet friends in the evening.
Read more

I would use the money to support Lero outreach events where we show students of all ages how fascinating research and computer science are.

Frederik Gossen