Profile

Frederik Gossen
Curriculum Vitae
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Work History:
TU Dortmund University, Softwire in London and Lero, The Irish Software Research Centre
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Current Job:
Research in Computer Vision and Machine Learning
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Employer:
PhD Student in Lero, The Irish Software Research Centre
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My Work: I teach robots and other machines how to perceive their environment
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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:
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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.
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I would use the money to support Lero outreach events where we show students of all ages how fascinating research and computer science are.
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My Interview
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How would you describe yourself in 3 words?
Curious, Passionate, Creative
What's the best thing you've done in your career?
Awesome games :-)
What or who inspired you to follow your career?
My parents did their best to answer all my questions regarding technology
What did you want to be after you left school?
I wanted to work on fascinating technology which I do now :-)
Were you ever in trouble at school?
I was very bad in French
If you weren't doing this job, what would you choose instead?
I would be a techer
Who is your favourite singer or band?
Kings of Leon
What's your favourite food?
Fish and chips – I started to like it when I moved to Ireland
What is the most fun thing you've done?
Riding the world’s fastest roller coaster
If you had 3 wishes for yourself what would they be? - be honest!
(1) Time to sail around the world (2) Money to sail around the world (3) Luck
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