Prof. Dr. Sven Hellbach
Professur für Informatik/Intelligente Systeme

Lehrveranstaltungen
Wintersemester:
- PTI07000 Informationssysteme
- PTI06800 Computergrafik
- PTI09540 Anwendungen des maschinellen Lernens
- PTI70090 Python Programming
- PTI70000 Konzepte der Programmierung
- PTI90120 Andvanced Topics
Sommersemester:
- PTI06470 Logik
- PTI07960 Künstliche Intelligenz
- PTI06850 Projekt in der Softwareentwicklung
- PTI90070 Artificial Intelligence
INAI.kg (Bishkek):
- AIN1-013 Software-Engineering I
- AIN1-016 Robotics
Besucheradresse
PKB 265 (Kornmarkt 1, Paul-Kirchhoff-Bau)
Kontakt
+49 375 536 1370
sven.hellbach[at]whz.de
Sprechzeiten
auf Anfrage
Ein Blick in das GraWi-Labor.
Activities
Projects
Since 01/2024 | iMerge | Project Leader |
Since 06/2023 | SchülerLab der WHZ | Technical manager |
Since 03/2021 | 360° Virtual Puppetry | Technical consultant |
12/2021 – 11/2025 | KI-StudiUm | Project leader |
11/2021 – 10/2026 | Perspektive Arbeit Lausitz | Subproject leader |
01/2021 - 12/2024 | IDEA | Assoziated project leader |
01/2020-12/2023 | INAI.kg | Deputy project leader |
Research Interests
- Human-Machine-Interaction
- Machine Learning
- Neural Networks
- Image Processing
- Motion Analysis
- Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality
Program Committee membership
- DAGM Workshop on New Challenges in Neural Computation (NC2)
- German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI) Poster and Demo Session
- IJCNN Special Session on Neural networks for Human Centred Computing
- Workshop on Model-Driven Robot Software Engineering
Reviewer for
- The Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS): 2006
- Robotics: Science and Systems: 2007
- International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN): 2007, 2009, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
- Annual Symposium of the German Association of Pattern Recognition (DAGM): 2008
- American Control Conference (ACC): 2012
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS): 2012, 2016
- International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA): 2012
- German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI): 2012
- German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM), Workshop on New Challenges in Neural Computation (NC2): 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
- Journal of Neurocomputing, Special Issue in New Challenges in Neurocomputing: 2013, 2016
- European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN), Special Session Learning of structured and non-standard data: 2014
- Workshop on Self-Organizing Feature Maps (WSOM): 2014
- Neuro Processing Letters (NEPL): 2014, 2015
- International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP): 2014
- Workshop on Model-Driven Robot Software Engineering (MORSE): 2014, 2016
- Künstliche Intelligenz (KUIN): 2015
- Journal of Neurocomputing 2016
- European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN): 2017
Miscs
- Associated Member of Sächsisches Institut für Computational Intelligence und Machine Learning (SICIM)
- Invited Talk at Interdisziplinäre Wissenschaftliche Konferenz Mittweida (IWKM 2018)
- Best Paper Presentation Award at NC2 Workshop
Curriculum Vitae
since 2018 | Professor for Computer Science / Intelligent Systems |
2017-2018 | Deputy Professor for Software Technology and Programming Methods at TU Bergakademie Freiberg |
2015-2016 | Deputy Professor for Artificial Intelligence at HTW Dresden |
2015-2018 | Senior Scientist at HTW Dresden |
2014-2015 | Deputy Professor for Computer Graphics and Theoretical Computer Science at WHZ Zwickau |
2011-2014 | Head of the junior research group at the Department of Artificial Intelligence at University of Applied Sciences Dresden |
2010-2011 | Post-Doc at the Department for Biological Cybernetics at University of Bielefeld |
February 2010 | Graduation as Ph.D. in cognitive robotics |
2005 - 2009 | Ph.D. student at Neuroinformatics and Cognitive Robotics Lab at Ilmenau University of Technology with reoccurring research visits at Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH |
2005 | Diploma thesis at DaimlerChrysler Research Ulm with Prof. Dr. Dariu M. Gavrila |
2003-2004 | Internship at DaimlerChrysler Research Ulm with Prof. Dr. Dariu M. Gavrila |
2000 - 2005 | Studies of computer science at Ilmenau University of Technology |
Publications
2018 |
Falko Lischke, Thomas Neumann, Sven Hellbach, Thomas Villmann & Hans-Joachim Böhme : Direct Incorporation of L1 -Regularization into Generalized Matrix Learning Vector Quantization. Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing - 17th International Conference, ICAISC 2018, Zakopane, Poland, June 3-7, 2018, Proceedings, Part I, pp. 657-667, 2018 [WebLink] |
2017 |
Hans-Joachim Böhme and Sven Hellbach and Zdenek Mikovec and Pavel SlavÌk and Markus Wacker (Editors): Proceedings of the 21st Bilateral Student Workshop CTU Prague. 2017 [WebLink] Falko Lischke, Frank Bahrmann, Sven Hellbach & Hans-Joachim Böhme : RoNiSCo: Robotic Night Shift Companion. Proceedings of the Workshop - New Challenges in Neural Computation 2017 (NC2 2017), 2017 |
2016 |
Frank Bahrmann, Andre Minz, Sven Hellbach & Hans-Joachim Böhme : VR in TSD. Proceedings of the 20th Bilateral Student Workshop CTU Prague, pp. 44-49, 2016 Frank Bahrmann, Sven Hellbach & Hans-Joachim Böhme : A Fuzzy-based Adaptive Environment Model for Indoor Robot Localization. Telehealth and Assistive Technology / 847: Intelligent Systems and Robotics, 2016 Hans-Joachim Böhme and Sven Hellbach and Zdenek Mikovec and Pavel SlavÌk and Markus Wacker (Editors): Proceedings of the 20th Bilateral Student Workshop CTU Prague. 2016 [WebLink] Pogrzeba, Loreen, Gassel, Stefanie, Friedrich, Jens, Klingner, Mathias,, Lischke, Falko, Hellbach, Sven, Neumann, Thomas, Böhme, Hans-Joachim & Wacker, Markus : Towards estimation of muscle activity patterns for balance assessment from surface deformations in motion. Proc. Neuromechanics 2016, 2016 |
2015 |
Hans-Joachim Böhme and Sven Hellbach and Zdenek Mikovec and Pavel SlavÌk and Markus Wacker (Editors): Proceedings of the 19th Bilateral Student Workshop CTU Prague. 2015 [WebLink] Hans-Joachim Böhme & Sven Hellbach : Robots as Tour Guides and for Elderly Care: Current State and Perspectives. Proceedings of the 19th Bilateral Student Workshop CTU Prague, pp. 14-15, 2015 |
2014 |
Frank Bahrmann, Sven Hellbach, Sabrina Keil & Hans-Joachim Böhme : Understanding Dynamic Environments with Fuzzy Perception. 21th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, 2014 Johannes Fonfara, Sven Hellbach & Hans-Joachim Böhme : Imitating Dialog Strategies Under Uncertainty. Procedia Computer Science, (Vol. 39), pp. 131 - 138, 0, 2014 [WebLink] Sven Hellbach, Frank Bahrmann, Sabrina Keil & and Hans-Joachim Böhme : Learning is hard work: Detecting dynamic obstacles in occupancy grid maps. Proceedings of the Workshop - New Challenges in Neural Computation 2014 (NC2 2014), pp. 53-60, Machine Learning Reports 2014 Hellbach, Sven, Himstedt, Marian, Bahrmann, Frank, Riedel, Martin, Villmann, Thomas & Böhme, Hans-Joachim Villmann, Thomas and Schleif, Frank-Michael and Kaden, Marika and Lange, Mandy (Editors): Some Room for GLVQ: Semantic Labeling of Occupancy Grid Maps. Advances in Self-Organizing Maps and Learning Vector Quantization, (Vol. 295), Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, pp. 133-143, 2014 Sven Hellbach, Marian Himstedt, Frank Bahrmann, Martin Riedel, Thomas Villmann & Hans-Joachim Böhme : Find rooms for improvement: Towards semi-automatic labeling of occupancy grid maps.. 21th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, 2014 Marian Himstedt, Jan Hartmann, Sven Hellbach, hans-Joachim Böhme & Erik Maehle : Large Scale Place Recognition in 2D LIDAR Scans using Geometrical Landmark Relations. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2014 Klingner, Mathias, Hellbach, Sven, Riedel, Martin, Kaden, Marika, Villmann, Thomas & Böhme, Hans-Joachim Villmann, Thomas and Schleif, Frank-Michael and Kaden, Marika and Lange, Mandy (Editors): RFSOM Extending Self-Organizing Feature Maps with Adaptive Metrics to Combine Spatial and Textural Features for Body Pose Estimation. Advances in Self-Organizing Maps and Learning Vector Quantization, (Vol. 295), Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, pp. 157-166, 2014 [WebLink] Richard Schmidt, Johannes Fonfara, Sven Hellbach & Hans-Joachim Böhme : An Approach to Abstract Handling of Content for Human Machine Interaction Applications. Proceedings of the Workshop Model-Driven Robot Software Engineering (MORSE), 2014 Christian Vollmer, Sven Hellbach, Julian Eggert & Horst-Michael Gross : Sparse Coding of Human Motion Trajectories with Non-negative Matrix Factorization. Neurocomputing, Elsevier, (Vol. 124), pp. 22-32, 2014 |
2013 |
Marc Donner, Marian Himstedt, Sven Hellbach & Hans-Joachim Böhme : Awakening history: Preparing a museum tour guide robot for augmenting exhibits. Proceedings of the European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR), 2013 David Flentge, Agnes Kohsik, Eugen Dyck, Wolf-R¸diger Sch‰bitz, Sven Hellbach, Mario Botsch & Martina Piefke : Analysis of movement trajectories using a dynamic time warping algorithm: neuropsychological relevance of similarities of movement patterns.. Poster presented at the 4th Meeting of the ESN & 28th Meeting of the GNP, 2013 Johannes Fonfara, Sven Hellbach & Hans-Joachim Böhme : Learning Dialog Management for a Tour Guide Robot using Museum Visitor Simulation. Proceedings of the Workshop - New Challenges in Neural Computation 2013 (NC2 2013), pp. 61-68, Machine Learning Reports 2013 Johannes Fonfara, Sven Hellbach & Hans-Joachim Böhme : Attention Please: Modeling User Interest in a Conversation with a Tour Guide Robot. Proceedings of the Workshop - Techniques Towards Companion Technologies in conjuction with the 13th Intelligent Virtual Agents conference (IVA 2013), 2013 Sven Hellbach, Marian Himstedt & Hans-Joachim Böhme : Towards Non-negative Matrix Factorization based Localization. Proceedings of the European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR), 2013 Sven Hellbach, Frank Bahrmann, Marc Donner, Marian Himstedt, Mathias Klingner, Johannes Fonfara, Peter Poschmann, Richard Schmidt & Hans-Joachim Böhme : Learning as an essential ingredient for a Tour Guide Robot. Proceedings of the Workshop - New Challenges in Neural Computation 2012 (NC2 2013), pp. 53-60, Machine Learning Reports 2013 Marian Himstedt, Sabrina Keil, Sven Hellbach & Hans-Joachim Böhme : A robust graph-based framework for building precise maps from laser range scans.. Proceedings of the Workshop on Robust and Multimodal Inference in Factor Graphs. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2013 Mathias Klingner, Sven Hellbach, Martin Riedel, Marika Kästner, Thomas Villmann & Hans-Joachim Böhme : On the Relevance of SOM: Integrating Adaptive Metrics into a Framework for Body Pose Detection. Mittweidaer Workshop on Computational Intelligence 2013 ( MiWoCi 2013 ), Machine Learning Reports 2013 |
2012 |
Frank Bahrmann, Sven Hellbach & Hans-Joachim Böhme Stefan Wˆlfl (Editors): Please tell me where I am: A fundament for a semantic labeling approach. Poster and Demo Track of the 35th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI), pp. 120-124, 2012 Hans-Joachim Böhme, Sven Hellbach, Frank Bahrmann, Marc Donner, Johannes Fonfara, Marian Himstedt, Mathias Klingner, Peter Poschmann, Mathias Rudolf & Richard Schmidt Stefan Wˆlfl (Editors): Assistance Robotics: A survival guide for real world scenarios. Poster and Demo Track of the 35th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI), pp. 8-11, 2012 Marc Donner, Peter Poschmann, Mathias Klingner, Frank Bahrmann, Sven Hellbach & Hans-Joachim Böhme : Obstacle detection for robust local navigation through dynamic real-world environments. Workshop on Color-Depth Camera Fusion in Robotics at the IEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent Robot Systems (IROS), 2012 Sven Hellbach & Hans-Joachim Böhme : Robotics with the head in the clouds. Proceedings of the Workshop - New Challenges in Neural Computation 2012 (NC2 2012), pp. 34-36, Machine Learning Reports 2012 [Proceedings] Marian Himstedt, Sven Hellbach & Hans-Joachim Böhme : Feature extraction from Occupancy Grid Maps using Non-negative Matrix Factorization. Proceedings of the Workshop - New Challenges in Neural Computation 2012 (NC2 2012), pp. 97-100, Machine Learning Reports 2012 [http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/%7Efschleif/mlr/mlr_03_2012.pdf] Mathias Klingner, Sven Hellbach, Marika Kästner, Thomas Villmann & Hans-Joachim Böhme : Modeling Human Movements with Self-Organizing Maps using Adaptive Metrics. Proceedings of the Workshop - New Challenges in Neural Computation 2012 (NC2 2012), pp. 14-19, Machine Learning Reports 2012 [http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/%7Efschleif/mlr/mlr_03_2012.pdf] Samir Mujagić, Simon M. Würth, Sven Hellbach & Volker Dürr : Tactile conditioning and movement analysis of antennal sampling strategies in honey bees (Apis mellifera L.). Journal of Visualized Experiments, 2012 Luca Patanè, Sven Hellbach, André Frank Krause, Paolo Arena & Volker Dürr : An insect-inspired bionic sensor for tactile localisation and material classification with state-dependent modulation. Frontiers in Neurorobotics, (Vol. 6), 8, 2012 [WebLink] Peter Poschmann, Sven Hellbach & Hans-Joachim Böhme Su, Chun-Yi and Rakheja, Subhash and Liu, Honghai (Editors): Multi-modal People Tracking for an Awareness Behavior of an Interactive Tour-Guide Robot. Intelligent Robotics and Applications, (Vol. 7507), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 666-675, 2012 [WebLink] Peter Poschmann, Marc Donner, Frank Bahrmann, Mathias Rudolph, Johannes Fonfara, Sven Hellbach & Hans-Joachim Böhme : Wizard of Oz revisited: Researching on a tour guide robot while being faced with the public. 21th IEEE Int. Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2012), Paris, pp. 701 - 706, 2012 |
2011 |
Sven Hellbach, Christian Vollmer, Julian Eggert & Horst-Michael Gross : Learning Motion Primitives using Spatio-Temporal NMF. Proceedings of the Workshop - New Challenges in Neural Computation 2011 (NC2 2011), pp. 5-9, Machine Learning Reports 2011 Sven Hellbach, Marc Otto & Volker D¸rr : Helping a bio-inspired tactile sensor system to focus on the essential. International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA 2011), (Vol. LNCS 7102), pp. 24-33, Springer 2011 |
2010 |
Sven Hellbach : Entwicklung von Methoden zur Unterscheidung und Interpretation von Bewegungsmustern in dynamischen Szenen. Ph.D. thesis, TU Ilmenau, ISBN 978-3-939473-79-4, 2010 Sven Hellbach, AndrÈ Frank Krause & Volker D¸rr : Feel like an insect: a bio-inspired tactile sensor system. International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2010), LNCS 6444, pp. 676-683, Springer 2010 |
2009 |
Julian Eggert, Sven Hellbach, Alexander Kolarow, Edgar Körner & Horst-Michael Gross : Prediction and Classification of Motion Trajectories using Spatio-Temporal NMF. 32nd Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence Paderborn (GER), LNCS 5803, pp. 597-606, Springer 2009 Sven Hellbach, Julian Eggert, Edgar Körner & Horst-Michael Gross : Time Series Analysis for Long Term Prediction of Human Movement Trajectories. International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2008), Auckland (NZ), LNCS 5507, pp. 567-574, Springer 2009 Sven Hellbach, Julian Eggert, Edgar Körner & Horst-Michael Gross : Basis Decomposition of Motion Trajectories using Spatio-Temporal NMF. Int. Conf. on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN) 2009, Limassol, (CY), LNCS 5803, pp. 597-606, Springer 2009 Sven Hellbach, Julian Eggert, Edgar Körner & Horst-Michael Gross : Experimental Evaluation of Approaches for Long Term Prediction of Human Movement Trajectories. Australian Journal of Intelligent Information Processing Systems, (Vol. 10), 3, 2009 Manuel Muehlig, Michael Gienger, Sven Hellbach, Jochen J. Steil & Christian Goerick : Task-level imitation learning using variance-based movement optimization. 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2009), Kobe (JP), pp. 1177-1184, IEEE Omnipress 2009 |
2008 |
Nils Einecke, Julian Eggert, Sven Hellbach & Edgar Körner : Walking Appearance Manifolds Without Falling Off. International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2007), Kitakyushu (JP), LNCS 4984, pp. 653-662, Springer 2008 Sven Hellbach, Sören Strauss, Julian Eggert, Edgar Körner & Horst-Michael Gross : Echo State Networks for Online Prediction of Movement Data - Comparing Investigations. Int. Conf. on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN) 2008, Prague (CR), LNCS 5163, pp. 710-719, Springer 2008 Steffen M¸ller, Sven Hellbach, Erik Schaffernicht, Antje Ober, Andrea Scheidig & Horst-Michael Gross : Whom to talk to? Estimating user interest from movement trajectories. 17th IEEE Int. Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2008), M¸nchen, pp. 532-538, IEEE Omnipress 2008 |
2007 |
Sven Hellbach, Boris Lau, Julian P. Eggert, Edgar Körner & Horst-Michael Gross : Optimization-Based Motion Segmentation using Additional Visual Cues. Proc. 52. International Scientific Colloqium, pp. 327-332, 2007 |
2005 |
Sven Hellbach : Pedestrian Detection by Fusion of Monocular Video and 24 GHz Radar Sensors. Diploma thesis, TU Ilmenau, 2005 |
2003 |
Karsten Henke, Heinz-Dietrich Wuttke & Sven Hellbach : Laboratory via Internet -- New ways in education and research. Int. Journal of Computers and Applications, ACTA Press, Anaheim, Calgary, Z¸rich, (Vol. 25), pp. 157-163, 3, 2003 |
2002 |
Karsten Henke, Heinz-Dietrich Wuttke & Sven Hellbach : Laboratory via Internet -- New Ways in Education and Research. ASTED International Conference Computers and Advanced Technology in Education (CATE 2002), Cancun, Mexico, 2002, 2002 Karsten Henke, Heinz-Dietrich Wuttke & Sven Hellbach M. Herczeg, W. Prinz, H. Oberquelle (Editors): Praktika ¸ber Internet -- Neue Wege in Lehre und Forschung. Mensch & Computer 2002: Vom interaktiven Werkzeug zu kooperativen Arbeits- und Lernwelten., Stuttgart, pp. 165 - 174, B. G. Teubner 2002 |
Dekanin
Prof. Dr. Tina Geweniger
Prodekan
Prof. Dr. Maik Fröhlich
Sekretariat
Yvonne Zimmermann
+49 375 536 1501
yvonne.zimmermann[at]whz.de
Studiendekan
Prof. Dr. Stefan Braun
+49 375 536 1507
stefan.braun[at]whz.de
Studiengangsleitung Informatik
Prof. Dr. Ralf Laue
+49 375 536 1537
ralf.laue[at]whz.de
Studiengangsleitung Data Science
Prof. Dr. Jens Flemming
+49 375 536 1380
jens.flemming[at]whz.de
Finanzen
Silke Horn
+49 375 536 1502
+49 375 536 1503
silke.horn[at]whz.de
Postanschrift
Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau
Fakultät Physikalische Technik/Informatik
PSF 201037
08012 Zwickau