Bernhard Rinner

Professor and Chair of Pervasive Computing

Institute of Networked and Embedded Systems (NES), Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt

Journals and Magazines

 

Niccolo Bisagno, Alberto Xamin, Francesco De Natale, Nicola Conci and Bernhard Rinner. Dynamic Camera Reconfiguration with Reinforcement Learning and Stochastic Methods for Crowd Surveillance. Sensors, 20(17):1-15, 2020.

Jürgen Scherer and Bernhard Rinner. Multi-UAV Surveillance With Minimum Information Idleness and Latency Constraints. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 5(3):4812-4819, 2020.

Nikil Dutt, Carlo Regazzoni, Bernhard Rinner and Xin Yao. Self-Awareness for Autonomous Systems. Proceedings of the IEEE, 108(7):971-975, 2020.

Carlo Regazzoni, Lucio Marcenaro, Damian Campo and Bernhard Rinner. Multi-sensorial generative and descriptive self-awareness models for autonomous systems. Proceedings of the IEEE, 108(7):987-1010, 2020.

Jürgen Scherer and Bernhard Rinner. Multi-Robot Patrolling with Sensing Idleness and Data Delay Objectives. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 99:949-967, 2020.

Jürgen Scherer and Bernhard Rinner. Multi-Robot Persistent Surveillance With Connectivity Constraints. IEEE Access, 8:15093-15109, 2020.

Omair Sarwar, Bernhard Rinner and Andrea Cavallaro. A privacy-preserving filter for oblique face images based on adaptive hopping Gaussian mixtures. IEEE Access, 7:142623-142639, 2019.

Sara Perez-Carabaza, Jürgen Scherer, Bernhard Rinner, Jose A. Lopez-Orozco and Eva Besada-Portas. UAV Trajectory Optimization for Minimum Time Search with Communication Constraints and Collision Avoidance. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 85:357-371, 2019.

Bernhard Rinner. Can we trust smart cameras. Computer, 52(5):67-70, 2019.

Jennifer Simonjan and Bernhard Rinner. Decentralized and Resource-efficient Self-Calibration of Visual Sensor Networks. Ad Hoc Networks, 2019.

Subhan Ullah, Lucio Marcenaro and Bernhard Rinner. Secure Smart Cameras by Aggregate-Signcryption with Decryption Fairness for Multi-Receiver IoT Applications. Sensors, 19(2):327, 2019.

Sharath Chandra Akkaladevi, Matthias Plasch, Sriniwas Maddukuri, Christian Eitzinger, Andreas Pichler and Bernhard Rinner. Toward an Interactive Reinforcement Based Learning Framework for Human Robot Collaborative Assembly Processes. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 5:1-15, 2018.

Evsen Yanmaz, Saeed Yahyanejad, Bernhard Rinner, Hermann Hellwagner and Christian Bettstetter. Drone Networks: Communications, Coordination, and Sensing. Ad Hoc Networks, Elsevier, 68:1-15, 2018.

Asif Khan, Bernhard Rinner and Andrea Cavallaro. Cooperative Robots to Observe Moving Targets: A Review. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 48(1):187-198, 2018.

Adam Erdelyi, Thomas Winkler and Bernhard Rinner. Privacy Protection vs. Utility in Visual Data: An Objective Evaluation Framework. Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, 77(2):2285-2312, 2018.

Venkata Pathuri Bhuvana, Melanie Schranz, Carlo S. Regazzoni, Bernhard Rinner, Andrea M. Tonello and Mario Huemer. Multi-Camera Object Tracking using Surprisal Observations in Visual Sensor Networks. EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 50:1-14, 2016.

Muhammad Imran, Bernhard Rinner, Sajjad Zandi Zand and Mattias O'Nils. Exploration of Pre-Processing Architectures for FPGA Based Thermal-Visual Smart Camera. Journal of Electronic Imaging, 25(4), 041006, 2016.

Claudio Piciarelli, Lukas Esterle, Asif Khan, Bernhard Rinner, Gian Luca Foresti. Dynamic Reconfiguration in Camera Networks: a short Survey. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 26(5):965-977, May 2016.

Melanie Schranz and Bernhard Rinner. Resource-Aware Dynamic Clustering Utilizing State Estimation in Visual Sensor Networks. Sensors & Transducers, 129(8):28-39, August 2015.

Michael Hofbaur, Andreas Müller, Justus Piater, Bernhard Rinner, Gerald Steinbauer, Markus Vincze, Christian Wögerer. Making Better Robots - Beiträge Österreichs zur Europäischen Robotics Research Roadmap. e&i Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, 132(4):237-248, August 2015.

Daniel Wischounig-Strucl, Bernhard Rinner. Resource Aware and Incremental Mosaics of Wide Areas from Small-Scale UAVs. Machine Vision and Applications, pages 20, 2015.

Bernhard Rinner, Lukas Esterle, Jennifer Simonjan, Georg Nebehay, Roman Pflugfelder, Peter R. Lewis, Gustavo Fernandez Dominguez. Self-aware and Self-expressive Camera Networks. IEEE Computer, 48(7):21-28, July 2015.

Peter R. Lewis, Lukas Esterle, Arjun Chandra, Bernhard Rinner, Jim Torresen, Xin Yao. Static, Dynamic and Adaptive Heterogeneity in Distributed Smart Camera Networks. ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, 10(2) pages 30, June 2015.

Saeed Yahyanejad and Bernhard Rinner. A fast and mobile system for registration of low-altitude visual and thermal aerial images using multiple small-scale UAVs. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 104:189-202, June 2015.

Asif Khan, Evsen Yanmaz and Bernhard Rinner. Information Exchange and Decision Making in Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks for Cooperative Search. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 2(4):335-347, 2015.

Muhidul Khan and Bernhard Rinner. Performance Analysis of Resource-Aware Task Scheduling Methods in Wireless Sensor Networks. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, pages 11, September 2014.

Martin Reisslein, Bernhard Rinner and Amit Roy-Chowdhury. Smart Camera Networks. Computer, 47(5):23-25, May 2014.

Thomas Winkler and Bernhard Rinner. Security and Privacy Protection in Visual Sensor Networks: A Survey. ACM Computing Surveys, 47(1):pages 38, 2014.

Umair Ali Khan and Bernhard Rinner. Online Learning of Timeout Policies for Dynamic Power Management. ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, 13(4), pages 25, 2014.

Lukas Esterle, Peter R. Lewis, Xin Yao and Bernhard Rinner. Socio-Economic Vision Graph Generation and Handover in Distributed Smart Camera Networks. ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, ACM, 10(2), pages 24, 2014.

Fatih Porikli, Francois Bremond, Shiloh L. Dockstader, James Ferryman, Anthony Hoogs, Brian C. Lovell, Sharath Pankanti, Bernhard Rinner, Peter Tu, and Peter L. Venetianer. Video Surveillance: Past, Present, and Now the Future. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 30(3):190-198, May 2013.

Thomas Winkler and Bernhard Rinner. User Centric Privacy Awareness in Video Surveillance. Multimedia Systems, Springer, 18(2), pages 99-121, 2012.

Bernhard Dieber, Christian Micheloni and Bernhard Rinner. Resource-Aware Coverage and Task Assignment in Visual Sensor Networks. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 21(10):1424 - 1437, Oct. 2011.

Thomas Winkler and Bernhard Rinner. Securing Embedded Smart Cameras with Trusted Computing. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Article ID 530354, 20 pages, 2011.

Christian Micheloni, Bernhard Rinner and Gian Luca Foresti. Video Analysis in PTZ Camera Networks - From master-slave to cooperative smart cameras. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 27(5), pages 78-90, 2010.

Horst Bischof, Martin Godec, Christian Leistner, Bernhard Rinner and Andreas Starzacher. Autonomous Audio-Supported Learning of Visual Classiffiers for Traffic Monitoring. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 25(3) pages 15-23, May/June 2010.

Markus Quaritsch, Karin Kruggl, Daniel Wischounig-Strucl, Subhabrata Bhattacharya, Mubarak Shah and Bernhard Rinner. Networked UAVs as Aerial Sensor Network for Disaster Management Applications.. e&i Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, 127(3) pages 56-63, 2010. Springer.

Andreas Doblander, Andreas Zoufal and Bernhard Rinner. A Novel Software Framework for Embedded Multiprocessor Smart Cameras. ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, 8(3) article 24, 30 pages, April 2009.

Bernhard Rinner and Wayne Wolf. A Bright Future for Distributed Smart Cameras - scanning the issue.. Proceedings of the IEEE, 96(10) pages 1562-1564, October 2008.

Bernhard Rinner and Wayne Wolf. Introduction to Distributed Smart Cameras.. Proceedings of the IEEE. 96(10) pages 1565-1575, October 2008.

Andreas Klausner, Allan Tengg and Bernhard Rinner. Distributed multi-level Data Fusion for Networked Embedded Systems. IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing. 2(3) pages 538-555, August 2008.

Markus Quaritsch, Markus Kreuzthaler, Bernhard Rinner, Horst Bischof and Bernhard Strobl. Autonomous Multi-Camera Tracking on Embedded Smart Cameras.. EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems. 10 pages, January 2007.

Milan Jovanovic, Andreas Klausner, Markus Quaritsch, Bernhard Rinner, and Allan Tengg. Smart Cameras for Embedded Vision. Telematik. 12(3) pages 14-19, 12(3), December 2006.

Andreas Doblander, Bernhard Rinner, Norbert Trenkwalder and Andreas Zoufal. A Middleware Framework for Dynamic Reconfiguration and Component Composition in Embedded Smart Cameras. WSEAS Transaction on Computers. 5(3) pages 574-581, WSEAS Press, March 2006.

Michael Bramberger, Andreas Doblander, Arnold Maier, Bernhard Rinner and Helmut Schwabach. Distributed Embedded Smart Cameras for Surveillance Applications. Computer. 39(2), pages 68-75, February 2006. IEEE.

Andreas Doblander, Dietmar Goesseringer, Bernhard Rinner and Helmut Schwabach. An Evaluation of Model-Based Software Synthesis from Simulink Models for embedded Video Applications. International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. 15(2), pages 343-348, 2005.

Arnold Maier, Bernhard Rinner, Helmut Schwabach and Thomas Trathnigg. Combined Dynamic Power- and QoS-Management in Embedded Video Surveillance Systems. Telematik. 10(3-4), pages 22-26, December 2004.

Andreas Doblander, Dietmar Goesseringer, Bernhard Rinner and Helmut Schwabach. Synthesis of Embedded Image Processing Applications from SIMULINK Models. Telematik. 10(3-4), pages 10-15, December 2004.

Bernhard Rinner and Ulrich Weiss. Online Monitoring by Dynamically Refining Imprecise Models. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (Part B). 34(4), pages 1811-1822, August 2004.

Bernhard Rinner, Horst Bischof, Michael Bramberger, Andreas Doblander, Arnold Maier, Roman Pflugfelder and Horst Schwabach. Eine intelligente Kamera zur Verkehrsueberwachung. Bulletin SEV/VSE. 95(11) pages 19-23, electrosuisse. 2004

Bernhard Rinner, Martin Schmid and Reinhold Weiss. A Rapid Prototyping System for Multi-DSP Systems based on Accurate Performance Prediction. Journal of Universal Computer Science. 10(2), pages 120-144, Springer. February 2004.

Bernhard Rinner and Ulrich Weiss. The model-based online monitoring system MOSES. OeGAI Journal. 21(3), pages 5-12, October 2002.

Bernhard Rinner. Detecting and Diagnosing Faults (Guest Editor's introduction). Telematik. 8(2), pages 6-8, June 2002.

Herbert Kay, Bernhard Rinner and Benjamin Kuipers. Semi-Quantitative System Identification. Artificial Intelligence. 119(1-2), pages 103-140, May 2000.

Marco Platzner, Bernhard Rinner and Reinhold Weiss. Towards Embedded Qualitative Simulation - A Specialized Computer Architecture for QSIM. IEEE Intelligent Systems. 15(2), pages 62-68, March/April 2000.

Marco Platzner and Bernhard Rinner. Design and Implementation of a Parallel Constraint Satisfaction Algorithm. International Journal of Computers and Their Application. 5(2), pages 106-116, June 1998.

Marco Platzner, Bernhard Rinner and Reinhold Weiss. Parallel Qualitative Simulation. Simulation Practice and Theory, 5(7-8), pages 623-638, 1997. Elsevier.

Marco Platzner, Bernhard Rinner and Reinhold Weiss. A Computer Architecture to Support Qualitative Simulation in Industrial Applications. e&i Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, OEVE Verbandszeitschrift, 114(1), pages 13-18, January 1997.

Marco Platzner, Bernhard Rinner and Reinhold Weiss. Exploiting Parallelism in Constraint Satisfaction for Qualitative Simulation. J.UCS The Journal of Universal Computer Science. 1(12):811-820, December 1995.

Books, Book Chapters and Edited Journals

 

Peter Lewis, Marco Platzner, Bernhard Rinner, Jim Toressen and Xin Yao (Editors). Self-aware Computing Systems - An Engineering Approach. 324 pp, Springer 2016.

Jennifer Simonjan, Bernhard Dieber, Bernhard Rinner. Middleware Support for Self-aware Computing Systems. In Self-aware Computing Systems - An Engineering Approach. Peter Lewis, Marco Platzner, Bernhard Rinner, Jim Toressen and Xin Yao (Editors). Springer 2016.

Lukas Esterle, Jennifer Simonjan, Georg Nebehay, Roman Pflugfelder, Gustavo Fernandez Dominguez, Bernhard Rinner. Self-aware Object Tracking in Multi-Camera Networks. In Self-aware Computing Systems - An Engineering Approach. Peter Lewis, Marco Platzner, Bernhard Rinner, Jim Toressen and Xin Yao (Editors). Springer 2016.

Adam Krzyzak, Krystian Mikolajczyk and Bernhard Rinner. Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance. 487 pp, Springer 2013.

Thomas Winkler and Bernhard Rinner. Privacy and Security in Video Surveillance. In Intelligent Multimedia Surveillance, P. Atrey, M. Kankanhalli and A. Cavallaro (Editors), 31 pp, Springer 2013.

Bernhard Rinner and Markus Quaritsch. Embedded Middleware for Smart Camera Networks and Sensor Fusion. In Multi-Camera Networks, Hamid Aghajan and Andrea Cavallaro (Editors), pages 483-496, Elsevier 2009.

Bernhard Rinner and Wayne Wolf. Toward Pervasive Smart Camera Networks. In Multi-Camera Networks, Hamid Aghajan and Andrea Cavallaro (Editors), pages 483-496, Elsevier 2009.

Bernhard Rinner, Wilfried Elmenreich, Ralf Seepold, Volker Turau and Markus Kucera (Editors). Special Issue on Challenges on Complexity and Connectivity in Embedded Systems. EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems. February 2009.

Christian Bettstetter, Mario Huemer and Bernhard Rinner (Editors). Special Issue on Networked Embedded Systems. e&i Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik. 125(10), October 2008. Springer

Bernhard Rinner and Wayne Wolf (Editors). Special Issue on Distributed Smart Cameras. Proceedings of the IEEE. 96(10), October 2008.

Bernhard Rinner and Wayne Wolf (Editors). Proceedings of the International Workshop on Embedded Middleware for Smart Camera and Visual Sensor Networks (EMCAM 2008). Stanford, USA, September 2008.

Hamid Aghajan, Richard Kleihorst, Bernhard Rinner, Wayne Wolf (Editors). Special Issue on Distributed Processing in Vision Networks. IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing. 2(3), August 2008.

Bernhard Rinner and Wayne Wolf (Editors). Working Notes of the International Workshop on Distributed Smart Cameras (DSC 2006). Boulder, USA, October 2006.

Bernhard Rinner, Michael Hofbaur and Franz Wotawa (Editors). Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning (QR 2005). 216 pages, ISBN 3-9502019-0-4. Graz, Austria, May 2005.

Bernhard Rinner and Wilfried Elmenreich (Editors). Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Intelligent Solutions in Embedded Systems (WISES 2004). 203 pages, ISBN 3-902463-00-7. Graz, Austria, June 2004.

Conference Proceedings

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Petra Mazdin, Michal Barcis, Hermann Hellwagner and Bernhard Rinner. Distributed Task Assignment in Multi-Robot Systems based on Information Utility. In Proceedings of the IEEE 16th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), virtual. August 2020.

Petra Mazdin and Bernhard Rinner. Coordination of Mobile Agents for Simultaneous Coverage. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA), Torino, Italy. October 2019.

Chris Torkar, Saeed Yahyanejad, Horst Pichler, Michael Hofbaur and Bernhard Rinner. RNN-based Human Pose Prediction for Human-Robot Interaction. In Proceedings of the Austrian Robotics Workshop, Steyr, Austria. May 2019.

Jennifer Simonjan, Bernhard Dieber and Bernhard Rinner. Resilient Self-Calibration in Distributed Visual Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS) Workshops, Santorini, Greece. May 2019.

Petra Mazdin and Bernhard Rinner. Efficient and QoS-aware Drone Coordination for Simultaneous Environment Coverage. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR 2019), San Jose, USA. March 2019.

Omair Sarwar, Andrea Cavallaro and Bernhard Rinner. Temporally smooth privacy protected airborne videos. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2018), Madrid, Spain. October 2018.

Sharath Chandra Akkaladevi, Matthias Plasch, Christian Eitzinger, Andreas Pichler and Bernhard Rinner. Towards a Context Enhanced Framework for Multi Object Tracking in Human Robot Collaboration. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2018), Madrid, Spain. October 2018.

Niccolo Bisagno, Nicola Conci and Bernhard Rinner. Dynamic Camera Network Reconfiguration for Crowd Surveillance. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC 2018), Eindhoven, Netherlands. September 2018.

Jennifer Simonjan, Josep Miquel Jornet, Ian Akyildiz and Bernhard Rinner. Nano-Cameras: A Key Enabling Technology for the Internet of Multimedia Nano-Things. In Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication, Reykjavik, Iceland. September 2018.

Matthias Weyrer and Bernhard Rinner. UAV Motion Planning and Control for Multi-Coverage of 3D Environments. In Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS'18), Dallas, TX, USA. June 2018.

Subhan Ullah, Lucio Marcenaro and Bernhard Rinner. Aggregate-Signcryption for Securing Smart Camera IoT Applications. In Proceedings of the Global IoT Summit, Bilbao, Spain. June 2018.

Lukas Esterle and Bernhard Rinner. An Architecture for Self-aware IoT Applications. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Calgary, Canada. April 2018.

Ihtesham Haider and Bernhard Rinner. Private Space Monitoring with SoC-based Smart Cameras. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2017), Olando, FL, USA. October 2017.

Jürgen Scherer and Bernhard Rinner. Short and Full Horizon Motion Planning for Persistent multi-UAV Surveillance with Energy and Communication Constraints. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2017), Vancouver, Canada. September 2017.

Jennifer Simonjan, Melanie Schranz and Bernhard Rinner. Self-calibration and Cooperative State Estimation in a Resource-aware Visual Sensor Network. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC 2017), Stanford, USA. September 2017.

Zakarya Guettatfi, Philipp Hübner, Marco Platzner and Bernhard Rinner. Computational Self-Awareness as Design Approach for Visual Sensor Nodes. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Reconfigurable Communication-centric Systems-on-Chip (ReCoSoC 2017), Madrid, Spain. July 2017.

Subhan Ullah, Bernhard Rinner and Lucio Marcenaro. Smart Cameras with onboard Signcryption for Securing IoT Applications. In Proceedings of the Global IoT Summit, Geneva, Switzerland. June 2017.

Jennifer Simonjan and Bernhard Rinner. Distributed Visual Sensor Network Calibration based on Joint Object Detections. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, Ottawa, Canada. June 2017.

Ihtesham Haider and Bernhard Rinner. Securing Cloud-based IoT Applications with Trustworthy Sensing. In Proceedings of the EAI International Conference on Cloud, Networking for IoT Systems, Brindisi, Italy. April 2017.

Sharath Chandra Akkaladevi, Matthias Plasch, Christian Eitzinger and Bernhard Rinner. Context Enhanced Multi Object Tracker for Human Robot Interaction. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Human Robot Interaction (Late Breaking Results), Vienna, Austria. March 2017.

Sharath Chandra Akkaladevi, Matthias Plasch, Christian Eitzinger, Sriniwas Chowdhary Maddukuri and Bernhard Rinner. Towards Learning to Handle Deviations using User Preferences in a Human Robot Collaboration Scenario. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, Pilani, India. December 2016.

Evsen Yanmaz, Markus Quaritsch, Saeed Yahyanejad, Bernhard Rinner, Hermann Hellwagner, and Christian Bettstetter. Communication and Coordination for Drone Networks. In Proceedings of the EAI International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks (ADHOCNETS), Ottawa, Canada. September 2016.

Obaid Khalid, Andrea Cavalarro and Bernhard Rinner. Detecting tracking errors via forecasting. In Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), York, UK. September 2016.

Tahir Nawaz, Bernhard Rinner and James Ferryman. User-centric, embedded vision-based human monitoring: A concept and a healthcare use case. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), Paris, France. September 2016.

Jürgen Scherer and Bernhard Rinner. Persistent Multi-UAV Surveillance with Energy and Communication Constraints. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Dallas, TX, USA. August 2016.

Omair Sawar, Bernhard Rinner and Andrea Cavallaro. Design Space Exploration for Adaptive Privacy Protection in Airborne Images. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-based Surveillance (AVSS), Colorado Springs, CO, USA. August 2016.

Sharath Chandra Akkaladevi, Matthias Plasch, Andreas Pichler and Bernhard Rinner. Human Robot Collaboration to Reach a Common Goal in an Assembly Process. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Starting AI Researcher Symposium (STAIRS), Den Haag, The Netherlands. 2016.

Ihtesham Haider, Michael Hoeberl and Bernhard Rinner. Trusted Sensors for Participatory Sensing and IoT Applications based on Physically Unclonable Functions. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on IoT Privacy, Trust, and Security (IoTPTS), Xi'an, China. May 2016.

Michael Hoeberl, Ihtesham Haider and Bernhard Rinner. Towards a Secure Key Generation and Storage Framework on Resource-Constrained Sensor Nodes. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks Workshops, Graz, Austria. February 2016.

Jennifer Simonjan and Bernhard Rinner. Autonomous, Lightweight Calibration of Visual Sensor Networks with Dense Coverage. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (WiP), Sydney, Australia. March 2016.

Michael A. Gruber, Melanie Schranz and Bernhard Rinner. Demo: The extended VSNsim for Hybrid Camera Systems. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), Seville, Spain. September 2015.

Lukas Esterle, Bernhard Rinner and Peter Lewis. Self-organising Zooms for Decentralised Redundancy Management in Visual Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO), Boston, MA, USA. September 2015.

Asif Khan, Bernhard Rinner and Andrea Cavallaro. Multiscale Observation of Multiple Moving Targets using Micro Aerial Vehicles. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Hamburg, Germany. September 2015.

Jürgen Scherer, Saeed Yahyanejad, Samira Hayat, Evsen Yanmaz, Torsten Andre, Asif Khan, Vladimir Vukadinovic, Christian Bettstetter, Hermann Hellwagner and Bernhard Rinner. An Autonomous Multi-UAV System for Search and Rescue. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, ACM, Florence, Italy, May 2015.

Thomas Winkler and Bernhard Rinner. Secure Embedded Visual Sensing in End-User Applications with TrustEYE.M4. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP), Singapore. April 2015.

Syed Tahir Fahad, Andrea Cavallaro and Bernhard Rinner. Re-identification with multiple source-cameras. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP), Singapore. April 2015.

Melanie Schranz and Bernhard Rinner. Resource-Aware State Estimation in Visual Sensor Networks with Dynamic Clustering. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Sensor Networks (SENSORNETS), Angers, France. February 2015.

Thomas Winkler and Bernhard Rinner. Demo: TrustEYE.M4 - A novel Platform for Secure Visual Sensor Network Applications. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), Venice, Italy. November 2014.

Melanie Schranz and Bernhard Rinner. Demo: VSNsim - A Simulator for Control and Coordination in Visual Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), Venice, Italy. November 2014.

Jennifer Simonjan, Lukas Esterle, Bernhard Rinner, Georg Nebehay and Gustavo F. Dominguez. Demo: Demonstrating Autonomous Handover in Heterogeneous Multi-camera Systems. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), Venice, Italy. November 2014.

Bernhard Rinner and Thomas Winkler. Privacy-protecting Smart Cameras. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), Venice, Italy. November 2014.

Herwig Guggi and Bernhard Rinner. Reducing Processing Delay in Dataflow-oriented Middleware Systems for Smart Camera Applications. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), Venice, Italy. November 2014.

Tahir Nawaz, Andrea Cavallaro and Bernhard Rinner. Trajectory-Clustering for Motion Pattern Extraction in Aerial Videos. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing. 5pp, Paris, France. October 2013.
Top 10% Award

Adam Erdelyi, Thomas Winkler and Bernhard Rinner. Multi-Level Cartooning for Context-Aware Privacy Protection in Visual Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of the MediaEval 2014 Workshop. 2pp, Barcelona, Spain. October 2014.

Thomas Winkler, Adam Erdelyi and Bernhard Rinner. TrustEYE.M4: Protecting the Sensor - not the Camera. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance (AVSS), Seoul, Korea. August 2014.

Adam Erdelyi, Tibor Barat, Patrick Valet, Thomas Winkler and Bernhard Rinner. Adaptive Cartooning for Privacy Protection in Camera Networks. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance (AVSS), Seoul, Korea. August 2014.

Muhidul Khan and Bernhard Rinner. Energy-aware Task Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks based on Cooperative Reinforcement Learning. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops, Sydney, Australia. June 2014.

Asif Khan, Evsen Yanmaz and Bernhard Rinner. Information Merging in Multi-UAV Cooperative Search. In Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2014), Hong Kong, China. June 2014.

Bernhard Dieber and Bernhard Rinner. Distributed Online Visual Sensor Network Reconfiguration for Resource-aware Coverage and Task Assignment. In Proceedings of the Globecom Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium, Atlanta, USA. December 2013.

Venkata Pathuri Bhuvana, Melanie Schranz, Mario Huemer and Bernhard Rinner. Distributed Object Tracking based on Cubature Kalman Filter. In Proceedings of the the 47th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, USA. November 2013.

Bernhard Dieber, Jennifer Simonjan, Lukas Esterle, Bernhard Rinner, Georg Nebehay, Roman Pflugfelder and Gustavo J. Fernandez. Ella: Middleware for Multi-camera Surveillance in Heterogeneous Visual Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of the seventh ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras. 6 pp, Palm Springs, USA. October 2013.

Adam Erdelyi, Thomas Winkler and Bernhard Rinner. Serious Fun: Cartooning for Privacy Protection. In Proceedings of the MediaEval 2013 Workshop. 2pp, Barcelona, Spain. October 2013.

Vidya Sagar Kantamneni, Wolfgang Scherr and Bernhard Rinner. Design of Stable and Configurable Digital Filters for Automotive Sensors. In Proceedings of 21st Austrian Workshop on Microelectronics (Austrochip 2013). Linz, Austria 2013.

Peter R. Lewis, Lukas Esterle, Arjun Chandra, Bernhard Rinner and Xin Yao. Learning to be Different: Heterogeneity and Efficiency in Distributed Smart Camera Networks. In Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2013), 10 pp, Philadelphia, USA. September 2013.

Herwig Guggi and Bernhard Rinner. Increasing efficiency of data-flow based middleware systems by adapting data generation. In Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2013), 10 pp, Philadelphia, USA. September 2013.

Thomas Winkler and Bernhard Rinner. Sensor-level Security and Privacy Protection by embedding Video Content Analysis. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP 2013). Santorini, Greece. July 2013.

Muhidul Islam Khan, Bernhard Rinner and Carlo S. Regazzoni. Resource Coordination in Wireless Sensor Networks by Combinatorial Auction Based Method. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Networked Embedded Systems for Every Application (NESEA 2012). Liverpool, UK. December 2012.

Vera Mersheeva, Daniel Wischounig-Strucl, Markus Quaritsch, Bernhard Rinner, Gerhard Friedrich. Lightscribing the sky with micro UAVs. In Proceedings of UAVveek 2012. Siegen, Germany. November 2012.

Umair Ali Khan, Bernhard Rinner. A Reinforcement Learning Framework For Dynamic Power Management of a Portable, Multi-Camera Traffic Monitoring System. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom 2012). Besancon, France. November 2012.

Umair Ali Khan, Martin Godec, Markus Quaritsch, Marcus Hennecke, Horst Bischof, Bernhard Rinner. MobiTrick - Mobile Traffic Checker. In Proceedings of the ITS World Congress (ITSWC 2012). Vienna, Austria. October 2012.

Felix Pletzer, Roland Tusch, Thomas Mariacher, Manfred Harrer, Laszlo Beoszoermenyi, Bernhard Rinner. LOOK2: Video-based traffic state estimation on smart cameras for traffic information systems. In Proceedings of the ITS World Congress (ITSWC 2012). Vienna, Austria. October 2012.

Roland Tusch, Felix Pletzer, Thomas Mariacher, Armin Kraetschmer, Vijay Mudunuri, Karuna Sabbavarapu, Marian Kogler, Manfred Harrer, Peter Hrassnig, Laszlo Boeszoermenyi, Bernhard Rinner. LOOK2: A video-centric system for real-time notification and presentation of relevant traffic situations in Austria. In Proceedings of the ITS World Congress (ITSWC 2012). Vienna, Austria. October 2012.

Melanie Schranz, Bernhard Rinner. Consensus in Visual Sensor Networks Consisting of Calibrated and Uncalibrated Cameras (PhD Forum). In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC 2012). Hong Kong, China. October 2012.

Lukas Esterle, Peter R. Lewis, Bernhard Rinner, Xin Yao. Improved Adaptivity and Robustness in Decentralised Multi-Camera Networks. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC 2012). Hong Kong, China. October 2012.

Bernhard Dieber, Lukas Esterle, Bernhard Rinner. Distributed Resource-aware Task Assignment for Complex Monitoring Scenarios in Visual Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC 2012). Hong Kong, China. October 2012.

Felix Pletzer, Roland Tusch, Laszlo Boeszoermenyi, Bernhard Rinner. Robust traffic state estimation on smart cameras. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-based Surveillance (AVSS 2012). Bejing, China. September 2012.

Roland Tusch, Felix Pletzer, Vijay Mudunuri, Armin Kraetschmer, Karuna Sabbavarapu, Marian Kogler, Laszlo Boeszoermenyi, Bernhard Rinner, Thomas Mariacher, Manfred Harrer, Peter Hrassnig. Demonstration paper for ICME 2012 LOOK2 - A video-based system for real-time notification of relevant traffic events. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2012). Melbourne, Australia. July 2012.
Best Demonstration Award

Roland Tusch, Felix Pletzer, Armin Kraetschmer, Laszlo Boeszoermenyi, Bernhard Rinner, Thomas Mariacher, Manfred Harrer. Efficient Level of Service Classification for Traffic Monitoring in the Compressed Video Domain. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2012). Melbourne, Australia. July 2012.

Bernhard Rinner, Bernhard Dieber, Lukas Esterle, Peter R. Lewis and Xin Yao. Resource-Aware Configuration in Smart Camera Networks. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop on Camera Networks and Wide Area Analysis. Providence, USA. June 2012.

Daniel Wischounig-Strucl and Bernhard Rinner. Incrementally Generated Wide Area Mosaics for Rescue Scenarios by Networked UAVs. In Proceedings of the 2nd Austrian Robotics Workshop (ARW 2012). Graz, Austria. May 2012.

Robert Kuschnig, Evsen Yanmaz, Ingo Kofler, Bernhard Rinner and Hermann Hellwagner. Profiling IEEE 802.11 Performance on Linux-based Networked Aerial Robots. In Proceedings of the 2nd Austrian Robotics Workshop (ARW 2012). Graz, Austria. May 2012.

Umair Khan and Bernhard Rinner. Dynamic Power Management for Portable, Multi-Camera Traffic Monitoring. In Proceedings of the 18th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2012). Beijing, China. April 2012.

Muhidul Islam Khan and Bernhard Rinner. Resource coordination in wireless sensor networks by cooperative reinforcemnet learning. In Proceedings of the 4rd International Workshop on Sensor Networks and Ambient Intelligence (SeNAmI 2012). Lugano, Switzerland. March 2012.

Saeed Yahyanejad, Jakub Misiorny, Bernhard Rinner. Lens Distortion Correction for Thermal Cameras to Improve Aerial Imaging with Small-Scale UAVs. In IEEE International Symposium on RObotic and Sensors Environment. Montreal, Kanada. September 2011.
Best Student Paper Award

Saeed Yahyanejad, Markus Quaritsch, Bernhard Rinner. Incremental, Orthorectified and Loop-independent Mosaicking of Aerial Images Taken by micro UAVs. In IEEE International Symposium on RObotic and Sensors Environment. Montreal, Kanada. September 2011.

Felix Pletzer, Roland Tusch, Laszlo Boeszoermenyi, Oliver Sidla, Thomas Mariacher, Manfred Harrer, Bernhard Rinner. Feature-based Level of Service Classification for Traffic Surveillance. In Proceedings of the 14th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2011). Washington, DC, USA. October 2011.

Lukas Esterle, Peter R. Lewis, Marcin Bogdanski, Bernhard Rinner and Xin Yao. A Socio-Economic Approach to Online Vision Graph Generation and Handover in Distributed Smart Camera Networks. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC 2011) Ghent, Belgium. August 2011.

Herwig Guggi and Bernhard Rinner. Distributed Smart Cameras for Hard Real-Time Obstacle Detection in Control Applications. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC 2011) Ghent, Belgium. August 2011.

Fahdi Al Machot, Kyandoghere Kyamakya, Bernhard Dieber and Bernhard Rinner. Real Time Complex Event Detection for Resource-Limited Multimedia Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of the Activity monitoring by multi-camera surveillance systems (co-located with AVSS 2011) Klagenfurt, Austria. August 2011.

Fahdi Al Machot, Sabrina Londero, Christian Micheloni, Paolo Omero, Claudio Piciarelli, Bernhard Dieber, Kyandoghere Kyamakya, Bernhard Rinner and Carlo Tasso. Smart Resource-aware Multimedia Sensor Network for Automatic Detection of Complex Events. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Systems for Surveillance (co-located with AVSS 2011) Klagenfurt, Austria. August 2011.

Bernhard Dieber and Bernhard Rinner. Resource-Aware Sensor Selection and Task Assignment. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Resources AWare Sensor and surveillance NETworkS (co-located with AVSS 2011) Klagenfurt, Austria. August 2011.

Umair Khan, Markus Quaritsch and Bernhard Rinner. Design of a Heterogeneous, Energy-Aware, Stereo-Vision Based Sensing Platform for Traffic Surveillance. In Ninth Workshop on Intelligent Solutions in Embedded Systems (WISES 2011). Regensburg, Germany. July 2011.

Daniel Wischounig-Strucl, Markus Quaritsch and Bernhard Rinner. Prioritized Data Transmission in Airborne Camera Networks for Wide Area Surveillance and Image Mosaicking. . In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Workshop on Camera Networks and Wide Area Scene Analysis . Colorado Springs, USA. June 2011.

Markus Quaritsch, Robert Kuschnig, Hermann Hellwagner, Bernhard Rinner. Fast Aerial Image Acquisition and Mosaicking for Emergency Response Operations by Collaborative UAVs. In 8th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2011). Lisbon, Portugal. May 2011.

Markus Quaritsch, Robert Kuschnig, Vera Mersheeva, Daniel Wischounig-Strucl, Saeed Yahyanejad, Evsen Yanmaz, Gerhard Friedrich, Hermann Hellwagner, Christian Bettstetter, Bernhard Rinner. Collaborative UAVs for Aerial Reconnaissance in Rescue Scenarios. In Proceedings of the Austrian Robotics Workshop. Innsbruck, Austria. May 2011.

Evsen Yanmaz, Robert Kuschnig, Markus Quaritsch, Christian Bettstetter and Bernhard Rinner. On Path Planning Strategies for Networked Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. In Proceedings of the IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Machine-to-Machine Communications and Networking. Shanghai, China. April 2011.

Daniel Wischounig-Strucl, Markus Quaritsch, and Bernhard Rinner. A Structure Based Mosaicking Approach for Aerial Images from Low Altitude of Non-Planar Scenes. In Proceedings of the Computer Vision Winter Workshop (CVWW). Mitterberg, Austria. February 2011.

Felix Pletzer and Bernhard Rinner. Distributed Task Allocation for Visual Sensor Networks: A Market-based Approach. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Socio-Economics Inspiring Self-Managed Systems and Concepts (SEISMYC). Budapest, Hungary. September 2010.

Herwig Guggi and Bernhard Rinner. Distributed Smart Cameras for Hard Real-Time Control. In Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (Work-in-Progress). Atlanta, GA., USA. September 2010.

Daniel Wischounig-Strucl and Bernhard Rinner. Resource-Aware Image Mosaicking on Networks of Small-Scale UAVs. In Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (PhD Forum). Atlanta, GA., USA. September 2010.

Wolfgang Schriebl and Bernhard Rinner. A Resource-Aware Distributed Event Space for Pervasive Smart Camera Networks. In Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC). Atlanta, GA., USA. September 2010.

Thomas Winkler and Bernhard Rinner. A Systematic Approach Towards User-Centric Privacy and Security for Smart Camera Networks. In Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC). Atlanta, GA., USA. September 2010.

Saeed Yahyanejad, Daniel Wischounig-Strucl, Markus Quaritsch and Bernhard Rinner. Incremental Mosaicking of Images from Autonomous, Small-Scale UAVs. In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS). pages 329-336, Boston, MA., USA. August/September 2010.

Martin Godec, Christian Leistner, Horst Bischof, Andreas Starzacher and Bernhard Rinner. Audio-Visual Co-Training for Vehicle Classification. In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS). pages 586-592, Boston, MA., USA. August/September 2010.

Thomas Winkler and Bernhard Rinner. TrustCAM: Security and Privacy-Protection for an Embedded Smart Camera based on Trusted Computing. In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS). pages 593-600, Boston, MA., USA. August/September 2010.
Best Paper Award (runner up)

Bernhard Dieber, Thomas Grassauer, Jakob Mayring and Bernhard Rinner. The Geobashing Architecture for Location-Based Mobile Massive Multiplayer Online Games. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies (NGMAST 2010). Amman, Jordan. July 2010.

Thomas Winkler and Bernhard Rinner. User-Based Attestation for Trustworthy Visual Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing (SUTC). pages 74-81, Newport Beach, CA., USA. June 2010.

Andreas Starzacher and Bernhard Rinner. Single Sensor Acoustic Feature Extraction for Embedded Realtime Vehicle Classification. In Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (Workshop on Sensor Networks and Ambient Intelligence). pages 378-383, Hiroshima, Japan. December 2009.

Thomas Winkler and Bernhard Rinner. Power Aware Communication in Wireless Pervasive Smart Camera Networks. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP 2009). pages 6, Melbourne, Australia. December 2009.

Thomas Winkler and Bernhard Rinner. Applications of Trusted Computing in Pervasive Smart Camera Networks. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Embedded Systems Security. (part of ESWEEK 2009). pages 10, Grenoble, France. October 2009.

Bernhard Dieber, Bernhard Rinner and Nikolaus Viertl. Flexible Clustering in Networks of Smart Camera. In Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Embedded Computer Vision. (part of ICCV2009) pages 6, Kyoto, Japan. October 2009.

Bernhard Dieber and Bernhard Rinner. Evaluating clustering in smart camera networks. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC 2009) PhD Forum. pages 2, Como, Italy. September 2009.

Wolfgang Schriebl, Thomas Winkler, Andreas Starzacher and Bernhard Rinner. A Pervasive Smart Camera Network Architecture applied for Multi-Camera Object Classification. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC 2009). pages 8, Como, Italy. September 2009.

Andreas Starzacher and Bernhard Rinner. Embedded Realtime Feature Fusion based on ANN, SVM and NBC. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Fusion (Fusion 2009). pages 8, Seattle, Washington USA. July 2009.

Herwig Guggi, Raimund Leitner and Bernhard Rinner. Exploiting Feature-Based Fusion in LED-based Multi-Spectral Imaging. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Workshop of the Austrian Association for Pattern Recognition (OAGM 2009). pages 107-117, Stainz, Austria. May 2009.

Thomas Winkler and Bernhard Rinner. Pervasive Smart Camera Networks exploiting heterogeneous wireless Channels. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom). pages 296-299, Galveston, USA. March 2009.

Andreas Starzacher and Bernhard Rinner. Evaluating KNN, LDA and QDA Classification for embedded online Feature Fusion. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP 2008). pages 85-90, Sydney, Australia. December 2008.

Markus Quaritsch, Emil Stojanovski, Christian Bettstetter, Gerhard Friedrich, Hermann Hellwagner, Bernhard Rinner, Michael Hofbauer and Mubarak Shah. Collaborative Microdrones: Applications and Research Challenges. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communication Systems. pages 7, Milan, Italy. October 2008.

Markus Quaritsch and Bernhard Rinner. DSCAgents: A Lightweight Middleware for Distributed Smart Cameras. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Embedded Middleware for Smart Cameras and Visual Sensor Networks. pages 7, Stanford, USA. September 2008.

Christian Leistner, Peter Roth, Helmut Grabner, Horst Bischof, Andreas Starzacher and Bernhard Rinner. Visual On-line Learning in Distributed Camera Networks. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC-08). pages 10, Stanford, USA. September 2008.

Bernhard Rinner, Markus Quaritsch, Wolfgang Schriebl, Thomas Winkler and Wayne Wolf. The Evolution from Single to Pervasive Smart Cameras. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC-08). pages 10, Stanford, USA. September 2008.

Markus Quaritsch, Bernhard Rinner, Mario Wiesinger and Bernhard Strobl. An Adaptive Multi-Purpose Transmission Scheme for H.264 Encoded Video in Wireless Networks. In Proceedings of the International Symposium Communication Systems Networks and Digital Signal Processing. pages 5, Graz, Austria. July 2008.

Allan Tengg, Andreas Klausner and Bernhard Rinner. Task Allocation in Distributed Embedded Systems by Genetic Programming. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT). pages 26-30, Adelaide, Australia. December 2007.

Wolfgang Schriebl, Thomas Winkler and Bernhard Rinner. Towards Pervasive Smart Cameras. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC-07) PhD Forum. pages 402-403, Vienna, Austria. September 2007.

Andreas Starzacher and Bernhard Rinner. An Embedded Multi-Sensor Data Fusion Framework for Enhancing Vision-based Traffic Monitoring. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC-07) PhD Forum. pages 400-401, Vienna, Austria, September 2007.

Markus Quaritsch, Bernhard Rinner and Bernhard Strobl. Improved Agent-oriented Middleware for Distributed Smart Cameras. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC). pages 297-304, Vienna, Austria. September 2007.

Andreas Klausner, Allan Tengg and Bernhard Rinner. Vehicle Classification on Multi-Sensor Cameras using Feature- and Decision-Fusion. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC). pages 67-74, Vienna, Austria. September 2007.

Andreas Klausner, Christian Leistner, Stefan Erb and Bernhard Rinner. An audio-visual sensor fusion approach for feature based vehicle identification. In Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance (AVSS 2007). pages 111-116, London, UK. September 2007.

Andreas Klausner, Stefan Erb, Allan Tengg and Bernhard Rinner. DSP Based Acoustic Vehicle Classification for Multi-Sensor Real-Time Traffic Surveillance. In Proceedings of the 15th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2007). pages 5, Poznan, Poland. September 2007.

Allan Tengg, Andreas Klausner and Bernhard Rinner. An improved genetic algorithm for task allocation in distributed embedded systems. In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Conference (GECCO 2007). London, UK. July 2007.

Andreas Klausner, Allan Tengg and Bernhard Rinner. Enhanced Least Squares Support Vector Machines for Decision Modeling in a Multi-Sensor Fusion Framework. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR 2007). Orlando, FL, USA. July 2007.

Milan Jovanovic and Bernhard Rinner. Middleware for Dynamic Reconfiguration in Distributed Camera Systems. In Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Intelligent Solutions in Embedded Systems (WISES 2007). pages 139-150, Madrid, Spain. June 2007.

Allan Tengg, Andreas Klausner and Bernhard Rinner. I-SENSE: A Light-Weight Middleware for Embedded Multi-Sensor Data-Fusion. In Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Intelligent Solutions in Embedded Systems (WISES 2007). pages 165-170, Madrid, Spain. June 2007.

Bernhard Rinner, Milan Jovanovic and Markus Quaritsch. Embedded Middleware in Distributed Smart Cameras. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2007). pages 1381-1384, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. April 2007. (invited paper)

Markus Quaritsch, Markus Kreuzthaler, Bernhard Rinner and Bernhard Strobl. Decentralized Object Tracking in a Network of Embedded Smart Cameras. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Distributed Smart Cameras (DSC 2006). pages 6, Boulder, CO, USA. October 2006.

Andreas Doblander, Arnold Maier, Bernhard Rinner and Helmut Schwabach. A Novel Software Framework for Power-Aware Reconfiguration in Distributed Embedded Smart Cameras. In Proceedings of the IEEE Twelfth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2006). pages 281-288, Minneapolis, USA, July 2006.

Andreas Klausner, Bernhard Rinner and Allan Tengg. I-SENSE: Intelligent Embedded Multi-Sensor Fusion. In Proceedings of the Fourth International IEEE Workshop on Intelligent Solutions in Embedded Systems (WISES 2006). pages 12, Vienna, Austria, June 2006.

Andreas Doblander, Arnold Maier, Bernhard Rinner and Andreas Zoufal. An Efficient Middleware for Power-Aware Service Reconfiguration in Multi-DSP Smart Cameras. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies: From Theory to Applications (ICTTA 2006). pages 2985-2990, Damascus, Syria, April 2006.

Andreas Doblander, Bernhard Rinner, Norbert Trenkwalder and Andreas Zoufal. A leight-weight Publisher-Subscriber Middleware for Dynamic Reconfiguration in Networks of Embedded Smart Cameras. In Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS International Conference on Software Engineering, Parallel and Distributed Systems (SEPADS 2006). pages 6, Madrid, Spain, February 2006.

Arnold Maier, Bernhard Rinner, Wolfgang Schriebl and Helmut Schwabach. Online Multi-Criterion Optimization for Dynamic Power-Aware Configuration Management in Distributed Embedded Surveillance Clusters. In Proceedings of the IEEE 20th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2006). pages 307-312, Vienna, Austria, April 2006.

Michael Bramberger, Andreas Doblander, Milan Jovanovic, Andreas Klausner, Arnold Maier, Bernhard Rinner and Allan Tengg. Embedded Smart Cameras as Key Components in Reactive Sensor Systems. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Systems with Interactive Sensors (COGIS 2005). pages 6, Paris, France, March 2006.

Michael Bramberger, Bernhard Rinner and Helmut Schwabach. A Method for Dynamic Allocation of Tasks in Clusters of Embedded Smart Cameras. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC 2005). pages 2595-2600, Hawaii, U.S.A., October 2005.

Michael Bramberger, Markus Quaritsch, Thomas Winkler, Bernhard Rinner and Helmut Schwabach. Integrating Multi-Camera Tracking into a Dynamic Task Allocation System for Smart Cameras. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS 2005). pages 474-479. Como, Italy, September 2005.

Arnold Maier, Bernhard Rinner and Helmut Schwabach. A Hierarchical Approach for Energy-Aware Distributed Embedded Intelligent Surveillance. In Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Embedded Systems. pages 12-16, Fukuoka, Japan, July 2005.

Michael Bramberger, Bernhard Rinner and Helmut Schwabach. Resource-Aware Dynamic Task Allocation in Clusters of Embedded Smart Cameras by Mobile Agents. In Proceedings of the IEE Workshop on Intelligent Environments. pages 100-108. Colchester, U.K., June 2005.

Andreas Doblander, Arnold Maier, Bernhard Rinner and Helmut Schwabach. Improving Fault-Tolerance in Intelligent Video Surveillance by Monitoring, Diagnosis and Dynamic Reconfiguration. In Proceedings of the Third International IEEE Workshop on Intelligent Solutions in Embedded Systems (WISES 2005). pages 194-201. Hamburg, Germany, May 2005.

Michael Bramberger, Bernhard Rinner and Helmut Schwabach. A Mobile Agent-based System for Dynamic Task Allocation in Clusters of Embedded Smart Cameras. In Proceedings of the Third International IEEE Workshop on Intelligent Solutions in Embedded Systems (WISES 2005). pages 17-26. Hamburg, Germany, May 2005.

Matthias Pfragner, Peter Priller, Dietmar Prisching and Bernhard Rinner. Performance Estimation in complex Automation Systems. In Proceedings of the Telecommunications and Mobile Computing Workshop on Wearable and Pervasive Computing (TCMC 2005). pages 4, Graz, Austria, March 2005.

Andreas Doblander, Arnold Maier, Bernhard Rinner and Helmut Schwabach. Increasing Service Availability in Intelligent Video Surveillance Systems by Fault Detection and Dynamic Reconfiguration. In Proceedings of the Telecommunications and Mobile Computing Workshop on Wearable and Pervasive Computing (TCMC 2005). pages 5, Graz, Austria, March 2005.

Michael Bramberger, Bernhard Rinner and Helmut Schwabach. Dynamic Task Allocation in Clusters of Embedded Smart Cameras. In Proceedings of the Telecommunications and Mobile Computing Workshop on Wearable and Pervasive Computing (TCMC 2005). pages 6, Graz, Austria, March 2005.

Michael Bramberger, Bernhard Rinner and Helmut Schwabach. An Embedded Smart Camera on a scalable heterogeneous Multi-DSP System. In Proceedings of the IEEE European DSP Education and Research Symposium (EDERS 2004). pages 6, Birmingham, U.K., November 2004.

Arnold Maier, Bernhard Rinner, Thomas Trathnigg and Helmut Schwabach. Combined Management of Power- and Quality of Service in Distributed Embedded Video Surveillance Systems. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Power-Aware Real-Time Computing (PARC 2004). pages 4, Pisa, Italy, September 2004.

Michael Bramberger, Josef Brunner, Bernhard Rinner and Helmut Schwabach. Real-Time Video Analysis on an Embedded Smart Camera for Traffic Surveillance. In Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2004). pages 174-181, Toronto, Canada, May 2004.

Arnold Maier, Bernhard Rinner, Thomas Trathnigg and Helmut Schwabach. Combined Dynamic Power- and QoS-Management in Embedded Video Surveillance Systems. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Intelligent Solutions in Embedded Systems (WISES 2004). pages 63-77, Graz, Austria, June 2004.

Andreas Doblander, Dietmar Goesseringer, Bernhard Rinner and Helmut Schwabach. Synthesis of Embedded Image Processing Applications from SIMULINK Models. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Intelligent Solutions in Embedded Systems (WISES 2004). pages 13-24, Graz, Austria, June 2004.

Michael Bramberger, Andreas Doblander, Arnold Maier, Bernhard Rinner Martin Schmid and Reinhold Weiss. Innovative Video Applications on High-Performance DSPs. In Proceedings of the Texas Instruments Developers Conference. Houston, TX, USA, February 2004.

Dietmar Prisching and Bernhard Rinner. Modeling Real-Time and non Real-Time Interoperability. In Proceedings of the 15th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (Work in Progress Session). pages 4, Porto, Portugal, July 2003.

Michael Bramberger, Roman Pflugfelder, Arnold Maier, Bernhard Rinner, Bernhard Strobl and Helmut Schwabach. A Smart Camera for Traffic Surveillance. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Solutions for Embedded Systems (WISES03). pages 12, Vienna, Austria, June 2003.

Dietmar Prisching and Bernhard Rinner. Response Time Analysis of Systems with Real-Time and non Real-Time Processing. In Proceedings of the 7th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2003). pages 6, Orlando, U.S.A., July 2003.

Andreas Doblander, Bernhard Rinner and Ulrich Weiss. Model Refinement for Monitoring - Refutation vs. traditional Parameter Estimation. In Proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes (SAFEPROCESS 2003). pages 6, Washington, DC, June 2003.

Bernhard Rinner and Ulrich Weiss. Online Monitoring of Hybrid Systems using Imprecise Models. In Proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes (SAFEPROCESS 2003). pages 6, Washington, DC, June 2003.

Dietmar Prisching, Michael Paulweber and Bernhard Rinner. Configuring Complex Multi-Sensor Test Bed Systems. In Proceedings of the Telecommunications and Mobile Computing Workshop on Wearable Computing (TCMC03). pages 4, Graz, Austria, March 2003. OEVE.

Michael Bramberger, Roman Pflugfelder, Bernhard Rinner, Helmut Schwabach and Bernhard Strobl. Intelligent Traffic Video Sensor: Architecture and Applications. In Proceedings of the Telecommunications and Mobile Computing. pages 4, Workshop on Wearable Computing (TCMC03). Graz, Austria, March 2003. OEVE.

Bernhard Rinner, Martin Schmid and Reinhold Weiss. Rapid Prototyping of flexible Embedded Systems multi-DSP Architectures. In Proceedings of the Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference 2003. pages 204-209, Munich, Germany, March 2003. IEEE.

Dietmar Prisching and Bernhard Rinner. Thread-based Analysis of embedded Applications with real-time and non real-time processing on a single platform. In Proceedings of the Embedded World Congress 2003. pages 1009-1018, Nuernberg, Germany, March 2003.

Bernhard Rinner and Ulrich Weiss. Model-Based Monitoring of Piecewise Continuous Behaviors using Dynamic Uncertainty Space Partitioning. In Proceedings of the International Thirteenth International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX-02). pages 146-150, Semmering, Austria, May 2002.

Bernhard Rinner and Ulrich Weiss. Model-Based Monitoring using Dynamic Uncertainty Space Partitioning. In Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control (MIC2002). pages 174-179, Innsbruck, Austria, February 2002.

Arnold Maier, Paul Fugger and Bernhard Rinner. Low-Power meets High-Performance: Dynamic Voltage Scaling on the CARMEL Signal Processor. In Proceedings of the Telecommunication and Mobile Computing Workshop on Wearable Computing. pages 5, Graz, Austria, October 2001.

Bernhard Rinner, Bernd Ruprechter and Martin Schmid. Rapid Prototyping of Multi-DSP Systems based on Accurate Performance Estimation. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. pages 1113-1116, Salt Lake City, USA, May 2001.

Bernhard Rinner. From Tracking Continuous Mode Hypotheses to Diagnosing Technical Systems. In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis. pages 183-188, Via Lattea, Italy, March 2001.

Bernhard Rinner and Reinhard Schneider. Lessons Learned from Prototyping Parallel Computer Architectures for AI Algorithms. In Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Search for Reasoning. pages 5, Austin, TX, August 2000.

Claudia Mathis, Bernhard Rinner, Martin Schmid, Reinhard Schneider and Reinhold Weiss. A New Approach to Model Communication for Mapping and Scheduling DSP Applications. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. pages 3354-3357, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2000.

Eugen Brenner, Christian Kreiner, Claudia Mathis, Bernhard Rinner, Martin Schmid, Reinhard Schneider, Christian Steger and Reinhold Weiss. Einsatz programmierbarer Logik und digitaler Signalprozessoren in Forschung und Lehre. In Proceedings of Austrochip 1999, Villach, Austria. 1999.

Claudia Mathis and Bernhard Rinner. Hardware-Supported Scheduling for DSP Applications. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing Applications and Technology (ICSPAT'99), pages 36-40, Orlando, USA. 1999.

Claudia Mathis, Bernhard Rinner, Christian Steger and Reinhold Weiss. Educating and Training Digital Signal Processing Using TMS320 Processors. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing Applications and Technology (ICSPAT'99), pages 5, Orlando, USA. 1999.

Bernhard Rinner and Benjamin Kuipers. Monitoring Piecewise Continuous Behaviors by Refining Semi-Quantitative Trackers. In Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-99), pages 1080-1086, Stockholm, Sweden 1999.

Bernhard Rinner and Benjamin Kuipers. Monitoring Piecewise Continuous Behaviors by Refining Trackers and their Models. In Working Notes of the AAAI Spring Symposium Series: Hybrid Systems and AI, pages 164-169, Stanford, CA 1999.

Bernhard Obermaier and Bernhard Rinner. A TMS320C40-based Speech Recognition System for Embedded Applications. In Proceedings of the 2nd European DSP Education & Research Conference, pages 72-75, Paris, France, September 1998.

Bernhard Rinner, Reinhard Schneider, Christian Steger and Reinhold Weiss. A Multi-DSP Laboratory Course. In Proceedings of the 2nd European DSP Education & Research Conference, pages 350-356, Paris, France, September 1998.

Bernhard Rinner and Diethard Kaufmann. On-line Scheduling of Tasks in Multi-DSP Systems. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Signal Processing Applications & Technology, pages 1509-1513, San Diego, USA, September 1997. Miller Freeman.

Erich Lind, Marco Platzner, and Bernhard Rinner. A Multi-DSP System with Dynamically Reconfigurable Coprocessors. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Signal Processing Applications & Technology, pages 1407-1411, Boston, USA, October 1996. Miller Freeman.

Marco Platzner and Bernhard Rinner. High-Performance Qualitative Simulation on a Multi-DSP Architecture. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Signal Processing Applications & Technology, pages 725-729, Boston, USA, October 1995.

Marco Platzner, Bernhard Rinner, and Reinhold Weiss. Parallel Qualitative Simulation. In Proceedings of the 1995 EUROSIM Congress, pages 231-236, Vienna, Austria, September 1995.

Marco Platzner and Bernhard Rinner. Improving Performance of the Qualitative Simulator QSIM - Design and Implementation of a Specialized Computer Architecture. In Proceedings of the ISCA International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, pages 494-501, Orlando, USA, September 1995.

Eugen Brenner, Robert Ginthoer-Kalcsics, Robert Hranitzky, Marco Platzner, Bernhard Rinner, Christian Steger and Reinhold Weiss. High-Performance Simulators Based on Multi-TMSC320C40. In Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Texas Instruments TMS320 Educators Conference, Houston, USA, August 1995.

Gerald Friedl, Marco Platzner and Bernhard Rinner. A Special-Purpose Coprocessor for Qualitative Simulation. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing (EURO-PAR'95), pages 695-698, Stockholm, Sweden, August 1995.

Marco Platzner, Bernhard Rinner and Reinhold Weiss. A Distributed Computer Architecture for Qualitative Simulation Based on a Multi-DSP and FPGAs. In Proceedings of the 3rd Euromicro Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing, pages 311-318, San Remo, Italy, January 1995. IEEE Computer Society Press.

Patents

 

Felix Pletzer, Roland Tusch, Bernhard Rinner, Laszlo Boeszoermenyi. Concept for Detecting a Motion of a Moving Object. submitted to the European Patent Office, September 2012.

Felix Pletzer, Roland Tusch, Bernhard Rinner, Laszlo Boeszoermenyi. Concept for Counting Moving Objects Passing a Plurality of Different Areas Within a Region of Interest. submitted to the European Patent Office, September 2012.

Bernhard Rinner, Markus Quaritsch, Saeed Yahyanejad and Daniel Wischounig-Strucl. Apparatus and Method for Generating an Overview Image of a Plurality of Images Using an Accuracy Information. patent application (EP 2 423 871 B1) granted by the European Patent Office, June 18, 2014.

Bernhard Rinner, Markus Quaritsch, Saeed Yahyanejad and Daniel Wischounig-Strucl. Apparatus and Method for Generating an Overview Image of a Plurality of Images Using a Reference Plane. patent application (US 8,902,308 B2) granted by the United States Patent Office, December 2, 2014.

Other Publications

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Bernhard Rinner. Monitoring and Diagnosis of Technical Systems. Habilitationsschrift, Graz University of Technology, September 2001.

Bernhard Rinner. Design, Prototype Implementation and Experimental Evaluation of a Scalable Multiprocessor Architecture for Qualitative Simulation. PhD thesis, Graz University of Technology, April 1996.

Bernhard Rinner. Konzepte zur Parallelisierung des qualitativen Simulators QSim. Master thesis, Institute for Technical Informatics, Graz University of Technology, 1993.