Projects

• Electronic Chalkboard
• Robocup
• Map Labeling
• Estima Ratio

Publications

• Christian Zick, Gerald Friedland, Lars Knipping:
  Elektronische Tafel: altes Medium in neuem Gewand,
  in Brigitte Behrendt, Hans-Peter Voss und Johannes Wildt (ed.):
  Neues Handbuch für die Hochschullehre, 20. Ergänzungslieferung,
  Rabbe Verlag, Berlin, October 2005.
   
• Gerald Friedland, Kristian Jantz, Lars Knipping, Raúl Rojas:
  The Virtual Technician: An Automatic Software Enhancer for Audio Recording in Lecture Halls,
  in Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems: 9th International Conference, Proceedings, Part I,
  LNAI 3681/2005, pp. 744--750, Springer Verlag, Melbourne, Septemer 2005.
  HTML abstract and PDF of full article are available online at Springer LINK.
   
• Marcus Liwicki, Lars Knipping:
  Recognizing and Simulating Sketched Logical Circuits,
  in Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems: 9th International Conference, Proceedings, Part III,
  LNAI 3683/2005, pp. 588--594, Springer Verlag, Melbourne, September 2005.
  HTML abstract and PDF of full article are available online at Springer LINK.
   
• Gerald Friedland, Kristian Jantz, Lars Knipping, Raúl Rojas:
  An Interactive Datawall for an Intelligent Classroom,
  DeLFI2005, Tagungsband der 3. e-Learning Fachtagung Informatik der Gesellschaft für Informatik,
  pp. 25--30, Rostock, September 2005.
  Downloadable as Adobe PDF (2.3 MB).
   
• Gerald Friedland, Kristian Jantz, Lars Knipping, Raúl Rojas:
  Image Segmentation by Uniform Color Clustering -- Approach and Benchmark Results,
  Technical Report B-05-07, Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich für Mathematik und Informatik, June 2005.
  Downloadable as Adobe PDF (19 MB).
   
• Gerald Friedland, Kristian Jantz, Lars Knipping, Raúl Rojas:
  Experiments on Lecturer Segmentation using Texture Classification and a 3D Camera,
  Technical Report B-05-04, Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich für Mathematik und Informatik, April 2005.
  Downloadable as Adobe PDF (1.8 MB).
   
• Gerald Friedland, Lars Knipping, Raúl Rojas, Joachim Schulte, Christian Zick:
  Die E-Chalk Software: Einsatz und Evaluation in Präsenzunterricht- und E-Learning Szenarien,
  in Christoph Lattemann and Thomas Köhler (ed.): Multimediale Bildungstechnologien I -- Anwendungen und Implementationen,
  pp. 243--255, Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2005.
   
• Lars Knipping:
  An Electronic Chalkboard for Classroom and Distance Teaching,
  PhD thesis, Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich für Mathematik und Informatik, February 2005.
  Downloadable as a single Adobe PDF (6.7 MB) or as one PDF per chapter from the FU OPAC server.
   
• Marco Block, Gerald Friedland, Lars Knipping, Raúl Rojas:
  Schach spielen auf einer elektronischen Tafel,
  Technical Report B-04-20, Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich für Mathematik und Informatik, December 2004.
  Downloadable as Adobe PDF (580 kB).
   
• Raúl Rojas, Gerald Friedland, Lars Knipping, Ernesto Tapia:
  Teaching With an Intelligent Electronic Chalkboard,
  Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 2004, Workshop on Effective Telepresence, New York, October 2004.
   
• Gerald Friedland, Kristian Jantz, Lars Knipping:
  Towards Automatized Studioless Audio Recording: A Smart Lecture Recorder,
  Technical Report B-04-14, Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich für Mathematik und Informatik, September 2004.
  Downloadable as Adobe PDF (450 kB).
   
• Gerald Friedland, Lars Knipping, Ernesto Tapia:
  Web Based Lectures Produced by AI Supported Classroom Teaching,
  in International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT),
  special issue on AI Techniques in Web-Based Educational Systems, Vol. 13, No. 2, June 2004.
   
• Gerald Friedland, Lars Knipping, Raúl Rojas, Joachim Schulte, Christian Zick:
  Evaluationsergebniss zum Einsatz des E-Kreide Systems im Wintersemester 2003/2004,
  Technical Report B-04-06, Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich für Mathematik und Informatik, June 2004.
  Downloadable as Adobe PDF (320 kB).
   
• Gerald Friedland, Lars Knipping, Joachim Schulte, Ernesto Tapia:
  E-Chalk: A Lecture Recording System using the Chalkboard Metaphor,
  in International Journal of Interactive Technology and Smart Education (ITSE), 1(1), February 2004.
   
• Lars Knipping: E-Chalk, in Doktoranden-Workshop 2003,
  Technical Report B-03-17, Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich für Mathematik und Informatik, December 2003.
   
• Gerald Friedland, Lars Knipping, Raúl Rojas, Ernesto Tapia:
  Web Based Education as a Result of AI Supported Classroom Teaching,
  in Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems: 7th International Conference, Proceedings, Part II,
  LNAI 2774/2003, pp. 290-296, Springer Verlag, Oxford, October 2003.
  HTML abstract and PDF of full article are available online at Springer LINK.
   
• Gerald Friedland, Lars Knipping, Raúl Rojas:
  A System for Classroom and Distance Teaching,
  in Conceptual and Technical Aspects of Electronic Learning,
  Online-Proceedings Seminar No. 03191: Conceptual and Technical Aspects of Electronic Learning, Schloss Dagstuhl, May 2003.
   
• Gerald Friedland, Lars Knipping, Raúl Rojas:
  Mapping the Classroom into the Web: Case Studies from several Institutions,
  12th EDEN Annual Conference, Rhodos, June 2003.
  Downloadable as Adobe PDF (340 kB).
   
• Kristian Jantz, Gerald Friedland, Lars Knipping:
  Conserving an Ancient Art of Music: Making SID Tunes Editable,
  Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval (CMMR) 2003, Montpellier, May 2003.
  Revised version (Friedland, Jantz, Knipping) in Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval,
  LNCS 2771/2004, pp. 74-81, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, February 2004.
  HTML abstract and PDF of full article are available online at Springer LINK.
   
• Gerald Friedland, Lars Knipping, Raúl Rojas, Ernesto Tapia:
  Das E-Chalk System: Stand der Entwicklung,
  Technical Report B-03-03, Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich für Mathematik und Informatik, February 2003.
  Downloadable as Gzipped PostScript (2.4 kB) or Adobe PDF (1.0 MB).
   
• Gerald Friedland, Lars Knipping, Raúl Rojas:
  E-Chalk - Technical description,
  Technical Report B-02-11, Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich für Mathematik und Informatik, May 2002.
  Downloadable as Gzipped PostScript (1 MB) or Adobe PDF (792 kB).
   
• Raúl Rojas, Sven Behnke, Achim Liers, Lars Knipping:
  Team Description: FU-Fighters 2001 (Global Vision),
  In A. Birk, S. Coradeschi, and S. Tadokoro (editors),
  RoboCup 2001: Robot Soccer World Cup V, LNCS 2377/2002, pp. 571-574, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, January 2002.
  HTML abstract and PDF of full article are available online at Springer LINK.
   
• Raúl Rojas, Lars Knipping, Wolf-Ulrich Raffel, Gerald Friedland:
  Elektronische Kreide: Eine Java-Multimedia-Tafel für den Präsenz- und Fernunterricht,
  Informatik: Forschung und Entwicklung, Vol. 16, Issue 3, pp. 159-168, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, September 2001, and
  Beck, Sommer (editors): Tagungsband der Learntec, Vol. 2, pp. 533-539, Karlsruhe, October 2001.
  HTML abstract and PDF of full article are available online at Springer LINK.
   
• Raúl Rojas, Lars Knipping, Gerald Friedland, Bernhard Frötschl:
  Ende der Kreidezeit - Die Zukunft des Mathematikunterrichts,
  DMV Mitteilungen, 2-2001, pp. 32-37, Berlin, 2001.
   
• Raúl Rojas, Sven Behnke, Lars Knipping, Bernhard Frötschl:
  Team Description: FU-Fighters 2000,
  In P. Stone, T. Balch, and G. Kraetszchmar (editors),
  Robocup 2000: Robotic Soccer World Cup IV, LNCS 2019/2001, pp. 547-550, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, January 2001.
  HTML abstract and PDF of full article are available online at Springer LINK.
   
• Raúl Rojas, Sven Behnke, Lars Knipping, Bernhard Frötschl, Kirill Koulechov, Wolf Lindstrot, Marc Simon, Lars Wolter, Oliver Tenchio:
  The Robotic Soccer Turing Test,
  Technical report B-00-14, Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich für Mathematik und Informatik, August 2000.
   
• Raúl Rojas, Lars Knipping, Wolf-Ulrich Raffel, Gerald Friedland:
  Elektronische Kreide: Eine Java-Multimedia-Tafel für den Präsenz- und Fernunterricht,
  Technical Report B-00-17, Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich für Mathematik und Informatik, October 2000.
  Downloadable as Gzipped PostScript (616 kB) or Adobe PDF (744 kB).
   
• Alexander Wolff, Lars Knipping, Marc van Kreveld, Tycho Strijk, Pankaj K. Agarwal:
  A Simple and Efficient Algorithm for High-Quality Line Labeling,
  In Peter M. Atkinson and David J. Martin (editors),
  Innovations in GIS VII: GeoComputation, chapter 11, Taylor and Francis, 2000, and
  Technical Report UU-CS-2001-44, Universiteit Utrecht, Department of Computer Science, 2001.
  Downloadable as Gzipped PostScript (136 KB).
   
• Alexander Wolff, Lars Knipping, Marc van Kreveld, Tycho Strijk, Pankaj K. Agarwal:
  A Simple and Efficient Algorithm for High-Quality Line Labeling,
  Proc. GIS Research UK 7th Annual Conference (GISRUK'99), pp. 146-150,
  Southampton, 14-16 April 1999.
   
• Lars Knipping:
  Beschriftung von Linienzügen,
  diploma thesis, Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik, Freie Universität Berlin, November 1998.
  Downloadable as Gzipped PostScript (352 KB).
   
• Gerald Weber, Lars Knipping, Helmut Alt:
  An Application of Point Pattern Matching in Astronautics,
  Journal of Symbolic Computation, 17(4), pp. 321-340, April 1994.
  Downloadable as Gzipped PostScript (193 KB).
   
• Helmut Alt, Lars Knipping, Gerald Weber:
  An Application of Point Pattern Matching in Astronautics,
  Technical Report B-93-16, Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich für Mathematik und Informatik, November 1993.
  Downloadable as Gzipped PostScript (216 kB).