About Torben

Torben Töniges studied Cognitive Computer Science and Intelligent Systems at Bielefeld University. He received his Bachelor of Science in 2009 and the Master of Science in 2011. Torben Töniges stayed at the University of Birmingham for six month to write his Master's thesis with the title "From search to delivery: A systems approach to robust object grasping for a mobile robot". After completing his master's degree, he joined the Applied Informatics Group at Bielefeld University. At present he is a PhD student and is supervised by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Franz Kummert. His current fields of research are facial analysis, human - robot interaction and driver observation.

Attended Conferences

• 4th European Conference on Emotion (CERE) - University of Kent - Canterbury - 2012 (see publication)

Invited Talks

• University of Lincoln (Robotics and Autonomous Systems Research Lab) 2012

Teaching

Summer Term 2012

• Intelligente Systeme Praktikum (An autonomous silent butler for an assistive living room)
• Computer Vision Tutorium

Winter Term 2011/2012

• Intelligente Systeme Praktikum (An autonomous silent butler for an assistive living room)
• Bildverarbeitung Tutorium

Summer Term 2009

• Techniken der Projektentwicklung (Softwaregruppenprojekt)

Winter Term 2008/2009

• Techniken der Projektentwicklung (Softwaremodellierung mit UML, Projektanalyse und -präsentation)