I am now a Ph.D. student in character animation and machine learning at the University of Edinburgh, and no longer working at the University of Hamburg. If required, I may be contacted via: Sebastian.Starke<at>ed.ac.uk
address:
University of Hamburg
Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Science
Department Informatics, Group TAMS
Vogt-Kölln-Straße 30
D-22527 Hamburg
position:
Research Associate
project:
CML (Crossmodal Learning)
room:
F-313
phone:
+49 (0) 40 42883-2398
e-mail:
Research Interests
Inverse Kinematics and Motion Synthesis
Machine Learning and Evolutionary Optimisation
Computer Graphics and Character Animation
Publications
2017
Sebastian Starke, Norman Hendrich, Dennis Krupke, Jianwei Zhang:
Evolutionary Multi-Objective Inverse Kinematics on Highly Articulated and Humanoid Robots,
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vancouver, Canada, 2017.
Dennis Krupke, Sebastian Starke, Lasse Einig, Frank Steinicke, Jianwei Zhang:
Prototyping of Immersive HRI Scenarios,
International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots, Porto, Portugal, 2017.
Sebastian Starke, Norman Hendrich, Jianwei Zhang:
A Memetic Evolutionary Algorithm for Real-Time Articulated Kinematic Motion,
IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Sán Sebastian, Spain, 2017.
Sebastian Starke, Norman Hendrich, Jianwei Zhang:
A Forward Kinematics Data Structure for Efficient Evolutionary Inverse Kinematics,
IFToMM 7th International Workshop on Computational Kinematics, Poitiers, France.
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Mechanisms and Machine Science, 2017.
2016
Sebastian Starke, Norman Hendrich, Sven Magg, Jianwei Zhang:
An Efficient Hybridization of Genetic Algorithms and Particle Swarm Optimization for Inverse Kinematics,
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, Qingdao, China, 2016.
2015
Sebastian Starke, Norman Hendrich, Hannes Bistry, Jianwei Zhang:
Fast and Robust Detection and Tracking of Multiple Persons on RGB-D Data fusing Spatio-Temporal Information,
IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI), San Diego, California, 2015. DOI 10.1109/MFI.2015.7295752
Invited Talks
Hamburg Animation Conference 2017 - Bio IK: A Novel Inverse Kinematics Algorithm for Generic Character Animation
Theses
Sebastian Starke:
A Hybrid Genetic Swarm Algorithm for Interactive Inverse Kinematics,
Master Thesis, University of Hamburg, 2016.
Sebastian Starke:
Efficient Guess of Nearest Neighbors for all Points in 3D Point Clouds,
Bachelor Thesis, University of Hamburg, 2013.
Student Awards
Principal's Career Development PhD Scholarship from The University of Edinburgh
Ranked first at the EXPO 2016 at the University of Hamburg
Second best graduate in M.Sc. Informatics (2016/17) at the University of Hamburg
