Förster, Kilian

Kilian Förster earned his Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Ilmenau focusing mainly on communication systems and digital signal processing. He also earned a Master of Engineering Studies degree form the University of Auckland specializing on embedded and digital systems.

In 2011 he finished his PhD in the Wearable Computing Group of the Electronics Laboratory at ETH Zurich.

Research Interests

• wearable computing
• signal processing
• pattern recognition
• activity recognition
• adaptivity
• embedded systems

Research Projects

Student Projects

Master Thesis

• Towards online learning and adaptation in human activity recognition

Semester Thesis

• SwimMaster: Uninterrupting user interfaces for body-worn swim devices
• Automatic feature extraction for acceleration signals using Genetic Programming

Publications

2011

• Activity Recognition in Opportunistic Sensor Environments
  Daniel Roggen, Alberto Calatroni, Kilian Förster, Gerhard Tröster, Paul Lukowicz, David Bannach, Alois Ferscha, Marc Kurz, Gerold Hölzl, Hesam Sagha, Hamidreza Bayati, José del R. Millán and Ricardo Chavarriaga
  (2011), in: Procedia Computer Science, 7(173 - 174)
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• The adARC pattern analysis architecture for adaptive human activity recognition systems
  Daniel Roggen, Kilian Förster, Alberto Calatroni and Gerhard Tröster
  (2011), in: Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing(1-18)
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2010

• Collecting complex activity datasets in highly rich networked sensor environments
  Daniel Roggen, Alberto Calatroni, Mirco Rossi, Thomas Holleczek, Kilian Förster, Gerhard Tröster, Paul Lukowicz, David Bannach, Gerald Pirkl, Alois Ferscha, Jacob Doppler, Clemens Holzmann, Marc Kurz, G. Holl, Ricardo Chavarriaga, Hesam Sagha, Hamidreza Bayati, Marco Creatura and José del R. Millán
  in: Networked Sensing Systems (INSS), 2010 Seventh International Conference on, pages 233 -240, 2010
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• Human Awareness to Interface Errors Improves HCI Performance
  Andrea Biasiucci, Ricardo Chavarriaga, Kilian Förster, Daniel Roggen, Gerhard Tröster and José del R. Millàn
  in: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cognitive Systems, 2010
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• Incremental kNN classifier exploiting correct - error teacher for activity recognition
  Kilian Förster, Samuel Monteleone, Alberto Calatroni, Daniel Roggen and Gerhard Tröster
  in: accepted for The Ninth International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), 2010
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• On the issue of variability in labels and sensor configurations in activity recognition systems
  Daniel Roggen, Kilian Förster, Alberto Calatroni, Andreas Bulling and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Workshop at the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2010), 2010
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• On the use of brain decoded signals for online user adaptive gesture recognition systems
  Kilian Förster, Andrea Biasiucci, Ricardo Chavarriaga, José del R. Millàn, Daniel Roggen and Gerhard Tröster
  in: proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Pervasive Computing, 2010
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• On the use of error related potentials for online user adaptive systems
  Andrea Biasiucci, Ricardo Chavarriaga, Kilian Förster, José del R. Millàn, Daniel Roggen and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Tools for Brain-Computer Interaction (TOBI) Workshop, 2010
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• Recording a complex, multi modal activity data set for context recogntion
  Paul Lukowicz, G. Pirkl, David Bannach, F. Wagner, Alberto Calatroni, Kilian Förster, Thomas Holleczek, M. Rossi, Daniel Roggen, Gerhard Tröster, J. Doppler, C. Holzmann, A. Riener, A. Ferscha and Ricardo Chavarriaga
  in: Workshop on {C}ontext-{S}ystems {D}esign, {E}valuation and {O}ptimisation at {ARCS}, 2010, Hannover, Germany, "", 2010
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• Robust activity recognition for assistive technologies: Benchmarking ML techniques
  Ricardo Chavarriaga, José del R. Millán, Hesam Sagha, Hamidreza Bayati, Paul Lukowicz, David Bannach, Daniel Roggen, Kilian Förster, Alberto Calatroni, Gerhard Tröster, Alois Ferscha, Marc Kurz and Gerold Hölzl
  in: Workshop on Machine Learning for Assistive Technologies at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS-2010), Vancouver, Canada, 2010
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• Walk-through the OPPORTUNITY dataset for activity recognition in sensor rich environments
  Daniel Roggen, Alberto Calatroni, Mirco Rossi, Thomas Holleczek, Kilian Förster, Gerhard Tröster, Paul Lukowicz, David Bannach, Gerald Pirkl, Florian Wagner, Alois Ferscha, Jakob Doppler, Clemens Holzmann, Marc Kurz, Gerald Holl, Ricardo Chavarriaga, Marco Creatura and José del R. Millán
  2010
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2009

• Evolving discriminative features robust to sensor displacement for activity recognition in body area sensor networks
  Kilian Förster, Pascal Brem, Daniel Roggen and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Proceedings of the fifth International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP 2009), Melbourne, Australia, IEEE press, 2009
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• Non-interrupting user interfaces for electronic body-worn swim devices
  Kilian Förster, Marc Bächlin and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA 2009), 2009
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• OPPORTUNITY: Activity and context awareness in opportunistic open-ended sensor environments
  Daniel Roggen, Kilian Förster, Alberto Calatroni, Andreas Bulling, Thomas Holleczek, Gerhard Tröster, Paul Lukowicz, Gerald Pirkl, David Bannach, Alois Ferscha, Andreas Riener, Clemens Holzmann, R. Chavarriaga and J. del R. Millán
  in: Proc. of the 1st European Future and Emerging Technologies Conference (FET 2009), Prague, Czech Republic, European commission, 2009
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• OPPORTUNITY: Towards opportunistic activity and context recognition systems
  Daniel Roggen, Kilian Förster, Alberto Calatroni, Thomas Holleczek, Y. Fang, Gerhard Tröster, Paul Lukowicz, Gerald Pirkl, David Bannach, Kai Kunze, Alois Ferscha, Clemens Holzmann, Andreas Riener, R. Chavarriaga and J. del R. Millán
  in: Proc. 3rd IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Autononomic and Opportunistic Communications, 2009
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• SwimMaster: A wearable assistant for swimmer
  Marc Bächlin, Kilian Förster and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Ubicomp '09: Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Ubiquitous computing, Orlando, Florida, USA, pages 215-224, ACM, 2009
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• Unsupervised classifier self-calibration through repeated context occurences: is there robustness against sensor displacement to gain?
  Kilian Förster, Daniel Roggen and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Wearable Computing, Linz, Austria, pages 77-84, IEEE Computer Society, 2009
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2008

• An automatic parameter extraction method for the 7x50m Stroke Efficiency Test
  Marc Bächlin, Kilian Förster, Johannes Schumm, Dominik Breu, Jürg Germann and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Applications 2008, Alexandria, Egypt, pages 442-447, IEEE Conference Publications Management Group, 2008
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• Real-Time Demonstrator: A string-matching based activity spotting system for industrial environments
  Thomas Stiefmeier and Kilian Förster
  in: Smart Sensing and Context, Adjunct Proceedings, Zurich, pages 29-31, 2008
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