Dr.-Ing. Reinhard Moratz

• Research Interests
• Short Biography
• Selected Publications

• Present Working Areas:
  • multi-modal, spatial communication
  • cognitive modelling and knowledge representation
  • spatial and geometrical reasoning
• Other, Past, and Possible Future Interests:
  • data mining
  • artificial neural networks
  • robot navigation
  • visual object recognition

In January 1993 I finished my studies at Universität Hamburg with the diploma degree in Informatics (minor: Psychology). From August 1993 until April 1997 I was a research assistant in the applied Informatics group at Universität Bielefeld. There I worked in subprojekt A1 (hybrid knowledge representation) of collaborative research center 360 (situated artificial communicators). My Ph.D thesis ("Visuelle Objekterkennung als kognitive Simulation" visual object recognition as cognitve simulation) was finished in June 1997. From May 1997 until March 2001 I was a research associate in the knowlege representation group at Universität Hamburg. Since April 2001 I am an assistant professor at the Mathematics and Informatics department at Universität Bremen. I am principal investigator at three subprojects of collaborative research center SFB/TR 8 "Spatial Cognition".

• Michael Wünstel, Reinhard Moratz: Automatic Object Recognition within an Office Environment. CRV 2004 Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, IEEE, (2004)
• Reinhard Moratz, Jan Oliver Wallgrün: Spatial Reasoning about Relative Orientation and Distance for Robot Exploration. COSIT 2003, Conference on Spatial Information Theory, Springer, 61-74, (2003)
• Thora Tenbrink, Kerstin Fischer, Reinhard Moratz: Spatial Strategies in Human-Robot Communication. KI - Zeitschrift für Künstliche Intelligenz, 16(4): 19-23 (2002)
• Reinhard Moratz, Kerstin Fischer, Thora Tenbrink: Cognitive Modeling of Spatial Reference for Human-Robot Interaction. International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, 10(4): 589-611 (2001)
• Reinhard Moratz, Jochen Renz, Diedrich Wolter: Qualitative Spatial Reasoning about Line Segments. in: ECAI 2000. Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 234-238, (2000)
• Christian Freksa, Reinhard Moratz, Thomas Barkowsky: Schematic Maps for Robot Navigation. in: Spatial Cognition 2000, 100-114, Springer, (2000)
• Bernd Hildebrandt, Reinhard Moratz, Gert Rickheit, Gerhard Sagerer: Cognitive Modelling of Speech and Vision Understanding. in: Mental Models in Discourse Processing and Reasoning, 213 - 236, Elsevier Science B.V., (1999)
• Sabine Kröner, Reinhard Moratz: Capacity of Structured Multilayer Networks with Shared Weights. ICANN 1996: 543-550, (1996)
• Reinhard Moratz, Hans-Jürgen Eikmeyer, Bernd Hildebrandt, Alois Knoll, Franz Kummert, Gert Rickheit, Gerhard Sagerer: Selective Visual Perception Driven by Cues From Speech Processing. in: Advanced Manufacturing Forum, Vol. 1, Trans Tech Publications, 161-168, (1995)