Portrait of Christoph Mertz
Principal Project Scientist
Home Department: RI
Office: NREC
Phone: (412) 268-7955
Personal Homepage
Associated Center: NREC
Lab: Navlab
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My research interests are in the area of intelligent vehicles and autonomous driving in urban areas with an emphasis on development of a short range laser triangulation sensor and its application, and the short term prediction and analysis of future vehicle and object movements.

Displaying 45 Publications

2023
Toward Map Updates With Crosswalk Change Detection Using a Monocular Bus Camera
Tom Bu, Christoph Mertz, and John M. Dolan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), pp. 1-8, June, 2023
2021
Using perception cues for context-aware navigation in dynamic outdoor environments
Maggie Wigness, John G. Rogers III, Chieh-En Tsai, Christoph Mertz, Luis Navarro-Serment, and Jean Oh
Journal Article, Field Robotics, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1 - 33, October, 2021
Self-Calibration of Multiple LiDARs for Autonomous Vehicles
Zherui Zhang, Chen Fu, Chiyu Dong, Christoph Mertz, and John M. Dolan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC '21), pp. 2897 - 2902, September, 2021
CARLA Simulated Data for Rare Road Object Detection
Tom Bu, Xinhe Zhang, Christoph Mertz, and John M. Dolan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC '21), pp. 2794 - 2801, September, 2021
Linear Inverse Problem for Depth Completion with RGB Image and Sparse LIDAR Fusion
Chen Fu, Christoph Mertz, and John M. Dolan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 14127 - 14133, June, 2021
2020
Depth Completion via Inductive Fusion of Planar LIDAR and Monocular Camera
Chen Fu, Chiyu Dong, Christoph Mertz, and John M. Dolan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 10843 - 10848, October, 2020
An integrated perception pipeline for robot mission execution in unstructured environments
Priya Narayanan, Bryanna Yeh, Emma Holmes, Scott Martucci, Karl Schmeckpeper, Christoph Mertz, Philip Osteen, and Maggie Wigness
Conference Paper, Proceedings of SPIE Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Multi-Domain Operations, Vol. 11413, April, 2020
2019
LIDAR and Monocular Camera Fusion: On-road Depth Completion for Autonomous Driving
Chen Fu, Christoph Mertz, and John M. Dolan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC '19), pp. 273 - 278, October, 2019
DeepDA: LSTM-based Deep Data Association Network for Multi-Targets Tracking in Clutter
Huajun Liu, Hui Zhang, and Christoph Mertz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 22th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION '19), July, 2019
Towards a Distraction-free Waze
Kevin Christensen, Christoph Mertz, Padmanabhan Pillai, Martial Hebert, and Mahadev Satyanarayanan
Workshop Paper, 20th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Application (HotMobile '19), pp. 15 - 20, February, 2019

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