Michael Brünig

Research Director

Contact

QCAT Technology Court
Pullenvale QLD 4069

Tel: +61 7 3327 4431
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Themes

• Sensors and Sensor Networks Tranformational Capability Platform

Science Area

• Sensor Science and Technology

Biography

Dr Michael Brünig is the Research Director of CSIRO’s cross-divisional Transformational Capability Platform in Sensors and Sensor Networks, one of only four large scale strategic research platforms in CSIRO. In this capacity, Dr Brünig brings together more than 40 researchers from diverse science areas to address the challenges of national priority.

Dr Brünig has uninterrupted experience in R&D in academia, industry, and governmental agencies since 1996. He has worked in high tech areas in Europe, the USA, and Australia. He obtained his Ph.D. from RWTH Aachen University, one of Germany’s elite universities. Dr Brünig has seamlessly published in the areas of image and video processing, human computer interaction, automation and robotics, and sensor networks, and draws on a widely spread international network of highly respected researchers.

Before taking responsibility of the Sensors and Sensor Networks platform, Dr Brünig was head of the Autonomous Systems Research Lab in CSIRO, one of the top three research labs in field robotics in the world. Prior to his engagement with CSIRO, Dr Brünig was with Robert Bosch Corp., USA, where he lead a research program that connected technology scouting in Silicon Valley and results from the U.S. top universities, with the company’s strategic interests.

Dr Brünig has a passion for bringing together multidisciplinary teams to combine efforts and resources for optimal and relevant outputs. He strives to find synthesis between technology trends and the team’s research strengths. Dr Brünig holds an Adjunct Professor appointment with the Faculty of Engineering, Architecture & Information Technology at the University of Queensland. He’s a senior member of the IEEE and a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Dr Brünig is a Board Member of the German Couplink Group AG.

Academic Qualifications

2001	Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.), RWTH Aachen, Germany, Electrical Engineering: "Optimization Strategies for Motion Compensated Prediction for Video Communication"
1995	Dipl.-Ing. (M.Sc.), RWTH Aachen, Germany, Electrical Engineering: "Real Time Video Display Hardware"

Recent Professional Experience

2009-	Research Director, Transformational Capability Platform - Sensors and Sensor Networks, CSIRO, Australia
2009-	Adjunct Professor, University of Queensland (Faculty of Engineering, Architecture & Information Technology)
2008-2009	Deputy CEO at ARCAA, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2007-2009	Research Director, Autonomous Systems Lab, CSIRO ICT Centre, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2002-2007	Senior Researcher/Program Manager, Robert Bosch Corporation RTC, Palo Alto, CA, USA
2001-2002	Research Engineer, Corporate Research, Robert Bosch GmbH, Hildesheim, Germany
1996-2001	Research Associate, Institute for Communication Engineering, RWTH Aachen, Germany

Other Highlights

2009-2010	Board Member, Australian Research Centre for Aerospace Automation, QLD, Australia
2009-	Board Member, Couplink Groug AG, Germany
2009	Graduate status of the Australian Institute of Company Directors
2008	Leading the Research Enterprise Program, CSIRO in conjunction with the Australian Graduate School of Management

Top 10 Publications

Publication details
J. Ryde and M. Brünig, “Non-Cubic Occupied Voxel Lists for Robot Maps,” in Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems IROS '09 (St. Louis, MO, USA), pp 4771-4776, Oct. 2009
T. Wark, W. Hu, P. Corke, J. Hodge, A. Keto, B. Mackey, G. Foley, P. Sikka and M. Brünig, “Springbrook: challenges in developing a long-term, rainforest wireless sensor network,” in Proc. 4th International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing ISSNIP '08 (Sydney, NSW), Dec. 2008.
J. Diebel, S. Thrun, and M. Brünig, "A Bayesian method for probable surface reconstruction and decimation," ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), vol. 25, pp 39-59, Jan. 2006.
M. Brünig, A. Lee, T. Chen, and H. Schmidt, "Vehicle navigation using 3D visualization," in Proc. IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium IV '03, (Columbus, OH, USA), pp. 474-478, Jun. 2003.
M. Brünig and W. Niehsen, "Fast full search block matching," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 11, pp. 241-247, Feb. 2001.
M. Brünig and M. Wien, "Scalable wavelet video coding using long-term memory motion-compensated prediction," in Proc. SPIE Image and Video Communication and Processing IVCP '00, vol. 3974, (San Jose, CA, USA), pp. 617-624, Jan. 2000.
B. Menser and M. Brünig, "Segmentation of human faces in color images using connected operators,'' in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing ICIP '99, vol. 3, (Kobe, Japan), pp. 632-636, Oct. 1999.
W. Niehsen and M. Brünig, "Covariance analysis of motion-compensated frame differences," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 9, pp. 536-539, June 1999.
B. Kusy, C. Richter, W. Hu, M. Afanasyev, R. Jurdak, M. Brünig, D. Abbott, C. Huynh, D. Ostry, "Radio diversity for reliable communication in WSNs", International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks IPSN 2011 (Chicago, IL, USA), Apr. 12-14 2011.
M. Dunbabin, J. Udy, A. Grinham and M. Brünig, “Continuous monitoring of reservoir water quality: The Wivenhoe Project”, Journal of the Australian Water Association (invited paper), vol. 36, pp 74-77, Sep. 2009 CA, USA), pp. 583-590, Jan. 1998.

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