Dr. Simon Bultmann
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Postdoctoral Researcher | |
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Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg |
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| Office: | 080-01-010 | |
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bultmann@cs.uni-freiburg.de |
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| Phone: | +49 761 203-8013 | |
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About me
- 10/2024 - current: Postdoctoral Researcher in the Robot Learning Lab, University of Freiburg
- 02/2019 - 09/2024: Ph.D. Student in the Autonomous Intelligent Systems Group, University of Bonn
- 10/2015 - 10/2018: M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
- 10/2012 - 09/2015: B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Research Interests
- robot perception
- collaborative perception and learning
- semantic scene modeling
- sensor fusion and calibration
- distributed robot-sensor systems
Research Projects
- KAD-BEST – KI-gestützte Anlagendigitalisierung in Bestandsimmobilien, Invest BW project, Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Arbeit und Tourismus Baden-Württemberg, since 04/2026.
- Efficient Learning for Transferable Robot Autonomy in Human-Centered Environments, since 10/2024.
- Autonomous Robust Outdoor Robots (A-ROR), Baden-Württemberg Foundation project, 01/2025 -- 06/2026.
Teaching
- SS2026, Laboratory: Deep Learning Lab, University of Freiburg, Organizer and Lecturer
- SS2026, Seminar: Learning with Limited Supervision, University of Freiburg, Organizer
- WS2025/26, Machine Learning, University of Freiburg, Organizer and Lecturer
- WS2025/26, FreiCAR: Practical Autonomous Driving, University of Freiburg, Organizer and Lecturer
- SS2025, Laboratory: Deep Learning Lab, University of Freiburg, Teaching Assistant
- SS2025, Seminar: Learning with Limited Supervision, University of Freiburg, Organizer
- WS2024/25, FreiCAR: Practical Autonomous Driving, University of Freiburg, Organizer and Lecturer
- WS2024/25, Foundations of Deep Learning, University of Freiburg, Teaching Assistant
Publications
Google Scholar Profile:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8A3y3YQAAAAJ
2026
Julia Hindel, Simon Bultmann, Houman Masnavi, Daniele Cattaneo, and Abhinav Valada:
Self-Supervised Online Robot-Agnostic Traversability Estimation for Open-World Environments
arXiv, 2026.
Simon Bultmann, Daniele Cattaneo, and Abhinav Valada:
Joint Target-Less Intrinsic and Extrinsic Camera-LiDAR Calibration Using Deep Point Correspondences
arXiv, 2026.
Simon Bultmann, Raphael Memmesheimer, Jan Nogga, Julian Hau, and Sven Behnke:
Anticipating Human Behavior for Safe Navigation and Efficient Collaborative Manipulation with Mobile Service Robots
IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII), January 2026.
2025
Eva Katharina Bauer, Simon Bultmann, and Sven Behnke:
Marker-Free Human Gait Analysis Using a Smart Edge Sensor System
IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII), January 2025.
Felix Esser, Elias Marks, Federico Magistri, Jan Weyler, Simon Bultmann, Tobias Zaenker, Alireza Ahmadi, Michael Schreiber, Heiner Kuhlmann, Chris McCool, Marija Popović, Cyrill Stachniss, Sven Behnke, Maren Bennewitz, and Lasse Klingbeil:
Automated Leaf-Level Inspection of Crops Combining UAV and UGV Robots
European Robotics Forum (ERF), 2025.
Raphael Memmesheimer, Jan Nogga, Bastian Pätzold, Evgenii Kruzhkov, Simon Bultmann, Michael Schreiber, Jonas Bode, Bertan Karacora, Juhui Park, Alena Savinykh, and Sven Behnke:
RoboCup@Home 2024 OPL Winner NimbRo: Anthropomorphic Service Robots Using Foundation Models for Perception and Planning
RoboCup 2024: Robot World Cup XXVII, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), vol. 15570, April 2025.
2024
Simon Bultmann:
Semantic Feedback for Collaborative Perception with Smart Edge Sensors
Dissertation, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Bonn, August 2024.
2023
Simon Bultmann, Raphael Memmesheimer, and Sven Behnke:
External Camera-based Mobile Robot Pose Estimation for Collaborative Perception with Smart Edge Sensors<
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, UK, June 2023.
Simon Bultmann, Jan Quenzel, and Sven Behnke:
Real-Time Multi-Modal Semantic Fusion on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with Label Propagation for Cross-Domain Adaptation
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 159(4):104286, Elsevier, January 2023.
2022
Julian Hau, Simon Bultmann, and Sven Behnke:
Object-level 3D Semantic Mapping using a Network of Smart Edge Sensors
In Proceedings of 6th IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC), Naples, Italy, December 2022.
Bastian Pätzold, Simon Bultmann, and Sven Behnke:
Online Marker-free Extrinsic Camera Calibration using Person Keypoint Detections
In Proceedings of 44th DAGM German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), pp. 300-316, Konstanz, LNCS 13485, Springer, September 2022.
Simon Bultmann and Sven Behnke:
3D Semantic Scene Perception using Distributed Smart Edge Sensors
In Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS), Zagreb, Croatia, June 2022.
Marius Beul, Max Schwarz, Jan Quenzel, Malte Splietker, Simon Bultmann, Daniel Schleich, Andre Rochow, Dmytro Pavlichenko, Radu Alexandru Rosu, Patrick Lowin, Bruno Scheider, Michael Schreiber, Finn Süberkrüb, and Sven Behnke:
Target Chase, Wall Building, and Fire Fighting: Autonomous UAVs of Team NimbRo at MBZIRC 2020
Field Robotics, vol. 2, pp. 807-842, May 2022.
2021
Simon Bultmann, Jan Quenzel, and Sven Behnke:
Real-Time Multi-Modal Semantic Fusion on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
In Proceedings of 10th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR), Bonn, Germany, September 2021.
Simon Bultmann and Sven Behnke:
Real-Time Multi-View 3D Human Pose Estimation using Semantic Feedback to Smart Edge Sensors
In Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), July 2021.
Moritz Zappel, Simon Bultmann, and Sven Behnke:
6D Object Pose Estimation using Keypoints and Part Affinity Fields
In Proceedings of 24th RoboCup International Symposium, June 2021.
Finalist for Best Paper Award
2020
Marius Beul, Simon Bultmann, Andre Rochow, Radu Alexandru Rosu, Daniel Schleich, Malte Splietker, and Sven Behnke:
Visually Guided Balloon Popping with an Autonomous MAV at MBZIRC 2020
In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), Abu Dhabi, UAE, November 2020.
Best Paper Award.
2019
Simon Bultmann, Kailai Li, Uwe D. Hanebeck:
Stereo Visual SLAM Based on Unscented Dual Quaternion Filtering
In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Information Fusion (Fusion 2019), Ottawa, Canada, July 2019.
2017
Simon Bultmann, Laëtitia Matignon, Olivier Simonin:
Multi-Robot Navigation and Cooperative Mapping in a Circular Topology
Technical Report, INSA Lyon, 2017.