About Me

Hans de Ruiter

I am an electrical & electronic engineer from New Zealand, with a Ph.D. in applied science/engineering from the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. As can be expected, many of my interests are computer and engineering related. However, I also enjoy hiking and the outdoors. Playing violin and piano are also spare time hobbies of mine. 

Education

Current Research Interests

  • Computer vision (3D object tracking)
  • Computer graphics
  • Robotics

 Publications

  • H. de Ruiter and B. Benhabib, “Tracking of rigid bodies for autonomous surveillance,” IEEE Int. Conf. on Mechatronics and Automation, Niagara Falls, Canada, July 2005, pp. 928–933 (link).
  • H. de Ruiter and B. Benhabib, “Colour-Gradient Redundancy for Real-time Spatial Pose Tracking in Autonomous Robot Navigation,” Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, Québec City, Canada, June 2006, pp. 20–28 (link).
  • H. de Ruiter and B. Benhabib, “Real-time Visual Vehicle Tracking for Autonomous Convoy Control,” Int. Conf. on Autonomous Robots and Agents, Palmerston North, New Zealand, December 2006, pp. 195–200 (link).
  • H. de Ruiter and B. Benhabib, “Online Modeling for Real-Time, Model-Based, 3D Pose Tracking,” in Advances and Innovations in Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering, Khaled Elleithy, Ed., Dordrecht, The Netherlands, Springer, 2007, ch. 96, pp. 555-560 (link).
  • H. de Ruiter and B. Benhabib, “Object-of-Interest Selection for Model-Based 3D Pose Tracking with Background Clutter,” in Novel Algorithms and Techniques in Telecommunications, Automation and Industrial Electronics, Tarek Sobh  et al., Ed., Dordrecht, The Netherlands, Springer, 2008, Ch. 17, pp.93-98.
  • H. de Ruiter and B. Benhabib, “Visual-Model Based Spatial Tracking in the Presence of Occlusions,” Canadian Conf. on Computer and Robotic Vision, Windsor, Canada, May 2008, pp. 163-170.
  • H. de Ruiter and B. Benhabib, “Visual-Model-Based, Real-Time 3D Pose Tracking for Autonomous Navigation: Methodology and Experiments,” Autonomous Robots, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 267-286, October 2008 (link).
  • H. de Ruiter, "3D-tracking of A Priori Unknown Objects in Cluttered Dynamic Environments," Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, September 2008 (link). 
  • H. de Ruiter and B. Benhabib, “On-line Modeling for Real-Time 3D Target Tracking,” Machine Vision and Applications, Springer, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 17-32, November 2009 (link).
  • H. de Ruiter, M. MacKay, and B. Benhabib, “Autonomous Three-Dimensional Tracking for Reconfigurable Active-Vision-Based Object Recognition,” Proc. IMechE, Part B: J. Engineering Manufacture, vol. 224, no. B3, pp. 343-360, 2010 (link).