since 06/2009

Research Assistant / PhD Student at Department of Virtual Worlds and Digital Games at TU Ilmenau

major area of work: Diminished Reality and Mediated Reality

minor area of work: VR / AR framework development for mobile devices, computer vision, feature based tracking, 3D rendering, game development, teaching and thesis supervision

07/2008 - 05/2009

Research Assistant at the Collaborative Virtual and Augmented Environments Department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT in Sankt Augustin

area of work: Morgan VR / AR framework development, feature based tracking, 3D rendering, rapid prototyping, assistance in EU projects IPCity, EXPLOAR and CoSpaces

06/2003 - 08/2008

Student Assistant at the Collaborative Virtual and Augmented Environments Department at the Fraunhofer Institute FIT in Sankt Augustin

area of work: SmallView and Morgan VR / AR framework development, 3D rendering, rapid prototyping, assistance in EU projects ARTHUR, IPerg and Connect

10/2002 - 08/2008

Study of Computer Science at RWTH Aachen

major subject: computer graphics

minor subject: electrotechnology

diploma thesis: Realization of an adaptive tracking system for ubiquitous mixed reality environments.

Herling, J. and Broll, W.: Markerless Tracking for Augmented Reality (Book Chapter), in Handbook of Augmented Reality, Springer 2011, 255 - 272, ISBN 978-1-4614-0064-6, New York

Herling, J. and Broll, W.: An Adaptive Training-free Feature Tracker for Mobile Phones. Proceedings of the 17th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology 2010 (VRST' 2010), Hong Kong, November 2010.

Herling, J. and Broll, W.: Advanced Self-contained Object Removal for Realizing Real-time Diminished Reality in Unconstrained Environments. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality 2010 (ISMAR' 2010), Seoul, South Korea, Oktober 2010, 207 - 212. Patent pending (US 13/270,417)

Herling, J., and Broll, W.: The Ocean framework: providing the basis for next-gen MR applications. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Software Engineering and Architectures for Realtime Interactive Systems (SEARIS) at IEEE Virtual Reality 2010 (VR 2010), Shaker, 2010, 33 – 39.

Broll, W., and Herling, J.: Supporting Reusability of VR and AR Interface Elements and Interaction Techniques. HCI (13) 2009: 145-153

Broll, W., Herling, J., and Blum, L.: Interactive Bits: Prototyping of Mixed Reality Applications and Interaction Techniques through Visual Programming. 3D User Interfaces, 2008: 109-115

Wittkämper, M., Lindt, I., Broll, W., Ohlenburg, J., Herling, J:, and Ghellal, S.: Exploring augmented live video streams for remote participation. CHI Extended Abstracts 2007: 1881-1886

Wittkämper, M., Braun, A.-K., Herbst, I., and Herling, J.: A Distributed System for Augmented Reality Experiences in Science Centers and Museums. Edutainment 2007: 936-946