Dipl.-Ing. Johannes Hofer

PhD Researcher

Johannes Hofer received his Diploma degree (Dipl.-Ing.) in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University Dresden, Germany in 2022. As part of his studies, he completed an internship at National Instruments, focusing on near-field characterization of antenna arrays. His student research focused on the evaluation of the NetFPGA platform for network testing. His diploma thesis investigated the offloading of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) processes to the edge cloud, which laid the foundation for his subsequent research as a PhD student at the Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks in 2022.

Contact

Email: johannes.hofer@tu-dresden.de
Phone: +49 157 37651770
Room: BAR I/24

Research Interests:

  • Computer Vision
  • Cloud Robotics
  • Edge-Assisted SLAM Systems

Supervision:

Diploma / Master Thesis

  • Investigation of SLAM processing in Multiple Edge Clouds (Diploma Thesis Erik Noack)
  • Navigation for Long-Endurance Lunar Exploration with a Legged Robot (Diploma Thesis Julia Richter)
  • Investigation of the Influence of Video Encoding on Visual SLAM Systems (Student Thesis Jannek Steinke)

Publications

2023

Hofer, Johannes; Steinke, Jannek; Sossalla, Peter; Nguyen, Giang T.; Fitzek, Frank H. P.

H.264 Compress-Then-Analyze Transmission in Edge-Assisted Visual SLAM Proceedings Article

In: European Wireless 2023 - 6G Driving a Sustainable Growth (EW 2023), pp. 6, Rome, Italy, 2023.

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Steinke, Jannek; Rischke, Justus; Sossalla, Peter; Hofer, Johannes; Vielhaus, Christian Leonard; Hofe, Nico; Fitzek, Frank H. P.

Demo: The Future of Dog Walking - Four-Legged Robots and Augmented Reality Proceedings Article

In: International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM) Demo Session (WoWMoM 2023 Demo Session), IEEE, Boston, MA, USA, 2023.

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Hofe, Nico; Sossalla, Peter; Hofer, Johannes; Vielhaus, Christian Leonard; Rischke, Justus; Steinke, Jannek; Fitzek, Frank H. P.

Demo: Robotics meets Augmented Reality: Real-Time Mapping with Boston Dynamics Spot and Microsoft HoloLens 2 Proceedings Article

In: International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM) Demo Session (WoWMoM 2023 Demo Session), IEEE, Boston, MA, USA, 2023.

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Sossalla, Peter; Steinke, Jannek; Vielhaus, Christian Leonard; Hofer, Johannes; Rischke, Justus; Fitzek, Frank H. P.

Remote Controlling Mobile Robots With Adaptive Video Streaming and Augmented Reality Proceedings Article

In: International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (BlackSeaCom), pp. 45-50, IEEE, Istanbul, Turkiye, 2023.

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Hofer, Johannes; Sossalla, Peter; Vielhaus, Christian Leonard; Rischke, Justus; Reisslein, Martin; Fitzek, Frank H. P.

Comparison of Analyze-Then-Compress Methods in Edge-Assisted Visual SLAM Journal Article

In: IEEE Access, 2023.

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Hofer, Johannes; Sossalla, Peter; Rischke, Justus; Vielhaus, Christian Leonard; Reisslein, Martin; Fitzek, Frank H. P.

Circular Frame Buffer to Enhance Map Synchronization in Edge Assisted SLAM Proceedings Article

In: International Conference on Communications (ICC), pp. 210-215, IEEE, Rome, Italy, 2023.

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Sossalla, Peter; Hofer, Johannes; Vielhaus, Christian Leonard; Rischke, Justus; Fitzek, Frank H. P.

Offloading Visual SLAM Processing to the Edge: An Energy Perspective Proceedings Article

In: 2023 International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN) (ICOIN 2023), Bangkok, Thailand, 2023.

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2022

Sossalla, Peter; Hofer, Johannes; Rischke, Justus; Busch, Johannes V. S.; Nguyen, Giang T.; Reisslein, Martin; Fitzek, Frank H. P.

Optimizing Edge SLAM: Judicious Parameter Settings and Parallelized Map Updates Proceedings Article

In: 2022 IEEE Global Communications Conference: IoT and Sensor Networks (Globecom 2022 IoTSN), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2022.

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Sossalla, Peter; Hofer, Johannes; Rischke, Justus; Vielhaus, Christian Leonard; Nguyen, Giang T.; Reisslein, Martin; Fitzek, Frank H. P.

DynNetSLAM: Dynamic Visual SLAM Network Offloading Journal Article

In: IEEE Access, 2022.

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2021

Sossalla, Peter; Rischke, Justus; Hofer, Johannes; Fitzek, Frank H. P.

Evaluating the Advantages of Remote SLAM on an Edge Cloud Proceedings Article

In: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2021), 2021.

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