address: TECO
Pervasive Computing Systems, Chair: Prof. M. Beigl
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Vincent-Priessnitz-Strasse 1
76131 Karlsruhe, Germany email: scholz@teco.edu fon: +49-721-6084-1708 fax: +49-721-6084-1702
Markus Scholz is a research assistant at the Pervasive Computing Systems Group/TecO. His research interests include novel sensor technologies and algorithms suited for activity and context recognition as well as environmental sensing. He is further interested in wireless sensor network (WSN) and human computer interface (HCI) technologies which may improve safety of individuals in harsh environments. Previously, Mr Scholz worked in the BMBF project landmarke which focused on the improvement of firefighter safety during indoor missions by providing additional orientation using an ad-hoc wireless sensor network. In 2011 he started work in the BMBF project Koordinator, a follow up project to landmarke, which aims to improve front line firefighter communication through providing novel services based on ubicomp technologies.
Concurrently, he is working on his PhD Thesis entitled "Development of algorithms for device-free radio-based recognition of human activitites".
Mr Scholz is also involved in the Jennisense project a project which builds around the NXP Jennic transceivers. For these tranceivers a contiki OS port was developed at TecO. Additionally, differents kinds of hardware i.e. special application boards were designed based on/using this transceiver. Thus, Jennisense aims to bundle all the hardware schematics, drivers and application code document it and release it to the open source/free hardware community.
2008 Diploma thesis at the IBM Research Lab, Boeblingen, entitled Development of an artificial neural network on a heterogeneous multicore architecture to predict a successful weight loss in obese individuals(PDF)
2005 - 2006 Student researcher at the department of business information system, University of Leipzig, working on the project PreBIS (Prebuild information spaces)
Publications
2013
Stephan Sigg, Markus Scholz, Shuyu Shi, Yusheng Ji, Michael Beigl, RF-Sensing of Activities From Non-Cooperative Subjects in Device-Free Recognition Systems Using Ambient and Local Signals, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 21 Feb. 2013. IEEE computer Society Digital Library. IEEE Computer Society. (PDF)
Markus Scholz, Till Riedel, Mario Hock, Michael Beigl, Device-Free and Device-Bound Activity Recognition using Radio Signal Strength in Proceedings of the 4th Augmented Human Conference, 2013 (AH2013). (PDF)
Markus Scholz, Dawud Gordon, Leonardo Ramirez, Stephan Sigg, Tobias Dyrks and Michael Beigl, A Concept for Support of Firefighter Frontline Communication Future Internet 5, no. 2: 113-127. Open Access Publication.(PDF)
2012
Antonios Karatzoglou, Markus Scholz, Till Riedel and Michael Beigl, A prototype of an in-situ radio sensing and visualization device. Demo Paper. In Proceedings of Ninth International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS 2012), Antwerp, Belgium, IEEE. (PDF)
Philipp Scholl, Dawud Gordon, Markus Scholz, Matthias Berning and Kristof Van Laerhoven, jNode: a Sensor Network Platform that Supports Distributed Inertial Kinematic Monitoring, in Proceedings of Ninth International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS 2012), Antwerp, Belgium, IEEE. (PDF)
2011
Markus Scholz, Stephan Sigg, Hedda R. Schmidkte and Michael Beigl, Challenges for device-free radio-based activity recognition, In 3rd CoSDEO Workshop in conjunction with MobiQuitous 2011, Kopenhagen, Denmark. (PDF)
Dawud Gordon, Markus Scholz, Yong Ding and Michael Beigl, Global Peer-to-Peer Classification in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks: A Requirements Analysis, In Proceedings of The 7th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context 2011 (Context 2011), Karlsruhe, Germany. (PDF)
Leonardo Ramirez, Matthias Betz, Tobias Dyrks, Markus Scholz, Jan Gerwinski, Landmarke: an ad hoc deployable ubicomp infrastructure to support indoor navigation of firefighters, In Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (Special Issue Extreme Navigation,DOI: 10.1007/s00779-011-0462-5). (PDF)
Markus Scholz, Gesine Flehmig, Hedda R. Schmidtke, and Gerhard H. Scholz, Powering smart home intelligence using existing entertainment systems, In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Environments 2011 (IE'11), Nottingham, UK. (PDF)
Markus Scholz, Yong Ding, Predrag Jakimovski and Hedda R. Schmidtke, Half a Century of Renovating, In Proceedings of the Intelligent Environments 2011 (IE'11) Workshops, 2nd Creative Science Workshop, Nottingham, UK. (PDF)
Markus Scholz, Stefan Sigg, Gerrit Bagschik, Toni Guenther, Georg von Zengen, Dimana Shishkova, Yusheng Ji and Michael Beigl, SenseWaves: Radiowaves for context recognition, Video submission, Pervasive 2011, Video abstract (PDF)
2010
Markus Scholz, Leonardo Ramirez, Sebastian Denef, Matthias Betz, Tobias Dyrks, Philipp Scholl, Mathias Busse, Matthias Stoetzer, Matthias Budde, Matthias Berning, Dimana Shishkova, Till Riedel and Michael Beigl, A MVC Prototype for the landmarke Firefighter Navigation System, Video submission, Internet Of Things 2010, IOT2010, Video abstract (PDF)
Markus Scholz, Till Riedel and Christian Decker, A flexible architecture for a robust indoor navigation support device for firefighters, 2010, Seventh International Conference On Networked Sensing Systems, INSS 2010 (PDF)
Erhard Schubert and Markus Scholz, Evaluation of wireless sensor technologies in a firefighting environment, 2010, Seventh International Conference On Networked Sensing Systems, INSS 2010 (PDF)
Till Riedel, Dimitar Yordanov, Nicolaie Fantana, Markus Scholz and Christian Decker, A Model Driven Internet Of Things, 2010, Seventh International Conference On Networked Sensing Systems, INSS 2010, (PDF)
2008
Markus Scholz, Diploma Thesis, Development of an artificial neural network on a heterogeneous multicore architecture to predict a successful weight loss in obese individuals, 2008, University of Leipzig, Faculty of Mathematics and Computerscience, Leipzig. (PDF)
2000
Markus Scholz, Schulabschlussarbeit "BeLL", Entwicklung eine Datenerfassungssystems fuer betreuungsrelevante Parameter
mit Adaptation an interaktive Datenbanken des Ernaehrungsberatungs- und Trainingszentrums ETZ- M.Scholz, 2000, Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium Taucha. (PDF)
Further activities
Advising theses
Advising practical courses and seminars
Girls Day 2011 advisor (find our Girls Day Flyer here (German, 7MB)). The plant sensor instructions were based on instructions from here.
Preparing/perfoming practical demonstrations for lectures. E.g. in last year a small slideset/demos on/regarding Arduino were presented. You can find it here. (German)
