Micha Hersch

Post-doc in the Computational Biology Group of Prof. Sven Bergmann at the Department of Medical Genetics headed by Prof. Jacqui Beckmann, University of Lausanne (UNIL) and at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB).

email: micha.hersch at unil.ch



Software

I am currently developping HypoPhen an opencv-based software for the high throughput phenotyping of Arabidopsis seedlings. Look here for more details.

During my phD, I developped some software for controlling the upper torso of a humanoid robot and learning the robot body schema (i.e. self calibrating). With this software the robot can learn to reach, point and gaze at a colored target. The software is available through the robotcub software repository. It uses the yarp middleware. Some documentation is available here. Basically the software consists of four main parts which can be operated independently

  • The code for controlling the upper body of a humanoid robot documented here
  • The code for learning the robot body schema documented here.
  • The code for tracking up to three color blobs in 3D using opencv available here and documented here.
  • The code for computing the head rotation based on the visual flow experienced by the camera documented here.