Acknowledgments

• Main Authors: C. Cattin, Prof Dr, G. Schweitzer
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Kurzfassung xiv; tylli
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.488.44; http://e-collection.library.ethz.ch/eserv/eth:25753/eth-25753-02.pdf

of Technology (ETH) in Zürich. First of all I would like to thank my supervisor Prof. Dr. G. Schweitzer for accepting me as a doctoral student and for suggesting this challenging problem, for his support and recognition. Also I would like to thank Prof. Dr. B. Schiele, my co-examiner, for his support. I thank Dr. D. Zlatnik and R. Borer for their ideas and interesting discussions. Many thanks go also to P. Frei, F. Lösch, and N. Tylli for their valuable corrections and comments of the manuscript. I would also like to thank D. Legeay for correcting my English. Further I would like to thank all my colleagues from the Institute of Robotics for their friendship, technical support and interesting discussions. Thanks are also due to all the students which took specific parts in the project. Last, but not least, I owe a thousand thanks to my parents who ac-