Room number

IDEG006

Telephone number

• office: +43 316 873 - 4369

Position

Research Associate

Email

jakob.moederl@tugraz.at

Research interests

Signal processing for ultra-wideband radar, device free person detection and localization, stochastic radio channel modeling and machine learning applications for radar signal processing.

Other Profiles

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Jakob Möderl received the M.Sc. degree in 2020 in electrical engineering from Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria. He is currently working towards a Ph.D. degree as a Research Associate at the Signal Processing and Speech Communications Laboratory of Graz University of Technology. His research interest include signal processing for ultra-wideband radar with a focus on device free person detection and localization as well as radio channel modeling and machine learning applications for radar signal processing.

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Research Projects

• SEAMAL Front - Sicher angewandtes maschinelles Lernen

Student Projects

• Sequential Multi-pitch Tracking(open)
• Hybrid ML for Music Analysis(open)
• Neural-Enhanced Multipath-based SLAM(open)

PhD Thesis

• Using UWB Radar to Detect Life Presence Inside a Vehicle

Publications

• Conference paper Möderl J., Posch S., Pernkopf F. & Witrisal K. (2024) UWBCarGraz Dataset for Car Occupancy Detection using Ultra-Wideband Radar. in 2024 IEEE Radar Conference, RadarConf 2024. [more info] [doi]
• Journal article Möderl J., Leitinger E., Pernkopf F. & Witrisal K. (2024) Variational Inference of Structured Line Spectra Exploiting Group-Sparsity. in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. [more info]
• Data set/Database Möderl J., Posch S., Pernkopf F. & Witrisal K. (2023) UWBCarGraz Dataset.. [more info] [doi]
• Journal article Möderl J., Pernkopf F., Witrisal K. & Leitinger E. (2023) Fast Variational Block-Sparse Bayesian Learning. in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. [more info]
• Conference paper Möderl J., Leitinger E., Pernkopf F. & Witrisal K. (2023) Variational Message Passing-based Respiratory Motion Estimation and Detection Using Radar Signals. in 48th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. [more info]
• Conference paper Möderl J., Pernkopf F. & Witrisal K. (2022) Car Occupancy Detection Using Ultra-Wideband Radar. in 18th European Radar Conference (pp. 313-316). [more info] [doi]
• Conference paper Möderl J., Pernkopf F. & Witrisal K. (2021) Car Occupant Detection Using Ultra-Wideband Radar.. [more info]