Principle Member of Research Staff
Bochum, Germany
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Background
I received my engineering degree (Dipl.-Ing.) from Universität Dortmund in 1988. Further specialising in Communication Engineering and Signal Processing at the Circuits and Systems Lab I received a PhD (Dr.-Ing.) in 1995. Multi-Dimensional Signal Processing for Video Interpolation at that time was a topic interesting enough to be presented in several education courses that I participated in teaching at GRUNDIG EMV, Nürnberg and Philips Research, Eindhoven during that period.
I joined Nokia in 1993 working in the Advanced Development group for Digital Video Broadcasting. We helped to establish the DVB standards and set up the first nationwide television system for that standard together with the KirchGruppe in Germany. After leading the set top box receiver product development project ("d-box") I turned to new challenges:
In 2000 and 2001 I led a set of programs that targeted to establish application platforms and environments for the then newly emerging Bluetooth communication standard. This work led me to becoming a Chief Architect for Local Connectivity in the Nokia mobile device platform.
Research
After several years in Product and Advanced Development I joined the Nokia Research Center then leading a group on "Validation and Testing Technologies". Achievements of that group include the establishment of a new (ETSI) standardised language for programming automated tests (TTCN-3) and its successful adoption by several product development departments.
Lateron focus shifted towards other topics: Music playback with extremely low energy consumption led us to develop some interesting solutions based on accelerator architectures in connection with OpenMAX IL.
My current research activities include
As a member of the Incubation Team in SRC Bochum I furthermore synchronise activities across the Bochum SRC research teams and actively pursue to extend our contacts to the regional research community. Therefore, I am holding lectures at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and host several workshops.
Interests
Given the diverse topics I have been confronted with during my career I have gained experience and am further intereseted in the following aras:
Private Interests
I am an irregular dillettante on several instruments (although I was not that bad at piano when I was still younger). I like to travel (and have done much of that before I decided to trade that for a family life) and read a lot. Recently, I discovered the excitement of sailing small boats (dinghies).
Publications
Botteck, M.; Blume, H.; von Livonius, J.; Neuenhahn, M.; Noll, T.G.: "Programmable Architectures for Realtime Music Decompression". ParCo2007 Parallel Computing conference 2007, Aachen/Jülich, September 4-7, 2007. (Paper accepted for publication).
Botteck, M.; Deiß, T.: "Introduction of TTCN-3 into the product development process". Special Issue of the International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT) on TTCN-3. Springer 2007. (Paper accepted for publication).
Blume, H.; Becker, D.; Rotenberg, L.; Botteck, M.; Brakensiek, J.; Noll, T.G.: "Hybrid functional- and instruction-level power modeling for embedded and heteregeneous processor architectures". Journal of Systems Architecure 53 (2007) 689-702. doi:10.1016/j.sysarc.2007.01.002
Botteck, M.; Deiß T.; Willcock, C.: "Making TTCN-3 Work! - Issues and Strategies for its Use in Product Development", Tagungsvortrag TTCN-3 User Conference, Sophia Antipolis, Jun 6-8, 2005.
Botteck, M.: "From Home-Made to Tailor Made: R&D Support for Sourcing Bluetooth Silicon Components", Tagungsvortrag eda-Forum for Design Automation, Dresden, Dezember 2004.
Botteck, M.: "Rückkanalanbindung für interaktive digitale Systeme", ITG Fachbericht 144 "Multimedia". VDE Verlag, Oktober 1997.
Botteck, M.: "Vom Rundfunk zu Multimedia: Endgeräte für digitale Dienste", infosat 05/96, 1996 (Nachdruck des FKT-Artikels).
Botteck, M.: "Vom Rundfunk zu Multimedia - Endgeräte für digitale Dienste". FKT Nr. 4/1996, p. 159-162.
Botteck, M: "Interaktives Fernsehen - Endgeräte und Entwicklungstendenzen", FKTG Regionalgruppe Rhein-Ruhr. Vortrag auf einem Technik Workshop des ZDF, 06/1996
Botteck, M.: "Digitale interaktive Dienste auf BK-Netzen", Vortrag ITG-Fachtagung Dortmund, September 1995, VDE-Verlag, Frankfurt.
Botteck, M.: "Digitale Empfänger für interaktive und und Rundfunk-TV Anwendungen", ITG Fachbericht 136 "Multimedia". VDE Verlag, Oktober 1995.
Botteck, M.: "Mehrdimensionale Interpolationstechniken für eine verbesserte Wiedergabe von Videosignalen". Dissertation an der Universität Dortmund, Verlag Shaker, 1993.
Schröder, H.; Appelhans, P.; Botteck, M.; Schwoerer, L.; Wu, X.: "HDTV-Empfänger-Architekturen ‑ Algorithmen und Systemintegration". Fernseh-und Kinotechnik Nr. 3/1993, p. 166-175.
Botteck, M.; Schwoerer, L.; Wu, X.; Schröder, H.: "VLSI-gerechte HDTV-Empfängerarchitekturen". Forschungsberichte-Universität Dortmund, Fakultät für Elektrotechnik, Band 1, Dortmund, 1992.
Botteck, M.: "Motion Vector Based Interpolation Techniques for Flicker-Free TV Reproduction". International Broadcast Convention IBC´92, IEE Conference Publication 358, IEE, London, 1992.
Botteck, M. Schwoerer, L.: "Architekturen für zukünftige HDTV-Empfänger mit flimmerfreier Bildwiedergabe". mikroelektronik Heft 3/92, pp. 136-143.
Botteck, M.: "Digital Signal Processing with separated Lows and Highs for TV Applications". Proceedings 26th Annual SMPTE Television and Electronic Imaging Conference, San Francisco, 1992.
Schröder, H.; Botteck, M.: "Temporal Subsampling of spatial Highs Components in Video Applications". Proc. 4th Int. workshop on HDTV and Beyond, Turin, 1991.
Botteck, M.: "Architecture Considerations for Receiver-based Field Rate Upconversion making Use of High-Low Separation". Vortrag ITG-Workshop on TV Receiver Based Signal Processing, München, 1991.
Botteck, M.; Schröder, H.: "Ein erweitertes Modell der Bewegungswahrnehmung zur Interpolation von Zwischenbildern". Aachener Symposium für Signaltheorie, ASST ´90, Springer Verlag, 1990.
Patents
I am holding two patents, several more are pending.