User profiles for Nico Engel

Nico Engel

Founder, Kerentia GmbH
Verified email at uni-ulm.de
Cited by 283

Point transformer

N Engel, V Belagiannis, K Dietmayer - IEEE access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we present Point Transformer, a deep neural network that operates directly on
unordered and unstructured point sets. We design Point Transformer to extract local and …

Deeplocalization: Landmark-based self-localization with deep neural networks

N Engel, S Hoermann, M Horn… - 2019 IEEE Intelligent …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We address the problem of vehicle selflocalization from multi-modal sensor information and
a reference map. The map is generated off-line by extracting landmarks from the vehicle's …

Value creation drivers in private equity buyouts: Empirical evidence from Europe

AK Achleitner, R Braun, N Engel, C Figge… - The Journal of Private …, 2010 - JSTOR
Most of the existing research on value creation drivers in private equity buyouts is restricted
to the US and the UK In addition, most of the generally applied methods for measuring the …

Value creation and pricing in buyouts: Empirical evidence from Europe and North America

AK Achleitner, R Braun, N Engel - Review of Financial Economics, 2011 - Elsevier
Using a unique proprietary data set of 1980 realized and unrealized buyouts completed
between 1986 and 2010, we examine entry and exit pricing in buyouts and its influence on …

Deepclr: Correspondence-less architecture for deep end-to-end point cloud registration

M Horn, N Engel, V Belagiannis… - 2020 IEEE 23rd …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work addresses the problem of point cloud registration using deep neural networks. We
propose an approach to predict the alignment between two point clouds with overlapping …

Deep object tracking on dynamic occupancy grid maps using rnns

N Engel, S Hoermann, P Henzler… - 2018 21st International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The comprehensive representation and understanding of the driving environment is crucial
to improve the safety and reliability of autonomous vehicles. In this paper, we present a new …

The performance of venture capital investments: Do investors overreact?

AK Achleitner, N Engel, U Reiner - Review of Financial Economics, 2013 - Elsevier
Using a unique proprietary data set of over 5400 realized and unrealized venture capital
investments between 1980 and 2005, we examine the impact of demand-related factors, eg …

Attention-based Vehicle Self-Localization with HD Feature Maps

N Engel, V Belagiannis… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a vehicle self-localization method using point-based deep neural networks. Our
approach processes measurements and point features, ie landmarks, from a high-definition …

Leverage and the performance of buyouts: (How) does the use of debt Impact equity returns?

N Engel, R Braun, AK Achleitner - Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, 2012 - Springer
In this paper we investigate the effects of debt usage on (risk-adjusted) equity returns in
private equity-backed buyout transactions. We use a proprietary data set of more than 700 …

The risk appetite of private equity sponsors

R Braun, N Engel, P Hieber, R Zagst - Journal of Empirical Finance, 2011 - Elsevier
Using a unique proprietary data set of 460 realized buyouts completed between 1990 and
2005, we examine the risk appetite of private equity (PE) sponsors in different states of the PE …