Short Curriculum Vitae
- 7/2009 - today
- Head of Research group Graphics, Vision & Video at MPI Informatik, Saarbruecken, Germany
- 4/2007 - 6/2009
- Visiting assistant professor, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University
- 9/2006 - today
- Head of research group ``3D Video and Vision-based Graphics'' within the Max-Planck-Center for Visual Computing and Communication (Saarbrücken/Stanford)
- 12/2005 - 8/2006
- Postdoctoral researcher at MPI Informatik
- 12/2005
- Dr.-Ing. (PhD) degree in Computer Science, MPI / University of Saarland
- 5/2001 - 11/2005
- PhD student in the Computer Graphics Group of the Max-Planck-Institut Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany
- 4/2001
- Diplom (MS) degree in Computer Science, University of Saarland, Germany
- 10/2000
- M.Sc. degree in Artificial Intelligence (Intelligent Robotics), University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Awards
- 3/2009
- EUROGRAPHICS Young Researcher Award 2009
- 6/2007
- Otto Hahn Medal of the Max-Planck-Society 2006
- 10/2006
- Dr. Eduard Martin Award for the best dissertation in the faculty of engineering 2005/2006, University of Saarland
- 4/2005
- ATI Fellowship 2005/2006
- 10/2000
- Best M.Sc. Student in Artificial Intelligence Award, University of Edinburgh
- 10/2000
- Jim Howe Award, University of Edinburgh
I am Program Co-Chair of
I am / was a member of the program committees of
- IEEE Workshop on Dynamic Shape Capture and Analysis 2011 - collocated with ICCV
- IEEE Workshop on Consumer Depth Cameras for Computer Vision (CDC4CV) 2011 - collocated with ICCV
- VMV 2011
- MIRAGE 2011
- 3DIMPVT 2011
- EUROGRAPHICS 2011 (Full papers)
- International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2011
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2011
- ECCV Workshop on Human Motion: Understanding, Modeling, Capture and Animation 2010
- European Conference on Computer Vision - ECCV, 2010.
- ACM MULTIMEDIA 2010 - Workshop on 3D Video Processing
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2010
- DAGM 2010
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- 3DPVT 2010
- EUROGRAPHICS 2010 (Full papers)
- VMV 2010
- IEEE Workshop on Motion and Video Computing (WMVC2009) - an IEEE Winter Vision Meeting
- EUROGRAPHICS 2009 (Short papers)
- IMMERSCOM 2009
- CVMP - European Conference on Visual Media Production, 2009
- VMV 2009
- IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and EXPO 2008
- GRAPP 2008
- 2nd Workshop on HUMAN MOTION - Understanding, Modeling, Capture and Animation, in conjunction with ICCV 2007
- IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2007)
- GRAPP 2007
- MIRAGE 2007
Reviewing
In recent years, I have regularly served as a reviewer for many international conferences and journals, including
ACM SIGGRAPH, EUROGRAPHICS, IEEE CVPR, IEEE ICCV, ECCV, Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, IEEE Pacific Graphics, ICIP, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, etc.
Further Activities
I am a member of the following organizations
