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Prof. Dr. Thorsten Thormählen
Phone: *28-21574
Fax: *28-25419
E-Mail: thormae@informatik*
Room: 05D11
Address: Hans-Meerwein-Straße 6 (Mehrzweckgebäude), 35032 Marburg
*The prefix code for the phone number is "+49 (0)6421". To obtain a valid e-mail address, please add ".uni-marburg.de"
Research Interests
Visual Computing (Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Video Processing, Interaction)
- Tools for 3D reconstruction and 3D modeling, e.g. Multi-View Photometric Stereo or Videotrace
- Video processing and post-production tools, e.g. MovieReshape
- Multimedia signal processing, e.g. GSN Composer
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S. Lieb, T. Thormählen, F. Rieger: "Digitizing Interlocking Building Blocks" 28th International Symposium on Vision, Modeling, and Visualization (VMV 2023) Braunschweig, Germany , Sep 27 - Sep 29, 2023 |
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J. Gan, T. Thormählen: "Photometric Stereo with Area Lights for Lambertian Surfaces" ACM SIGGRAPH European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP 21) London, UK, 6–7 December 2021 |
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S. Lieb, B. Rosemeier, T. Thormählen, K. Büttner: "Haptic and Auditive Mesh Inspection for Blind 3D Modelers" International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2020) Virtual Event, Greece, Oct 26 - Oct 28, 2020 |
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J. Gan, P. Bergen, T. Thormählen, P. Drescher, R. Hagens: "Normal Map Bias Reduction for Many-Lights Multi-View Photometric Stereo" 24th International Symposium on Vision, Modeling, and Visualization (VMV 2019) Rostock, Germany, Sep 30 - Oct 2, 2019 |
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J. Hofmann, T. Thormählen, K. Büttner: "3D-Druck zur haptischen Darstellung von Grafiken und Graphen in der Blinden und Sehbehindertenpädagogik" Mensch und Computer 2018 |
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J. Gan, A. Wilbert, T. Thormählen, P. Drescher, R. Hagens: "Multi-view Photometric Stereo using Surface Deformation" The Visual Computer, Volume 34, 2018 |
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M. Grochulla, T. Thormählen: "Combining Photometric Normals and Multi-View Stereo for 3D Reconstruction" 12th European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP 2015) London, UK, 24-25 November 2015 |
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A. Jain, C. Chen, T. Thormählen, D. Metaxas, H.-P. Seidel: "Multi-Layer Stencil Creation from Images" Computers & Graphics, Volume 48 Issue C, May 2015 |
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C. Kurz, X. Wu, M. Wand, T. Thormählen, P. Kohli, H.-P. Seidel: "Symmetry-aware Template Fitting and Deformation" Comput. Graph. Forum, Volume 33, Issue 6, September 2014 |
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P. Garrido, L. Valgaerts, O. Rehmsen, T. Thormählen, P. Perez, C. Theobalt: "Automatic Face Reenactment" IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2014) Columbus, Ohio, 24-27 June 2014 |
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C. Kurz, T. Ritschel, E. Eisemann, T. Thormählen, H.-P. Seidel: "Generating Realistic Camera Shake for Virtual Scenes" Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting, Volume 10, Issue 7 CVMP 2010 Special Issue, 2013 |
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Z. Wang, M. Grochulla, T. Thormählen, H.-P. Seidel: "3D Face Template Registration Using Normal Maps" International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV 2013) Washington, USA, 29 June-1 July 2013 |
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A. Jain, T. Thormählen, T. Ritschel, H.-P. Seidel: "Material Memex: Automatic Material Suggestions for 3D Objects" ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 papers, Volume 31, Issue 5 Singapore, 28 November-1 December 2012 |
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Z. Li, T. Herfet, M. Grochulla, T. Thormählen: "Audio-Visual Multiple Active Speaker Localisation in Reverberant Environments" 15th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-12) York, UK, 17-21 September 2012 |
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Z. Li, T. Herfet, M. Grochulla, T. Thormählen: "Multiple Active Speaker Localisation Based on Audio-Visual Fusion in Two Stages" IEEE Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI) Hamburg, Germany, 13-15 September 2012 |
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L. Pishchulin, A. Jain, C. Wojek, M. Andriluka, T. Thormählen, B. Schiele: "Articulated People Detection and Pose Estimation: Reshaping the Future" IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2012) Providence, Rhode Island, 16-21 June 2012 |
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A. Jain, T. Thormählen, T. Ritschel, H.-P. Seidel: "Exploring Shape Variations by 3D-Model Decomposition and Part-based Recombination" Comput. Graph. Forum, Volume 31, Issue 2, Proceedings of Eurographics 2012 Cagliari, Italy, 13-18 May 2012 |
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L. Pishchulin, A. Jain, C. Wojek, T. Thormählen, B. Schiele: "In Good Shape: Robust People Detection based on Appearance and Shape" Proceedings of the 22nd British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2011), Dundee, UK, 29 August - 2 September 2011 |
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C. Kurz, T. Thormählen, H.-P. Seidel: "Bundle Adjustment for Stereoscopic 3D" Proceedings of Mirage 2011 ( Computer Vision / Computer Graphics Collaboration for Model-based Imaging, Rendering, Image Analysis and Graphical Special Effects), INRIA Rocquencourt, France, 10-11 October 2011 |
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M. Grochulla, T. Thormählen, H.-P. Seidel: "Using Spatially Distributed Patterns for Multiple View Camera Calibration" Proceedings of Mirage 2011 ( Computer Vision / Computer Graphics Collaboration for Model-based Imaging, Rendering, Image Analysis and Graphical Special Effects), INRIA Rocquencourt, France, 10-11 October 2011 |
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L. Pishchulin, A. Jain, C. Wojek, M. Andriluka, T. Thormählen, B. Schiele: "Learning People Detection Models from Few Training Samples" IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2011), Colorado Springs, Colorado, 21-23 June 2011 |
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S. Kosov, T. Thormählen, H.-P. Seidel: "Using Active Illumination for Accurate Variational Space-Time Stereo" Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA 2011), Ystad Saltsjöbad, Sweden, 23-27 May 2011 |
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K. Scherbaum, T. Ritschel, M. Hullin, T. Thormählen, V. Blanz, H.-P. Seidel: "Computer-suggested Facial Makeup" Comput. Graph. Forum, Volume 30, Issue 2, Proceedings of Eurographics 2011 Llandudno, UK, 11-15 April 2011 |
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O. Urfalioglu, T. Thormählen, H. Broszio, P. Mikulastik, A. Enis Cetin: "Algebraic Error Analysis of Collinear Feature Points for Camera Parameter Estimation" Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Volume 115, Issue 4, April 2011, pp. 467-475, 2011 |
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C. Kurz, T. Thormählen, H.-P. Seidel: "Visual Fixation for 3D Video Stabilization" Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting, CVMP 2009 Special Issue, Volume 8, Issue 2, March 2011 |
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A. Jain, T. Thormählen, H.-P. Seidel, C. Theobalt: "MovieReshape: Tracking and Reshaping of Humans in Videos" ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 papers, Volume 29, Issue 5 Seoul, South Korea, 15-18 December 2010 |
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C. Kurz, T. Ritschel, E. Eisemann, T. Thormählen, H.-P. Seidel: "Camera Motion Style Transfer" 7th European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP 2010) London, UK, 17-18 November 2010 |
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S. Kosov, T. Thormählen, H.-P. Seidel: "Rapid Stereo-Vision Enhanced Face Recognition" IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2010) Hong Kong, China, September 2010 |
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T. Ritschel, T. Thormählen, C. Dachsbacher, J. Kautz, H.-P. Seidel: "Interactive On-Surface Signal Deformation" ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 papers, Volume 29, Issue 4 ACM SIGGRAPH 2010, Los Angeles, USA, 25-29 July 2010 |
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T. Thormählen, N. Hasler, M. Wand, H.-P. Seidel: "Registration of Sub-Sequence and Multi-Camera Reconstructions for Camera Motion Estimation" Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting, CVMP 2008 Special Issue, Volume 7, Issue 2, July 2010 |
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N. Hasler, H. Ackermann, B. Rosenhahn, T. Thormählen, H.-P. Seidel: "Multilinear Pose and Body Shape Estimation of Dressed Subjects from Image Sets" IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2010), San Francisco, California, June 2010 |
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A. Jain, C. Kurz, T. Thormählen, H.-P. Seidel: "Exploiting Global Connectivity Constraints for Reconstruction of 3D Line Segment from Images" IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2010), San Francisco, California, June 2010 |
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N. Hasler, T. Thormählen, B. Rosenhahn, H.-P. Seidel: "Learning Skeletons for Shape and Pose" ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (i3D) Washington DC, USA, 19-21 February 2010 |
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T. Ritschel, M. Okabe, T. Thormählen, H.-P. Seidel: "Interactive Reflection Editing" ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 papers, Volume 28, Issue 5 Yokohama, Japan, 16-19 December 2009 |
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C. Kurz, T. Thormählen, B. Rosenhahn, H.-P. Seidel: "Exploiting Mutual Camera Visibility in Multi-Camera Motion Estimation" 5th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2009) Vegas, USA, November 2009 |
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S. Kosov, T. Thormählen, H.-P. Seidel: "Accurate Real-Time Disparity Estimation with Variational Methods" 5th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2009) Vegas, USA, November 2009 |
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C. Kurz, T. Thormählen, H.-P. Seidel: "Scene-Aware Video Stabilization by Visual Fixation" 6th European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP 2009) London, UK, 12-13 November 2009 |
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S. Kosov, K. Scherbaum, K. Faber, T. Thormählen, H.-P. Seidel: "Rapid Stereo-Vision Enhanced Face Detection" IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2009) Cairo, Egypt, November, 2009 |
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Y. Cui, N. Hasler, T. Thormählen, H.-P. Seidel: "Scale Invariant Feature Transform with Irregular Orientation Histogram Binning" International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR 2009) Halifax, Canada, July 2009 |
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N. Hasler, C. Stoll, B. Rosenhahn, T. Thormählen, H.-P. Seidel: "Estimating Body Shape of Dressed Humans" Shape Modeling International (SMI 2009). Beijing, China, June 2009 |
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N. Hasler, B. Rosenhahn, T. Thormählen, M. Wand, J. Gall, H.-P. Seidel: "Markerless Motion Capture with Unsynchronized Moving Cameras" IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2009), Miami Beach, Florida, June 2009 |
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T. Thormählen, N. Hasler, M. Wand, H.-P. Seidel: "Merging of Feature Tracks for Camera Motion Estimation from Video" 5th European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP 2008) London, UK, 26-27 November 2008 |
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T. Thormählen, H.-P. Seidel: "3D-Modeling by Ortho-Image Generation from Image Sequences" ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 papers, Volume 27, Issue 3 ACM SIGGRAPH 2008, Los Angeles, USA, 11-15 August 2008 |
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A. van den Hengel, A. Dick, T. Thormählen, B. Ward, P.H.S. Torr: "A Shape Hierarchy for 3D Modelling from Video" Proceedings of GRAPHITE 2007, Perth, Australia, 1-4 December 2007 |
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A. van den Hengel, A. Dick, T. Thormählen, B. Ward, P.H.S. Torr: "Interactive 3D Model Completion" Proceedings of DICTA 2007, Adelaide, Australia, 3-5 December 2007 |
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A. van den Hengel, A. Dick, T. Thormählen, B. Ward, P.H.S. Torr: "VideoTrace: Rapid interactive scene modelling from video" ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 papers, Volume 26, Issue 3 ACM SIGGRAPH 2007, San Diego, USA, 7-9 August 2007 |
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P. Mikulastik, T. Thormählen, H. Broszio, O. Urfalioglu: "Error Analysis of Feature Based Disparity Estimation" Proceedings of the IEEE Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology (PSIVT 2006), Hsinchu, Taiwan, 11-13 December 2006 |
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A. van den Hengel, A. Dick, T. Thormählen, B. Ward, P.H.S. Torr: "Rapid Interactive Modelling from Video with Graph Cuts" Proceedings of Eurographics 2006 (Short paper), Vienna, Austria, 4-8 September 2006 |
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A. van den Hengel, A. Dick, T. Thormählen, B. Ward, P.H.S. Torr: "Building Models of Regular Scenes from Structure and Motion" Proceedings of the 17th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2006), Edinburgh, UK, 4-7 September 2006 |
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A. van den Hengel, A. Dick, T. Thormählen, B. Ward, P. H. S. Torr: "Hierarchical Model Fitting to 2D and 3D Data" Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualisation, IEEE Computer Society Press, Sydney, Australia, July 2006 |
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T. Thormählen, A. Dick, A. van den Hengel, B. Ward, P. H. S. Torr: "Regular Scene Reconstruction from Image Sequences" Video Proceedings for CVPR 2006 (VPCVPR06), New York, USA, 17-22 June 2006 |
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O. Urfalioglu, T. Thormählen, H. Broszio, P. Mikulastik: "Error Analysis of Camera Parameter Estimation based on Collinear Features" Proceedings of the Third Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV 2006), Quebec, Canada, 7-9 June 2006 |
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A. van den Hengel, A. Dick, T. Thormählen, P. H. S. Torr, B. Ward: "Fitting multiple models to multiple images with minimal user interaction" Proceedings of the International Workshop on the Representation and Use of Prior Knowledge in Vision (WRUPKV) held in association with ECCV 2006, Graz, Austria, 6 May 2006 (accepted for Springer LNCS) |
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T. Thormählen: "Zuverlässige Schätzung der Kamerabewegung aus einer Bildfolge" Dissertation, Universität Hannover, VDI Fortschritt-Berichte, Reihe 10 Informatik/Kommunikationstechnik, Band Nr. 765, 2006, ISBN 3-18-376510-1, ISSN 0178-9627, 2006 |
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T. Thormählen, H. Broszio, P. Mikulastik: "Robust Linear Auto-calibration of a Moving Camera from Image Sequences" Proceedings of the 7th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2006), Hyderabad, India, 13-16 Jan 2006, Springer, LNCS 3852, Part II, ISSN 0302-9743, 2006 |
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T. Thormählen, H. Broszio: "Automatic line-based estimation of radial lens distortion" Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, Vol. 12, Number 2, pp. 177-190, IOS Press, ISSN 1069-2509 2005 |
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H. Broszio, T. Thormählen, P. Mikulastik: "Using Mosaic Images to Simplify the Integration of Virtual Objects into Image Sequences" International Journal of Robotics and Automation, Vol. 20, Issue 1, pp. 34-41, ACTA Press, ISSN 0826-8185 |
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T. Thormählen, H. Broszio, A. Weissenfeld: "Keyframe Selection for Camera Motion and Structure Estimation from Multiple Views" Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2004), Prague, Czech Republic, 11-14 May 2004, Springer, LNCS 3021, ISBN 3-540-21984-6, pp.523-535, 2004 |
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H. Broszio, T. Thormählen, P. Mikulastik: "User-Friendly Integration of Virtual Objects into Image Sequences with Mosaics" Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Vision Interface, Halifax, Canada, June, 11-13 2003, pp. 70-76, 2003 |
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T. Thormählen, H. Broszio, I. Wassermann: "Robust Line-Based Calibration of Lens Distortion from a Single View" Proceedings of Mirage 2003 ( Computer Vision / Computer Graphics Collaboration for Model-based Imaging, Rendering, Image Analysis and Graphical Special Effects), INRIA Rocquencourt, France, 10-12 March 2003, pp. 105-112, 2003 |
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Y. Liu, T. Thormählen, H. Broszio: "Camera Motion Estimation for Object-Based Video Coding" Recent Trends in Multimedia Information Processing, Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Systems, Signals and Image Processing, Manchester Town Hall, UK, 7-8 November 2002, World Scientific, October 2002, ISBN 981-238-243-7, 2002 |
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T. Thormählen, H. Broszio, P. N. Meier: "Three-Dimensional Endoscopy" Falk Symposium No. 124, Medical Imaging in Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Hannover, Germany, September 2001, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002, ISBN 0-7923-8774-0, 2002 |
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T. Thormählen, H. Broszio, P. N. Meier: "Automatische 3D-Rekonstruktion aus endoskopischen Bildfolgen" Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2002, Leipzig, Germany, März 2002, Springer, 2002, ISBN 3-540-43225-6, 2002 |
Short CV
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since October 2012:
University Professor for Computer Graphics and Multimedia Programming, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany - October 2011 - September 2012:
Substitute Professor for Interactive Graphics Systems, University of Tübingen, Germany -
November 2007 - September 2012:
Senior Researcher, Head of the independent research group "Image-based 3D Scene Analysis" within the Max Planck Center for Visual Computing and Communication -
October 2005 - October 2007:
Postdoctoral research fellow, School of Computer Science, University of Adelaide, Australia -
Januar 2000 - Oktober 2005:
PhD (Dr.-Ing.), Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Universität Hannover, Germany
Full-time scientific assistant at the Information Technology Laboratory, University of Hannover -
October 1994 - November 1999:
Diploma in Electrical Engineering (Dipl.-Ing.), University of Duisburg, Germany