I am an assistant professor of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt in Germany. I lead the Visual Inference Group, which is embedded within the Interactive Graphics Systems group. My research interests mainly lie in the areas of computer vision as well as machine learning and are focused on statistical models for problems of visual inference. Particular research interests include probabilistic models of low-level vision, image motion estimation, people detection and tracking, as well as object recognition.
Openings:
- PhD scholarship available! Deadline June 1, 2012
Recent highlights:
- I won the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Prize 2012 of the German Research Foundation
- CVPR 2012: "Learning Rotation-Aware Features: From Invariant Priors to Equivariant Descriptors" (oral)
- CVPR 2012: "Discrete-Continuous Optimization for Multi-Target Tracking"
- I was awarded the Adolf-Messer-Prize 2011 by the Adolf-Messer-Foundation & TU Darmstadt
- IJCV: "Discriminative Appearance Models for Pictorial Structures" [preprint]
- DAGM 2011 tutorial on "Random Field Models for Natural Image and Scene Statistics" [slides]
- ICCV 2011: "3D Scene Flow Estimation with a Rigid Motion Prior" [IEEE xplore]
Professional activities:
- Area Chair CVPR 2013
- Area Chair ECCV 2012
- Area Chair ICCV 2011
- Program Chair DAGM 2010
- Program Committee ICCV 2007, 2009
- Program Committee CVPR 2007 - 2012
- Program Committee ECCV 2008
- Program Committee EMMCVPR 2009, 2011
- Program Committee DAGM 2009-2012
- Program Committee VMV 2007 - 2009, 2011
- Grant Reviewer for German Research Foundation (DFG), Israel Science Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation, German Academic Exchange Association
- Reviewer for International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences (SIIMS) and others
Honors & Awards:
- Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Prize 2012
- Adolf-Messer-Prize 2011
- Olympus Prize 2010
- Outstanding Reviewer Award ICCV 2009
- Best Paper Award of the INI-Graphics Net 2008 (with M. Black)
- Outstanding Reviewer Award ECCV 2008
- Outstanding Reviewer Award CVPR 2008
- Nomination for the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award 2007
- Outstanding Reviewer Award CVPR 2007
- Joukowsky Family Foundation Outstanding Dissertation Award 2007 (for the best dissertation in the sciences at Brown University)
- Marr Prize (Honorable Mention) ICCV 2005 (with M. Black)
- Sigma Xi Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award 2005
- Sigma Xi Associate Member 2005
- Dean’s Fellowship, Brown University 2001
- Fulbright Travel Scholarship 2001