Research and Teaching Awards for the MIA Group

On December 3, 2009, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has announced that Prof. Joachim Weickert will be awarded a Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2010. The Leibniz Prize is the most prestigeous science award in Germany and includes up to 2.5 million Euro in research funds.

The 2009 Summer Term Teaching Prize in Mathematics at Saarland University has been awarded to Joachim Weickert for his lectures on

Differential Equations in Image Processing and Computer Vision.

In the winter term 2008/2009 the Günter Hotz Medal for the best master's thesis in Computer Science at Saarland University was awarded to Pascal Gwosdek for his work

Realtime Optical Flow Algorithms on the Cell Processor.

The 2008 Summer Term Teaching Prize in Computer Science at Saarland University has been awarded to Andrés Bruhn for his lectures on

Correspondence Problems in Computer Vision.

At the 2008 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) an outstanding reviewer award was awarded to Andrés Bruhn for his excellent work as programme committee member.

At the 2008 International IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) an outstanding reviewer award was awarded to Joachim Weickert for his excellent work as programme committee member.

The 2006 Dr. Eduard Martin Prize for outstanding scientific contributions during his Ph.D. thesis at Saarland University was awarded to Andrés Bruhn.

At the 2007 Annual Meeting of the German Computer Science Society (GI), the GI Dissertation Award for the best Ph.D. thesis in computer science in 2006 was awarded to Andrés Bruhn by for his thesis

Variational Optic Flow Computation:
Accurate Modelling and Efficient Numerics.

The prize is given by the German Computer Sciencs Society (GI), the Swiss Computer Science Society (SI), the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) and the German Chapter of the ACM (GChACM). It constitutes the highest award for a Ph.D. thesis in computer science in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

At the 2006 International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), the best paper award has been assigned to the paper

T. Schultz, B. Burgeth, J. Weickert:
Flexible segmentation and smoothing of DT-MRI fields through a customizable structure tensor.
In G. Bebis, R. Boyle, B. Parvin, D. Koracin, P. Remagnino, A. V. Nefian, M. Gopi, V. Pascucci, J. Zara, J. Molineros, H. Theisel, T. Malzbender (Eds.): Advances in Visual Computing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4291, Springer, Berlin, 454-464, 2006.

The 2006 Summer Term Teaching Prize in Computer Science at Saarland University has been awarded to Joachim Weickert for his lectures on

Differential Equations in Image Processing and Computer Vision.

At the 2006 Annual Symposium of the German Pattern Recognition Society (DAGM), the Olympus Prize was awarded to Andrés Bruhn for his outstanding work in the field of pattern recognition and image understanding. This prize constitutes the highest award given by the DAGM.

At the 2005 Annual Symposium of the German Pattern Recognition Society (DAGM), the best paper award (main prize) has been assigned to the paper

B. Rosenhahn, U. Kersting, D. Smith, J. Gurney, T. Brox, R. Klette:
A system for marker-less human motion estimation.
In W. Kropatsch, R. Sablatnig, A. Hanbury (Eds): Pattern Recognition. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3663, Springer, Berlin, 230-237, 2005.

At the 2005 Annual Symposium of the German Pattern Recognition Society (DAGM), a paper award has been assigned to the paper

N. Slesareva, A. Bruhn, J. Weickert:
Optic flow goes stereo: a variational method for estimating discontinuity-preserving dense disparity maps.
In W. Kropatsch, R. Sablatnig, A. Hanbury (Eds): Pattern Recognition. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3663, Springer, Berlin, 33-40, 2005.

This prize is awarded for the best contribution at the Eighth European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2004). It is regarded as the highest European computer vision award. From a total of 555 manuscripts submitted to the conference, the following paper has been selected:

T. Brox, A. Bruhn, N. Papenberg, J. Weickert:
High accuracy optical flow estimation based on a theory for warping.
In T. Pajdla, J. Matas (Eds.): Computer Vision - ECCV 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3024, Springer, Berlin, 25-36, 2004.

The best paper award in the section Numerical Analysis, Scientific Computung, Visualisation of the 2003 Annual Meeting of the German Society of Mathematicians (DMV) has been awarded to Joachim Weickert for the presentation "Relations between nonlinear denoising methods in signal and image processing". A corresponding journal paper appeared as

G. Steidl, J. Weickert, T. Brox, P. Mrázek and M. Welk:
On the equivalence of soft wavelet shrinkage, total variation diffusion, total variation regularization, and SIDEs.
SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Vol. 42, No. 2, 686-713, 2004.

At the 2003 Annual Symposium of the German Pattern Recognition Society (DAGM), a paper award has been assigned to the paper

M. Welk, C. Feddern, B. Burgeth, J. Weickert:
Median filtering of tensor-valued images.
In B. Michaelis, G. Krell (Eds.): Pattern Recognition. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2781, Springer, Berlin, 17-24, 2003.

The 2003 Summer Term Teaching Prize in Computer Science at Saarland University has been awarded to Joachim Weickert for his lectures on

Differential Equations in Image Processing and Computer Vision.

At the 2002 Annual Symposium of the German Pattern Recognition Society (DAGM), a paper award has been assigned to the paper

A. Bruhn, J. Weickert, C. Schnörr:
Combining the advantages of local and global optic flow methods.
In L. Van Gool (Ed.): Pattern Recognition. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2449, Springer, Berlin, 454-462, 2002.

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