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Ph.D. Defence:
On February 5, 2018, David Hafner has defended his Ph.D. thesis on
"Variational Image Fusion".
Prof. Coloma Ballester (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) was external
committee member.
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Ph.D. Defence:
On January 22, 2018, Martin Schmidt has defended his Ph.D. thesis on
"Linear Scale-Spaces in Image Processing: Drift-Diffusion and
Connections to Mathematical Morphology".
Prof. Remco Duits (TU Eindhoven) was external committee member.
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Bachelor Award:
On November 24, 2017, Edgar Tretschk has been awarded for his bachelor
studies in computer science. His thesis on "Variational Pansharpening
with Nonlinear Anisotropic Diffusion" was written in our group.
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Computer Science Teaching Award:
On October 16, 2017, a Busy Beaver Teaching Award of the computer
science students has been given to Pascal Peter for his
class on
"Image Compression".
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ICISP 2018 Invited Speaker:
Joachim Weickert will be an invited speaker at the
International Conference on Image and Signal Processing 2018
(Cherbourg, France, July 2-4, 2018).
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2017 Rothschild Distinguished Visiting Fellow:
During September 2017, Joachim Weickert was a
Rothschild
Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Isaac Newton Institute for
Mathematical Sciences, located at the University of Cambridge (UK).
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Ph.D. Defence:
On June 16, 2017, Sebastian Hoffmann has defended his Ph.D. thesis on
"Competitive Image Compression with Linear PDEs".
Prof. Gerlind Plonka-Hoch
(University of Göttingen) was external committee member.
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DCC 2018 Plenary Lecture:
Joachim Weickert is going to give an invited plenary lecture on
inpainting-based image compression at the
2018 Data Compression Conference (DCC 2018, Snowbird, Utah, USA,
March 27-30, 2018). The DCC is the leading conference in the field
of data compression.
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Computer Science Teaching Award:
On April 18, 2017, a Busy Beaver Teaching Award of the computer
science students has been given to Joachim Weickert for his
class on
"Mathematics for Computer Scientists III".
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ERC Advanced Grant:
Joachim Weickert has been awarded an
ERC Advanced Grant for his proposal
"INCOVID: Inpainting-based Compression of Visual Data". This prestigious
grant by the European Research Council (ERC) provides funding of up to
2.46 million Euro over a period of five years. It supports our research
on a
new generation of methods for compressing images and videos more
efficiently.
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GAMM 2018 Plenary Lecture:
Joachim Weickert is going to give an invited plenary lecture at the
89th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Applied
Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM 2018, TU Munich, Germany, March 19-23,
2018).
