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Saarland University, Germany

Image Processing

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  • Conference Section Organisation: Joachim Weickert will be one of the co-organisers of the Mathematical Signal and Image Processing Section within the GAMM Annual Meeting 2014.

  • Keynote Lecture: Joachim Weickert has been invited to give a keynote lecture at Computer Graphics International 2013 (CGI 2013, June 12-14, 2013, Hannover, Germany), one of the oldest conferences on computer graphics.

  • Conference Organisation: Joachim Weickert is the general chair of the 35th German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR 2013, September 3-6, 2013, Saarbrücken, Germany).

  • Keynote Lecture: Joachim Weickert has been invited to give a keynote lecture at the 84th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM 2013, Novi Sad, Serbia, March 18-22, 2013) in the section Mathematical Signal and Image Processing.

  • Paper Award: On August 31, 2012, Christopher Schroers, Henning Zimmer, Levi Valgaerts, Andrés Bruhn, Oliver Demetz, and Joachim Weickert have received a Paper Award at the DAGM-OAGM 2012 Conference for their paper "Anisotropic Range Image Integration".

  • ARD / ZDF Award for Women and Media Technology: Judith Jakob is the winner of the second prize in the 2012 ARD / ZDF Award Ceremony for Women and Media Technology. This award is based on her master thesis in applied mathematics that she has written in our group. It is concerned with mathematical restoration methods for old movies.

  • Ph.D. Defense: On July 11, 2012 Pascal Gwosdek has defended his Ph.D. thesis on "Hardware-Accelerated Algorithms in Visual Computing". Prof. Horst Bischof (Technical University of Graz) was external committee member.

  • Computer Science Teaching Award: Joachim Weickert has received a Busy Beaver Teaching Award of the computer science students for his classes on Image Processing and Computer Vision.

  • Mathematics Teaching Award: Joachim Weickert has received the Mathematics Teaching Award for the Winter Term 2011 / 2012 for his classes on Image Processing and Computer Vision.

  • Google Scholarship: In June 2012, Franzika Ebel will be awarded a Google scholarship. It is partly based on her bachelor thesis that she has written in our group.

  • New Rooms: As of April 1, 2012 the MIA Group has moved. You can find us now in the fourth floor of Building E1.7.

  • Professor Position: Michael Breuß has accepted an offer for a tenure-track assistant professor position at the Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU, Cottbus, Germany), where he will head the Applied Mathematics and Computer Vision Group.

  • Ph.D. Defense: On March 23, 2012, Christian Schmaltz has defended his Ph.D. thesis on "Compression, Pose Tracking, and Halftoning". Prof. Luis Alvarez (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) and Prof. Bodo Rosenhahn (University of Hanover) were external committee members.

  • Academy of Europe: Joachim Weickert has become elected member of the Academia Europaea - The Academy of Europe.

  • Ph.D. Defense: On February 10, 2012, Henning Zimmer has defended his Ph.D. thesis on "Correspondence Problems in Computer Vision: Novel Models, Numerics, and Applications". Prof. Daniel Cremers (Technical University of Munich) was external committee member.

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