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Academy of Europe:
Joachim Weickert has become elected member of the
Academia Europaea - The Academy of Europe.
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Professor Position:
Andrés Bruhn has accepted an offer for a permanent professor position
(W3) at the University of Stuttgart. He will be heading the
Intelligent Systems Group
at the Institute for Visualization and Interactive Systems.
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Professor Position:
Andrés Bruhn has declined an offer for a permanent professor position
(W2) at the
Bauhaus University Weimar.
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Editor-in-Chief:
Joachim Weickert has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of the
Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision. This journal is
published by Springer, and it is the first of its kind in the area
of mathematical image analysis.
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Workshop Organisation:
Andrés Bruhn was one of the organisers of the Dagstuhl
Workshop on
Efficient Algorithms for Global Optimisation Methods in Computer Vision.
(November 20-25, 2011).
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Reviewer Award:
Andrés Bruhn was awarded for his outstanding reviews at
ICCV 2011 (November 6-12, 2011, Barcelona, Spain).
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Area Chair: Joachim Weickert has served as area chair for
the 13th International Conference
on Computer Vision (November 6-12, 2011, Barcelona, Spain).
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Keynote Lecture:
Andrés Bruhn has given a keynote lecture
at the
International Conference on Image Information Processing
(November 3-5, 2011, Simla, India)
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Ph.D. Defense:
On September 27, 2011, Levi Valgaerts has defended his Ph.D. thesis on
"Variational 3D Reconstruction from Stereo Image Pairs and Stereo Sequences".
Prof. Thomas Brox (University of Freiburg) was external committee member.
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Keynote Lecturer:
Joachim Weickert was one of the keynote lecturers at the
Summer School on Advances in Image, Motion and Video Coding and
Processing
(August 22-26, 2011, Copenhagen, Denmark).
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Most Influential Paper over the Decade Award:
At the MVA 2011 Conference (June 13-15, 2011, Nara, Japan),
a Most Influential Paper over the Decade Award has been given to
Luis Alvarez, Rachid Deriche, Javier Sánchez, and Joachim Weickert for
their MVA 2000 paper
''
Dense Disparity Map Estimation Respecting Image Derivatives:
A PDE and Scale-Space Based Approach''.
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Keynote Lecture: Joachim Weickert has given a keynote lecture at the
Third International Conference on Scale Space and Variational Methods
in Computer Vision
(May 29 - June 2, 2011, Ein-Gedi, Israel).
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Ph.D. Defense:
On May 19, 2011, Luis Pizarro has defended his Ph.D. thesis on "Nonlocal
Smoothing and Adaptive Morphology for Scalar- and Matrix-Valued Images".
INRIA Research Director Charles Kervrann (Rennes, France) was external
committee member.
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Plenary Speaker:
Joachim Weickert has given a plenary talk at the
First International
ICST Workshop on New Computational Methods for Inverse Problems
(May 16, 2011, Cachan, France).
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Workshop Organisation:
Michael Breuß was one of the organisers of the Dagstuhl Workshop on
Innovations for Shape Analysis: Models and Algorithms
(April 4-8, 2011).
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Ph.D. Defense:
On March 31, 2011, Oliver Vogel has defended his Ph.D. thesis on
"Perspective Shape from Shading: Models, Algorithms, and Applications".
Prof. Alfred Bruckstein (Technion, Haifa, Israel) was external
committee member.
