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Markus Mainberger

Research Assistant


Position:    Research Assistant
Phone: +49-681-302-57347
Fax: +49-681-302-57342
E-mail: mainberger -at- mia.uni-saarland.de
Address: Mathematical Image Analysis Group
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Campus E1.7
66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
Office: Room 4.05
Building E1.7, Saarbrücken Campus

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  • Image Compression
  • Epipolar Geometry Estimation

    Conference Papers


  1. M. Mainberger, S. Hoffmann, J. Weickert, C. H. Tang, D. Johannsen, F. Neumann, B. Doerr
    Optimising spatial and tonal data for homogeneous diffusion inpainting
    In Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision, Proc. Third International Conference
    SSVM 2011, Ein Gedi, Israel, May/June 2011 - A. M. Bruckstein, B. ter Haar Romeny, A. M. Bronstein, M. M. Bronstein (Eds.)
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6667, 26-37, Springer, Berlin, 2012.

  2. M. Mainberger and J. Weickert
    Edge-Based Image Compression with Homogeneous Diffusion.
    In Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, Proc. 13th International Conference
    CAIP 2009, Münster, Germany, September 2009 - X. Jiang, N. Petkov (Eds.)
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5702, 476-483, Springer, Berlin, 2009.

  3. M. Mainberger, A. Bruhn, and J. Weickert
    Is Dense Optical Flow Useful to Compute the Fundamental Matrix? - Updated Version with Errata.
    In Image Analysis and Recognition, Proc. 4th International Conference
    ICIAR 2008, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, June 2008 - A. Campilho, M. Kamel (Eds.)
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5112, 630-639, Springer, Berlin, 2008.

  4. Journal Papers


  5. L. Valgaerts, A. Bruhn, M. Mainberger, J. Weickert:
    Dense versus sparse approaches for estimating the fundamental matrix.
    International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 96, No. 2, 212-234, Jan. 2012.
    Revised version of Technical Report No. 263, Department of Mathematics, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, October 2010.

  6. M. Mainberger, A. Bruhn, J. Weickert, S. Forchhammer:
    Edge-based compression of cartoon-like images with homogeneous diffusion.
    Pattern Recognition, Vol. 44, No. 9, 1859-1873, September 2011.
    Also available as Technical Report No. 269, Department of Mathematics, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, August 2010.

  7. Theses


  8. M. Mainberger
    Contour Coding for PDE-based Image Reconstruction
    Master's Thesis in Visual Computing, Dept. of Computer Science,
    Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, October 2008.

  9. M. Mainberger
    Computing the fundamental matrix in computer vision from dense optic flow fields
    Bachelor's Thesis in Computer Science, Dept. of Computer Science,
    Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, April 2007.



    Master Students

  1. Kevin Baum (in progress)
  2. Rajiv Lund (2011)
  3. Bachelor Students

  4. Michael Puhl (in progress)
  5. Julian Steil (in progress)
  6. Nicolas Mach (in progress)
  7. Franziska Huth (2011)
  8. Kevin Baum (2011)
  9. Leonhard Keller (2011)
  10. Sebastian Hoffmann (2010)


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