News 2011

• 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.

• Professor Position: Andrés Bruhn has declined an offer for a permanent professor position (W2) at the Bauhaus University Weimar.

• 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.

• 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).

• Reviewer Award: Andrés Bruhn was awarded for his outstanding reviews at ICCV 2011 (November 6-12, 2011, Barcelona, Spain).

• Area Chair: Joachim Weickert has served as area chair for the 13th International Conference on Computer Vision (November 6-12, 2011, Barcelona, Spain).

• Keynote Lecture: Andrés Bruhn has given a keynote lecture at the International Conference on Image Information Processing (November 3-5, 2011, Simla, India)

• 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.

• 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).

• 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''.

• 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).

• 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.

• 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).

• 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).

• 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.

News 2010

• Reviewer Award: Andrés Bruhn was awarded for his outstanding reviews at ACCV 2010.

• Open Source Library: For our award-winning work on fast explicit diffusion (FED) algorithms we have released an open source library. It allows to speed up existing explicit schemes by several orders of magnitude.

• Junior Research Group: As of October 1, 2010, Andrés Bruhn heads his own junior reseach group "Vision and Image Processing" within the Multimodal Computing and Interaction Cluster of Excellence.

• Best Paper Award: On September 24, 2010, Sven Grewenig, Joachim Weickert, and Andrés Bruhn have received the Best Paper Award at the DAGM 2010 Conference for their paper "From Box Filtering to Fast Explicit Diffusion".

• Technical Committee: On September 23, 2010 Joachim Weickert has been elected to the Technical Committee of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM).

• Two Keynote Lectures: Joachim Weickert has given the opening and closing keynote lectures at the Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference (September 8-10, 2010, Limerick).

• Area Chair: Joachim Weickert has served as area chair for ECCV 2010, one of the leading computer vision conferences. This is already the fourth time he was appointed area chair for an ECCV conference.

• Full Professor Position: On September 2, 2010 Thomas Brox (Berkeley) has been appointed full professor at the University of Freiburg where he heads the Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Group. Between 2002 and 2005 he was a Ph.D. student in our group.

• Keynote Lecture: Joachim Weickert has given a keynote lecture at the Fourth International Workshop on Biomedical Image Registration (July 11-13, 2010, Lübeck).

• Lecturer Position: On April 1, 2010 Martin Welk has accepted a permanent position as a university lecturer for biomedical image analysis at the University for Medical Informatics and Technology in Hall (Austria).

• Leibniz Prize: On March 15, 2010 Joachim Weickert has been awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). The Leibniz Prize is the most prestigeous science award in Germany and includes up to 2.5 million Euro in research funds.

News 2009

• Keynote Lecture: Joachim Weickert has given a keynote lecture at the conference Mathematics and Image Analysis 2009 (December 14-16, 2009, Paris).

• Keynote Lecture: Joachim Weickert has given a keynote lecture at the VMV 2009 (November 16-18, 2009, Braunschweig).

• Teaching Award: On October 12, 2009, Joachim Weickert has received the teaching award of the mathematics students for the best lecture in the Summer Term 2009. It refers to the lecture on Differential Equations in Image Processing and Computer Vision. This lecture has also been awarded two times by the computer science students (in 2003 and 2006).

• Conference Tutorial: Andrés Bruhn has given a joint tutorial with Thomas Brox (UC Berkeley) on Variational Optical Flow Estimation at the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2009, September 27-October 2, Kyoto, Japan).

• Keynote Lecture: Bernhard Burgeth has given a keynote lecture at the International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology (ISMM 2009, August 24-27, 2009, Groningen, The Netherlands).

• First Rank: In our EMMCVPR article "Complementary Optic Flow", we present the world's most accurate method in optic flow computation (August 2009).

• Keynote Lecture: Joachim Weickert has given a keynote lecture at the Seventh International Conference on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (EMMCVPR 2009, August 24-27, 2009, Bonn).

• Workshop Organisation: Bernhard Burgeth is one of the co-organisers of the Dagstuhl Workshop on New Developments in the Visualization and Processing of Tensor Fields (July 19-24, 2009).

• Keynote Lecture: Joachim Weickert has given a keynote lecture at the Fourth Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA 2009, June 10-12, 2009, Povoa de Varzim, Portugal).

• Editorial Board: In May 2009, Martin Welk and Joachim Weickert have accepted an invitation to join the editorial board of the International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering Systems.

• Steering Committee: In May 2009, Joachim Weickert has joined the steering committee of the new Intel Visual Computing Institute in Saarbrücken.

• Habilitation Defense: On April 28, 2009, Bernhard Burgeth has defended his habilitation thesis. Congratulations!

• Free Book Download: With more than 1000 citations, Joachim Weickert's book Anisotropic Diffusion in Image Processing is one of the most cited books in the field of Mathematical Image Analysis. It can now be downloaded for free.

• Lecturer/Professor Position: In April 2009, Bernhard Burgeth has received an offer for a permanent lecturer/professor position at NTB Buchs, Switzerland.

• Book: Joachim Weickert is one of the co-editors of the new Springer book Visualization and Processing of Tensor Fields: Advances and Perspectives.

• Minisymposium Organisation: Michael Breuß has organised a shape from shading minisymposium at Algoritmy 2009 (Podbanske, Slovakia, March 15-20).

• Award: On January 30, 2009, Pascal Gwosdek has received the Günter Hotz Medal for his master's thesis. This prize is awarded once per semester by the "Freunde der Saarbrücker Informatik" for the best master's thesis in Computer Science at Saarland University.

• Habilitation Defense: On January 5, 2009, Martin Welk has defended his habilitation thesis. Congratulations!

• Editorial Board: In addition to his services in the editorial boards of seven other journals, Joachim Weickert has been appointed associate editor for the Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCIR) .

News 2008

• Workshop Organisation: Joachim Weickert is one of the co-organisers of the German-Israeli Workshop for Vision and Image Sciences 2008 (Haifa, Israel, November 4-6).

• Teaching Award: On October 20, Andrés Bruhn received the Summer Term Teaching Prize 2008 (Busy Beaver Award) for his lecture "Correspondence Problems in Computer Vision".

• Editorial Board: Joachim Weickert has been appointed associate editor of the Journal of Algorithms in Cognition, Informatics and Logic.

• Reviewer Award: Andrés Bruhn was awarded for his outstanding reviews at ECCV 2008.

• Reviewer Award: Joachim Weickert was awarded for his outstanding reviews at CVPR 2008.

• Cor Baayen Award Finalist: Andrés Bruhn has been nominated as one of two Germans for the prestigeous Cor Baayen Award of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM).

• Keynote Lecture: Joachim Weickert has given a keynote lecture at the Third International Conference on Image and Signal Processing (ICISP 2008, Cherbourg-Octeville, France, July 1-3, 2008).

• Keynote Lecture: Joachim Weickert has given a keynote lecture at the Seventh International Conference on Mathematical Methods for Curves and Surfaces (MMCS 2008, Tønsberg, Norway, June 26 - July 1, 2008).

• Dean: On April 1, 2008 Joachim Weickert has become dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science for a duration of two years.

• Ph.D. Defense: On February 14, Stephan Didas has defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations, Stephan!

News 2007

• Workshop Organisation: Joachim Weickert is one of the general chairs of VMV 2007 (Saarbrücken, Nov. 7-9, 2007).

• Editorial Board: Joachim Weickert has been appointed associate editor of the Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision.

• Dissertation Award: On October 22, Andrés Bruhn received the Dr. Eduard Martin Prize for outstanding scientific work during his Ph.D. This prize is given anually by the Vereinigung der Freunde der Universität des Saarlandes to the best Ph.D. student of each faculty.

• Area Chair: Joachim Weickert has served as area chair for ICCV 2007 (Rio de Janeiro, October 14-20, 2007).

• Dissertation Award: On September 26, Andrés Bruhn received the 2006 GI Dissertation Award for the best Ph.D. thesis in computer science in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. This prestigeous prize is awarded anually by the German Computer Science Society (GI), the Swiss Computer Science Society (SI), the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) and the German Chapter of the ACM (GChACM).

• Conference Tutorial: On September 11, Andrés Bruhn gave a joint tutorial with Thomas Brox (University of Bonn) on Variational Optical Flow Estimation at the DAGM 2007 in Heidelberg.

• Keynote Lecture: Joachim Weickert has given a keynote lecture at ORASIS 2007 (Obernai, France, June, 4-8, 2007).

• Workshop Organisation: Joachim Weickert is one of the co-organisers of the Journées de Metz 2007 (May 3-5).

• Workshop Organisation: Joachim Weickert is one of the co-organisers of the Dagstuhl Workshop on Visualization and Processing of Tensor Fields (January 9-13, 2007).

News 2006

• Paper Award: On November 8, Thomas Schultz, Bernhard Burgeth and Joachim Weickert have received the Best Paper Award at the 2006 International Symposium on Visual Computing (Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA) for their paper "Flexible Segmentation and Smoothing of DT-MRI Fields through a Customizable Structure Tensor".

• Habilitation Defense: On November 1, 2006 Michael Breuss has defended his habilitation thesis. Congratulations!

• Teaching Award: On October 16, Joachim Weickert received the Summer Term Teaching Prize 2006 (Busy Beaver Award) for his lecture "Differential Equations in Image Processing and Computer Vision".

• New Master Programme: Saarland University has started a new Master Programme in Visual Computing. It is the first of its kind in Germany, and it can be studied with English as language of instruction. International applications are very welcome.

• Research Award: On September 12, Andrés Bruhn was awarded the Olympus Prize. This prize constitutes the highest award given by the German Pattern Recognition Society (DAGM). Photos are available here.

• Editorial Board: Joachim Weickert has been appointed associate editor of Inverse Problems and Imaging.

• Ph.D. Defense: On July 15, Andrés Bruhn has defended his Ph.D. thesis. Photos are available here. Congratulations!

• Area Chair: Joachim Weickert has served as area chair for ECCV 2006 (Graz, Austria, May 7-13, 2006).

• Book: Joachim Weickert is one of the co-editors of the new Springer book Visualization and Processing of Tensor Fields. It is the first book in the area of tensor image analysis.

• Conference Section Organisation: Joachim Weickert is one of the co-organisers of the Mathematical Image Processing Section within the GAMM Annual Meeting 2006.

• Book: Joachim Weickert is one of the co-editors of the new Springer book Geometric Properties for Incomplete Data.