News 2022

• Ph.D. Defence: On December 15, 2022, Tobias Alt-Veit has defended his Ph.D. thesis on "Connecting Mathematical Models for Image Processing and Neural Networks". Prof. Lars Ruthotto (Emory University) was external committee member.

• SIAM IS 2022 Plenary Speaker: Joachim Weickert has been plenary speaker at the 2022 SIAM Conference on Imaging Science (Berlin, Germany, March 22-25, 2022).

• Ph.D. Defence: On February 22, 2022, Kireeti Bodduna has defended his Ph.D. thesis on "Structure-aware Image Denoising, Super-resolution, and Enhancement Methods". Prof. Karen Eguiazarian (Tampere University) was external committee member.

News 2021

• AAIA Fellow: On November 10, 2021, Joachim Weickert has been elected a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA).

• Ph.D. Defence: On June 28, 2021, Leif Bergerhoff has defended his Ph.D. thesis on "Evolutionary Models for Signal Enhancement and Applications". Prof. Alfred Bruckstein (Technion, Haifa) and Prof. Martin Welk (UMIT, Hall) were external committee members.

• ECM 2021 Scientific Committee: Joachim Weickert has served as a member of the Scientific Committee of the Eighth European Congress of Mathematics. (Portoroz, Slovenia, June 20-26, 2021). Its task is to select the keynote speakers and the invited speakers in all sections.

News 2020

• Ph.D. Defence: On July 9, 2020, Sabine Müller has defended her Ph.D. thesis on "Nephroblastoma in MRI Data". Prof. Christian Daul (University of Lorraine, Nancy) was external committee member.

News 2019

• Computer Science Teaching Award: On October 14, 2019, a Busy Beaver Teaching Award of the computer science students has been given to the MIA group for Pascal Peter's class on "Image Compression" and Joachim Weickert's class on "Image Processing and Computer Vision".

• Computer Science Teaching Award: On April 8, 2019, a Busy Beaver Teaching Award of the computer science students has been given to the MIA group for Pascal Peter's class on "Image Acquisition Methods".

News 2018

• Ph.D. Defence: On July 13, 2018, Marcelo Cárdenas has defended his Ph.D. thesis on "Nonlocal Evolutions in Image Processing". Prof. Guy Gilboa (Technion, Haifa) was external committee member.

• ICISP 2018 Invited Speaker: Joachim Weickert has been invited to give a keynote talk at the International Conference on Image and Signal Processing 2018 (Cherbourg, France, July 2-4, 2018). His participation had to be cancelled due to problems with the French railway company SNCF.

• SIAM IS 2018 Forward Looking Panel: Joachim Weickert was one of the members of the Forward Looking Panel of the 2018 SIAM Conference on Imaging Science (Bologna, Italy, June 5-8, 2018).

• DCC 2018 Keynote Lecture: Joachim Weickert has presented an invited keynote 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.

• GAMM 2018 Plenary Lecture: Joachim Weickert has given 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).

• 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.

• 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.

News 2017

• 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.

• 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".

• 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).

• 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.

• 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".

• 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.

News 2016

• Best Poster Award: At the 32nd Picture Coding Symposium (PCS 2016, Nuremberg, Germany, December 5-7, 2016), Sarah Andris, Pascal Peter, and Joachim Weickert have received the Best Poster Award for their paper "A Proof-of-Concept Framework for PDE-Based Video Compression".

• Workshop Organisation: Joachim Weickert was one of the co-organisers of the Schloss Dagstuhl Seminar on Inpainting-Based Image Compression (November 13-18, 2016).

• New Study Programme: As of the Winter Term 2016 / 2017, Saarland University is offering an integrated degree programme on Mathematics and Computer Science. It has been initiated by Matthias Hein and Joachim Weickert.

• Best Paper Award: At the 2016 German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR 2016, Hanover, Germany, Sept. 12-15, 2016), David Hafner, Peter Ochs, Joachim Weickert, Martin Reißel, and Sven Grewenig have received the Best Paper Award for their publication on "FSI Schemes: Fast Semi-Iterative Solvers for PDEs and Optimisation Methods".

• Invited Speaker: Joachim Weickert has given an invited talk at the International Conference on Imaging, Vision and Machine Learning Based on Optimization and PDEs (Bergen, Norway, August 29 - September 1, 2016).

• Ph.D. Defence: On July 26, 2016, Nico Persch has defended his Ph.D. thesis on "Physically-Based Image Reconstruction". Prof. Martin Welk (UMIT, Hall, Austria) was external committee member.

• Area Chair: Joachim Weickert has served as area chair for the Computer Vision and Robot Vision Track of the 23rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2016, Dec. 4-8, 2016, Cancun, Mexico).

• Ph.D. Defence: On July 8, 2016, Christopher Schroers has defended his Ph.D. thesis on "Variational Surface Reconstruction". Prof. Thorsten Thormählen (University of Marburg, Germany) was external committee member.

• Reviewer Award: At the 29th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2016, Las Vegas, NV, USA, June 26 - July 1, 2016), Peter Ochs has received an Outstanding Reviewer Award.

• Ph.D. Defence: On April 29, 2016, Pascal Peter has defended his Ph.D. thesis on "Understanding and Advancing PDE-based Image Compression". Prof. Joan Serra Sagristà (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain) and Dr. habil. Hanno Scharr (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany) were external committee members.

• Computer Science Teaching Award: On April 18, 2016, a Busy Beaver Teaching Award of the computer science students has been given to Joachim Weickert for his classes on Differential Equations in Image Processing and Computer Vision.

• Jean Kuntzmann Prize: Joachim Weickert is the laureat of the Prix Jean Kuntzmann 2016 pour les Sciences du Numérique. This prize is awarded by the Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann and the Persyval-Lab of the University Grenoble Alpes to honour outstanding interdisciplinary research that covers mathematics, computer science, and applications.

• Mobility Grant: Naoufal Amrani has received a mobility grant from the Autonomous University of Barcelona that covers a three months visit to our group between May and July 2016. It allows to continue our collaboration on hyperspectral image compression that has started in 2015.

• Editorial Board: In February 2016, Joachim Weickert has been appointed to the editorial board of the Springer book series Computational Imaging and Vision.

News 2015

• Ph.D. Defence: On September 25, 2015, Oliver Demetz has defended his Ph.D. thesis on "Feature Invariance versus Change Estimation in Variational Motion Estimation". Prof. Andrés Bruhn (University of Stuttgart, Germany) was external committee member.

• Reviewer Award: At the Fifth International Conference on Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision (SSVM 2015, Lège Cap Ferret, France, May 31 - June 4, 2015), the MIA group has been awarded for very thorough reviewing.

• Ph.D. Defence: On March 30, 2015, Laurent Hoeltgen has defended his Ph.D. thesis on "Optimal Interpolation Data for Image Reconstructions". Prof. Thomas Pock (Graz University of Technology, Austria) was external committee member.

News 2014

• Computer Science Teaching Award: On October 20, 2014, a Busy Beaver Teaching Award of the computer science students has been given to Pascal Peter (instructor) and Joachim Weickert (examiner) for their classes on Image Acquisition Methods.

• Ph.D. Defence: On October 6, 2014 Markus Mainberger has defended his Ph.D. thesis "PDE-based Image Compression Based on Edges and Optimal Data". Prof. Søren Forchhammer (DTU, Lyngby, Denmark) was external committee member.

• Koenderink Prize: At the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2014, Zurich, Switzerland, Sept. 6-12, 2014), Thomas Brox, Andres Bruhn, Nils Papenberg, and Joachim Weickert have received the Jan Koenderink Prize for Fundamental Contributions in Computer Vision. This test of time award was given for their ECCV 2004 paper "High Accuracy Optical Flow Estimation Based on a Theory for Warping".

• Invited Speaker: Joachim Weickert was an invited speaker at the TCE Conference on Trends in Signal and Image Processing (Technion, Haifa, Israel, May 25-28, 2014).

• Keynote Talk: Joachim Weickert was a keynote speaker at the 21st International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing (IWSSIP 2014, May 12-15, 2014, Dubrovnik, Croatia).

• Computer Science Teaching Award: On April 14, 2014, Oliver Demetz and Joachim Weickert have received a Busy Beaver Teaching Award of the computer science students for their seminar on Advances in Image Processing and Computer Vision.

• Area Chair: Joachim Weickert has served as area chair for the Computer Vision Track of the 22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2014, August 24-28, 2014, Stockholm, Sweden).

• Conference Section Organisation: Gerlind Plonka-Hoch and Joachim Weickert have been co-organisers of the Mathematical Signal and Image Processing Section within the GAMM Annual Meeting 2014.

• Editorial Board: In January 2014, Joachim Weickert has been appointed to the editorial board of the SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences.

News 2013

• Maria Petrou Prize for Invariance in Computer Vision: At the British Machine Vision Conference 2013 (BMVC 2013, Sept. 9-13, 2013, Bristol, UK), Oliver Demetz, David Hafner, and Joachim Weickert have received the Maria Petrou Prize for Invariance in Computer Vision for their paper "The Complete Rank Transform: A Tool for Accurate and Morphologically Invariant Matching of Structures". In total, 439 papers have been submitted.

• Conference Organisation: Joachim Weickert was the general chair of the 35th German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR 2013, September 3-6, 2013, Saarbrücken, Germany). The proceedings have appeared in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

• Press Coverage: Our visual computing activities that are inspired from phenomena in nature are covered in the magazine c't. With more than 1 million readers, c't is one of the most influential computer magazines in Germany.

• Keynote Talk: Joachim Weickert has given a keynote talk at Computer Graphics International 2013 (CGI 2013, June 12-14, 2013, Hannover, Germany), one of the oldest conferences on computer graphics.

• Ph.D. Defence: On May 29, 2013 Sven Grewenig has defended his Ph.D. thesis on "Fast Explicit Methods for PDE-based Image Analysis". Prof. Tobias Preusser (Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany) was external committee member.

• Keynote Talk: Joachim Weickert has given a keynote talk in the section Mathematical Signal and Image Processing of the 84th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM 2013, March 18-22, 2013, Novi Sad, Serbia).

News 2012

• 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. Defence: 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, Austria) 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 was 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 at 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. Defence: 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, Spain) and Prof. Bodo Rosenhahn (University of Hanover, Germany) were external committee members.

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

• Ph.D. Defence: 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, Germany) was external committee member.

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 Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems Group at the Institute for Visualization and Interactive Systems.

• Declined Professorship: 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 (ICIIP 2011, November 3-5, 2011, Shimla, India).

• Ph.D. Defence: 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, Germany) 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. Defence: 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 Dr. 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. Defence: 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 the Tenth Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2010, Queenstown, New Zealand, November 8-12, 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 2010 Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference (IMVIP 2010, September 8-10, 2010, Limerick).

• Area Chair: Joachim Weickert has served as area chair for the Eleventh Europan Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2010, September 5-11, 2010, Heraklion, Greece).

• 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).

• Declined Professorship: On March 19, 2010, Joachim Weickert has declined an offer for a full professorship for image processing and data analysis at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern.

• Gottfried Wilhelm 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, France).

• Keynote Lecture: Joachim Weickert has given a keynote lecture at Vision, Modelingm and Visualization 2009 (VMV 2009, November 16-18, 2009, Braunschweig, Germany).

• 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 Ninth International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology (ISMM 2009, August 24-27, 2009, Groningen, The Netherlands).

• First Rank: In our EMMCVPR 2009 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).

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

• Habilitation Defence: On April 28, 2009, Bernhard Burgeth has defended his habilitation thesis "Partial Differential Equations for Scale Space Analysis and Matrix Field Processing."

• 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.

• Declined Lecturer/Professor Position: In April 2009, Bernhard Burgeth has declined 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 (March 15-20, 2009, Podbanske, Slovakia).

• 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 Defence: On January 5, 2009, Martin Welk has defended his habilitation thesis "Dynamic and Geometric Contributions to Digital Image Processing".

• Editorial Board: In January 2009, Joachim Weickert has been appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation.

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".

• Reviewer Award: Andrés Bruhn was awarded for his outstanding reviews at the Tenth European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2008, October 12-18, 2008, Marseille, France).

• Reviewer Award: Joachim Weickert was awarded for his outstanding reviews at the 2008 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2008, June 24-26, 2008, Anchorage, AL).

• 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, July 1-3, 2008, Cherbourg-Octeville, France.

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

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

• Editorial Board: In March 2008, Joachim Weickert has been appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Algorithms in Cognition, Informatics and Logic.

• Ph.D. Defence: On February 14, 2008 Stephan Didas has defended his Ph.D. thesis "Denoising and Enhancement of Digital Images: Variational Methods, Integrodifferential Equations, and Wavelets". Prof. Gabriele Steidl (University of Mannheim, Germany) and Prof. Xue-Chen Tai (University of Bergen, Norway) were external committee members.

News 2007

• Workshop Organisation: Joachim Weickert was one of the general chairs of Vision, Modeling and Visualization 2007 (VMV 2007, Nov. 7-9, 2007, Saarbrücken, Germany).

• Dissertation Award: On October 22, 2007, Andrés Bruhn received the Dr. Eduard Martin Prize for an outstanding dissertation. 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 the Eleventh IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2007, October 14-20, 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

• Dissertation Award: On September 26, 2006, Andrés Bruhn received the 2006 GI Dissertation Award for the best Ph.D. thesis in computer science in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

• Conference Tutorial: On September 11, 2006, Andrés Bruhn gave a joint tutorial with Thomas Brox (University of Bonn) on Variational Optical Flow Estimation at the 29th Annual Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM 2007, September 12-14, 2007, Heidelberg, Germany).

• 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, 2007, Metz, France).

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

• Editorial Board: In January 2007, Joachim Weickert has been appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision.

News 2006

• Paper Award: On November 8, 2006, 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 Defence: On November 1, 2006 Michael Breuss has defended his habilitation thesis "Shock Filtering Strategies and the Approximation of Discontinuous Solutions of Evolution Equations".

• Teaching Award: On October 16, 2006, 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, 2006 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.

• Ph.D. Defence: On July 15, 2006 Andrés Bruhn has defended his Ph.D. thesis "Variational Optic Flow Computation: Accurate Modelling and Efficient Numerics". Prof. Hans-Hellmut Nagel (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) and Prof. Christoph Schnörr (University of Mannheim, Germany) were external reviewers. Photos are available here.

• Area Chair: Joachim Weickert has served as area chair for the Ninth European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2006, Graz, Austria, May 7-13, 2006).

• Editorial Board: In April 2006, Joachim Weickert has been appointed to the editorial board of the new journal Inverse Problems and Imaging.

• New Rooms: In April 2006 the MIA Group has moved. You can find us now at the third floor of Building E1.3.

• 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.

News 2005

• Best Paper Award: At the 2005 Annual Symposium of the German Pattern Recognition Society (August 30 - September 2, 2005, Vienna, Austria), the paper "A System for Markerless Human Motion Estimation" has been awarded a best paper pize. It has been co-authored by Thomas Brox.

• Paper Award: At the 2005 Annual Symposium of the German Pattern Recognition Society (August 30 - September 2, 2005, Vienna, Austria), a paper award has been given to Natalia Slesareva, Andrés Bruhn, and Joachim Weickert for their paper "Optic Flow Goes Stereo: A Variational Method for Estimating Discontinuity-Preserving Dense Disparity Maps".

• Invited Talk: Joachim Weickert was an invited speaker at the Conference on PDE-Based Image Processing and Related Inverse Problems (Oslo, Norway, August 8-12, 2005).

• Editorial Board: In July 2005, Joachim Weickert has been appointed to the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.

• Ph.D. Defence: On April 26, 2005 Thomas Brox has defended his Ph.D. thesis with the title "From Pixels to Regions: Partial Differential Equations in Image Analysis". INRIA Resaerch Director Dr. Rachid Deriche (INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France) and Prof. Thomas Sonar (Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany) were external committee members.

• Conference Organisation: Joachim Weickert was one of the organisers of the Fifth International Conference on Scale Space on PDE Methods in Computer Vision (Scale Space 2005, April 7-9, 2005, Hofgeismar, Germany). The proceedings volume has appeared in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science, and selected and revised articles have been published in a special issue of the International Journal of Computer Vision (Vol. 70, No. 3, Dec. 2006).

News 2004

• Declined Professorship: On December 22, 2004, Joachim Weickert has declined an offer for a full professorship for computational dynamics at the Free University of Berlin.

• Workshop Organisation: Joachim Weickert has served in the Organising Committee of the Ollendorff Vision and Image Sciences Workshop (Technion, Haifa, Israel, Oct. 20-21, 2004).

• 2004 Longuet-Higgins Best Paper Award: From a total of 555 manuscripts submitted to the Eighth European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2004), the paper "High Accuracy Optical Flow Estimation Based on a Theory for Warping" by Thomas Brox, Andrés Bruhn, Nils Papenberg, and Joachim Weickert has received the 2004 Longuet-Higgins Best Paper Award.

• Area Chair: Joachim Weickert has served as area chair for the Eight European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2004, May 11-14, 2004, Prague, Czech Republic).

• Workshop Organisation: Joachim Weickert and Hans Hagen (TU Kaiserslautern) have organised a Dagstuhl Workshop on Visualization and Image Processing of Tensor Fields. (April 18-23, 2004).

• Workshop Organisation: Joachim Weickert was one of the co-organisers of the Dagstuhl Workshop on Geometric Properties from Incomplete Data. (March 21-26, 2004).

News 2003

• Editorial Board: In November 2003, Joachim Weickert has been appointed to the editorial board of the International Journal of Computer Vision.

• Computer Science Teaching Award: The 2003 Summer Term Teaching Prize in Computer Science at Saarland University has been awarded to Joachim Weickert for his class on Differential Equations in Image Processing and Computer Vision.

• Paper Award: The best paper award in the section Numerical Analysis, Scientific Computung, Visualisation of the 2003 Annual Meeting of the German Mathematical Society (Rostock, Germany, September 14-19, 2003) has been given to Joachim Weickert for the presentation "Relations between Nonlinear Denoising Methods in Signal and Image Processing". A corresponding journal paper appeared 2004 in SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis under the title "On the Equivalence of Soft Wavelet Shrinkage, Total Variation Diffusion, Total Variation Regularization, and SIDEs".

• Invited Talk: At the 2003 Annual Symposium of the German Mathematical Society (Rostock, Germany, September 14-19, 2003), Joachim Weickert has given a 45 min. invited talk in the section Numerical Analysis, Scientific Computing, Visualisation.

• Editorial Board: In September 2003, Joachim Weickert has been appointed to the editorial board of the new journal Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision.

• Paper Award: At the 2003 Annual Symposium of the German Pattern Recognition Society (DAGM), a paper award has been given to Martin Welk, Christian Feddern, Bernhard Burgeth, and Joachim Weickert for their paper "Median Filtering of Tensor-Valued Images".

• Programme Board: Joachim Weickert has served in the programme board of the Fourth International Conference on Scale Space Methods in Computer Vision (Isle of Skye, UK, June 10-12, 2003).

News 2002

• Keynote Talk: Joachim Weickert was an invited speaker at Vision, Modeling, and Visualization 2002 (VMV 2002, Erlangen, Germany, November 20-22, 2002).

• Paper Award: At the 2002 Annual Symposium of the German Pattern Recognition Society (Zurich, Switzerland, September 16-18, 2002), a paper award has been given to Andrés Bruhn, Joachim Weickert, and Christoph Schnörr for their paper "Combining the Advantages of Local and Global Optic Flow Methods".

• Workshop Organisation: Joachim Weickert was one of the co-organisers of the International Workshop on Growth and Motion in 3D Medical Images (Copenhagen, Denmark, June 1, 2002). Selected articles have been published as a special issue of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (Vol. 22, No. 6, June 2003).

• Area Chair: Joachim Weickert has served as area chair for the Seventh European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2002, May 28-31, 2002, Copenhagen, Denmark).

• Editorial Board: In January 2002, Joachim Weickert has been appointed to the editorial board of the Electronic Letters on Computer Vision and Image Analysis.

News 2001

• Founding of the MIA Group: The Mathematical Image Analysis Group has been established on December 1, 2001. Founding members were Andrés Bruhn and Joachim Weickert. In the next half a year five new members have joined: Thomas Brox, Bernhard Burgeth, Christian Feddern, Pavel Mrázek, and Martin Welk.