Peter Eisert

Peter Eisert is Professor for Visual Computing at the Humboldt University Berlin and heading the Computer Vision & Graphics Group in the Image Processing Department of the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications - Heinrich Hertz Institute Berlin, Germany. He received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering "with highest honors" from the Technical University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1995 and the Dr.-Ing. degree "with highest honors" from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, in 2000. In 2001, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford University, USA, on 3D image analysis and synthesis as well as facial animation and computer graphics. In 2002, he joined the Image Processing Department at FhG-HHI, where he is involved in numerous national and international research projects. He has published more than 100 conference and journal papers on the subject of 3D reconstruction, facial expression analysis and synthesis and image-based rendering. In 2002, he received the SPIE VCIP Young Investigator Award and in 2008 the best paper award of the CVPR Nordia Workshop. Since January 2006, he is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Image and Video Processing. His research interests include 3D image analysis and synthesis, face processing, image-based rendering, computer vision, computer graphics, as well as image and video processing.