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... received the Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degree
from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, in 1997 and 2006 respectively.
In 1993 he spent one year studying
Electronics and Communication Engineering at Napier University of
Edinburgh/Scotland, including a half-year working period at Integrated
Communication Systems Inc. in Westwick near Cambridge/England. In this
working period he developed software for voice mail systems and
statistical analysis of caller data.
In 1996 he joined the Heinrich-Hertz-Institute
(HHI) Berlin, Image Processing Department, were he is heading the 3D Coding Group.
He is also a project coordinator for European projects in the field of 3D media
technology and co-chairs the European 3D Media Cluster ,
which serves as a contact gateway for information exchange
between the associated European projects and international 3D media activities.
His research interests include motion and disparity estimation, 3D media
representation and coding, 3D graphics-based scene reconstruction with multi-texture
surfaces, and 3D metadata and content description.
He has been actively involved in MPEG
activities, standardizing the multi-view description for MPEG-7,
the view-dependent multi-texturing methods for the 3D scene
representation in MPEG4-AFX and contributing to the multi-view video coding
process in MPEG4-MVC and 3D Video.
In recent projects he was involved in
research and development of traffic surveillance systems and visualization
of multiple-view video, 3D scene reconstruction, object segmentation,
tracking and 3D reconstruction, 3D scene and object representation and
interactive user navigation in 3D environments. Currently, he is a Project
Manager for European projects in the field of 3D video technology and
multimedia content description.
Some of this
work can also found in the publication’s
section.
He is senior member of the IEEE (M'98-SM'07).
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