Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute  
      Jürgen Th. Rurainsky
      Image Processing Department
      Jürgen Th. Rurainsky
       
      studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Siegen, University of Tulsa and University of Dortmund. He received Dipl.-Ing. from the University of Dortmund in 2001. He has been a member of the Image Processing Department (IP) within "Heinrich-Hertz-Institute für Nachrichtentechnik Berlin GmbH" since 2002. The institute was renamed in 2002 to the Fraunhofer - Heinrich Hertz Institute and is since a part of the German Applied Research Society. He has worked on face feature detection and tracking, image fusion, augmented reality applications, real-time transport of multimedia data and template based face modeling.
           
      His current research interest is the modeling of the dynamic facial deformation while speaking. The separation and recognition of phonemes as well as the creation of a deformation model should lead to a more human like animation.
           
      Professional Experience
      02/08 - today: Head of Marketing Group and Research Assistance at HHI, Image Processing Department
      - Template based face modeling
      - Modeling of the dynamic facial deformation while speaking
      09/02 - 01/08: Research Assistance at HHI, Image Processing Department
      - Face feature detection and tracking
      - Real-time transport of Facial Animation Parameters (FAP) using Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP)
      - Image fusion from multiple sources
      05/02 - 08/02: Independent Research Assistance working for HHI, Image Processing Department
      - Face feature detection of head images.
      02/02 - 04/02: Assistance at the University of Dortmund (Germany), Communication Technology Institute & Circuits and Systems Lab
      - Design and implementation of a streaming service for Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) data. Developed for the Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy, Germany.
      04/01 - 12/01: Contractor at AT&T Labs - Research, Image Processing Software and Technology Research V (HA155)
      - Design and implementation of a Real-time Transport Protocol payload format for TTS markup information.
           
      Education  
      12/2001 University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
     

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 Diplom-Ingenieur (Dipl.-Ing.) in Electrical Engineering.
     

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 Final Thesis: "Animation of talking faces in an network environment.", AT&T Labs-Research, Middletown, NJ, USA.
      04/99 - 12/01 University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
     

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 Study of electrical engineering with focus on information theory and image processing.
     

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 Thesis: "MP3-streaming in IP-basierten Netzen".
      06/98 - 03/99 University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany
     

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 Study of electrical engineering.
      08/97 - 05/98 University of Tulsa, OK, USA
     

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 Member of the Exchange program between the University of Siegen and the University of Tulsa.
     

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 major: Electrical Engineering (EE).
      09/95 - 07/97 University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany
     

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 Study of electrical engineering.  
           
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