Invited Talks

• Oliver Schreer, „The Next Level of Immersive Experience: Live Panoramic Stereo Video Acquisition and Rendering“, 3D Stereo Media, Liege, Belgium, Dec. 9, 2011.


• O. Schreer, "Video Analysis for Automatic Annotation of Human Motion and Behavior", Cologne-Aachen Gesture Colloquium, Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln, Cologne, Germany, May 16, 2011.


• O. Schreer, "Solutions for Immersive 3D Video Communication", iMinds 2010, breakout session on "Immersive Experiences", Ghent, Belgium, December 16, 2010.


• O. Schreer, "Recent Advances in 3D Videocommunication", Dept. of Computer Science, Vision, Image Processing and Sound Laboratory, Prof. Andrea Fusiello, University of Verona, Italy, April 15, 2010.


• O. Schreer, "Future Directions of 3DTV", Sat Expo Europe, Rome, Italy, February 4, 2010.


• O. Schreer, "Advances in 3D Videocommunication", School of Computing, Prof. Manuel Trucco, University of Dundee, United Kingdom, June 24, 2009.


• O. Schreer, "Stereo Image Processing and View Synthesis in Advanced 3D-TV Concepts", Dept. of Electronic and Computer Engineering (ECE), Centre for Media Communications Research, Prof. Abdul Sadka, Brunel University West London, United Kingdom, November 17, 2007.


• O. Schreer, "Adaptation of Multi-View Geometries for Capturing and 3D Reproduction in Advanced 3D-TV Services", Dept. of Computer Science, Vision, Image Processing and Sound Laboratory, Prof. Andrea Fusiello, University of Verona, Italy, LIMA 3D Workshop (Low cost 3D imaging and modelling automatic system), March 17, 2006.


• O. Schreer, "Current State of Research on Immersive Video Conferencing", Department of Computer Science, Prof. Henry Fuchs, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, July 23, 2003.


• O. Schreer, "Advances in Immersive Video Communication", Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Prof. Kostas Daniilidis, University of Pennsylvania, USA, July 18, 2003.

Tutorials

• O. Schreer, "Challenges and Solutions for Immersive 3D Video Communication", 3DTV-CON, Tampere, Finland, June 8, 2010.


• O. Schreer, "3D Video Processing for Immersive 3D Videoconferencing", Int. Conf. on Image Analysis and Processing, Salerno, Italy, September 8, 2009.


• O. Schreer, "Concepts, Systems and Algorithms for Immersive Video Communication", 25th DAGM Symposium on Pattern Recognition, Magdeburg, Germany, September 9, 2003.


• O. Schreer, "Immersive Videoconferencing", Int. Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2003), Baltimore, MD, USA, July 6, 2003.

Lectures

• O. Schreer, "Challenges and Solutions for Real-Time Immersive Video Communication", University of Genova, Italy, Biophysical and Electronic Engineering Dept., Prof. Carlo Regazzoni, duration 10 hours, 13-15 April 2005.


• O. Schreer, "Stereoanalysis and View Synthesis in 3D Video Communication", University of Verona, Italy; Vision, Image Processing and Sound Laboratory; Dept. of Computer Science, Prof. Andrea Fusiello, 7th VIPS Advanced School on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Image Processing, duration 16 hours, 13-16 March 2006.

Committees

• Chair of Special Session “Interactive and Immersive Entertainment and Communication ”, 18th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling (MMM 2012), January 4-6, 2012, Klagenfurt, Austria.


• Program Chair, 12th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS), May 13-15, 2011, Delft, Netherlands


• General Chair, 1st International Workshop on 3D Video Processing (3DVP), in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2010, Florence, Italy, 29th October 2010.


• Chair of Special Session “Real-time high definition depth estimation”, 3DTV-CONFERENCE, June 7-9, 2010, Tampere, Finland.


• Chair of Special Session “Rushes - Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval of Unedited Audio-Visual Footage”, 9th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS), May 7-9, 2008, Klagenfurt, Austria.

Demonstrations

• O. Schreer, "Real-time Gesture Recognition and Avatar Animation System”, Int. Conf. on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP), Modena, Italy, September 2007.


• O. Schreer, P. Eisert, P. Kauff, R. Tanger, R. Englert, "GestAvatar - Real-Time Animation of Avatars", 9th European Conf. on Computer Vision (ECCV), Graz, Austria, May 2006.

Patents

• German Patent: No. 101 05 423 and European Patent: EP 1 229 741 A2, Patent holder: Heinrich-Hertz-Institut Berlin GmbH, Inventors: P. Kauff, N. Brandenburg, M. Karl, O. Schreer, "Verfahren zur Korrespondenzanalyse von Bildmerkmalen in korrespondierenden Videobildern in Echtzeit, (Method of analyzing in Real-time the Correspondence of Image Characteristics in Corresponding Video Images)”.


• German Patent: No. 102 04 500 A 1 and UK Patent Application: GB 2 386 2777 A, Patent holder: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.,
  Inventors: I. Feldmann, P. Kauff, O. Schreer, R. Tanger, "Echtzeitfähiges Erkennungs- und Kompensationsverfahren von Beleuchtungsschwankungen in digitalen Farbbildsignalen, (Detecting rapid changes in illumination using angular differences between vectors in a YUV colour space)”.

Awards

• President's Award for Best Technical Paper at International Broadcast Conference 2001 (IBC) (with Christoph Fehn, Peter Kauff and Ralf Schäfer).