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Bernt Schiele




Multimodal Interactive Systems
Department of Computer Science
Darmstadt University of Technology

Tel: +49 6151 16 67 40
Fax: +49 6151 16 41 17
Email: lastname at informatik dot tu-darmstadt dot de
http://www.mis.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/schiele

Bernt Schiele

Professor

Research Interests:


Since April 2004 I am full professor at the computer science department of Darmstadt University of Technology (TU Darmstadt), where I have founded the Multimodal Interactive Systems Group. Before coming to Darmstadt I have been assistant professor at the computer science department of ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), where I headed the Perceptual Computing and Computer Vision Group.

Perceptual computing is concerned with the processing of sensor data such as audio, video, and other sensory data. The growing interest and the increase in the amount of sensor data calls for efficient techniques to index, search, and structure those data. In the future, the number of sensors may increase substantially since many types of sensors become very cheap such that computing has access to and can be enhanced by ubiquitous sensors. Ubiquitous sensors and sensing have the potential to fundamentally the way we think about human-computer interaction and how machines perceive the world. For example wearable sensors can perceive the human and the environment of the human from a first-person perspective. Or sensors attached to objects can perceive events and actions performed with those objects. I call this area of research sensory augmented computing.

The research areas of my group are computer vision, multi-sensor perceptual computing (combining information from many sensor modalities), and - more recently - multi-modal interactive systems. Application areas of our research include ubiquitous and wearable computing, human-computer interfaces, indexing multi-sensory databases. See our project page for details about current research projects at TU Darmstadt and ETH Zurich.


Short Bio:

Bernt Schiele is Full Professor of Computer Science at Darmsadt University of Technology since April 2004.

He studied computer science at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. He worked on his master thesis in the field of robotics in Grenoble, France, where he also obtained the "diplome d'etudes approfondies d'informatique". In 1994 he worked in the field of multi-modal human-computer interfaces at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA in the group of Alex Waibel. In 1997 he obtained his PhD from INP Grenoble, France under the supervision of Prof. James L. Crowley in the field of computer vision. The title of his thesis was "Object Recognition using Multidimensional Receptive Field Histograms". Between 1997 and 2000 he was postdoctoral associate and Visiting Assistant Professor with the group of Prof. Alex Pentland at the Media Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. From 1999 until 2004 he was Assistant Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technoly in Zurich (ETH Zurich).

His main research interests are in computer vision, perceptual computing, robotics, statistical learning methods, wearable computers, and integration of multi-modal sensor data. He is particularly interested in developing methods which work under real-world conditions.

Education

PhD: Docteur de l'Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, France, 1997

MSc's: Diplom-Informatiker, University of Karlsruhe, Germany, 1994,
and DEA de l'informatique de l'ENSIMAG, France, 1993 

Experience

Assistant Professor
ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 1999-2004

Postdoctoral Associate and Visiting Assistant Professor
MIT (Massachussets Institute of Technology), Cambridge, MA, USA, 1997-2000

Visiting researcher at
CMU (Carnegie Mellon University), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 1994

Teaching: See our teaching webpage

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