Multimodal Interactive Systems
Department of Computer Science
Darmstadt University of Technology

room B106
Tel: +49 6151 16 3413
Fax: +49 6151 16 4117
Email: lastname at mis dot tu-darmstadt dot de
                                              http://www.mis.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/People/schnitzspan

Paul Schnitzspan

PhD candidate in computer science                                                                                                                                

Research Interests:

• Object detection

• Conditional Random Fields
  
• Machine learning
  

• Optimization

Education:

• Dipl.-Math. at TU Darmstadt, Germany, 2001-2006
  

Diploma thesis:

• "Application of Conditional Random Fields in Computer Vision" supervised by Mario Fritz and Bernt Schiele

Other affiliations:

• Member of the Research Training Group Cooperative, Adaptive and Responsive Monitoring in Mixed Mode Environments funded by the DFG
  

Interests:

• Basketball

• Prague and Czech Republic
  

Publications:

• Hierarchical Support Vector Random Fields: Joint Training to Combine Local and Global Features, Paul Schnitzspan, Mario Fritz and Bernt Schiele
  To appear in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2008), Oct. 13-16 2008, Marseille, France