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  • Phone:
    • +49 (821) 598 5703
  • Room:
    • 305

Research Interests:

  • Automatische Inhaltsanalyse von Bild-, Video-, und Musikdaten (Multimedia Content Analysis, Computer Vision, Cognitive Robotics)
  • Automatische Inhaltsanalyse multimedialer und multilingualer Dokumente
  • Data Mining on Large Scale Distributed Multimedia Databases (Multimedia ‘Google’)
  • Maschinelles Lernen (Machine Learning, Statistical Computing)
  • Kognitive Räume mit audio-visuellen Sensoren und Aktuatoren
  • Ubiquitous and Distributed Media Computing in Heterogeneous Networks

Bio:

Rainer Lienhart is a full professor in the computer science department of the University of Augsburg leading the lab for Multimedia Computing. His group is focusing on all aspect of very large-scale image, video, audio mining algorithms.

From August 1998 to July 2004 he was a Staff Researcher at Intel's Microprocessor Research Lab in Santa Clara, California, where he worked on transforming a network of heterogeneous, distributed computing platforms into an array of audio/video sensors and actuators capable of performing complex DSP tasks such as distributed beamforming, audio rendering, audio/visual tracking, and camera array processing. In particular, this requires putting distributed heterogeneous computing platforms with audio -visual sensors into a common time and space coordinate system. At the same time, he was also continuing his work on media mining, where he is well-known for his work in video content analysis with contributions in text detection/recognition, commercial detection, face detection, shot and scene detection, and automatic video abstraction. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Mannheim, Germany, in 1998, where he was a member of the Movie Content Analysis Project (MoCA).

He was a general co-chair of ACM Multimedia 2007 and SPIE Storage and Retrieval of Media Databases 2004 & 2005. For more than a decade he is a committee member of ACM Multimedia, IEEE ICME, SPIE Storage and Retrieval of Media Databases, and many more conferences. He is a associated editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, ACM Computing Surveys and ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications.

Dr. Lienhart has published over 50+ papers in major conferences and journals and filed 20+ patents.