DH-Forschungskolloquium | Prof. Dr. Simone FrintropUniversität Hamburg | Informatik | Computer Vision

13. Dezember 2017

Vortragstitel: Cognitive Computer Vision for Mobile Systems

| Zeit: 12:15 Uhr bis 13:45 Uhr | Ort: Institut für Volkskunde/Kulturanthropologie, ESA West, Raum 220

The amount of digital images in our daily live has grown exponentially during the last years, cameras are low-cost sensors which are present everywhere, and billions of images are daily shared on social media. Also the industrial interest in methods for digital image and video processing is increasing strongly. As a consequence, the need for algorithms that automatically improve, analyze, and interpret images also rises more and more. Fortunately, the research field of computer vision has also advanced strongly during the last decade and many tasks which were not feasible a few years ago are suddenly achievable. However, when it comes to seemingly simple daily live questions such as "how many objects are on this table?", current systems reach their limits and it shows that the human visual system still outperforms machines clearly. In my research group, we focus on biologically inspired methods for computer vision. That means, we develop algorithms that follow mechanisms of human vision, outgoing from psychophysical and neurobiological findings. Topics of our research include the detection of saliency in images and the discovery of objects. We focus on methods for mobile systems, such as wearable cameras or autonomous service robots. My talk will give an overview over these research activities.

Short bio:

Simone Frintrop is a full professor of computer vision at the University of Hamburg since 2016. Before, she was a senior researcher and lecturer at the University of Bonn from 2006 to 2015 where she finished her habilitation on the topic "Cognitive Approaches for Mobile Vision Systems". From 2005 to 2006, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Henrik Christensen at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm Sweden. From 2002 to 2005, Simone Frintrop wrote her PhD thesis entitled "VOCUS: A Visual Attention System for Object Detection and Goal-directed Search" at the Fraunhofer institute AIS (Autonomous Intelligent Systems, now IAIS) in St. Augustin supervised by Joachim Hertzberg.