Images everywhere - computer vision with vehicle-mounted, airborne and tourist cameras (IS Colloquium)
- Konrad Schindler
- ETH Zürich
I will present selected research projects of the Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Group at ETH, including (i) 3D scene flow estimation for stereo video captured from a car; (ii) extraction of road networks from aerial images; and (iii) 3D reconstruction from large, unstructured (e.g. crowd-sourced) image collections.
Biography: Konrad Schindler received the Diplomingenieur (M.Tech.) degree in photogrammetry from Vienna University of Technology, Austria, in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree from Graz University of Technology, Austria, in 2003. He has worked as a photogrammetric engineer in the private industry and held researcher positions in the Institute of Computer Graphics and Vision Department at Graz University of Technology, the Digital Perception Lab at Monash University, and the Computer Vision Lab at ETH Zurich. In 2009, he became Assistant Professor of Image Understanding at TU Darmstadt. Since 2010, he has been a tenured Professor of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing at ETH Zurich. His research interests lie in the field of computer vision, photogrammetry, and remote sensing, with focus on image understanding
and 3d reconstruction. He received several awards, including the U. V. Helava Award for the Best Paper in the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 2008-2011 (with A. Ess, B. Leibe and L. Van Gool), and an honorable mention for the Marr Prize at ICCV 2013 (with C. Vogel and S. Roth).