Short Biography
Markus
Enzweiler received the MSc degree in computer science from
the University of Ulm, Germany, in 2005. In 2002 and 2003
he was a visiting student researcher at the Centre for
Vision Research at York University, Toronto, Canada. He
received the PhD degree in computer science from the
University of Heidelberg, Germany in 2011. Since 2010, he
has been a research scientist at Daimler Research &
Development in Sindelfingen, Germany, where he co-developed
the
Daimler vision-based pedestrian detection
system
which is available in the Mercedes-Benz E-Class and
S-Class
models. His current research focuses on statistical models
of object appearance with application to object recognition
and scene understanding in the domain of intelligent
vehicles.
He received graduate and PhD scholarships from the
Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National
Academic Foundation). In 2012, he received both the IEEE
Intelligent Transportation Systems Society Best PhD
Dissertation Award and the Uni-DAS Research Award for his
work on vision-based pedestrian recognition.
Resume
Education
University of Heidelberg, Germany
Image & Pattern Analysis Group
PhD
degree in Computer Science (Dr. rer. nat.)
10/2006 - 05/2011 (summa cum laude)
Supervised by:
Prof. Dr. Christoph
Schnörr
and
Prof. Dr. Dariu Gavrila
University of Ulm, Germany
Master's degree in Computer Science (M. Comp. Sc.)
12/2005 (top 1%)
Supervised by:
Prof. Dr. Heiko Neumann
and
Prof. Dr. Dariu Gavrila
Thesis title: Resampling Techniques for Pedestrian
Classification
York University, Toronto, Canada
Internship + Graduate Exchange Student
07/2002 - 10/2002 and 09/2003 - 12/2003
Supervised
by:
Prof. Dr. John K. Tsotsos
and
Prof. Richard P. Wildes
Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, St.
Augustin, Germany
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (BSc. in CS)
08/2003 (top 1%)
Supervised by:
Prof. Dr. Rainer Herpers
and
Prof. Richard P. Wildes
Thesis title:
Computing Motion Trajectories using Spatiotemporal Motion
Analysis
Work
Experience
Daimler AG
Research & Development
Environment Perception department, Sindelfingen, Germany
09/2010 - present
Senior Research & Development Engineer,
Project manager
UR:BAN KA-SVT
(Pedestrian
detection,
scene understanding)
BitTwister IT GmbH, Ulm, Germany
01/2006 - 09/2006
Software developer (image processing and machine learning)
University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
10/2004 - 03/2005
Teaching assistant (computer vision)
GSF Research Center, Neuherberg, Germany
01/2004 - 03/2004
Internship (medical image processing)
Centre for Vision Research, York University, Toronto,
Canada
07/2002 - 10/2002 and 09/2003 - 12/2003
BSc thesis (motion analysis) and graduate student (vision)
Advisor:
Prof. Richard P. Wildes
Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, St.
Augustin, Germany
07/2001 - 08/2003
Teaching assistant (computer programming, multimedia,
computer vision)
Honors
& Awards
IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems
Society Best PhD Dissertation Award
2012
Uni-DAS Wissenschaftspreis
(Uni-DAS Research Award) for outstanding PhD dissertations
in the field of driver assistance systems (DAS)
2012
Scholar of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
(German National Merit Foundation)
Undergraduate, Graduate & PhD
scholarship
01/2003
- 10/2009
Price
for outstanding Bachelor's Thesis
2004
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship
09/2003 - 12/2003
Publications
Memberships
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Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation), PhD Scholarship
-
IEEE
-
DAGM
Professional Services
Reviewer for leading computer vision and machine learning journals (IJCV, TPAMI, TIP, etc.) and conferences (ICCV, ECCV, CVPR, etc.).
References
Available upon request