For residents of the SF Bay Area in the USA, this talk (on Tue 9/25/07) sounds
like it may be
interesting to camera techies:
Subject: Completely Unsupervised Face Recognition Database
Speaker: Professor Albrecht Rothermel, Deputy Director of Institute,
University of ULM Institute of Microelectronics, Germany.
Place: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
Time and Date: Sept 25th, 7:00 PM (refreshments at 6:30 PM)
Agenda:
6:30 - 7:00 Pizza + Drinks, Networking
7:00 - 8:00 Talk and Questions
8:00 - 8:30 Networking
Abstract
The newest cameras now have face recognition, but they don?t yet help you find
all the pictures of
your best friend amongst the thousands of files you have. Meantime, automated
surveillance is used
to spot everyone from card cheats at casinos to someone with much more sinister
intentions.
A face recognition system has been designed, which requires no interaction at
all. The system
detects persons, defines whether the persons are known already or not, and
either updates the
existing database of known persons, or establishes a new database if a new
person is detected.
Our Distinguished Lecturer is coming to us all the way from Germany.
Albrecht Rothermel - Dipl.-Ing., Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.)
>From 1985 to 1989, he was with the Fraunhofer Institute of Microelectronic
>Circuits and Systems.
>From 1990 to 1993, he was with Thomson multimedia, working on digital video
>signal processing
concepts, and later managing the IC design laboratory. Since 1994, he has been
with the Institute
of Microelectronics, University of Ulm, Germany, as a Professor of Electrical
Engineering. He was
a guest scientist at Thomson Indianapolis, USA, at the Edith-Cowan University
in Perth, WA, and at
the Shandong University, China.
Dr. Rothermel has published more than 60 papers, 15 granted patents, and a
book. He received a
1985 outstanding young scientist award of the German VDE, a 1991 outstanding
publication award of
the German GME, a 2003 award for remarkable cooperation between industry &
university, and the
2006 best paper award of the IEEE ICCE. He is in the program committees of
ESSCIRC, ICCD, and
ICCE, and as associate editor of the IEEE JSSC. He is member of the German
Society of Electrical
Engineers (VDE), the German TV and Cinema Technology Society (FKTG), and senior
member of the
IEEE.
Place
The meeting will be in the Oak Room at HP Cupertino, on Wolfe and Pruneridge.
The address is 19447 Pruneridge Avenue (Building 48), Cupertino, CA 95014.
The meeting start at 6:30pm with pizza & drinks.
The talk starts at 7:00pm, and the meeting ends at 8:30pm.
Entry fee is $5 for IEEE members, and $10 for non-members.
You do not need to be an IEEE member to attend!
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