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 in Ulm, Germany. His current research focuses on statistical models of human appearance with application to pedestrian detection and classification in the domain of intelligent vehicles. He received graduate and PhD scholarships from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation).


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
Group Research & Advanced Engineering
Environment Perception department, Ulm, Germany
09/2010 - present
Research & Development Engineer

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

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

  • Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation), PhD Scholarship

  • IEEE

  • DAGM

  • GI



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