Dr. Juergen Gall

Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

Perceiving Systems Department

Office 1.B.04

Spemannstrasse 41

72076 Tübingen

Germany

E-mail: juergen.gall@tue.mpg.de

Phone: +49 7071 601 1830

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Research Interests

Interacting particle systems

Markerless human motion capture

Object detection

Action Recognition

Publications

Dantone M., Gall J., Leistner C., and van Gool L., Human Pose Estimation using Body Parts Dependent Joint Regressors (PDF, Images/Data), IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'13), To appear.

Liu Y., Gall J., Stoll C., Dai Q., Seidel H.-P., and Theobalt C., Markerless Motion Capture of Multiple Characters Using Multi-view Image Segmentation (PDF, Images/Video/Data), IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, To appear.

Gall J., Simulated Annealing, Encyclopedia of Computer Vision, Ikeuchi K. (Eds.), Springer, To appear.

Gall J. and Lempitsky V., Class-Specific Hough Forests for Object Detection (Images/Code), Decision Forests for Computer Vision and Medical Image Analysis, Criminisi A. and Shotton J. (Eds.), Springer, 145-160, 2013. ©Springer-Verlag

Fanelli G., Dantone M., Gall J., Fossati A. and van Gool L., Random Forests for Real Time 3D Face Analysis (PDF, Images/Videos/Data/Code), International Journal of Computer Vision, Special Issue on Human Computer Interaction, Vol 101(3), 437-458, Springer, 2013. ©Springer-Verlag

Ristin M., Gall J., and van Gool L., Local Context Priors for Object Proposal Generation (PDF, Images), Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV'12), To appear.

Fossati A., Gall J., Grabner H., Ren X., and Konolige K. (Eds.), Consumer Depth Cameras for Computer Vision - Research Topics and Applications (Book, Workshop), Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Springer, 2012.

Razavi N., Gall J., Kohli P., and van Gool L., Latent Hough Transform for Object Detection (PDF, Images), European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV'12), Springer, LNCS 7574, 312-325, 2012. ©Springer-Verlag

Ballan L., Taneja A., Gall J., van Gool L., and Pollefeys M., Motion Capture of Hands in Action using Discriminative Salient Points (PDF, Images/Videos/Data), European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV'12), Springer, LNCS 7577, 640-653, 2012. ©Springer-Verlag

Pellegrini S., Gall J., Sigal L., and van Gool L., Destination Flow for Crowd Simulation (PDF), Workshop on Analysis and Retrieval of Tracked Events and Motion in Imagery Streams (ARTEMIS'12), Springer, LNCS 7585, 162-171, 2012. ©Springer-Verlag

Razavi N., Alvar N., Gall J., and van Gool L., Sparsity Potentials for Detecting Objects with the Hough Transform (PDF, Images), British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC'12), 2012.

López-Méndez A., Gall J., Casas J., and van Gool L., Metric Learning from Poses for Temporal Clustering of Human Motion (PDF, Images/Videos), British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC'12), 2012.

Gall J., Razavi N., and van Gool L., An Introduction to Random Forests for Multi-class Object Detection (PDF, Images/Code), Theoretic Foundations of Computer Vision: Outdoor and Large-Scale Real-World Scene Analysis, Dellaert F, Frahm J.-M., Pollefeys M., Rosenhahn B., and Leal-Taixé L. (Eds.), Springer, LNCS 7474, 243-263, 2012. ©Springer-Verlag

Pons-Moll G., Leal-Taixé L., Gall J., and Rosenhahn B., Data-driven Manifolds for Outdoor Motion Capture (PDF, Images/Videos), Theoretic Foundations of Computer Vision: Outdoor and Large-Scale Real-World Scene Analysis, Dellaert F, Frahm J.-M., Pollefeys M., Rosenhahn B., and Leal-Taixé L. (Eds.), Springer, LNCS 7474, 305-328, 2012. ©Springer-Verlag

Yao A., Gall J., and van Gool L., Coupled Action Recognition and Pose Estimation from Multiple Views (PDF, Images/Videos/Code), International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol 100(1), 16-37, Springer, 2012. ©Springer-Verlag

Dantone M., Gall J., Fanelli G., and van Gool L., Real-time Facial Feature Detection using Conditional Regression Forests (PDF, Images/Videos/Data/Code), IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'12), 2578-2585, 2012. ©IEEE

Yao A., Gall J., Leistner C., and van Gool L., Interactive Object Detection (PDF, Images/Videos), IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'12), 3242-3249, 2012. ©IEEE

Fanelli G., Gall J., and van Gool L., Real Time 3D Head Pose Estimation: Recent Achievements and Future Challenges (PDF, Images/Videos/Data/Code), 5th International Symposium on Communications, Control and Signal Processing (ISCCSP'12), 2012. ©IEEE

Yao A., Gall J., van Gool L., and Urtasun R., Learning Probabilistic Non-Linear Latent Variable Models for Tracking Complex Activities (PDF, Images/Code), Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS'11), 2011.

Pons-Moll G., Baak A., Gall J., Leal-Taixe L., Mueller M., Seidel H.-P., Rosenhahn B., Outdoor Human Motion Capture using Inverse Kinematics and von Mises-Fisher Sampling (PDF, Images/Videos), International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'11), 1243-1250, 2011. ©IEEE

Stoll C., Hasler N., Gall J., Seidel H.-P., and Theobalt C., Fast Articulated Motion Tracking using a Sums of Gaussians Body Model (PDF, Images/Videos), International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'11), 951-958, 2011. ©IEEE

Uebersax D., Gall J., van den Bergh M., and van Gool L., Real-time Sign Language Letter and Word Recognition from Depth Data (PDF, Supplemental material, Video), IEEE Workshop on Human Computer Interaction: Real-Time Vision Aspects of Natural User Interfaces (HCI'11), 383-390, 2011. ©IEEE

Gall J., Yao A., Razavi N., van Gool L., and Lempitsky V., Hough Forests for Object Detection, Tracking, and Action Recognition (PDF, Images/Code), IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 33, No. 11, 2188-2202, 2011. ©IEEE

Yao A., Gall J., Fanelli G., and van Gool L., Does Human Action Recognition Benefit from Pose Estimation? (PDF, Images), British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC'11), 2011.

Fanelli G., Weise T., Gall J., and van Gool L., Real Time Head Pose Estimation from Consumer Depth Cameras (PDF, Images/Videos/Data/Code), 33rd Annual Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM'11), Springer, LNCS 6835, 101-110, 2011. ©Springer-Verlag

Gall J., Fossati A., and van Gool L., Functional Categorization of Objects using Real-time Markerless Motion Capture (PDF, Images/Video/Data), IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'11), 1969-1976, 2011. ©IEEE

Grabner H., Gall J., and van Gool L., What Makes a Chair a Chair? (PDF, Images/Data), IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'11), 1529-1536, 2011. ©IEEE

Razavi N., Gall J., and van Gool L., Scalable Multi-class Object Detection (PDF, Images/Code), IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'11), 1505-1512, 2011. ©IEEE

Fanelli G., Gall J., and van Gool L., Real Time Head Pose Estimation with Random Regression Forests (PDF, Images/Videos/Data/Code), IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'11), 617-624, 2011. ©IEEE

Liu Y., Stoll C., Gall J., Seidel H.-P., and Theobalt C., Markerless Motion Capture of Interacting Characters Using Multi-view Image Segmentation (PDF, Images/Video/Data), IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'11), 1249-1256, 2011. ©IEEE

Hamer H., Gall J., Urtasun R., and van Gool L., Data-Driven Animation of Hand-Object Interactions (PDF, Video with Audio), IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 360-367, 2011. ©IEEE

Stoll C., Gall J., de Aguiar E., Thrun S., and Theobalt C., Video-based Reconstruction of Animatable Human Characters (PDF, Images/Videos), ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2010), Vol. 29, No. 6, 2010. ©ACM

Yao A., Uebersax D., Gall J., and van Gool L., Tracking People in Broadcast Sports (PDF), 32nd Annual Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM'10), Springer, LNCS 6376, 151-161, 2010. ©Springer-Verlag

Gall J., Yao A., and van Gool L., 2D Action Recognition Serves 3D Human Pose Estimation (PDF, Images/Videos/Code), European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV'10), Springer, LNCS 6313, 425-438, 2010. ©Springer-Verlag

Razavi N., Gall J., and van Gool L., Backprojection Revisited: Scalable Multi-view Object Detection and Similarity Metrics for Detections (PDF, Images/Videos), European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV'10), Springer, LNCS 6311, 620-633, 2010. ©Springer-Verlag

Fanelli G., Yao A., Noel P.-L., Gall J., and van Gool L., Hough Forest-based Facial Expression Recognition from Video Sequences, Workshop on Sign, Gesture and Activity (SGA'10), 2010. ©Springer-Verlag

Gall J., Razavi N., and van Gool L., On-line Adaption of Class-specific Codebooks for Instance Tracking (PDF, Images/Videos), British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC'10), 2010.

Fanelli G., Gall J., Romsdorfer H., Weise T., and van Gool L., A 3D Audio-Visual Corpus of Affective Communication (PDF, Data), IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Special Issue on Multimodal Affective Interaction, Vol. 12, No. 6, 591-598, 2010. ©IEEE

Waltisberg D., Yao A., Gall J., and van Gool L., Variations of a Hough-Voting Action Recognition System (PDF, Images/Videos), Proceedings of the ICPR 2010 Contests, Springer, LNCS 6388, 306-312, 2010. ©Springer-Verlag

Yao A., Gall J., and van Gool L., A Hough Transform-Based Voting Framework for Action Recognition (PDF, Images/Videos), IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'10), 2010. ©IEEE

Hamer H., Gall J., Weise T., and van Gool L., An Object-Dependent Hand Pose Prior from Sparse Training Data (PDF, Images/Videos), IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'10), 2010. ©IEEE

Fanelli G., Gall J., Romsdorfer H., Weise T., and van Gool L., 3D Vision Technology for Capturing Multimodal Corpora: Chances and Challenges (PDF), Multimodal Corpora: Advances in Capturing, Coding and Analyzing Multimodality, 2010.

Brox T., Rosenhahn B., Gall J., and Cremers D., Combined Region- and Motion-based 3D Tracking of Rigid and Articulated Objects (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol 32(3), 402-415, 2010. ©IEEE

Gall J., Rosenhahn B., Brox T., and Seidel H.-P., Optimization and Filtering for Human Motion Capture - A Multi-layer Framework (PDF, Images/Videos), International Journal of Computer Vision, Special Issue on Evaluation of Articulated Human Motion and Pose Estimation, Vol 87(1), 75-92, Springer, 2010. ©Springer-Verlag

Shaheen M., Gall J., Strzodka R., van Gool L., and Seidel H.-P., A Comparison of 3D Model-based Tracking Approaches for Human Motion Capture in Uncontrolled Environments (PDF, Images/Videos), IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV'09), 2009. ©IEEE

Fanelli G., Gall J., van Gool L., Hough Transform-based Mouth Localization for Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (PDF, Images/Videos), British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC'09), 2009.

Gall J., Stoll C., de Aguiar E., Theobalt C., Rosenhahn B., and Seidel H.-P., Motion Capture Using Joint Skeleton Tracking and Surface Estimation (PDF, Images/Videos/Data), IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'09), 2009. ©IEEE

Gall J. and Lempitsky V., Class-Specific Hough Forests for Object Detection (PDF, Images/Code), IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'09), 2009. ©IEEE

Hasler N., Rosenhahn B., Thormählen T., Wand M., Gall J., and Seidel H.-P., Markerless Motion Capture with Unsynchronized Moving Cameras (PDF, Images/Videos), IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'09), 2009. ©IEEE

Gall J., Rosenhahn B., Gehrig S., and Seidel H.-P., Model-based Motion Capture for Crash Test Video Analysis (PDF, Images/Videos), 30th Annual Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM'08), Springer, LNCS 5096, 92-101, 2008. ©Springer-Verlag

Gall J., Rosenhahn B., and Seidel H.-P., Drift-free Tracking of Rigid and Articulated Objects (PDF, Images/Videos), IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'08), 2008. ©IEEE

Gall J., Rosenhahn B., and Seidel H.-P., An Introduction to Interacting Simulated Annealing (PDF), Human Motion - Understanding, Modeling, Capture and Animation, Klette R., Metaxas D., and Rosenhahn B. (Eds.), Computational Imaging and Vision, Vol 36, 319-345, Springer, 2008. ©Springer-Verlag

Gehrig S., Badino H., and Gall J., Accurate and Model-Free Pose Estimation of Crash Test Dummies Human Motion - Understanding, Modeling, Capture and Animation, Klette R., Metaxas D., and Rosenhahn B. (Eds.), Computational Imaging and Vision, Springer, Vol 36, 453-473, 2008. ©Springer-Verlag

Gall J., Brox T., Rosenhahn B., and Seidel H.-P., Global Stochastic Optimization for Robust and Accurate Human Motion Capture (PDF), Technical Report MPI-I-2007-4-008, Department 4: Computer Graphics, Max-Planck Institute für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany, Dec. 2007.

Gall J., Rosenhahn B., and Seidel H.-P., Clustered Stochastic Optimization for Object Recognition and Pose Estimation (PDF, Images/Videos), 29th Annual Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM'07), Springer, LNCS 4713, 32-41, 2007. ©Springer-Verlag

Gall J., Potthoff J., Schnörr C., Rosenhahn B., and Seidel H.-P., Interacting and Annealing Particle Filters: Mathematics and a Recipe for Applications, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision. Springer, 28(1), 1-18, 2007. ©Springer-Verlag

Gall J., Potthoff J., Schnörr C., Rosenhahn B., and Seidel H.-P., Interacting and Annealing Particle Filters: Mathematics and a Recipe for Applications (PDF), Technical Report MPI-I-2006-4-009, Department 4: Computer Graphics, Max-Planck Institute für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany, Sept. 2006.

Gall J., Rosenhahn B., and Seidel H.-P., Robust Pose Estimation with 3D Textured Models (PDF, Images/Videos), IEEE Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology (PSIVT'06), Springer, LNCS 4319, 84-95, 2006. ©Springer-Verlag

Gall J., Rosenhahn B., Brox T., and Seidel H.-P., Learning for Multi-View 3D Tracking in the Context of Particle Filters (PDF, Images/Videos), International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC'06), Springer, LNCS 4292, 59-69, 2006. ©Springer-Verlag

Projects

Human Motion Capture

Interacting Particle Systems

Audio-Visual Data Processing/Head Pose

Software

Real-time Facial Feature Detection using Conditional Regression Forests

Learning Probabilistic Non-Linear Latent Variable Models for Tracking Complex Activities

Real Time Head Pose Estimation with Random Regression Forests

Scalable Multi-class Object Detection

2D Action Recognition Serves 3D Human Pose Estimation

A Hough Transform-Based Voting Framework for Action Recognition

Class-Specific Hough Forests for Object Detection

Data

Motion Capture of Hands in Action using Discriminative Salient Points

Real-time Facial Feature Detection using Conditional Regression Forests

Real Time Head Pose Estimation with Random Regression Forests

Functional Categorization of Objects using Real-time Markerless Motion Capture

What Makes a Chair a Chair?

Biwi 3D Audiovisual Corpus of Affective Communication - B3D(AC)^2

Hand-Object Interaction (HOI) Dataset

Motion Capture Using Joint Skeleton Tracking and Surface Estimation

Markerless Motion Capture with Unsynchronized Moving Cameras

Workshops/Special Issues/Tutorials

Tutorial on Towards Solving Real-World Vision Problems with RGB-D Cameras, Portland, OR, USA, June 2013, in conjunction with CVPR'13. Organizers: Xiaofeng Ren (Amazon), Pushmeet Kohli (Microsoft Research Cambridge), and Juergen Gall (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems).

Workshop on Consumer Depth Cameras for Computer Vision, Firenze, Italy, 12 October 2012, in conjunction with ECCV'12. Organizers: Andrea Fossati (ETH Zurich), Juergen Gall (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems), Helmut Grabner (ETH Zurich), Xiaofeng Ren (Intel Labs), Kurt Konolige (Willow Garage), Seungkyu Lee (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology), and Miles Hansard (Queen Mary University London).

Visual Understanding and Applications with RGB-D Cameras, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCI). Guest Editors: Michael Beetz (TU Munich), Daniel Cremers (TU Munich), Juergen Gall (ETH Zurich), Wanqing Li (University of Wollongong), Zicheng Liu (Microsoft Research Redmond), Dejan Pangercic (TU Munich), Juergen Sturm (TU Munich), and Yu-Wing Tai (KAIST).

IEEE Workshop on Consumer Depth Cameras for Computer Vision, Barcelona, Spain, 12 November 2011, in conjunction with ICCV'11. Organizers: Andrea Fossati (ETH Zurich), Juergen Gall (ETH Zurich), Helmut Grabner (ETH Zurich), Xiaofeng Ren (Intel Labs Seattle), and Kurt Konolige (Willow Garage).

Talks

Pose Estimation of Hands and Faces, Institute for Neuro- and Bioinformatics, Lübeck, Germany, 2013

Random Forests for Face Analysis and Body Pose Estimation, Workshop Kinect untangled: from basics to applications, Valencia, Spain, 2013

Hands and Humans in Action, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, 2012

Will Depth Cameras Have a Long-term Impact on Computer Vision Research?, Time-of-Flight Imaging: Algorithms, Sensors and Applications, IBFI Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, 2012

Hough Forests and their Applications in Computer Vision, University of Bonn, Germany, 2012

Hough Forests for Object Detection, Tracking, and Action Recognition, Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, 2011

Real-time Sign Language Letter and Word Recognition from Depth Data, IEEE Workshop on Human Computer Interaction: Real-Time Vision Aspects of Natural User Interfaces (HCI'11), Barcelona, Spain, 2011

Capturing and Modeling Human Interactions, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany, 2011

Capturing and Modeling Human Interactions, Computer Graphics Group, University of Bonn, Germany, 2011

Objects are More Than Bounding Boxes, Outdoor and Large-Scale Real-World Scene Analysis. 15th Workshop "Theoretical Foundations of Computer Vision", IBFI Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, 2011

Markerless Motion Capture of Interacting Characters Using Multi-view Image Segmentation (PPTX), IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'11), Colorado Springs, CO, USA, 2011

Hough Forests for Object Detection, Tracking, and Action Recognition, Max Planck Symposium on Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany, 2011

Hough Forests for Object Detection, Tracking, and Action Recognition, MMCI, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2011

Vision-based Human Motion Capture: State-of-the-art and Applications, Computer Vision Winter Workshop, Mitterberg, Austria, 2011

Marker-less Human Motion Capture for In-house Monitoring and Computer Games, Toshiba Cambridge Research Laboratory, Cambridge, UK, 2010

On-line Adaption of Class-specific Codebooks for Instance Tracking, British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC'10), Aberystwyth, UK, 2010

From 2D Object Detection to 3D Pose Estimation, Computer Vision Group, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2010

Evaluation of Face Motion in Video Sequences (PPT/ZIP, PDF), HERMES Final Review Meeting (PDF, Video), Barcelona, Spain, 2009

Class-Specific Hough Forests for Object Detection (PPT, PDF), IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'09), Miami, FL, USA, 2009

Filtering and Optimization Strategies for Marker-less Human Motion Capture with Skeleton-based Shape Models, CVG, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2009

Filtering and Optimization Strategies for Marker-less Human Motion Capture with Skeleton-based Shape Models, PERCEPTION, INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes, France, 2009

Filtering and Optimization Strategies for Marker-less Human Motion Capture with Skeleton-based Shape Models, Computer Vision Group, University of Bonn, Germany, 2008

Filtering and Optimization Strategies for Marker-less Human Motion Capture with Skeleton-based Shape Models, BIWI, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2008

Model-based Motion Capture for Crash Test Video Analysis, 30th Annual Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM'08), Munich, Germany, 2008

Clustered Stochastic Optimization for Object Recognition and Pose Estimation, 29th Annual Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM'07), Heidelberg, Germany, 2007

Rendering for Tracking - A Perspective from Computer Vision, Visual Computing - Convergence of Computer Graphics and Computer Vision, IBFI Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, 2007

Pose Estimation with 3D Textured Models, IEEE Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology (PSIVT'06), Hsinchu, Taiwan, 2006

Learning for Multi-View 3D Tracking in the Context of Particle Filters, Second International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC'06), Lake Tahoe, NV, USA, 2006

Generalised Annealed Particle Filter - Impact on Tracking Articulated Objects, SensoMotoric Instruments, Teltow / Berlin, Germany, 2006

Learning a Dynamic Independent Pose Distribution within a Bayesian Framework, Human Motion - Understanding, Modeling, Capture and Animation. 13th Workshop "Theoretical Foundations of Computer Vision", IBFI Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, 2006

Awards

DAGM Main Prize, Heidelberg, 2007

SMI-DAGM Graduation Award, Berlin, 2006

Senior Foulkes Prize, University of Wales Swansea, 2004

Media Coverage

Einstein, SF1, Swiss TV channel, 3 March 2011

NewScientist, Article about Video-based Reconstruction of Animatable Human Characters, 24 October 2010

Planetopia, SAT.1, German TV channel, 24 June 2007

Education/Experience

June 2013 - present:
Professor at the University of Bonn, Germany

April 2012 - May 2013
Senior Research Scientist at the Perceiving Systems Department, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany

March 2009 - March 2012:
Postdoc at the Computer Vision Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

November 2008 - February 2009:
Ph. D. student in Computer Science at the Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany and the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
Title of Ph. D. Thesis: Filtering and Optimization Strategies for Marker-less Human Motion Capture with Skeleton-based Shape Models (supervisors: Prof. Dr. B. Rosenhahn, Prof. Dr. H.-P. Seidel)

August 2008 - October 2008:
Intern at the Machine Learning and Perception Group, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK

January 2006 - July 2008:
Ph. D. student in Computer Science at the Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany and the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik

October 2004 - December 2005:
Studies in Mathematics at the University of Mannheim
Title of Master's Thesis (Diplomarbeit): Generalised Annealed Particle Filter - Mathematical Framework, Algorithms and Applications (supervisors: Prof. Dr. J. Potthoff, Prof. Dr. C. Schnörr) (PDF, PS)

September 2003 - July 2004:
Studies in Mathematics at the University of Wales Swansea, UK
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics with First Class Honours

October 2000 - August 2003:
Studies in Mathematics at the University of Mannheim

June 1999:
Abitur at the Gymnasium, Christian-von-Bomhard Schule Uffenheim, Germany

Job Offers/Theses

PhD/PostDoc positions are available. The topics are in the areas of action recognition, object detection, and human pose estimation. For more details, please contact me.

Students/Visitors

Abhilash Srikantha (MPI-IS)
Dimitris Tzionas (MPI-IS)
Matthias Dantone (ETH Zurich)
Marko Ristin (ETH Zurich)
Nima Razavi (graduated 2012)
Uwe Hiemer (intern 2012)
Angela Yao (graduated 2012)
Gabriele Fanelli (graduated 2012)
Adolfo López Méndez (visitor 2012)
Henning Hamer (graduated 2011)

Links

Image and Pattern Analysis Group, Heidelberg
Machine Learning and Perception Group, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Computer Graphics, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken

Dr. Jürgen Gall