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Prof. Dr.-Ing. H. Siegfried Stiehl
Head of Research Group (Senior Professor)
Image Processing Research Group
Address
Universität Hamburg
Department of Informatics
Vogt-Kölln-Straße 30
22527 Hamburg, Germany
Office
Room: R-115
Contact
Tel: +49 40 42883-2453
Fax: +49 40 42883-2572
Secretary's office
stiehl [at] informatik [dot] uni-hamburg [dot] de
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Current Research (since 2016)
Research (since 2016)
iXMan_Lab
iXMan_Lab, jointly rigged up with V. Rajan Sampath since 2017, is an acronym for interactive
Research (2015 - 2019)
Z03
2015-2019
PI of Scientific Service Project Z03 "Image Processing Methods for Determining Visual Manuscript and Character Features"
in Collaborative Research Center (Sonderforschungsbereich) 950 "Manuscript Cultures in Asia, Africa
Publications
https://dblp.dagstuhl.de/pers/hd/s/Stiehl:H=_Siegfried
https://www.inf.uni-hamburg.de/en/inst/ab/bv/publications.html
Recent Publications
Efficient Keypoint Reduction for Document Image Matching (T. Konidaris, V. Märgner, H.A. Mohammed, H.S. Stiehl), In: Proc. 8th Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, Prague, February 19-21, 2019 (pdf).
Writer Identification for Historical Manuscripts: Analysis and Optimisation of a Classifier as an Easy-to-Use Tool for Scholars from the Humanities (H. Mohammed, V. Maergner, and H. S. Stiehl),
Normalised Local Naive Bayes Nearest-Neighbour Classifier for Offline Writer Identification (Hussein Mohammed, Volker Märger, Thomas Konidaris, H. Siegfried Stiehl), In: Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 14th International Conference on. IEEE, 2017, Kyoto, Japan, pp. 1013-1018. (pdf)
Supervised Theses (since 2016)
Doctoral Dissertations
Hussein Adnan Mohammed (2019)
Computational Analysis of Writing Style in Digitised Manuscripts
Dissertation, Department of Informatics
1st Reviewer: Prof. H. S. Stiehl
2nd Reviewer: Dr. V. Märgner, TU Braunschweig
3rd Reviewer: Prof. N. Vincent, Université Paris Descartes
Dissertation:
https://ediss.sub.uni-hamburg.de/volltexte/2019/9730/pdf/Dissertation.pdf
See also: Handwriting Analysis Tool v3.0 (HAT3)
https://www.fdr.uni-hamburg.de/record/902#.XptAd8gzaUk#.XptAd8gzaUk
Rainer Herzog (2018)
Ein generischer Ansatz zur digitalen Layoutanalyse von Manuskripten
Dissertation, Department of Informatics
https://ediss.sub.uni-hamburg.de/volltexte/2019/10058/pdf/Dissertation.pdf
1st Reviewer: Prof. B. Neumann, University of Hamburg
2nd Reviewer: Prof. H. S. Stiehl
3rd Reviewer: Prof. L. Dreschler-Fischer, University of Hamburg
Master's Theses
Christopher Kassens (2020, forthcoming)
Gabor Wavelets based Detection and Description of Repetitive Line-like Textures in Digitized Documents: Theory and Experiments
1st supervisor: H. S. Stiehl
2nd supervisor: V. R. Sampath
Parth Sarthi Pandey (2020)
An Interactive Experimental System for Computational Analysis of charaktêres Using Visual Programming
1st supervisor: H. S. Stiehl
2nd supervisor: V. R. Sampath
Tim Christopher Hahn (2019)
Computational Analysis of Characteres in Digitized Manuscripts: A Proof of Concept
1st supervisor: H. S. Stiehl
2nd supervisor: Dr. Michael Kohs, Faculty of Humanities
Matthis Hauschild (2016)
Design and realization of a browser-based system for the analysis of digitized manuscripts
1st supervisor: H. S. Stiehl
2nd supervisor: Dr. Benjamin Seppke
Bachelor's Theses
Larissa Rutzen (2020, forthcoming)
Development and Evaluation of an Invoice Analysis System based on Machine Learning with Object Detection Networks
1st supervisor: H. S. Stiehl, 2nd supervisor: N.N.
Skadi Jule Dinter (2020)
Reverse Engineering of a Legacy Open-Source Visualization Tool: The Case of Met.3D
1st supervisor: H. S. Stiehl, 2nd supervisor: V. R. Sampath
Marlon Kramer (2019)
Baseline Performance Characterization of SIFT and FAST using synthetic imagery
1st supervisor: H. S. Stiehl
2nd supervisor: V. R. Sampath
Nico Noster (2019)
Visualizing SIFT and FAST based Workflow
1st supervisor: H. S. Stiehl
2nd supervisor: V. R. Sampath
Michael Woei Kang Huang (2019)
Gamification of Japanese Scripts with Kana Sensei
1st supervisor: V. R. Sampath
2nd supervisor: H. S. Stiehl
Kevin Amoah (2019)
Optimizing a Fantasy Basketball Line-up: An Interactive Exploration of NBA Stats
1st supervisor: V. R. Sampath
2nd supervisor: H. S. Stiehl
Scientific Events
| 2018 |
Joint Scientific Organizer (with Dr. Andreas Fischer, Université de Fribourg; V. R. Sampath, University of Hamburg; M. Würsch, Université de Fribourg) OpenX for Interdisciplinary Computational Manuscript Research. A Pre-Conference Workshop hosted by the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC), University of Hamburg, Warburgstraße 26, 20354 Hamburg, Germany and Funded by DFG via SFB 950 "Manuscript Cultures in Asia, Africa and Europe" |
| 2001 |
Co-Organizer (with K.W. Bowyer, University of South Florida; M.H. Loew, George Washington University; M. Viergever, Utrecht University) Methodology of Evaluation in Computational Medical Imaging Schloß Dagstuhl Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, March 11 - 16 , 2001 |
| 1999 |
Co-Organizer (with F. Pernus, S. Kovacic, and M. Viergever) 1st International Workshop on Biomedical Image Registration (WBIR'99) Bled, Slovenia, August 30-31, 1999 |
| 1999 |
Co-Organizer (with G. Roth, University of Bremen; L. Spillmann, University of Freiburg) Gehirn und Gestalt |
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1998 |
Co-Organizer (with R.M. Haralick, University of Washington; R. Klette, University of Auckland, and M. Viergever, Utrecht University) Theoretical Foundations of Computer Vision: Evaluation and Validation Schloß Dagstuhl Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, March 16 - 20 , 1998 |
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1998 |
Co-Organizer (with U. Spetzger and J.M. Gilsbach, RWTH Aachen) 1st Symposium on Navigated Brain Surgery - Interdisciplinary Views of Neuronavigation from Neurosurgeons and Computer Scientists RWTH Aachen, Klinik für Neurochirugie, 1998 |
Service to Scientific Community
| 2020 |
InfDH 2020: PC Member Methoden und Anwendungen der Computational Humanities |
| 2020 | Reviewer Digital Humanities 2020, Ottawa, July 20-25, 2020 |
| 2020 | PC Member 14th IAPR Workshop on Document Analysis and Recognition (DAS 2020), Wuhan, May 17-20, 2020 (fully virtual conference in late July, 2020) |
| 2017-2020 | Member: Advisory Board for the BMBF-Project "Introduction of Core Dataset Research (KDSF-Helpdesk)"; see kerndatensatz-forschung.de |
| 2017-2020 | DFG-Reviewer "Skalierbare Verfahren der Text- und Strukturerkennung für die Volltextdigitalisierung http://www.dfg.de/foerderung/info_wissenschaft/2017/info_wissenschaft_17_13/ |
| since 2019 | Member of Scientific Advisory Board Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, Universität Heidelberg https://typo.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/home/ |
| 2019 | Member of Program Committee (with Certificate as Outstanding Reviewer by General Co-Chairs) 15th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2019) Sydney, September 20-25, 2019 http://www.icdar2019.org/ |
| 2019 | Member of Program Committee 5th International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP 2019), ICDAR 2019, Sydney/Australia, September 20-25, 2019 https://www.primaresearch.org/hip2019/ |
| 2019 |
Member of Program Committee |
| 2019 |
Member of Program Committee |
| since 2018 | Member of NAT-Zukunftsrat, Körber Stiftung, Hamburg |
| 2018 | Designated Member of Advisory Board of "Forschungs- und Transfer-Zentrum" (2018) Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Hamburg |
| 2018 | Member of Program Committee 1st International Interdisciplinary Symposium on Reading Experience & Analysis of Documents (READ 2018), Technical University of Kaiserslautern and German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Kaiserslautern, October 4-5, 2018 http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~kieni/read2018/ |
| 2018 | Member of Program Committee, GI-Workshop " |
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2018 |
Member of Program Committee, 3rd International Conference on Natural Sciences and Technology in Manuscript Analysis, June 13-14, 2018, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Hamburg https://www.manuscript-cultures.uni-hamburg.de/natural_sciences_2018.html |
| 2017 | Member of Program Committee, 14th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2017, November 9 - 15, 2017, Kyoto/Japan |
| 2017 | Member of Program Committee, 1st International Workshop on Human-Document Interaction (HDI), 14th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2017, November 9 - 15, 2017, Kyoto/Japan |
| 2017 | Member of Program Committee: 4th International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP), 14th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2017, November 9 - 15, 2017, Kyoto/Japan |
| 2017 | Member of Program Committee, BILDUNGSRÄUME DeLFI 2017 – Die 15. e-Learning Fachtagung Informatiker Gesellschaft für Informatik, 5. bis 8. September 2017, Chemnitz, Deutschland |
| 2017 | Reviewer for Leibniz-WissenschaftsCampus II Campus Tübingen "Kognitive Schnittstellen (Cognitive Interfaces)", 2017 |
| 2014-2018 | Member of Project Group "Intelligent Education Networks" (Head: Prof. Dr. Christoph Igel, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI) of the Focus Group |
| 2016 |
Member Experten-Delphi "MINT Nachwuchsbarometer 2017 - Fokusthema: Bildung in der digitalen Transformation (Studie von acatech & Körber-Stiftung)", Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam (2016) |
| 2016 |
Member of Program Committee, 2nd International Conference on Natural Sciences and Technology in |
| 2013-2015 | Member of Project Group "Definitions" of BMBF-funded Project "Specification of Core Data Set Research" (Head: Prof. Dr. Stefan Hornbostel, iFQ, now DZHW; cf. Drs. 5066-16 of German Council of Science and Humanities, January 2016) |
| 2007-2013 |
Member of DFG-funded Project Group "Herleitung, Implementation und Validierung |
| 2007-2013 | Vice President for Research, International Affairs (until 2010), and Information Management (CIO), Universität Hamburg |
| 2006-2007 | Deputy/Vice Dean for Strategic Development of the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Universität Hamburg |
| 2006 | Key Member of Core Team on “Institutional Strategy to Promote Top-Level Research”, Universität Hamburg |
| 2004-2006 | Member of Board of Deans of Fakultät für Mathematik, Informatik und Naturwissenschaften (MIN), Universität Hamburg |
| 2001-2006 | Dean of Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg |
| 2001 | Founding Member of Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center Hamburg (INCH) |
| 2001 | Member of President’s Interdisciplinary Task Force “Center for Bioinformatics Hamburg”, Universität Hamburg |
| 2000-2001 | Vice Dean of Department of Informatics,Universität Hamburg |
| since 1988 | Member of International Conference Program Committees, Reviewer of Research Proposals and Research Programmes, (Co-)Organizer of Scientific Events, Member of (Advisory) Editorial Board of Image and Vision Computing (until 2007), Biological Cybernetics (until 2004), and Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision (until 2007) |
Past Team Research Highlights
| 1996-1999 | PI of Interdisciplinary Research Project “Cellular Neural Networks and VLSI Chips for Anisotropic Diffusion” (Grant Sti 147/1-2, DFG (German Research Foundation) Priority Programme, Partner: Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg |
| 1994-2000 | PI of Interdisciplinary Research Group “Image and Atlas-Guided Interventions in Neurosurgery” (Grant: Philips Research) |
| 1992-1995 | PI of Interdisciplinary Collaboration “Computational and Psychophysical Approaches to Contour Segmentation” (Grant: DAAD / British Council, Partners: Departments of Computer Science and Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK) |
| 1990-1994 | Member of BMFT Verbundprojekt “Neuronal Architecture for Mobile Systems (NAMOS)” (Grant IN 101C/1, Prime Contractor: Ruhr University Bochum) |
| 1990-1999 | (Founding) Member of Interdisciplinary DFG-Graduiertenkolleg “Kognitionswissenschaft”, Deputy Speaker (1995–1999) and Coordinator of Visual Perception and Attention Track, University of Hamburg |
| 1988-1995 | Member of Interdisciplinary EU Research Consortium ”Computer Vision in Radiology (COVIRA)” (Grants A1011 and A2003, Prime Contractor: Philips Research Labs Hamburg) |
Academic Career Milestones
Academic Education
| 1980 | Dr.-Ing. Dissertation, Department of Computer Science (CS), Technical University of Berlin (TUB), Germany (Topic: Automated Processing and Analysis of Cranial Computed Tomograms) |
| 1976-1979 | Doctoral Scholarship from TUB |
| 1976 | Diploma in CS, TUB, Germany (Topic: Graph-Theoretic Analysis of Moving Point Clusters) |
| 1973 | Ing. (grad.) Degree in Ingenieur-Informatik, Fachhochschule Furtwangen, Germany (Topic: Simulation of Signal Transmission) |
Academic Career Milestones
| 1988 | Professor of Informatics, Cognitive Systems Research Group (KOGS), Department of Informatics, Universität Hamburg, Germany |
| 1987 | Habilitation (Field of Teaching: Digital Image Processing and Image Analysis (Computer Vision)), Department of Computer Science (CS), Technical University of Berlin (TUB), Germany (Topic: On Spatial Image Sequence Understanding) |
| 1982-1988 | Hochschulassistent (Assistant Professor), Department of CS, TUB, Germany |
| 1981 | Postdoc, GRASP Lab, Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| 1979-1982 | Teaching and Research Associate, Institute of Technical Computer Science, Department of CS, TUB, Germany |