Prof. Dr.-Ing. H. Siegfried Stiehl
Retired Head of Research Group (Senior Professor until September 30, 2021)
Image Processing Research Group
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Academic Career Milestones
Academic Career Milestones
Click here for a brief CV as of 2019.
| 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 |
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) |
Service to Scientific Community
| 2022 |
Expert external advisor (“critical friend”) on the proposal for a doctoral degree programme in Computer Engineering and Data Science at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW Hamburg; https://www.haw-hamburg.de/en/) |
| 2022 |
Member of Expert Commissions / Review Committee bidt (Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities) Graduate Centers for Postdocs / Doctoral Students https://www.bidt.digital/en/young-talents/ |
| 2022 |
Member of Scientific Advisory Board Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, Universität Heidelberg https://typo.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/home/ |
| 2022 (since 2017) |
DFG Reviewer "Skalierbare Verfahren der Text- und Strukturerkennung für die Volltextdigitalisierung historischer Drucke (OCR-D) / DFG-funded Initiative for Optical Character Recognition Development"; https://ocr-d.de/en/) |
| 2021 |
Member of Program Committee (with Certificate as Outstanding Reviewer) 16th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2021; https://icdar2021.org) Lausanne, September 5-10, 2021 |
| 2021 |
Member of Program Committee 6th International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP 2021), ICDAR 2021, Lausanne, September 5-10, 2021 |
| 2021 |
Member of Review Committee bidt (Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities) Promotion Programme Junior Research Groups https://www.bidt.digital/en/junior-research-groups/ |
| 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) |
Recent Team Research Projects (2015 - 2022)
iXMan_Lab
iXMan_Lab, jointly rigged up with V. Rajan Sampath since 2017, is an acronym for interactive eXploration of Manuscripts Laboratory. The underlying motto for our laboratory - partially funded by DFG via SFB 950 "Manuscript Cultures in Asia, Africa and Europe" - is to develop theory-driven concepts, computational paradigms, experimental designs, and workflow-supporting prototypes in a joint fashion with experts from manuscript research in the Humanities. The ultimate goal is the realization of user-oriented, easy-to-use, platform-independent, and reliable computational systems for their day-to-day research activities (pdf, see also https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/16995).
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 and Europe" (DFG)"
Supervised Theses (since 2016)
Doctoral Dissertations
Jonas Luft (approx. summer 2023)
"Automatische Georeferenzierung von Altkarten (Automatic Georeferencing of Historical Maps"
Dissertation, HafenCity University (HCU) Hamburg
Joint Supervision: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jochen Schiewe, Geo-Informatics and Geo-Visualization Lab, HCU Hamburg and Prof. Dr.-Ing. H. Siegfried Stiehl)
Alessio Azzutti (approx. spring/summer 2023)
"Artificial Intelligence and Market Manipulation: Challenges in the Governance of Algorithmic Trading and the Regulation of Market Conduct"
Dissertation, Faculty of Law
Joint Supervision: Prof. Dr. Wolf-Georg Ringe, Faculty of Law and Prof. Dr.-Ing. H. Siegfried Stiehl, Department of Informatics
Jasper Ulenaers (approx. spring/summer 2023)
"Protecting Children's Rights from and Empowering Children through Artificial Intelligence: Some Novel Perspectives on the Interplay of Technology, Law, and Society"
Dissertation, Faculty of Law
Joint Supervision: Prof. Dr. Markus Kotzur, LL.M. (Duke University), Faculty of Law and Prof. Dr.-Ing. H. Siegfried Stiehl
Esther Dietrich (submitted; spring 2023)
"Deep learning-based discrete-time survival prediction on prostate cancer histopathology images"
Dissertation, Department of Informatics
Joint Supervison: Prof. Stefan Bonn, Institute of Medical Systems Biology, Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), University Hospital Eppendorf (UKE) and Prof. Dr.-Ing. H. Siegfried Stiehl
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
as well as https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/about/people/mohammed.html for recent work.
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
Dominik Hauser (fall 2023)
"From digitized watermarks in music manuscripts to binary point clouds" (working title)
1st supervisor: H. S. Stiehl, 2nd supervisor: Dr. G. Koliander, ÖAW, Wien
Larissa Rutzen (fall 2023)
"Information extraction from historic handwritten register documents on the example of matriculation books" (working title)
1st supervisor: H. S. Stiehl, 2nd supervisor: Dr. L. Hotz, HITeC
Christopher Kassens (2020)
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
Dominik Hauser (2021)
Detektion gekrümmter linienartiger Texturen in digitalisierten Dokumenten mithilfe von Gabor-Filtern
1st supervisor: H. S. Stiehl
2nd supervisor: C. Kassens
Max Lier (2021)
Realisierung eines Prototyps zur Bestimmung der Koordinaten von Verkehrsschildern auf Basis von georeferenzierten 360° Panoramabildern
1st supervisor: H. S. Stiehl
2nd supervisor: Dr. M. Weser
Larissa Rutzen (2020)
Development and Evaluation of an Invoice Analysis System based on Machine Learning with Object Detection Networks
1st supervisor: H. S. Stiehl
2nd supervisor: Dr. T. Baumann
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
Past Team Research Projects
| 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) |
Scientific Events
| 2023 |
Joint Scientific Organizer (with Dr. Günther Koliander, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Acoustics Research Institute) DFG-Roundtable (invitational) "State-of-Technology/-Research/-Standardization: Thermography Digitization of Watermarks in Musical Manuscripts - with Reference to Digital Image Processing, Pattern Recognition and Long-Term Archival (in German)", ÖAW, Vienna, October 23-25, 2023 |
| 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 |