Bernt Schiele

Postdoctoral Associate,
The MIT Media Laboratory,
Perceptual Computing Section

Research interests

Computer vision and learning for general computer vision, human-machine interaction and robotics. I also belief that context modeling can and will help to advance computer vision as well as human-computer interaction.

Education

PhD: Docteur de l'Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, France, 1997

MS's: Diplom-Informatiker, University of Karlsruhe, Germany, 1994,
and DEA de l'informatique de l'ENSIMAG, France, 1993

Experience

Visiting researcher at
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1994

Research Topics

• DyPERS: A dynamic personal enhanced reality system
  in collaboration with Tony Jebara, Nuria Oliver and Alex Pentland.
• Visual Contextual Awareness in Wearable Computing
  in collaboration with Thad Starner and Alex Pentland. At the moment there is only a TR available: TR#463, submitted to ICVS'99
• Automatic language acquisition
  in collaboration with Deb Roy and Alex Pentland, using audio as well as visual sensory data.
• Color research
  in collaboration with Graham Finlayson and James L. Crowley we developed a comprehensive colour image normalization technique.
• A recently started project is the "navigation camera"
  in collaboration with Hisashi Aoki and Alex Pentland
• In my PhD I proposed a general framework for the recognition of objects based on the statistics of local neighborhood operators. With this framework we obtain high recognition rates for datasets of over 100 objects, whereas the recognition is highly robust to partial occlusion. Have a look at the abstract , the table of contents, the preface or the introduction of the PhD in order to get a better idea of the subject. If you are interested in a copy of the thesis just let me know (bernt@media.mit.edu).

  I also continue to work on improvements and extensions of my PhD work, such as object classification, localization of object and video stream analysis.

Selected Publications

Probabilistic Object Recognition and Localization.

Bernt Schiele and Alex Pentland.
In ICCV'99, International Conference on Computer Vision, September 1999.

An Interactive Computer Vision System - DyPERS: Dynamic Personal Enhanced Reality System.

Bernt Schiele, Nuria Oliver, Tony Jebara and Alex Pentland.
In ICVS'99, International Conference on Vision Systems, January 1999.

Visual Contetextual Awareness in Wearable Computing.

Thad Starner, Bernt Schiele and Alex Pentland.
In ISWC'98, International Symposium on Wearable Computing, October 1998.

Comprehensive Colour Image Normalization.

Graham Finlayson, Bernt Schiele and James L. Crowley.
In ECCV'98, European Conference on Computer Vision, June 1998.

Transinformation for Active Object Recognition.

Bernt Schiele and James L. Crowley.
In ICCV'98, International Conference on Computer Vision, January 1998.

Principal Component Analysis of Laser Range Data for Mobile Robot Positioning.

Frank Wallner, Bernt Schiele and James L. Crowley.
To appear in Robotics and Autonomous Systems.

The Concept of Visual Classes for Object Classification.

Bernt Schiele and James L. Crowley.
In SCIA'97, Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis.

Where to look next and what to look for.

Bernt Schiele and James L. Crowley.
In IROS'96, Intelligent Robots and Systems, Osaka, Japan, December 1996.

Probabilistic Object Recognition Using Multidimensional Receptive Field Histograms,

Bernt Schiele and James L. Crowley.
In ICPR'96, International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Vienna, Austria, August 1996.

Gaze Tracking Based on Face-Color

Bernt Schiele and Alex Waibel.
In International Workshop on Automatic Face- and Gesture-Recognition, Zurich, Switzerland, June 1995.

A Comparison of Position Estimation Techniques Using Occupancy Grids

Bernt Schiele and James L. Crowley.
In Robotics and Autonomous Systems 12, 1994.

Birthplace

Neustadt/Weinstrasse, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.

Interests

Sport climbing, singing, hiking, jogging, biking, ...

A favorite book

The one, I don't have time to read since...

Most wishes to have dinner with

my wife and intellectually stimulating friends.

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