Prof. Dr. Dietmar Saupe
Research Interests
Current areas of interest include Multimedia Signal Processing, Computer Graphics, Scientific Visualization, Image Processing, and Sport Informatics. Specific recent research projects:
- Image and Video quality assessment (SFB TRR161, DFG)
- Sport informatics: Analysis and modeling of parameters in endurance sports (DFG)
Some past research interests:
- Numerical continuation methods
- Chaos and fractals
- Fractal image compression
- Scientific visualization
- Point-based computer graphics3D surface/texture acquisition
- Content-based 3D model retrieval
- Medical image processing: image compression for radiological imagery, digital angiography, clustering methods for functional imaging, automatic motion extraction for MR spectrography, segmentation of 3D ultrasound data
- Video coding: real-time software only methods, wavelets
- Efficient transmission of multimedia data over unreliable channels
- Data assimilation in weather forecast simulations
- Object recognition in remotely sensed images
Short Curriculum Vitae
since 2002 | Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Konstanz, Germany |
| 12/2018-3/2019 | Visiting Researcher, School of Computer Science, University of Adelaide, South Australia |
8/2013 - 9/2013 | Visiting Scholar, Department of Exercise and Sport Science, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA |
| 10/2008 - 4/2009 | Visiting Fellow, Department of Information Engineering, Australian National University, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Canberra, ACT, Australia |
| 1998 - 2002 | Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig, Germany, also since 1999 Research Associate, Department of Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA |
| 1997 | Visiting Research Associate, Department of Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, Cal., USA |
| 1993 - 1998 | Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Germany |
| 1993 | Habilitation in Mathematics, University of Bremen, Germany |
| 1987 - 1993 | Assistant Professor (Hochschulassistent), Department of Mathematics, University of Bremen, Germany |
| 1985 - 1987 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Cruz, Cal., USA |
| 1982 | Dissertation in Mathematics, University of Bremen, Title: "Accelerated PL-Continuation Methods and Periodic Solutions of Parametrized Delay Equations" (in German). Advisor: Prof. H.-O. Peitgen, Bremen, co-reviewer Prof. K. Schmitt, Salt Lake City |
| 1979 - 1985 | Research Assistant at the Forschungsschwerpunkt "Dynamische Systeme" at the University of Bremen, Germany, and visiting researcher at the Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA |
| 1973 - 1979 | Study of Mathematics at the Universities of Stuttgart and Bremen, Germany |
Book covers (german)
Activities
Journals (current)
- Member Editorial Board International Journal of Image and Video Processing (IJIVP), 2006 - today
Journals (past)
- Chief Editor Computing Archives for Scientific Computing , a Springer Journal, 2005 - 2009
- Member Editorial Board Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), until 2008
Professional associations / committees
- Member DIN Normenausschuss 043-01-29 AA " Multimedia und Hypermedia-Information“ und iSO/IEC JPEG-AIC
- Member Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI e.V.)
- Member International Association Computer Science and Sport (IACSS)
- Member ITG Fachausschuss 3.2 "Digitale Bildcodierung"
- Founding member Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Mustererkennung e.V. (DAGM e.V.)
- Member Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung (DMV)
- Delegate of the Department of Computer and Information Science at the Fakultätentag Informatik
- Member accreditation commissions of ASIIN
- Member Committee GI-Dissertationspreis , Gesellschaft für Informatik, 2006 - 2011
Chair or co-chair of conferences/symposia/workshops
- ITG 5th Summer School on Video Compression and Processing (SVCP), Konstanz, June 17-19, 2019
- Dagstuhl Seminar Computer Science in High Performance Sport - Applications and Implications for Professional Coaching, 30.06.-01.07.2013
- 9. dvs Symposium Sportinformatik 2012, Konstanz, 12.-14. Sept. 2012
- Symposium on Visualization , Eurographics-IEEE TCVG, Konstanz, 2004
- Eurographics Conference, Saarbrücken, 2002
- Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin , GI-, IEEE-, GMDS-, DAGM-Tagung, Leipzig, 2002.
- IMA Minisymposium: Fractals in Multimedia , Minneapolis, 2001
- Intern. Workshop on Visualization, Paderborn, 1996
- Workshop Digitale Bildverarbeitung in der Medizin, Freiburg, 1994, 1996, 1997
- ACM SIGGRAPH Courses on Fractals, USA, 1988, 1989, 1991
- Visualisierung in Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften, Bremer Computergraphik Tage 1988, Bremen, 1988
Member program committees
- Shape Modelling International (SMI), 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
- Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval (EG 3DOR), 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014
- Vision, Modeling and Visualization (VMV), 2011
- ACM SIGGRAPH, 2010
- ACM Multimedia Workshop, 2010
- Bildverarbeitung in der Medizin (BVM), 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
- Symposium Point-Based Graphics, ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics (SPBG), 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
- Graphics Interface, 2008
- International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization, and Transmission (3DPVT), 2008
- IEEE/Eurographics Intern. Symposium on Volume Graphics, 2007
- Eurographics UK Chapter Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics, 2007
- Jahrestagung Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Mustererkennung (DAGM), 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
- Computer Graphics International (CGI), 1999, 2001, 2004
- IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization (VisSym), 2003
- Eurographics Conf. on Visualization, 2013
- IEEE Intern. Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), 2001
- Implicit Surfaces '99, 1999
- Fractals in Engineering Sciences '99, 1999
- IFIP FRACTAL'99, 1999
Current local activities at the University Konstanz
- Sprecher Graduiertenkolleg Explorative Analysis and Visualization of Large Information Spaces , 2004 - 2014
- Mitglied Ausschuss für Forschungsfragen (AFF), 2009 - 2016
- Mitglied Sektionsrat MatNat, 2010 - 2018
- Mitglied Fachbereichsrat Informatik und Informationswissenschaft (many years)
- Mitglied Recruitment Committee Zukunftskolleg
- Mitglied Beirat IQF-Projekt "Wege zu einer Diversity-gerechten Hochschule", 2013 - 2016
- Mitglied Senat der Universität, 2004 - 2010