Home page of H. Siegfried Stiehl

Computer Science, University of Hamburg
Vogt-Kölln-Strasse 30, Room R-109, D-22527 Hamburg, Germany, E.U.

  stiehl@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
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Curriculum Vitae

Born 1951 in Europe (Germany). Received Ing.(grad.) degree in Electrical Engineering from Fachhochschule (Technical College) Furtwangen in 1973, and Dipl.Inf. degree in 1976 as well as Dr.-Ing. degree in 1980 both from Computer Science department at Technical University Berlin (dissertation on Automated Processing and Analysis of Cranial Computed Tomograms). Held academic positions as teaching and research assistant (1979 - 1981) and assistant professor (1982 - 1988) at TU Berlin, CS department. Habilitation in Computer Vision at TU Berlin in 1987 (habilitation monograph On Spatial Image Sequence Understanding). Appointed to Full Professor of Computer Science at University of Hamburg (Cognitive Systems research group) in 1988. 1990 founding member of Cognitive Science Doctoral Program, since 1994 coordinator of its research group "Visual Perception and Attention", and since 1995 acting chairman. Member of Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) and IEEE Computer Society. Member of advisory editorial board of Image and Vision Computing and co-editor of Biological Cybernetics. Co-editor of book Visual Attention and Cognition (Elsevier, 1996).

Research Interests

Computational vision, medical image analysis, computational neuroscience, visual perception

Projects

COVIRA (COmputer VIsion in RAdiology; prime contractor: Philips Research Labs Hamburg), 1989 - 1995 (funded by E.U., Advanced Informatics in Medicine as well as Telematics in Healthcare programmes, grants A 1011 and A 2003)

NAMOS (Neural Architecture for MObile Systems; prime contractor: Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Institut für Neuroinformatik), project part D: Neural Architecture for Early Visual (Pre-attentive) Information Processing, 1990 - 1994 (funded by German Federal Ministry of Research and Technology, grant IN 101 C/1 NAMOS)

"Computational and Psychophysical Approaches to Contour Segmentation", 1992 - 1995 (funded by German Academic Exchange Service, DAAD, as part of British-German Academic Research Collaboration Programme; in collaboration with University of Birmingham, Prof. G. Humphreys and Dr. E. Claridge)

CONTRA (COntour TRacking: Segmentation of Spatial and Temporal Image Sequences), 1993 - 1995 (funded by Philips Research Labs Hamburg)

IMAGINE (IMage- and Atlas-Guided Interventions in NEurosurgery), 1994 - 1997 (funded by, and in collaboration with Philips Research Labs Hamburg): HSS, K. Rohr (project leader), W. Beil, R. Sprengel and students

IMAGINE II, 1997 - 2000 (see above): HSS, K. Rohr (project leader), M. Fornefett, S. Frantz, A. Hagemann and students

"Nonlinear Relaxation Networks for Preprocessing and Segmentation of Multidimensional Signals", 1996 - 1999 (funded by German National Science Foundation, DFG, within "Systems and Circuits for Massive Parallelism" programme, grant Sti 147/1-2; in collaboration with Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Prof. R.-R. Grigat): HSS, C. Schnoerr, J. Heers, and students

LKI KOGS (Computer Science Department)