PD Dr.-Ing. Erhardt Barth
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Erhardt Barth University of Lübeck Institute for Neuro- and Bioinformatics Ratzeburger Allee 160 (Geb. 64) D-23562 Lübeck Germany Phone: +49 451 500 5503 Fax: +49 451 500 5502 Email: barth at inb.uni-luebeck.de |
Current research interests
| Machine vision: | 3D sensing and gesture-based interaction, see gestigon and ARTTS Machine learning and efficient coding Attention monitoring and gaze guidance, see GazeCom |
| Human vision: | Eye movements and gaze guidance, see GazeCom Mathematical models of of visual function, efficient coding |
| Computational Photography: | Image deblurring and restauration, image fusion Light fields and alternative optics Image and video quality |
Brief biography
Prof. Barth leads the research on human and machine vision at the INB. He obtained his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Munich in 1994, was a Research Associate at the Department of Communications Engineering in Munich and a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Computer Science, Melbourne University, Australia, where he was supported by the Gottlieb-Daimler and Karl-Benz Foundation. He then was a researcher at the Department of Medical Psychology, University of Munich, and a Klaus-Piltz fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. In 1997/98 he was a member of the NASA Vision Science and Technology Group at NASA Ames, Moffet Field, California. In May 2000 he received a Schloessmann Award from the Max-Planck Gesellschaft. Since then, he initiated and conducted a number of basic and applied research projects, and started a few companies. Currently he is Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Executive Secretary of the German Neural Network Society and Member of the Editorial Board of the Scientific Bulletin of the Politehnica University Bucharest.

