older news

2007-06-19 Our data mining cup lab was pretty successful this year: 6 of the 9 students of our data mining cup lab are among the top ten students in the data mining cup with ranks 1,2,4,5,7, and 8 from 249 particpants. press release (english) press release (german)

2007-03-18 There is an article mentioning FIRE (which the IUPR-guys are demoing at CeBit) in Le Monde Informatique (a french computer magazine). Since I don't know any french I don't understand it, but you can read it here.

2007-03-06 The website of the ImageCLEF 2007 medical annotation is now online.

2007-01-29: Today we have a talk on "Reducing time and RAM requirements of CBIR" by Jens Forster in the vision group meeting.

2007-01-26: Our Data Mining Cup lab has won the second rank in RWTH teaching awards (RWTH Lehrpreis)

2007-01-22: Today we have a talk on "Scoring for frequency-based image retrieval" by Tobias Gass in the vision group meeting.

2007-01-15: Today we have a talk on "Semiautomatic image annotation" by Tobias Weyand in the vision group meeting.

2006-12-18: I am back from my internship with MSRC.

2006-12-05: FIRE is now being used for searching art at www.artsugar.com.

2006-10-20: I have been appointed Vice-Chair of the Technical Committee 5 of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).

2006-09-25: I have started my internship with Microsoft Research Cambridge in the Machine Learning and Perception/Vision group.

2006-07-03: I have been invited to the LEAR group at INRIA to give a talk about my work on object recognition.

2006-03-12: Data available for the medical automatic annotation task and the non-medical automatic annotation task of ImageCLEF 2006.

2006-03-10 New Version of FIREwatch available.

2006-02-14: ImageCLEF now has a website for 2006.

2006-01-30: The Image Understanding and Pattern Recognition Group from DFKI now uses FIRE to retrieve visually similiar documents.

2005-11-22: Christian Kofler from the Image Understanding and Pattern Recognition Group in Keyserslautern has created a small GUI for FIRE called FireWatch and I modified it slightly. It is now available for download.

2005-09-14: FIRE Version 2.1.0 released. This version contains lots of additional feature extraction tools and finally an installation guide and a simple installation script.

2005-09-05: The contents of the DVD from the Tutorial Medical Image Retrieval that I gave together with Henning Müller is now available online.

2005-06-20: The results from the ImageCLEF 2005 Automatic Annotation Task are available.

2005-04-16: The students from our Data-Mining-Lab obtained very good places: We got the first place and all 9 students are among the top twenty solutions (from 147). (Presseerklärung (in german), more information). Reaction from heise.de. Reactions from our students: buck, helga, tobw.

2005-04-05: Results of the PASCAL Visual Object Classes Challenge announced: Results.pdf. And we are happy to have done quite well, here you find our interpretation of the results.

2005-04-05: Due to some help of my colleague David Vilar I have an absolutely great FVWM config now. Get it here.

2005-02-23: FIRE Version 2.0.1 released. This version contains lots of additional feature extraction tools and finally an installation guide.

2005-02-16: Registration to ImageCLEF 2005 is open

2005-02-02: Daniel Keysers and I again coached a team of students participating in the Data Mining Competition 2005. We obtained the 2nd, 2nd (same number of points), 6th, 7th, and 9th place out of 40 participants.

2004-12-05: the video of Daniel and me trying to explain how to detect images of naked people for the "popular science" TV show "Planetopia": video huge (avi, 22M), video large (avi, 11M), video small (avi, 5.6M)­, english transcription of the text

2004-06-15: In April/May 2004 Daniel Keysers and I successfully coached a team of students who participated in the Data Mining Cup 2004. The three students won the 1st, 3rd, and 5th place out of 97 participants. More information.