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Prof. Dr. Daniel Cremers
Professor of Informatics and Mathematics
Chair of Computer Vision & Artificial Intelligence
School of Computation, Information and Technology
Informatics 9
Boltzmannstrasse 3
85748 Garching
Germany
Tel: +49-89-289-17755
Fax: +49-89-289-17757
Office: 02.09.054
Mail: cremers@tum.de
CV
Education
2002 | University of Mannheim | Ph.D., Summa cum Laude | Computer Science |
1997 | University of Heidelberg | Diplom (~ M.S.), with distinction | Theoretical Physics |
1994 | University of Heidelberg | Vordiplom (~ B.A.), Grade 1.0 | Mathematics |
1994 | University of Heidelberg | Vordiplom (~ B.A.), Grade 1.0 | Physics |
Employment
12/09 - | Full Professor (W3), TU Munich (Germany), Dept. of Computer Science. Since 07/12 dual affiliation in the Dept. of Mathematics |
07/07 - 08/07 | Visiting Researcher, Microsoft Research (Cambridge), Machine Learning and Perception. |
10/05 - 11/09 | Associate Professor (W2), University of Bonn (Germany), Dept. of Computer Science. |
08/04 - 09/05 | Researcher Scientist, Siemens Corporate Research (Princeton) |
12/02 - 08/04 | Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California at Los Angeles, Dept. of Computer Science, with Prof. Stefano Soatto at the UCLA Vision Lab. |
6/99 - 11/02 | Graduate Research Assistant, University of Mannheim, Dept. of Math. and Computer Science, with Prof. Christoph Schnörr in the Computer Vision Group. |
6/98 - 5/99 | Graduate Research Assistant, Humboldt University, Berlin, Dept. of Biology, with Prof. Andreas V. M. Herz at the Institute for Theoretical Biology. |
1/96 - 5/98 | Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant, University of Heidelberg, Dept. of Physics, Institute for Theoretical Physics with Prof. Andreas Mielke and Prof. Franz Wegner, Statistical and Condensed Matter Physics. |
6/95 - 8/95 | Graduate Research Assistant, State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook, Dept. of Physics, with Prof. K.K. Likharev in the Rapid Single-Flux-Quantum Lab. |
Selected Honors and Awards
2016 | Leibniz Award (2.5 Mio Euro). |
2010 | Best Paper Honorable Mention at CVPR 2016. |
2010 | Best Paper Award at SGP 2016. |
2015 | ERC Consolidator Grant (2 Mio Euro). |
2015 | Google Faculty Research Award. |
2014 | ERC Proof of Concept Grant. |
2013 | Best Vision Paper Nomination at ICRA 2013. |
2010 | Listed among "Germany's Top 40 Researchers Under 40" (Capital, Dec 2010). |
2010 | Best Paper Honorable Mention at ACCV 2010. |
2009 | ERC Starting Grant (2 Mio Euro). |
2009 | Best Paper Award at DAGM 2009. |
2005 | Emmy Noether Scholarship (5-year grant of the German Science Foundation). |
2005 | 2005 UCLA Chancellor's Award for Postdoctoral Research (Elected from more than 1000 postdocs). |
2004 | Olympus Award 2004 (Highest Award of the German Pattern Recognition Society). |
2003 | Best Paper of the Year 2003 (Int. Pattern Recognition Society). |
2003 | Runner-up for Best Thesis in Computer Science 2002 by the German Society of Computer Science. |
2002 | Best Paper Award at DAGM 2002. |
2001 | Best Student Paper, IEEE Int. Workshop on Variational and Level Set Methods in Computer Vision. |
94/95 | Fulbright Scholar in Indiana and New York. |
93-97 | Member of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (top 0.3 % of German university students). |
1988 | Honorary member of the American National Honor Society. |
Publications
See publications.
Recent Talks
See talks.
Professional Activities
Associate Editor: | Int. Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) (2008-2014) SIAM J. on Imaging Sciences (SIIMS) Dagstuhl Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs) |
Organizer: |
IPAM Workshop on Convex Relaxation Methods 2013, EMMCVPR 2009, Hausdorff Workshop on Geometry and Statistics of Shapes 2008, IPAM Workshop on Graph Cuts and Related Discrete or Continuous Optimization Problems 2008, Dagstuhl Workshop on Theoretical Foundations of Computer Vision 2008, EMMCVPR 2007, |
General Chair: | ECCV '18 (Munich), EMMCVPR '09 (Bonn) |
Program Chair: | ACCV '14, EMMCVPR '07 |
Area Chair: | ECCV '16, ICCV '13, ICCV '11, CVPR '14, CVPR '13, CVPR '12, CVPR '11, CVPR '09, CVPR '08, ACCV '10, IROS '13, BMVC '16, BMVC '15, ... |
Program Committee: | ECCV '04, '06, '08, '10, '12 ICCV '05, '07, '09 CVPR '05, '06, '07, '10,... |
Other Interests
Languages: | German, English, French, Russian, Chinese, Spanish. |
Music: | Choir, piano, guitar. |
Sports: | Rock climbing, snowboarding, surfing, judo, swimming, soccer, hiking. |