We are very happy to announce that three of our PhD students have been able to successfully defend their PhD thesis during 2019!

Mr. Aditya Tewari defended his thesis with the title “Prior-Knowledge Addition to Spatial and Temporal Classification Models with Demonstration on Hand Shape and Gesture Classification” on October 25th in front of the examination commission consisting of Prof. Dr. Didier Stricker (TU Kaiserslautern and DFKI), Prof. Dr. Paul Lukowicz (TU Kaiserslautern and DFKI) and Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Dieter Rombach (Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern).

Mr. Vladislav Golyanik defended his thesis with the title „Robust Methods for Dense Monocular Non-Rigid 3D Reconstruction and Alignment of Point Clouds” on November 20th in front of the examination commission consisting of Prof. Dr. Didier Stricker (TU Kaiserslautern and DFKI), Prof. Dr. Antonio Aguado (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain) and Prof. Dr. Reinhard Koch (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel).

Mr. Christian Bailer defended his thesis with the title „New Data Based Matching Strategies for Visual Motion Estimation” on November 22nd in front of the examination commission consisting of Prof. Dr. Didier Stricker (TU Kaiserslautern and DFKI), Prof. Dr. Michael Feslberg (Linköpings University, Sweden) and Dr. Margret Keuper (Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken).

All three PhDs have left our Augmented Vision Department shortly after their defense to pursue a career outside of DFKI.