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Ullrich Köthe

		Ullrich Köthe Dipl. phys., Dr. rer. nat. Heidelberg Collaboratory for Image Processing (HCI) University of Heidelberg Speyerer Strasse 6, Office G203 D-69115 Heidelberg Tel: ++49-6221-54 8797 Fax: ++49-6221-54 8850 Email: ullrich.koethe AT iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
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Scientific Interests

I am interested in the understanding and probabilistic modeling of high dimensional data and
in the development and formal investigation of related methods. Current projects focus on

Graphical models
Segmentation of volumetric imagery
Machine learning
Main developer of the VIGRA computer vision library

Collaborations

Winfried Denk, Moritz Helmstaedter, Department of Biomedical Optics, Max-Planck Institute for Medical Research Heidelberg
Bernd Neumann, Peer Stelldinger, Hans Meine, Cognitive Systems Group, University of Hamburg
Michael Felsberg, Computer Vision Laboratory, Linköping University

Recent Publications

see also my complete publication list

U. Köthe: "Reliable Low-Level Image Analysis"
Habilitation, Department Informatik, University of Hamburg, 318 pages, Hamburg 2008
Abstract | PDF (10 MB)
M. Frank, M. Plaue, H. Rapp, U. Köthe, B. Jähne, F.A. Hamprecht: "Theoretical and Experimental Error Analysis of Continuous-Wave Time-Of-Flight Range Cameras",
Optical Engineering, 48(1):013602, 2009
Abstract | PDF
H. Meine, U. Köthe, P. Stelldinger: "A Topological Sampling Theorem for Robust Boundary Reconstruction and Image Segmentation",
Discrete Applied Mathematics (DGCI Special Issue), 157(3):524-541, 2009.
Abstract | PDF
B. Andres, C. Kondermann, D. Kondermann, U. Köthe, F.A. Hamprecht, C.S. Garbe: "On Errors-In-Variables Regression with Arbitrary Covariance and its Application to Optical Flow Estimation",
CVPR 2008.
Abstract | BibTeX | PDF
B. Andres, U. Köthe, M. Helmstaedter, W. Denk, F.A. Hamprecht: "Segmentation of SBFSEM Volume Data of Neural Tissue by Hierarchical Classification",
in: G. Rigoll (Ed.): Pattern Recognition, Proc. DAGM 2008, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5096 , pp. 142-152, Berlin: Springer, 2008. (note: this article is © Springer-Verlag)
Abstract | BibTeX | PDF – Received a Best Paper Award from the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM)
U. Köthe: "What Can We Learn from Discrete Images about the Continuous World?",
in: D. Coeurjolly, I. Sivignon, L. Tougne, F. Dupont (Eds.): Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery, Proc. DGCI 2008, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4992, pp. 4-19, Berlin: Springer, 2008. (note: this article is © Springer-Verlag)
Abstract | PostScript | PDF

Teaching

Programmieren in C++, Wintersemester 2009/2010 (mit J. Fehr und D. Kondermann)
Praktikum: Computational Photography, Wintersemester 2009/2010 (mit J. Fehr und D. Kondermann)
Algorithmen und Datenstrukturen, Sommersemester 2008
Mustererkennung, Wintersemester 2007/2008 (mit F. Hamprecht)

Curriculum Vitae

26. Nov. 2008	Habilitation for a thesis entitled "Reliable Low-Level Image Analysis", Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg
Since 01/2008	Senior scientist at Heidelberg Collaboratory for Image Processing (HCI)
Since 04/2007	Vice Group Leader of the Multidimensional Image Processing Group, University of Heidelberg
Spring semester 2004	Guest researcher at Computer Vision Laboratory, Linköping University, Sweden
1999-2007	Assistant professor (officially: "Hochschulassistent") in the Cognitive Systems Group, University of Hamburg
29. Feb. 2000	Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) for a thesis entitled "Generische Programmierung für die Bildverarbeitung", Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg
Spring semester 1993	Guest researcher at Sarnoff Corporation, Princeton, USA
1992-1999	Research assistant at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, Rostock
1986-1991	Study of physics at University of Rostock, Diploma thesis on "Mikroskopische Herleitung einer Ratengleichung am Beispiel der Nukleonen-Deuteron-Reaktion"

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