Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heinrich Niemann

• Current Position:
  • since 1975 : Professor of Computer Science, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • since 1988 : head of the research group `Knowledge Processing' at the Bavarian Research Center for Knowledge Based Systems (FORWISS) and member of the board of directors
• Research Interests:
  • image segmentation, object recognition,
  • diagnostic interpretation of medical images,
  • interpretation of TV image sequences,
  • active vision,
  • continuous speech recognition and understanding, spoken dialog systems, prosodic analysis of speech,
  • knowledge representation, utilization, and acquisition for pattern analysis and understanding
• Books:
  • H. Niemann: Klassifikation von Mustern. Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Tokyo 1983, 340 Seiten, 77 Abbildungen. Unveränderter Nachdruck 1988
  • H. Niemann, H. Bunke: Künstliche Intelligenz in Bild- und Sprachanalyse. B.G. Teubner, Stuttgart 1987, 246 Seiten
  • H. Niemann: Pattern Analysis and Understanding, second edition. Springer Series in Information Sciences 4. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg 1990. 371 Seiten, Bilder
• Memberships: ESCA, EURASIP, GI, IEEE, VDE
• Editorial Board of Journals:
  • Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition Letters, Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Journal of Computing and Information Technology
• Conference Organization:
  • program chairman of the 6. International Conference on Pattern Recognition in München 1982; of the conference track on `Computer Vision and Applications' at the 11. International Conference on Pattern Recognition in The Hague 1992; of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing in München 1997
  • director of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on `Recent Advances in Speech Understanding and Dialog Systems' in Bad Windsheim 1987
  • head or member of the organizing committee of 7. Jahrestagung der GI in Nürnberg 1977; of 7. DAGM Symposium Mustererkennung in Erlangen 1985; of the Open German-Russian Workshop on Image Interpretation and Pattern Recognition in Erlangen 1993; of the CRIM/FORWISS Workshop on Progress and Prospects of Speech Research and Technology in München 1994

How to contact me ...

At work:

+49 9131 85 7774

+49 9131 303811

niemann@informatik.uni-erlangen.de

Martenstraße 3, D-91058 Erlangen