Rainer Lienhart, Ph.D, Professor
Prof. Dr. Rainer Lienhart, Head of Multimedia Computing
Institut für Informatik, Universität Augsburg
Eichleitnerstr. 30, D-86135 Augsburg, Germany
Email: Rainer.Lienhart@informatik.uni-augsburg.de
Phone : +49 (716) 242 23465
WWW: www.videoanalysis.org/mmc/

Research Interests
include image/video/audio content analysis, machine learning, scalable signal processing, scalable learning, scalable and adaptive algorithms, ubiquitous and distributed media computing in heterogeneous networks, and peer-to-peer networking and mass media sharing.

Bio
Since August 2004 Rainer Lienhart is a full professor in the computer science department of the University of Augsburg leading the lab for Multimedia Computing.

From August 1998 to July 2004 he was a Staff Researcher at Intel's Microprocessor Research Lab in Santa Clara, California, where he worked on transforming a network of heterogeneous, distributed computing platforms into an array of audio/video sensors and actuators capable of performing complex DSP tasks such as distributed beamforming, audio rendering, audio/visual tracking, and camera array processing. In particular, this requires putting distributed heterogeneous computing platforms with audio -visual sensors into a common time and space coordinate system (more info). At the same time, he was also continuing his work on media mining, where he is well-known for his work in video content analysis with contributions in text detection/recognition, commercial detection, face detection, shot and scene detection, and automatic video abstraction (video content analysis home page, OpenCV).

He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Mannheim, Germany, in 1998, where he was a member of the Movie Content Analysis Project (MoCA).

He as been a committee member of ACM Multimedia, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Systems, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Expo, SPIE Storage and Retrieval of Media Databases, IEEE Workshop on Content-Based Access of Image and Video libraries and the International Eurographics Workshop on Multimedia. He is a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, IEEE Transaction on Multimedia, Journal of Computer Vision and Image Understanding and ACM Multimedia Systems Journal.

Dr. Lienhart has published over 50+ papers in major conferences and journals and filed 20+ patents.