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Hans-Hellmut Nagel
Universität Karlsruhe
Membership Number: 9
Address: Institut für Algorithmen und Kognitive Systeme, Fakultät für Informatik, Am Fasanengarten 5, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany.
Email: nagel@ira.uka.de
Phone: + 49 721 608 4323
Fax: + 49 721 608 6893
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Biographical Sketch
Hans-Hellmut Nagel received a ‘Diplom in Physik’ (1960, Universität Heidelberg), a Dr. rer. nat. (Physik, Universität Bonn 1964), and the ‘Habilitation in Physik’ (1970, Universität Bonn). In the sixties, he worked at CERN, at MIT, and at the Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY, Hamburg) before becoming one of the first ‘Professor für Informatik’ at the Universität Hamburg in 1971. There he started a research group on ‘Kognitive Systeme’, addressing in particular image sequence evaluation with an eye on adapting Artificial Intelligence approaches to the extent possible.

In 1983, he became director of the Fraunhofer-Institut für Informations und Datenverarbeitung (IITB) at Karlsruhe in a joint appointment as ‘Professor für Informatik an der Universität Karlsruhe (TH)’. Since then, he has been responsible for many projects in basic, applied, and contract research in the areas of Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, and Pattern Recognition. Currently, he acts as coordinator of the CogViSys project sponsored by the European Community.

He has been elected Fellow of the IEEE, of the IAPR, of the ECAI, and has been asked to serve on editorial boards of numerous top ranking international scientific journals.

Universität Karlsruhe (TH) – Institut für Algorithmen und Kognitive Systeme (IAKS)
IAKS is one among eight institutes of the Fakultät für Informatik, one of the top-ranking and largest German academic institutions in computer science. The research group on `Kognitive Systeme (KOGS)' within the IAKS addresses all problems related to algorithmic understanding of image sequences. This research covers the entire range from capturing video signals, through signal and image processing, in particular the detection and tracking of moving bodies, the transformation of geometric results into conceptual representations, their exploitation for robot control, and the generation of textual descriptions of temporal developments in the recorded scenes. Many years of experience in control of disassembly robots and road vehicles by model-based computer vision have been accumulated within `KOGS'. In addition to numerous publications, this knowledge has been transferred directly to industrial applications, in particular via a cooperation with the Fraunhofer-Institut für Informations- und Datenverarbeitung (IITB) at Karlsruhe.

Members of KOGS have been involved in large national and international projects, for example INSIGHT I+II, PROMETHEUS, VIEWS, VIGOR.


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