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Justus Piater
University of Liège
Membership Number: 50
Address: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Institut Montefiore (B28), Grande Traverse 10, 4000 Liège – Sart Tilman, Belgium
Email: Justus.Piater@ULg.ac.be
Phone: +32 4 366 22 79
Fax: +32 4 366 26 20
URL: http://www.montefiore.ULg.ac.be/~piater/

Biographical Sketch
After graduating with highest honors from the University of Magdeburg, Germany, Justus H. Piater was awarded a Fulbright scholarship and obtained his Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 2001. A recipient of a European Marie-Curie Individual Fellowship, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Projet PRIMA, Laboratoire GRAVIR-IMAG, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France, from 2000 to 2002. Since 2002 he is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Liège, Belgium, where he directs the Computer Vision Research Group. His research interests include computer vision and machine learning, with a focus on visual learning and interactive vision for sensorimotor systems, human-machine interaction, and video analysis.

University of Liège, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Computer Vision Group
Founded in 1817, the University of Liege is the only public Community-sponsored university in the French-speaking part of Belgium which offers a complete range of university courses at undergraduate and post-graduate levels. It comprises 2,500 faculty members; 2,100 of its 14,000 students come from 80 different countries. Its 450 research units are currently engaged in more than 600 collaborative projects around the globe, including 150 European contracts.

The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Montefiore Institute) comprises about 20 research units. Among its particular strengths are signal/image processing and machine learning, represented by five faculty members. Moreover, the Department plays a key role in our newly formed degree programs in bioinformatics and biomedical engineering.

Since 2002, Justus Piater has been building a new research group in computer vision. It comprises currently 2 postdoctoral researchers and

2 research engineers funded by external contracts, 3 doctoral students funded by scholarships, and about 10 Master-level students. Current research topics include object tracking, trainable symbol recognition, biologically motivated visual learning, object recognition using machine-learning techniques, and human-machine interaction.


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