IEEE ICSC 2016

Prof Stefan Rüger read Physics at Freie Universität Berlin and gained his PhD in Computer Science at Technische Universität Berlin (1996) on the Theory of Neural Networks. During the next decade he carved out his academic career from postdoc to Reader researching multimedia information retrieval at Imperial College London, University of London, where he also held an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship (1999-2004). In 2006 Stefan became a Professor of Knowledge Media when he joined The Open University's Knowledge Media Institute to cover the area of Multimedia and Information Systems. He currently holds an Honorary Professorship from the University of Waikato, New Zealand, and has held Visiting Fellowships at Imperial College London and Cranfield University, UK. Stefan is interested in the intellectual challenge of visual processing with a view to automated multimedia understanding.