Olympus Award Winner Darmstadt 2010

Dr. Stefan Roth: for his outstanding work in statistical approaches to image modeling, motion estimation, human tracking, and object recognition
Technical University of Darmstadt

Award: 5000 euros

Olympus Award Winner Jena 2009

Dr. Carsten Rother: for his outstanding work in the field of image segmentation using statistical methods and his ability to transfer scientific results into real-live products
Microsoft Research, Cambridge

Award: 5000 euros

Olympus Award Winner Munich 2008

Dr. Bastian Leibe: Closely Coupled Object Categorization, Segmentation, and Tracking
ETH Zurich

Award: 5000 euros

Olympus Award Winners Heidelberg 2007

Dr. Bodo Rosenhahn and Dr. Gunnar Rätsch: for their outstanding contributions to the area of computer vision and machine learning

Award: 5000 euros

Dr. Bodo Rosenhahn
Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken

Dr. Gunnar Rätsch
Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society, Tübingen

The Olympus Award was granted to Bodo Rosenhahn for his work on the highly realistic and highly accurate 3D reconstruction of human motion from video image sequences. He was able to show that markerless image-based motion tracking of articulated objects with many degrees of freedom is possible with similar accuracy as when using elaborate marker-based systems, especially by combining silhouette-based methods and using learning methods for gaining prior knowledge about movement trajectories.

The Olympus Award was granted to Gunnar Rätsch for his work in machine learning and bioinformatics. He was able to successfully characterize the boosting processes and establish them in various disciplines. In addition, he has been able to successfully bridge the gap between machine learning and computational chemistry and biology, e.g. in the area of splice site prediction.

Olympus Award Winners Berlin 2006

Dr. Daniel Keysers and Dr. Andres Bruhn: for their outstanding contributions to the area of pattern recognition and image understanding

Award: 5000 euros

Dr. Daniel Keysers
RWTH Aachen University

Dr. Andres Bruhn
Saarland University, Saarbrücken

Olympus Award Winners Vienna 2005

Dr. Michael Felsberg and Dr. Volker Roth: for their outstanding contributions to the area of image segmentation

Award: 5000 euros

Dr. Michael Felsberg
University of Linköping, Sweden

Dr. Volker Roth
University of Bonn, Germany

Olympus Award Winner Tübingen 2004

Dr. Daniel Cremers: for his outstanding contributions to the area of image segmentation
University of California, Los Angeles UCLA

Award: 5000 euros

Olympus Award Winner Magdeburg 2003

Dr.-Ing. Sven Siggelkow: for his outstanding contributions to the area of content based image retrieval
University of Freiburg

Award: 5000 euros

Olympus Award Winner Zurich 2002

Prof. Dr. Christoph Bregler: for his contributions to motion analysis
Computer Science Department, Stanford University

Award: 5000 euros

Olympus Award Winner Munich 2001

Sebastian Thrun
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh

Award: 10000 DM

Olympus Award Winner Kiel 2000

Longin J. Latecki
University of Hamburg

Award: 10000 DM

Olympus Award Winner Bonn 1999

Klaus-Robert Müller
GMD First, Institute for Computer Architecture and Software Technology, Berlin

Award: 10000 DM

Olympus Award Winners Stuttgart 1998

Thomas Hofmann
International Computer Science Institute, University of California, Berkeley

Joachim Weickert
University of Copenhagen

Award: 10000 DM

Olympus Award Winners Braunschweig 1997

Reinhard Koch
University of Leuven, Belgium

Quo-Qing Wei
German Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffenhofen

Award: 5000 DM

Olympus Award Winner Heidelberg 1996

Ernst D. Dickmanns
Technical University of Munich

Award: 10000 DM

Olympus Award Winner Bielefeld 1995

Hans Schulz-Mirbach
Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg

Award: 10000 DM

Olympus Award Winners Dresden 1992

M. Schwarzinger, D. Noll, W.v. Seelen
Ruhr University Bochum

Award: 5000 DM