Prof. Dr.-Ing. Silko-Matthias Kruse Fachhochschule Ulm School of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology  Eberhard-Finckh-Strasse 1 89075 Ulm Germany Tel: +49 (0)731/50-28411 Fax: +49 (0)731/50-28319

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Background:

Silko was awarded a Ph.D in 1997,  from the Technical University Berlin in electrical engineering. Up until 1993 he was employed at the Technical University Berlin. From 1993 until 2000 he worked as a researcher in the field of image coding and segmentation at Heinrich-Hertz-Institute für Nachrichtentechnik,  Berlin GmbH (HHI), Germany. In 2000 he joint the School of Information Systems (now Computing Sciences), University of East Anglia, Norwich, England as a lecturer. Since September 2002 he is with the Fachhochschule Ulm, Germany, as a Professor working in the field of media informatics.

Research Interests:

Silko's research interests cover image and video processing, segmentation, understanding and coding.  Special research topics include virtual environments, telepresence systems, robot vision and motion estimation.

• ViSiCAST - Virtual Signing, Capture, Animation, Storage and Transmission for improving the quality of life of Europe's deaf citizens
  
• IMANA - The system for doing rotoscopy.
• Virtual shop with streaming video and virtual salesman.