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Prof. Dr. Dietmar Saupe

E-mail:		dietmar.saupe@uni-konstanz.de
Address:		Fachbereich Informatik und Informationswissenschaft Universität Konstanz Fach M697 78457 Konstanz, Germany
Phone:		{+49\|0}-7531-88-4220
Secretary:		Anna Dowden-Williams
E-mail:		Anna.Dowden@uni-konstanz.de
Phone:		{+49\|0}-7531-88-4233
Fax:		{+49\|0}-7531-88-4715

Short Curriculum Vitae is here

Research Interests

Current areas of interest include Multimedia Signal Processing, Computer Graphics, Scientific Visualization, and Image Processing. Specific recent research projects:

Geometry compression: mesh simplification and coding
Point-based computer graphics
3D surface acquisition
Efficient transmission of multimedia data over unreliable channels
Data assimilation in weather forecast simulations
Content-based 3D model retrieval
Scientific visualization: isosurface extraction

Some past research interests:

Fractal image compression
Video coding: real-time software only methods, wavelets
Medical image processing: image compression for radiological imagery, digital angiography, clustering methods for functional imaging, automatic motion extraction for MR spectrography, segmentation of 3D ultrasound data
Chaos and fractals
Numerical continuation methods

Publications can be found here

Book covers (english):

Book covers (german):

Current Activities

Journals

Chief Editor Computing Archives for Scientific Computing, a Springer Journal
Member Editorial Board Computer Graphics Forum (CGF)
Member Editorial Board International Journal of Image and Video Processing (IJIVP)

Professional associations

Vice-Chair Fachbereich Graphische Datenverarbeitung, Gesellschaft für Informatik
Member Committee GI-Dissertationspreis, Gesellschaft für Informatik
Member Gesellschaft für Informatik
Member Eurographics Association
Member ITG Fachausschuss 3.2 "Digitale Bildcodierung"
Founding member Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Mustererkennung e.V. (DAGM)
Member Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung (DMV)

Fakultätentag Informatik

Chair or co-chair of conferences/symposia/workshops

Symposium on Visualization, Eurographics-IEEE TCVG, Konstanz, 2004
Eurographics Conference, Saarbrücken, 2002
Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin, GI-, IEEE-, GMDS-, DAGM-Tagung, Leipzig, 2002.
IMA Minisymposium: Fractals in Multimedia, Minneapolis, 2001

Member recent program committees

Symposium Point-Based Graphics, ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics (SPBG), 2004, 2005, 2006
Shape Modelling International (SMI) 2005, 2006
IEEE Intern. Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP) 2001
IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization (VisSym) 2003
Jahrestagung Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Mustererkennung (DAGM) 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
Computer Graphics International (CGI) 1999, 2001, 2004
Bildverarbeitung in der Medizin (BVM) 2004, 2005, 2006
Implicit Surfaces '99, 1999
Fractals in Engineering Sciences '99
IFIP FRACTAL'99, 1999

Current local activities at the University Konstanz

Sprecher Graduiertenkolleg Explorative Analysis and Visualization of Large Information Spaces
Mitglied Senat der Universität
Mitglied Sektionsrat Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Sektion
Mitglied Fachbereichsrat Informatik und Informationswissenschaft
Mitglied Studiengangskommission Information Engineering
Mitglied Studiengangskommission Mathematik

Teaching can be found here.

Awards

Best Mathematics Book of the Year 1992 of the American Publisher's Association for the book Chaos and Fractals, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1992.

Other interests

Member Ausdauer Sport Club Konstanz e.V. (road and mountain biking)
Guest RSC Schönaich
Member Jazzklub Konstanz e.V.

updated April, 2006.