Prof. Dr.-habil. Ir. Arjan Kuijper: Curriculum Vitae

• Extended CV (pdf).

Personal Data and Educational Background

• Name: Arjan Kuijper
• Marital status: Married, two children
• Born 23-12-1970 in Alkmaar, the Netherlands.
• 1983-1989: V.W.O. C.S.G. Jan Arentsz , Alkmaar (Dutch, English, Latin, Mathematics A, Mathematics B, Physics, Chemistry, Economy).
• 1989-1995: MSc studies in Applied Mathematics, University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands.
  • MSc thesis: Image Restoration in Forensic Research using Minimal Total Variation or Maximum Entropy.
  • Partially carried out at the Netherlands Forensic Institute, Rijswijk, the Netherlands.
  • Supervisor: Prof. Dr E. Van Groesen, Applied Analysis & Mathematical Physics
  • Defense: Enschede, 4-12-1995.
• 1997-2001: PhD research, Institute of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
  • Subject: the deep structure of scale space images.
  • Supervisors: Prof. Dr Ir M.A. Viergever and Dr L.M.J. Florack
  • Defense: Utrecht, 17-6-2002.
• 2009: Habilitation Thesis, ICG group, Technical University of Graz, Austria.
  • Subject: the deep structure, singularities, and computer vision.
  • Contact person: Prof. Horst Bischof
  • Defense: Graz, 30-10-2009.

Work and Research Experience

• 08/2015-: Collaborative Professor (W3, full), chair of the group Mathematical and Applied Visual Computing (MAVC) at the TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany. In collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (IGD).
• 10/2010-07/2015: Privatdozent (private lecturer) in the group The Interactive Graphics Systems Group (GRIS) at the TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany.
• 12/2009- : Privatdozent (private lecturer) at the ICG group at the Technical University of Graz.
• 11/2008- : Research Coach at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (IGD), Darmstadt, Germany, and lecturer in the group The Interactive Graphics Systems Group (GRIS) at the TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany.
• 11/2006-10/2008: Senior Research Scientist at the Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM), Linz, Austria, in the group Analysis of Partial Differential Equations.
  Subject: PDE approaches for image and shape analysis.
  External lecturer at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz and the Technical University in Graz, Austria.
• 11/2005- 10/2006: Senior Research Scientist at the Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM), Linz, Austria, in the group Analysis of Partial Differential Equations (50%) and Department of Mathmatics - Wittgensteinpreis Prof. Markowich, Vienna, Austria (50%).
  Subject: PDE approaches for image and shape analysis.
• 10/2005-10/2005: Scientific Consultant, Department of Mathmatics - Wittgensteinpreis Prof. Markowich, Vienna, Austria.
  Subject: PDE approaches for image and shape analysis.
• 01/2003-09/2005: Assistant Research Professor, Image Group, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
  Subject: Deep Structure, Singularities, and Computer Vision.
• 04/2002-12/2002: Postdoc, Institute of Information and Computing Sciences, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands.
  Subject: Coregistration of 3D images.
• 10/2001-03/2002: Research assistant, Institute of Information and Computing Sciences, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands.
  Subject: the deep structure of scale space images.
• 01/1996-09/1997: Software analyst, consultant and advisor at ELTRA Parking Group, a company that sells and maintains handheld computers and related software, mostly used for parking control at most major cities in the Netherlands.

Publications

• my publications page.

Editorial Board member

• Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU, Elsevier) 2016-
• Pattern Recognition (PR, Elsevier) 2016-
• The Visual Computer Journal (TVCJ, Springer) 2017-
• Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision (JMIV, Kluwer) 2008-2016
• EiC: IAPR Newsletter

Involved projects

• Co-author of the granted proposal Mathematical Methods for Image Analysis and Processing in the Visual Arts (2006). Funding volume: 400,000 euro.
• Participant in the project Analyse Digitaler Bilder mit Methoden der Differenzialgleichungen (2006) of the FFG - the Austrian National Science Foundation. Collaboration with the University of Vienna, the University of Linz, UCLA in Los Angeles, and the Ecole Normale e Superieur in Cachan, as well as the industrial partners Phase One and Nikon Austria.
• Participant in the Wittgenstein 2000 Award grant of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), awarded to Prof. P. Markowich, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Vienna. Grant size: approximately 1.5 Mio EURO, funding period: 5 years.
• IST Programme of the European Union (IST-2001-35443) DSSCV (“Deep Structure, Singularities, and Computer Vision”).
  Duration period: October 2002–September 2005. Collaboration of the IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark), Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands), University of Liverpool (United Kingdom), and University of Copenhagen, (Denmark).
• IST Programme of the European Union (IST-1999 -29008) NODES (Novel Techniques for Describing Shapes in Computer Graphics and Image Processing).
  Collaboration of Leiden University, Eindhoven University of Technology, Utrecht University, (The Netherlands), Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne (France), and Braunschweig University of Technology (Germany)

Organisatorial activities

• Publicity co-chair: EG 2016 – 37th EuroGraphics conference. (May 9-13, 2016, Lisbon, Portugal). EuroGraphics.
• Co-Organiser: VMV 2014 – 19th InternationalWorkshop on Vision,Modeling and Visualization (October 8-10, 2014, Darmstadt, Germany). EuroGraphics.
• Co-Organiser: GCH 2014 – 12th EuroGraphics Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage (October 6-8, 2014, Darmstadt, Germany). EuroGraphics.
• Co-Organiser: SSVM 2013 - the fourth International Conference on Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision (9th scale space, 7th VLSM). Springer LNCS.
• Co-chair: S+SSPR 2012: Joint IAPR International Workshops on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition (SSPR 2012) and Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition (SPR 2012) (Sendai, Japan, November 7-9, 2012) in conjunction with ICPR 2012. Springer LNCS.
• Organiser: Cyberworlds 2012 - the 12th International Conference on Cyberworlds, September 25-27, Darmstadt, Germany. IEEE.
• Co-Organiser: VRIPHYS 2012 - the 9th Workshop on Virtual Reality Interaction and Physical Simulation, December 6-7, Darmstadt, Germany. A Eurographics partner event.
• Local Co-organiser: the 2nd International conference on Pervasive Computing, Signal Processing and Applications (PCSPA 2011), September 5-7 2011, Gjovik, Norway. IEEE
• Publication chair: the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIH-MSP 2011),October 14-16, 2011 Dalian, China. IEEE.
• Co-organiser of the 6th IIH-MSP 2010, October 15-17 2010, in Darmstadt.
• Co-organiser of the 32nd DAGM 2010, September 22-24 2010, in Darmstadt.
• Co-chair of the 7th SPPRA 2010,February 17-19, 2010, Innsbruck, Austria.
• Co-organiser of the Workshop Future Challenges in Visual Computing 2009, March 13 2009 at IGD, Darmstadt.
• Organiser of the 32nd annual workshop of the Austrian Association for Pattern Recognition (OAGM/AAPR), OEAGM08, May, 2008, Austria.
• Co-organiser of the workshop “PDE methods for Bio-imaging”, November 19 - November 23, 2007, part of the “Special Semester on Quantitative Biology analysed by Mathematical Methods”, RICAM, Linz, Austria, October 1, 2007 - January 27, 2008.
• Organiser of the 8-speaker mini-symposium “The role of scale and orientation in mathematical image analysis” at the 6th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, ICIAM 2007, Z¨urich, Switzerland, 16-20 July 2007.
• Co-organiser of the Workshop on ”Image Analysis in the Life Sciences Theory and Applications”, Linz / Hagenberg, Austria, February 26 - 28, 2007.
• Co-organiser of the First International Workshop on Deep Structure, Singularities and Computer Vision, June 9–10, 2005, Maastricht, the Netherlands.

Referee for international peer reviewed journals

• International Journal of Computer Vision,
• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence,
• IEEE Transactions on Image Processing,
• IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging,
• Medical Image Analysis,
• Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision,
• SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics,
• SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences,
• Pattern Recognition,
• Image and Vision Computing,
• Pattern Recognition Letters,
• Journal of Biomedical Optics,
• Journal of Zhejiang University- Science A,
• Electronic Letters in Computer Vision and Image Analysis,
• Journal of Pattern Recognition Research,
• Computers & Graphics,
• Journal of Real-Time Image Processing,
• ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology,
• Journal of Nonlinear Science,
• Journal of Electronic Imaging,
• Information Technology,
• Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing,
• Journal of Multimedia Processing and Technologies,
• ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing,
• Progress In Electromagnetics Research,
• Journal of Biomedical Imaging Processing.

Program committees & referee for international peer reviewed conferences

• 2016: ICPR (area chair), S+SSPR, ICIP, Web3D, CGI, VISAPP, ICIAR, ICASSP OAGM, SITIS, MCBMIIA, VMV, CW, EUSIPCO.
• 2015: SSVM, VISAPP, CGI, DH,. EUSIPCO, ICASSP, ICIAR, ICIP, OAGM, SITIS, VMV, VriPhys, MCBMIIA.
• 2014: ICASSP, ICPR (area chair), S+SSPR, ACCV, ICIP, CGI, ICIAR, VISAPP, Web3D, OAGM, Vriphys, Sitis.
• 2013: CGI, SSVM, ICASSP, ICIP, Web3D, OAGM, VISAPP, SPPRA, CGIM, SIP, Digital Heritage, SITIS.
• 2012: EG, ICPR, SSPR, SPR, ACCV, ICIP, DAGM, OAGM, IVA, VISAPP, Web3D, ISPHT, SITIS, ICASPP, SPPRA, SIP, VisGra.
• 2011: SSVM, EG, DAGM, ICIP, ICASSP, VISAPP, OAGM, SPPRA, SIPA, SITIS, ISPHT, SIP, CGI, ISPA.
• 2010: ACCV, DAGM, SITIS, ICIP, ICPR, SIP, ICASSP, VISAPP, IMAGAPP, SPPRA, Biosignals.
• 2009: SSVM, ICCV, ACCV, ICIP, SITIS, OAGM, DAGM, SIP, ICASSP, IMAGAPP, VISAPP, SPPRA, Biosignals.
• 2008: ICPR, ICIP, SIP, Bridges, SPPRA, Biosignals.
• 2007: SSVM,ICIP, OAGM.
• 2006: ECCV, ICIP.
• 2005: ICCV, DSSCV, ScaleSpace.
• 2003: ScaleSpace

Referee for international research proposals

• DFG - German Reseach Foundation (Graduiertenkolleg - Research Training Group)
• ERC - European Research Council (Starting Grant)
• NWO - Dutch Reseach Organisation
• ICMS - International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (Workshop proposal)
• Fraunhofer Internal Programs (future technologies, joint research)
• Wirtschaftsministerium Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Memberships

• SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) and the Activity Group on Imaging Science.
• IAPR (International Association for Pattern Recognition), via the German (DAGM) (and previously Dutch (NHPHBV), Danish (DSAGM) and Austrian (OAGM)) societies.
• IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.), IEEE Signal Processing Society.