Joachim Weickert

Biography

Joachim Weickert is professor of mathematics and computer science at Saarland University where he heads the Mathematical Image Analysis Group since 2001. He received a diploma and a Ph.D. degree in mathematics from the University of Kaiserslautern (1991, 1996), and a habilitation degree in computer science from the University of Mannheim (2001). He worked as research assistant at the University of Kaiserslautern, as post-doctoral researcher at the universities of Utrecht and Copenhagen, and as assistant professor at the University of Mannheim.

Research Interest

Image processing, computer vision and scientific computing, focussing on techniques based on partial differential equations, variational principles, wavelets, morphological and nonlocal methods. He has developed mathematical models and efficient numerical algorithms for image restoration, enhancement, segmentation, compression, optic flow computation, stereo reconstruction, shape from shading, as well as signal processing methods for tensor fields.