Wolfgang Förstner
retired Contact:Email: wfoerstn@nulluni-bonn.de
Tel: +49 – 228 – 73 – 2716
Fax: +49 – 228 – 73 – 27 12
Office: Nussallee 15, 1. OG, room 1.001
Address:
University of Bonn
Photogrammetry, IGG
Nussallee 15
53115 Bonn
Research Interests
- Image Analysis
- Statistical Modelling
- Pattern Recognition
- Machine Leaning
- Semantic Modelling
Book: Photogrammetric Computer Vision
Photogrammetric Computer Vision (W. Förstner, B. P. Wrobel, Springer 2016)online available (10/2016)
Short CV
Wolfgang Förstner, born 1946, studied Geodesy at Stuttgart University (1967-1971), where he also finished his PhD in 1976 and his habilitation in 1989. After his “Referendarzeit´´ he worked at the Survey Department of Nordrhein-Westfalen (1974-1979). Until 1989 he was research scientist at the Institute for Photogrammetry of the Technical University Stuttgart. From 1990-2012 he chaired the Department of Photogrammetry at Bonn University. He published more than 200 scientific papers, supervised appr. 70 Bachelor and Master Theses and more than 30 PhD Theses. From 1994-2001 he was vice president of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM). He served as associated editor of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 2008-2012.
Awards
- ISPRS Karl-Kraus-Medal award for the textbook Photogrammetric Computer Vision – Statistics, Geometry, Orientation and Reconstruction (2020)
- Brock Award of the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (2016)
- Honorary Doctorate of the Technical University of Graz (2011)
- Honorary Doctorate of the Leibniz University of Hannover (2011)
- Fellow of the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (2010)
- Photogrammetric (Fairchild) Award of ASPRS (2005)
- DAGM main award (2000, with A. Brunn, S. Heuel)
- Cino Cassinis Award of ISPRS (2000)
- DAGM award (2001, with M. Luxen)
- DAGM main award (1998, with S. Abraham)
- DAGM award (1997, with S. Abraham)
- DAGM main award (1989, with M. Sester)
- Carl-Pulfrich-Award (1987, with H. Schewe)