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)

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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.

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